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1 C&P Register
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2 Witness?
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3 Arrest?
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4 Uphold vs. condone?
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5 Testing concern: how, before or after?
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6 PP says _post-hoc_ is OK.
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7
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8 *Sustainability*
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9 "How might we be called to act next?"
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10 - Eldership
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11 "All creation was being set free to be true to itself" Eden Grace 2019
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12 "Right purpose, right use, right relationship" Ditto
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13 - Oversight
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14 Action depends on community, acting alone is too hard
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15 Enable and support us: changing community norms [wrt energy use]
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16 Economic growth vs. finite resources
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17 - Living Faithfully
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18 Think about energy _as part_ of a decision, not a retro-fit
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19 [Social pressure wrt holidays]
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20 - Right Ordering
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21 Wrt property: reporting currently focussed on Meeting-level, not individual
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22 Carbon emissions: focus on _saving_ (e.g. from switching to Good
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23 Energy) rather than _emitting_
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24 - Witness
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25 Economics and Sustainability sub-committee of QPSW
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26 Eco-church movement?
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27 Anger about narrowness "too neat, too tidy": impact needed on wider
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28 community (i.e. not "white, middle-class")
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29
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30 Small groups
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31 "What's being done already?"
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32 "Looking forward": what more are we being called to do?
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33
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34 Group 3 Elaine
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35 *Doing now*
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36 "Just transition" ['just' as in 'justice'] [breaking out of the bubble?] [1]
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37 Co-ordination
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38 Self-awareness
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39 Leverage our privilege
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40 "... go on the defensive"
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41 Younger friends: veg[an|itarian], cycle/walk by default
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42 Cultural shift [c.f. changing community norms]
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43 Buses on a Sunday!
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44 Celebrate what we _are_ doing [ref. Geoffrey]
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45
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46 *Looking forward*
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47 small actions vs. despair
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48 _Our_ particular angle: faith basis, ref. Eden Grace
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49 Central priority [set by PP?] is on the political [Gordon Benson]
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51 Trees came up a lot
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52 Quaker burial ground?
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53
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54 *Trustees*
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55 "Meeting-centred support" [2] is the new buzz phrase, 'vibrancy' is no
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56 longer mentioned.
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58 Woodbrooke: numbers down over several years. Renew purpose to meet
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59 friends and peoples needs. Survey done: Woodbrooke needs to come to
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60 Friends, and too expensive (c.f. someone from Friends House 'for
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61 free'). Vibrancy pilot. Opportunity for renewal. JW Rowntree
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62 "Woodbrooke should not be a privilege for the rich".
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63
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64 Simpler meetings: 500+ Friends involved in governance/decision-making
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65 about centrally-funded work. Free up that effort to do other things.
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66 Be sustainable. Slow, lack of accountability. Risk of shrinking:
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67 discernment not reflecting the breadth of the YM.
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68 [So, _not_ the leadings of the spirit]
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69
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70 ['Experiment' of video "had its challenges": Good for trustees, hard
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71 on the person in scotland]
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73 *Quaker Stewardship Committee*
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74 [remit]
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76 "We are a bottom-up organisation, and I don't know of any other" [Win
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77 Sutton]
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79 "The bottom _is_ the top" [Ursula Fuller, QSC Clerk]
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81 "Yearly Meeting decisions are taken with care because they are
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82 understood to be, as a matter of our faith, decisions by _all_ of
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83 us." [ditto]
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85 *Safeguarding*
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87 We've been asked by the English inquiry on this for answers to a
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88 detailed questionaire from their sub-investigation into "child
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89 protection in religious organisations and settings in England and
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90 Wales".
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92 *Assisted dying*
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94 This has come around again from several English AMs. Attempted to
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95 focus on what we _as Quakers_ have to say. My memory of our
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96 experience in Scotland is that we are unlikely to reach unity on the
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97 question, but might that in itself may be a worthwhile contribution?
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98
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99 "Not reaching unity is not a failure" [PP]
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100
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101 MfS session reflected a wide range of positions.
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102
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103 Studied neutrality is also a possibility [3].
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105 We were usefully reminded that even _considering_ assisted dying is
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106 [at least currently] very much a possibilty only to the privileged.
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107
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108 *Speaking out*
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110 We were reminded that there is a policy governing "public statements
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111 and comments" from, among others, Area Meetings (typically having been
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112 agreed in an Area Meeting for Business and published over the name of
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113 the Clerk), and individual Friends, particularly in the context of
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114 marches/vigils/protests where any of us may find ourselves confronted
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115 by a microphone and camera [4].
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117 That there is a moderated Facebook group was brought up, see topic
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118 *Post-truth world* at MfS 2019-02-02, and in particular my take:
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120 Finding the courage to challenge lies is hard enough to do in
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121 person, it's even harder to do on social media, where the response
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122 may well be both many-fold and obnoxious, the latter particularly in
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123 response to challenges from women.
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124
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125 Can we find ways to provide safe online spaces [perhaps taking EAPPI
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126 as a model]?
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128 [1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/publication/climate-change-and-the-just-transition-a-guide-for-investor-action/
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129 [2] https://quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/support-for-meetings/meeting-centred-support
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130 [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505400/
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131 [4] https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/speaking-out-briefing
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133 [blog is indexed but not linked, Quake is linked but not indexed, 'jai
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134 jagat' is not indexed. Is there a place on the Web where all and only
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135 'statements' on behalf of BYM are linked?]
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