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Introduction to AFSC in North Korea
North Korea has certainly been in the news this past year, first with rising tensions with the United States, then hopeful signs with North Korea’s participation in the winter Olympic games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Yesterday’s news of a planned … Continue reading
Engaging North Korea: Quaker Work for Peace on the Korean Peninsula
Sunday March 18, 2018 4:00 PM Des Moines Valley Friends Meeting, 42nd and Grand, Des Moines, Iowa The Quaker-affiliated American Friends Service Committee has been working in North Korea for over three decades; by 1998, AFSC had established an on-going … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, American Friends Service Committee, North Korea
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Lynch Quilts Artist Explains
The reason for sharing the disturbing photo I took of one of the quilts in The Lynch Quilts Project was because a friend of mine, Jeff Howell and the artist, LaShawnda Crowe Storm were hosting a discussion about the project … Continue reading
Sea Level Projections for 2100
Some of us have been discussing how to address rising sea levels, and what to do about the resulting climate refugees. Overground Railroad Facebook group. Most people are not aware of how quickly sea levels are rising, and the urgency … Continue reading
Lynch Quilts Project
Here is a link to information about the Lynch Quilts Project. “The Lynch Quilts Project is a community based effort, which explores the history and ramifications of racial violence, specifically lynching, in the United States through the textile tradition of quilting. … Continue reading
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Opening Humanitarian Channels with North Korea
Please share the following information about a presentation by Daniel Jasper and Linda Lewis, from the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC), about Opening Humanitarian Channels with North Korea. The meeting will be Sunday, March 18, at 4:00 PM at Des … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, Des Moines Valley Friends, North Korea
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Before the Panic
Are we going to get serious about climate change? The following adds impetus to what I’ve been writing about, i.e. planning how to deal with millions of climate refugees who will be forced to leave coastal communities, and move inland. We … Continue reading
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Alarming Arctic Heat
North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists is the title of an article by Jason Samenow in yesterday’s Washington Post. Temperatures may have soared as high as 35 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) at the … Continue reading
Josué Rivas: The Power of Stories
“When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.” John Trudell Josué Rivas (Mexica/Otomi) began his talk at Stanford, “The Power … Continue reading
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Tagged Josue Rivas, Nahko, Standing Rock
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Peace vs a culture of guns
Living in the United States, with our gun culture, is difficult for those who believe in peace and nonviolence. The debates quickly become partisan and generate deeply emotional responses. There is a reason so much of these debates are simply … Continue reading
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Tagged gun violence
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 