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Angry about climate change
I don’t often get angry, but I am so frustrated because even after this incredibly destructive year, most people in our country refuse to believe in climate change and how we are destroying our environment. Over 50 inches of rain … Continue reading
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US-Korea Exchanges Possible
Daniel Jasper, the Asia Public Education and Advocacy Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee has just published the article Opening More Channels in US-North Korea Relations, explaining that there are exceptions to the travel ban that still allow exchanges between the … Continue reading
Is it impractical to invite North Korean visit?
Yesterday I wrote about the visit by a North Korean delegation to Bear Creek Friends meeting in 2001, and the meeting’s hope a similar visit could happen again. The question of whether such a visit would even be allowed was … Continue reading
Bear Creek Friends Meeting and North Korea
I just wrote about the current interest in the idea of “farm diplomacy” after a couple of editorials were published in the Des Moines Register. Sept. 1, 2017, Kenneth M Quinn, President of the World Food Prize suggested inviting a … Continue reading
Posted in peace, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged Bear Creek, diplomacy, food, North Korea, Scattergood
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Swords into plowshares
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. … Continue reading
First they came…
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they … Continue reading
What is racism?
I recently wrote “These past several days we have heard the qualification “the largest mass shooting (in modern history)”. I think it is important to acknowledge, unfortunately, numerous occasions in the history of this country when even larger numbers of … Continue reading
NRA goads Congress to stop gun violence research
The refusal of many, mainly Republican politicians, to refuse to look for solutions for our society’s gun problems adds to the tragedy of Las Vegas, and all of the many mass shootings in the United States. It is simply callous … Continue reading
Non/violence
As I think we all are, I’m overwhelmed with shock and grief at the killing in Las Vegas. There are many who say now is not the time to talk about finding ways to reduce the chances of yet another … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 