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INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843
CONTENTS – VOL 167 NO 43 3-5 News 3 Quakers prepare to launch new ‘inreach’ materials 4 Friends ‘stand up’ to democratic representatives
on poverty issues 5 New film highlights inspiring Quaker work in
Rwanda 6 Is applause Quakerly?
Robert Ilson 7 Comment
John Nurse and Judy Kirby 8-9 Letters 10-11 Cover story: Advices, queries and
the database state William Heath 12-13 Arts 12 Cole Sahib: a Quaker educationalist
Eleanor Nesbitt 13 The children of Theresienstadt
Paul Green 14 Spreading the equality message
John Bell 15 Carrying on the spirit of The Retreat
Jonathan Pim 16 Eye witness: An Englishman in New York
Joe Thwaites 17 Friends & Meetings
Cover image: Street artist Banksy’s ‘One nation under CCTV’. Photo: David Boyle/flickr CC:BY. See pages 10-11. Images on this page: Top, a still from ICYIZERE:hope. Image courtesy of Josiah Films. See page 5. Middle, the shadow of a CCTV camera looms large over a London street. See pages 1011. Photo: Metro Centric/flickr CC:BY. Bottom, a cell at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Photo: protectorrr/flickr CC:BY. See page 13.
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