AFSC Values
We cherish the belief that there is that of God in each person, leading us to respect the worth and dignity of all. We are guided and empowered by the Spirit in following the radical thrust of the early Christian witness. From these beliefs flow the core understandings that form the spiritual framework of our organization and guide its work.
We regard no person as our enemy. While we often oppose specific actions and abuses of power, we seek to address the goodness and truth in each individual.
We assert the transforming power of love and nonviolence as a challenge to injustice and violence and as a force for reconciliation.
We seek and trust the power of the Spirit to guide the individual and collective search for truth and practical action.
We accept our understandings of truth as incomplete and have faith that new perceptions of truth will continue to be revealed both to us and to others.
AFSC Work
We seek to understand and address the root causes of poverty, injustice, and war. We hope to act with courage and vision in taking initiatives that may not be popular.
AFSC Values
We cherish the belief that there is that of God in each person, leading us to respect the worth and dignity of all. We are guided and empowered by the Spirit in following the radical thrust of the early Christian witness. From these beliefs flow the core understandings that form the spiritual framework of our organization and guide its work.
We regard no person as our enemy. While we often oppose specific actions and abuses of power, we seek to address the goodness and truth in each individual.
We assert the transforming power of love and nonviolence as a challenge to injustice and violence and as a force for reconciliation.
We seek and trust the power of the Spirit to guide the individual and collective search for truth and practical action.
We accept our understandings of truth as incomplete and have faith that new perceptions of truth will continue to be revealed both to us and to others.
AFSC Work
We seek to understand and address the root causes of poverty, injustice, and war. We hope to act with courage and vision in taking initiatives that may not be popular.
Pretty radical to some, but this is where the Spirit has us. Faith in action.
In the 1972 AFSC pamphlet Non-Violence: Not First For Export, author John Bristol explicitly describes the feelings that the AFSC has for the West in general, and America in particular. In a passage forgiving terrorists for their violent ways, Bristol asserts that \”terrorism…repeatedly…is used to signify violent action on the part of oppressed peoples in Asia, Africa, Latin America or within the black ghettos of America, as they take up the weapons of violence in a desperate effort to wrest for themselves the freedom and justice denied them by the systems that presently control their lives.\” But who exactly is the cause of the \’system\’ terrorists are trying to overthrow? Bristol places the blame squarely at the feet of the West. \”What millions of middle-class and other non-poor fail to realize is that they are themselves accomplices each day in meeting [sic.] out inhuman, all-pervading violence upon their fellows.\”
A quick look at flyers posted on the AFSC website gives one a clear understanding of where these people stand. Grassroots Voices, the explicitly radical-activist wing of the AFSC, recently sponsored their 2002 Conference On Justice And Global Security. In addition to the slew of anti-American workshops and classes held during the conference, the event was co-sponsored by the Communist Party USA and the Communist-founded National Lawyers Guild.
You really need to read my earlier post. What is so peaceful about a prosters lighting a dumpster on fire and sending it rolling into a police line up?
The police were the peacefull ones only doing thier job- I was there, in the middle of the whole thing- normally I would side with the protesters, but since I SAW the whole thing, I can only beleive my eyes.
Get off your high horses. They were rightfully jailed. No matter how many days that was. They did something wrong, and deserved what they got.
Plain and simple- if any of you all witnessed what trasnspired and differ from my opinion speak up- otherwise…. well
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Does not sound as if the protesters were much of a threat….
Maybe you do not agree with the protesters but do you need to call them
\”that filth?\”
AFSC Values
We cherish the belief that there is that of God in each person, leading us to respect the worth and dignity of all. We are guided and empowered by the Spirit in following the radical thrust of the early Christian witness. From these beliefs flow the core understandings that form the spiritual framework of our organization and guide its work.
We regard no person as our enemy. While we often oppose specific actions and abuses of power, we seek to address the goodness and truth in each individual.
We assert the transforming power of love and nonviolence as a challenge to injustice and violence and as a force for reconciliation.
We seek and trust the power of the Spirit to guide the individual and collective search for truth and practical action.
We accept our understandings of truth as incomplete and have faith that new perceptions of truth will continue to be revealed both to us and to others.
AFSC Work
We seek to understand and address the root causes of poverty, injustice, and war. We hope to act with courage and vision in taking initiatives that may not be popular.
AFSC Values
We cherish the belief that there is that of God in each person, leading us to respect the worth and dignity of all. We are guided and empowered by the Spirit in following the radical thrust of the early Christian witness. From these beliefs flow the core understandings that form the spiritual framework of our organization and guide its work.
We regard no person as our enemy. While we often oppose specific actions and abuses of power, we seek to address the goodness and truth in each individual.
We assert the transforming power of love and nonviolence as a challenge to injustice and violence and as a force for reconciliation.
We seek and trust the power of the Spirit to guide the individual and collective search for truth and practical action.
We accept our understandings of truth as incomplete and have faith that new perceptions of truth will continue to be revealed both to us and to others.
AFSC Work
We seek to understand and address the root causes of poverty, injustice, and war. We hope to act with courage and vision in taking initiatives that may not be popular.
Pretty radical to some, but this is where the Spirit has us. Faith in action.
In the 1972 AFSC pamphlet Non-Violence: Not First For Export, author John Bristol explicitly describes the feelings that the AFSC has for the West in general, and America in particular. In a passage forgiving terrorists for their violent ways, Bristol asserts that \”terrorism…repeatedly…is used to signify violent action on the part of oppressed peoples in Asia, Africa, Latin America or within the black ghettos of America, as they take up the weapons of violence in a desperate effort to wrest for themselves the freedom and justice denied them by the systems that presently control their lives.\” But who exactly is the cause of the \’system\’ terrorists are trying to overthrow? Bristol places the blame squarely at the feet of the West. \”What millions of middle-class and other non-poor fail to realize is that they are themselves accomplices each day in meeting [sic.] out inhuman, all-pervading violence upon their fellows.\”
A quick look at flyers posted on the AFSC website gives one a clear understanding of where these people stand. Grassroots Voices, the explicitly radical-activist wing of the AFSC, recently sponsored their 2002 Conference On Justice And Global Security. In addition to the slew of anti-American workshops and classes held during the conference, the event was co-sponsored by the Communist Party USA and the Communist-founded National Lawyers Guild.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8215
You really need to read my earlier post. What is so peaceful about a prosters lighting a dumpster on fire and sending it rolling into a police line up?
The police were the peacefull ones only doing thier job- I was there, in the middle of the whole thing- normally I would side with the protesters, but since I SAW the whole thing, I can only beleive my eyes.
Get off your high horses. They were rightfully jailed. No matter how many days that was. They did something wrong, and deserved what they got.
Plain and simple- if any of you all witnessed what trasnspired and differ from my opinion speak up- otherwise…. well
Al, that was a very enlightening piece on AFSC. How ironic that the atheist Soviet form of government is the one preferred by \”Christian\” AFSC.
Yer welcome.
The devil\’s in the religion business.
\”Attenders at Quaker meetings include Buddhists, Jews, Catholics, Wiccans, Agnostics, Atheists and those who seek Christ.\”
Those in the last category are no doubt disappointed.