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We Are Pilgrims on a Journey

By Jay O'Hara on January 1, 2018

A faithful response to climate change.

Jay O'Hara is a member of Sandwich (Mass.) Meeting, and a co-founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, climatedisobedience.org. The NEYM Prophetic Climate Action Working Group consists of Alice Grendon, Brian Drayton, Dunan Herman-Parks, Jay O'Hara, John Humphries, Katherine Fisher, Louis Cox, Meg Klepack, Minga Claggett-Borne, Peter Blood-Patterson, Ruah Swennerfeldt, and Wendy Schlotterbeck.

Posted in: Faith and Practice, Quaker Lifestyles
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Members of Earth Quaker Action Team protest outside a PNC Bank in Manhattan.

Climate Change Is a Hot Mess

By Karie Firoozmand on December 31, 2014

Observations from the Peopleā€™s Climate March. With podcast.

Karie Firoozmand is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md. and a founding member of the Chesapeake Quarter Fracking Working Group.

Posted in: Features, January 2015: Climate Change
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Student Voices Project

By on August 7, 2013

The Seventh Annual Student Voices Project This yearā€™s honorees are featured in our May 2020 issue! Read our blog post [ā€¦]

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What Weā€™re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

By Reviewed by Laura Jackson on September 1, 2016

By Wen Stephenson. Beacon Press, 2015. 239 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $18/paperback; $23.99/eBook. When I was young, our family would make an [ā€¦]

Laura Jackson is a member of Merion (Pa.) Meeting and of Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT).

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2016, September 2016 Books
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Faith Action Climate Team prepares to march. Ā© Abby Brockway.

Faithful Action on Climate Change

By Lynn Fitz-Hugh on March 1, 2019

Turning Quaker concerns into mass movements.

Lynn Fitz-Hugh is a mother, a climate activist, and a psychotherapist. She is a member of Olympia (Wash.) Meeting. She was the founder of 350Seattle.org, and is the cofounder of Faith Action Climate Team.

Posted in: Features, Outside the Meetinghouse
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