Upcoming Events / Calendar

Upcoming events for the Port Townsend Friends Meeting, and events held at the PTFM meetinghouse.
Our parking lot is rented to Salish Coast School at school opening and closing time for student drop-off & pick-up.
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Oct
23
Thu
at QUUF: Waging Peace: David Hartsough @ Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Oct 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Co-sponsored by Port Townsend Friends Meeting.
A presentation by David Hartsough, a truly internationally known organizer and activist for nonviolence and justice. David Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. He has just finished writing a memoir, “Waging Peace – Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist”, which will be released November 1 and he is using this publication as an opportunity to talk to people around the country about what it’s like to make a commitment to justice using nonviolent action.
Fellowship Hall David Berrian (Social Justice Council), Bruce Bode

Oct
25
Sat
Drop Off Point for WAVE Food Drive
Oct 25 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Please promote the drive during October. Please contact our Clerk at clintw327@gmail.com or 379-5376 to volunteer to help.

Nov
6
Thu
Carpool to Public Hearing on Navy’s testing plans in the Olympic national forest @ Port Angeles City Council Chamber, City Hall
Nov 6 @ 4:30 pm – 9:30 pm

4:30pm meet at Port Townsend Quaker Meeting, 1841 Sheridan St. to car pool.

6-8pm public meeting at City Hall in Port Angeles preceded by outdoor protest rally starting at 5.

The issue boils down to: should the Forest Service issue a permit to the Navy to use roads in the Olympic National Forest to run their electronic radiation-emitting truck-and-trailer combinations, which would entail numerous unpredicted closures and chronically irradiated vegetation and wildlife, and possibly some chronically irradiated people who live or work near the fixed tower, for decades to come?

Here is something you should know about the public meeting. Comments are typically limited to three minutes, after which you may be interrupted and forced to stop. UNLESS YOU ASK A QUESTION at the end of your comments, the only reply you will get is “Duly noted.” Then you have to step out of line to let the next person speak. Your comments will become part of the public record, but if you do not ask a question, they do not have to respond to you. So ask a good question, and if you have not yet commented in a letter, please consider writing one to gtwahl@fs.fed.us.

The venue for the Port Angeles meeting may not have enough seats for everyone, and people who arrive late might not be admitted. If you cannot get in, be sure to send in your comments to the official recorder at: gtwahl@fs.fed.us. And ask questions.

Due to the public outcry, the comment period has been extended until November 28. You can send more than one comment letter if you want, but they should be on different aspects of the project. Send comments to: gtwahl.fs.fed.us. They will be uploaded onto the Forest Service’s Reading Room web site at: https://cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public/ReadingRoom?List-size=25&Project=42759&List-page=11  Currently there are nearly 1900 comments, and more are needed.

Aug
6
Thu
Hiroshima event @ Friends Meetinghouse
Aug 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Oct
8
Thu
Conversations On Race 7 pm (private) @ Friends Meetinghouse
Oct 8 @ 6:45 pm – 9:45 pm

Closed groups for Conversations On Race

Oct
15
Thu
Conversations On Race 7 pm (private) @ Friends Meetinghouse
Oct 15 @ 6:45 pm – 9:45 pm

Closed groups for Conversations On Race