‘The organisation has grown massively, and Quakers need to be part of it.’

A natural fit? Mark Smalley on Quakerism and Extinction Rebellion

'Earth marchers' outside Bedminster Meeting. | Photo: Courtesy of Mark Smalley.

A group of ‘Earth marchers’ shared breakfast at Bedminster Meeting House on Saturday morning, 30 March, passing through en route from west Wales to London. One of them, Myfanwy, who cares for her elderly mother, had walked the first leg from Cardigan two weeks before. Another, Blake, had joined them in Port Talbot. At least six other marches are also headed for London, having begun in Cornwall, Peterborough, Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge and Brighton.

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