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Greta Thunberg comes to Friends House
There were long queues to Friends House last week when Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) hosted the Swedish climate activist and Nobel Prize nominee Greta Thunberg as part of its commitment to tackling climate breakdown.
Quakers in Criminal Justice call for end of ‘war on drugs’
The Quakers in Criminal Justice (QICJ) group has called for British Quakers to help put an end to the UK’s damaging ‘war on drugs’ policy. The minute was discerned at a conference in February when QICJ met to ‘discuss, discern and learn matters relating to drug policy’.
‘Zombie’ legal fight ends after eight years
Two Quaker parents from Muswell Hill Meeting saw their adult daughter lose an eight-year legal fight against her pre-emptive arrest during 2011’s royal wedding.
Plans to scrap ‘no fault evictions’
Quakers have welcomed the government’s announcement that it will consider ditching ‘no-fault evictions’ in a ground-breaking overhaul of ‘renters rights’.
Talk on early Quaker feminist
A leading Quaker feminist and social activist born more than 250 years ago was the subject of a talk at the Bruce Castle Museum in north London. Local history researcher Margaret Burr spoke about Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832) from Tottenham, who is widely acknowledged for founding the first English savings bank, the...
Quaker bares all in House of Commons
A Quaker was one of the twelve partially naked Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters who stormed the House of Commons public gallery on 1 April in order to urge politicians to take action on climate justice.
BYM renews call for state of Palestine to be recognised
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has reaffirmed its 2014 call to the UK government to ‘honour its commitment to the two-state solution and recognise the state of Palestine without delay’. The call follows Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that he intended to annex Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine, if he was elected for...
Quaker exhibition in Brussels on migrant women
Quakers and Action for Women are holding an exhibition of photographic portraits of, and taken by, migrant women inside the European institutions. The SEEN exhibition is being exhibited for a month at the Jacques Delors building, where the Committee of the Regions meets, following a week on display in Quaker...
Friends at ‘United We Stand’ conference
Friends were present at a one-day conference in Wales designed to bring together organisations working with diverse communities in Wales to help create a united stance.
QSA helps Guardian cover funeral poverty
Quaker Social Action (QSA) was involved in a video shown on The Guardian website last week highlighting the misery of funeral poverty. The film covers the harrowing journey of Amanda as she tries to arrange her son Rahim’s funeral. After days spent chasing funeral homes and faced with unaffordable...