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Quakers send white poppies to Scottish politicians
Quakers in Scotland have joined with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Peace Pledge Union, and the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre to send nearly 200 white poppies to Scottish MEPs, MSPs in the Scottish Parliament and Scottish MPs in Westminster.
Paul Oestreicher to give peace lecture
Quaker Paul Oestreicher will be giving the Lord Mayor’s Annual Peace Lecture on 13 November at Coventry Cathedral. The lecture is entitled ‘Justice and peace – can we have both?’
QUNO’s ‘Negotiator’s Toolkit’
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has created ‘A Negotiator’s Toolkit’ to support climate negotiators in their work to engage government officials with reasons for urgent, rights-based action on climate change.
‘Quaker Quicks’ for 2018
John Hunt Publishing is launching a new series of Quaker books, called ‘Quaker Quicks’.
Remembrance peace vigil
Friends will be among those joining a silent vigil on 11 November (11am to 11:45am) in London’s Trafalgar Square outside the National Gallery.
Banner kits
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) member Allison Challen has put together a new set of one-person peace banner kits that include the fabric and instructions.
Peace activist Friend wins ‘not guilty’ verdict
Quaker peace activist Sam Walton and Methodist minister Daniel Woodhouse were found not guilty of criminal damage at Burnley Magistrates’ Court on 26 October for attempting to disarm Typhoon fighter jets at a BAE Systems factory in Lancashire on 29 January.
Chichester Meeting affirms statement on diversity
Chichester Meeting has affirmed a statement on diversity after a group of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning) Friends spoke at Sussex West Area Meeting in October 2016.
Young Friends General Meeting ’best-attended in years’
Young Friends General Meeting (YFGM) was held at Redlands Meeting house in Bristol from 20 to 22 October with over eighty Friends in attendance. It was the best-attended YFGM in recent years.
Call to increase funeral funding
The Fair Funerals campaign, which is run by Quaker Social Action, held a funeral procession in Parliament Square on 17 October to deliver a letter to chancellor Philip Hammond, calling on the government to increase the fund to cover basic funeral costs annually in line with inflation and stop families on...