War - period ended 4.15.2006

War/Protest/Religious Diversity//Giving Bush a Pink Slip/Mother Jones/San Francisco/CA/USA/1-May-06/... Raising the Dead

The photos -- striking faces, each with a rank, a name, and a place -- are mounted on a cord that stretches for blocks. Almost 2,400 photos means many, many blocks, and so that cord is held up by scores of people strung out along its length, living faces to go with the dead ones. Hermon Darden, pastor of King's Highway United Methodist Church in Brooklyn, is among them. He's in clerical black and wearing his white collar. He introduces me to three other men. "He's from Maryland and they're from southern New England, also from the United Methodists."

Are the holders of this exhibit of the dead all Methodists, I ask, and the next holder down promptly clears his throat and shows the pin he's wearing: "Another Quaker for peace." ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights//Intelligence Efforts/Wall Street Journal/New York/NY/USA/26-Apr-06/... Documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal show that, as the activists suspected, their Quaker-organized rally in March 2005 was on the Pentagon's watch list. ...

War/Protest/Civil Rights/Hersh, Rich/What is the TALON database, Pentagon intelligence group/Palm Beach Post,/Palm Beach/FL/USA/23-Apr-06/... The group drew national attention in December, when NBC News reported that the group, which met at a Quaker Meeting House, was infiltrated by the government ...

War/Protest///It's not a question of whether we support our troops/Hamilton Spectator/Hamilton/Ontario/Canada/1-May-06/... Centre for Peace Studies. Ray Cunnington is a Quaker and an associate member of Physicians for Global Survival. He lives in Dundas.

War/Peace Activities/Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund/Urge Bass to backpeace tax fund bill/Nashua Telegraph/Nashua/NH/USA/21-Apr-06/... The New York Yearly Meeting of Friends, the umbrella Quaker organization for New York state, recently approved a statement proclaiming that military taxation ...

War/Peace Activities/Fox, Tom//In Tribute to Activist, a Call to Forgive/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/23-Apr-06/... A divorced father of two college-age children, Fox was a Quaker who played the clarinet in the US Marine Corps Band for 20 years and until two years ago worked ...

War/Iraq/Oshkosh Friends Meeting/McDonald, Nan/Coalition forces should release prisoners' names/Oshkosh Northwestern/Oshkosh/WI/USA/20-Apr-06/... We of the Oshkosh Society of Friends ask you to work to have coalition forces in Iraq release the names and locations of all detainees in their custody and to ...

War/Counter Recruiting/Civil Rights//E-mail landed Truth Project on Pentagon's 'credible' threat list/Palm Beach Post/Palm Beach/FL/USA/24-Apr-06/The group and its activities — mostly handing out leaflets at local high schools and meeting at Lake Worth's Quaker Meeting House — were branded a "credible ...

War/Conscientious Objection//Berkeley This Week/Berkeley Daily Planet/Berkeley/CA/USA/21-Apr-06/“Draft Registration and Conscientious Objection—What Every Teenager Needs to Know” A workshop from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Berkeley Friends Church, 1600 Sacramento St. Free. 925-274-0900.