Epistle from Yearly Meeting May 2011 Greetings to Friends everywhere The Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa/New Zealand was held May 20-23 2011 at the Quaker Settlement in Whanganui and included visiting Friends from Australia, South Korea and Britain. The opening welcome, partly in Te Reo Maori, confirmed for us that the Quaker Settlement is the “turangawaewae 
Britain Yearly Meeting has decided to back a boycott of illegal Israeli settlement goods. The decision was made at Meeting for Sufferings, a representative body of Quakers in Britain, at its meeting on Saturday 02/04/2011. “People matter more than territory†says the minute from the Meeting on Saturday. “We pray fervently for both Israelis and Palestinians,…
Quakers in Britain and the US have made public statements highlighting their concerns about the violence in Libya. While Quakers in Britain have written an open letter to the UK prime minister, American Friends Service Committee has made a statement making demands of the Libyan government, coalition forces, the United Nations, the African Union, and…
Quakers from across Britain will be joining together for worship before the national demonstration against the cuts on Saturday 26/03/2011. The protest will take place in central London and Quakers are gathering at Westminster for Meeting for Worship ahead of the gathering. Ruth Tod, one of the Quakers who plans to attend said: “How we…
 “I haven’t bought any books for ten years. You can’t keep a bookcase in a doorway.†It is a few minutes before two o’clock on a Saturday afternoon. I’m loitering by a church in central London, waiting for the volunteers from the Quaker Homeless Action mobile library to turn up and begin the afternoon shift.…
by Marisa Johnson I imagine many Friends, including me, may have hoped for a bolder and more decisive lead from Meeting for Sufferings on the issue of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions to help break urgently the deadlock in the moribund peace process in Palestine-Israel. Nevertheless, I am thankful that Area Meetings around the country have…