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BROOKLYN MEETING NEWS A publication of the Brooklyn Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends brooklynmeeting.org JUNE, 2017 March with NY Friends and In the 1950s and 1960s very few ception of the parade. This year we Support the NYC Pride March establishments welcomed openly will be marching as a group in the gay people and frequently gay and parade under the banner of “Quak- The 48th Annual New York City lesbian people were arrested for ers of New York”. We have also (NYC) Pride March for Lesbi- socializing in public. These riots are designed a t-shirt to wear for this an, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender widely recognized as the spark that event. We will meet at a designated and Queer pride will be held on set the gay, lesbian and transgender location at the start of the parade Sunday, June 25. This march was rights movement on fire. Although route but we will not know the started following riots at the Stone- gay, lesbian and transgender people exact location where we will meet wall Inn in Greenwich Village on have more legal protections today, until a few days before the event. June 28th, 1969. These riots were many people still face discrimina- started by people who reacted tion and abuse. Hate crimes based If you are interested in joining us to a police raid that targeted gay, on sexual orientation have spiked and participating in the parade lesbian and transgendered patrons. over the past year and account for please call or email William Carr of the majority of hate crimes in NYC. Brooklyn Friends. His email ad- Thus, there remains much work to dress is [email protected] and his be done to create equality for all. phone number is 919-437-1217. Also if you would like to purchase Since the Stonewall riots, Quak a t-shirt or obtain more informa- ers have played a prominent role in tion, please contact William Carr. supporting equality for gay, lesbian All are welcome to march with us and transgender people in New York and we will have a van for those City. The Society of Friends (Quakers who have limited mobility. of New York) have marched in the pride parade every year since the in- - William Carr Friends from all four of New York’s Meetings in the Pride March. 1 Summer Sessions 2017: Meeting is a wonderful opportuni- org/?q=SummerSessions2017 for Bringing the Peaceable King- ty for children and youth to get to detailed information about Sum- dom to a Turbulent World know other Quaker children and mer Sessions. the Quaker faith. We particularly -- Lucinda Antrim, Dear Friends, welcome newcomers to this expe- Clerk, New York Yearly Meeting rience! I’ll be July 23-29, we gather for Summer on the Inn porch Sessions to support one another in when you arrive bringing the peaceable kingdom Sunday and will to a turbulent world. We have host a tea and many wonderful opportunities bedtime snack for worship, work, and play. Our Wednesday usual worship sharing groups will evening, open to meet each morning, the highlight all but especially of the Summer Sessions experi- for mid-week ence for many. We will share time newcomers. in nourishing extended worship during Meeting for Discernment; Please visit the we’ll swim in the lake, play inter- Summer Ses- generational games on the lawn, sions Informatio Peaceable Kingdom, A wood engraving by 20th and so much more. Junior Yearly Page at http://www.nyym. century Quaker artist, Fritz Eichenberg Friends General Conference AFSC Events, Presentations, and Friday night. The goal of co-op Gathering: Ripples Start Spontaneous Events. Field Trips to cooking and dining is to advance Where Spirit Moves Underground Railroad Heritage the values of Simplicity, Commu- Bus Tour, Erie Canal Tour, and nity, and Earth And it happens You are invited to attend the FGC the Frank Lloyd Wright Darwin to cost less money than eating Gathering in Niagara Falls, NY Martin Restoration. dinner in the college dining from July 2 - 8. We’re expecting facilities. For more information over 1000 Quakers at this annual Evening Presentations: see http://fgcquaker.org/connect/ event. The conference is within Dr. David Anderson re-enact- gathering/registration-details/ walking distance to Niagara Power ing Frederick Douglass’ speech, housing-and-dining/coop-dining Project Hydro electric generator “What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July” And a talk on Camping Morning Workshops on many the Abolitionists topics including: Power of Prefer to camp? Options exist for Enough (simplicity), Soulful Lezlie Harper Wells presentation: either a tent or RV / camper. The Singing, Tracking Down Eco- “The Experience of Black Ca- camping is located near dorm logical Guidance, Deepening nadians From the Underground showers and bathrooms and cost Your Experience with the Light, Railroad