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There are several things I’m involved with now related to past and current injustices in the U.S including racial justice and Native American land theft and genocide. I’ve been praying, studying and reflecting a lot about past wrongs in U.S. … Continue reading
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Quaker Indian Boarding Schools Workshop July 7, 2019
Quaker Indian Boarding Schools: Facing our History and OurselvesJuly 7, 2019 9 – 11 am Scattergood Friends School and Farm, 2 miles east of West Branch, Iowa The reason for writing the past couple of blog posts was I wanted … Continue reading
Quaker Indian Boarding Schools 2
Yesterday I wrote about Quaker Indian Boarding Schools and announced the workshop “Quaker Indian Boarding Schools, Facing Our History and Ourselves” that will be lead by Paula Palmer, and held at Scattergood Friends School and Farm, near West Branch, Iowa, … Continue reading
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Boarding schools: Indian and Quaker
A workshop titled “Quaker Indian Boarding Schools, Facing our History and Ourselves” will be held on July 7, 2019, 9 – 11 am , at Scattergood Friends School and Farm. The workshop will be led by Paula Palmer, supported by … Continue reading
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The Curious Malaise Of The Middle Class
The article, “The Curious Malaise Of The Middle Class”, by Jason Hirthler, Dissidentvoice.org, May 30, 2019, caught my attention. As anyone who has worked on concerns related to peace and justice soon discovers, it is very difficult to find more … Continue reading
Peace Activists’ Best Hope? The Sunrise Climate Movement
“Peace Activists’ Best Hope? The Sunrise Climate Movement” by Patrick Walker, Nationofchange.org, December 4, 2018, is an excellent summary of why I’ve supported the Sunrise Movement since it achieved national attention last November, when 250 youth of the Sunrise Movement … Continue reading
Why ponder these things now?
There are several reasons I’ve begun to write what I hope will be a series of posts about working for peace and justice. Perhaps most fundamentally because the world around me now is so different from the one I was … Continue reading
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House Repeal of AUMF and Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) Advocacy
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee voted for an amendment from Representative Barbara Lee (CA) to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). If repeal of the 2001 AUMF is passed, Congress would need to pass a new … Continue reading
Being and becoming
“I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves’ answer to Stephen Colbert’s question, “what happens when we die?” (above) reminds me of a collection of things I’ve read, or heard (Justin Bieber’s “Purpose”) … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 