The Channing Memorial Church Social Action Committee meets on the third Tuesday of every month (with the exception of July) at 7PM in the Channing House Library. All members and friends of the church are welcome to attend. For more information, contact the committee chair at socialaction@channingchurch.org or call the church office at (401) 846-0643.


Friday, October 9, 2009

From Our Friends at the American Friends Service Committee

This morning, we were greeted to the news that President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As you probably know, the American Friends Service Committee, too, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 on behalf of Quakers worldwide for their work to help the refugees of WWI and WWII.
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He has many opportunities to be a peace advocate today, as his administration considers

  • The course of the expanding war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq,
  • How diplomacy can resolve tensions with Iran and North Korea through dialogue better than military threats,
  • A federal budget that devotes too much money to weapons and war and less to families struggling to get by in this economic crisis, and
  • How to go beyond a limited arms control measure to create the nuclear-free future that Obama has strongly articulated.
Today is a golden opportunity to show that a pro-peace majority supports the President’s first steps toward peace and will help him take the next steps as well.
Join AFSC in congratulating Barack Obama and share with him your vision of how we can all help wage peace.
Peace,
Laurie Creasy,
American Friends Service Committee
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