Quaker Call To Action: Faithfully Protecting Democracy
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Dear Friends,
The Quaker Call to Action is pleased to invite you to our next national zoom meeting, a conversation with Maria J. Stephan to explore what we all can do to protect our democracy.
Maria brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this discussion. She is an author and organizer whose work has focused on the role of nonviolent movements world-wide advancing human rights, democracy, and peace. Dr. Maria J. Stephan is the Co-lead & Chief Organizer at the Horizons Project, an initiative focused on strengthening connections and collective action among US pro-democracy movements and sectors.
She is co-author with Erica Chenoweth of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. Maria emphasizes the centrality of faith in the struggle for democratic rights and human dignity. She will be right at home among Quakers and other people of faith.
For more about Dr. Maria J. Stephan and links to her books and articles see her website: https://www.mariajstephan.us
Please join us. Click here to register.
We also wanted to share this important invitation with you to take part in AFSC's Love as Action vigils:
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) invites Friends across the country to gather in silent worship in public spaces to give witness to the rising authoritarianism and oppression in the United States. By standing together in silence, we affirm that every person has worth, that fear and violence must give way to love and fairness, and that our communities thrive when all are welcomed. The next opportunities to participate in Love as Action will be the weekends of May 16 - 17 and June 13 - 14.
Go to https://afsc.org/love-action to find a toolkit for organizing an action with your Quaker community, links to register for a planned Love as Action event in your area, downloaded posters, and more.
Yours in faith,
The Quaker Call Steering Committee
Marian Beane, Bruce Birchard, Lauren Brownlee, Diana Hadley, Dale Keairns, Yvonne Keairns, Mary Ellen McNish, Jim Waddington, Terry SoRelle, and Michael Wajda (clerk)