A Tasmanian school has cut its ties to two national education programs promoting study in STEM due to their affiliations with weapons corporations. The schools' principal says the programs were valuable opportunities for students, but the school had to align with its peaceful Quaker philosophy. It comes as state government education departments around the country tighten their policies around weapons companies sponsoring or partnering with educational programs. The post The Friends’ School ...| Global Campaign for Peace Education
What can we do, at the time of genocide in Gaza? An activist is going round Quaker meetings, reading out an email from a Palestinian journalist waiting in a house as the IDF closed in to kill him. The journalist writes, if you let this happen to us, anything can happen to you. This is […]| Clare Flourish
Bushrod Rust Johnson of Macoupin County, a Quaker who helped his family assist fleeing...| The Telegraph
What do “Sex Matters to Quakers” have to say? I had a look at their facebook page, and this is what I found. Content: transphobia. Quakers are trans-inclusive. We have a YM minute which says, “With glad hearts we acknowledge and affirm the trans and gender diverse Friends in our Quaker communities, and express appreciation […]| Clare Flourish
The gender dysphoria never goes away. So much has brought it up, this past week. In the case of US v Skrmetti, the US supreme court has not only removed discrimination protection for trans people, and allowed the medical treatment we need to be banned, but also undermined anti-discrimination protection for everyone. Trans people have […]| Clare Flourish
Possibly I should be journalling rather than blogging, but here goes.| Clare Flourish
Hello friends. I started a new blog Quakers and Religious Socialism I first heard about Religious Socialism at the end of 2020, when my friend Fran Quigley wrote in response to the blog post I had…| Quakers, social justice and revolution
I’ve been writing new blog posts on LANDBACK Friends (LANDBackFriends.com) because those are the issues I’m learning and writing about now. Here is a list of July’s posts there: J…| Quakers, social justice and revolution