North Pacific Yearly Meeting

05/30/2026

Mobility, Vision, and Hearing Challenges – a conversation

June 6, 2 – 3 pm

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/F1Z2nB_JQh6XggP7FEapRA #/registration

This session is designed to hear from people with mobility, vision, or hearing challenges about their experiences at Annual Session and in our home Meetings. Are accommodations enough? Are attitudes positive? What could we understand and do better?

The session is hosted by the Working Group on Addressing Harm with Care of North Pacific Yearly Meeting, as part of the Diversity 101 series. Links to the other sessions are available here: Promoting Anti-Racism in Quaker Settings; Neurodiversity Unmasked; and LGBTQ+ and Transgender Understanding. General information on the Working Group is here.

This session is designed to hear from people with mobility, vision, or hearing challenges about their experiences at Annual Session and in our home Meetings. Are accommodations enough? Are attitudes positive? What could we understand and do better?

05/21/2026

A MINUTE OF CONSCIENCE AND PUBLIC WITNESS

Palo Alto Friends (Quaker) Meeting

The Palo Alto Friends Meeting adopts this minute of conscience at this specific time in our country’s history. As Quakers, we believe that God can be found in each of us. Our faith in the inherent dignity and worth of each person guides our vision of the world we seek and leads us to advocate persistently for policies to bring it closer to that vision.

Throughout its history our country has at times failed to live up to its founding principles. Our faith leads us to bear witness and speak out against such failures. Our loyalties are to truth, constitutional governance, moral responsibility and the sacred worth of every person.

We find ourselves especially concerned about what we have lost under the current administration. We name these concerns soberly and without partisanship. It is our fervent hope that these patterns of action be reversed:

Undermining of democratic processes such as:

Changing constitutional structures, including the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances.
Threatening free speech and voting processes.
Limiting freedom of the press, the rise of propaganda and misinformation, the distortion of historical truth, including the experiences of marginalized communities.
Failing to faithfully execute enacted laws.
Using of public office for personal financial gain.
Erosion of civil rights and failures to provide due process to those on American soil.

Failure to use our public funds for public good such as:

Reductions in food, healthcare, and social support programs affecting children, elders, veterans, and vulnerable persons.
Defunding of scientific and medical research.
Abandonment of the vision of a peaceful world through international cooperation and global partnerships including:

Alignment with governments that suppress human rights.
Support of the military industrial complex while abandoning international peace and aid opportunities, resulting in civilian suffering.
Retreat from environmental stewardship and weakening of ecological protections illustrated by:

Failure to substantially support the UN process to address climate change.
Abandonment of domestic programs and investments that are designed to counter environmental degradation.
Lack of transparent accountability and restorative justice in matters of sexual exploitation at all levels in our country and communities.

We encourage Friends, and all who share our concerns to engage in public witness, communicate with elected officials, offer tangible aid to those in need, and engage in any other form of peaceful civic action that is revealed to us as being necessary.

April 24, 2026

05/16/2026

Seminar on Economic Activism for Palestine

Online Thursday, May 21, 6:30 pm Pacific Time

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Bn7onygQImEOGS_airsaQ #/registration

Spread the word. All are welcome.

How can we use our money proactively and withdraw it strategically to express our values with regard to Palestine? Panelists will present both investment and divestment options, for individuals and groups, including advocacy on investments by our states.

Presenters

· Dov (Dalit) Baum, Director of Corporate Accountability and Research, Action Center for Corporate Accountability, American Friends Service Committee,
· Nadia Ismail from the Board of the Woven Futures Fund, a program of the Women Donors Network, and
· Diana Fakhoury, Washington for Peace and Justice, Palestinian-led advocacy for a just world, speaking on WA: CUT TIES WITH GENOCIDE.
This seminar is part of the discernment in North Pacific Yearly Meeting around endorsing the Quaker genocide statement and taking the Apartheid-free pledge. Participants in previous seminars have called for NPYM Friends to move beyond these endorsements into action. This panel will provide some of the concrete possibilities.

This seminar is offered by the Northwest Quaker Palestine-Israel Network. To join the network, send an email to [email protected].

How can we use our money proactively and withdraw it strategically to express our values with regard to Palestine? Panelists will present both investment and divestment options, for individual and groups, including advocacy on investments our states make. Presenters include Dov Baum from the Economi...

05/12/2026

https://pendlehill.org/calendar/non-creedal-genders/



"Non-Creedal Genders: Quaker Spirituality and A Love Letter to Trans Kids"
A First Monday Lecture with Kody Gabriel.

