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DMMe)2VNbEm Yearly Meeting: A Journey of Discovery
What is the Quaker faith? It is not a tidy package of words which you capture at any given time and then repeat weekly at a worship service. It 1s an experience of discovery, which starts the discoverer on a journey, which 1s lifelong. The discovery 1n ttself 1s not uniquely a property of Quakerism... What is unique to the Religious Society of Friends is its insistence that the discovery must be made by each of us individually. No one 1s allowed to get it secondhand by accepting a ready-made creed. Furthermore, the discovery points a path and demands a journey, and gives you the power to make the journey. —Elise Boulding, 1954 (Quoted in IMYM’s new Faith and Practice)
Elise’s words apply not only to our Quaker faith, but also to attending Yearly Meeting. Yearly Meeting attenders embark on a journey, both literally and figu- ratively. We come together to learn as well as to teach, to share our discoveries and to be enriched by the discoveries of others. And this journey doesn’t happen only once; it happens again and again, over a lifetime, over many lifetimes, as we seek to grow closer to each other and to the Spirit who brings us together.
This month’s cover features many of those who by sharing their faith journey, helped to enrich this year’s IMYM annual session; and some of their insights. appear in the pages of this issue:
¢ Joanne N. Cowan writes about her experiences in prison after protesting at
the School of the Americas (see p. 15).
¢ Mike Gray is featured in the centerfold, where he is honored by the children for his work leading Quaker service learning projects.
* Tom Kowal, along with others from the Committee on Migrant and Border Concerns, gives a message about immigration issues (see p. 6).
¢ Joe Volk explains the work that Friends Committee on National Legislation is doing to promote peace and justice in our nation’s capital (see p. 3).
Other Friends gave workshops on ecological concerns, border concerns, mys- ticism, spiritual formation, the death penalty, etc. I had the privilege of giving an interest group on interfaith peace making (see p. 8).
The most historic development of this year’s annual session was the unveiling of the first draft of IMYM’s long-awaited Faith and Practice, finally ready after 13 years. Composing this document has been a journey of discovery which is not over yet! Friends will be given another year to reflect upon this work-in-progress. The F & P committee sums up how, and why, this document came to be written:
As is often the case when it comes to leadings, the answers to the persisting questions about why we needed to do this have emerged only through the process of faithfully fulfilling our charge. We have, as individuals, as a committee, and as monthly meetings, engaged both the material and one another at a deeper level. As we have struggled to choose words reflective of IMYM Friends, new ties to one another have developed, our commitment to each other has deepened, and our understanding of our unique identity as a yearly meeting has grown. The process has affected us all.
So it is with this journey of discovery we call Quakerism. As we seek to follow the leadings of the Spirit, we find that we are given what we need; and one of the most important discoveries we make is how blessed we are to have caring and
committed companions along the way.
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The Force of Truth, the Power of Lov:
by Joe Volk
Friends Committee on National Legislation, Washington DC
“With your help, we have been able to influence a superpower,” said Joe Volk of FCNL. “We want to thank you for helping us to zero out the funding for new nuclear weapons. Three years ago when we started this campaign, many organizations said, “You can’t stop this, it’s going to happen anyway.” Now these groups are helping us and have enabled us to stop the development of new nuclear weapons.”
Joe went on to explain that those who want to develop new nukes have not given up, but have adopted new strategies.
“We won on ‘no new nukes,” explained Joe. “But the administration is trying another approach: they want to build 150 to 250 new nuclear weapons per year and justify those new nukes as the way to get cutbacks in the current stock of nukes to 1,000. This is obviously unacceptable to us, and we will work to make sure this doesn't happen.”
Joe also claimed another FNCL victory. “Both houses of Congress passed our bill calling for no permanent
US military bases in Iraq,” he explained.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
3 “The Force of Truth, the Power of Love” by Joe Volk
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6 “Love the Strangers as Yourself” by the Committee on Migrant and Border
Concerns
8 “Interfaith Peacemaking and the Legacy of Tom Fox”
by Anthony Manousos
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“But it was deleted from the bill going to the President. Congressional advocates are so mad that they plan to place this no permanent bases Iraq provision on future legislation every chance they get.”
Joe also expressed appreciation to those who had contributed to the FCNL building renovation project.
“Over 2,000 people contributed a total of $6.2 million to building a green, fully accessible building, right across from the Hart Senate Office Building,” said Joe. “It was more than just a building, however. It was also a fulfillment of George Fox’s injunction
9 “The Perils of Being Black
or Brown in a Border Town” by Eisha Mason
10 Epistles and minutesof Inter- mountain Yearly Meeting
12 Intermountain Yearly
Meeting in Pictures
15 “Prisoner of Conscience Speaks Out” by Joanne Cowan
16 “Epistle on Global Warming Presented at FGC Gathering
a DeAnne Butterfield , Eric Wright, Joe Volk and Bob Pearson
that we ‘be patterns, let our lives speak.’
This renovation embodies our Quaker witness and values. We get knocks on the door from Congressional staff, elected officials, architects... ‘Can we come in, can you show us your building? Can we have a meeting here and show people what a green building is like?” “Through the $6.2 million invested in this building we have created a new engine of change. People walk in the building and their ideas come alive. ‘Could I do this in my house? Could we do this in a federal building?” During the rest of his talk Joe gave legislative updates and told four stories that illustrated the theme: “The power of love.” .
and Karen Street’s
Comments”
18 “Bill and Genie Durland Honored”
19 “The Vulture Church” by Peter Anderson
19 IMYM accepts draft of Faith and Practice
20 Memorial Minutes
par Calendar Items and Classifieds
He began by reminding us that in difficult times, since 9/11, it has become increasingly difficult to believe that the Lion and Lamb will lie down together. “It may happen,” he said, “but the Lamb wont get much sleep!”
FCNL responded to the con- gressional debate on immigration issues this spring. The latest immigration bills came in two versions, one in the Senate and one in the House. They differ and must be reconciled. Conference Com- mittees will find reconciliation difficult and may not get that job done before the fall elections.
Joe told about his studies in comparative religion and how many were influenced by the great theologian Reinhold Neibuhr. According to Neibuhr, you can achieve Christ’s ideal of love in heaven, but here on earth you must be realistic and settle for justice and sometimes use violence to achieve it. This theology contrasts Gandhi's approach, who believed that you sometimes must use voluntary self- suffering to reveal the truth to others. This nonviolent approach relies on the power of love and the force of truth.
This is the basis for the Quaker position on war. We believe that pos- itive change comes about not through fighting, but through voluntary suffering. As William Penn said, the Quaker position on war is “not fighting but suffering.”
To illustrate this, Joe told the story about how he became a CO during the Vietnam War. Joe came from a rural, religiously conservative area in Ohio, and he returned his deferment from the draft, because he opposed the Vietnam War. His draft board offered him a CO (conscientious objector) status, but he turned that down too, because he had not yet made the choice between the just war and the nonviolent approaches. He made the choice for nonviolence on the bayonet training field and quit training. Later he faced a general court martial at Fort Carson, CO for refusing to go with his combat unit to Vietnam. His Methodist pastor advised him to go to
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the Quakers in Denver for advice. There he met Friendly AFSC counselors named Chester McQuiry and Holmes Browne.
“I was welcomed by Quakers in Denver and treated warmly,” explained Joe. (Unlike Manhattan, where a clergyman and peace activist from another religious tradition poured a cocktail over my head, because I was in the Army.) “When I said I was going to refuse to go Vietnam with my outfit, Chester and Holmes told me that others had done that and I could too, if I had
the courage of my convictions. They
“Is Private Volk all right?” | Young Friends re-enact Joe Volk’s experiences in the Army
explained matter of factly the real consequences: you will be sentenced to the stockade for six months at hard labor, a reduction in grade to E-1, and two thirds forfeiture of pay, and, then, you be released with an honorable or less than honorable discharge.”
