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...Clamshell's women leaders, Elizabeth Boardman and Sukie Rice from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), were responsible for creating the trapning program that made the April occupation one of the best-planned demonstrations in recent history. They used veterans of the August occupations, in pairs of one man and one woman, to teach Clamshell recruits the principles of non-violent direct action. During five-hour sessions conducted at the AFSC office, Phillips Brooks House, and other locations throughout the Northeast, the two-person teams led groups of 15 to 20 people through a program of discussions, role plays...
...controls on child labor. The American Friends' Service Committee points out that "the use of children as industrial laborers was outlawed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, yet in 1970 one fourth of the farm wage workers in the United States are under 16 years old." The AFSC and the Department of Labor concur in estimating that 800,000 children work in agricultural labor. The Department of Labor found that nine out of ten migrant children fail to keep up with school work, and repeat grades. Dr. Robert Coles, of the Harvard School of Public Health, has summarized...
...Stop the B-1 Campaign" has the support of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) and is part of an overall effort toward peace conversion...
...documentaries were show at the meeting, one an American Friends' Service Committee (AFSC) slide program and the other a film made for British television last April. The films included interviews with survivors of Vietnamese prisons and former and present American officials...
Abram Sangrey, a spokesman for the Friends, said that the AFSC is now in the process of negotiating with Hanoi for the fifth shipment of supplies to Viet-Duc, which he said was the principal teaching hospital in the North before it was destroyed in the pre-1968 bombing raids...