Quakers gear up for ‘The Big One’
'Organisers aim to attract around 100,000 people to call for urgent action on the climate emergency.'
Quakers up and down the country are planning to take part in Extinction Rebellion (XR)’s planned days of witness for climate action this month. Titled ‘The Big One’, and running from 21 to 24 April in Westminster, organisers aim to attract around 100,000 people to call for urgent action on the climate emergency and to demonstrate to the government that public opinion backs meaningful action.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) confirmed via the Quakers in Britain Twitter feed that it will be supporting the witness. With many Friends preparing to take part, Quaker activist Rajan Naidu said he hoped there would be representatives from every Area Meeting.
Cotteridge Quaker climate activist Jo Hindley also tweeted that she was delighted that BYM is supporting the event.
Ailish Carroll-Brentnall, Faith in Action coordinator for BYM, whom Friends attending have been urged to contact, told the Friend that, by the end of March, she had heard from sixty individual Quakers. ‘Of those, two have told me their group are bringing minibuses and one has told me they’re bringing a coach. Last I heard there were seventy people on the WhatsApp group. So it looks as though there will be a turnout of over one hundred at least. The responses I’ve had have been from people spread fairly evenly across England with some people also attending from Central Scotland and a group from South Wales.’
Westminster Meeting willl be offering hospitality on the day.
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