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Quaker and Peace Web Archives

Collected by: Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore College

Archived since: Sep, 2005

Description:

Contains Swarthmore College and Haverford College websites as well as organizational websites of Society of Friends (Quaker) groups and peace groups.

Subject:   Society & Culture Arts & Humanities Swarthmore College Haverford College Society of Friends, Quakerism Peace

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Title: COVID-19 Inspired-Quaker Meeting Online with Babies, Dogs & a Moving Car Online Article

URL: https://medium.com/@Christine.Green/covid-19-inspired-quaker-meeting-online-with-babies-dogs-a-moving-car-1245c46ce08d

Description: In this article, writer Christine Greene describes the experience of attending a virtual meeting for worhsip via Zoom. She notes that some Friends sat quietly in front of the screen with eyes closed, others looked at their screen, and some others sat in with their families and family pets. The writer notes that this virtual meeting was coordinated by a Friends Meetinghouse that was present during the cholera epidemic in 1910 and comments on the resilience of Friends and the power of crisis to bring the Quaker community together.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: Tweet from DrAliceWood

URL: https://twitter.com/DrAliceWood/status/1238413827974344705/

Description: Tweet made by Alice Wood in response to the impact COVID-19 has had on Quaker gatherings. Wood comments that Quakers stopped shaking hands and were enouraged to bow or nod at the end of meetings.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: Tweet from InezTexas

URL: https://twitter.com/InezTexas/status/1238194329354530816/

Description: This tweet by Inez Newton quotes the Shakers, an offshoot of Quakers, when they proclaimed, "Hands to Works, Hearts to God," in reponse to the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1783. Inez Newton invokes this quote in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantining of families.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: Tweet from NYCQuakers

URL: https://twitter.com/NYCQuakers/status/1238858694957445122

Description: This tweet by NYC Quakers announces the suspension of all committee meetings, events, and programs for health and safety reasons. Meetings for worship, however, are announced to remain open.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: Tweet from NYCQuakers

URL: https://twitter.com/NYCQuakers/status/1241489874752024579

Description: This tweet by NYC Quakers announces that worship meetings will be done remotely. The tweet includes an image of a sign on Fifteenth Street Quaker Meeting annoucing virtual worship and the closure of Rutherford Place as well.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: Tweet from QuakersF

URL: https://twitter.com/QuakersF/status/1238360207278964736/

Description: This tweet by the Quaker Society of Friends group in Florence confirms that Friends are quarantined but adds that meetings for worship are conducted virtually in collaboration with the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Center based in Birmingham, UK.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: Tweet from Union_Hospital

URL: https://twitter.com/Union_Hospital/status/1249685191716634624

Description: This tweet by the Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital thanks the New Philadelphia Quaker Club for deliverying $2,500 worth of gift cards from restaurants to hospital staff caregivers working during the pandemic. The tweet includes images of the Quaker Club envelopes holding the gift cards.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: Tweet from martin_kelly

URL: https://twitter.com/martin_kelley/status/1238253589732175874/

Description: This tweet by Martin Kelly includes an image of two teenagers in an 1808 meetinghouse elbow-bumping instead of hand-shaking as a safe measure to stop the spread of COVID-19.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: When Racism Intersects with COVID-19 Article

URL: https://www.fcnl.org/updates/when-racism-intersects-with-covid-19-2755

Description: This article by Andre Gobbo details the ways in which communities of color are disporportionately affected by the pandemic. From reduced access to healthcare to higher employment in sectors where public exposure is required, communities of color are experiencing higher death rates as well as general difficulties. The article also includes the ways in which Congress should respond to the crisis to protect communities of color.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

Title: Statements March 2020: COVID-19 Impact Website

URL: https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/2020/03/

Description: The Woodbroke Quaker Study Center announces the suspension of on-site courses and acitivity due to the threat of COVID-19. The announcements also state that staff will be working remotely. Woodbrooke's online worship is also announced to be in the process of being expanding due to new Quaker community interest in virtual Meetings given the pandemic. A link to information on online Meeting for Worship is included in the announcements.

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Subject:   Quakers -- Social conditions

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