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Scattergood Journal – Beginning to plan next Moratorium Day
The last post from my journal from my Scattergood days was about the Peace Walk the School did as part of the Vietnam War Moratorium Days, October 15, 1969. The plan was to have another Moratorium Day November 15. Journal, … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, peace, Uncategorized
Tagged conscientious objection, draft resistance, Scattergood
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Queries and Action 2
There has been some very interesting and helpful discussion about queries on the unofficial Facebook page related to Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative). It has been especially helpful for me to hear about pushing versus pulling, with pushing being the idea … Continue reading
Connections
Reading over the recent Scattergood Journal posts, I realized they are a bit disjointed. There were a number of references in them that could have been more fully explained. If you didn’t see the video that was in yesterday’s post, … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, peace, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged Don Laughlin, draft resistance, Scattergood, Vietnam War
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Scattergood Journal, Peace Walk 1969
I think the reason these past times have captured my interest now is I wonder how(desperately wish) we can create something like those antiwar and civil rights movements today. October 11, 1969 School Committee Day From the school committee minutes: … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, peace, renewable energy, Uncategorized
Tagged Don Laughlin, Earth walk, Scattergood
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Scattergood Journal 1969
Reading Chris Matthew’s new book, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, I am remembering that tumultuous time in my life, and in our country. I had begun to write in a journal at the beginning of my Senior year, 1969, at … Continue reading
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Tagged conscription, draft resistance, Scattergood
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Robert Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Vietnam and Dissent
While reading Chris Matthew’s new book, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, I read about a CBS news program “Town Meeting of the World” in 1967, where Senator Robert Kennedy and Gov. Ronald Reagan take student questions, most of which were … Continue reading
Posted in peace, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged conscientious objection, draft resistance, Robert Kennedy, Vietnam War
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Queries and Action
Continuing to think about Quaker queries, I’ve been stimulated to think more about how we use them. During a recent discussion I said, “isn’t the purpose of queries to lead us to action?” Then I realized we might not all … Continue reading
Civic Responsibility revised
As I’ve been writing recently, we will be discussing the queries about civic responsibility at Bear Creek meeting this month. I was also trying to come up with a new version of the queries. But I think my first attempt … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, civic responsibility, injustice, legislation, nonviolence, society
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When will they ever learn?
Pete Seeger’s classic song about war comes to mind as I wonder when we will ever learn about environmental destruction from fossil fuels? We have been at war against Mother Earth these last several decades. Many of you know I’ve … Continue reading
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Quakers and North Korea–Update 11/2/2017
I was very glad to have a phone conversation with Dan Jasper, Asia Public Education and Advocacy Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). I have written some about his work before. He spoke of how alarming it is that … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 