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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
Quakers and Peace Today
Much has been written about the role of some Quakers in the Underground Railroad, that network of safe places where those escaping enslavement found help on their journey northward. It seems not as many Friends were involved as we might … Continue reading
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Race, Culture and Ideology
In a review of the book The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump,” Paul Rosen writes: Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz argues that Trump is the product of an ongoing multigenerational process that has reshaped … Continue reading
Family Separation
Following is a Minute approved by Bear Creek Friends Meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), 6/24/2018. Family Separation In the face of almost universal condemnation at home and abroad, we are glad the President has reversed his decision to forcibly … Continue reading
National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
According to Quaker House of Fayetteville, North Carolina, one of the few listening sessions of the new congressional National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service will be held: Vinton, Iowa at Wesley Methodist Church 516 2nd Avenue June 26, … Continue reading
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Tagged conscientious objection, conscription, draft, draft resistance, war
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Poor People’s Campaign Returns to Washington, DC
In 1968 the Poor People’s Campaign came to Washington, DC. Fifty years later, June 24, 2018, the new Poor People’s Campaign returns to Washington. Iowa Poor People’s Campaign Minnesota Poor People’s Campaign (more photos from my friend Rezadad Mohammadi in … Continue reading
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Intentional Incompetence
I cannot come to any other conclusion than that the current administration intentionally scattered the children stolen from their families in a manner that would make reunification difficult or impossible. Which is the very situation we are in now. Part … Continue reading
Reclaiming the Moral Narrative
Last Monday’s rally at the Des Moines capitol building was week 6 of the Poor People’s Campaign, with the theme “Reclaiming the Moral Narrative”. From the Poor People’s Campaign handout: As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., prophetically described 50 … Continue reading
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Babies alone in concentration camps
Rachel Maddow breaks down trying to report on “tender age” shelters. Concentration Camp: a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc., especially any of the camps established by the Nazis prior … Continue reading
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How Ironic
How ironic is it that a day referred to as Freedom Day finds this country denying children their freedom? Children, even very young children, forcibly taken from their parents and locked in cages. What perversion of authority could conceive of, … Continue reading
Digital Photography
Although I said I am glad I was glad for my experiences working in the darkroom with black and white photography, that made me appreciate digital photography all the more. The technical aspects of film and paper developing are so … Continue reading
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Tagged digital photography, photo editing software, photography
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 