Join Rev. Dr. William Barber Saturday, August 27, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. for a “Get Out The Vote! Rally & Training” session at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 408 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro, NC.
The New Garden Friends Meeting Antiracism group would is asking for volunteers from our community to develop the following ideas: • Create an annual date for memorial/recognition service honoring a significant events in New Garden Friends Meeting racial justice history • New Garden Friends Meeting Quaker history room If you are interested in bringing these items to life, please email [email protected]
A story in the Sunday, August 14, 2022 edition of the Greensboro News & Record details the accomplishments of many Black residents in the Benbow Park Neighborhood who “broke barriers during segregation and have been connected to events of worldwide significance,” and notes that this neighborhood “features many modernist house designs by Black architects” which are very unique. The Benbow Park community is seeking to become the first Black neighborhood on the National Register of…
The New Garden Friends Meeting Anti-racist Little Free Library was installed by dedicated Meeting members last week (think post hole digging, cement and structural support), located just south of the NGFM driveway entrance. Peace and Social Concerns initiated the project as part of our visible witness to the Meeting’s commitment to stand against racism. CH Holcombe’s sister spurred the Peace and Social Concern Committee into action with a generous donation of a previously registered Little…
Thanks to volunteers; Janet Inmon, Patricia Martinez, Charlie Cameron, Bill Hamilton & John Martinez (not pictured) who installed the platform for the Little Free Antiracist Library today, August 9.
From the Carolina Peacemaker, 8/4/2022: “The African continent of 1.2 billion people, which represents 17 percent of the world’s population, contributes less than 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions but suffers from extreme weather events which scientists have warned will become more frequent due to climate change. Researchers in a new study have now put an actual dollar figure on economic harm caused by the countries most responsible for the climate crisis, and the…
Thanks to Jo Poole for sharing an entry from Chuck Fager’s A Friendly Letter from July 21, 2022. (It’s actually excerpts from the New York Times: There’s a Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things by Bryce Covert) “. . . Why is it so much harder — right now, seemingly impossible — for our country to enact new programs that are customary in much of the rest of the world? It’s easy to blame one…
Results from the Peace and Social Concerns Spring Survey The Peace and Social Concerns committee requested New Gardeners to respond to an on-line survey to help us discern what were the priorities of the Meeting for study, advocacy, coordinated activities and use of our limited resources in awarding small grants to local non-profits. We asked people to rank a series of 14 issues from 1 (highest priority) to 5 (lowest priority) for the Meeting. (We…
The demand for food assistance is so high that over 100 household come each day, five days a week, to receive groceries from the Food Pantry. While the amount of donations have gone up over the last week, much more food is needed to continue meeting the weekly demand. The economy has driven many families to the pantry that have never had to as for food assistance before. Greensboro has always been a generous community…
Equal Access to Quality Public Education Led by our testimonies of Equality, Integrity, and Community, we value the importance of education in realizing the inherent potential of all people. We support legislation that supports equal access to quality public education for all residents, through instruction which centers integrity and truth-seeking, provided by instructors, support services, and infrastructure that ensure the mental and physical health, safety, and dignity of every student, teacher, administrator, and school board.…