Details here at the Quaker House blog.
Continue reading Fayetteville Peace Vigil/Rally A Rousing Success
In keeping with its theme, this year’s FGC Gathering will feature a very welcome free “Gift of the Spirit,”namely:
A long overdue END to the practice of a forced “sabbath” midway through the week.
And it’s about dam time!
For several years I’ve frequently visited Camp Lejeune, a large Marine base two hours east of where I live, on the North Carolina coast.
I go because they have a brig — a jail — and several of the GIs I have worked with as resisters to war have served time in it.
Continue reading New Book From The Other “Front Line” Of Our Wars
March 10: Remember Tom Fox
March 10 — how could I forget? How dare I fail to remember.
Four years and four months ago, John Stephens and I began a blog site called freethecaptivesnow.org , as both a personal vigil and a community service, compiling and posting nightly updates of reports — or mostly the lack of reports — about the fate of four… peaceworkers kidnapped in Iraq. They had been taken in Baghdad, and one of them, Tom Fox, was a Quaker and a friend of both John and me.