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Friends Journal"Here I am, nearly 375 years after Quakerism’s founding," Gail Cornwell writes in The Atlantic, "asking my kids questions, giving them bounded autonomy, and nudging them to invest in their strengths and be stewards of their community—all while communicating that their worth is in no way contingent. Put together, these <a href="https://quakers.social/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> practices result in a parenting style considered ideal by psychologists: authoritative parenting."(This article is paywalled.)<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/quaker-parenting-research/682277/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/quaker-parenting-research/682277/</a>

Mike maɪkQuakers in Britain will be holding a Meeting for Worship outside police headquarters New Scotland Yard London today 12 noon till 1pm, to uphold our worshipping community and support all who speak up for truth and integrity in the face of increasing state oppression.And outside Bangor police station, in Gwynedd. Tu allan i orsaf heddlu Bangor, hefyd. <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/quakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quakers</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/bym" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bym</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quaker</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/crynwyr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crynwyr</a><a href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/events/scotland-yard-meeting-for-worship" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quaker.org.uk/events/scotland-yard-meeting-for-worship</a>

Quäker-Andacht in KrefeldKommenden Samstag, den 05.04.2025 um 17 Uhr, findet in der Königstraße 132 in 47798 <a href="https://krefeld.life/tags/Krefeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Krefeld</a> die nächste <a href="https://krefeld.life/tags/Qu%C3%A4ker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quäker</a>-Andacht statt. Ab 16 Uhr besteht die Möglichkeit, sich mit der <a href="https://krefeld.life/tags/Bibel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bibel</a> zu beschäftigen, Glaubensfragen zu diskutieren und/oder einfach nur Tee zu trinken. Thema diesmal: der aktuellen Vorfall vom 27.3.2025, bei dem über 20 Polizisten, gewaltsam in das Versammlungshaus der Quäker in Westminster (London) gestürmt haben. <a href="https://quaker-kr.de/post/2025/04-05-polizei-im-meeting-house/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://quaker-kr.de/post/2025/04-05-polizei-im-meeting-house/</a> <a href="https://krefeld.life/tags/quakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quakers</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/quakers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@quakers</a>

JulesIn response to the police raid on <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WestminsterMeetingHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WestminsterMeetingHouse</a>, <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Quakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quakers</a> are organising a <a href="https://social.coop/tags/MeetingForWorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MeetingForWorship</a> outside New Scotland Yard on Thursday. People of all faiths and none welcome.<a href="https://mailchi.mp/d312ad2f1001/quaker-faith-in-action-october-16511620?e=6ffe430c3f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mailchi.mp/d312ad2f1001/quaker-faith-in-action-october-16511620?e=6ffe430c3f</a><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/NonViolent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NonViolent</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DirectAction</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/YouthDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouthDemand</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RightToProtest</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#London</a>

MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku33Ghi9CTE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku33Ghi9CTE</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/OwenJones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OwenJones</a> 🚨 🚨 <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ALERT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ALERT</a> 🚨 🚨 This is a 5 alarm fire. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FascistUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FascistUK</a>Cops STORM <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> Meeting at <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a>'s House And Arrest SIX Young Women <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/UKFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKFascism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/UKisNOTaDEMOCRACY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKisNOTaDEMOCRACY</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKpol</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/UKShitShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKShitShow</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FuckTheMet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FuckTheMet</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/OperationVulcan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OperationVulcan</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ProtestIsNOTACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProtestIsNOTACrime</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FreePalestineNOW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreePalestineNOW</a> 🇵🇸

Jules<a href="https://social.coop/tags/YouthDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouthDemand</a> says more protesters have signed up since <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> meeting house raid <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/30/youth-demand-says-more-protesters-have-signed-up-since-quaker-house-raid" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/30/youth-demand-says-more-protesters-have-signed-up-since-quaker-house-raid</a>?

Juggling With Eggs<a href="https://chaos.social/@steely_glint" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@steely_glint</a> ‘Ella…was held in police custody for more than 12 hours, was not allowed to telephone her parents or a solicitor, and her student accommodation was raided by police at 2am on Friday.’The more I read about this raid on a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> meeting house of young pacifist, but politically and climate concerned women…the more I want to know who in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Met" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Met</a> authorised it. They need to be held to public account…what honestly has happened to policing by consent of the people?

JulesSome photos that were shared in a <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> group I'm in of the damage done to the door of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WestminsterMeetingHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WestminsterMeetingHouse</a> by the police raid to arrest six members of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/YouthDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouthDemand</a> holding a peaceful meeting there.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/29/met-raids-quaker-meeting-house-and-arrests-six-women-at-youth-demand-talk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/29/met-raids-quaker-meeting-house-and-arrests-six-women-at-youth-demand-talk</a>?

