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The World of Joseph Wood the Friend Independent Quaker Journalism Since 1843 21 October 2011 £1.70 the DISCOVER THE FriendCONTEMPORARY QUAKER WAY The World of Joseph Wood the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 Contents VOL 169 NO 42 3 Thought for the Week: United Nations Day Roger Iredale 4-5 News 6-7 Death shall not prevail Robert Powell CC / flickr IMAGES Photo: USAID 8-9 Letters 10-11 The world of Joseph Wood Pamela Cooksey 12-13 Experiment with Light: Sink down to the seed Jane Holmes 14 A moment in time Dorothy Searle 15 Poem: In everyone 24 October is United Nations Day Kevin Redpath 16 q-eye: a wry look at the Quaker world 17 Friends & Meetings ‘The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.’ Cover image: A sample of Joseph Wood’s handwriting. Kofi Annan Courtesy of James Wood. See page 10. 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United Nations Day, 24 October, since it coincides The UN represents governments, and governments with my mother’s birthday! This huge organisation come in all shapes and sizes. Some agencies are more Irambles like a rose bush over the globe, with its many effective than others. All aim to help the poorest and offshoots involved in almost every aspect of human most vunerable. life in every corner of the world. Some, like UNICEF, The General Assembly and the Security Council are do outstanding work with children and mothers in central to the UN. The latter is an absurd historical slums and deserts, while others come to the aid of anomaly, with France and Britain occupying permanent the beleaguered Gazans, or struggle to keep peace in seats – while India and Brazil have to take their turn the vast recesses of Central Africa. Friends have been with the rest of the world. able to make their influence felt through our offices in Does this jealously guarded status quo contribute to Geneva and New York the belief of the British political classes that they have The organisation was born of the idealism of the a right to fight other people’s wars? Did Tony Blair’s eccentric pacifist Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson military adventures arise from Britain’s self-importance and his Bloomsbury circle, who began to create the because it sits beside China, the USA and the Russian League of Nations even before the First World War Federation at the top table? Is it fair that this small ended. While that organisation failed to prevent the island can wield such influence over global decision next war, it created many agencies later inherited making? Indeed, is it right that any country, particularly by the UN and provided a template for the present the USA after it misled the General Assembly on Iraq, structure of seventeen elements, including UNESCO, can veto crucially important world events? Everyone the International Monetary Fund and the International agrees that there is a need for change, but then the Atomic Energy Agency. It is a pacifist concept born of Tower of Babel takes over. a profound objection to war as a means of resolving So, we have this valued, ubiquitous entity embracing disputes. That it is empowered to sanction military the globe and trying to spread flowers of peace in action in response to emergencies is a constant source dangerous places, tackling poverty, refugees, health, of tension and contradiction. agricultural, economic, cultural, scientific, financial A political organisation with an intergovernmental and social issues. dimension, the UN inevitably attracts the power Though it works from a script that was written struggles and egotism that characterise politics. I have some sixty years ago, in a very different world, it was talked with a chief statistician whose job was threatened conceived by people of peace and it remains the only because of her unwillingness to distort the sensitive sane barrier to the opposite. literacy statistics of an influential member state. I have unknowingly worked with an official who was secretly employed to follow the Cold War rivalries within one of the agencies. And I have seen the scrawled, defiant Roger Iredale file notes of an autocratic director-general, written in Roger is a member of Mid-Somerset Area Meeting. pursuit of some private agenda, countermanding the His work has involved close collaboration with UN considered judgments of a senior colleague. agencies across the globe. the Friend, 21 October 2011 3 News Quakers to help ‘hidden homeless’ FRIENDS HAVE BEEN URGED to sleeping on friends’ sofas or floors, guarantee to protect landlords, as rent out their spare rooms to single sometimes moving frequently well as giving advice and support. people at risk of homelessness. between different people’s houses. All potential lodgers will have been Quaker Social Action (QSA), The situation is likely to worsen assessed by QSA. who made the appeal, say there in January, when single people ‘Becoming homeless wasn’t are thousands of people who under 35 will no longer qualify for my fault, but it makes you feel are ‘vulnerably housed’ but not housing benefit if they occupy a very unsure and vulnerable. It’s technically labelled as homeless. privately rented flat on their own. demeaning,’ explained Leon, a man Single people are often at the The age limit is currently 25. who last week moved into a spare bottom of waiting lists for social QSA is appealing to all Friends room as a result of the Homelink housing, as they rarely meet the with spare rooms in the London scheme. He explained: ‘I was also criteria to be a high priority. The area to consider renting them afraid what employers would think phenomenon known as ‘hidden out via their ‘Homelink’ project. as I couldn’t even put an address on homelessness’ can involve people This helps by providing a bond application forms.’ increase as a result of cuts. Meeting for Sufferings, the Christmas shelters begin national committee of British Quakers, agreed this preparations month to speak out against the coalition’s proposed cap on housing benefit. The Institute for Fiscal Studies warned last week that QUAKER HOMELESS ACTION (QHA) have begun poverty is likely to rise in the UK over coming years. to recruit volunteers for their annual Christmas They predicted that median income next year would shelters. be seven percent lower than in 2009. The news was A number of charities and campaigning groups, described as ‘devastating’ by the Child Poverty Action including QSA and QHA, have warned that the Group (CPAG), a charity that was set up with Quaker economic policies of the coalition government could support. CPAG’s Alison Garnham said that ministers result in a considerable increase in homelessness. QHA were ‘in denial’ about the impact of their policies, said in August that they had already seen homelessness which are ‘making the poor poorer.’ Michael Lyons loses appeal A MEMBER OF THE NAVY who changed his views an ‘unlawful order,’ as it was designed to trap him into on war has lost an appeal against his conviction for either being arrested or abandoning his conscientious ‘wilful disobedience.’ Michael Lyons is serving nine objection. His request for discharge was later turned months in an armed forces detention centre because down by the Advisory Committee on Conscientious he refused to use a rifle. Objection (ACCO). The appeal court last week decided to uphold the ‘Michael has been extremely courageous to act on conviction made at a court-martial in July and refused his conscience and remain consistent and dignified to reduce the sentence. They have not yet given their throughout this whole process,’ said Emma Sangster of reasoning, which they will publish shortly. Forces Watch. In the course of the hearing, the judges questioned She insisted: ‘The simple injustice of Michael’s the lack of clarity around armed forces procedures treatment illustrates how the government and the allowing serving soldiers who change their views to Ministry of Defence repeatedly fail to recognise apply for discharge due to conscientious objection. conscientious objection in practice.’ Forces Watch, a group that explores ethical issues The court requested that the Navy publish details around the armed forces, say that this right exists more of their procedures for handling applications for in theory than in practice. discharge due to conscientious objection.
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