by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 25, 2011 | Light In Action, Quakers in the Field
Once a month Cambridge Friends hold an hour worship close to the entrance of Textron Inc. in Wilmington MA. Textron is known for its unmanned aircraft systems, armored trucks, battlefield and surveillance systems, precision smart weapons, and advanced cluster...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 20, 2011 | Light In Action
For eleven days and nights in June 2011 the Student Immigration Movement vigiling on the steps to the MA state house. They did not leave except to go to work and go to the bathroom. They had 2 boxes and 2 canteens. One box held apples and clementines and sandwiches....
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 2, 2011 | Light In Action, Stopping Violence
This is a guest column from Lynn Fitz-Hugh. While you pay taxes today, Bank of America, G.E. and other major corporations dodge. Bank of America, the 9th largest corporation in America, last year paid no taxes while receiving $1 billion in US taxpayer...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 2, 2011 | Light In Action, Rolling by the River's Edge
Would anyone dare swim in the Charles River, the open gutter of Boston? Isn’t the water polluted, cold, and filled with blue green algae? Talley ho. In the 1850s Boston alderman called the marshes around the Muddy River a cesspool. Yes siree. Swimming in...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 2, 2011 | Aymara Quakers?, Quakers in the Field
El Alto is perched 1,000 feet above La Paz, the capital or Bolivia. When the sun glitters you stare down into a cascading spiral of lego-like houses. Once your lungs have adjusted to less oxygen, El Alto seems like Kansas City. Except everyone speaks Aymara or...