“Chester took me hiking in the mountains, and then I got on a bus to Colorado Springs and turned myself in to the MPs at Fort Carson to be arrested. Chester had asked: Would you like to have someone call the commander in the guard once a week to make sure you're all right? He said it might help
to protect me while I was in
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confinement. He didn’t presume; he asked me. Yeah, sure, I said. After my conviction, I was in the stockade and was working in the back forty and the commander of the guard came to see me and asked, ‘Are you Private Volk?’ The guards and everyone else were amazed. I said, Yes. The commander of the guard said, How are you? I said, ‘T’m fine.’ Are you having any problems? ‘No sir, I replied. He then turned around and left. (Laughter.) I don’t know if the Quakers called him to ask if I was all right, but I do know that the commander of the guard came to ask me, and only me, if I was all right. I think it’s reasonable to assume that some nameless person, who didn’t know me, but who did love me, cared enough to — call and ask the question, ‘Is Private Volk all right?’ This two-minute phone call made a huge difference in my life. This little act of love.”
Are Quakers extremists ?
Joe told the story about a talk show that -hejdidsin (Septembens2001% “Waiting to go on air, the host’ conversation demonstrated that he was a voracious reader and very interested in everything. We had a nice time talk- ing about many things, including our families. Then the show opens and the host’s first statement was something like, “My guest today is Joe Volk from Friends Committee on Matters of Legislation. He represents a community that hates everything about America. They hate Star Wars and military defense. They hate the armed services and our soldiers. This is a chance for our listeners to find out why Joe and his community are so anti-American and extremist.”
Joe was shocked by the talk show host’s tone, but after pausing for a moment, he finally replied, “Yes, we Quakers are extremists. In England in the 17th century we were considered extremists because we rejected the state church and refused to pay a church tax because we believed that every person
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could have a direct relationship with God. We also believed that no human being could be owned by another human being. So we opposed slavery and ran an underground railroad and did whatever else we could to help slaves. We also believed that men and women were equal. So we started coeducational schools and supported the Women’s Right to Vote movement . These are some of the extremist positions that we've taken and now they are part of our Constitution and our American way of life. That’s the kind of extremism that we Quakers supported, and that’s why we are the way we are today.”
There is a force of truth, explained Joe. “We practice what we can't see happening yet. This is a gospel—the Good News—calling us to live in a now, but not yet, world. We are co-creators with God. We must always doubt, because doubt ministers to our faith. If we think we have the truth, then we have fallen off the path. We're always seeking.”
Joe then spoke about a time not long after 9/11 when FCNL put up a banner up on FCNL’s building across the street from the Hart Senate Office Building. Those congressional staff and Members of Congress could see: WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.
Putting up this banner was a very tense moment because of the fear and anger on the Hill. Later some Congressional staff and colleagues from other religious offices would come up and say, “Thank you for putting up that sign.”
Joe told the story of how the “War is not the answer” yard sign came about. An Atlanta, GA, monthly meeting had trouble coming to unity about putting up a banner. Some Friends objected since the meetinghouse was being used by groups that might not share this Quaker witness, and they could be put at risk. After a lot of discussion and “seasoning,” they decided to make individual lawn signs. “This idea got back to FCNL, and they produced
thousand of signs. They became so
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popular that over 150,000 signs and bumper stickers have been distributed.”
Joe concluded by telling a story about how we seek “security.” Advertising campaigns were developed by two competing car companies. Volvo ran an ad that showed a Volvo hitting a wall and the dummies are not damaged. The ad said: “If you love your family, buy a Volvo”. Subaru ran a similar ad but when the Subaru was about to hit the wall, it slammed on the brakes and didn’t hit the wall. Subaru had a different slogan: “If you love your family, by a Volvo, or buy a Subaru, because we have a better idea—brakes!”
Joe used this story to suggest that, for national security, we need to use the
“Mourn the Dead, Heal the Wounded, End the War’: A National Memorial Procession from Arlington Cemetery to the White House, October 2, 2004. Sponsored by the Iraq Pledge of Resistance,
www.peacepledge.org; photo © Matthew Bradley
Subaru approach and use our brakes before we crash into a crisis situation. He also made clear that he was in no way suggesting that Subarus are better vehicles than Volvos.
Q & A after Joe’s talk
What is the FCNL policy on immigration? FCNL has a policy on immigration issues and has been responsive to community- based experience. In short, FCNL favors open, well regulated borders in a national and global context where all people are free to travel and work and where labor laws favor human rights. We see a nation that is composed of mostly of immigrants, and immigrants have built this county.
Now is not time to turn immigrants away.
Up to now, we haven't had money to have an influence. We calculate that it costs around $150,000 per year to actually influence the direction of US policy, to change the course of superpower policies. You need to have very smart senior lobbyists who can work the system, and they need support, too. Ruth Flowers has returned to FCNL after ten years at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and she will take a lead role to develop what FCNL can do on immigration issues. FCNL will want to draw on the experience and expertise of Friends in the Quaker community and , of course, with AFSC.
Is FCNL involved in the interfaith peace and justice movement? We are very involved. We have just restructured the executive secretary's time so he can give more time to interfaith activities, as well as other initiatives. For example, FCNL participated in a Christian-Muslim exchange last year, that resulted in the Muslim-Christian statement on the nuclear danger which can be found on FCNLs website, www.fenl.org.
How can we respond to the question, ‘If war isnt the answer, what is? “Joe responded by calling attention to FCNLs blue booklet called “If War Is Not the Answer, What Is? Peaceful prevention of deadly conflict.” Four or five years ago, peaceful prevention of deadly conflict was not in the ken of government officials. Yet, last fall our senior lobbyist went to an off-the-record meeting where about 60 people from Congress and various government departments engaged these ideas. Why? Because many people in government have reached the conclusion that: War — o-called hard power”— isn't working. But war is bankrupting our government. We're seeing in Washington a growing momentum in thinking about the uses of so-called “soft power” for the peaceful prevention of deadly conflict. These discussion are “under the radar” now but may emerge as new policy initiatives in future Congresses. 0
“Love the Strangers as Yourself...”
Report by the Committee on Migrant and Border Concerns Intermountain Yearly Meeting , June 2006
“The strangers who scjourn with you shall be to you as the natives among you, and you shall love them as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” (Leviticus 19:33-34)
“What you do to the least of my brethren, you do unto me.”
(Matthew 25:40)
e, as members of the Religious
Society of Friends, and as residents of the Mexico-United States border region, recognize that im- migration to the US and to other countries is part of a natural pattern of economic and social exchange that existed before the creation of this border, which continues to benefit both countries today. We also recognize that much of the current high level of migration results from war and economic deprivation closely linked to the domestic, foreign and economic policies of our government and of US and multinational corp- orations.
While we support the right of the government to enforce its just laws, we recognize that many US immigration laws are not just and are not defensible or enforceable in any practical, moral or ethical sense. We as Friends are called by our faith and practice to see the dignity and worth of every person, to oppose exploitation and oppression, and to witness and advocate for change to unjust laws and systems. We are called to work for a sustainable peace in our border region and throughout the world.
While we recognize the need to protect the national security of the US and of each nation and community worldwide, we also recognize that “national security” is often used as an
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excuse to engender fear of the “other” in our society and to maintain our own way of life even at the expense of the lives and the civil and human rights of others. We observe that this engenders nationalistic, xenophobic and racist expressions in our society. We see clearly that true national security for the US lies in the building of fair, just and sustainable social and economic systems.
We now witness the implementa- tion of low-intensity warfare strate- gies along the US-Mexico border — we see the most powerful and richest nation on Earth waging war against the poor. We see the increasing mili- tarization of the border closing off safe migration routes and causing the hor- rific deaths of hundreds of human beings every year. We know that many thousands of men, women and chil- dren have died in this crossing, in the past ten years. We see that this bor- der militarization separates families and destroys social networks and com- munities on both sides of the border. We note that these unjust and inef- fective immigration policies and the militarization of the border have had the unintended effect of “stranding” many migrant workers on the US side of the border by disrupting their tra- ditional patterns of working in the US while maintaining their homes and families in Mexico and Central
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Immigrant Rights Rally in Denver, CO
America. We see billions of dollars, desperately needed for infrastructure and economic development, and for health and education, wasted instead on a fruitless and misguided effort to stem historical and economically im- portant migration.
