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Remember Hiroshima
It is sad to see how little attention is being paid to today’s anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima by the United States 73 years ago. And it is tragic to know that the United States today is being called … Continue reading
A little daring
I’ve written a little about my disappointment and frustration from the annual sessions of my Yearly Meeting. Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. In one of them he is obliged to do all … Continue reading
Posted in Ethical Transportation, peace, Quaker Meetings, race, Uncategorized
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Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6 is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. The justification was to bring a swift end to the war in the Pacific, to save lives of soldiers. But it was an atrocity to use … Continue reading
Reflections on a Quaker Annual Meeting
I just returned home from a week spent at Scattergood Friends School, where the annual meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) was held. My blog posts are definitely not official or approved by the yearly meeting. This post is a … Continue reading
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Tagged asylum, Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Peace and Social Concerns
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Should the United States leave Afghanistan?
Guest article by my friend Rezadad Mohammadi, Afghan student in the U.S. From the invasion by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics known as USSR to the invasion of the United States of Afghanistan, for almost four decades, Afghanistan has … Continue reading
Prospects for Peace
As others have expressed, I have had times when I’ve been overwhelmed by the nearly daily onslaughts against democratic norms, institutions and governance, or lack thereof, of the current Republican administration and Congress. This continuous series of attacks on governing … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, peace, Poor Peoples Campaign, race, Uncategorized
Tagged immigration
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Quakers and Peace Today
Much has been written about the role of some Quakers in the Underground Railroad, that network of safe places where those escaping enslavement found help on their journey northward. It seems not as many Friends were involved as we might … Continue reading
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Race, Culture and Ideology
In a review of the book The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump,” Paul Rosen writes: Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz argues that Trump is the product of an ongoing multigenerational process that has reshaped … Continue reading
National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
According to Quaker House of Fayetteville, North Carolina, one of the few listening sessions of the new congressional National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service will be held: Vinton, Iowa at Wesley Methodist Church 516 2nd Avenue June 26, … Continue reading
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Tagged conscientious objection, conscription, draft, draft resistance, war
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Poor Peoples Campaign–Rally to Change the Narrative
Week 6 of the Poor Peoples Campaign will focus on changing the moral narrative in this country, as described below. One rally in Iowa will be held on Monday, June 18, at 2:00 PM at the State Capitol building in … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 