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Joyce Ajlouny, General Secretary AFSC, January 23, 2022 at 1:00 pm MST
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Lucy Duncan, former Director of Friends Relations for AFSC, February 20, 2022 at 1:00 pm MST
Friends may be aware that AFSC is undergoing a major restructuring. Not all Friends are happy with the restructuring process. Lucy Duncan and 5 other authors recently published a letter in Western Friend that was very critical of the process. Western Friend sponsored a discussion on the restructuring on Thursday, January 6, 2022 that drew an audience of about 300. As a direct result of her letter, Lucy was fired by AFSC. Boulder Friends Meeting is honored to partner with Mountain View Friends Meeting and Fort Collins Friends Meeting to host two remote Program Hours that will provide alternate views of the restructuring process: Joyce Ajlouny, General Secretary of AFSC, will describe the viewpoint of the AFSC Leadership Team on Sunday January 23, 2022 at 1:00 pm MST. Lucy Duncan, former Director of Friends Relations for AFSC, will describe her concerns with the restructuring process on Sunday February 20, 2022 at 1:00 pm MST. Please join us on Zoom for these important and insightful presentations. The link to the Zoom Meeting is given here, on the Boulder Friends Meeting calendar. Click on Program Hour on January 23 or February 20, 2022. Background Material Learn about the new American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) strategic plan, which includes its mission, vision, and values statements and its program goals: – Just and sustainable peace – Just economies that work for people and the Earth – Just responses to forced displacement and migration And learn about the restructuring plan and the internal debates within AFSC about how the organization can best be structured to address its program goals in this Google folder, Also contained in that folder are proposals from a group called, “The Peoples of AFSC”. Jennifer Piper, program director in the Denver AFSC office, shared these documents and issues with Boulder Friends during a program hour on Oct 24. The letter in Western Friend by Lucy Duncan and others can be viewed here. In response to that letter, the AFSC Leadership Team just published this article in Western Friend. Another perspective is provided by a 20-year volunteer for AFSC; it can be viewed here.