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We will be hosting many guests on March 8 who are arriving to join the AVP for Justice and Peace<\/a><\/strong>, March 10-15, 2026 at the Rochester Folk Art Guild. We are grateful for this time to practice together and to have this community and offers of hospitality March 8 – 10, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadine ordered \u201cRed Cards<\/a>,\u201d aka Know Your Rights Cards, on immigration rights in English\/Spanish to share with everyone in Meeting. She would like to offer them to local business to put on their counters for customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friends are asked to hold Corey Devon Arthur in the Light on February 24 when he has his parole board hearing. Corey\u2019s parole packet was submitted February 11, 2026 to the parole board, including letters of support from seventeen Friends from New York Yearly Meeting and a letter from the Yearly Meeting as a whole. He has transitioned through seven correctional facilities in the past 90 days. He is deeply grateful for the support he has received from Friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please contact Helen Garay-Toppins at office@nyym.org<\/a> if you want to be involved in developing and offering NYYM anti-racism training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spee and Jens Braun from Old Chatham Meeting will speak to Quakers nationally on 2\/23\/26 about their witness from Palestine<\/a>, sort of an expanded version of their fall sessions plenary. I hope you will register to join!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Yearly Meeting encouraged everyone to invite your meeting newsletter editor to go to the Friends Peace Teams website and reprint any article you find there in your meeting\u2019s newsletter to help Friends learn about and connect with Quaker witness around the world today \u2013 this is our work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We will be hosting many guests on March 8 who are arriving to join the AVP for Justice and Peace, March 10-15, 2026 at the Rochester Folk Art Guild. We are grateful for this time to practice together and to have this community and offers of hospitality March 8 – 10, 2026. Nadine ordered \u201cRed Cards,\u201d aka Know Your Rights Cards, on immigration rights in English\/Spanish to share with everyone in Meeting. She would like to offer them to local business to put on their counters for customers. Friends are asked to hold Corey Devon Arthur in the Light on February 24 when he has his parole board hearing. Corey\u2019s parole packet was submitted February 11, 2026 to the parole board, including letters of support from seventeen Friends from New York Yearly Meeting and a letter from the Yearly Meeting as a whole. He has transitioned through seven correctional facilities in the past 90 days. He is deeply grateful for the support he has received from Friends. 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New York Yearly Meeting encouraged everyone to invite your meeting newsletter editor to go to the Friends Peace Teams website and reprint any article you find there in your meeting\u2019s newsletter to help Friends learn about and connect with Quaker witness around the world today \u2013 this is our work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nFor February 15, 2026 - Niagara River Monthly Meeting (Quakers)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/niagararivermeeting.org\/?p=49\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"For February 15, 2026 - Niagara River Monthly Meeting (Quakers)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We will be hosting many guests on March 8 who are arriving to join the AVP for Justice and Peace, March 10-15, 2026 at the Rochester Folk Art Guild. 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