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Recently, Carolyne reached out to her old meeting, Memphis Friends, to join her new meeting, West Falmouth Preparative Meeting, in a "dress rehearsal" on Zoom for Sarah Clarke, Director of the Quaker UN Office in New York (the following evening Sarah Clarke was the featured speaker at Pendle Hill). Her topic was "Reflecting on Quaker work at the UN: Applying Lessons from the Life and Wisdom of Bayard Rustin."
The Racial Justice Ad-hoc Committee met online in September to listen to and discuss Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge's Salter address to the 2021 Britain Yearly Meeting.
The following links were included in the recording to allow Friends to follow up with further research as they are led:
The Quaker United Nations Office has just released its People's Climate Empowerment Series, a helpful resource for anyone looking to become more engaged with climate action. The series connects people with international efforts that can strengthen climate action at all levels. The People's Climate Empowerment Series offers 7 concise "2-siders", which cover different aspects of international climate action, why they matter, and how to get involved:
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