{"id":1414,"date":"2021-06-28T20:24:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=1414"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:31:13","slug":"monthly-collection-quaker-council-for-european-affairs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2021\/monthly-collection-quaker-council-for-european-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Collection &#8211; Quaker Council for European Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Richard Seebohm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1417\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/454px-European_Union_map.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1417\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/454px-European_Union_map.svg_-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/454px-European_Union_map.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/454px-European_Union_map.svg_-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/454px-European_Union_map.svg_.png 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of European Union, Wikimedia Commonons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">July\u2019s collection is for the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA). We call it our Quaker voice in Europe. But the voice isn\u2019t just for the European Union, it is heard in this country and in the Council of Europe (47 member states) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (57 member states) \u2013 and perhaps by NATO. QCEA\u2019s current portfolio of causes includes migrants and migration, militarisation of the EU (now prominent in its new budget), and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qcea.org\/peace\/climate\/\">programme<\/a> called \u2018Climate, Peace and Human Rights; Are European Policies Coherent?\u2019 which has a gender focus for peace-making.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">QCEA didn\u2019t overspend during lockdown, but it will be needy in the coming years. With a new Director it now has a staff list impressive for professionalism and (if I may say so) for diversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#f0f5f0;    '>\r\n                            <\/p>\n<p>Bank transfers to \u2018British Friends of the Quaker Council for European Affairs\u2019,<br \/>\nCAF Bank,<br \/>\na\/c 00004748,<br \/>\nsort code 40-52-40;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cheques to \u2018British Friends of the Quaker Council for European Affairs\u2019,<br \/>\n33 Shaw Lane Gardens,<br \/>\nGuiseley,<br \/>\nLeeds,<br \/>\nLS20 9JQ.<br \/>\n\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div><br \/>\nWith thanks<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"312\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-left-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2021\/meeting-for-worship-a-mobile-feast\/\">Previous Article<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\" width=\"312\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-right-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2021\/two-poems-by-david-gill\/\">Next Article<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2021\/\">Back to July 2021 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 507 \u2022 July 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Seebohm Dear Friends, July\u2019s collection is for the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA). We call it our Quaker voice in Europe. But the voice isn\u2019t just for the European Union, it is heard in this country and in the Council of Europe (47 member states) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2021\/monthly-collection-quaker-council-for-european-affairs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthly Collection &#8211; Quaker Council for European Affairs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":1404,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1414\/revisions\/1548"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}