Category Archives: Hard-Core Quaker

Lunch With the Anti-Christ at Western Quarterly Meeting

Wayne Lamb compared the Spring Letter to the teachings and practice of David Koresh (of the Waco cult which left more than 80 dead, including many children, in a 1993 shootout with authorities), and Jim Jones (of the Peoples Temple cult, which killed more than 900 people, also including many children, in a 1978 massacre). Similarly abusive (not to say slanderous) language and accusations, it is clear, have not been absent from the debates that have been ongoing over diversity of beliefs in NCYM.

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Moral Monday & Retro Nonviolence Is Back (Again)

The Moral Monday protest campaign, aimed at the reactionary NC legislature and its stick-it-to-everybody-but-the-rich program, was by many measures, quite successful in its first season of actions, in the spring and summer of 2013.

Above all, on my list, its biggest success is a kind of “negative”, that is: it has not splintered and vanished; two years later its core of supporters is still there, and yesterday (April 29 2015) it began the work of regathering and relaunching for 2015, at the state capital in Raleigh.

This action was not heralded as the beginning of the Revolution, but rather another round in what has been seen from the start as a long-term struggle.

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Cut The Badass Baloney About Baltimore

In fact there were plenty of nonviolent black people on the Baltimore streets last night, doing their level best to protect other people of color, and black-owned (or black servicing) shops and property.

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