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SUMMARY:Northside Friends Meeting - National Day of Mourning for Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Northside Friends Meeting is a Quaker Meeting located in the Uptown Neighborhood of Chicago\, Illinois. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and Illinois quarantine we have continued to worship and share fellowship over video from our homes and have drawn comfort and strength from this continuing connection to our community.\nAt a recent check-in video call\, we shared how we felt affected by the pandemic – we spoke of feeling sorrow\, frustration\, fear\, guilt\, and despair. Although these feelings were painful\, we felt lifted at being able to be together in our sorrow.\nWe know this crisis is far from over. We will experience more frustration and fear and guilt and despair and terrible\, terrible loss. But we know too that sorrow shared is sorrow halved and it serves none of us to carry our burdens alone.\nThere has been no call from the US government for a Day of Mourning to acknowledge the grief and loss caused by the pandemic thus far. As people of faith\, it falls to us.\nOur testimony of integrity compels us to speak truth – we will not deny our grief nor refuse to acknowledge our loss. Our testimony of equality compels us to see the privilege enjoyed by those whom the pandemic has touched lightly and witness the pain of those whom the pandemic has wounded deeply. Our testimony of community compels us to come together – as Quakers\, Chicagoans\, Americans\, humans\, and children of the Earth.\nWe invite all people to hold Memorial Day\, Monday May 25\, 2020\, as a Day of Mourning. We invite you to take time and to share your burdens with your loved ones and the communities from which you draw comfort and strength. We too will be worshiping together on that day and gather with you in spirit.\nWe also invite you to join with us in a visible action. At sundown wherever you live\, light a candle and step outside and hold a moment of silence for what we have lost together.\nMay 10\, 2020
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/northside-friends-meeting-national-day-of-mourning-for-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:Friends in Fellowship with Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge & Jeremy Routledge
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for an evening with Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge\, former Deputy Minister of Defense and of Health in South Africa\, currently Friend in Residence at Haverford College\, and Jeremy Routledge\, former director of the Quaker Peace Centre in Cape Town.\nTimes of global crisis\, like now under COVID19\, are also an opportunity for social transformation and innovation. Join this talk with Nozizwe and Jeremy Routledge\, from Southern Africa Quaker Community\, as they share stories of hope and courage drawn from their own life-long struggle for peace\, equality and justice in South Africa. There will be an interactive Breakout room where you can share your own stories of connecting locally and internationally.  Come! Practice hope and courage with Friends.\nRegister here!\nHosted virtually by Friends World Committee for Consultation\, PYM\, Haverford College and Friends Center.\nNozizwe is a Quaker South African politician and activist who started her life of political activism under the tutelage of Steve Biko\, a leading light of the grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement. Madlala-Routledge moved on to join the ANC and the South African Communist Party\, which were both banned\, and was detained a number of times without trial. The latest period was serving a year in solitary confinement.\nQuestions? Email Grace Sharples Cooke
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/friends-in-fellowship-with-nozizwe-charlotte-madlala-routledge-jeremy-routledge/
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