SCYM Quakers on Peace & Justice

05/15/2025

Have Friends heard about the Quaker Walk to Washington? If you've seen any news coverage of it please share it here. It'd be great to keep tabs on the walk. I hear Quakers and others in the area are joining them as they walk. Here's the schedule of their days. Very nice webpage

May 14 Day 11: PA (to London Grove) Wednesday, May 14, 2025 8:00 AM 7:00 PM Google Calendar ICS Start: Westtown Friends (Meeting House)End: London Grove Friends MeetingMileage: 17 miles on country roads View Event → May 15 Day 12: PA (to Penn Hill) Thursday, May 15, 2025 8:00 AM 7:00 PM Go...

01/28/2025

Please call all your congressional delegates and tell them this stop on federal grants is TERRIBLE! There are talking points here, an email app, and the Capitol Switchboard to call. In Northwest Arkansas, our federal delegation is Sen. John Boozman direct Washington line (202-224-4843), Sen. Tom Cotton (202-224-2353) and Congressman Steve Womack (202-225-4301) . Their lines are NOT FLOODED YET and they need to be. This is one of calls they need to receive from us, so please save these numbers.

The White House has ordered a pause on federal funding. Contact your Member of Congress NOW to stop it!

01/15/2025

This sounds really interesting. And lays out the class differences that operate everywhere in this country.

In divided cities profoundly shaped by racial capitalism, solidarity economies are redrawing urban space.

12/21/2024

beautiful!

Grandma how do you deal with pain?"
"With your hands, dear. When you do it with your mind, the pain hardens even more."
“With your hands, grandma?"
"Yes, yes. Our hands are the antennas of our Soul. When you move them by sewing, cooking, painting, touching the earth or sinking them into the earth, they send signals of caring to the deepest part of you and your Soul calms down. This way she doesn't have to send pain anymore to show it.
"Are hands really that important?"
"Yes my girl. Think of babies: they get to know the world thanks to their touch.
When you look at the hands of older people, they tell more about their lives than any other part of the body.
Everything that is made by hand, so it is said, is made with the heart because it really is like this: hands and heart are connected.
Think of lovers: When their hands touch, they love each other in the most sublime way."
"My hands grandma... how long since I used them like that!"
"Move them my love, start creating with them and everything in you will move.
The pain will not pass away. But it will be the best masterpiece. And it won't hurt as much anymore, because you managed to embroider your Essence

11/23/2024

Why is SCYM Peace & Justice committee thinking about conscience objection now? There's no draft anymore, right?
https://denniskucinich.substack.com/p/america-prepares-for-global-war-and?selection=ae312843-05ac-4723-9972-9b9ca83f66a9&fbclid=IwY2xjawGu18ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ8gVIb62jtrptM-CBckxfCBkpvWrMWlgEsglMW5i1fqquLwkNR2fe5AKA_aem_NsSVepvbIeozuwpxiolagA&triedRedirect=true #:~:text=This%20amendment%20is%20in%20the%20NDAA%20legislation%20and%20there%20is%20no%20pending%20amendment%20to%20strip%20it%20from%20the%20bill

10/19/2024

What a twisted game they're playing.'

After a year-long hunt, IDF soldiers encountered and killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar without knowing it was him

09/09/2024

Real reasons Netanyahu won't stop the genocide are hidden behind the scenes. I really appreciate when someone shares from the darkness and reveals a twisted plot.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/09/israels-goal-smashing-palestinian-legitimacy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israels-goal-smashing-palestinian-legitimacy

09/09/2024

Quakers rans some of these boarding schools, to our shame.

True healing must center the Indigenous ways of being that these genocidal institutions tried to extinguish.

09/01/2024

Heather Cox Richardson talks here about the new Financial Crimes Enforcement Network the Treasury Department just formed. It's about time.

And now the U.S.

09/01/2024

Food systems are finally getting some attention from climate decision makers. Hope there's still time to kick things into gear on this.

High-level policy discussions have built momentum for “food system transformation” that would help farmers address the climate crisis.