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Dismantling institutional racism – inside and out
Summer 2016
To All Friends in the Midwest From Brant Rosen, Regional Director, AFSC Midwest Region
Brant Rosen
Joshua Saleem, who directs the Peacebuilding Program
for AFSC in St. Louis, meets with Earlham College students
during the 2016 Alternative Spring Break, organized by
Erin Polley of AFSC Indiana.
Dominique Diaddigo-Cash, program associate with the
Healing Justice Program in the Twin Cities, joins other
AFSC staff on a panel about state violence.
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From the Midwest to the Mideast
AFSC Midwest Executive Committee co-clerk Keta
Cowen presents a minute of appreciation to Paul
Ricketts, a Friend from Ft. Wayne, for his work against
institutional racism in AFSC.
Nawal, right, is an intern with AFSC’s Israel-Palestine
Program in the Chicago office. She has played a key role
in supporting the No Way to Treat a Child Campaign,
which is exposing Israel’s military detention of
Palestinian children.
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Standing with immigrants and refugees
On prisons and politics
From left, AFSC Dayton Program Director Migwe
Kimemia with AFSC Indiana intern Elle Roberts and
Program Director Erin Polley at the 2015 Ohio Valley
Yearly Meeting.
Staff and volunteers celebrate at AFSC’s Immigrants Voice
Program youth video awards ceremony in Des Moines.
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Final thoughts and thanks
Marcellus Lovelace, a Chicago artist, created this piece,
entitled “I Can Not Be Moved,” for AFSC’s Humanize Not
Militarize exhibit.
Shown here with Dr. Ben Carson, Linda Garrison, a Friend
from Eldora, Iowa, was one of hundreds of AFSC
volunteers in Iowa and New Hampshire who “bird-
dogged” presidential candidates as part of AFSC’s
“Governing Under the Influence” program. Read more
about how this effort changed the national conversation
at gui.afsc.org.
George Friday, left, and David Cobb
are partners in AFSC’s efforts to build
political justice in Ohio and across
the nation.