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American Friends Service Committee
NEW ENGLAND REGION
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS PROGRAM
Jo Comerford, Program Coordinator.
140 Pine St.
Florence MA 01060
Phone: 413-584-8975
Fax: 413-584-1801
E-Mail: AFSC@crocker.com
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Peace and Justice Events in the Valley
To help you find or advertise Peace and Social Justice events in the valley, this section of the web page will act as a clearinghouse. We will attempt to keep it up to date with the fast pace of current activities. The Traprock Peace Center also lists events in the Valley. Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice also maintains an extensive calendar (details here), and ActiveIngredients.org also has a calendar listing events. Sometimes one calendar or the other misses an event, so check them all!
The most recently posted items are at the top; older items below.
A sampling of articles plucked from email and the web, put here as a public service. This material is meant as a resource and should not be copied and distributed without giving proper credit to its author and source. The views expressed are not necessarily endorsed by the AFSC.
The most recently posted items are at the top; older items below.
In response to the recent attacks, the AFSC in conjunction with Arise for Social Justice is circulating a Peace Now statement which can be signed by individuals and organizations:
The most recently posted items are at the top; older items below
A listing of sources of information and organizations (continually under construction)
The Western Massachusetts program, founded in 1968, focuses on peace education and social justice through work on nonviolence training, study courses and dialogues on economic justice, campaigns against U.S. military intervention, and education and action to combat racism, classism, and homophobia.
The program has evolved from a program primarily set up to do draft and military counseling and resistance to militarism and the war in Vietnam, to a broader educational-outreach program with a strong emphasis on community dialogue.
Western Massachusetts faces problems of growing economic disparity, an increased tendency to scapegoat the poor and other marginalized social groups, and a deterioration in public trust and ownership of local, state and federal government, along with increased efforts to militarize our economy and our communities.
The program seeks to empower communities to confront these problems and find lasting solutions which increase peace and build unity. AFSC-Western Mass. uses education and community dialogue to make the broader connections between militarism, economic disparity, and violence, and actively promote ways that people can break the cycle of violence which fosters these connections. Two primary goals are demilitarization of youth, and empowerment of economically oppressed people.
Network and coalition memberships:
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