Friends & Economic Inequality (conversation notes)
Description:
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West on January 10, 2019, about their perspectives on economic inequality.
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West on January 10, 2019, about their perspectives on economic inequality.
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West on January 10, 2019, about their perspectives on economic inequality.
Dear Friends: I have just read Pendle Hill Pamphlet #450, Pamela Haines’s “Money and Soul,” and I encourage Friends to read it. It’s based on a talk that the author gave at Intermountain Yearly Meeting in 2017 (which was published by Western Friend; see: westernfriend.org/article/money-and-soul-abridged).
Reports by David Hartsough and Lucy Duncan of these Friends’ public protests in Spring 2018.
It’s 7PM the first time I answer the phone. “Hi. My name’s Amy,” I hear on the other end, “I’m calling because we need a union at my clinic.”
Northern Spirit Radio blog post by Mark Helpsmeet, presenting three audio essays by Mary Klein.
A Quaker blog concerning the gap between the rich and the poor and ways to reduce it.
As a young adult Friend I was greatly influenced by Elise and Kenneth Boulding, long-time members of Boulder Meeting. I remember Kenneth mentioning, with a twinkle in his eye, “Boulding’s First Law.” (Kenneth made his living as an economist.) “Whatever has happened,” he told me, “is possible.”
Dalit Baum is the Director of Economic Activism for the American Friends Service Committee. In the following interview, she describes her involvement with the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” movement -- a campaign of nonviolent actions that seek to transform corporate practices in Palestine and in U.S. prisons.