Forward.” less than dorm rooms, especial- Helping Conflict Become Con- Concert: Native American Flute ly if shared by more than one nection, Forgiveness as a Spiritual and Harp music Frank Lloyd person. Practice, Alternatives to Violence Wright Darwin Martin Resto- For more information (AVP) Basic Workshop, ration including a talk about their http://fgcquaker.org use of music in palliative care. Afternoons Activities are devoted -- Steve Mohlke to rest and relaxation, Gather- Co-op Cooking Co-clerk FGC Gathering 2017 [email protected] ing Store, Quaker Arts Center, Co-op cooking is an option for Singing, Meetings for Worship, dinners Sunday night through 2 Young Friends Aid: insurance, temporary housing suggestions for how to connect Still Going Strong support, a computer for a student them with longer-term support or educational travel. Certain from other organizations. Young Friends Aid was estab- themes that reflect the times have lished nearly 150 years ago by become apparent since I became I find it rewarding to work with New York City Quakers to “help involved: Many grants were made Young Friends Aid because it those who help themselves” by for losses following Hurricane makes me feel useful, because I providing financial assistance to Sandy in 2012; criminal justice learn about people in different people going through difficult concerns have spurred requests situations and because I enjoy the times. Money was raised at an and discussions over the last cou- fellowship of the committee. We annual fair and then disbursed ple of years; and more frequent plan to do more to get the word over the course of the year. The requests from immigrants have out so more organizations and fairs have not continued, but been received this year. groups are aware of the support the organization still operates, we can provide. offering grants funded by gifts and The organization is essentially a investments made long ago. committee of Friends and non- If you know of someone who Friends. We meet twice a year in would like to apply for a grant, Grants are made to individuals in person and consider requests out- please encourage them to send the New York City area only, and side of those meetings via email. an email to youngfriendsaid@aol. they must be for a non-recurring Our professional backgrounds com with an explanation of the need. Quakers are not eligible. include social work, supportive specific need, including a clear Examples over recent years have housing, education and invest- estimate of how much money is included replacement furniture ments. It’s quite common for a required and why it can’t be met after apartment flooding or fire, request to prompt consideration with their existing resources. medical devices not covered by of a person’s broader needs and -- Morgan Harting A Quaker Message to Pres- my memberships in 57th Street books we owned, with a partic- ident Obama Regarding his Meeting and the Hyde Park Coop- ular emphasis on the novelist and Proposed Library erative, and whether I went to the biographer Howard Fast (still a Pete Seeger Concert. I did. favorite author of mine). Fast wrote Dear President Obama, the definitive biography of Thomas As you plan a beautiful library in The University of Chicago was one Paine at that time. And I couldn’t the neighborhood of Hyde Park of the few top-ranking universities help being amused imagining how next to the University of Chicago, that did not have a quota system Thomas Paine would have fared in do not forget what Friends and for admitting Jewish students. So Hyde Park in the 1950s! other individuals of conscience suf- there were a large number of Jewish I moved to the suburbs to teach, fered in that very neighborhood students in the neighborhood, many of whom came from families who then returned to Hyde Park in 1960 As one of many students who had escaped from Europe before and all was forgotten. It was as if it shared apartments in Hyde Park and during World War II. It was clear was all a bad dream. But it wasn’t. and participated in the vibrant to me from the FBI’s questioning To President Obama, and all of us: intellectual neighborhood, I unin- that these students were particularly Never forget. targeted. But all of us who planned tentionally became the subject of from Molly Rusnak harassment and searches. My mail to graduate from the Education was opened, my trash inspected Department would have to sign a and I received knocks on the door loyalty oath if we wanted to teach in Interested in promoting a before 8 a.m. many mornings. It the Chicago schools. Quaker event? Then email was the FBI, who questioned me [email protected] about my roommates and friends, We were examined as to what 3 May Meeting for Business: introduction for research and writing Coates on February 21.

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