Oliver Knabe"No-one has been arrested in a <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> meeting house in living memory.“This aggressive violation of our place of <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/worship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worship</a> and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#protest</a>."Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate</a> and <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a>.<a href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house</a>

JamieQuakers are extremely peaceful and a protest normally involves a group of people sitting in the town square saying nothing and doing nothing. Most locals walk through without noticing and simply think there are more people than usual sitting in the square. This reaction to a discussion is insane and unlikely to happen had it been at another religious venue. These are not people discussing violence, they are people discussing peace.<a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quaker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedom</a>

AngharadHafodThis needs to be a wake up call to everyone in Britain. Our right to protest is already being lost. Next step, our right to criticise them for it on social media? <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quaker</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house</a>

AndyDearden<a href="https://mastodon.social/@EdwardCam285" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@EdwardCam285</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/@petergleick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@petergleick</a> being locked up for speaking truth to power is a proud <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quaker</a> tradition (sadly)

AgThanks to repressive Tory legislation that should have been a priority for repeal we now have the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MetPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MetPolice</a> breaking into a <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> Meeting House, complete with tasers to arrest women having a meeting about <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a>. Trumpism is happening here. <a href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house</a>

Peter Sims<a href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house</a>20 uniformed police forced their way into Westminster Meeting House. They broke open the front door without warning, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room."No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory."“Freedom of speech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins democracy."<a href="https://greennet.social/tags/Westminster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Westminster</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/raid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#raid</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/placeofworship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#placeofworship</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quaker</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@BritishQuakers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@BritishQuakers</a>

Amgine<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Police</a> raid <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> meeting house (place of worship) to arrest young people.<a href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house</a>

doboprobodyne<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@RussCheshire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@RussCheshire</a> I'm usually a bit wary of boosting news articles where I'd like to know more of the story before forming an opinion. For this story though, I think it worthy of a boost regardless. Sadly I can't expect to ask anyone for the minutes of the meeting because, well, it got raided by the police. I'd dearly love to know if any of the police thought "Gee, we're going to break into a quaker meeting house and arrest people... are we modestly sure this is a proportional use of force?".I hate to reduce things to pithy memes, and we have some superb civilian police officers in the UK who do a very difficult job, but I can't help but think of the Mitchell & Webb "Hans... Are we the baddies?" sketch.I'm told it takes a very special person to flourish in the met police, and I assume policing a capital has nuances that are less relevant elsewhere. I'm disappointed that their surveillance apparatus was not felt capable of monitoring them adequately, and that it was felt force was necessitated."Are we the baddies?": <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/lawfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lawfare</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policing</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quaker</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/quakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quakers</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/pacifism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pacifism</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/force" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#force</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#war</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a>

Ed BridgesThis is awful, just awful, to see."Just before 7.15pm more than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with tasers, forced their way into Westminster Meeting House."Sorry, but if you're a rozzer bursting into a <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> meeting house armed with a taser, you're the baddie. Clear-cut case.<a href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house</a><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/quakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quakers</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/BeMoreQuaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeMoreQuaker</a>

AndyDearden<a href="https://mstdn.social/@RickGaehl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@RickGaehl</a> and lots of local <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quaker</a> history to explore

EpiscoGrrlAn update on the <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Legal</a> actions taken by religious organizations against the 🍊 administration since January 2025 <a href="https://religionnews.com/2025/03/18/just-two-months-in-faith-groups-have-already-sued-trump-at-least-five-times/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://religionnews.com/2025/03/18/just-two-months-in-faith-groups-have-already-sued-trump-at-least-five-times/</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Christian</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/EpiscopalChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EpiscopalChurch</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/Quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quaker</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/Sikh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sikh</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catholic</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/AME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AME</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/Presbyterian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Presbyterian</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Judaism</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funding</a>

Quäker-Andacht in KrefeldSamstag, den 22.03.2025 um 17 Uhr, findet in der Königstraße 132 in 47798 <a href="https://krefeld.life/tags/Krefeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Krefeld</a> die nächste <a href="https://krefeld.life/tags/Qu%C3%A4ker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quäker</a>-Andacht statt.Für diejenigen, die möchten, besteht bereits ab 16 Uhr die Möglichkeit, sich mit der Bibel zu beschäftigen, Glaubensfragen zu diskutieren und/oder einfach nur Tee zu trinken.Quasi antizyklischer oder als Nachtrag zum <a href="https://krefeld.life/tags/Frauentag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Frauentag</a>, beschäftigen wir uns diesmal mit den Frauen im Quäkertum.<a href="https://quaker-kr.de/post/2025/03-22-frauen/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://quaker-kr.de/post/2025/03-22-frauen/</a><a href="https://krefeld.life/tags/veranstaltung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#veranstaltung</a>

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