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Historic Flooding in Nebraska
I’ve been out of touch with news this past weekend as we were at Bear Creek Meeting, cleaning and getting ready for Midyear Meeting. The broken dam and historic flooding is hard to believe. Climate chaos is here now. Iowa … Continue reading
Youth and the Yearly Meeting
Yesterday my friend Rezadad Mohammadi and I traveled to Scattergood Friends School and Farm. Reza graduated from Scattergood 2 years ago and was glad to see friends and teachers. I graduated in 1970. I met Reza when he was among … Continue reading
Global Climate Strike
Yesterday thousands of students in over 100 countries went into the streets to demand action on climate change instead of going to classes. The following statement from the Sunrise Movement describes why this is a youth-led and youth-centered movement. The … Continue reading
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Global Climate Strikes
News of today’s climate strikes are beginning to come in from around the globe. Iowa Climate Strike will occur at the Iowa State Capitol tomorrow (3/15/2019) from 2-4 pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/2564757000232326/ This event is hosted by Iowa Climate Strike. A massive … Continue reading
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Sunrise comes to Rhode Island
On March 7th, students, all members of the Sunrise Movement, ages 15-26, spoke at a rally at the Rhode Island statehouse, asking for the passage of the Rhode Island Green New Deal Resolution. Each student spoke about why passage of … Continue reading
The photo that changed my life
In January I read the blog post 1:1000, A Picture is Worth 1000 Words by Julianna Whalen on her site, Streets and Streams. Her idea is to write 1,000 words about one photo. Shortly after reading that, I wrote a blog post … Continue reading
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Youth Climate Strike
What is education? How and where do our youth learn? What responsibility should youth have in the world today? I spent my High School years at Scattergood Friends (Quaker) School and Farm just east of West Branch, Iowa. The work … Continue reading
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Green New Deal vote is back on Senate schedule
The latest news about a Senate vote on the Green New Deal, S.Res.59, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is that a vote is planned to take place in the next few weeks. Originally there had been a … Continue reading
“Normal’s Gone”
One tactic of the Sunrise Movement is to bring attention to the role of climate change when extreme weather events occur. These past few weeks have seen prolonged bitter cold, with many low temperature records broken over a wide area … Continue reading
Youth Climate Strike
The massive school strikes, where tens of thousands of students leave classes to demonstrate for action on the climate crisis in Europe and Australia, have not been widely reported in the United States. Here the Sunrise Movement has been demonstrating … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 