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Our hundreds of years old tradition of challenging and living out alternatives to the culture of the owning class continues…

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Good stuff today from @quakeitup.bsky.social

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#Whitepoppies for #peace and remembering all victims of war, are now available at our meeting house in #Huddersfield Civilian deaths in conflict surged 40% globally in 2024. Around 50% of those killed in war are civilians. White poppies also from the PPU: www.ppu.org.uk/.../wear-whi....

More enlightening stuff from @cosmichope.bsky.social! #Quakers

Well worth watching! More good stuff from @quakeitup.bsky.social and Ben Wood

Vitally important words for British Quakers to hear…

No one should profit from war and violence. As protests against arms dealers continue today, Quakers handed in their demand to Clarion Events, calling on them to drop the DSEI arms fair. 📸Michael Preston for Quakers in Britain

You can always rely on British Quakers to oppose unjust laws. Quakers in Britain has applied to intervene in the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, saying the ban has undermined their freedom of religion. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

⏬️ Peace Lead job working on a "wide range of peace issues and non-militarised approaches to security". ⏬️ #PeaceJobs #Quakers

The Salter Lecture 2025 'Pausing the Police' by Abimbola Johnson is now being livestreamed at: youtube.com/live/3P-1XNp...

Meeting for Worship at 10:30 today. All welcome.

People talking and peacefully demonstrating is not a threat to society; but stopping them is. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Respect the laws of the state but let your first loyalty be to God’s purposes. If you feel impelled by strong conviction to break the law, search your conscience deeply. Ask your meeting for the prayerful support which will give you strength as a right way becomes clear. Advices and Queries 33

On Thursday, a week after 20 police officers smashed down the door of a Quaker Meeting House, there's going to be a meeting for worship outside Scotland Yard. Please join us in person or on Zoom if you can. Bring tea. Details below. #whydidnttheyjustknock www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-y...

After surviving a fever in 1776, the Quaker formerly known as Jemima Wilkinson declared they had died and been reborn as a new, genderless person with a spiritual calling. Adopting the name Public Universal Friend, avoiding pronouns, and dressing androgynously, they attracted faithful followers.

🕯️*Quaker Meeting for Worship*🕯️ In support of all who speak up for truth & integrity in the face of increasing state oppression. *Outside New Scotland Yard* Thurs 3 April 12-1pm Join us in returning police violence & aggression with love & peace. Meet at Chindit Memorial, Embankment Gardens

I don't know about the Quakers creed, but I do know that Quakers led the charge in the humane treatment of people with mental illnesses. They started the trend of not using chains or beatings, but rather kindness, quiet, and a gentle atmosphere. If you want to find out more, read up York Retreat.

Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “This raid is not an isolated incident. “It reflects a growing trend of excessive policing under new laws brought in by the previous government, which are now being enforced by the current administration." @quaker.org.uk

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

One of the most bizarre aspects of the #police raid on the #Quaker Meeting House hosting a #YouthDemand welcome talk is that the police broke the door down when they could have just rung the doorbell.

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Thank you very much Sunday Times. The lack of interest from the British media yesterday over the police smashing their way into a Quaker Meeting House compounded the shock and sadness at what happened. Nothing in my Observer print edition, despite a good chunk of its readership being Quakers.

The Home Secretary downplays "heavy-handed policing," including Friday's Quaker Meeting House raid. But the government could end this by repealing Public Order Act 2023 and parts of Policing Act 2022. Time 45.30 👇https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0029k8y/sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-30032025

State raids on Quaker meeting houses are very 17th century, not a great look for a liberal democacy with proportionate policing and a free press. This could not have been in any way a proportionate action. Nor is it in the public interest not to report on this and ask questions.

Arrests at Quaker Meeting House. Thoughts from Brian Eno. 1/2

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Unitarians in solidarity with @quaker.org.uk after the Westminster Quaker meeting house was violently entered by over 20 police officers this week, and arrests made of 6 women holding a peaceful meeting relating to concerns about the climate and Gaza.   www.unitarian.org.uk/2025/03/29/u...

Latest report I have is that three were released in the early hours from a far distant police station, but three remain in custody.

Beyond shocking. The Conservatives’ appalling protest-silencing laws must go! Paul Parker for the Quakers: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory. This aggressive violation of our place of worship… clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises protest.”

UK, 2025: a country where police break into a place of worship and arrest those inside who are having a meeting and might be planning a non-violent action. The right to peaceful protest is an essential part of a healthy democracy. Governments who crack down on it are governments to be very wary of.

It is relevant in that they took weapons into a Quaker meeting house. That's like chucking buckets of pork into a mosque or synagogue.

Depressingly little coverage of this appalling invasion. The police broke into a place of worship. Imagine if it was a church, a synagogue, a gurdwara or a mosque. Is it OK because it's only Quakers? Maybe there'd be more coverage if the headline was "Police smash door of historic listed building".

🕯️Quaker Meeting for Worship🕯️ Upholding our worshipping community & Westminster Friends Outside New Scotland Yard 3 April 12-1pm Anyone who wishes to join us will be most welcome, of all faiths or none (exact location to be posted on Wednesday) @quaker.org.uk @ccanl.bsky.social

Met police raiding a Quaker meeting house is a raid on a place of worship. Arresting 6 women for attending a meeting is a raid on our right to assembly. The media silence is deafening.

Storming a Quaker Meeting House with weapons drawn is something that is so abhorrent and unacceptable that I am still struggling to comprehend it tbh.

Sinister in the extreme

www.instagram.com/p/DHwCODIuxz... Utterly shocking! Here's a link to Quakers in Britain website about police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House. A sinister development in 'democratic' Britain

Tomorrow 2-4 the story of George Fox and Elisabeth Hooton plus music, songs and cake! All welcome

A packed Meeting house for our annual peace lecture! What an amazing roomful of people who came together to hear Tom Pettinger from Bradford uni. Thanks to all who came 🩵🙏🩵

Today! 7:30 pm all welcome to our Quaker Peace Lecture

Our testimony to simplicity is a challenge as we try to avoid over consumption

Do you try to set aside times of quiet for openness to the Holy Spirit? Advices & Queries 3 (Britain Yearly Meeting)