Issue 06-08-2010
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The long path to justice
Ekta Parishad is an Indian people’s movement that works to mobilise marginalised groups for nonviolent action in support of their livelihood rights. Quakers in Britain have supported Ekta Parishad for a number of years and have delivered training with them through the Turning the Tide programme of Quaker Peace &…
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Guided by conscience
Jeremy Hinzman, who sought refuge in Canada from the US as a war resister in 2004, has won a review of his application for permanent residence in Canada. However, the Canadian government has since published new operational guidance suggesting that the applications from war resistors for protection from the US…
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Wigton Meeting House: shedding light
Every Meeting house is a place of many precious memories. It is also a landmark and a symbol. So the decision to lay down a Meeting, and sell a Meeting house, is not one taken lightly. It is done with a heavy heart. There are Quaker ways of laying down… -
Scottish parlimentarians urged to ‘lift the ban on same-sex marriage’
Politicians and faith groups in Scotland are urging the Scottish Parliament to take the lead on equality by ‘lifting the ban on same-sex marriage’. Quakers are among the supporters of the Equal Marriage Campaign, which is backed by Amnesty International and a cross-party group of Members of the Scottish Parliament… -
Prospects for civil liberties
The coalition government’s record was considered by Michael Bartlet (7 July), where he noted that: ‘On civil liberties the government offers a fresh start’. This was percipient as on the 8 July, the coalition government abandoned stop-and-search after a successful European legal challenge regarding an unlawful use of police powers… -
Quaker recording clerk leaves office
The recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, Gillian Ashmore, will be stepping down in September, after three years in the role, The Friend has learned. Gillian took over from Elsa Dicks in the summer of 2007.
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Integration is the key
Gerald Conyngham (9 July) might almost have been listening in to the discussions of both the Yearly Meeting Gathering Planning Committee (YMGPC) and the Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee (YMAC). We agree with him! The integration of the two components of a Yearly Meeting Gathering that he advocates is very clearly… -
Letters - 6 August 2010
Nuclear energy Friends who support nuclear energy (30 July) should acquaint themselves with the facts about uranium production. While uranium is a low carbon fuel at the point of use, its production is far from low carbon. It has a carbon footprint equivalent to coal up to the point of… -
A concern for peace
The Quaker Peace Studies Trust (QPST) recently transferred its archives to Special Collections in the JB Priestley Library, where the archives are being appraised, sorted and catalogued during a two month project. -
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What is Evil?
My wife and I once ran a course at Woodbrooke on responding to evil, in which painful experiences were lovingly shared. But three participants were dissatisfied. They wanted metaphysics: is evil real, or is it only a shadow, the absence of good? What is its power? Can it control us… -
Q-Eye - 6 August 2010
Spouses The question ‘Is the word “spouse” archaic?’ (9 July) was recently asked in the Friend. ‘Surely not,’ replies Ruth David of Leicester, ‘it is a useful word, both male and female, without any inferior, superior undesirable attitudes. It may be old, at least as far back as Norman French,…
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