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‘Art the Arms Fair’ returns
Art the Arms Fair (AAF), the partly-Quaker-founded arts exhibition, will return this year. AAF uses ‘creative resistance’ against Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), the huge arms fair.
Friends mark Hiroshima Day
Quakers are marking Hiroshima Day this weekend, with open days and public events across the country. The event will honour the seventy-eighth anniversary since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima – and Nagasaki three days later – leaving more than 200,000 dead.
Retreat of Malvern arms fair celebrated
Quakers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire are celebrating the news that an arms fair they have long-campaigned against has no plans to return.
FCNL lobbies to stop gun violence
A US Quaker has called for US Congress to stop community gun violence by investing in ‘violence interrupter programs’.
Launch of new Quaker equity network
A new Quaker equity network is to look at how differences, including those attributed to race, class, sex and neurodiversity, are interlinked, in order to build a better future.
Quaker launches new climate movement
Rupert Read, the Quaker who delivered this year’s Salter Lecture, has co-launched a new climate movement. The Climate Majority Project (CMP) is aimed at harnessing the growing majority of people in the UK who are in favour of more action to tackle the climate crisis. The initiative is aimed...
Bamford Quaker Community to close
The longstanding Bamford Quaker Community in the Peak District has announced it is to close, after thirty-five years.
BYM condemns Illegal Migration Act
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined 289 organisations to uphold and stand alongside those affected by the government’s ‘senselessly cruel’ Illegal Migration Act. The bill passed the Lords last week, after what BYM described as ‘choppy progress through parliament, with the Lords making repeated amendments’.
Quaker play misses out on arts funding
The playwright and actor Michael Mears has had an application for Arts Council funding turned down. He was hoping for support for a twenty-eight-day tour of his play The Mistake. The work focuses on Hiroshima and the first atomic bombings, and will be shown at Quaker venues, among other places,...
Peace lessons highlight nuclear risks
Friends have helped highlight the legacy of early atomic scientists in peace lessons for secondary schools.