A Conversation about Peace Efforts in Afghanistan July 17th at 8:00 pm Please join the South Carolina Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) AdvocacyTeam as we talk about peace efforts in Afghanistan with peace activists Sherri Maurin and NaserLessani. In addition to discussing past and current peace efforts, we will also discuss FCNLadvocacy and how…
Category: Peace and Justice
Actions and Issues related to peace and justice.
FCNL Statement on Peace Testimony and the Ukraine
Quakers are a people who follow after peace, love and unity. Our peace testimony is ourwitness to the Truth as we experience it.Our testimony manifests as a cumulative set of actions, continually tested and added to overcenturies. These actions are diverse in form, but have been broadly united by: Refusal to kill, Relief of suffering,…
Cranes for Our Future
This weekend will mark 77 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Starting this Friday, we hope you will join the Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, as well as a broad coalition of institutions and individuals, in demonstrating growing public support for a world without nuclear weapons – by sharing a paper crane on…
Quaker Minute June 5, 2022
As South Carolinians, we feel a special responsibility to speak out against theproduction of plutonium pits and Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods (TPBARs)in our state. Plutonium pits would be produced at Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken,South Carolina, and TPBARs are currently produced at Wesdyne in the Westinghousefacility near Columbia, South Carolina. The plutonium pits…
In response to multiple mass shootings in 2022
Our country continues to be devastated by mass shootings. The Gun Violence Archive showsthat the number of all gun violence deaths is rising with each passing year, with 692 individualskilled in mass shootings in 2021. The Center for Disease Control and National Institutes ofHealth report over 45,000 deaths due to gun violence in 2020. The…
GHANA DELEGATION
Columbia World Affairs Council is hosting the delegation’s visit, including an “AnniversaryBall.” https://www.columbiaworldaffairs.org/sister-cities.html A delegation from one of Columbia’s Sister Cities, Accra, Ghana, will be in town May 12th,2022. The world’s tallest peace pole is just outside Accra, on the campus of the KwameNkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_pole) Arrangements have been made for…
Worship Sharing on the Peace Testimony
On the 16th, 85 Friends from states across the country gathered for a two-hour long meeting that saw many meaningful messages rise out of the silence. Both prior to and after that session, Wayne Finegar from Quaker House heard from people who had been unable to participate due to conflicting schedules or wished to continue…
Friends Advocacy: Stop Yemen War
As many of you know, some of us in Friends Meeting along with others in South Carolina are active in the first Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) South Carolina Advocacy Team. The focus this year is on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. FCNL is asking that we withdraw military support for the conflict in Yemen. …
Vista Peace Pole
City of Columbia Dedicates the Vista Peace Pole: Eight languages proclaim the message “May Peace Prevail on Earth” Over one hundred people attended the dedication of the Vista Peace Pole on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, in the median of the 900 block of Senate Street, between the South Carolina Statehouse and the Columbia Metropolitan Convention…
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons!
Please consider adding your name to the letter to President Biden from the Sierra Club Nuclear Weapons Grassroots Team. When you click on the link, you will see an opportunity to add your name and comments as well as other actions you can take.The Biden administration is undergoing a Nuclear Posture Review process so it…