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Quakers risk prison to defend vital legal precedent
21 September 2023
The ancient right of juries to rule according to their convictions, established during the trial of two Quaker preachers in 1670, is under threat.
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Quakers in media stunt for Make Polluters Pay Action Day
19 September 2023
Climate and faith organisations including Quakers in Britain protested outside Parliament on Tuesday, calling on the government to tax oil and gas giants.
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Peace groups unite to oppose world’s biggest arms fair
14 September 2023
Quakers maintained a strong dissenting presence outside the world's biggest market for weapons as it emerged that the UK government had invited countries on its own watch list.
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Swarthmore Lecture 2024 to focus on prisons and punishment
12 September 2023
Next year's Swarthmore Lecture, a key date in the Quaker diary, will be delivered by prison expert Ben Jarman.
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Quakers protest human cost of arms trade
7 September 2023
Quakers are protesting outside a huge arms fair in east London which is going ahead despite appalled opposition from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
UPDATE: Several Quakers were arrested on Thursday, 7 September, during Meeting for Worship at No Faith in War Day.
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‘In perpetual purgatory’: Quakers fear for lives of offenders with indeterminate sentences
6 September 2023
The government should re-sentence all remaining IPP prisoners, Quakers say, as new figures show hundreds recalled to prison despite not being charged with a further offence.