Drawing from their experience of Quaker spirituality, youth worker and transgender advocate Kody Gabriel will share a love letter to trans young people and the inner child in gender-nonconforming adults. Their talk will explore the spiritual gifts of trans identity, put Quaker theology and gender liberation in dialogue, and offer practices of resilience for keeping ourselves whole in the face of political and social oppression. Kody’s talk will center and speak to the experiences of trans and gender-nonconforming people. People of all gender identities and experiences are welcome to attend.

Kody will give this lecture from the Albuquerque Friends Meetinghouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You are invited to register to join by Zoom or on campus at Pendle Hill. You could also join Kody in Albuquerque or host your own watch party with your meeting or gathering to participate via Zoom.

05/02/2026

Seminar on Economic Activism for Palestine

Online Thursday, May 21, 6:30 pm Pacific/ 7:30 Mountain

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Bn7onygQImEOGS_airsaQ #/registration

Spread the word. All are welcome.

How can we use our money proactively and withdraw it strategically to express our values with regard to Palestine? Panelists will present both investment and divestment options for individuals and groups.

Presenters include

Dov (Dalit) Baum, Director of Corporate Accountability and Research, Action Center for Corporate Accountability, American Friends Service Committee, and
Nadia Ismael from the Board of the Woven Futures Fund, a program of the Women Donors Network.

This seminar is offered by the Northwest Quaker Palestine-Israel Network. To join the network, send an email to [email protected].

How can we use our money proactively and withdraw it strategically to express our values with regard to Palestine? Panelists will present both investment and divestment options, for individual and groups, including advocacy on investments our states make. Presenters include Dov Baum from the Economi...

04/18/2026

Quaker Volunteer Service Information Session
Monday, April 20 @ 5 pm
University Friends Meetinghouse

04/11/2026

“Human Rights in Israel/Palestine: Taking the Apartheid-Free Pledge”

Allison Tanner, American Friends Service Committee

Online Thursday, April 30, 6:30 pm Pacific/ 7:30 Mountain

Please share this announcement widely. All are welcome.

What is the definition of apartheid in international law? What can we do to work for human rights for everyone in Israel and Palestine? Allison Tanner of AFSC will explain the goals of the Apartheid-Free movement and give examples of what Quaker monthly and yearly meetings are doing to live up to it.

Her talk is part of the dialogue within North Pacific Yearly Meeting about taking the Apartheid-Free pledge, a step that has been proposed to NPYM. Allison will talk and take questions from 6:30 to 7:30 Pacific. A half hour of open discussion will follow, giving Friends from NPYM an opportunity to share what they are already doing and air their questions and concerns about the proposed Yearly Meeting action.
Register here:

Presentation from Allison Tanner, American Friends Service Committee What is the definition of apartheid in international law? What difference does it make? What can we do to work for human rights for everyone in Israel and Palestine? Allison Tanner will explain the goals of the Apartheid-Free movem...

03/23/2026

“Genocide in International Law and Its Application to Gaza”

Paul O’Brien, Executive Director of Amnesty International

Online Thursday, April 2, 6:30 pm Pacific/ 7:30 Mountain

Sponsored by the Northwest Quaker Israel-Palestine Network

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/reg-O3JUSumpA8ICKDmx4Q #/registration

Please share this announcement widely. All are welcome.

What is international law? Why and how was it established? How does it apply to Gaza? Paul O’Brien, Executive Director of Amnesty International, will offer insights and stimulate discussion on these topics, including recounting how Amnesty International came to its conclusion that genocide is happ...

03/18/2026

The Working Group on Addressing Harm with Care is again offering discussion sessions on various dimensions of NPYM diversity to prepare ourselves for Annual Session. Two discussions are upcoming:

Neurodiversity Unmasked – a conversation towards understanding our differences. March 21, 10-11 am Pacific time. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0LThcXi2QhOSVCBcXz4ixg #/registration
LGBTQ+ and Transgender Understanding. This session will include discussion of trans rights and of pronouns (Why use them? Why not use them?). April 18, 10-11 am Pacific time. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8_dPwt7-SjKDb6WTTy7a0Q #/registration

This session will include discussion of pronouns (why use them? why not use them?) and trans rights. Materials will be sent to those who register. The video of last year's session and background materials are available at npym.org. The conversation is part of the Diversity 101 series offered by the....

03/13/2026