We recognize that our current national policy creates an untenable and unjust situation wherein 12 million people live and work in the US without legal rights or protections. We see that this disenfranchisement leads to systemic violation of human, civil and labor rights and protections. We observe that this leads directly to disruptions in wage scales and working conditions for all workers, and to disruptions in the essential labor supply for many industries and agricultural businesses in the US and elsewhere. We note the contradictions between the free flow of capital, materials, goods and services across international boundaries versus the constriction of the movement of working people.
Wer recopnizemthattwen as privileged residents of the first world, benefit from the labor of those who suffer exploitation and deprivation on both sides of the border as a result of discrimination and unfair wages. We admit our ignorance and complicity in these unjust systems, and our failure to recognize how we benefit from the
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oppression of others in order to support our individual consumerism and corporate greed. We recognize our complicity in dehumanizing and demonizing the migrant in our midst.
The Committee on Migrant and Border Concerns of Intermountain Yearly Meeting [IMYM] of the Religious Society of Friends, meeting in Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico in June 2006, therefore
minutes the following:
We dedicate ourselves to study and to prayer on local and global issues of migration and humane solutions to situations of economic injustice.
We commit to support migrant and immigrant individuals and families. We com- mit ourselves to active witness, and to support those of our Meetings and other faith and justice communities who may suffer consequences for such witness.
We oppose the militarization of the Mexico-US border, including the building of walls and the deployment of troops. We call for immediate and adequate provision to assure the safety of persons who migrate for economic reasons as well as for those who seek refuge. We call upon the US to honor its treaty obligations and to observe international law in these and in all respects.
We support comprehensive immigration reform, including: provisions for reasonably regulated safe passage of migrants and refugees; legalization of persons now living and working in the US who now contribute to the well-being of our economy and communities; support for family reunification; consideration of future migration flows; and, respect for the rights and dignity of all, including the protections of labor and civil rights.
This statement will be sent to
Quaker organizations including FCNL and AFSC, to local and national media, and to our executive, legislative and con- gressional representatives, urging their attention to and pursuit of humane, fair, reasonable and comprehensive reform of US law. We will urge them to work with us to relieve these conditions above enumerated, and to participate with persons of good will world-wide in building a just, fair and sustainable system of trade and economic development.
Submitted in love, witness and solidarity by these members of the IMYM Committee on Migrant and
Border Concerns:
—Danielle Short, Jonathan Cartland, David Perkins, David Henkel, David Baird, Tom Kowal, Karen Fleming, Mary Burton Riseley, Eric Wright, Jose L. Ramirez, Theresa Walker, and Judy Cottell.
The Clarence and Lilly Pickett Endowment awarded six grants this year to support emerging Quaker leadership
Joseph Shamala Mmbere - Kakamega Friends, Kenya. He is mentoring selected Kenyan youth to participate in an all African Youth Peace Conference in Rwanda, East Africa.
Keevy Harris - Cedar Square Friends, NC. She assisted NC youth groups in developing posi-
>4 tive relationships with MOWA Chociaw youth.
Kathryn Lum - Lund |_| Friends, Sweden, She is assisting }{ Sikh women in Punjab, India, in
their search for spiritual equality.
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Danielle Brown - Deep
Creek Friends, NC. She coordinat- ed summer youth activities among & MOWA Choctaw Friends in Alabama.
Anna Staab - Purchase Friends, NY, She made a video documentary of the largest Powell House reunion in its four decade history held July 13-16, 2006,
Jonathan Watts - QLsp, Guilford, NC, and Richmond Friends, VA. With a coalition of artists, he will make available dis- tinctly Quaker recorded music to bring Friends together.
Interfaith Peacemaking and the Legacy of Tom Fox
e Friends should be grateful to
Chuck Fager and Florence Full- erton for honoring in print the memory of Tom Fox, who, by sacrificing his life in Iraq, has become one of the world’s best known and most widely respected Quakers.
Thanks to the Wider Quaker Fell- owship, an outreach of Friends World Committee for Consultation, Florence Fullerton’s pamphlet is being circulated world-wide. It concludes with a passage from Tom’s blog that I found extremely moving and relevant. Describing a birthday celebration for the Prophet Mohammed in which he participated along with guests from the Iraqi criics of Najaf and Kerbala, Tom writes:
For grace before the meal, a CP Ter (Christian Peacemaker Team) went into the office and opened the team’s Arabic Quran and put his finger down on this passage:
One day shalt thou see the believing men and the believing women—how their Light runs forward before them. And by their right hands their greeting will be, ‘Good news for you this Day! Gardens beneath which flow rivers! To dwell therein forever. This indeed 1s the highest achievement. Sura 2, 12.
... This opened up a discussion of the
tradition in Islam, Christianity and |
Judaism of throwing open the holy book of that faith tradition and reading the first passage that your eyes fall upon. Is this superstition? Does it have any relevance for our broken lives and chaotic world?
Tom went on to observe that the people of Iraq are very angry, for understandable reasons; and the role of the CPT is to demonstrate how God’s grace and light can make a difference:
We are throwing ourselves open to
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the possibility of God’s grace bringing some rays of light to the shadowy landscape that is Iraq... Everyone whose government and corporations are playing a role in this land needs to throw open the book of their heart... That truly would be the highest achievement.
Although Tom considered himself a Christian, he was open to spiritual insights from other religions, such as Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam. He went to Israel/Palestine and listened to all sides in this tragic conflict. He lived side-by-side with the Iraqi people and took up their cause and their concerns. He showed by his example what it means to “walk cheerfully on the earth, answering that of God in everyone.”
When news of Fox’s death was announced, he was deeply mourned by
the Muslim community, which will always remember and honor him. A young Muslim man I know named Yasir Shah wrote a letter to Friends Bulletin
when he learned of Tom Fox’s death:
“Tm heart-broken to say that it’s only recently that I’ve come to find out about
such a courageous and dedicated man...
I believe that Tom Fox’s family, the
American people, and the Iraqi people
were blessed to have someone of his
caliber to fight for them... I pray that
we may increase our unity in the stand , against injustice, and continue to strive
for the rights of all humans.”
Not all of us have the calling or courage to follow Tom’s example. But we are called to honor his memory and to carry forward his spirit in our Quaker witness to the world. Let us therefore read and take Tom’s words to heart. 0
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The Perils of Being Black or Brown in a US Border Town
by Eisha Mason
Associate Director, Pacific Southwest Region, American Friends Service Committee
am waiting to board a train in San Diego when I notice a Border Patrol agent making his way down our line. He stops by each person who looks “Latino” and asks them to present their legal documents. As the people standing next to me rummage for their identity pa- pers, I stand by, angry, embarrassed, and ashamed. In that moment, I don't know what to say or do to protest.
My mind suddenly travels back in time. I “remember” what it must have been like during slavery for Black people who made it to the North. If they had no papers, they were doomed to live each day in fear. If they were “legalized” by free papers, they still always needed these documents, no matter who they were or how old they were or how long they had lived in their community. These papers were all that stood between them and being “deported” and returned to their slave status. My mind traveled across the ocean to South Africa, to a time not so long ago when the lives of African people in South Africa were controlled by the dreaded
EIsHA MASON ts Associate Re- gional Director for the Pacific Southwest Region of AF'SC, was co- founder of Soul- force Trainings, and hosts The Morning Review every other ~ Thursday on KPFK between 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM. Reprinted from Peacework, June 2006 (www.afsc.org/peacework), this article was originally published at www.blackcommentator.com.
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Pass Laws that made it compulsory to carry papers at all times. The person without the pass was considered “illegal” and he or she could be put in detention or sent to the rural government-created “homelands” for Blacks called bant- ustans. Much like proposed guest worker programs for immigrants, the South African Pass Laws Act specified where and when African citizens could travel, and how long they could stay.
My mind returns to the present. As the immigrant rights movement is building momentum nationwide, African Americans debate about where we should stand on immigration issues —shoulder to shoulder with im- migrants, in direct opposition, or on the sidelines. I believe that if we look just under the surface, we can see that our Black and Brown fates are deeply intertwined.
