American Friends Service Committee Annual Corporation Meeting / April 11 – 17, 2021

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Open to all Friends: Corporation programming will begin on Sunday, April 11 at 7 p.m. ET with a panel presentation, “Quakers, AFSC, and abolition: Then and Now,” featuring historians Marcus Rediker and Katharine Grebner and contemporary Quaker abolitionists. To Register; go to: https://www.afsc.org/corpprogram The workshops, which will be offered throughout the week, are listed below: Monday, April 12, 8 p.m. ET: FreeThemAll: How we are living into the call to free folks in the context…

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / March 30, 2021

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Anti-Racist Actions You Can Take Now: Read the article (in the link below) and consider how these characteristics of white supremacy culture are implemented within your own place of work or other organizations, or even your own personal organizational behavior. Go to: https://tinyurl.com/36fdnnf9 Reprinted from the Anti-Racism Daily e-newsletter, https://www.antiracismdaily.com/ March 19, 2021.

Share Your Proposal for Funds Before April 5, 2021

Community, Environment, Fellowship, Finance & Stewardship, News, Social Concerns

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee (PSCC) is seeking proposals for funds. Each spring and fall, New Garden provides small grants to organizations for projects that address the meeting’s priorities of peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of Earth. PSCC looks at all proposed organizations and projects for their antiracist value. If you know of an organization or project that could benefit from a small grant ($200 – $500), please have a representative of…

News From Religious Education / Forum on March 28, 2021

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Peace & Social Concerns is leading a book study of How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi. To quote from Mr. Kendi’s website: “In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science–including the story of his own awakening to antiracism–bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form. He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships…

Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation Recommends/ March 25, 2021

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Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation recommends the following online program. For registration link contact Dot Mason at: ([email protected]) Program: Eco-Justice is Anti-Colonial Thursday, March 25, 12 to 1 p.m. Join NCIPL & NC Council of Churches Intern for Climate and Environmental Justice, Noely Bernier, for a discussion on the impacts of colonialism (on our lives and the environmental movement), the importance of decolonization to the work of social and ecological justice, and ways to…

Adult Forum / March 28, 2021

First Day, Religious Education, Social Concerns

Peace & Social Concerns is leading a book study of How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi. To quote from Mr. Kendi’s website: “In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science–including the story of his own awakening to antiracism–bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form. He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships…

Upcoming Forums & Studies / March 16, 2021

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Sunday, March 21 – “The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2 / Discussion continues on the “The 1619 Project”. The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. You can…

Adult Forum / March 21, 2021

First Day, Religious Education, Social Concerns

 “The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2 / Discussion continues on the “The 1619 Project”. The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. You can learn more about the…

Share Your Proposal for Funds by April 5, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee (PSCC) is seeking proposals for funds. Each spring and fall, New Garden provides small grants to organizations for projects that address the meeting’s priorities of peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of Earth. PSCC looks at all proposed organizations and projects for their antiracist value. If you know of an organization or project that could benefit from a small grant ($200 – $500), please have a representative of…

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / March 16, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

History Lunch Break: Ella Baker- Six Decades in the Making As the Sit-in Movement that was launched in Greensboro expanded, Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference invited student leaders to gather at Shaw University on an April weekend in 1960. There, she would help those students organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dr. Lea E. Williams, author of We Who Believe in Freedom: The Life and Times of Ella Baker, joins us…