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Friends in fracking protest
Quakers were among those protesting on 22 to 24 June against the Cuadrilla energy company’s plans for fracking in Preston, Lancashire. Pat Carney of Cambridge Jesus Lane Meeting told the Friend that while there was no formal Quaker representation at the protest, she was ‘cheered that individual Quakers turned up out...
Call for equality continues to resonate
Twenty-seven Friends met at Central Manchester Meeting House on 20 June to review the first Quaker Equality Week. Area Meetings represented included East Cheshire, Hardshaw and Mann, Lancashire Central and North, Manchester and Warrington (M&W), and North Wales. Suzanne Ismail and Maya Williams of Quaker Peace & Social Witness ...
Peace on the agenda at Adderbury
This year’s Adderbury Gathering took as its topic Peace, peacemaking and Islam. A one hundred-strong audience travelled to the historic Oxfordshire Meeting house on 21 June to hear Islamic scholar Hojjat Ramzy speak on co-existence, self-correction and forgiveness.
Friends back ‘End Austerity Now’
Quakers were among tens of thousands of activists who took part in last Saturday’s End Austerity Now marches in Britain.
Friends in climate change call
Some eighty Quakers were among several thousand people who took part in the UK’s largest mass climate change day of action on Wednesday 17 June.
Release of The Unseen March
The increasing influence of the military in schools is questioned in The Unseen March, a new film developed by Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) on behalf of Britain Yearly Meeting.
New addition at Northfield
Andrew Callan has joined the management committee at the Northfield Eco-centre, a Central England Quakers project in Birmingham.
TTIP vote postponed
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) must wait for their chance to influence the direction of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), after the planned 10 June vote was postponed. A new date has yet to be announced.
From tiny acorns
Peace activists in Edinburgh hope to commemorate conscientious objectors with an oak tree and a plaque. A 453-signature-strong petition in favour of a memorial was taken to the Petitions Committee of the City of Edinburgh Council earlier this month. Approval was unanimous.
Friends join Flashmob for peace
Quakers were among some fifty people who took part in a ‘Flashmob for Peace’ in Manchester on 4 June. The group met outside the Central Library, in St Peter’s Square.