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Write A Letter and Change A Life during our Sixth Annual Write for Rights Event, the largest grassroots human rights event in the world, sponsored by Amnesty International USA. Your hand-written letters, combined with hundreds of thousands of others from around the world, can and WILL change the lives of this year’s 12 cases. This event […]
5th Annual Empty Bowls Event The Empty Bowls Event is designed to raise awareness of hunger and food insecurity in our community while raising funds to support the Kennett Food Cupboard. A simple meal of soup is served. Attendees learn about services available through KACS, enjoy a silent auction, and receive a handmade bowl as […]
Center For Peace Action (CFPA) Event Faithful Witness in a Time of Endless War: Drone Warfare and God’s Call to Peacemaking conference- June 24-25, 2016 The Peace Action Education Fund is co-sponsoring "Faithful Witness in a Time of Endless War, Drone Warfare and God's Call to Peacemaking" conference on Friday evening & Saturday morning - […]
Organization of Peace Week Delaware began in February 2016. Since then, Delaware’s Movement for a Culture of Peace (MCP) has partnered with dozens of organizations and individuals across the First State to present a week-long series of events running from September 18 – 25. All are welcome to attend and support these activities - regardless of […]
Peace Day Philly promotes and collaborates on programming related to personal, local and/or global peace, on and around the United Nations International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”), SEPTEMBER 21. Peace Day Philly’s focus is on building positive peace and creating the conditions for peace, unity and justice through diverse and collaborative activities such as: dialogue, skill and […]
In October we will hear from members of Delaware's Coalition to Dismantle the New Jim Crow, a grass-roots organization committed to social justice for all. Join us on Tuesday, Oct 25 at 7 pm at Kennett Friends Meeting. Conversations on Race are just that -- an opportunity to listen, share, and learn about what "racism" […]
Time to Wake Up & Stand Up Fighting for Social Justice in the 21st Century “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. Featured Speaker: Jerry Franklin Poe Jerry Franklin Poe Jr. is the Vice President of the Martin Luther […]
Write A Letter. Change A Life. You can help change the lives of this year’s 10 cases by writing letters. When combined with millions of others, your letters help convince government officials to free prisoners of conscience, support human rights defenders, and end other urgent cases of abuse. Together, we can change lives and change […]
This Thursday, March 22, at 7:00 pm (in the Meeting Room) KACS director, Melanie Weiler, will present a new initiative for addressing the causes of systemic poverty in Kennett Square. The program is based on a nation-wide community support program called Bridges Out Poverty Initiative. This in turn is part of a larger effort called […]
In one way or another all of us have had to face the harsh reality of gun violence in communities, or in our friends’ communities and unfortunately an ever increasing occurrence of gun violence where our most vulnerable go to learn and grow, our schools. Our own children are leading this conversation that has affected […]
