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...
Category: "Light In Action"
Students Migrate to the State House MA
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....
Tax Madness
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...
Poseidon & 100 Demi-Gods Swim
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 Cambridge was...
Living with Anger, Never out of Anger
I am angry every day. Angerr. G r owl ing. I am. Grr ow ing. Anger.  An' grrrrr. I am not angry all day, but every- EVEry, e-very-day. This is not a rant, so hear me out. Anger is a spiritual teacher but can be poisonous.  I can't live out of anger, and I can't...
Horses on Wings in Libya 2011BC-2011AD
This March, the US and Europe entered into the Libyan civil war. Western civilization has a long history with Libya and only a pittance is studied in classrooms today.Libya plays a stellar role in ancient mythology. Does Libya play the dark cousin to Greek and Roman...
Weeping After bin Laden’s Death
As a Quaker I vehemently disagree with Obama's killing of bin Laden. It is immoral and believe it or not, illogical. Barack Obama said on May 2, "The world is safer; it is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden. ...Today, we remember the sense of unity...
Does Isaiah’s prophecy include Paying for War?
Over 7,000 people camped at the SOA watch at Ft Benning in November. 7,000 people trying to create a new social agenda. 7,000 people who are responsible patriots wanting to do their part. 7,000 people of all ages and backgrounds, Colombian mothers; drop-out artists;...
Is it Open Sky or Empty Nest?
Raising children is so much a fabric of our society, but nobody knows how to do it. Now that my sons are in college what have I learned? After 22 years total of raising kids, it becomes 2nd nature to check to see whether everyone’s tucked in beds at night and whether...
We Will Not Export Killing
So we aren’t such a just society. My childhood dreams have been drained to a trickle. I remember singing with gusto at 9 years old, You’re a grand old flag, you’re a high-flying flag and forever in peace may you wave. You’re the emblem of, the land we love, The home...