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American Friends Service Committee — Part 11
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Some of the same Friends who were active in the Vigil at
anc ‘he Peace Action Center in Washington have Joined with ocher Quakers
|. _’frem yarious parts of the country to form A Quaker Action Group. Our first
/, projects, as you will note from the enclosed material, will appiy nonviolent ---
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by the American Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National
Legislatioa, or other Quaker groups. We support their work and hope to co-_
operate with them at many points in a movement for peace, Likewise we do
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We do feel that there Is a need for A Quaker Action Group made up of
individual Friends and aot representing any official body of the Society of
Friends, We intend to directly confront the immoral military and political
policies of the United States government, and in many cases, as we are led
by the Spirit, this will include civ!! disobedience, Also, as world citizens
natives to armed nationalism.
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