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Meeting for Sufferings: Citizen’s Income
Friends were encouraged, in the Meeting for Sufferings held at Woodbrooke on 3 February, to take an interest in the subject of a Citizen’s Income.
Meeting for Sufferings: BYM 2013
Britain Yearly Meeting 2013 will, it was announced at Meeting for Sufferings, be held from 24 to 27 May at Friends House. Chris Skidmore, the nominated clerk, outlined the theme, which continues last year’s exploration of what it means to be a Quaker. ‘If there is a theme,’ he said, ‘it...
Meeting for Sufferings: Gathering by the lake
Change was the order of the day at the first Meeting for Sufferings in 2013. A rare residential weekend of Meeting for Sufferings was held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham. It was the first time in the Centre’s one-110-year history it had hosted the event. Some...
Meeting for Sufferings: Kabarak Call
The Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice, which was approved at the Sixth World Conference of Friends at Kabarak in Kenya in 2012, was introduced by Barbara Windle on Saturday morning. She reminded Friends that a concern for the earth and stewardship of our scarce resources ‘runs through’ the history...
Meeting for Sufferings: Welfare Reform
The damaging effect that proposed changes to the benefit system will have on low-income working and non-working people was brought to the attention of Meeting for Sufferings on Sunday morning. A minute from Wirral and Chester Area Meeting highlighted the effect of the cuts on the poor and vulnerable...
Meeting for Sufferings: Drones
Friends at Meeting for Sufferings were urged to highlight, in different ways, the increasing use of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs) by the military. The military use of drones is clearly in opposition to the peace testimony and concern about drones has been expressed in the past few...
Meeting for Sufferings: Preparation for BYM 2013
To assist in preparation for Yearly Meeting, Meeting for Sufferings representatives and their Meetings were asked to reflect on and respond to three questions. During the first session of BYM, on Friday evening, a distillation of any reponses received will be heard. Contributions are needed by 7 May.
Meeting for Sufferings: Garden Room at Woodbrooke
Sandra Berry, director of Woodbrooke, welcomed representatives at the opening session of Meeting for Sufferings on Friday evening and took the opportunity to thank all those who had supported the building of the superb garden room at the centre.
Yorkshire Quaker peace activist arrested
Yorkshire CND and Trident Ploughshares activist Sylvia Boyes, a member of Keighley Meeting, was arrested attempting to enter Faslane, home to the UK’s nuclear submarines, on Monday 4 February.
Women make peace visit to Afghanistan
Four British women have returned from Afghanistan after a sixteen-day ‘peace visit’ to Kabul. The four, who include two Quakers, stayed with a community of Afghans who are seeking to live out principles of active nonviolence in the midst of violence and injustice.