Local TV Coverage of Boarding School Remembrance Day

End of the Month Yucky Topics Festival: Suicide awareness, disasterpreparedness climate disaster threat of nuclear war.

 RantWoman aims to achieve both bravado and humor. Enjoy?

#SuicideAwarenessMonth 

NPYM Friend in Residence Carl Magruder opened his address by saying among other things "if you are feeling suicidal, Ministry and Counsel is here for you." RantWoman evaluated her experience with and acquaintance with all the current members of Ministry and Counsel and thought "Really?" That is enough on that topic for now, though RantWoman is going to try again and again and again with some kind of a "wouldn't be fun to build community with some sort of well-facilitated Mental Health Triage workshop.

Interest Group: Disability AGAIN

RantWoman is falling down on her zeal for relentless self-promotion and invitation to idiosyncratic interest groups experiences.

Here is the interest group description as returned with a request for a Zoom link:

> | Interest Group: | Disability AGAIN??? |
> | Description: | Those gathered will go where lead about the topics of
> disability, ableism, persistence.
>
> Oops. Ouch Whoa--AND DISABILITY?
>
> Spoons?
>
> Friends hosting ALL interest groups are encouraged to ask those present to
> share any accessibility needs. Hopefully this practice can become as routine
> as mention or non mention of pronouns.
>
> In the event that no one shows up, Team RantWoman will be visiting another
> Online Interest group and may or may not share all her accessibility needs until the issue comes up. 

The space was needed.

Shamelessly amplifying a good bit of the fall quarterly descriptive material.

Theme Summary

Plenary Recording

Practical Peacemaking

As we travel to Lazy F, we will pass by people we don't quite agree with. If "there is that of God in everyone", these people are our neighbors too. How do we make peace with -- or even just talk with -- all our neighbors, not just the ones with whom we have easily-found common ground? Perhaps you have challenging relationships with family or co-workers or childhood friends with whom you disagree on closely held beliefs. Our hope for this session is that we will learn more about how to encounter ALL our neighbors with love, and build bridges where all we can see now are rifts. For some of us, this may be a new experience. For some of us, it is daily life.

We will hear from our F/friends living across the Quarterly Meeting about how they practice day-to-day peacemaking, no matter where they live or who they meet. Let us learn from one another.

HOSTED BY EASTSIDE AND SOUTH SEATTLE MEETINGS

PNQM Fall Quarterly Meeting September 23-25, 2022

The flyer has 3 lovely pictures, two of car bumpers each plastered with a different but sort of predictable combination of bumper stickers and a third one of a road straight down the middle of some flat dryland with low shrubbery on the side. RantWoman has enough eyes to tell this with magnification. 

On Planet RantWoman with RantWoman's screen reader, these pictures sound like "unlabelled graphic unlabeled graphic photocredit.

RantWoman is not going to spend more time adding the images here.

Queries the panel responded to:

1- How are you practicing peace-making in these divisive times?

2-How does your non-Quaker community - neighbors, friends, workplace,

extended family - and their political leanings inform these choices?

3-  What would you like to share with Quakers who are living in a different

political environment?

RantWoman feels vaguely responsible for not sending out suggested worship group queries until after she herself had registered. The worship group RantWoman was in was well-held regardless.

Video Highlights From Fall 2022 Quarterly Meeting

Practical Peacemaking - Plenary

Quaker Voice

Diverting welfare funds to endow a volleyball stadium--and trying to use prison labor to build it. In training for T***p level grift???

For readers seeking a wholesome minor league scandal as an alternative to the vortex of scandals swirling around... and also as a break from a certain retired football player's Georgia Senate campaign, let us "appreciate the antics of another former professional football player. Can he claim brain injury too?




And a punchier account of the behind the scenes negotiations behind this "gift" to the University of Southern MS.

Documentary: Since I Been Down Free screening 9/22

But is it audio described? Does it have captions?

RantWoman will henceforth be asking the questions above on a regular basis. But for now, Mark calendars

Check out "SACA Racial Equity Movie Night: Since I've Been Down" on Eventbrite!

Date: Thu, Sep 22 • 4:00 PM PDT

Location: 167 Republican Street, Seattle, WA 98109https://t.co/hy1lsAoEy8

— Dorene Cornwell (@DoreneFC) September 19, 2022

Alla Pugacheva VERY famous Russian folk singer comes out against Putin's war

 RantWoman is not posting every Russia's was on Ukraine item that comes across RantWoman's media streams. RantWoman invites reader to follow the original authors.

This is HUGE on top of voices in civil society and troops refusing to fight.

Alla Pugacheva was one of the most famous singers of the USSR. She remains an icon in 🇷🇺 and has > 3.400.000 Instagram followers.

But, today she came out against the war in Ukraine🇺🇦. The more that established icons/influencers reject the war, the harder things are for Putin. pic.twitter.com/Yh45eYaTGL

— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) September 18, 2022

Drunkenness among Putin's officials | Break the Fake | TVP World

One of the takeaways from this piece: there are measures in Russia to prevent drunken button pushing.

And still a window on many threads of danger.