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Marian Liebman Visits Rwanda 24 May 20/5/19 15:27 Page 1 the24 May 2019 | £2.00 Friend ‘A voice within him told him more bloodshed was pointless.’ Marian Liebman visits Rwanda 24 May 20/5/19 15:27 Page 1 Woodbrooke Learning: nurturing the life of the spirit Will you be at Britain Yearly Meeting 2019? Come to one of our events and find out more about: • Postgraduate Quaker Study & Research • Equipping for Ministry • What Woodbrooke can offer you and your meeting. Details of times and locations are listed in the Yearly Meeting programme. Visit us on the Woodbrooke stand in the East Corridor all weekend and find out how we can support you and your Quaker community to deepen and grow. Not at BYM? See www.woodbrooke.org.uk/learn to discover all about Woodbrooke learning. Swarthmore Lecture 2019 ‘On Earth as it is in Heaven; The Kingdom of God and the yearning of Creation.’ To be given by Eden Grace at 7:15pm, Saturday 25 May, as part of Yearly Meeting. Exploring Quaker eco-theology, from early Friends to Quakers today and how Quaker witness in response to climate change can be radical, prophetic, joy-filled, corporate action. A book based on the lecture will be published later in the year. The lecture will be streamed live via www.woodbrooke.org.uk/swarthmore-lecture the INDEPENDENTFriend QUAKER JOURNALISM SiNCE 1843 24 May 2019 | Volume 177, No 21 www.thefriend.org News 4 COs, Art the Arms Fair, and more Rebecca Hardy Thought for the week 7 Clerk’s outlet Siobhan Haire Letters 8 Winging a prayer 9 Gospel of Matthew Janet Scott Beautiful vulnerability 10 Eden Grace, Swarthmore lecturer Oliver Robertson Artful project 12 Peacebuilding in Rwanda Marian Liebmann Getting the PIP 14 Structural violence Barbara Harris Review 15 Brief Answers to the Big Questions Reg Naulty Friends & Meetings 16 Sharing the Quaker message today does not mean sharing it [only] in English. It means carrying it in French, from Burundi Yearly Meeting to Madagascar. Or standing in Kenya, telling of your faith as a Bolivian Friend in Aymara to be translated into Spanish and then into English and then whispered into Luragoli for the old Friend in the back row! Those who carry the Quaker message today are not only those who worry about whether sanctions against South Africa are right or wrong. Quakers today are the victims of violence and racism in Soweto. Quakers today are not simply watching pictures of famine on their televisions; they are farming the inhospitable altiplano in Bolivia; they are facing drought in Turkana. Val Ferguson, 1987 Quaker faith & practice 28.12 included pictures of Meeting House, Mount News people currently in Street, organised by the prison because of their Peace Garden Group [email protected] refusal to fight or take up and the Area Meeting conscription. Peace Promotion Howard Cheesman, Group. Friends held from Carlisle Meeting, placards with messages Quakers mark a CO, told the Friend that told the Friend that including ‘Resist All International her talk focussed on the after the vigil there was Wars’, ‘Honour COs’, Conscientious centenary of ‘absolutist a screening of the film ‘Stop the Arms Trade’ Objectors Day COs being released from War School, followed and ‘It Takes Courage Quakers around prisons in the first world with ten-minute worship to be a CO’. There was the country marked war’ as well as ‘women’s sharing (‘because the also a Peace Trail around International congress in Zurich, film is so powerful’) and central Manchester, Conscientious Objectors which is good, and the a discussion. He said: which, according to Day last week with publication of the Treaty ‘There were twenty at Manchester Friends, vigils, ceremonies and of Versaille, which is the film followed by a covered ‘Manchester as arts events. Friends rather less good’. She said lively discussion and five a centre for peace and gathered for a ceremony it was important to share names [joined up] for radical political activity, at the ‘commemorative the COs’ stories nowadays a subsequent follow-up including John Dalton, stone’ in Tavistock for ‘peace education’ and exploration of a Peace/ Mines Advisory Group, Square in London on to highlight the more Anti Militarisation Group the Nobel Peace Prize, 15 May, which was just ‘complicated history’ of to investigate taking local Gandhi’s visit, Peterloo one of many events ‘conscience and decision- actions.’ and campaigns against that took place all over making’ in combat, and He said the group was slavery’. the world. In countries ‘those who aren’t usually formed as ‘we felt it was According to Oldham in which conscription involved in mainstream good to have an outcome Peace and Justice Group, is still in force, such remembrance’. and focus after the film, which also hosted a as Israel, South Korea Jay Sutherland spoke instead of people going screening of War School, and in Sweden, where about the targeting of away feeling aggrieved’. followed by a Q&A it has recently been working class teenagers Manchester Quakers with the film’s director, reintroduced, there were for military recruitment: also held a vigil on the Veterans for Peace, and protests. ‘The same psychological steps of the Friends’ Demilitarise Education, This spring marks the tactics that the armed centenary of the release forces and their allies used then are being used of most – but not all – WORDS conscientious objectors now… In the village I (COs) still in prison in grew up in, which was in 1919 for refusing to fight a rural part of Scotland in world war one. and very deprived, I saw ‘This is Speakers at the the army first-hand come Tavistock Square event into my community not just to honour which was organised and try and persuade by the First World War and convince people Peace Forum, a network who were hit hardest the COs of the two of peace and human by austerity to keep rights organisations, buying into the the very world wars but also included historian Lois structure and state that Bibbings, an expert had harmed their lives.’ those... who face on the conscientious Edinburgh Quakers objectors of the first also held a vigil, with the dilemma of world war, and Jay songs by Protest in Sutherland, a Scottish Harmony and brief talks pacifist who has by CO descendants, as whether or not they challenged military did Carlisle Friends at activities in his school in the plaque at Hardwick will kill for their Ayrshire. Circus, which was Lois Bibbings, professor instigated by Quakers country.’ of law at University of and dedicated to COs Bristol whose father was in 2018. The vigil Oldham Peace and Justice Group 4 the Friend 24 May 2019 ‘We were keen to spread to Philip Austin, NFPB NUMBERS the message that this is coordinator, the group is not just to honour the hoping to raise awareness COs of the two world of and take action on wars but also those in ‘a number of aspects’, countries today with including the need for conscription who face 66 international action for the dilemma of whether nuclear disarmament and The percentage by which average weekly earnings are or not they will kill arms control to be taken higher in London than in the north east of England, for their country. We seriously. according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. also mentioned ways The May Update in which we can resist newsletter highlights Friends and others to Friends. During Christina the jingoistic pull of the fact that preparatory help build capacity for Lawson’s time as librarian militarism today in our work is underway at further lobbying and at Woodbrooke, she supposedly peaceful the United Nations for awareness-raising. collected a number of societies.’ a review in 2020 of the pieces, but a recent search The day also included non proliferation treaty, Bid to publicise there produced no trace art events, with The Peace against ‘a backdrop of the Quaker composers of them now.’ Museum in Bradford US and Russia having The Quaker author John According to John holding an event called decided to withdraw Lampen has reached Lampen, he received a ‘Prisoner of Conscience: from the Intermediate out to Friends asking letter from Friends House An exploration of [Range]Nuclear Forces for help in supporting Library saying there are COs from The Peace (INF) Treaty’. It says and publicising Quaker collections relating to the Museum’s collection’ another aspect of the music including what Leaveners, including the with a talk from Tim situation is the transport he calls ‘closet’ Quaker Leaveners archive and Briggs, a family member of nuclear warheads composers. material on open access. of one of the COs. At between Burghfield in The author raised the According to the the Quaker Service the south east of England subject in a chapter in his Library, a seach in the Memorial at the National and Coulport in West book Quaker Roots and online catalogue will Memorial Arboretum in Scotland. Branches on Quakers and reveal ‘many original Staffordshire, there was a Philip Austin said that music-making, which was compositions, some by Meeting for Worship. NFPB is now involved reported by the Quaker Quakers and some not. in the UK networking Arts Network. The material varies from Northern Friends meetings of the He wrote: ‘British musical scores and lyric Peace Board sets up International Campaign Quakers gave up their sheets, to ephemera new working group to Abolish Nuclear resistance to music long that relates to actual Northern Friends Peace Weapons (ICAN). It has ago. We now have some productions, such as Board (NFPB) has set also made a submission recordings of Leaveners programmes’. up a new working group to a House of Lords’ performances, two to support Quaker select committee inquiry Quaker song-books, and Chester Quakers action against nuclear and signed up to a the recent publication explore economy and weapons at what it new European Nuclear of material by Alec climate justice describes as ‘a time which Disarmament Statement.
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