Savannah Friends Meeting-Quakers

Join us Sept. 8 for the #FromAtticaToAbolition webinar to learn more about why we need to end mass incarceration and embrace new approaches to community safety ...so that we can #FreeThemAll. Learn from a powerful panel of speakers about the uprising in Attica and how the demands of organizers at the time are echoed in today's call to abolish prisons. Register here: https://bit.ly/2Gkm3jT See more

On this date in 1977 (July 9th), Alice Paul died. (Born Jan. 11, 1885.) #Quaker. #Pacifist. #Suffragist. Swarthmore College graduate. In 1917, Alice organized a... women's picket line in front of the White House, the first of its kind. The picketers became known as the "Silent Sentinels." The action continued for two years, at times mobilizing as many as a thousand women, including a young Dorothy Day. Many were arrested, beaten by police, and mistreated in jail. Alice spent seven months in the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia. In 1923, she wrote the original language for the Equal Rights Amendment, and spent the rest of her life lobbying for it. Died in the Quaker Greenleaf Extension Home in Moorestown Township, New Jersey, at the age of 92. Buried in the Westfield Friends Burial Ground, Cinnaminson, New Jersey. ~The Marginal Mennonite Society Heroes Graveyards Series. See more

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Watch this ACLU attorney tear down the 'heritage, not hate' Confederate monument myths (warning: distressing themes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch

On June 15, 1955, when the Civil Defense Administration attempted to hold a drill simulating a nuclear attack, 29 activists in New York City, including Dorothy Day, Ammon Hennacy, Bayard Rustin, & Ralph Digia, refused to take cover and were arrested under a state law that, as the New York Times explained, made non-compliance with civil defense orders in such exercises a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in prison, $500 fine or both. Most of those who were loaded into ...the police wagon were affiliated with the Catholic Worker, the War Resisters League (WRL) or the Quakers. They handed out pamphlets reading:

https://www.friendsjournal.org/quaker-antiracist-reading-l/

https://www.afsc.org//news/we-all-need-to-stand-protesters

Alongside our partners, we recommend Trump suspend many of the sanctions imposed since May 2018 for at least 120 days, including those affecting Iran’s financia...l & oil sectors & civilian industries. Doing so would offer significant relief for the Iranian people at a critical time. cc: NIAC See more

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Bayard Rustin was a Quaker and a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.