As I learned from the Rights on the Line video about the phenomenon of the vigilante movement along the US- Mexico border, self-styled “Minutemen” are on “night patrol,” literally hunting the people trying to cross the border into the US. Dressed in their military garb, with flashlights, walkie-talkies and weapons, the militias freely wield the privilege and the power of race and their legal status. As I watched them rounding up frightened men and women, the hair on my arms rose. This time, too, | seemed to actually “re- member” the plight of runaway slaves, the fear and desperation they felt as they were tracked and trapped by white militias and returned to a life where their labor was exploited and their lives were not in their control.
As the Black-Brown debate
continues, I see that we have both been
sources of cheap labor. First, Africans were the slaves required to perpetuate the globalized economics of the 1700s known as the Triangle Trade (slaves, sugar, and rum). Today, Latinos are the cheap labor required for magquiladoras south of the border, international agribusiness, and jobs at the lowest rungs of the US economy. Proposals for guest worker programs only perpetuate this model of workers without rights or protection. Black and Brown people have far more in common than we often realize.
Both Black and Brown are targets of the racism used to justify unjust political, economic, and social policy. Past and present, members of these exploited and marginalized com- munities are portrayed as different from and less than other Americans. The poison of racism continues to allow those who are privileged to feel morally justified as they exploit and dehumanize people who provide “cheap labor” and simultaneously blame them for their lot in life.
Both Black and Brown share common dreams of work with dignity, a better life for our families and our children. Isn’t that why slaves escaped to the North, and why freed slaves initiated the Northern Migration? Isn’t that why people from other countries risk their lives to reach the US today? We all desire the opportunity to build a life and to be respected and accepted members of the communities and country where we live.
Black and Brown are not each other’s adversaries; we are natural allies. The economic and political forces that doomed millions of Africans to serv- itude and later to second-class
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citizenship are the same forces responsible for unsustainable economic conditions in many foreign countries and the current migration of people to the US. They are the same forces responsible for conflict over jobs, wages, and economic opportunity in the US, a conflict that “results” in racism, discrimination, and _ repressive legislation.
Because issues of labor, im- migration, and race are deeply en- meshed, we should be working to- gether toward solutions that include all of us. We must protect the rights and
dignity of individuals who have come to the US to work: raise labor standards and wages on both sides of the border through reform of international trade policy; protect local economies every- where, rather than allow them to be overwhelmed by trade agreements favoring international corporations; and guarantee that every US worker has the right and the protection to form a labor union. We must organize!
The border patrol officer is gone. Boarding the train in San Diego, I remember the words of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.: “We are caught in
an escapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Black faces...brown faces... human faces.... My heart feels what my mind already knows. The people from across the border are not the problem. A system of economic exploitation and racism is the problem. Rather than believing our interests are in conflict, Black and Brown must stand 1n unity and work together to transform this system. There is ultimately one movement—the movement for human dignity and opportunity —and rani part on it es
Intermountain Yearly Meeting Epistles and Minutes
INTERMOUNTAIN YEARLY MEETING EPISTLE 2006
‘I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.” —George Fox
Dear Friends Everywhere,
As the Friends of Intermountain Yearly Meeting gathered June 14 through 18, 2006, the ocean of darkness was at high tide. Our country continued to be mired in the war in Iraq, our military was accused of torture; genocide raged in Darfur; and we mourned the loss of Quaker peace activist Tom Fox. Thousands of people have died in the desert while crossing our militarized southern border. One truth had become clear: we have inflicted possibly irreversible damage on our earth.
But the ocean of love was rising to meet the ocean of darkness. For Quakers in the Southwestern US, this is a time of building and growth, spiritual renewal and acting on our convictions.
It is a time, as our 2006 yearly meeting theme instructed us, to feel “The Force of Truth and the Power of Love.”
As the 320 Quakers who met here attended interest groups issues such war, torture, border concerns and
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environmental crisis, we were heartened by the almost startlingly positive message of our keynote speaker, Joe Volk of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL).
Friend Volk reminded us that truth and love have a power of their own that, over time, always prevails. He named our recent victories in Congress: progress on immigration reform; nuclear weapons reduction; and legislation barring permanent bases in Iraq.
FCNUs Civil War-era office building in Washington, DC, lovingly restored with donations from Quakers across the country, stands as testimony to American Quakers’ awakening commitment to the environment. It was built with the “greenest possible” technology and is attracting much interest on Capitol Hill.
A growing number of yearly meetings are affiliating with Quaker Earthcare Witness. Ruah Swannerfelt and Louis Cox of that organization came to IMYM to help us understand the spiritual foundations of our caring for the earth and to encourage our participation in QEW.
Here at our own beloved meeting place, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, the physical landscape is changing. Two new housing units, a retreat center and a
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‘L. tor: Judy Ray (recording clerk), Rebecca Henderson ‘
and Cynthia Smith (co-clerks)
worship center are going up concurrent with our worship sharing.
We have seen growth in our monetary resources as well, and both the meeting and our IMYM-American Friends Service Committee Joint Service Project are on solid financial footing. The JSP (Joint Service Project) logged its most service projects ever, including a several-week stint rebuilding homes ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
With growth, of course, come growing pains, and some meetings struggled to accommodate the influx of new attenders and new ideas. “Without conflict, there can be no diversity,” reported Pima (AZ) Monthly Meeting, and that held true with our yearly meeting as well. We addressed a conflict regarding our support of the Joint Service Project, which brought us growth and greater understanding. Out of this discussion came expressions of concern and suggestions for improvement as well as heartfelt support for the JSP. How do we
act on our spiritual convictions about
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service while providing a respectful and loving environment for both volunteers and the community being served?
Unity came easily on a minute urging our government to ban all further research and development of nuclear weapons. Also approved was a minute committing IMYM'’s spiritual and financial support to an FCNL staff position covering immigration and border concerns. There is much energy regarding continued discussion of the yearly meeting’s involvement in this complex and urgent issue.
Two long-term projects came to fruition. IMYM has its very own Faith and Practice, thanks to the efforts of a dedicated committee, some of whom have been involved in this task since 1993. It will be seasoned among the monthly meetings in the year to come. And the trusty Guide to Operations has been updated and posted on our website, imym.org, for easy access. Look for more and more useful material on our evolving website.
Friends approved the formation of a committee and financial support toward the adoption of the Spiritual Formation Program in our yearly meeting.
Individually, many Friends have experienced growth and building in their own lives. One Friend, Joanne Cowan of Boulder (CO) Monthly Meeting, recently completed a 60-day sentence in federal prison for going under the fence (trespassing) at the School of the Americas to protest our government’s teaching of torture.
As always, yearly meeting provided a respite from the demands of daily life and the opportunity to re-evaluate our commitments, perhaps shedding those which crowd out joy. We celebrated our joyous fellowship with singing, dancing, hiking and music-making.
A turn volunteering with the children or Junior Young Friends gave several adults a reminder of just how joyful life can be. Our Senior Young Friends impressed and inspired us with their presentations on the World Gatherings of Young Friends in England and Kenya. Our Young Adult Friends are establishing
an identity within our yearly meeting and
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issuing an invitation for others to join them.
Ghost Ranch showed us all its faces this year, from sunny to stormy to a peaceful, refreshing cloud cover. For the first time anybody could remember, the famous no-see-ums were nowhere to be seen.
Here in the high desert, Ghost Ranch Manager Robert Craig reminded us, “We're a little bit vulnerable (and therefore more available) for God to work on us.” Indeed, it is when we are at our most powerless that we are most open to the force of truth and the power of love. In peace, Rebecca Henderson and Cynthia
Risa Thron-Weber
SENIOR YOUNG FRIENDS EPISTLE
[At the business session, Senior Young Friends requested from Friends gathered there a spontaneous and random offering of verbs, adverbs, nouns, and adjectives. From these, the underlined words 1n the following letter were selected, and the letter was read after these responses were inserted. |
Drawn to another year of IMYM by the force of apples and the power of friends, the SYF joined again in the beautiful Ghost Ranch, New Mexico (US). It was a sandy year starting in the early dogs and continuing at full power through the week. The gathered days walked full of lots of game singing and the occasional trusting conversation. We were truthful to find that we had 50 SYF for the early days and were able to want even closer than some chimney rocks. When the yearly love started hungrily, we commenced our universal behavior, caring intergenerational worship, twirling, and
sleeping very prickly. One night we paired up and looked into each other’s compassions for a number of centuries. This was a slowly intense experience for all fun and observers. On Friday night we went on a camp out but there was no gopher so we had no lunch. Since we had to turn in our epistle so early Saturday morning we didn’t have time to play anything else.
