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Statement of Solidarity with the Red Warrior and Sacred Stone Camps in North Dakota
I agree with this statement from Rising Tide North America. As I recently wrote, now is the time to rise up. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is holding training session and a civil disobedience action in Pilot Mound, Iowa (near Boone) … Continue reading
Rise Up Now
Few people deny climate change is real these days. Here is an excellent summary. Extreme drought and resulting raging fires, extreme rainfall and flooding, and rising sea levels are a few of the most obvious signs. Worse changes are not … Continue reading
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Tagged Bakken Pipeline, Native Americans, Sacred Stone
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Quaker Public Engagement
I write a lot, in a lot of places. This is a spiritual calling for me. I am led to share what the Inner Light says to me. Years ago that was done mainly via email, since the people I … Continue reading
Memories of Don Laughlin
I imagine Don and Lois were familiar to me as I grew up in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), but my first memories of them were from my days as a student at Scattergood Friends School (1966-70), when Lois was the … Continue reading
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Sacred Water
Once again Native Americans are on the front lines, trying to save our water from the greed of the fossil fuel industry. We are trying to find ways, perhaps via the Keystone Pledge of Resistance and/or Quaker Social Change Ministry … Continue reading
The Time for a Moral Revolution of Values
“Today we stand as truth-tellers witnessing to the pain and suffering caused by the injustices within our community and across this country. We gather to declare that we need a moral revival, a radical revolution of values.” https://kairoscenter.org/revival-time-moral-revolution-values/ I’m so … Continue reading
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Tagged moral issue, music, politics
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To: Black peoples and our allies
The following is from the new Movement for Black Lives: Our Movement is under attack. Many want us to stop moving forward. Show them that we can’t stop. Stand with the Movement for Black Lives. Why is this important? … Continue reading
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Baton Rouge Illustrates a Divided America
Today’s excellent New York Times article, In Baton Rouge, A City Divided Faces Two Different Tragedies, describes the history of racial injustice and current tensions in that city. Although the situation is more desperate in many ways in Baton Rouge, … Continue reading
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Tensions and Black Lives Matter
I recently urged people to do things like put Black Lives Matter signs in their yards and windows. And told some related stories that had a positive ending. But now, especially in the light of Donald Trump falsely accusing Black … Continue reading
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Targeting BLM as Scapegoat
Following is why it is so important for Quakers and others to know and share the truth about Black Lives Matter (BLM). Because of the rising power and visibility of BLM, the movement is being used as a target to … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 