Tuesday, January 16, 2007

War - period ended 6.1.2006

War/Protest///How he got that first big story, and a big lesson in the business/Boston Globe/Boston/MA/USA/21-May-06/... I wrote an editorial for the Sagamore duly calling reaction to the Quaker-led assembly ''hasty and ill-considered."

But I never wrote then about the real lesson I learned: be careful what you print and broadcast. It can get you or someone else in serious trouble, regardless of its accuracy. ...

War/Peace Activities/Roos, Kate//The real failure/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh/PA/USA/29-May-06/…It is ridiculously easy to mock Kate Roos for her "Freedom Flyers: A Citizen's Art Project for the World."

The retired college professor believes that using what she calls white plastic flying discs ("Frisbees" to those unfamiliar with trademark law) will help Iraqi children laugh, play, restore their hope and learn something about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "Ridiculously easy" until you speak with the well-meaning Texas Quaker who in her spare time learned to play the bagpipe. ...

Peace Activities/International Conflict//The Possibility of Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue/American Muslim/St. Louis/MO/USA/25-May-06/... In an effort to calm the initial tension, the kind Quaker facilitators generously handed around a plate of refreshments, only to feel slightly put out when no one touched the ham sandwiches. As we have heard, this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Shemini, explicitly prohibits the consumption of certain foods, notably pig meat. But so too does the Muslim Quran, in four separate verses. All of a sudden, these putative enemies, ensconced in one room, found they had something in common. One revealing discovery led to another and excited further curiosity. In this way, the well-meaning Christian hosts innocently achieved their aim of relaxing the atmosphere in a manner they could never have planned or anticipated. ...

War/Iraq/Protest//Few Protesters Turn Out For Rumsfeld Visit/Rockbridge Weekly/Rockbridge/VA/USA/16-May-06/... Some local church groups also showed up to protest the visit, but the majority of the protesters appeared to be members of regional Quaker-based groups. ...

War/Iraq/Protest/Butler, Judy/Peace march marks Mother's Day/The News Journal,/Wilmington/DE/USA/15-May-06/... Judy Butler, of Wilmington, carried part of a rope decorated with black, white and red ribbons -- representing U.S. dead and injured and Iraqi dead. She is a Quaker and a pacifist. Marching with the group reminds her she's not alone in her opposition to war.

"This makes me feel like I'm not crazy," she said. "It's my sanity moment. ... I feel like I have no voice in this government. I'm reduced to peace marches and bumper stickers." ...

War/Iraq///A War Too Far: Iraq, Iran and the New American Century/ic Huddersfield.co.uk/Huddersfield/England/UK/16-May-06/PAUL ROGERS, of Kirkburton, Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University, will be giving the Huddersfield Quaker annual peace lecture "A War Too Far: Iraq ...

War/Garden Grove Friends Church/Swaim, Mark//Magnolia memories/OCRegister/Garden Grove/CA/USA/30-May-06/... "Help us not to trivialize this into a day of barbecue ... but instead remember those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedoms," Pastor Mark Swaim of Garden Grove Friends Church prayed before a crowd of about 100 at Magnolia Memorial Park. ...

War/Counter-Recruiting//Air Force ROTC possible at Upper Darby High /News of Delaware County/Upper Darby/PA/USA/24-May-06/... The only opposition to currently operating programs comes from local Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) who view the high school program as recruiting ...


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