Peace and Social Action
Family Movie Night – March 28th
Wall E (for kids of all ages) at 7:00pm sharp, followed by a lights out discussion and reflection hour in concert with Earth Hour, which aims for 1 Billion “votes” to redress global warming/climate change. The event is free and open to all, esp. families with young children. There will be popcorn and cider. For…
Read MoreFamily Film Night – February 28th at 7pm
Planet Earth: The Ocean Deep & Seasonal Forests Popcorn and healthy snacks Saturday 28 Feb. 7:00 p.m. Rt. 7 just north of Lanesville Rd. Call Bill Holcombe at 203 313 4438 for details All are welcome, we hope you’ll join us.
Read MoreWilton Meeting Remembers Hiroshima
Today [August 7th] several members of Wilton Monthly Meeting met at Calf Pasture beach to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima. Do you know that your meeting played a significant role in sponsoring some of the Hiroshima Maidens? The Hiroshima Maidens are a group of twenty-five young Japanese women who were seriously disfigured as a result…
Read MoreOld Chatham Quakers Open Film Lending Library!
This is excellent news from Old Chatham! Hopefully Housatonic will be able to offer an even wider array of movies to share with Friends. Old Chatham’s new film lending library is finally open and ready to serve you! We’re loaning films shown in our monthly film series over the past three years and offering our…
Read MoreDonations to Prison Families of New York
Friends who plan to attend Quarterly Meeting on November 4th may wish to contribute to Prison Families of New York by bringing items from the following list: Good paperbacks for ages 8-18; packets of crayons; coloring/activities books for children under 7; baby wipes, disposable diapers and clothing for infants; mini-size toiletries (for $1.00 at K-Mart,…
Read MoreTeens Vow to March from San Francisco to Washington D.C. for Peace
A passage from the coverage on Democracy Now! Ashley Casale and Michael Israel are two determined teenagers who chose to spend their summer walking from San Francisco to Washington, DC to protest the war in Iraq. Ashley will be a sophomore this fall at Wesleyan University. She came up with the idea of a cross-country…
Read MoreMiddle East Discussion with Speakers at WCSU
The Israeli Invasions of Gaza, Lebanon, and Nablus. Eyewitness Reporting and Discussion on the Mideast Conflict Wednesday, September 20 7:00pm Warner Hall WCSU, 181 White St in Danbury Two of the speakers are back from recent visits to the Occupied Territories: -Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of Sharing the Land of Canaan -Justine McCabe, clinical psychologist and…
Read MoreVisit to a Prison within a Prison by Robin Lloyd
This is an excerpt from an article Robin wrote on her site Toward Freedom. Robin Lloyd, videographer, peace activist and chair of the Toward Freedom board, recently spent three months in prison for ‘crossing the line’ (committing civil disobedience) at the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC – Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) )…
Read MoreNew Book From Leading Quaker Magazine Champions Alternatives to Fighting Terror
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ — Five years after 9/11, Americans are growing weary of approaches to fighting terrorism that only seem to heighten bloodshed and fear, rather than healing wounds and forging unity. Friends Journal, the leading Quaker magazine, has released an important volume of principled responses to the threat of terrorism, titled “Answering…
Read MorePeace and Privacy in the Pacific
Below is the first few paragraphs of an article from WIRED magazine. Click here to read the full article http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71511-0.html?tw=wn_index_25 In 2004, three men distributing leaflets opposing the Iraq war near a Japanese military base were arrested, interrogated, held for 75 days and then convicted and fined for trespassing. Many people believe that the prosecution…
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