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A Quaker and Native Peoples: Part 1
The title says a Quaker, instead of Quakers, because I can only speak from my own experiences. There is a very long history related to Quakers and Indigenous peoples. I’m blessed to have grown up on several farms in Iowa. … Continue reading
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Water, go with the flow
This is one of those mornings where a story doesn’t come to mind. Normally I would go on to other things and wait until tomorrow to try again. This is a bit ironic since I have been asking you to … Continue reading
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Sensemaking
It is increasingly difficult to make sense of all that is going on today. Its like all the bad things I had anticipated for what I thought would be the future are suddenly happening now. In addition, things I never … Continue reading
Land discussion continues
I’ve recently been learning and writing about land and Indigenous peoples. That is a cautionary note because this is another of those complicated issues that I am led to study on my journey as a White settler seeking ways to … Continue reading
Breaking: DAPL court decision!
Message from Chase Iron Eyes, Lakota People’s Law Project. In case you haven’t yet heard, yesterday an appellate court dropped a big decision in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit to stop the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). Unfortunately, the court’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Dakota Access Pipeline
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Allyship and Solidarity Guidelines
Lately I’ve been writing about the group Decolonizing Quakers and the webinar series that will begin Monday titled “Working toward right relationship with Indigenous peoples”. One goal of these sessions is to help White people learn more about being allies … Continue reading
Decolonizing Quakers
I’ve been writing lately about a series of webinars titled “Working Toward Right Relationship with Indigenous Peoples.” Information about the webinar topics and registration for this series can be found at the end of this blog post. The series is … Continue reading
The answer to “What can I do?”
I have been wondering about the convergence of several things lately. I was blessed to have participated on the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March in 2018. That was the experience I had been searching for. The opportunity to develop friendships … Continue reading
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Nonviolence / No violence
Protesters in the streets who are clashing with law enforcement are making a huge mistake. For weeks the public protests related to the killing of George Floyd and more broadly against police brutality and systemic racism were peaceful and there … Continue reading
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Tagged nonviolence
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SHIFT the Narrative 7/23/2020
Today was another excellent episode of the SHIFT the Narrative series. Christine Nobiss and S.A. Lawrence-Welch discussed issues surrounding voter engagement and what that means to People of the Global Majority. “This is another interactive episode where we want to … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 