Jan 24, 2022 | Activism, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Racial Justice, Spirituality, Sustainability, Youth & Young Friends
Join Hayley Hathaway, of Quaker Earthcare Witness, for Exploring Ecospirituality: Old & New Ways to Imagine & Transform, a workshop for young adults (ages 18-40). The workshop will be held online, Thursday, February 17, 7:30 – 9 pm Eastern Time. “The world is...
Dec 15, 2021 | Activism, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Timely
Hello Friends, Our Quaker Earthcare Witness network is filled with gifts. Friends offer their time, financial resources, prayers, experience, expertise, and connections to help our growing community care for the Earth and each other. Here are a few ways we’re hoping...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
by Lyn Adamson. I’m the co-chair of Canada’s ClimateFast, a volunteer-based non-profit dedicated to building strong, informed public pressure to take urgent, substantial and just action on climate change. Our group fasted on the first full day of COP26, November 1,...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
It Takes Roots is a multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational alliance of alliances representing over 200 organizations and affiliates in over 50 states, provinces, territories and Native lands on Turtle Island (known as North America). It is led by women, gender...
Aug 27, 2021 | Activism, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action
Quakers are coming together to support the growing Indigenous-led movement in northern Minnesota to resist the construction of the Line 3 pipeline. Several Friends participated in non-violent civil disobedience over this past Minnesota winter, several more took part...
Mar 29, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, January-February-March, Number 1, Racial Justice, Volume 34
By Lauri Langham. The intersection between environmental justice and racial justice is a busy one. We recognize how Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) and low-income people are the frontline communities that suffer the first and worst effects of planet...
