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Art and Violence Travel by Plane the Chair's the Star Cuban Friend's 12 December 2008 £1.70 the DISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARYFriend QUAKER WAY Art and violence A Quaker approach Travel by plane Justifiable? The chair’s the star History and restoration Cuban Friend’s paintings Friends House show reviewed the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 CONTENTS Vol 166 No 50 3-5 News 3 UN passes depleted uranium resolution 4 International progress for women prisoners concern 5 Quakers debate the big issues 6 ‘Merry Global Warming’ Stuart Donnan 7 Comment Michael Oppenheim and Robin Hawes 8-9 Letters 10-11 Films, violence and us Zoë Ainsworth-Grigg 12-13 Arts 12 Abstract art to appreciate while eating Rowena Loverance 13 Does God respond to prayer? Philip Barron Books in brief Greta McGough 14 Quaker chairs with a story? Roland Carn Images on this page: Jeremy Corbyn 15 Letters extra speaking at a London Quakers Dialogue. Jeremy joined Jo Broadwood, Jonathan 16 q-eye: a wry look at the Quaker world Dale and Judith Moran, who all spoke at the event. Photo: Trish Carn. See page 17 Friends & Meetings 5. Quakerhaus, Bad Pyrmont, Germany, where European and Middle East Young Cover image: Clap hands – young nasturtium leaves. Friends met for their Annual Meeting last Photo: Philip Morris of Stratford-upon-Avon Local Meeting. month. Photo: Calum Shaw. Subscriptions Images by Quakers UK £72 per year; Hello Friends. I’m Jez Smith, production editor of monthly direct debit £6.50; the Friend. 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The resolution and there have been no large-scale to four. The resolution highlights also particularly asks that DU- studies done in Iraq. Despite this, the potential harm to human affected states be involved in the DU-using countries continue to health and the environment, and research. claim that there is no cause for calls for UN agencies to update The resolution was submitted concern. Our position is that any their research on the topic. on behalf of the Non-Aligned uncertainties are a reason for it not Depleted uranium (DU) is used Movement of states and was to be used, rather than an excuse to in armour piercing munitions opposed by the UK, the US, France continue.’ because of its density and because and Israel, all of whom have DU However a UK Foreign Office it combusts upon impact. It in their arsenals. Thirty-four statement, produced shortly before was used in the Balkans and in states abstained, including several the vote, states that in a number of the 1991 and 2003 Iraq wars NATO member states and uranium scientific reports, ‘DU has not been and the chemically toxic and producers. Falling the day before shown to have, and indeed is very radioactive dust created upon the signing of the cluster munitions unlikely to have, any significant impact is thought to be the cause treaty, campaigners believe the impact on the local population… of numerous health problems, resolution is an important first step We believe that DU is a legitimate including cancers and birth defects. in building momentum towards an weapon and the use of it is not The resolution is the second eventual ban of the use of uranium prohibited under any international passed by the General Assembly in weapons. agreements.’ and continues the process begun ‘The size of the vote in favour Dave Cullen last year of states submitting showed that there is significant reports on the topic to the UN international concern about DU’, Dave is an attender at Charlbury secretary general. The General said Doug Weir of the International Meeting and a Quaker Peace & Assembly will revisit the issue in Coalition to Ban Uranium Social Witness one-year peaceworker 2010, by which time the World Weapons. ‘We particularly welcome attached to the Campaign Against Health Organization, International the emphasis on affected countries, Depleted Uranium. Quaker Week set to run Young Friends meet in Germany for two more years The success of this year’s National Quaker Week has ensured its return for the next two years. The annual outreach drive, which in future will be known just as ‘Quaker Week’, will next take place on 3-11 October 2009 and will also return on 2-10 October 2010. The decision was taken at a meeting of Quaker Life Central Committee in late November. Tom Harris, outreach development officer for Britain Yearly Photo: Calum Shaw Meeting, said: ‘We have announced dates for 2009 and 2010 European and Middle East Young Friends met because we got strong feedback that you wanted it to run again in Bad Pyrmont, Germany, for their Annual – and that some events need to be planned a year ahead!’ He Meeting at the end of November. The weekend added that participation in Quaker Week is optional, saying: ‘We gathering was an opportunity for young Quakers are committed to supporting Meetings who wish to take part but across the region to meet together socially and there’s no pressure to do so.’ to carry out Quaker business. the Friend, 12 December 2008 3 News International progress for women prisoners concern The Quaker concern for women Although a number of to prison service officials and prisoners and their children outstanding issues prevented the puts the knowledge ‘into the has been making inroads in declaration being agreed at the international orbit without going international forums. meeting, there is hope that it will through a whole lot of checking The World Health Organization be finalised soon and work is by governments’, he explained. ‘It’s (WHO) European Network for ongoing around it. Nick McGeorge, a way of getting things to happen Prison and Health is expected to who represents Quakers at the UN fairly quickly.’ give its backing to a declaration Crime Commission in Vienna, These developments reflect a on women’s health in prison, is assisting with the creation of growing awareness in international following a meeting last month, a checklist to accompany the circles of issues around women while a United Nations handbook declaration. He hopes that by prisoners and their children, an on women and imprisonment has providing detailed guidelines on area where Quaker organisations been published with significant what prison authorities should have worked continually for at least Quaker input. consider around women prisoners’ the last five years. Liz Scurfield said Liz Scurfield of the Quaker health, the checklist will make that QCEA is now being asked to Council for European Affairs it easier to provide appropriate give presentations and produce (QCEA) attended the WHO assistance. papers on the issues for European meeting. ‘What I was struck Nick was also positive about the institutions. ‘We [Quakers] by was that we came from all handbook on women prisoners, have got so many reports and these disparate countries and which was produced by the UN documentation that backs it up organisations’, she said, ‘but we Office on Drugs and Crime that it can’t be ignored any more’, were largely very much agreed on with a ‘significant role’ being she said. ‘We’re now acknowledged what the issues were and what we played by the Quaker UN Office, as being experts in this field.’ should do about them’. Geneva. It provides information Oliver Robertson Clare Short warns of civil liberties abuse Former cabinet minister Clare Short warned Quakers her experiences at the ongoing demonstrations at the that ignoring civil liberties could lead to government Menwith Hill military base. abuses when she spoke at a Quaker conference on the It became clear in discussion that an emerging theme subject held in Birmingham recently. was that the threats to liberty from the state are also Posing the question: ‘Why worry if I’ve done nothing threatening the Quaker testimonies as a whole. Finding wrong?’, Clare went on to provide several answers, a focused way forward was difficult: perhaps this is an warning participants of the risk of thinking that small issue that is still a seed with many Friends, waiting for changes to our personal liberty are unlikely to affect us the Spirit to germinate it.
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