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• Quakers at Greenbelt

  27 August 2015

  This year Quakers in Britain is an associate at Greenbelt festival of arts, faith and justice. We're hosting discussions and kite-making workshops as well as storytelling, songs, panel debates and meetings for worship in the Quaker dome.

• Quakers urge action to halt demolitions in occupied West Bank

  26 August 2015

  Quaker Peace & Social Witness and EAPPI UK and Ireland signed the following statement. Take action by writing to your MP asking them to raise these concerns with the government.

• Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  24 August 2015

  Candles exchanged between London and Hiroshima were lit to remember when the first atomic bombs were dropped seventy years ago. In silence, music and poetry, lives lost were remembered.

• Quakers oppose expansion of cadets in state schools

  8 July 2015

  In July's Budget, the Chancellor announced £50million to expand cadet forces across 500 state schools. This is the latest evidence of the creeping militarisation of schools by the Department for Education.

• Quaker film questions the militarisation of education

  23 June 2015

  Quakers in Britain launch public debate about the militarisation of education by releasing a short film: The Unseen March.

• Quakers call for action to tackle economic inequality

  30 April 2015

  Quakers in Britain are calling upon the next government to take urgent action to tackle economic inequality.

• Quakers speak on plight of migrants

  23 April 2015

  Quakers in Britain have written an Open Letter to the Prime Minister, expressing their deepest concern for the plight of migrants desperately trying to cross the Mediterranean.

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