In our studies of racial injustice and officially sanctioned violence in America, we learned that there had been a lynching in Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, quite close to Philadelphia. In…
Read moreThe Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) will be staging a 100 mile walk through Philadelphia-area counties to challenge PECO to meet a goal of 20% solar energy sources by 2025. …
Read moreOnce there was a real estate developer who owned an apartment building. It required extensive renovations, so he set about having the wiring and plumbing updated, the floors refinished, and…
Read moreMerion Friends Meeting member Dwight Dunston, who writes and performs hip hop music/poetry under the name Sterling Duns, was featured today in two videos in the QuakerSpeaks series. The first…
Read moreThe Pendle Hill Quaker retreat and conference center will host the conference “Ending Mass Incarceration and the New Jim Crow” Apr 29 – May 3, 2015. Registration is full, but…
Read moreThanks to everyone who came to the Futur Mama concert tonight at Merion Friends Meeting. There was lots of dancing, lots of energy, and we raised over $300 for Decarcerate…
Read moreBryn Mawr Presbyterian Church and Merion Friends Meeting invite you to a showing of the film Broken on All Sides, a film exploring problems in the US prison system presented…
Read moreMerion Friends Meeting and Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church are jointly sponsoring a month of events to raise awareness of the problem of mass incarceration in the US. The lead off…
Read more“Washington lobbyist” carries very negative connotations, but all citizens can petition the government, and those who are organized can do it more effectively. The Friends Committee on National Legislation lobbies…
Read moreIs someone more thoroughly punished by 50 years in prison than by 25? Or at some point are they simply made less fit for re-entry into society? Are people more…
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