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Quakers remembered in suffrage anniversary
The influence of five Quaker women on the US movement for women’s suffrage was marked last month, on the 175th anniversary of its inception.
Friends mark Menwith Hill ‘Declaration of Independence’
Quakers joined the annual ‘Independence from America Day’ last month at RAF Menwith Hill, where there have been protests for twenty years.
Friends spread welcome at Pride
Nine London Friends joined the city’s Pride march to spread the Quaker message of inclusion, despite the fact that London Quakers as a group did not join. Friend Abigail Maxwell took a Local Meeting minute and described how the group stood along Piccadilly in groups of three, holding foam...
BYM pledges to stand with trans community
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), has signed a ‘Charity So Straight’ pledge to support the rights of trans, non-binary, and gender diverse communities.
Riots prompt rethink in security
The Quaker-led French group Stop Fuelling War (SFW) has said that last month’s riots in France have made the need to rethink security more pressing than ever.
‘Art the Arms Fair’ returns
Art the Arms Fair (AAF), the partly-Quaker-founded arts exhibition, will return this year. AAF uses ‘creative resistance’ against Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), the huge arms fair.
Friends mark Hiroshima Day
Quakers are marking Hiroshima Day this weekend, with open days and public events across the country. The event will honour the seventy-eighth anniversary since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima – and Nagasaki three days later – leaving more than 200,000 dead.
Retreat of Malvern arms fair celebrated
Quakers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire are celebrating the news that an arms fair they have long-campaigned against has no plans to return.
FCNL lobbies to stop gun violence
A US Quaker has called for US Congress to stop community gun violence by investing in ‘violence interrupter programs’.
Launch of new Quaker equity network
A new Quaker equity network is to look at how differences, including those attributed to race, class, sex and neurodiversity, are interlinked, in order to build a better future.