Quaker Concern newsletter: sharing stories from our work
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The Winter 2022 edition of our print and digital newsletter Quaker Concern is here!
In addition to three full-length articles it shares short highlights from our recent work and virtual travels in support of justice and peace.
You can read the current issue (as well as past ones) online or download them in PDF.
Strong Spirits Soar in New York
by Jennifer Preston
In 2021 CFSC’s Reconciliation Fund provided grant funds to long-time CFSC partner Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel for her studies in documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy (NYFA). Ellen is an artist and land defender from the Kanien’kehá:ka community of Kanehsatà:ke. We are thrilled to support this critical decolonizing work. In her application to CFSC, Ellen described the Conservatory Master’s thesis class:
This has thoroughly enriched my life and I am gaining new skills in this medium based in good storytelling abilities through experts in their fields. This will help my advocacy work through the medium of documentary... Keep reading ››
Prayer Circle Direct Action Group risking arrest at Trans Mountain work site, Coquitlam, BC, May 31, 2021. Credit: @donnaclarksnaps
40th Anniversary of Minute on Prison Abolition
by Ruth Walmsley
On September 9th, 2021, I was arrested in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience, as part of an inter-faith prayer circle direct action. On that day, a group of us entered an active work zone in a forested area in Burnaby, British Columbia, effectively stopping tree cutting in preparation for construction of the TransMountain Expansion Project (TMX)... Keep reading ››
Inside Outside: Podcast Profiles
by Nancy Russell and Miranda van Haarlem
In our criminal justice work, CFSC seeks to elevate the voices of those with lived experience. We believe that listening to these voices is essential for genuine and meaningful system change. For obvious reasons, direct access to the voices of people currently or formerly incarcerated can be hard to find. Intriguingly, the development of podcasting may have created a partial solution to this problem... Keep reading ››
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