JUNIOR YOUNG FRIENDS EPISTLE
Dear Friends of the World, We are the Junior Young Friends of Intermountain Yearly Meeting, and we send you our greetings from our (June) 2006 gathering at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico (US). We write to tell you of the trans- formational experiences we have had this year at Ghost Ranch. We are thankful that activities which outwardly might seem to be just fun can touch our inner lives:
e We built community through low ropes and high ropes courses.
e We went canoeing and kayaking on Abiquiu Lake, and were happy to be joined on the water by a developmentally disabled child who was our age and would otherwise have been in our group.
e We participated in fun games with both the Senior Young Friends and the Children’s Yearly Meeting.
e We enjoyed building our relationships through playing fussball and table tennis while hanging out at the cantina.
e We had almost twice as many attendees in our program this year as last year, and we note that half of us arrived for the “Early Days” of the Yearly Meeting.
e During the Early Days, we enjoyed the freedom our trusting parents gave us, and we did not let them down. We enjoyed many hikes, experiencing that of God in high and low places.
e Some of us participated in the Early Days IMYM-AFSC Joint Service Project with the Tewa people in the Pojoaque
“Epistles” continued on page 14
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intermountain Yearly Meeting in Pictures
Top: Gay and Lesbian Friends: Mary Hey, Judy Catlett, Bez McCauley, Dennis Barrett, Peli Lee, and ?.
Middle left: Caz Bowman from Australia Yearly Meeting.
Middle right: “Oldest and youngest attender,” Robert Solenberger (Pima Meeting, Tucson, AZ; age ca. 90) and Sarah Feitler (Boulder, CO) with her daughter Rose, born in February 2006. Photo by Valerie Ireland.
Bottom of page: Friends Committee on Legislation letter- writing table with Sarah Medvescek in the center.
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Assisted by Nadean Mills (Durango, CO, Meeting) elementary age Friends (Maggie and Amedia Wigdon and Madison Norcross, picture below) created a puppet theater honoring Quakers whose lives testify to Quaker values. Among those
honored was Mike Gray (above), coordinator of the AFSC/ IMYM Joint Service Project for the past 15 years.
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Pueblo, and we rebuilt the gateway to the ceremonial grounds where they hold their annual gathering for Mother Earth.
e We enjoyed Alternatives to Violence Project activities each day. These helped us to work together as a community.
e Each year we have a Junior Young Friends campout, and this year we feel we have found our camping home at Padre Jim Bridge, a beautiful spot for camping about two miles from Ghost Ranch. We thank Mike Gray for taking us there and back and being with us overnight.
e We were unhappy that we were not able to light a fire during our campout. This is because of an extended drought in the Southwest (US). We are all concerned about climate change, but we enjoyed the fact that no bugs bothered us this year.
e While sitting around the empty fire ring at the campout writing our epistle, we were visited by three donkeys in the dark. They ate our shortbread, which made for much excitement and gave some
of us a laugh.
e We look forward to meeting with Joe Volk (Executive Director of FCNL) and will provide an addition to the epistle after we do.
During this year at Ghost Ranch, we were able to have fun and work through our problems using Quaker methods. While we were working on the JYF skit, the group got into a disagreement. We fought, and some of us got emotional to the point they had to leave. The remaining individuals went into worship. After adult leadership left to care for the others who had gone, we discussed what happened and we understood each other. The upset people came back, and we acknowledged our part in the dispute and accepted responsibility for our actions. After all we went through, we ended with a Quakerly spirit and a deeper friendship in our hearts.
We look forward to next year and hope it is as enlightening as this year, and we anticipate growing in the year to come. O
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CHILDREN’S YEARLY MEETING EPISTLE
Dear around-the-world Friends, Hello from Children’s Yearly Meeting at Intermountain Yearly Meeting. We are at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico an oasis in a high, hot and windy desert. Thank God for the swimming pool. We have tons of fun here. Some of the things we've done are: kickball, volleyball, swimming, and “groundies” (a game like tag). We went to the Ghost Ranch museum where we learned about dinosaurs and early settlers, and did tin work. We learned that celophysis, a dinosaur discovered here, was the first dinosaur found in New Mexico. We have learned a lot and enjoyed being together. We'll write again next year. Till then, IMYM rocks!
—Miulagre Coates, Megan Richardson, Keegan Matney
Minutes Approved by Intermountain Yearly Meeting
MINUTE ON BORDER CONCERNS AND FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION FROM GILa (NM) FRIENDS MEETING
In an era of globalization, when goods and capital flow freely across national boundaries, often the movement of human beings is tragically exploitative. Immigrants across the globe risk their lives and family ties for low-paying jobs in foreign countries.
Nowhere are the unresolved issues of immigration more costly than on the border between the United States and Mexico. Since 1995, more than 2600 people have died while trying to cross the deserts of America’s southwestern states. The annual death toll is rising.
The causes of increasing immigration are complex, but for Friends the call to witness for humanitarian justice is clear. At a time when there is pending legislation in Congress on immigration reform, the Friends Committee on National Legislation is prepared to staff
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a position solely devoted to border and immigration issues.
FCNL seeks expressions of commitment from Yearly Meetings in our region to sustain this work. Recognizing the longstanding involvement of Friends in movements such as the Underground Railroad and the Sanctuary Movement, Intermountain Yearly Meeting commits its spiritual and financial support to the FCNL in its new work on economic justice and immigration.
CALL FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT FROM ALBUQUERQUE (NM) MONTHLY MEETING
We call upon our elected leaders to:
* Stop the design and manufacture of all nuclear weapons, including plutonium bomb cores (“pits”) at Los Alamos and elsewhere.
¢ Dismantle our arsenal in concert with other nuclear powers, pursuant to Article VI of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty. As the most powerful nation on earth, the U.S. must take the first steps in this process.
* Halt disposal of nuclear waste at Los Alamos, as thousands of citizens and dozens of environmental organizations have already requested.
MINUTE FOR A PILOT SPIRITUAL FORMATION PROGRAM
The Yearly Meeting asks the Spiritual Formation Group to serve as an ad hoc yearly meeting committee to develop and implement a pilot spiritual formation program over the coming two years. This program will seek to feed the spiritual hunger of individuals, meetings and worship groups, increase knowledge of and identification with Quaker experience in the wider world, and support inter-visitation among our various meeting and worship groups.
The Group will report to the Executive Committee and annual sessions. The membership will develop according to interest and need. The Group will choose its own clerk.
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Prisoner of conscience speaks out on war, torture, and
“unexpected grace”
by Joanne N. Cowan Boulder (CO) Meeting
| attended IMYM this year less than a week after my release from Federal Prison for a nonviolent act of civil disobedience, protesting the existence of the notorious School of the Americas (SOA) and I was asked to write about my experience.
I'm beginning with what is most important: not what J did, but about what you can do to oppose the SOA. First, if you can, go to www.soaw.org to learn (more) about the School of the Americas (renamed in 2001 Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), about School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), and the brave work of former Maryknoll priest Roy Bourgeois and hundreds of others.
This year there will be another demonstration and memorial vigil outside the gates of Fort Benning (Columbus, GA, home of the SOA) on the weekend of November 17-19 and likely there will be more priests, nuns, Quakers, and other human rights defenders called to oppose the shameful existence of the SOA.
Last November 20, along with 36 others, I crawled under a fence to sit in a prayer circle on the grounds of Fort Benning, as nonviolent witness against the teaching and exporting of torture techniques from a facility existing for decades, paid for by our taxes, and from which graduates go forth and commit horrific acts of violence. We were arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespass, tried and convicted in January,
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Joanne N. Cowan
2006, and sentenced collectively to over nine years in Federal Prison. I received a sixty day sentence and was released June 7.
