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+  <title>Meeting for Sufferings 2015-07-04</title>
+  <author>Henry S. Thompson</author>
+  <date> 4 Jul 2015</date>
+ </head>
+ <body>
+  <div>
+   <title>Introduction</title>
+   <p>Henry Thompson and Kate Arnot were present, representing SE Scotland on
+Sufferings for the first time.  As many of those in the room were new, the
+morning's sessions were devoted to introducing Meeting for Sufferings: its
+history, its
+work, its procedures, its place in the overall structure of BYM.</p>
+   <p>We were reminded that Suffering is once again, harking back to its
+origins in the 1670s, responsible for recording the names and situations of any
+Friend in court or in prison for conscience's sake.</p>
+<note notInPDF="true">Have an occasional meeting with the QL, QPSW and MfS representatives from AM?</note>
+   <p>Paul Parker offered the insight that MfS are the only part of BYM who
+have, on a regular and ongoing basis, an overview of <emph>all</emph> the
+activities of and within BYM, centrally and locally, internally and externally.</p>
+   <p>The words "visionary and prophetic" recurred, from many different people
+throughout the morning, as the core role of MfS.</p>
+   <note notInPDF="true">To arrangements c'tee: Please may we have <emph>everything</emph>
+electronically: the papers distributed on the day as well as everything else. 
+Sorry if they were online somewhere, I looked but couldn't find them.</note>
+  </div>
+  <div>
+   <title>Actual business</title>
+   <p>We received minutes from Yearly Meeting 2015, particularly <link href="http://www.quaker.org.uk/sites/default/files/YM-2015-Minutes.doc">Minute 36</link>, now being referred to as the "Call for Equality".</p>
+   <p>Paula Harvey, Friends House, is contact point for information about an
+(invitation-only) threshing event at Woodbrooke in September to explore actions
+in progress or contemplated with respect to BYM engagement with the problem of
+housing, led by Quaker Housing Trust.</p>
+   <p>Refugees/migrants/Mediterranean -- QCEA have an Alert Network, which you
+can <link>join online</link> to receive information about how you can help with
+actions they are recommending.</p>
+<note notInPDF="true">Arrangements: We heard this morning that one of the ?requirements? for a
+minute coming to MfS is for the action requested from MfS is clear:  If such
+action(s) are in fact stated, and were endorsed explicitly in the minutes
+offered to be taken on draft, it would be more likely that the draft minutes
+would be accepted straightaway.</note>
+<note notInPDF="true">We <emph>don't</emph> want MfS to get mired down in discussions about
+housing politics, welfare/benefit reform or other <emph>symptoms</emph> of
+inequality. . .</note>
+  </div>
+ </body>
+</doc>