Greensboro Justice Coalition call for City Council Action on Police Violence

The Greensboro Justice Coalition, which includes the Beloved Community Center, Democracy Greensboro, the Good Neighbor Movement, Greensboro Rising, Guilford for All, the Homeless Union of Greensboro, and the Sunrise Movement, urges all who support justice in Greensboro to come together to demand that the Greensboro City Council: 1. Settle the Smith family lawsuit fairly and stop spending $300 an hour on defense lawyers which only prolongs the process and costs taxpayers more and more money.…

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / September 16, 2020

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is working to help New Garden Friends Meeting incorporate more immediate social and economic justice actions into our everyday lives. Thus, every weekly newsletter will include one Anti-Racist Action suggestion and one website whereby members can find minority-owned business to support, if they so choose. The Meeting is not endorsing or advertising these businesses; we just feel it’s important to spread dollars more equitably to all community members and…

Adult Forum / September 20, 2020 / Guilford County School Repairs

Do you want all kids in our community to have healthy, safe, and modern public school facilities for students to learn, grow, and thrive in? Do you know we have an opportunity this fall to impact the much needed Guilford County School facilities through two critical referendum’s on the November ballot? School buildings across Guilford County are falling apart and we can no longer delay fixing them. The Guilford County Board of Education has approved…

Friends Committee on National Legislation Urges Support

Friends Committee on National Legislation urges support of the Dream and Promise Act seeking an equitable society supported by policies that recognize the Light of God in each of us, no exceptions. Yet Congress has so far refused to reform the U.S. immigration system, leaving millions of immigrants in fear of family separation, deportation, and detention. Even though they came to this country as children and grew up in our communities, approximately 3 million Dreamers,…

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / September 9, 2020

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is working to help New Garden Friends Meeting incorporate more immediate social and economic justice actions into our everyday lives. Thus, every weekly newsletter will include one Anti-Racist Action suggestion and one website whereby members can find minority-owned business to support, if they so choose. The Meeting is not endorsing or advertising these businesses; we just feel it’s important to spread dollars more equitably to all community members and…

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / September 01, 2020

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is working to help New Garden Friends Meeting incorporate more immediate social and economic justice actions into our everyday lives. Thus, every weekly newsletter will include one Anti-Racist Action suggestion and one website whereby members can find minority-owned business to support, if they so choose. The Meeting is not endorsing or advertising these businesses; we just feel it’s important to spread dollars more equitably to all community members and…

First Friends Meeting Antiracism Workshops / September thru November 2020

Margaret Rowlett and Vicki McCready, members of First Friends Meeting, have participated in the Working Group to Undo Racism of First Friends Meeting since its inception in January, 2016. They facilitated a workshop during the North Carolina Fellowship of Friends Annual Gathering (virtual) and are excited to engage with other Quakers on the topic of race. They feel they learn something new every time they have an opportunity to discuss antiracism work. The workshops will…

Communities Without Borders: Creating Sacred Spaces Through Storytelling Project

Please join the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Guilford College to create sacred spaces for all. Communities without Borders: Creating Sacred Spaces through Storytelling Project is an art installation aimed to tell stories and honor the lives of over 400,000 children, women, men and all community members who are currently detained in over 200 immigrant detention centers in the USA. This project is a response to the historical atrocities committed against DACA recipients,…