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SUMMARY:Conscientious Objection: Discerning and Documenting a Claim
DESCRIPTION:from the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative\nA series of sessions from 7:00pm-8:30pm: December 27 – January 3 – January 10- January 24 \nNow that the Selective Service System (SSS) registration for the draft in most states is automatic when getting a state driver’s license\, Quaker youth and other youth of faith rarely consider making a claim as a conscientious objector (CO). Youth miss the opportunity to discern and articulate their nonviolent beliefs and opposition to war. If a draft were ever reinstated\, they could have as little as nine days to prepare a CO claim before having to go before a local draft board. \nThis workshop is an opportunity for youth (both young men and young women) to consider their beliefs and to learn the process for documenting a CO claim if they feel led to do so. This workshop is also an opportunity for other people of faith (parents\, grandparents\, and community mentors) to learn how they can support youth to consider these important questions. \nWorkshop Leaders:\n• Curt Torell of Chapel Hill Friends Meeting\n• Andrew Wright of Durham Friends Meeting\n• Will Strayer of Durham Friends Meeting \nWorkshop Sessions:\nWill include watching a film on one’s own time before December 27 and participating in 4 Sunday evening Zoom sessions from 7-8:30 pm ET on\n• December 27\n• January 3\n• January 10\n• January 24 \nRegistration:\nAll participants must register by filling out this Google Form. A suggested donation of $5 (to help cover the cost of the license to watch the film Soldiers of Conscience) will be collected by PayPal once the workshop has begun. \nResources:\nWe will provide access for participants to watch “Soldiers of Conscience” and will provide a folder with various documents from Curt’s curriculum “Conscientious Objection: Is This for You?”. \nWatch the QuakerSpeak interview with Curt to learn more. \nTo register and get resources – click here.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/conscientious-objection-discerning-and-documenting-a-claim/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210110T150000
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SUMMARY:Going Forward Together - Palestine as a lens for collective liberation
DESCRIPTION:– featuring Central Philadelphia member Sa’ed Atshan\, and a member of PYM’s Middle East Collaborative\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \nWe are excited to put on this special Philadelphia based webinar. Please don’t forget to register.\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\nFrom police brutality in Philadelphia to child detentions and military occupation in Palestine\, the U.S. is implicated in systemic racism across borders.\nYou are invited to a special Philadelphia-based webinar\, Going Forward Together: Palestine as a lens for collective liberation.\nThe webinar will center Black\, Palestinian\, and Jewish panelists\, including Sa’ed Atshan\, Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College; Rebecca Pierce\, African-American and Jewish filmmaker in San Francisco; and The Reverend Dr. Leslie D. Callahan\, first female pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia. The conversation will be moderated by Tarek Abuata.\nThe panelists will discuss topics ranging from common struggles in countering racist systems of white supremacy and political Zionism\, to efforts across movements to advocate for collective liberation\, to our role in this movement. Please register in advance.\nDirectly following the Webinar\, at 4:45\, there will be an opportunity to share thoughts and reactions in a one-hour informal discussion hosted by the Tikkun Olam Chavurah and moderated by Rabbi Linda Holtzman. The link for this new conversation will be shared during the Webinar.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/going-forward-together-palestine-as-a-lens-for-collective-liberation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210111T190000
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SUMMARY:Byberry MM Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a wonderful evening with F/friends as we discuss books (mostly novels but some non-fiction) that have an element of Quakers/Quakerism and the impact on social change movements.\nIn January we are reading “Hiking Naked – A Quaker Woman’s Search for Balance”.\nFor more information\, please visit:  ByberryQuakers.org or contact ByberryQuakers@gmail.com\nhttps://byberryquakers.org/Groups/341461/Zoom_Book_Club.aspx
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/byberry-mm-book-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210114T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Lecture with Angela Dodgson - "Remember the Ladies: Celebrating those who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box"
DESCRIPTION:Angela P. Dodson’s book “Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box” chronicles the earliest stirrings of the women’s movement in the United States\, arising out of the abolition movement\, and traces women’s political gains to the present. Her book\, published in hardback by Center Street in May 2017\, was released in paperback March 5\, 2019. She also wrote the introduction to the 100th anniversary edition of “Jailed for Freedom: A First-Person Account of the Militant Fight for Woman Suffrage\,” about Alice Paul’s activism on behalf of the movement\, released March 3\, 2020\, by Black Dog and Levanthal. She will discuss the prominent role that members of the Society of Friends played from the very beginnings of the women’s rights movement to the successful conclusion.\nOur own tonya tames taylor of Fallowfield MM moderated a discussion with Dodgson in fall 2020 for Friends Historical Association’s annual gathering.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/virtual-lecture-with-angela-dodgson-remember-the-ladies-celebrating-those-who-fought-for-freedom-at-the-ballot-box/
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SUMMARY:Children and Families Community Playdate - Meeting for Feelings
DESCRIPTION:PYM Community Playdates are for Children up through 5th Grade and their Family\nOur January 16 Community Playdate (10:00am) is a “Meeting for Feelings.”\nWe’ll welcome two special guests from New York Yearly Meeting\, Joy Meikle and her puppet buddy\, Aura\, to lead this program. It’s a “safe space for kids to talk about their feelings. ” Learn more about what Joy and Aura are offering in NYYM here. \nRegistered children will receive “The Feelings Book” by Todd Parr as a gift\, with thanks to the D’Olier Fund and their generous support of PYM Youth Programs. \nLearn more about PYM Community Playdates for kids and families and REGISTER HERE!
