[saymaListserv] Quakers in the News - 5/25/2005

[GlennReinhart at aol.com]

Dear Friends,

After a brief but well-enjoyed spring vacation, Quakers in the News is back.  
There are a few extra stories here due to the two-week span since the last 
posting.  
In Friendship,
Glenn

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One may click on any blue underlined text for a link to a summary and the 
full text story, and also to comment on any article.  Please see 
http://quakersinthenews.blogspot.com for a chronological archive of all stories this year.


The most widely covered stories of the period, all three in multiple major 
market publications each,were:
1. AFSC/Protest/Civil Rights/Privacy/Rights groups to sue FBI over monitoring
/MSNBC/New York/NY/USA/05/18/05  (37 instances in the US and UK)
2. Quaker History/War/American Revolution/Free Quakers/'1776' teaches a 
worthy, timely history lesson/USA Today/ALL/ALL/USA/05/24/05 (5 instances in the 
US)
3. War/Protest/Crime and Punishment/Serial peace protester electronically 
tagged/Times Online/London/England/UK/05/17/05 (5 instances in the UK)

The most inspiring stories of this period (to me) are:
4. Quaker Schools/Expansion//School to focus on Quaker values/Baltimore 
Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/05/22/05 (to acknowledge my f/Friends and their achievement at 
Deer Creek Mtg)
5. Religious Faith/Light///Ranger Wilson: Why I Run/Voice of San Diego/San 
Diego/CA/USA/05/19/05
6. Religious Faith/Prayer///Survivors celebrate cancer victories/Goldsboro 
News Argus/Goldsboro/NC/USA/05/15/05

Other interesting stories which show the public face of Quakerism this week 
are:

