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Friends uphold arrested Ukrainian pacifist

FREE 17 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

‘Yurii Sheliazhenko has consistently condemned Russian aggression as well as NATO and all other militarism’. Peace Pledge Union | Yurii Sheliazhenko at Vernadsky Scientific Library

Quakers are upholding a Ukrainian conscientious objector whose apartment was raided by the Ukrainian authorities. He was arrested for ‘justifying Russian aggression’.

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Friends oppose British Museum BP links

FREE 17 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Quakers were among a group of campaigners calling for the British Museum to rename its BP Lecture Hall.

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BYM and other churches launch wills initiative

17 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined over 100 churches to launch a new partnership to create local and global change through gifts in wills.

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London Quakers explore ‘Climate Fresk’

17 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

London Quakers are hoping to hold another climate justice gathering in Friends House, after the success of this year’s event.

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QSA volunteer shortlisted for award

17 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

A Quaker Social Action (QSA) volunteer has been shortlisted for a national award for his work for a QSA project.

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Quakers remembered in suffrage anniversary

FREE 10 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Portrait of Lucretia Mott, 1842, by Joseph Kyle |

The influence of five Quaker women on the US movement for women’s suffrage was marked last month, on the 175th anniversary of its inception.

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Friends mark Menwith Hill ‘Declaration of Independence’

FREE 10 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Quakers joined the annual ‘Independence from America Day’ last month at RAF Menwith Hill, where there have been protests for twenty years.

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Friends spread welcome at Pride

10 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Nine London Friends joined the city’s Pride march to spread the Quaker message of inclusion, despite the fact that London Quakers as a group did not join. Friend Abigail Maxwell took a Local Meeting minute and described how the group stood along Piccadilly in groups of three, holding foam...

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BYM pledges to stand with trans community

10 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 1 comment | 1 comments

Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), has signed a ‘Charity So Straight’ pledge to support the rights of trans, non-binary, and gender diverse communities.

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Riots prompt rethink in security

10 August 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

The Quaker-led French group Stop Fuelling War (SFW) has said that last month’s riots in France have made the need to rethink security more pressing than ever.

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