Quaker Congo Partnership UK event
Kingston upon Thames Friends hosted an event on 25 November
Kingston upon Thames Friends hosted an open event for the Quaker Congo Partnership UK on 25 November.
Gretchen Castle, general secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), spoke about privilege and historical injustice, and building a ‘loving and equal’ world Quaker community.
She told the Friend the theme was inspired by the words of a young Bolivian Friend, who said when the World Conference came to his country, he saw friends acting submissively towards westerners. She said: ‘He brought to our attention the idea that we can address the economic inequality, but we also want to address the spiritual imperative to be kind to each other.’
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I was at the event and was struck not by accounts of privilege and historical injustice by Europeans but by the accounts of present-day rape and pillage by local men, which have their origins not in the colonial past but in a current culture of male chauvinism, inter-tribal violence, and lawlessness.
By frankem51 on 7th December 2018 - 7:42
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