Working for peace
Tony Weekes reports on Netherlands Yearly Meeting 2015
The ‘Friends of Nature House’, a hostel set in lovely wooded country near the university city of Wageningen, was the venue for Netherlands Yearly Meeting 2015, which took place over the weekend of 29-31 May and attracted around eighty Friends and guests.
We are living in challenging times. The cuts to social welfare benefits across Europe, together with the high levels of unemployment, are leading to hardship and growing inequality. One consequence is violence in the streets, particularly in the cities of southern Europe. There are increasing numbers of migrant people and asylum seekers, leading to resentment, hate crime and the rise of political extremism.
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