Event Archive

Past Events

Voting and Values: Young Adult Voters Mobilizing for Change

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Join Quaker Voluntary Service (QVS) and the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 8:00 p.m. EDT for a conversation about why and how to exercise our values in the 2022 elections. We’ll talk about where we are politically and how our spiritual grounding connects to our involvement as activists, organizers, and voters.

Strengthening Democracy this Election Year

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Join us on Weds. Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m. EDT to discuss how Quakers are being led to respond to threats to our democracy. We’ll be joined by Gretchen Castle, dean of the Earlham School of Religion and a member of the Quaker Call steering committee, and Margaret Lew, a Friend from New York actively involved in organizing efforts responding to the Quaker Call to action. They’ll be in dialogue with FCNL’s Senior Director of Community and Culture Alicia McBride.

Reducing the Plague of Gun Violence Here, There, Everywhere

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Gun violence and violence in general takes a huge toll every year; not only in lives lost and altered but in the trauma that lives on. On July 4, there was a horrific mass shooting in Highland Park where seven people were killed and more than 30 injured. In Chicago on that same day, nine people lost their lives and 52 injured. n light of these tragedies, the League of Women Voters of Lake County will sponsor a virtual forum on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. CDT, addressing what you can do as an individual working with public officials to reduce the plague of gun violence in your community, state, and America.