I feel honored to have joined the nonviolent witness against the SOA that in the last sixteen years has brought 215 individuals into prison, incredibly serving collectively over ninety-nine years, either in prison or on probation. I didn’t act impulsively or abruptly. The call for me began with hearing IMYM’s plenary talk in 2005 given by Jane Orion Smith, entitled “Shaking the Found- ations: A Call to Prophesy.” I was sup- ported in my leading first by a Clearness Committee that faithfully tested this call (which later morphed into a Continuing Concern Committee), held tenderly throughout by the Boulder Meeting of Friends, It was also supported by the competent and diligent attention of the people at School of the Americas Watch, founded 16 years ago by Father Roy, with the goal of closing the SOA whose purpose
is never to forget the murders and
atrocities committed by graduates of the School against Archbishop Oscar Romero, Jesuit priests, Maryknoll nuns and countless innocent civilians.
lvexperienced’ an unexpected opportunity of grace during my imprisonment,:where I could learn from and listen to the compelling and sad stories of many women, incarcerated for crimes that frequently arose from lives burdened by sexual abuse, racism, classism, who lack the opport-unities privilege avails. I now retain the chance of knowing these women better as we correspond.
Incarceration immersed me in a world of paternalistic denial of privilege, pervasive control, and mandated slave- wage labor. However, at the same time I participated in and learned about a flourishing “inside” culture of creativity and individualization. The frank open- ness from the women I met (from many walks of life and colors) to receive the love and compassion | brought with me into the prison enabled me to reach new personal understandings of generosity and mindful caring. In certain ways, it was a blessing I completed, not solely a sentence.
My activism against the SOA sprang from opposition to this illegal, immoral war we continue to allow. We must all, always, engage the struggle for peace in whatever ways we find. My life circumstances allowed me to under- take this prison journey, which would have been impossible without the support of many F(f)riends. I learned something I hope to never forget: when we live from our hearts, the Divine is always with us. We can never know what awaits us in anything we choose to do. O
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Epistle on Global Warming
_—” presented at the Zopay we Friends General Conference
Gathering in Tacoma, WA*
THE EARIM IS GROWING HOLTERE ee result of choices we have made. The signs are all around us in rising yearly average temperatures, melting glaciers, expanding deserts, increasing rates of extinctions, and weather extremes. There is unity within the scientific community that this is serious, that it is caused by human activity, and that the consequences of a failure to address global warming will be catastrophic.
We have a small window of opportunity. Over the course of the next nine years, if humanity fails to significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions, the result is likely to be a sea level rise of 10 to 13 feet per century until the level stabilizes at 80 feet above today’s level. Loss of productivity in ecosystems and crops worldwide will also occur, resulting in mass starvation.
We appeal to all Friends to make this concern a priority in our families, communities, and meetings, and to commit ourselves to learn more about this urgent planetary crisis, so that each of us may discern further actions that will be required of us.
Some actions that we can recommend at this time include:
* Reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions by 10% in the coming year by cutting driving, flying, and residential energy use. Walk and bicycle more, use mass transit and fluorescent light bulbs.
¢ When we have cut our own use of fossil fuel, labor with others to help them do the same.
* Labor with our legislators and if that doesn’t work, replace them.
We urge Friends as individuals and as meetings to engage the conversation and to stay with it. Meetings should institute quarterly threshing sessions to discern how we are led corporately to act.
“This epistle is from the participants in Karen Streets workshop, “Changing Climate, Changing Selves” which took place at the Western Gathering of Friends General Conference. It 1s not an official statement of FGC.
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Some of the changes that concern us deeply we can not escape. But others we can escape if we act responsibly now and into the future. The consequences of not acting are unthinkable for us, our children, and our grandchildren.
Friends, we urge you to attend to our call. For the love of everything you hold most dear, please take up this concern now and carry it back to your meeting.
Many references are available on this topic such as www.climatecrisis.org, www.pathsoflight.us/musing, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found at www.unep.ch/ ipcc/. This document can be found on www.LeavesofGrass.org.
Karen Street's comments on the Epistle
KAREN STREET, @ concerned environmentalist from Berkeley (CA) Meeting led the workshop which inspired the above epistle. She posted the following comments in her blog (http://pathsoflight.us/musing/index. php). Tf you would like to respond to the epistle or to Karen’s comments, please reply to Friends Bulletin at friendsbulletin@aol.com or directly to her blog.
The nine-year window of opportunity mentioned comes from the analysis of climatologists and policy people. In order to keep cumulative temperature increase below 2 C, we must do the following:
Step 1: Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2015 to 2005 levels, or perhaps 10% lower than 2005 levels, even as population and per capita consumption continue to increase. Without success in step 1, there is no step 2 that will work.
Step 2: Reduce GHG emissions 60% or 60%+ or 60%++ by 2050 or earlier. Even as population and per capita consumption continue to increase.
Step 3: Zero out carbon dioxide emissions to protect the oceans, which are acidifying as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The writers of the epistle wanted to keep it short, and so em- phasized only the first timeline; many Friends and many in the public
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“If mere thousands of Easter Islanders with only stone tools and their own muscle power sufficed to destroy their society, how can billions of people with metal tools and machine power fail to do worse? But there is one crucial difference. The Easter Islanders had no books and no histories of other doomed societies. Unlike the Easter Islanders, we have histories of the past—information that can save us. My main hope for my sons’ generation 1s that we may now choose to learn from the fates of societies like Easters.”—Jared Diamond, “Easter Island’ End,” Discovery Magazine, August 1995.
believe that we have less to do and longer to do it in.
Someone responded to my blog noting that people deserve acknowledgment for changes already made. (Brief pause to consider these changes, whether they were easy or hard, but to take credit for either.)
However, I have cut my own emissions and see clear means of cutting my emissions by 10% or more. Perhaps others do as well. I would think that most Americans, including those who emit less than the American average, could reduce our GHG emissions 10% without substantial harm or inconvenience.
I would be surprised to learn that changing policy is considered a third option. As I understand it, all need to be done simultaneously and immediately.
Al Gore tells us in his film, 4n Inconvenient Truth to labor with our legislators, and if that doesn’t work, replace them. To get some idea where your Senator is on climate change, see http:// www.climatenetwork.org/uscanweb/csadocs/mlvote.pdf on the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act. If your Senator voted against it, they may have justifications. They have no excuse.
What is it that we want our national legislators to do?
* Carbon cap and trade.
* Double fuel economy for cars and light trucks and raise fuel prices so that we don’t increase driving as driving costs drop.
- Tax our own energy use to pay the developing world’s cost of
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reducing GHG emissions.
Carbon cap and trade, or GHG cap and trade, is the setting of caps on the amount of carbon dioxide/GHG that can be emitted in a country or economic sector such as electric power production, and then allowing the trading of permits so that industry finds the cheapest ways to reduce carbon/ GHG emissions.
US per capita GDP is 30 times that in China, and our share of the cumulative emissions to date is much greater than China’s, even though their population is greater. Who should pay?
Some Republicans are uncertain of the science, which if you avoid reading the science, is pretty easy. Some Democrats are more interested in making sure that solutions don’t include nuclear power, but there is no solution without nuclear power. Whatever their justifications, they have no excuses — we must reduce GHG emissions to 2005 levels, or lower, by 2015, even as population and third world emissions increase. And then cut much more rapidly and radically by 2050. And then zero out carbon emissions.
Some legislators argue that we cannot afford these policies. John Holdren says that these extra economic burdens mean that we will not reach 2050 levels of prosperity until 2051 or 2052. What he does not say, but implies, is that without taking on these economic burdens to reduce the impact of climate change, we may never reach 2050 levels of prosperity.
What else can national legislators do? Require that state policy—building codes,where people are allowed to live, water policy, ete—include adaptation to climate change. Adaptation will be required in the lifetime of buildings built today. Does it really make sense to resettle the coasts in Florida and Louisiana?
In some countries, fuel taxes are a significant source of revenue. Our legislators should at least request studies on the economic effects of phasing in high fuel taxes (on airplane fuel as well). Besides reducing other new taxes planned for January 2009, high fuel taxes lower the price per barrel paid to oil producers (European countries pay less for their oil than we do). High fuel prices provide stability, so that price increases due to political insecurity don’t have the same shock value, because prices start out high. High fuel taxes will be part of any carbon cap and trade program, but they can also be part of a more rational economic policy.
