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The Power of Water the Friend Independent Quaker Journalism Since 1843 1 April 2011 £1.70 the DISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARYFriend QUAKER WAY The power of water the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 CONTENTS VOL 169 NO 13 3 March for the Alternative 4 Letter on Libya 5 Roused to action? Gethin Evans 6-7 Swimming against the tide Ben Jarman 8-9 Letters 10-11 Water power rises Raymond Mgadzah 12-13 Rowntree visionaries: Heather Park and Mark Hinton Rosemary Hartill 14 Drawing on silence Stephen Yeo 15 In praise of silence Evelyn Woodcock 16 Q-eye 17 Friends & Meetings Cover image: Images this page: Water power. Taken at the March for the Alternative, 26 March 2011. Photo: Irargerich/flickr CC. Top photo: Madcowk/flickr CC. See pages 10-11. Bottom photo: Turloughmor/flickr CC. See page 3. 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Photo: Geoffrey Gathering for Meeting for Worship outside Westminster Meeting House. Several hundred Quakers from around Britain Anglican church. A sermon was delivered by Jesuit joined the ‘March for the Alternative’ on Saturday, priest Juan Hernandez Pico, who has nonviolently campaigning against the government’s cuts. A number resisted dictatorship in Latin America. He urged his of Friends also participated in nonviolent direct action listeners to ‘dislodge the gods of power and money’. later in the day. While the majority of demonstrators obeyed the Around a hundred people attended a Meeting law, there were Quakers among those who used direct for Worship outside Westminster Meeting House action to draw attention to corporate tax avoidance. before joining the march to Hyde Park organised by The network UK Uncut insist that all their action is the Trades Union Congress (TUC). There were also nonviolent and they strongly condemned the small Friends elsewhere on the demonstration, including in number of people who attacked police officers. groups of Christians, arts workers, health workers and Parts of the press have been criticised for focusing ‘queer anarchists’. on violence and conflating violence with lawbreaking. ‘I was very proud to march with Quakers,’ said Geoffrey Braithwaite of St Albans Meeting told the children’s author Sally Nicholls, who belongs to Oxford Friend he felt that much of the media were ‘merely Meeting. She told the Friend, ‘There were a lot more seizing on the sensational and ignoring the people’s Quakers there than I was expecting.’ vital message to government’. Sally Nicholls insisted that ‘the cuts are affecting the Chris Wood, a Quaker supporter of UK Uncut, said poorest and most vulnerable in our society’. She said that his nonviolent direct action is inspired by Jesus’ that many such people are themselves campaigning protest in the Jerusalem Temple. against the cuts, but ‘they need other people to speak ‘Jesus was compelled to challenge the injustice of the with them’. She added: ‘As religious people – as human temple system which exploited pilgrims with excessive beings really – we have a responsibility to speak up’. interest and prices,’ he explained. ‘Today, the reckless Not all Friends are convinced. Simon Beard of speculation and lending by powerful banks has Littlehampton Meeting told the Friend that he is resulted in a devastating impact on our society’. opposed to certain individual cuts, such as those to Faith groups backing the march said that last week’s social housing, but that ‘cuts in public spending are a budget had only fuelled their concerns. Church Action regrettable necessity’. on Poverty (CAP) pointed out that the chancellor of He added: ‘Quakers should recognise that fiscal the exchequer, George Osborne, ‘did not make a single responsibility is in line with our commitment to mention of people in poverty, or of the huge cuts integrity and simplicity, even whilst we continue which are about to affect the benefits system’ when standing up for equality’. he delivered the budget speech. CAP insisted that ‘the Other faith-based events at the demonstration government has not kept its promise to protect the included an ecumenical Christian service which poorest and most vulnerable’. drew around 400 people to St Martin’s-in-the-Fields Symon Hill the Friend, 1 April 2011 3 News [email protected] Letter on Libya Representatives of Britain’s Quakers have written to sharing with anti-Gaddafi movements and working the prime minister to express disagreement with his with nearby countries to prevent the flow of non- decision to bomb Libya. Libyan mercenaries to Gaddafi’s forces. In a letter to David Cameron, they reaffirmed BYM accused the UK government of ‘increasing Quaker pacifism by declaring that war is ‘intrinsically instability in the world, particularly through the very wrong’. The letter was signed by Gwen Schaffer, clerk substantial support it provides for the arms trade’. of Quaker Peace & Social Witness, on behalf of Britain The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has Yearly Meeting (BYM) of the Religious Society of pointed out that the UK was licensing arms sales to Friends. Gaddafi less than six months ago. The government The letter offered respect to those who disagree, continues to allow arms sales to other countries in before giving a warning from history. the region. CAAT has drawn attention to the Saudi ‘We have however seen, over and over again, the forces in Bahrain, who are suppressing protests with arguments used that “we must do something” and that armoured vehicles made by BAE Systems in Newcastle. this time what is planned will be brief and clinical. But BYM’s letter concluded by saying that British the truth is so often very different – violence tends to Quakers will be praying for ‘those in positions of escalate, and it is much harder to end a war than to responsibility at this crucial time’. start it.’ The bombing has also been criticised by the Peace House Coventry Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Stop the War Coalition. An attender at Coventry Meeting is prepared to go The Christian thinktank Ekklesia pointed out to prison for refusing to complete the census. that the recent resistance to tyranny across north Penny Walker, who lives and works at Coventry Africa and the Middle East has been characterised Peace House, is one of a number of people by ‘indigenous, grassroots movements’. They argued boycotting the census because it is administered by that ‘the ability of these movements to operate Lockheed Martin, a US-based multinational arms democratically will be undermined by US and UK company. military action, in which the priorities will be based While the maximum penalty for non-completion on western governments’ interests.’ is a fine, Penny Walker would refuse to pay this, Other religious groups to voice objections include possibly triggering a term in jail. the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, who insisted She helped draw national attention to the issue that ‘non-military methods have not been utterly when she publicly burnt her census form last week. exhausted’. Options suggested by various peace ‘A country which claims to respect human rights campaigners and commentators include economic and cannot engage arms manufacturers to carry out its political pressure, financial assistance and intelligence- civil duties,’ she insisted. Hot air rises Hot air is helping to produce ground coffee in the A new coffee grinder, recently installed at vast Friend editorial offices in London. expense in the Friend editorial offices, is being An innovative ‘green energy’ project, developed powered exclusively by hot air produced by the by the engineering department of University College ‘whoosh’ of passing underground trains. The Friend London (UCL), is harnessing hot air produced by trains assures readers that all coffee beans will be Fairtrade. on the underground passing below Friends House. ‘The underground is a great source of cheap energy,’ The new ‘thermo-generator’ is based on a unique, said Professor Addio. ‘We also hope to install a thermo- rotary piston concept. ‘It is at the forefront of new generator at a location on the banks of the Thames. developments in air-technology,’ said Professor ‘Prodigious amounts of excess hot air are being E I Addio of UCL. ‘For the first time in history this produced in a chamber at Westminister. The resource technology has given us the ability to harness excess is completely untapped, utterly constant, absolutely hot air to create clean, renewable, energy.’ predictable and almost limitless in supply.’ 4 the Friend, 1 April 2011 Report Roused to action? Gethin Evans wonders if Friends in Wales are ready to rouse themselves for action George Fox and his companions came to Brecon, or (eighteen to thirty-four) had less appreciation and Brecknock, as it was then called, in 1657.
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