Calling All Friends - Right Sharing of World Resources
Meetinghouse Needs Volunteers to Welcome Tourists
Why Racial Justice Matters for White Folks
Peace March, Philadelphia, Feb 15th, 2003
From Atlanta to Alabama , A Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Race & Identity: The Asian-American & Native-American Experience
Workcamp Program Summer Opportunities from PYM
Peace and Justice Think Tank for Young Quaker Activists,
Summer Friends’ Workcamps in Burundi
Snippets of News from the Quarter and Other Places
The Alzheimer’s Association Delaware Valley Chapter
Autorino, a painter and member of Buckingham Meeting
March 2003 |
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Mon |
7:30 |
Why Racial Justice Matters for White Folks at Arch Street Meetinghouse. |
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6-11 |
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From Atlanta to Alabama, A Civil Rights Pilgrimage. |
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Wed |
7:30 |
BQM Outreach Committee meets at Pennswood Village. |
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Fri |
7:30 |
BQM Oversight Committee meets at Buckingham Meeting. |
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Mon |
7:30 |
Race & Identity: The Asian-American & Native-American Experience. Pendle Hill. |
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Wed |
7:00 |
Central Bucks Affinity Group meets at Doylestown United Methodist Church. |
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Wed |
7:30 |
BQM Singing Group meets at Makefield Meeting. |
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27-30 |
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PYM Annual Sessions at Arch Street Meetinghouse. |
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Sun |
2 pm |
Tom Chapin in Concert at Lenape Middle School. |
Looking Ahead |
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April 7 . |
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Economic Justice & Gender: A Borderlands Perspective at Arch Street Meetinghouse |
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May 2-4 |
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The Costs of Racial Justice at Arch Street Meeting. |
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June 5-8 |
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Fellowship of Reconciliation Facilitator Training at Kirkridge Center. |
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June 28-July 5 |
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Friends General Conference will be at the University of Pittsburgh in Johnstown, PA. |
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July 6-Aug 3 |
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Friends Music Camp in Barnesville, Ohio. The camp is from, for 10-18 year old children. For brochure and camp video: FMC, P.O. Box 427, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387. Phone: 937-767-1311 or mailto:musicfmc@yahoo.com |
The camp is a co-ed residential camp built on Quaker philosophy since 1928. Caring atmosphere with camper to counselor ratio of 4:1. Registered Nurse. Cabins in rustic setting. Activities: Arts & Crafts, Canoeing, Campfires, Drama, Fishing, Music, Nature, Overnights, Horseback, Ropes Course, Climbing Wall, Sports, Swimming & More! Boys & Girls 7-14 with 1 & 2 week sessions. June 21-Aug 16. Info: http://www.campdarkwaters.org/ or 1-609-654-8846
Carol Miller (Doylestown Meeting) will help us explore together, conflict resolution and non-violence. We will have activities, skits and discussion.
The date is Sat, March 15, 2003. Peace Pals begins at 7:00pm. Parent pick-up is 9:00 pm. You won’t need a permission form if you were there previously. If you’re coming for the first time, don’t forget to have your parent fill out the permission form. Bring a friend!
The Peace Vigil at the Liberty Bell that began in 1999 continues each Frist Day afternoon between 4-5 pm. This is a meeting for worship in the manner of Friends that lasts for an hour. Usually, it’s a handful of people. Last week, with a concerted effort, Friends from three states swelled the ranks to 60. John Andres Gallery, of Chestnut Hill Meeting articulates that this vigil is “for prayer, and for peace.” His reflections appear in Pendle Hill Pamphlet #358: Reflections from a Prayer Vigil for Peace.
Please join in our efforts to celebrate and support RSWR by creating a cookbook of soups, bread, casseroles and other favorite recipes that will benefit the organization. Send a recipe and a bit of biographical information for inclusion in the cookbook to: mailto:wrh2@lehigh.edu or Heydenberk, PO Box 385, Richlandtown, PA 18955.
RSWR supports grassroots projects that empower women all over the developing world. Why? The poorest people are women and children. Increasing a woman’s self-sufficiency improves the well-being of both herself and her family. Info: http://www.rswr.org/
Philadelphia’s new Constitution Center will open July 4, 2003. We can only guess the impact it will have on the number of visitors to the Fourth and Arch Street Meetinghouse. We need you to help as volunteer guides.
Our Quaker heritage is a gift from the past that the tourists want to experience and explore. They treasure what it stands for: A way of life based on religious freedom, the founding of a nation, etc.
Tour guides and school groups are finding the Arch Street Meeting House a significant addition to their tour of Philadelphia. They don’t have to wait in long lines or go through metal detectors. They get to sit down and share in the dialogue. Last spring over 25,000 visitors came to the meetinghouse (over 1,000 on one day!).
The Quaker message needs to be told and Arch Street Visitors Program needs your help to do it. Call Sandy Sudofsky at 215-627-2667.
This benefit is for the Planned Parenthood Association of Bucks County and A Woman’s Place. “Raising awareness and stemming the tide of violence and domestic violence against women in Bucks county. The program is March 2, 2003, at 2:30pm at Bucks County Community College. General admission $38, students $15. Call 215-785-4594 for more information.
