P&SC Links
Newletters & Updates
Other Organizations
- American Friends Service Committee
- Friends Committee for National Legislation
- Avaaz.com
- The World in Action
- Christian Alliance for Progress
- CommunityOfVeterans.org
- for veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan
- FactCheck.Org
- Annenberg Political Fact Check
- Faith in Public Life
- National Directory of Faith Groups for Justice & the Common Good
- Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice
- Peaceful means to social change
- Friends Peace Teams
- Developing long-term relationships with communities in conflict
- Kiva
- Help microfinance small businesses
- InterAction
- Coalition of U.S.-based NGOs focused on the world’s poor and vulnerable
- Lambda Legal
- Civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV
- Military Religious Freedom Foundation
- Interview with Michael Weinstein
- National Religious Campaign Against Torture
- Ending U.S.-sponsored torture, & cruel, inhuman & degrading treatment
- Network of Spritual Progressives
- New Sanctuary Movement
- To protect immigrant workers and families from unjust deportation
- Quaker Bolivia Link
- A Quaker Response to Poverty
- Quaker Earthcare Witness - Conscientious protection of our planet
- RSVP Listening Project
- Communication, understanding, and the empowerment of people and communities
- St. Augustine-Baracoa Friendship Association
- Friendship with the people of Baracoa, Cuba
- SEVA Foundation
- Health, cultural survival & sustainable communities
- Sew Much Comfort
- Adaptive clothing for injured service members
- Vision of Humanity
- Global peace index and sustainability
- Women, Faith, and Development Alliance
- Reducing poverty by investing in & empowering women and girls
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Thought for Eighth Month, 2010 |
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It Stops Working
Look
what happens to the scale
when love
holds
it.
It
stops
working.
—Kabir (1440-1581),
translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Love Poems from God: Twelve Voices from the East and West (239)
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What's NEW: Events of Concern & New Links
- NEW
Friends Peace Teams - A Spirit-led organization working around the world to develop long-term relationships with communities in conflict to create programs for peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation. FPT’s programs build on extensive Quaker experience combining practical and spiritual aspects of conflict resolution
- NEW
Where Are You on the Food Chain?
- Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum
- A traveling exhibit on the history and plight of migrant workers in Florida's fields,
on tour in the Northeast in July and August, created by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
- NEW
We are but witnesses: Marriage equality and the decision of British Yearly Meeting to recognise same sex marriages
- Paper published by Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
- NEW
Being Salt and Light: Friends living the Kingdom of God in a broken world
- Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) gathering, West Knoxville, TN, October 8-10, 2010
- NEW
Fourth Quaker Initiative to End Torture Conference
- September 24-26, 2010 at the Quaker Center, Ben Lomond CA
- Tell Congress: Restore The Right to Travel to Cuba
- Pass landmark legislation that restores the right of every
U.S. citizen to travel to Cuba and exchange freely with the Cuban
people (Latin America Working Group)
- Join Seva in Supporting Indigenous Rights!
- The U.S. should adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples. Sign our petition to the Obama administration
and call for a full endorsement.
- FCNL E-News
- Preventing Genocide, New START Support, and More (8/10/10)
- Food Hardship in Florida - New report from
Florida Impact: Mobilizing Communities Against Hunger and Poverty
- 2010 ProNica Friends Witness to Nicaragua - The October excursion is full!
- Second trip scheduled for 5-15 November 2010
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