War - period ended 3.31.2006

War/Protest/Civil Rights//Democrats stronger, wiser on security/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/31-Mar-06//... While most conservatives don't mind that the Bush administration abused its authority to spy on Quaker, antiwar and protest groups, will they be happy with ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Quaker Charm/Dots: An Apparatus of Domestic Repression?/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/24-Mar-06//... days of domestic surveillance, your operations went by code names like Canal Sham, Larvil Centipede, Omnipatient Lurker, Fly Paper, Wildfang, and Quaker Charm. ...

War/Protest/Beetle, Pat//A gentle manner and firm resolve propel decades of peace activism/Albany Times Union/Albany/NY/USA/23-Mar-06//... energy. Since joining the Quaker-led vigils in the mid-1960s, she has been arrested numerous times and jailed once, for three days. ...

War/Iraq/Protest/Perry City Meeting/Trumansburg protest attracts 125/Ithaca Journal/Ithaca/NY/USA/20-Mar-06//... march in Trumansburg attracted an estimated 125 people, organizers said, and was sponsored by Back to Democracy and the Perry City Friends, a Quaker group. ...

War/Iraq/Protest//Vigil marks war dead/Bradenton Herald/Bradenton/FL/USA/20-Mar-06//... She explained that she was a Quaker and was lighting candles as a symbol of her hope that US troops will come home soon and the war in Iraq will come to an end ...

War/Iraq/Protest//Vigil marks war dead/Centre Daily Times/State College/PA/USA/20-Mar-06//... She explained that she was a Quaker and was lighting candles as a symbol of her hope that US troops will come home soon and the war in Iraq will come to an end ...

War/Protest/San Diego Friends/Barrows, David/Anti-war rally more subdued/San Diego Union Tribune/San Diego/CA/USA/19-Mar-06//... David Barrows, who leads services at San Diego Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation, said it was important that war protesters be seen, no matter how small ...

War/Protest/Iraq/Haracz, Marge/Iraq war protesters hit Chicago/Gary Post Tribune/Gary/IN/USA/19-Mar-06//... I wish he is right. I hope he is right.”. Amid the crowd was another mother of a soldier, Marge Haracz of Barrington, who also is a Quaker. ...

War/Protest/Iraq/Haracz, Marge/7,000 march against war on Mag Mile/Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago/IL/USA/19-Mar-06//... I wish he is right. I hope he is right.”. Amid the crowd was another mother of a soldier, Marge Haracz of Barrington, who also is a Quaker. ...

War/Protest/Iraq//Anti-war protests in SF, other cities draw thousands/San Francisco Chronicle/San Francisco/CA/USA/19-Mar-06//... "Not at all," said David Alpert, of Berkeley, an architect for Kaiser Permanente, who was marching with a Quaker group, Berkeley Friends, who were with the ...

War/Protest/Finke, David/Schuder, John/Serving God and Country/Columbia Missourian/Columbia/MO/USA/18-Mar-06//... For some Christians, no credible interpretation of Christ’s teachings can lead to a justification for war. In the Sermon on the Mount, recounted in the New Testament by the Gospel of St. Matthew, Jesus urged his followers to “love thy neighbor.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers,” he said, “for they shall be called children of God.”

David Finke, a Columbia Quaker, said his opposition to war grows out of an “awareness of the work of God in the world.”

“It is very hard to read the fifth and sixth chapters of Matthew and come out defending militarism,” Finke says.

Quaker John Schuder of Columbia has attended a peace vigil outside the U.S. Post Office in Columbia every week for 22 years. “Jesus provides the pacifist position,” he says.

The Quakers were founded by George Fox as a response to the cultural and religious unrest of 17th century England. Quakers — or, as they are officially known, the Religious Society of Friends — reject all wars. In 1952, five years after the Society of Friends was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its humanitarian work during World War II, they issued a statement reaffirming their pacifism, as dictated by their “peace testimony.” This testimony precludes allowing for any legitimization of war or a belief in Just War Theory.

It states: “The Religious Society of Friends, from its origin in the 17th century to the present time, has continuously held that war and Christianity are incompatible; and therefore, they (Quakers) cannot, under any circumstances, support or prepare for war.”

Yet, Quakers don’t equate pacifism with passivity in times of war. Quaker conscientious objectors formed ambulance units that operated on the front lines during World War II, and an awareness of the suffering caused by war, Finke says, means that “we reach for our checkbook as readily as we reach for a picket sign.”

Quakers and other so-called “peace churches” take their beliefs from early Church teachings, Scripture and the “inner light” Christ brings to their lives.

Likewise, the Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, emphasizes the principle of non-violence as a core Christian value.. ...

War/Iraq/Protest//Tant: Conservatives now having doubts on Bush's war in Iraq/Athens Banner-Herald/Athens/GA/USA/18-Mar-06//... Led by the local Quaker society in the spirit of that faith's longtime opposition to war, the Sunday morning march is an effort to encourage citizens of every ...

War/Protest/Counter-Recruiting/Hersch, Rich/I spy . . . a credible threat?/St. Petersburg Times/St. Petersburg/FL/USA/17-Mar-06//... Nov. 13, 2004? They'd gathered that day at a Quaker meeting house to talk about passing out fliers to high school students. Now ...