I hope to post on laboring with California legislators soon. Rule of thumb: support all of the new legislation being proposed to implement recommendations of the Climate Action Team. 0
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BILL AND GENIE DURLAND HONORED BY AFSC AND AT INTERMOUNTAIN YEARLY MEETING
ongtime Quakers, Bill and Genie Durland have
been legends in the non-violent struggle for
justice and peace both in Colorado and around the world for 35 years.
An attorney and professor, Bill brought four cases on war tax resistance to the US Supreme Court in the 1980s. He has also served as an expert witness on constitutional and international law in a number of civil disobedience trials of peace activists. Together, the Durlands founded and operated the National Center on Law and Pacifism from 1977 to 1989. During that time, they wrote several manuals and a bi-monthly journal on war tax resistance and civil disobedience.
In 1985, the Durlands lived in the Palestinian
Occupied Territories for six months. They returned to Palestine in 2001, 2002, and 2004 as members of Christian Peacemaker Team delegations and traveled with CPT to Iraq over the Christmas and New Years’ holidays, 2002-2003, as the war loomed. Bill has written a book, Immoral Wars, Illegal Laws about the legal and theological roots of the Palestinian- Israeli conflict. Recently Bill defended Amy Bartell in Colorado Springs, the wife of a US Army Conscientious Objector. Well known to peace activists and CPTers in Colorado, one CPTer reported that he keeps Bill’s Conscience and the Law: A Handbook on Civil Disobedience for the Conscientiously Obedient handy at all times. Bill is currently the clerk of the Colorado Springs Friends Meeting and has served on AFSC’s Central Regional Executive Committee.
Genie has recently published “Zo Live in the Peace: A Report from Jerusalem” and Bill has been writing on Christian Zionism as it relates to the Palestine-Israeli conflict. In an article in the Denver Post about their 2002 trip to Iraq, Genie said, “We're pacifists by nature, dedicated to violence reduction at a very basic, person-to-person level.” I love my country, and it breaks my heart that we are taking this kind of arrogant police country to the whole world’ attitude, and I think we just need to stand up and witness against that.” She quoted their old friend, Daniel Berrigan, “I can't not do it,” going on to say, “And there’s something about that double
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negative that really drives home the point when you feel strongly about something.”
If you Google Bill and Genie Durland, you will come up with thousands of entries. It makes fascinating reading, but, more importantly, the Goog/e trail documents two intertwined lifetimes of solid justice and peace activism. We can count on Bill and Genie to be in the forefront of the struggle, and we know that they “can’t not do it.” Thank you for your witness. 0
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round our house, some of the biggest pinyon and juniper trees I’ve ever seen offer us a little shelter from the wind and weather that often blows
in hard from the southwest. Nearby, a little to our south, a line of aspens that
follows Crestone Creek down the -mountain adds to our sense of enclosure
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' tanagers during the warmer months, as well as a colony of turkey vultures. In the mornings, the vultures leave
their nearby roost, drifting down along ' the line of aspens then cottonwoods that
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Sangres, circling by overhead and spiraling down to their roost in the aspens along Crestone Creek, about a quarter of a mile to our south. The arroyo they often seem to follow to and from their roost runs by our house. In their honor, we call it Vulture Gulch.
One morning, I entice Rosalea into the pack with the prospect of a visit to the vulture roost down the road. It is early enough in the morning that few of them have left. As we follow the trail along the creek into a little clearing, we see them overhead, at least twenty vultures, several of them facing toward the sun, their wings outspread and gathering sunlight.
“Dont disturb them, Papa,” Rosalea says, after a minute or two looking up at them in that clearing. We keep walking. Down the trail, several vultures fly overhead. “Where do you think they’re going?” I ask Rosalea.
The Vulture Church...
“They're going to school church,” she says.
“Where’s that?”
“It’s way out there,” she says, pointing out over the valley. “And it’s where your dreams go when you close
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Above: Roslea and her father Peter Ander- son. Thts essay originally appeared in the book First Church of the Higher Eleva- tions (ghostdancepress.org). Used with per-
mission of author.
Intermountain Yearly Meeting accepts a draft of its first Faith and Practice!
Quakers do not have a creed, but each Yearly Meeting has a book of guidelines and theological statements called Faith and Practice. After being in existence 31 years, Intermountain Yearly Meeting accepted a completed draft of its first Faith and Practice, which has been 13 years in the making (for an online version, see http:// home.earthlink.net/~imym-faith-and-practice/). Each monthly meeting received between ten and fifteen copies, of which one was unbound, allowing for additional copies to be produced as needed. From June 2006 to June 2007, meetings, individuals, and worship groups are encouraged to read and use this book of Faith and Practice, study it, and determine how it speaks to them. With the exception of errors in fact, formatting, spelling, and so on, the Faith and Practice Committee asks that this period be one of “silent” reflective seasoning, allowing adequate time before sending responses to the committee. During this time, the work of the committee will be to encourage active seasoning. Meetings without committee members are encouraged to appoint someone to lead this activity.
From June 2007 to January 2008, responses, suggestions, and concerns from the Yearly Meeting community will be gathered, considered, and incorporated into the draft by the Faith and Practice Committee. Depending upon the extent of revision needed, we
hope to have a published book available by Yearly Meeting 2008.
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MEMORIAL MINUTES
RONALD LESTER Mock
Ronald Lester Mock was born in Oakland (CA) on May 29, 1927, the only son of Francis “Frank” Bloodgood Mock and Jean “Major” Lillian Desoto. His father was the only son of a Jewish family living in the Los Angeles area; his mother’s heritage is shrouded in mystery.
Ron grew up during the Depression, and his family moved several times around northern California as his mother sought nursing jobs to support them. He started school at Mission Dolores in San Francisco and spent several unhappy years boarding at St. Vincent’s boys’ school and orphanage in San Rafael while his parents separated. He attended high school in Los Angeles and graduated from Polytechnic in 1944. After high school, he worked as a pipe fitter in the shipyards. His goal was to be a writer; however, as advised by his mentors at the shipyard, he later went to college to prepare for a white collar job.
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Ron enlisted in the Navy during World War II and was discharged as a Seaman First Class in July, 1946. He started college at UCLA in pre-optometry, a curriculum that did not inspire him. In 1948, he married Catherine Ann Dorothy on his twenty-first birthday. They traveled to France, where Ron studied French at Universite de Grenoble and then worked for the US Embassy in Paris. After two years in France, Ron and Catherine relocated to the Bay Area, where he completed his BA at UC Berkeley, having found psychology, a major for which he was highly suited. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was accepted into Berkeley’s doctoral program, finishing his course work and internships before his life began falling apart.
His marriage ended after seven years and he struggled with depression. During this time, his father had remarried, which resulted in his only sibling, Susan Moran, twenty-eight years Ron’s junior.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Ron worked for California’s Department of Mental Hygiene in Sacramento. He returned to UC Berkeley in 1962, where
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he met Kathleen Ranlett. They married later that year.
Ron was disturbed about the war in Vietnam, and one of his professors suggested Quakers as a group that knew about working for peace. As he was living just a few blocks from the Berkeley Friends Meeting, Ron got acquainted with Quakers and became a regular attender. He has been a member of Berkeley Monthly Meeting since 1970.
Ron became involved with the Free Speech Movement in 1964 and participated in the FSM sit-in on December 3, 1964. He was one of the oldest protesters to get arrested. He was proud of his arrest, seeing it as a way of honoring his convictions. Following an upbeat period for both the campus and himself, he slipped again into a deep depression.
After a couple of years of being “hung up on his thesis,” he got back on his feet and completed both his doctorate in clinical psychology and postdoctoral training with children. He liked being called “Doc Mock”. He was gifted with an ability to understand the trials and
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tribulations of others. He worked in Alameda County child and family clinics and described his work to his daughter as “being a grumper doc,” that is, someone you talked to when you were grumpy. Humor was one of his gifts. He wrote several screenplays and humorous essays. Shortly before his death, he completed a piece about life in Salem Lutheran Home, his residence for the two years prior to his death. As a member of Berkeley Meeting, he was long an active participant in the vigil protesting the University’s involvement in weapons research. He served several terms on the Committee for Marriage and Family Ties. He was moved by the work done by physicians in the Heart-to-Heart Program and recently supported the Adopt-a-Minefield Program. Ronald Lester Mock, age 78, died August 19, 2005 after being struck by an elevator door. His body went through a _ series of crises that prevented an operation
on his broken hip, and he succumbed to _ pneumonia and heart failure nine days after the accident.
He leaves behind his sister, Susan
~ Moran, his wife, Kathleen Ranlett Mock, his daughter Denise Francesca Mock and son-in-law Sean Vitali, as well as many
others whose lives he touched. He is buried in a plot he picked at Sunset View Cemetery, within walking distance from his home in Kensington.
Ronald never lost his spirit and unique sense of humor, which a Friend described recently as “sardonic whimsy.” He wrote his epitaph many years before | his death. It reads: “He had bad | protoplasm, but he done his best.” O
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Mary ANNIN SEITZ
Mary Annin Seitz, 89, on December 13, 2005, in Santa Rosa, CA. Mary was | born on August 30, 1916 to Mary _ Carpenter Gallagher and Robert Edwards ' Annin, Jr. Her father graduated from _ Princeton College in 1909, managed the family farm in Berkshire County, MA, ' then moved to Boston to become assistant | to the Secretary of Agriculture and to attend law school at night. He suffered _ from depression and committed suicide in 1921. Mary’s mother moved with her two children, Mary and Robert Edwards
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Annin, III (called Tertius) to East Greenwich, RI to be with family, and went to work as a teacher. She spent many years at Lincoln School, a Friends school in Providence, RI, from which Mary Seitz graduated in 1934.
Mary went on to graduate from Smith College in Northampton, MA, where she began many friendships that continued throughout her life. When she graduated in 1938, she began by selling books door to door, and also worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. When Richard Seitz hired her as an interviewer for a market research project in Providence, RI, he encouraged her to pursue her career in New York. They were married in 1944, and raised two children, Robert Edwards Seitz (Ted) and Sarah Ann Seitz (Sally). Their loving partnership ended which Richard died in 1991.
The end of World War II brought the death of Mary’s younger brother, Tertius, a lieutenant in the army. Both Mary and her mother felt that there must be a way to end all war.
Mary will be remembered as an enthusiastic volunteer in many arenas, including a co-op preschool, the local PTA, Girl Scouts, the civil rights and anti- war movements, and as an advocate for the homeless and low cost housing. During the 1960s and 70s, she led a group of boys from Harlem on recreational and cultural activities, and was arrested for standing in front of the White House to protest the Vietnam War. In her later years, Mary bought her clothing from thrift stores to make donations to many non-profit organizations.
An avid reader and amateur musician, Mary played piano and flute, encouraging her family and friends to gather around her piano for singing. An annual “Messiah” sing-along was held at her home for years until the cast of musicians grew so large that it had to move to the Friends meeting house. A Quaker for 50 years, Mary attended meeting at Scarsdale, NY, Wilton, CT, and South Berkshire, MA until she moved to Friends House in 1993 and joined Redwood Forest Meeting (Santa Rosa CA).
Mary leaves behind son and daughter- in-law Ted and Ann Seitz of Hayward, CA, and daughter and son-in-law, Sally Seitz and Paul Freitas of Santa Rosa, CA.
She will be missed by grandchildren Paige Seitz-Laurence, Alexander Seitz, Kathryn Freitas, Hannah Freitas, and Lia Freitas, as well as by family members on the East
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LORRAINE FRANCES PRUETT “PRU” PEMBERTON
Pru Pemberton left this life at age 84, having lived her values concerning her spiritual life, her love of family and friends, and her beliefs regarding social-justice needs. She had been ill for a little over a month with pneumonia. Unable to regain her strength, she died quietly at home, surrounded by her family, expressing both her joy in the life she had lived, and her feeling of peace about her impending death.
Pru was born in Rochester, MN, and attended the Methodist church there. When she was at Oberlin College, she attended her first unprogrammed Friends’ meeting. She related that when it was over, she and her friend burst out of the Meeting, ready to explode: “Neither of us had ever been silent for an hour before!”
Upon graduating from Oberlin in 1944, she earned masters degrees in Political and Social Science from the New School of Social Research in 1975, and in Transpersonal Counseling from John F. Kennedy University in 1984.
Asa young mother in Minnesota, Pru volunteered with the American Friends Service foreign exchange student program, offering her home to high school-age students from around the world. In the 1960s she became one of the first employees of the New York Urban Coalition.
A lifelong activist and community organizer, in her later years Pru played leadership roles in such diverse organizations as the Larkin Street (San Francisco) Youth Center, the Plymouth Church of Oakland, CA the Older Women’s League, Earth Elders, The Russian River Celebration, and Apple Seed Friends Meeting of Sebastopol, CA.
Pru loved to learn and to travel, and in 1997 fulfilled a life-long dream when she visited China and the Silk Road with Oberlin College friends. Pru freely shared her sense of humor, her joy of learning and her large store of knowledge with
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community groups to which she belonged, as well as during book discussions, with her friends and family, and with Apple Seed Friends’ Meeting.
She wrote an essay: “Thoughts on Turning Eighty” where she mused: “I have never been rich but neither have I ever been without food, shelter, or protection from the cold...not having too much requires evaluation and the setting of priorities—a good for determining one’s values. I feel frustrated when I consider how hard and long I have worked to make the world a better place in which to live. From now on I am going
exercise
to focus my efforts on one or a few people at a time. I’m going to leave the larger battles for the younger generation... Things that seemed like hardships or major blows, in retrospect, have made me stronger and freed me to grow in my own way...Looking back, I feel I have had a good life.”
Pru was a soft and gentle person, and very wise. We miss her. 0
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Furthermore, the Yearly Meeting allocates for the coming year an allowance of $1,000 so that the Group can meet those program expenses (including communication, printed materials, and travel) that cannot be met by the participating meetings and worship groups.
Present membership of the Spiritual Formation Group:
Andy Bardwell (Mountain View, CA), Kitty Ufford-Chase (Pima, AZ), Wyn Lewts (Santa Fe, NM), Bruce Thron-Weber (Mountain View, CA), Charlene Weir (Salt Lake, UT).
MINUTE OF APPRECIATION
Ministry and Council wishes to express deep gratitude to Claire Leonard for her many years of service in the development of a Faith and Practice for this Yearly Meeting. Involved from the earliest beginnings of this Committee, Claire accepted the responsibility of being our clerk and has served in that capacity for the past nine years. During these years, she has shepherded us through the processes of discernment, decision-making, and writing.... Whenever challenges of varying
ee
magnitude have presented themselves, Claire has consistently led us through these periods with grace, patience and a strength born of wisdom.
Other Minutes Considered
Other minutes considered, but not approved during this season:
¢ Whether or not to affliliate with Friends General Conference.
¢ Whether or not to affliate with Quaker Earth Care Witness.
These concerns will be held over for seasoning and future consideration.
CALENDAR ITEMS
Sep 22-24: NURTURING VOCAL MINIsTRY. Deepening meetings for worship through spoken and silent ministry. Gordon Bishop and Rachel Findley. Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA.
Oct 6-8: Willamette Quarterly at Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp, 53 miles from Portland. The theme: “Quakerism and the Mystical Roots of Faith.”
Sep 29-OcT 1:THE ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE ProGRAM. The Basic Training. PYM AVP Committee. Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA.
Oct 20-22: Ways To LovE Your “ENEMIES.” Practical ways of seeing God in all and reaching out to your “enemies.” John Helding. Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA.
Nov 3-5: A SouL’s TESTAMENT, WRITING A PERSONAL SPIRITUAL MEMOIR. Eve Forrest. Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA.
Nov 17 - 19: Goopngss. Exploring that sense of goodness at our core, learning energy work, and laughing. John Calvi. Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA.
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“HOLDING EARTH IN THE LIGHT” RETREAT SEP 29-Ocrt 1, 2006
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