‘The public appreciated our silent peaceful presence, although a few tried taking videos and provoking us, but left’…
by Rebecca Hardy
Peace campaigners have criticised the government’s decision to grant new export licences for military equipment headed for Israel.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that the government’s legislative agenda is ‘shaped by a dangerous turn towards security, threat and control’.
A Quaker-linked astronomer who discovered what stars are made of has been honoured with a blue plaque.
There have been twelve voluntary redundancies and one compulsory redundancy at the Quiet Company (QC), the hospitality arm of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM).
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has released a statement condemning antisemitism after two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, London.
Quakers in Criminal Justice (QICJ) has called for urgent prison reform, including action on the discriminatory use of a painful chemical spray.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined a global campaign urging insurers to stop covering fossil fuel projects in the biodiversity-rich Coral Triangle.
The Quaker Vegan Witness (QVW) group is celebrating a successful forty-day Vegan for Lent campaign.
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has called for the US government to act to halt the genocide in Sudan.
Friends took part in a ‘Lift the Ban’ event in London last month, protesting the proscription of Palestine Action (PA). The ban was ruled unlawful in February.
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