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Equality, Earth Day and the power of nuance
Launched in the US in 1970, Earth Day exists to broaden, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Early initiatives raised public awareness about the inextricable links between pollution and public health and resulted in significant new legislation. Education and action on recycling, global warming, sustainable green economies, and carbon footprints followed.
Equality, Earth Day and The Power of Nuance
Quakers in Britain reject inhumane and divisive new asylum restrictions
We are called to love our neighbour. Instead, the Home Secretary has announced further harsh restrictions on the right to sanctuary in the UK.
Quakers in Britain reject inhumane and divisive new asylum restrictions
Stop tinkering with tax rates and offer real reform to address poverty, charities tell Government
As the Government announces a 2p cut in national insurance in its 2024 budget, Quakers have joined 90 other organisations in calling for real tax reform.
Stop tinkering with tax rates and offer real reform to address poverty, charities tell Government
Quaker Year of Climate Learning empowers environmental action
Quakers in Britain's year of exploring faith and climate justice has given participants a comprehensive grounding, fostering avenues for collective action.
Quaker Year of Climate Learning empowers environmental action
Quakers discuss reparations and restorative justice with Jamaican Christians
Jamaican church leaders visited Friends House in Euston this week to discuss reparations for the transatlantic slave trade with Quakers.
Quakers discuss reparations and restorative justice with Jamaican Christians
Coalition of Quakers and others win major campaigning award
Quakers in Britain are delighted to have won a major campaigning award alongside other organisations for their work as part of the Police Bill Alliance.
Coalition of Quakers and others win major campaigning award
Reparations: addressing harm and restoring right relationships
For Friends, can the issue of reparations become a spark, energising, and resourcing all the efforts towards the world we desperately want? Is that the hope that we got a glimmering of in Yearly Meeting 2022? Then, we acknowledged some bitter truths, some unwelcome facts, but I think that when we put our truths together in a space of love and grace, it can be a relief, it can be freeing, and it can propel us forward. This is because, between us, we know we can do something about it.
Reparations: addressing harm and restoring right relationships
And Still We Rise: building collective action in the face of multiple crises
'And Still We Rise' brought together almost 1000 people and 100 speakers from 25 different countries around the world. It was the latest event in a long tradition of hosting movements for social justice at Friends House. A tradition of movement generosity (i.e. thinking about how those with space and resources can share what they have with movements to build a peaceful and sustainable world) which Quakers in Britain is committed to practising.
And Still We Rise: building collective action in the face of multiple crises
Pandemic exacerbates inequalities
Quakers in Britain have joined more than 30 other organisations in calling for a green and just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quakers join call for a green and just recovery from pandemic
How we can help prevent tragedies like Grenfell
"Action that aims merely to alleviate the worst effects of inequality is not enough. As we wrestle with the implications of our testimony to equality, Quakers feel called to act more radically to tackle the underlying causes. This calling requires spiritual struggle and real practical change." – Meeting for Sufferings, April 2014
How we can help prevent tragedies like Grenfell