Banning TG folks from the military is the first big chunk of red meat thrown to the sex-phobic theocratic right by the Liar-in-Chief; it will only make them hungrier for more and bigger chunks.
Can Weinstein & MRFF get backup from an activist, interreligious coalition to face them down?
They could. They should. Now we’ll find out.
Howard Zinn was neither a Quaker nor a pacifist. But in 1976, he wrote this in his regular column for the Boston Globe: There was a young woman in New Hampshire who refused to allow her husband, killed in Vietnam, to be given a military burial. She rejected the hollow ceremony ordered by those who … Continue reading Quaker Stories for Memorial Day
Earlier this year I posted about a controversy at Friends Central School in Philadelphia, where a Palestinian Quaker, Sa’ed Atshan, was invited to visit and speak, then abruptly disinvited & the two teachers who invited him, Ariel Eure and Layla Helwa, were suspended. The previous posts are (here, here , here & here). The news site … Continue reading Update: Friends Central School Fires Teachers Who Invited Palestinian Speaker; Invites Him Back
And you better read fast, because according to this source, D-Day for what they’re confidently calling “Operation Clean Sweep” is 1500 hours (3 PM for civilians) Central Daylight Time in “early May.” (BTW come to think of it, I’m writing this post in “early May,” and it’s past 3PM; so maybe today is not this extra “Mother’s Day.” Maybe.)
Perhaps you’re tempted to snicker, or even guffaw at all this, especially considering the source.
Well, laugh if you want, but be careful, because maybe the joke is on you.
After all, this blogger is rather late coming to the party involving exploring the ties between this paper and the Oval Office guy. Much bigger, weightier media types have been all over it for quite awhile.
The Carolina Friends Emergency Consultation – March 25, 2017 Spring Friends Meeting, Snow Camp NC (For Directions, click here) The Consultation Schedule: