Witness Coordinating Committee

This page is for news and activities of the Witness Coordinating Commitee of New York Yearly Meeting.

Resource people

• Death Penalty
  • Abolition of Death Penalty in N.J.
• Latin American Concerns
  • Epistle of the Second Gathering of Unprogrammed Friends in Latin America
        Epistle in PDF
  • Epístola de la Segunda Reunión de Cuáqueros No Programados en Latinoamérica
        Epístola en PDF
• Right Sharing of World Resources

Meeting the Minimum Needs of All Working Group

Ending Torture (includes Torture Awareness Working Group)

Alternatives to Violence Project, Inc., Committee

American Friends Service Committee

Barrington Dunbar Fund Committee

Black Concerns Committee

• Quaker Resources for Racial Justice

Bolivian Quaker Education Fund

• www.bqef.org

Committee on Conscientious Objection to Paying for War

Friends Committee on National Legislation

• www.fcnl.org

Friends Peace Teams

• www.friendspeaceteams.org

Indian Affairs Committee

National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund representative

• www.peacetaxfund.org

National Religious Campaign against Torture representatives

• www.nrcat.org

New York State Council of Churches Public Policy Commission representatives

Peace Concerns Committee

Prisons Committee

Rural and Migrant Ministry representative

• http://ruralmigrantministry.org

William Penn House

• http://williampennhouse.org

World Ministries Committee

Other Witness Activities

• Ernie Buscemi: Letter to U.S. Congress on Iraq war, May 14, 2007*
• Ernie Buscemi, Letter to N.J. Legislators on the death penalty, May 4, 2007*
• Linda Chidsey: testimony for Resolution 367 to NY City Council, June 9, 2005
        PDF version*
• Linda Chidsey: testimony on the death penalty to NYS Legislature January 25, 2005.       PDF version*

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