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...American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Cambridge Friends Meeting organized the vigil to voice their opposition to NATO's bombing in Yugoslavia. Members of Peace Action and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) also attended the vigil...
Along with this new focus, the new movement has a powerful new driving force Six progressive national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. Thus umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends service committee (AFSC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), founded in 1965 by anti-war activities Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin the Inter-Faith Centre for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee in Africa and Trans Africa...
Others groups, favour a more active stance. At the AFSC Jerry Herman. Coordinator of the South Africa program for the committee. Speaks of a "fall Offensive" that his group will begin this September in conjunction with campus protestors. The AFSC will "take the issue to the people where they area: in churches, campuses even businesses." he says. This fall the AFSC will "take a more aggressive position, even to the level of civil disobedience, to promote their cause. Herman says...
Despite the success in recent months and positive prospects in the near future, next year will be a crucial one for the national divestiture movement "We've grown tremendously over the past three years," AFSC South African coordinator Herman Says. "But we need more...
Despite the success in recent months and positive prospects in the near future, next year will be a crucial one for the national divestiture movement. "We've grown tremendously over the past three years." AFSC South African coordinator Herman says, "But we need more...