The right to tell the truth, and the freedom to protest, are under grave threat in the UK at present. The case linked to below is instructive, and I recommend reading the concluding speech that Tony Greenstein delivered to the jury at his trial - see greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenst...

I don’t usually ask y’all to watch the Quaker-themed videos we put out at my day job, but the most recent episode is an interview with three Friends from Minneapolis, discussing their resistance to ICE’s occupation earlier this year, and I just want as many people as possible to hear their story.

"Development, diplomacy, peacebuilding, conflict and atrocity prevention are all essential and underfunded tools in building a safer world."

An open letter to the PM on the UK's military spending https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/diverse-coalition-urges-pm-to-rethink-military-spending

As John Healey resigns, Quakers call on the new Defence Secretary to address the root causes of war ☮️

Exactly this.

"We tolerate disruption from all sorts of other causes without worrying about it as much as we do from protest."

@rcquaker.bsky.social gave evidence at the Joint Committee on Human Rights' inquiry on the expansion of police powers and the impact on the right to protest.

Homework:

"Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world." -- Howard Zinn

www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...

Sometimes it just feels like a poem was written exactly for you. I've read this one a hundred times, have even heard WB read it, but when I began to read it this morning the first line brought tears to my eyes.

"Shame is common to many soldiers during and after combat and is one of the most troubling reactions to war," the late Edward W. Wood Jr., a WWII veteran, wrote, "and one that they must deal with throughout a lifetime. It is also the one least often admitted and the one almost never talked about."