Exeter Quakers
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Meet in person/online 10.30am at Wynards Lane, online 6 pm Sundays & in person & online 12.15pm Thursdays Mary Arches Church. Website for Zoom link to Sunday am
Exeter, England
Joined February 2015
Expanding ULEZ was a difficult decision - but it's the right one to save lives. I’ve continued to listen to Londoners' concerns - and every single Londoner with a non ULEZ compliant vehicle is now eligible for financial support.
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NEW: Donald Trump’s mugshot just released. This is what accountability looks like.
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Cygnet Theatre is unveiling our exciting new season! There is something for everyone https://t.co/Yzi3bsoyzW Join us @CygnetTheatreUK
@visitexeter @VisitDevon @exeterhour @TheWheel_UK
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Protestors yet again highlighted the fact our coastal waters & inland waterways are polluted: through the negligence & vested interests of privatised water utility companies, the lack of government action & cutbacks to monitoring services such as the EA.
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On Sunday 13 August, Extinction Rebellion held a ‘Dirty Water’ protest at Dawlish seafront in Devon. [What follows is an edited version of their press release.] This is part of ‘Wave Four’ of an...
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📣Street hubs come to #Exeter - we were gutted to say goodbye to the #ClimateAction hub last week, but are delighted to announce our street hubs! Coming to a high street near you 🌈🌏💚 if you see us, come and say hello #ClimateEmergency #unitetosurvive #decidetogether
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“LTNs is just a shiny new name for a very long-established idea... Local authorities have, since the 1970s, worked to reduce through-traffic on residential roads, including things we’re all used to seeing: bollards, one-way streets, and cul-de-sacs."
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Exclusive: Fears quiet-street measures that have been part of traffic planning since 1960s could be scrapped in culture war
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Exciting. At this time next year Friends from 100 counctries will be gathered in South Africa and online for our first Quaker World Plenary Meeting in nearly a decade. Registrations open TOMORROW! Find out more here: https://t.co/hBHG1fGzzs
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🌳 Vote for #Exeter 🌳 A tree in Southernhay is up for tree of the year Vote below 👇 https://t.co/9ZLemuyWOl
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If you’ve been motivated by the slow marches in #exeter today you can head to this workshop at the Exeter Phoenix on Monday. All welcome 🧡 https://t.co/U24yymyU4Q
#juststopoil #ClimateEmergency #ActNow #stoprosebank #nonewoil #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #unitetosurvive
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🚨Just Stop Oil supporters slow March across #Exeter today to demand the government end all new oil, gas and coal licenses 🔥🌏🥵 read the press release here: https://t.co/fQUHfAFmCC The #ClimateCrisis is here and it is happening now. Join your local climate action group today💚🌱
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Members of #Exeter Quakers will be there too
The UK military is preparing for the world’s largest arms fair in London next month. The opening speech will be given by a Brigadier General in the Israeli Ministry of Defence.
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Over 100 medical journals have jointly called for an end to nuclear weapons. This important intervention from the international medical community reflects the grim reality that nuclear war remains a serious threat to global survival today. Read more 👇 https://t.co/Vr9zukInY2
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More than 100 medical journals, including The Lancet and The BMJ, have issued an unprecedented joint statement calling for urgent steps to be taken to reduce the risk of nuclear war and to move...
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📜 George Fox(1624-1691) founded the Religious Society of Friends, The Quakers or The Friends. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual, uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. https://t.co/2ME0VecGsh
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Hi all 👋apologies in the delay but here are the upcoming events in #Exeter this week! There is a zoom call with @JustStop_Oil on student mobilisation, a sit-out at Ben Bradshaw’s office with @GNDRising & a #dirtywater action at Plymouth on Sunday from 11-3pm! #ClimateEmergency
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An online option tomorrow
Join us and @angpacifists for the annual online vigil to remember the bombings of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki. There will be readings, prayer and reflections on the occasion and looking towards a future without nuclear weapons. Register for the Zoom link https://t.co/nkfXohXaoX
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Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936. The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.
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🚨BREAKING: Climbers are on the roof of Rishi Sunak’s mansion draping it in 200 metres of oily-black fabric to drive home the dangerous consequences of a new drilling frenzy. #StopRosebank #NoNewOil
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Free article: Friends mark Hiroshima Day: 'The event will honour the seventy-eighth anniversary since the first atomic bombs were dropped.' #Quaker
https://t.co/0ngjd5e5NJ
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'The event will honour the seventy-eighth anniversary since the first atomic bombs were dropped.'
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Our Recording Clerk, Paul Parker, has joined a diverse range of charity sector leaders in signing this @StraightCharity pledge to support the rights of trans, non-binary, and gender diverse communities. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Paul Parker has signed a pledge to support the rights of trans, non-binary, and gender diverse communities.
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