Peace & Social Order Committee

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.

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

Monthly & Quarterly Meetings within PYM

Racial Justice

Peace

Social Order

Refugees and Immigration

Friends Bodies outside PYM

Reports

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