Author: Roger Vincent Jasaitis

• Gun Sense, Moving Quickly

  Dear Friends, We have exciting news about how quickly the House is moving forward on the Gun Violence Prevention Bill. After passing the Senate 20-8 last week, the House Judiciary Committee has already started hearings on S. 141. A floor vote could happen in as soon as two weeks! We were so successful in making…

  04/01/2015

  Social Justice

  Ann Braden, Gun Sense Vermont, House Judiciary Committee, S. 141, the Senate

• Call Now! Support Gun Legislation

  Dear Friends, It is especially important that your Senators hear that you support s.141.  Their vote is particlularly important in ensuring the success of this bill which will most likely be voted on tomorrow.  The opposition is making calls and we need to do the same today. It is a very easy process. Simply call the…

  03/24/2015

  Social Justice

  Ann Braden, Gun Sense Vermont, Gun Violence, Universal Background Checks

• Bright Wings Chorus Concert at Next Stage

  Preview YouTube video Bright Wings – Greenwood LakeBright Wings – Greenwood Lake Dear Friends, You might be interested in an upcoming concert at Next Stage Arts in Putney. On Friday, March 27 I will be performing with my group The Bright Wings Chorus, a nine person a capella group that performs traditional American sacred music, including shape…

  03/21/2015

  Community Events

  Bright Wings Chorus, Next Stage

• Big News!

    I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to tell you that the Senate Judiciary Committee PASSED a gun violence prevention bill out of committee BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN SUPPORT! Gun violence prevention has been untouchable at the statehouse for decades, and this is proof that times have changed. It has been your…

  03/14/2015

  Social Justice

  Ann Braden, Gun Sense Vermont, Gun Violence, Social Justice, Vermont

• An invitation from Burlington Friends Meeting

  Doug Gwyn, pastor of Durham Friends Meeting and author of many books including his recent A Sustainable Life–Quaker Faith and Practice in the Renewal of Creation, is coming to Burlington Friends Meeting on March 29. Burlington Friends have been reading the book together and have found it to be very relevant to our life and times…

  03/06/2015

  Community Events, The Wider Quaker World

  A Sustainable Life–Quaker Faith and Practice in the Renewal of Creation, Burlington Friends Meeting, Doug Gwyn, FRIENDS, Northwest Quarterly Meeting, Quaker, Quaker community

• New England Young Adult Friends (Quaker) Climate Working Group: Pipeline Pilgrimage

  The New England Young Adult Friends (Quaker) Climate Working Group invites you to join us in a pilgrimage along the route of the proposed Kinder-Morgan methane pipeline in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

  03/04/2015

  NEYM, Young Adult Friends

  climate change, FRIENDS, Massachusetts, New England Yearly Meeting, NEYM, pipeline pilgrimage, pipeline route, Quaker, yaf, young adult friends

• AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE

  AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE On Tuesday, March 3, at 7pm, Hilary Burgin (the Boston Start-up Coordinator for Quaker Voluntary Service) will be at Northampton Friends Meeting to talk with local Quakers about QVS. She will be updating about the start-up of the Boston house and how we can be involved in recruiting young…

  02/27/2015

  Community Events, Social Justice

  Quaker Voluntary Service, QVS, UMass Amherst

• Citizens’ Climate Lobby

  What: Citizens’ Climate Lobby Groupstart Meeting (free and open to the public) When: Saturday, February 28th, 9am-12pm Where: Antioch University New England, Room E101(first floor), 40 Avon St, Keene, NH Contact: Sasha Breus abreus@antioch.edu Citizens’ Climate Lobby​(CCL) is a non­profit, non­partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies addressing climate change. In order to generate the political will necessary…

  02/25/2015

  Community Events

  Antioch University New England, Citizens’ Climate Lobby

• The Beauty of Quaker Voluntary Service

  Dear Friend, Built on the four core values: Community, Service, Transformation, and the Quaker Way, QVS offers young adults the opportunity to discover their gifts, while helping change the world. It is an experiment at the intersection of transformational spirituality and activism. It is a chance to live your life with compassion and justice, within a community…

  02/23/2015

  Social Justice, Wider Quaker World, Young Adult Friends

  Quaker Voluntary Service, QVS

• Brattleboro Interfaith Roots of Poverty Training Event

  A local interfaith group committed to addressing the root causes of poverty is sponsoring a training in faith-based community organizing basics, taught by Vermont Interfaith Action on Saturday, February 28, 2015, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro. This training will help people of faith bring our values and convictions into the…

  02/01/2015

  Community Events, Member Activities, Social Justice

  Brattleboro, Brattleboro Interfaith Initiative, Brattleboro Interfaith Roots of Poverty Training Event, Centre Congregational Church, community organizing, interfaith group, Putney Friends Meeting, Social Justice, Vermont Interfaith Action