{"id":282,"date":"2014-01-20T21:42:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T02:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?p=282"},"modified":"2014-01-20T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T02:42:15","slug":"afsc-support-available-for-prison-reform-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"AFSC Support Available for Prison Reform Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merion Friends Meeting will be co-hosting a series of lectures and events regarding prison reform issues in March 2014, and our Adult First Day Discussion Group is reading <a title=\"The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1595586431\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1595586431&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=merifriemeet-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New Jim Crow<\/em><\/a> by Michelle Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>Early on, we received help from Madeline Schaefer of the <a title=\"The American Friends Service Committee\" href=\"http:\/\/afsc.org\" target=\"_blank\">American Friends Service Committee<\/a>, who connected us to resources and helped make sure we weren&#8217;t re-inventing the wheel. Her blog post, &#8220;<a title=\"AFSC Blog: Catching fire with healing justice one quaker congregation at a time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afsc.org\/friends\/catching-fire-healing-justice-one-quaker-congregation-time\" target=\"_blank\">Catching the fire for healing justice, one Quaker congregation at a time&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 outlines the types of assistance their organization can provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merion Friends Meeting will be co-hosting a series of lectures and events regarding prison reform issues in March 2014, and our Adult First Day Discussion Group is reading The New&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,54,22,42,38,50,49,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-first-day-discussion-group","category-american-friends-service-committee","category-beliefs-into-action-bia","category-community","category-education-and-outreach","category-prison-reform","category-racial-equality","category-social-concerns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}