I wish it wasn’t time to write this post.
But it is: Quakers are quitting on QUIT.
QUIT is — or rather was — the Quaker Initiative to end Torture. It began in the spring of 2005, with a call by Friend John Calvi, just as the international scope, the vast evil plus the flagrant criminality of the U. S. “War on Terror” torture program — all this was becoming shockingly clear.
As detailed below, QUIT formally ended this week, on July 15, 2024.
Nineteen years.
We worked hard, we did stuff. We joined with others. But in my view, we failed. At our most active and diligent, we didn’t really lay a glove on our three main targets.
Those targets were:
Continue reading Quakers Quitting on QUIT: Torture Wins, this time. And maybe next time, too.