train - 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 train - 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.

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]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/two-faces-of-liberty-by-lilith-quinlan-wp/feed/ 1 61437 Crows Woods in Haddonfield NJ https://www.quakerranter.org/crows-woods-in-haddonfield-nj/ https://www.quakerranter.org/crows-woods-in-haddonfield-nj/#comments Sun, 31 May 2015 18:45:52 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=38008 The blogger behind South Jersey Trails organized a “dads’ hike” today in a small preserve along the upper reaches of the Cooper River.

The preserve is remarkably interesting despite its relatively small size and positioning between soccer fields and train lines. There’s lots of hills ands wetlands. We saw two turtles fighting and a snake of some sort swirling around an eddy in brackish iron-filled bog water. There was a lot of flowering mountain laurel, one of my favorite woodland flowers.

Many local trails in deep woods are on land that has seen waves of development over the past two hundred years but a check of the 1930 New Jersey aerial survey shows that this same patch was deep woods then.
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An Indi­an woman, a Japan­ese woman, and a Syr­i­an woman, all train­ing to be doc­tors at Women’s Med­ical Col­lege of Philadel­phia, 1880s.

Cool vintage picture of doctors in train from Philadelphia’s woman’s medical college.

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/timeline-photos-facebookfacebook-com-an-indi%c2%adan-woman-a/feed/ 1 36356 Resources on the Lebanon conflicts https://www.quakerranter.org/resources_on_the_lebanon_confl/ https://www.quakerranter.org/resources_on_the_lebanon_confl/#respond Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:24:17 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=614 Voices for Creative Nonviolence is doing some organizing around the fighting in Lebanon/Israel/Gaza. Check out “Beyond the Escalation of Injustice”:vcnv.org/beyond-the-escalation-of-injustice which calls for “direct engagement.”
Through them I found a link to “Jihad Against Hezbollah”:www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3412, the new piece from Steven Zunes, a very knowledgable writer for Foreign Policy in Focus. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (this afternoon on the train) but it looks like good background material on the group.

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