Category: Member Activities
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Thanks from the diners!
This poster was created by the diners at the Groundworks Collaborative winter shelter, Brattleboro, Vermont, in gratitude for the meals provided by Putney Friends.
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Member News: Chloe Learey
VTDigger Report Chloe Learey: Strategies to increase child care slots Editor’s note: This commentary is by Chloe Learey, executive director of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro, and a member of the Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council. The Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce recently named her Entrepreneur of the […]
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Healing Mind Body and Spirit: Care for the Caregivers
Healing Mind Body and Spirit: Care for the Caregivers Are you someone who takes the time to call people, or to hold them in your prayers when you know they are having a hard time? Do you help organize rides for older Friends who wouldn’t otherwise be able to make it to worship? Do people […]
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Shine your Light
One small section of the 30 foot inspirational mural created during the Putney Friends Meeting Retreat.
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Nonviolent Action and the New Story
Dear Friends, I will be moderating this interesting webinar on “Nonviolent Action and the New Story” with Michael Nagler for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict on June 22. This should appeal to my nonviolent activist friends, my environmentalist friends, my Quaker friends, and my Pachamama Alliance friends and anyone who has ever attended an […]
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This is an Uprising
Toward the end of This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century, coauthors Mark and Paul Engler argue that Quakers have often acted powerfully as a “prophetic minority” in U.S. history—sometimes to great practical effect. According to the Englers, “Quakers served as the backbone of the movement against slavery in both the […]
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