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Taking Action!
FS Sends 400+ Postcards to Elected Officials
Friends Seminary community members came together on June 27, 2018 to participate in a #postcards4families advocacy campaign in the Library. During the event, which was organized by the Center for Peace, Equity and Justice at Friends, participants created more than 400 postcards that call on those in power to act with humanity toward those seeking asylum in our country. The postcards will now be mailed to our elected officials.
For every postcard created at the event, an anonymous donor pledged to send $5 to support nonprofit organizations working in NYC to assist the more than 300 children who have been separated from their parents at the border and are now being held in New York with no clear path to reunification. The following groundbreaking programs that specifically address the needs of these refugee families will be the recipients of all raised funds: Immigrant Justice Corps, Terra Firma, and ICARE (a coalition of immigration advocates which includes the Legal Aid Society, The Door, Catholic Charities Community Services, the Safe Passage Project, Make the Road New York, Central American Legal Assistance, and Kids in Need of Defense), along with the Human Rights Watch, whose frontline investigations, documentation of abuses, and satellite imagery of detention centers contributed to the wave of public outrage and opposition to the separation of families.
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Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
