NYYM Peace Action

This section contains information about New York Yearly Meeting peacemaking activities. Please send us news of your work in progress.*

• Introduction to This Section
• Letter from NYYM clerk, 2004, and text of NYYM Minute on Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill
• Worship and Action Updates and Letters, sent out by the NYYM Worship and Action Working Group
• Report to Yearly Meeting from Worship and Action working group, 10 July 2003
• Report to Yearly Meeting from Worship and Action working group, 27 March 2003
• Report to Yearly Meeting from Worship and Action working group, December 2002
• Joint Statement in Response to Threat of War with Iraq from the General and Executive Secretaries of Five Quaker Organizations, September 24, 2002
• Statement on Iraq from Britain Yearly Meeting, September 2002
• Peacemaking in a Time of War, remarks by Lee Griffith in Elmira, N.Y., May 22, 2002
• NYYM Minutes: Worship and Action     Gospel of Peace
• NYYM Epistle to Friends Everywhere, 2002
• What Monthly Meetings and Individuals Can Do (Suggestions from NYYM Peace Concerns Committee)
• Peace Activity Notes & Links
• Brooklyn Monthly Meeting Minute on Detention of Muslim and South Asian Immigrants
• Amicus Brief of NYYM in support of Rosa Covington Packard
• Newspaper Ads as Friends Peace Action
  • Questions and Answers about ads
  • "Seeking a Better Way" Oneonta Daily Star Ad for Peace
  • "War Doesn't Determine Who's Right, Only Who's Left, Purchase Monthly Meeting ad, August 2002
• Visiting Congress representatives and senators, from Friends Committee for National Legislation
• Guidelines for Assistance from New York Yearly Meeting
• Memo on Tax Implications of Peace Actions
• See also Statements by U.S. Quaker Groups

*New York Yearly Meeting, 15 Rutherford Place, New York, N.Y. 10003; 212-673-5750; office@nyym.org.