White privilege is not only a matter of social inequality, it creates a fragmented self, even for those in privileged positions, and ultimately prevents full participation in our culture. Nancy Richardson, associate dean for ministry at Harvard Divinity School has a background in campus ministry, community organizing, and urban ministry. This program is at Arch Street Meetinghouse on March 3rd, at 7:30 pm.
One could tell where the march was by the chopping of the police helicopter overhead. Maybe it was cold by Philadelphia standards, but most of us didn’t feel it. It wasn’t just Friends, but people from many churches, many ethnic groups, and all ages, former vets, teens with bright blue hair, grandparents and children in strollers. Union representatives and retired people marched side by side.
One woman was a veteran of many peace marches from the protest against “unconditional surrender” in 1945, to the marches in support of racial equality in the 1960’s, through Viet Nam, and today. She knew the slogans, but was an example of an experienced Friend and peace advocate. Placards carried a variety of slogans. “Support pre-emptive peace.” “Why is my oil under your sand?”
The group will spend time in Atlanta, site of The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic District, which includes Dr. King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, tours of his birth home, and some outstanding museums preserving the important history of faith-based, non-violent social change in the USA. The group will then go to Alabama, visiting the key leaders and sites of the often violent but redemtive history of the struggle in places like Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, where the group will participate in commemoration of the Selma to Mongomery march by marching across the historic Edmund Pettis Bridge along with hundreds of others. Cost for the event is $750, which includes all cost except your transportation costs to and from Atlanta. Call Kirkridge at 1-610-588-1793.
While the American experience of these two groups have very different beginnings, they have much in common. What can we learn from these commonalities as we work toward racial justice in our society? Ed Nakawatase was born in an Arizona internment camp in 1943 and was raised in a Japanese-American community in New Jersey. He was active in the Civil Rights movement, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960’s Atlanta. He has been national representative for Native American Affairs at the American Friends Service Committee since 1974. The program is March 17 at Pendle Hill. For info: 1-610-566-4507 ext.120 or 137
Third Annual China Summer Workcamp in Xiaoshicun, July 28-August 24, 2003. Twelve American volunteers (16 and older) are needed to work along side college students from China, Japan, and South Korea. Together they will undertake a joint environmental project in cooperation with local resident, and tutor children at a local girls’ school in rural Hunan Province. Cost, including airfare: $2,200. Applications due: April 1, 2003.
August 8-16, 2003. The Peace and Justice Think Tank is for young Quakers (high school and college age) who are already involved in peace and justice activities and would like to learn more about changing the world. The Think Tank will be held in Philadelphia and is limited to 12 participants. Think Tank cost: $175. Applications due: May 15th. Info: 215-241-7236.
Summer Friends’ Workcamps in Burundi will build homes for internally-displaced persons. In Uganda they will build school classrooms for a school for orphans. If you are interested: mailto:gnewbold@kennett.net or mailto:davidzarembka@juno.com or call 1-610-444-1012.
Thanks go to Solebury Meeting for a wonderful day, including snow. “Acting on Your Quaker Conscience in Times of War and Threatened War” was the program with Priscilla Adams and Peter Goldberger. There were songs of peace. Child care was taken care of by wonderful people. Coffee, bagels and donuts were available in the morning.
Jacob and Gretta Stone announce a one day couples enrichment program on Saturday, October 4th, 2003. Location to be announced. For more information, call 215-345-0575.
The Alzheimer’s Association Delaware Valley Chapter meets the first Wednesday of each month, from 2-4pm, at Chandler Hall, Buck and Barclay Roads, Newtown. Call 1-800-272-3900 for information.
Though this was in the February newsletter, please support the Coffeehouse regarding ten Alaskan Young Friends. Date is Sat, March 8, at Arch Street Meetinghouse. Info: 1-610-486-6420.
Middletown Friends Meeting now has midweek Worship from 7-8 pm every Wednesday. The third Wednesday is Worship Sharing at 7pm.
Pat Howe and Mary Louise Wentzel are now at Pennswood Village. Apartment is D-110. Telephone is 215-497-0777.
David and Mary Lou Gould are also now at Pennswood Village. Apartment: L-212. Telephone is 215-968-3640.
Doylestown Meeting Friends continue their Silent Vigil for Peace at the corner of State & Main Streets, and invite members from other Meetings to participate as well. The Meeting has added the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons to the Peace Vigil Message. The Vigil is from 6pm-7pm every Tuesday.
Pennswood Village Art Gallery presents recent work by George School’s Advanced Studio Art Students. Opening reception is Saturday, March 1 from 4pm to 5:30pm. The gallery runs from March 1 through Tuesday, April 15.
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You may want to go to see the sale of eighty works of Autorino, a painter and member of Buckingham Meeting. His paintings are wonderful. His medium is oil and he draws inspiration from his local predecessors, such as Edward Redfield, Daniel Garber, William Lathrop, George Sotter and Robert Spencer. To see the paintings, go to Jim’s Antiques Fine Art Gallery at 9 Lambertville Lane in Lambertville. For more information call 1-609-937-7733.
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May - Makefield
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