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Contents VOL 169 NO 33 3 Riots: the challenge Eleanor Nesbitt 4-5 When is enough enough? Nigel Norie 6 Target setting Kelvin Beer-Jones 7 Re-thinking Sufferings Roger Sanderson 8-9 Letters 10-12 Poetry:

Making the Quaker connection Sibyl Ruth 13 Our shared future Anne Adams Yearly Meeting Gathering 14 Junior Yearly Meeting Epistle 15 Under 19s’ minutes 16 Young people’s minute 17 Q-eye 18 Friends & Meetings

Friends commemorate Hiroshima Day with a ‘Peace Tree’ at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh. See page 16.

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Cover image: Smashed shop front on St John’s Road, London. Photo: Heather McKay/flickr CC. See pages 3-5.

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