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Videos about Quakers and peace


Below is a collection of video clips (from YouTube) relating to the Quaker peace testimony and to actions of various sorts taken over the years based on that testimony.


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A history of non-violence - Southampton Quakers

Peace a way of life - British Quaker Week 2011
War, peace and taxes




350 years of Peace - Philadelphia

A few good men - Quakers speak to the Gestapo

 
A history of non-violence - the Quaker legacy

On Sunday 2nd October 2011, as part of National Quaker Week, Southampton Quakers held a public meeting in the Nuffield Theatre at Southampton University.

This video was produced by Solent Creatives.



 

Make peace a way of life

As part of National Quaker Week in Britain in 2011, Quaker Peace and Social Witness produced a video on the theme of Quaker Week.





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Taxes for peace not war

Three Quakers report their refusal, at the outbreak of the Iraq war in 2003, to pay the portion of their taxes used for military spending in a search for less destructive ways of resolving conflict.



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Honouring the 350th anniversary of the Quaker Peace Testimony

From the Peace and Concerns Annual Event in 2011 in Philadelphia, USA - with readings and music.





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A Few Good Quakers: Quakers from the USA speak with the Gestapo in Germany in 1938

An extraordinary peace effort in the context of the oppression of Jewish people in Nazi Germany before the second World War is reported and re-enacted in a prize-winning film from the Bridge Film Festival (for middle school students at American Friends schools) in 2004.





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