The Peace and Social Order Committee is responsible for the ongoing peace and social action work of the Yearly Meeting. It encourages and assists the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in undertaking peace and social order activities. It seeks to balance its efforts between the peace concerns and social order concerns and to expressive activities around Friends’ testimonies on unity, equality, simplicity, peace and community. It brings to the Annual Sessions time the concerns, which may be in the form of Minutes for action.
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Current Events & Actions
- Quaker Call to Action
A group of Friends across the United States have initiated a project growing out of their concern for threats to our democracy. At the core of this project is the “Quaker Call to Action”, a document that individuals and organizations are invited to read and, if they feel so led, to sign.Peace and Social Order committee, encourages Monthly Meetings to take the following actions:
1. Take this document up at a meeting for worship on the occasion of business and consider endorsing it as a Meeting.
2. Circulate the document among members and attenders for the benefit of any who might like to endorse it as individuals.
Endorsements can be submitted here: https://quakercall.net/endorse-the-call - Talk on voter rights given by FCNL Director for Justice Reform José Woss (link will open in YouTube)
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Social Concern Minutes
Instructions: When a social concern minute is approved by your Monthly Meeting or other Friends body, please complete the information in Social Concern Minute TEMPLATE and email it back as a DOCX file to PeaceAndSocialOrderClerk@pacificyearlymeeting.org. We will convert the DOCX file into a PDF for posting.
If you would like a DOCX version of any of these minutes, please contact us at the same email address.
Pacific Yearly Meeting
- PYM Minute 2011.8 Opposition to Torture (HTML link)
Monthly & Quarterly Meetings within PYM
Racial Justice
- Minute on Engagement to Uproot and Dismantle Racism (2021-04-11 Berkeley MM)
- Paired minutes on racism (2020-10-11 Davis MM):
- Minute on Addressing Racism (2020-10-11 Davis MM)
- Working Group to Explore the Implementation of Addressing Racism (2020-10-11 Davis MM)
- Minute on Racial Justice (2020-09-13 Orange Grove MM)
- Call for Inclusion and Diversity (2020-09-13 Orange County MM)
- Minute on Justice and Equity through Racial Healing (2020-07-21 Santa Barbara MM)
- Minute on Police Reform (2020-06-20 Live Oak MM)
- Minute on Engagement to Uproot and Dismantle Racism (2020-06-14 La Jolla MM)
- Minute on Racism (2020-06-14 La Jolla MM)
- Minute on Engagement to Uproot and Dismantle Racism (2020-02-09 Strawberry Creek MM)
- Statement Against Police Violence (2019-06-02 San Diego MM)
Peace
- Minute Calling for Diplomacy, not Militarization, in Ukraine Crisis (2022-03-13 Live Oak MM) new
- Minute Calling for Diplomacy, not Militarization, in Ukraine Crisis (2022-02-13 Berkeley MM) new
- Minute on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2020-10-11 Strawberry Creek MM)
- Minute on Nuclear Weapon Prohibition (2020-05-29 San Francisco MM)
- Minute on Military Conscription (2019-12-08 Santa Cruz MM)
- Selective Service System Statement (2019-12-01 Santa Barbara MM)
- Military Conscription Appeal (2019-11-02 Southern California QM)
- Minute on Nuclear Weapons (2018 Honolulu MM)
- Minute on Averting War with Korea (2018 Orange Grove MM)
Social Order
- Minute: A Call for Social Justice (2021-03-14 Santa Monica MM)
- Grounding Minute for our Social Action (2018-09-09 Santa Monica MM)
- Minute on New Drug Policy (Central Coast MM)
- Minute on Income Inequality (Santa Monica MM)
Refugees and Immigration
- Minute on Immigration (2018 Chico MM)
- Minute on Separating Children (La Jolla MM)
- Minute on Separation of Families (Redwood Forest MM)
- Draft Minute on Refugees Held in Detention (2015 Live Oak MM)
Friends Bodies outside PYM
Reports
- Peace and Social Order report to RepCom 2021
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2020
- Peace and Social Order report to RepCom 2020
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2019
- Peace and Social Order report to RepCom 2019
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2018
- Peace and Social Order report to RepCom 2018
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2017
- Peace and Social Order report to RepCom 2017
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2016
- Peace and Social Order report to RepCom 2016
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2015
- Peace and Social Order report to to RepCom 2015 (no written report found)
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2014
- Peace and Social Order report to to RepCom 2014
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2013 (no written report found)
- Peace and Social Order report to to RepCom 2013 (no written report found)
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2012
- Peace and Social Order report to RepCom 2012
- Peace and Social Order report to AS 2011 (no written report found)
- Peace and Social Order report to RepCom 2011
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