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Newtown Quakers to Get First Hand Report on ICE in Minneapolis
Minneapolis Quakers to discuss their experience with ICE on Sunday, March 15 at 9:45 a.m. , Quaker Meetinghouse, 219 Court Street, Newtown.
Newtown Quakers to Get First Hand Report on ICE in Minneapolis.
Members of the Minneapolis Friends Meeting will meet with Newtown Quakers on Zoom to discuss their experience with ICE on Sunday, March 15 at 9:45 a.m. at the Quaker Meetinghouse, 219 Court Street, Newtown. . Worship based on expectant silence in the manner of Friends will follow at 11:00 a.m.."
On the Zoom call from Minneapolis will be Terry Hokenson, Rick VandenDolder, and Deborah Jones.
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Terry Hokenson is a lawyer, part-time carpenter, and author who has been involved in environmental. Peace, racial, and labor justice since the 1960s.
Rick VandenDolder has been widely involved in peacemaking and social justice, including marching for victims in Palestine and Latin America, lobbying with government legislators, being a Rapid Responder observer at ICE raids, a participant in Singing Resistance actions, as well as supporting immigrants in hiding with their needs.
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Deborah Jones ic the Clerk (chair) of the Minneapolis Friends Meeting Committee on Peace and Social Justice
The current administration has deployed about 3,000 federal agents across the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, making it the latest region targeted by the president's mass deportation program.
Newtown Friends Meeting, co-founded by "Peaceable Kingdom" painter and Quaker minister, Edward Hicks, in 1815, is open to all who wish to attend. First Day Education classes (Sunday School) for all ages begin at 9:45 a.m. and Meeting for Worship begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided.
