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Midyear Meeting 2018
Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of Friends (Quakers) meets twice a year. Midyear meeting occurs in March or April. It is a time to hear speakers on Quaker or peace and justice subjects, usually with a lot of audience participation, sharing … Continue reading
Indigenous Resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline: Criminalization of dissent and suppression of protest
The link below is to the report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, prepared by faculty and students of the International Human Rights Advocacy Workshop at the University of Arizona Rogers College … Continue reading
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Tagged criminalize protest, totalitarian, water protectors
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Martin Luther King Jr was a Radical
Martin Luther King Jr was a radical is the title of Cornel West’s article in the Guardian on the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination: The major threat of Martin Luther King Jr to us is a spiritual and moral one. … Continue reading
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Where to we go from here?
Where to we go from here? This question, and the related statement below are from Indiana Black Expo President Tanya Bell on this, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Following that is a minute … Continue reading
Posted in Black Lives, Quaker Meetings, race, Uncategorized
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Robert Kennedy Announces Death of Martin Luther King in Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana, April 4, 1968 April 4, 1968, Robert F Kennedy gave several speeches in Indiana as he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. This young white man, as the United States Attorney General, along … Continue reading
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Video of Burt Kisling’s Life
Following is some of the story of Burt Kisling’s life.
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Tagged Bear Creek, Burt Kisling, FCNL, Scattergood Friends School
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March for Our Lives, Des Moines, Iowa
Despite the snow there was a fair turnout for the March for Our Lives at the state capitol in Des Moines. The crowd was completely silent as the names of the 17 victims of the Parkland shooting were read. I … Continue reading
“We have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war”
Students gather for “March for Our Lives” marches across the country and the world in the wake of yet another school shooting, this time in Parkland, Florida. These students are leading the demands for legislative action, saying “enough is enough”. … Continue reading
Burton Kisling Memorial
I haven’t been writing much lately because my father, Burt Kisling, had been battling pneumonia for the past three weeks. He died peacefully at a wonderful hospice facility, Taylor House, in Des Moines on Wednesday, March 21. The memorial service … Continue reading
Video–AFSC: Peace in North Korea
Excellent video by Rodger Rouths interviewing AFSC’s Linda Lewis and Daniel Jasper about their work for peace in North Korea. Linda and Daniel were in Iowa this past weekend to discuss their work with agricultural projects in North Korea and … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 