During my visit with the middle schoolers yesterday, John Griffin appeared to be a model of the success of school desegregation: black kids sitting beside white kids, with some other ethnicities in evidence as well, with as much harmony in evidence as one might expect from such a group of budding adolescents.
Friends Journal’s Ninth Month (September) issue just arrived here in the boondocks, and in it is a long letter from the clerk of their board, announcing that their Publisher/Executive Editor, Susan Corson-Finnerty, plans to take early retirement late next year. With that, the Great Quaker Turnover continues to roll through the Establishment Quaker organizations.
A question for my fellow advocates of nonviolence: was it okay for protesters to throw eggs and shoes at Tony Blair when he was signing his new Iraq war apologia in Dublin?
In Britain Yearly Meeting, the “Mother Church” of Quakerism, the senior staff member and CEO is the Recording Clerk. This person heads up a staff of more than one hundred, and an organization that in 2009 had revenues of 9,000,000 Pounds (about $14 million US dollars). This staff is based at Friends House, which takes … Continue reading The Great Quaker Turnover Comes To London
[Sigh] I would have been very satisfied had I gone to my grave without ever mentioning the words “Glenn” and “Beck” together on this blog, or any other page. Ten years ago, in the summer of 2010, Beck was one of the behemoths of rightwing talk media, big on Fox, big on radio, mainlining anti-immigrant … Continue reading Taking Names In Vain: Glenn Beck, Dr. King, & Me