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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
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Tagged conscientious objection, draft resistance, Scattergood
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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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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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Scattergood graduate’s social justice video project
Recently graduated from Scattergood Friends School and Farm, Rezadad Mohammadi directed, produced and did much of the work on the video below, “The War on Drugs” (U.S.A. and Mexico), Mass Incarceration and Solitary Confinement. After a revealing history of the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Black Lives, Kheprw Institute, Uncategorized
Tagged AFSC, mass incarceration, Rezadad Mohammadi, Scattergood
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Peace and Social Concerns 2017 Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)
Recent posts are about peace and social concerns related to Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative). I haven’t had a chance to post anything since Tuesday, because we have been having our annual meetings of the Yearly Meeting at Scattergood Friends … Continue reading
Education as Part of the Next American Revolution
As I wrote yesterday, the book that we will be discussing at KI today is The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs. The last part of the book is about education, and how we … Continue reading
Scattergood Earth Walk
I’ve been thinking about my Quaker friend and mentor, Don Laughlin, who died recently. Don was a very committed environmentalist. He and his son designed an environmentally friendly house in Iowa City, with solar panels, in floor heating, etc. I … Continue reading
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Future Scattergood
(NOTE: for non Quaker readers of this blog, Scattergood Friends School and Farm is a Quaker boarding high school in rural Iowa that many members of my family and I attended). Scattergood School and Farm’s financial crisis is stimulating a … Continue reading
Posted in Quaker Meetings, Quaker Social Change Ministry, Uncategorized
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 