selling - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:43:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 selling - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 “Two Faces of Liberty,” by Lilith Quinlan https://www.quakerranter.org/two-faces-of-liberty-by-lilith-quinlan-wp/ https://www.quakerranter.org/two-faces-of-liberty-by-lilith-quinlan-wp/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:42:45 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61437 Quaker Universalist Fellowship has reprinted a 1984 Friends Journal article by Lillith Quinlan that sounds way too contemporary despite the three and a half decades:

While school children in New England are selling candy to rebuild the Statue of Liberty, we have a large and quite different project going on here in Louisiana: the “alien detention center” in Oakdale. This $17.1 million facility with a projected budget of $6-$7 million per year will be able to imprison 1,000 “aliens” initially, then 2,000.

It has been described by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials as a longterm holding facility and is the first such prison administered jointly by the unholy alliance of the Bureau of Prisons and the INS. A new center is also being built in Alexandria to train 1,000 people for the border patrol, doubling the present capacity.

https://universalistfriends.org/weblog/liberty-quinlan

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/two-faces-of-liberty-by-lilith-quinlan-wp/feed/ 1 61437 Derecho Storm Damage in Mays Landing https://www.quakerranter.org/storm-damage-in-mays-landing/ https://www.quakerranter.org/storm-damage-in-mays-landing/#respond Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:54:58 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/2012/06/storm-damage-in-mays-landing/ Last night a huge thunderstorm front with a phenomenon called a derecho swept across South Jersey. Where I live in Hammonton the strangest part of it was a strobe-light effect caused by dozens of cloud-to-cloud lightning flashes per minute, punctuated by lightning strikes. Further east into Atlantic County winds took down incredible amounts of trees.

This morning traveled to Mays Landing, which was scheduled to host a street festival today. A few brave merchants like Brownies Squared opened without power and made the best of it, selling refrigerated goods at half-price. But most of the town was dealing with trees across downed power lines. According to NBC40 Weather 162,000 households are without power–considerably more than were out in last year’s hurricane.

Links:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho
* https://twitter.com/nbc40weather/status/219078662530678784

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