Drawn To A Language Of Hope: Friends and the Occupy Together Movement

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Susanne Kromberg, Occupy Seattle

After my 11 year old daughter and I spent some time at Occupy Seattle a couple of weeks ago, I asked her expectantly, “What did you learn about civic participation today?” She replied, “I learned to look away when the woman without a shirt and the man in a pink swishy skirt dance around.”

After I finished …

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  • Excerpts from Nicaragua: Surviving the US Policy by Paul Dix and Pam Fitzpatrick
  • Book Reviews:
  • Nicaragua: Surviving the US Policy
  • A Peace of Africa
  • Shaking the Tree: New & Selected Poems
  • John Woolman and the Affairs of Truth
  • Seeking God's Will on Same-Sex Relationships
  • Confident Quakerism
  • Held in Love
  • The Spirit of the Quakers
 
 
 

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