{"id":635,"date":"2024-06-05T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T00:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/?p=635"},"modified":"2024-06-22T08:09:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T13:09:53","slug":"a-pledge-for-apartheid-free-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/2024\/06\/05\/a-pledge-for-apartheid-free-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pledge for Apartheid-Free Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a Called Business Meeting on Sunday, June 2, 2024, Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting approved joining the\u00a0American Friends Service Committee&#8217;s (AFSC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/afsc.org\/apartheid-free-communities\">Apartheid-Free\u00a0Communities Campaign<\/a>, which currently includes 330 other faith-based communities and organizations, with some standing aside.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our meeting signed the following, modified pledge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We affirm&nbsp;<\/strong>our commitment to freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people and all people;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We oppose&nbsp;<\/strong>all forms of racism, bigotry, discrimination, and oppression; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We declare<\/strong>&nbsp;ourselves an Apartheid-free congregation and to these ends;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We pledge\u00a0<\/strong>to join others in working to end all support to Israel&#8217;s Apartheid policies, settler colonialism, and military occupation in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Called Business Meeting on Sunday, June 2, 2024, Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting approved joining the\u00a0American Friends Service Committee&#8217;s (AFSC)\u00a0Apartheid-Free\u00a0Communities Campaign, which currently includes 330 other faith-based communities and organizations, with some standing aside.\u00a0 Our meeting signed the following, modified pledge: We affirm&nbsp;our commitment to freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people and all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/2024\/06\/05\/a-pledge-for-apartheid-free-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Pledge for Apartheid-Free Communities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilym.org\/urbana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}