In May of 2025, Vancouver Monthly Meeting became the first Friends Meeting in Canada to sign the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge*. This pledge is an initiative of a worldwide movement of Quaker and other faith communities and communities of conscience committed to striving to dismantle Israel’sapartheid regime. The text of the Continue Reading
Peace
Jerilynn Prior Interview – Conscientious Objection to War Taxation
Jerilynn Prior has spent her life refusing to fund war. In this interview with Patrick Diaz, she shares the story of her tax resistance, from protesting American military spending during the Vietnam War, to taking the Canadian government to court. At the heart of her case: should conscientious objection to Continue Reading
David Bucura and Rachel Bugenimana – Friends Peace Teams and Africa Great Lakes Initiative
David Bucura and Rachel Bugenimana joined the Vancouver Monthly Meeting on World Quaker Day (05-Oct-2025) to talk about their work with the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI). The African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) strengthens, supports, and promotes peace activities at the grassroots level in the Great Lakes region of Africa Continue Reading
Linda Taffs – The Occupation Hurts the Occupier and the Occupied
On 11-Mar-2025 Vancouver Island Quaker Linda Taffs gave the following talk at the Vancouver Quakers meeting house. In November 2024, Linda Taffs participated in a witness pilgrimage to the occupied West Bank and southern Israel organized by the Canadian Friends of Sabeel, an ecumenical Palestinian liberation theology centre in Jerusalem. Continue Reading