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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
Revising Queries 2
The Ministry and Counsel Committee of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) is asking our monthly meetings to consider possible revisions to our advices and queries. During the online Facebook discussion about this, Marshall Massey wrote: Just speaking for myself, I do not think … Continue reading
Posted in Black Lives, Kheprw Institute, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged queries
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Australian Peace Activists
Today’s New York Times has an interesting article about antiwar activists in Australia, An American Spy Base Hidden in Australia’s Outback. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the United States base known as the Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap … Continue reading
Thankful to be Alive
Thanksgiving Day is when we reflect on all we have to be thankful for. Often this involves paying attention to things we unintentionally take for granted during the routines of daily life and struggles. We so often forget to be … Continue reading
Thanksgiving 2017
One of the things I’m most thankful for this Thanksgiving is having been able to make connections with Native Americans. I’m not going to go into the false, sanitized versions of the Thanksgiving story and our settler-colonial history. Rather, I’d … Continue reading
Silence = Death
“SILENCE = DEATH” was used by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power(ACT UP), a group committed to the use of direct action to end the AIDS crisis, which is still active 30 years later. From the website: “For meeting the … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, civil disobedience, climate change, Uncategorized
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Reflections on Scattergood Senior Trip
I’ve recently shared my journal entries from the trip to Washington, DC, and New York City that our Scattergood Friends School Senior class took in 1970. Looking back forty seven years later, I realize a number of significant things that … Continue reading
Scattergood Journal – Senior Trip – New York City
Journal, January 28, 1970 (continued) Then we began the trip to New York City. We arrived at about 5:30 and it was dark. At 8:00 pm we went to the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center (65th floor). We had a … Continue reading
Scattergood Journal – Senior Trip -Washington, DC
(note: photos were taken in later years during trips to FCNL Annual Meetings and meetings of the American Thoracic Society) Journal, January 25, 1970 Saturday, January 24, we left Scattergood, about 3:30 pm. We arrived in Washington, DC, at about … Continue reading
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Tagged Scattergood, Washington DC, William Penn House
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Civil Disobedience – Keystone Pipeline
Having concluded my draft resistance story, yesterday I briefly discussed nonviolence and the civil rights movement of the 1960s that was occurring at that same time. Nonviolence is not simply a political strategy, but meant to be how you live … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 