‘Quakers will continue to do what we have always done: work in the place we are.’ Photo: User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
‘We commend the work of this parliament to address the issues, but we are worried.’
Alastair Cameron speaks to the Scottish parliament in the 'Thought for the week'
by Alastair Cameron
18th October 2019
As clerk of South East Scotland Quakers it falls to me to notify our national body of arrests of our members. There have been eight this year, involving six individuals. These are some of the Quakers arrested this year throughout the UK, mostly as part of Extinction Rebellion, or demonstrating against fracking. And there were around forty more last month at a series of demonstrations against the DSEI [Defence and Security Equipment International] arms fair in London.
