Issue 09-11-2012
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Thought for the Week: Why did we fight?
Last year one of my Christmas presents was All Hell Let Loose, Max Hastings’ history of the second world war. The excellent reviews were justified – the title sums up the mayhem and the horror that has always characterised warfare. He describes families packed into London tube stations to shelter from...
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Animal victims of war
Children of Warrington Meeting have helped create a striking postcard to raise awareness of animals who continue to suffer and die as a result of warfare. The eight children, together with Diane Furber of Warrington Meeting, worked in the creative collaboration with painter Ann Johnson of Eastbourne Meeting.
White poppies
White poppies, not red, Flowers without the blood.
Peace Centre demolished
Israeli and Palestinian peace groups expressed dismay that a Peace Centre on the edge of Jerusalem has been demolished by the Israeli army. The centre, Beit Arabiya, was destroyed in the early hours of Thursday 1 November. It was the sixth occasion on which the building had been demolished. It...
Home Office set to deport transplant patient to Nigeria
Doctors, clergy and parliamentarians have called upon home secretary Theresa May to stop the removal of kidney-transplant patient Roseline Akhalu to Nigeria. Roseline, aged forty-nine, who lives in Headingley, Leeds, came to the UK in September 2004 on a student visa, having beaten fierce competition to win a Ford Foundation...
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Concern over Cameron’s Gulf visit
The visit this week by David Cameron to the Gulf to promote arms sales has been criticised by pacifists and campaign organisa-tions opposed to the arms trade. The prime minister was in Dubai in an effort to persuade the United Arab Emirates to buy sixty Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets....
Circles broadcast appeal postponed
The charity appeal for Circles of Support and Accountability, to have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 4 November, has been postponed. The appeal was to have been given by the distinguished barrister and human rights campaigner Helena Kennedy. It was postponed because of a ‘shared concern that, given...
Waging total peace
The Quaker Peace Testimony was a focus for discussion at a recent ‘Becoming Friends’ evening in our local Newbury Meeting. It brought back university memories from fifty years ago. My degree specialised in nuclear power. But seeing how it was going to be used led me to oppose nuclear bombs...
War graves at Cabaret Rouge
Military beyond the last you wait in neat rows for the last trump. Orderly and regular headstones on parade you form a hollow square to look on the great stone altar where grateful nations tell you that your name will live for evermore.
Churches Together in England
About 270 people, representatives of member churches, of intermediate ecumenical bodies and of bodies in association, together with staff and guests, met at Swanwick, Derbyshire, for the Churches Together in England (CTE) Forum in the year that has seen the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the second Vatican Council and...
Eye - 09 November 2012
Moby’s first mate An avid fan of Herman Melville got in touch to remind Eye of the other side of the literary coin in his book: ‘Anne Adams (2 November) is right about the monstrous Quaker shipowners in Moby Dick. But Eye might remind its readers that the wisest and...
Letters - 09 November 2012
Quaker chaplains There are many prisons without a Quaker chaplain. We could do with more. For a start, all Area Meetings (AMs) could check if there is a prison within their geographical boundaries; there may be more than one. AM clerks can easily find a complete list of prisons and...