Category/Article Title/Source/City/Area/Region/Date

War/Revolutionary War/Free Quakers/Some of Philadelphia's untold stories
/philly.com/Philadelphia/PA/USA/05/14/05
War/Religious Faith//Memorial Day events in East Bay/Providence 
Journal/Providence/RI/USA/05/23/05
War/Christian Peacemakers/Iraq//Leonard Recalls 5 Weeks With Guardsmen In 
Iraq/Greeneville Sun/Greenville/TN/USA/05/16/05
Religious Faith/Natural Science//FOCUS: Stardust in her veins/New Straits 
Times/Malasia/Asia/05/14/05
Religious Faith/Book Review//What’s new on the library shelves?/Stirling 
Community Press/Toronto/Ontario/Canada/05/19/05
Religious Diversity/Service///John Paul would have us serve others/Roanoke 
Times/Roanoake/VA/USA/05/14/05
Religious Diversity/Arts/Music//A community in every sense/Rocky Mountain 
News/Denver/CO/USA/05/14/05
Quaker Schools/Natural Science/Medicine/East Africa/Profession takes its 
rightful place/East African Standard/Kaimosi/Kenya/Africa/05/18/05
Quaker Schools/Natural Science/Medicine//Cancer researcher honored/Baltimore 
Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/05/21/05
Quaker Schools/Humanitarian Assistance/At this sale, school gives it all away
/The Register-Guard/Eugene/OR/USA/05/16/05
Quaker Schools/Humanitarian Assistance/Harvesting for the needy/News & 
Observer/Durham/NC/USA/05/21/05
Quaker Schools/Arts///Whittier Fine Arts Center at Friends renamed for Riney
/Kansas.com/Witchita/KS/USA/05/18/05
Quaker History/War/American Revolution/Henry, Patrick/Liberty or Libertine?
/MichNews.com/Detroit/MI/USA/05/22/05
Quaker History/Slavery /Repatriation/Cuttyhunk/An Explorer's Legacy
/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/05/21/05
Quaker History/Real Estate Development/Monica Yant Kinney | History written 
in disappearing ink/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/05/19/05
Quaker History/Raised-a-Quaker//Dolley Madison: first lady extraordinaire
/OregonLive.com/Portland/OR/USA/05/14/05
Quaker History/Quaker/Shaker//200 years ago, Shakers came to Ky./Lexington 
Herald Leader/Lexington/KY/USA/05/14/05
Quaker History/Quaker Cemetery//Meredith bank president honored Salvation 
Army/Laconia Citizen/Laconia/NH/USA/05/22/05
Quaker History/Hoover, Herbert//Rename Hoover Tower/Stanford 
Daily/Stanford/CA/USA/05/24/05
Quaker History/Business///Snack attack as Cadbury wolfs down organic 
chocolate firm/Times Online/London/England/UK/05/13/05
Quaker History/Business///Remembering a place once called Paperville, and the 
pioneer Mode .../Coatesville Ledger/Coatesville/PA/USA/05/19/05
Quaker History/Business///In line: Carr’s Table Water biscuits back in 
production/News & Star/London/England/UK/05/21/05
Quaker History/Archtitecture/Membership Decline/Quakers reach out for help 
with restoration/Hub/Red Bank/NJ/USA/05/19/05
Quaker History/Anthony, Susan//Spiritual Perspectives Pope John Paul II, the 
Greatest Honor/Gallup Independent/Gallup/NM/USA/05/22/05
Quaker History/Abolition/Women/Anthony, Susan/Beyond the lilacs in Rochester, 
NY/Asbury Park Press/Asbury Park/NJ/USA/05/22/05
Public Schools/Peace Studies/Earlham//Group fights for an NU Peace Studies 
program/The Daily Northwestern/Chicago/IL/USA/05/23/05
Public Schools/Business/U Penn/Baltzell, E. Digby/Fels Institute director 
ends six-year tenure/Daily Pennsylvanian/Philadelphia/PA/USA/05/13/05
Politics and Economics//Poverty's injustice exposed/Rochester Democrat and 
Chronicle/Rochester/NY/USA/05/14/05
Peace Activity///Peace winds like a ribbon/The 
Register-Guard/Eugene/OR/USA/05/14/05
Outreach/Quaker-Amish//'Shoppers' check out faiths at the Interreligious 
Forum/Patriot-News/Harrisburg/PA/USA/05/14/05
Obituary////Jean (Grove) Jones/News-Herald.com/Akron/OH/USA/05/16/05
Mediation////Urban Warrior | Trouble next door sparks calls to Warrior
/philly.com/Philadelphia/PA/USA/05/23/05
Humanitarian Assistance/Religious Diversity//Big haul for TASK/Cranbury 
Press/Cranbury/NJ/USA/05/22/05
Humanitarian Assistance/Mental Health/Retirement Living/Harney opens €25m 
Dublin care centre/Ireland Online/Dublin/Ireland/E.U./05/19/05
Humanitarian Assistance/Homelessness//Group reaches out to area's homeless at 
dedication/Princeton Packet/Princeton/NJ/USA/05/16/05
FCNL/Nuclear Non-proliferation/Congress bars bomb plans, again/The Argus/San 
Francisco/CA/USA/05/14/05
FCNL/Nuclear Non-proliferation/US NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Bunker Buster Shot Down in 
Opening Volley/Science Magazine/ALL/ALL/USA/05/19/05
Arts/Painting/International Conflict/Sudan/Art exhibit: A child's view of 
genocide/The Gloucester County Times/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/05/16/05
Arts/Painting/International Conflict/Sudan/Kids' art reflects their suffering
/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/05/21/05
Arts/Painting/Hicks, Edward/Science demands an artistic explanation/Bergen 
Record/Hackensack/NJ/USA/05/23/05
Arts/Music/Rorem, Ned/Ned Rorem Returns/Windy city Media 
Group/Chicago/IL/USA/05/18/05
Arts/Music/Humanitarian Assistance/East Africa/Get Out Guide
/OregonLive.com/Portland/OR/USA/05/20/05
Arts/Film///The James Dean trail/Chicago Tribune/Chicago/IL/USA/05/16/05
AFSC/War/Iraq//US should commit to Iraq withdrawal/Fort Wayne News 
Sentinel/Fort Wayne/IN/USA/05/18/05
AFSC/War/Desertion/Iraq/The deserters: Awol crisis in US forces/China 
Daily//China/Asia/05/16/05
AFSC/War/Desertion//Desertion huge problem for US in Iraq war/New Zealand 
Herald/Auckland/NZ/Oceania/05/23/05
AFSC/War/Desertion/Iraq/US army facing huge desertion problem in Iraq war
/Aljazeera.com/London/England/UK/05/24/05
AFSC/War/Counter-Recruiting/Group Offers Alternative To Military Recruitment
/The Day//CT/USA/05/19/05
AFSC/War/Counter Recruiting/Dead recruit's father wages campaign against 
'green card Marines'/San Francisco Chronicle/San Francisco/CA/USA/05/23/05
AFSC/Politics and Economics/War/Counter-Recruiting/SF School Officials 
Question Recruiting Tactics/CBS 5/San Francisco/CA/USA/05/21/05
AFSC/Politics and Economics/War//The Economy | Where are cheers for base 
closings?/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/05/22/05
AFSC/Politics and Economics/War/Counter-Recruiting/Recruitment "Stand-Down"
/Kansas City infoZine/Kansas City/MO/USA/05/23/05
AFSC/Politics and Economics/Protest//Union workers picket resort/Honolulu 
Advertiser/Honolulu/HI/USA/05/23/05
AFSC/Politics and Economics/Immigration/Driver License/Local opinions split 
on immigrant driver's license proposal/North County 
Times/Ventura/CA/USA/05/21/05
AFSC/Politics and Economics/Immigration/Minuteman/Border watch opponents gear 
up for fight/North County Times/Ventura/CA/USA/05/24/05
AFSC/Politics and Economics/Activism//Salzman: Weathertainment gets out of 
hand/Rocky Mountain News/Denver/CO/USA/05/16/05
AFSC/Peace Activity/Obituary//Rest in peace, John Looney/Akron Beacon 
Journal/Akron/OH/USA/05/21/05
AFSC/Peace Activity/Obituary//John T. Looney, left business to concentrate on 
peace work/Cleveland Plain Dealer/Akron/OH/USA/05/23/05
AFSC/International Conflict/Palestine//Hopes and fears of Palestinians at 
heart of film festival/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/05/15/05
AFSC/Humanitarian Assistance/War/Iraq/Relief Efforts Curtailed by Violence in 
Iraq/FOX News/New York/NY/USA/05/24/05
AFSC////Progressives plan festival for Sunday/North County 
News.com/Baltimore/MD/USA/05/20/05



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