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/children-and-families-community-playdate-meeting-for-feelings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210117T094500
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SUMMARY:First Month Gathering Western Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Click here .\n\nAll portions of the day will have a virtual connection.\nMorning Program 9:45-10:45 – the 12th Query Witness and Civic Responsibility – an Intergenerational Program led by Claire Brandenburg Taylor\nMeeting for Worship 11:00 am\nMeeting for Worship with Attention to Business 2:00-3:30pm\nDownload the FLYER!
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/first-month-gathering-western-quarterly-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T190000
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SUMMARY:Kennett Meeting Friends
DESCRIPTION:Kennett Meeting Friends continues to meet every third Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm.\nNext discussion will be Jan 20 to continue with Thomas Kelly’s A Testament of Devotion  focusing on the essay “The Simplification of Life“\nPlease join us if you have read the section or just want to explore a little more about Thomas Kelly!\nThomas Kelly was an American Quaker educator.  \nKelly received word on January 17\, 1941\, that Harper and Brothers was willing to meet with him to discuss the publication of a devotional book. He died of a heart attack in Haverford\, Pennsylvania later that same day. Three months later Kelly’s colleague\, Douglas V. Steere\, submitted five of Kelly’s devotional essays to the publisher along with a biographical sketch of Kelly. The book was published under the title A Testament of Devotion. \nPlease join\, all are welcome! – the link below is good through February 2021 \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86739314909?pwd=QnJmUWxWQ2ZPVzRkQ3M2YklDRWp2QT09 \nMeeting ID: 867 3931 4909   Passcode: 391875
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/kennett-meeting-friends/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T123000
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SUMMARY:ASMH - Updated Exhibit Design Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join Executive Director Sean Connolly as he talks about the recently completed Exhibit Area Design Plan.\nSean will talk through what will be accomplished in each phase of this project and how it will adhere to Quaker principles while adding a sleek new public history approach to engaging with Arch Street Meeting House. Please register for this event here.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/asmh-updated-exhibit-design-presentations/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T150000
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SUMMARY:Addressing Anti-Blackness Thread Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Addressing Anti-Blackness in and Beyond Monthly Meetings \nSaturday\, January 23rd\, 2021\, 9:00am – 2:30pm\, VIRTUAL \nCo-hosted with Chestnut Hill Meeting \nThis thread gathering calls us to unlearn and be accountable to our past and present anti-Black ideologies\, institutions\, and behaviors. Knowing that this journey has no finish line\, we bravely and humbly come together to move forward in our journeys with intention to continue to learn and unlearn\, through interrogation\, conversation and understanding in ourselves\, our faith community\, and with each other. \nDisengaging from Comfort or Decentering Comfort \nAs Friends\, we lean on our understanding that we need discomfort to learn to be present during silence\, and this discomfort is a growing relationship with spirit. This discomfort is the same discomfort we are growing with and building a relationship with when we are uprooting oppressive thoughts and behaviors. Racism and white supremacy means some of us are more accustomed to discomfort than others\, as well as that what is comfortable for some is dangerous and violent to others. We invite participants to acknowledge and address that tension and imbalance with us. \nSchedule: \n9:00am Optional worship – led by Chestnut Hill Meeting \n10:00am Introductions & tech review \n10:15am Walking with Anti-Blackness – Oskar Castro \n12:00pm Optional communal lunch \n12:45pm Interrogating and Weeding out Anti-Blackness – Tenaja Henson and Sarah Willie-LeBreton \n2:00pm Resources and Closing \nTo register and read the facilitator bios – click here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/addressing-anti-blackness-thread-gathering/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T190000
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SUMMARY:Byberry Quakers - Quakerism 101
DESCRIPTION:Join Byberry and Upper Dublin Friends Meetings in a two-part presentation and discussion about Quakerism.  While it is being called “Quakerism 101” it is definitely not a program only for new Friends and Seekers.  There is much to be learned by those who have been part of the faith for decades\, as well.\nThe program is the 2nd and 4th Wednesday in January (13th and 27th) at 7PM in Zoom.\nhttps://byberryquakers.org/Groups/355165/Quakerism_101.aspx\nFor more information\, please contact Byberry Friends Meeting at ByberryQuakers@gmail.com.\n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/byberry-quakers-quakerism-101/
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