Issue 02-11-2012
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Thought for the Week: Why I support a Living Wage
This Sunday sees the start of the first Living Wage Week. The Living Wage campaign highlights fair pay as an urgent moral and practical necessity to eradicate poverty. It identifies that the minimum wage does not afford an adequate quality of life to people forced to work two or even...
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Going deep inside
Inmates have, traditionally, favoured bulking up at the gym as a strategy for surviving incarceration. So, why are yoga and meditation also popular in prison, and why are prison managers still choosing to fund weekly yoga classes in times of unprecedented cuts to their budgets?
Susanna’s sisters
One of my first experiences of Quakerism took place in a house full of triangular rooms in Clifton, the charming Georgian part of Bristol. The house was used as a university hall of residence. It had triangular rooms because it formed the elbow between two rows of townhouses that met...
Friends support ‘fair deal’ for John Lewis cleaners
Quakers from across London are working with London Citizens to call for fairer treatment for cleaners who work in the John Lewis Partnership. Friends met in mid-October at Westminster Meeting House to discuss a plan of action in support of the cleaners. They have highlighted Saturday 17 November as an â€...
Socially useful banking
We need to rediscover the social usefulness of banks. This was one of the messages heard at the Occupy sponsored talk and discussion entitled Socially Useful Banking on Monday 29 October in Friends House, London.
Vote on changes in policing
A new website was launched on Friday 26 October to inform voters about the upcoming election for Police and Crime Commissioners in all of England and Wales other than London. The website is: www.choosemypcc.org.uk It aims to provide the information voters will need.
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EU complicit
QPSW has joined with twenty-two other non-governmental organisations across Europe to launch a report, entitled Trading Away Peace: How Europe helps sustain illegal Israeli settlements.
Junior Yearly Meeting 2013
The location and dates of Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) for 2013 have been announced. The gathering is to be held at the Pioneer Centre near Kidderminster from 6 to 10 April.
Farewells at Woodbrooke
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham will be without three popular figures this time next year.
Why economic justice?
A year ago a conference on ‘Economic Justice and the Sustainable Global Society’ was held at Friends House. Delegates were asked to take away a number of questions to be considered by Local and Area Meetings in preparation for a series of seminars. These questions have prompted discussion and this...
Speaking out
In his 1978 book, The Seventh Enemy, Ronald Higgins outlined six major global threats. The ‘seventh enemy’ was humanity’s inability to tackle them. Twenty-five years later, there are now at least eighteen very serious global and national threats, and they are accelerating at an alarming rate.
Putting the sparkle back in Area Meeting
It was always the cue for making excuses and leaving – the monthly request: ‘Who will be our Area Meeting representatives?’ Eventually, we faced up to this reluctance to trek across Northumbria every month to see dwindling numbers of Friends at Business Meetings. What was putting us off?
A Meeting of Friends
We sit together in Silence let the quiet sink in settle into ourselves
Eye - 02 November 2012
Cinema by the sea Eye was delighted to hear that a Friend-founded community cinema project scooped a series of awards at a recent ceremony. ‘Screen-next-the-Sea’ in Wells-next-the-Sea won three certificates of commendation at last month’s BFFS Award Ceremonies. Two were for the project itself – one for publicity and marketing...
Letters - 2 November 2012
Police and crime commissioners On 15 November, in all areas of England and Wales apart from London, there will be elections for police and crime commissioners (PCCs). These are new elected posts, which replace the police authorities, created with the aim of ensuring better accountability between the police and the communities...