Wednesday, January 03, 2007

War - period ended 12.15.2006

War/Protest/Willoughby, Lillian/Arrest just a chapter in life of activist, 91/The Gloucester County Times/Gloucester/NJ/USA/2-Dec-06//... A lifelong Quaker and longtime member of the peace movement, Willoughby promptly rolled her wheelchair into the recruitment center and asked to enlist. .

War/Protest/Willoughby, Lillian/11 'antiwar grandmas' won't get jail/Philadelphia Inquire/Philadelphia/PA/USA/2-Dec-06//... The women - including poet Sonia Sanchez and Lillian Willoughby, a 91-year-old wheelchair-bound Quaker from Deptford - faced up to 90 days in jail if convicted ...

War/Protest/St. Petersburg Friends Meeting/Obrien, Christine/Longtime Activist Leaves Legacy Of Peace And Grace/Tampa Tribune/Tampa/FL/USA/2-Dec-06//... said Friday. Through it and local Quaker congregations, O'Brien spent more than three decades urging people to get along. She told ...

War/Protest/Quaker House (UK)/Hundreds join peace protest at air base/Swindon Advertiser/Swindon/England/UK/4-Dec-06//... sort of thing again.". The Swindon Stop the War Coalition's next meeting is at 7.30pm in the Quaker House, Eastcott Road, tomorrow.

War/Protest/Politics and Economics/King, Richard/Hundreds rally against the Iraq war/Cleveland Plain Dealer/Cleveland/OH/USA/4-Dec-06//... Richard King, a self-described progressive Democrat and a Quaker from Summit County, said he marched to "show the country how much opposition there is against ...

War/Peace Activities/Fox, Tom//Confessions of a peacemaker/Telegraph.co.uk/London/England/UK/8-Dec-06//... A year ago, we were companions in kidnap, held for 118 days but ignorant that we were under the threat of death unless Iraqi prisoners were released. There was no mistaking the reality of our predicament when our fellow captive, the American Quaker Tom Fox, was separated from us. As we discovered at our release, he had been murdered and his body dumped by the roadside.

Tom was the most compassionate peacemaker of the four of us and the tragedy of his death not only blighted the joy of our release in March but cast a long shadow over our recent reunion. Amid the good news stories of our freedom, my motives for going to Iraq were widely questioned. . ...

War/Iraq/Religious Faith/Burnett, Bob/The connection between Iraq and Israel/Arab American News/Detroit/MI/USA/11-Dec-06//... For the record, I'ma Quaker and, therefore, a liberal Christian. Nonetheless, I find America's newfound political religiosity deeply disturbing. ...

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