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Midyear Meeting 2017
Quaker meetings of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) are spread throughout the Midwest, including Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota. We look forward to times we can be together to catch up with each other’s lives, as well as … Continue reading
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Oil to Flow Through DAPL
According to High Country News, oil is expected to flow beneath the Missouri River, through the Dakota Access Pipeline, as early as this week. A District of Columbia court has yet to release its ruling related to the Standing Rock Sioux and … Continue reading
Great Transportation Conspiracy
I was fascinated and disgusted to learn about the Great Transportation Conspiracy from Sheila Kennedy’s blog this morning. In 1949 National City Lines were convicted in Federal court for destroying the electrified rail and electric bus transit systems in 44 … Continue reading
Fundamental Choice
Despite the deluge of information, facts and opinions we are immersed in, we are each faced with one simple choice at this moment in time: Are we going to continue to participate in a society that is consuming resources at … Continue reading
Deal With Fear
It seems to me that fear is at the root of so many of the problems we are facing today. People fear: Physical threats People they feel threatened by Unknown The following is from the movie After Earth. As often … Continue reading
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No Longer Taken For Granted
Our evolving environmental disaster can no longer be denied or ignored. The status quo is neither just, moral, or survivable. In the preface to Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects by Joanna Macy and Molly … Continue reading
Gay Stories
In these times when “others” of any kind are under attack by the Republican administration and its supporters, I appreciate it even more when stories appear that embrace diversity, instead. As I’ve written, I just love the movie “Moonlight“. I’m really … Continue reading
Albuquerque Friends Meeting Offers Sanctuary
Albuquerque Friends Meeting announced it will be providing sanctuary for a Honduran immigrant grandmother at risk of deportation because of incomplete documentation. She was afraid to go to a routine check-in at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency … Continue reading
Republican Military Budget
The new Republican administration has said, and reports indicate, the budget that will soon be released will dramatically expand military spending by 10%, that is, 54 billion dollars! Even worse, the New York Times writes about the lack of a … Continue reading
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Speaking at #noDAPL
Below is video from Friday’s Standing Rock Solidarity Rally, beginning with Brandi Herron speaking of things we are thankful for. That is followed by my remarks about how I came to refuse to have a personal automobile. I had said … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 