Sometimes People March

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Simple, direct statements are paired with watercolor illustrations to highlight some of the rallying causes for organized marches throughout the history of the United States.

The text and art begin with two marches that will reemerge as metaphor later in the book: a long line of ants marching to and from a piece of watermelon, and members of a blue-and-goldā€“clad marching band following their leaderā€™s baton. As the band recedes on the verso, across the gutter an extremely diverse group of people similar to the crowds marching across the bookā€™s cover advances toward readers on recto. Here the text repeats the bookā€™s title. Next, negative space surrounds a small group of women and childrenā€”obviously from an earlier timeā€”holding a protest sign. The text explains that sometimes people march ā€œto resist injustice.ā€ The facing page shows a contemporary family gazing with chagrin at a polluted beach; they will march because they ā€œnotice a need for change.ā€ The text continues to offer simple explanations of why people march, eventually moving to other peaceful means of resistance, including signs, boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, and ā€œtaking a knee.ā€ Hardship in the form of physical and psychic exhaustion is mentioned, but police and other legally sanctioned violence against protest is notā€”the general mood is uplifting encouragement to young, potential activists. This timely book combines rudimentary facts about peaceful resistance with art that depicts organized actions from the 19th century through today, and endnotes reveal more specifics about each illustration, including historic figures represented.

Effectively argues that ā€œPeople are more powerful together.ā€

Source: Tessa Allen, Kirkus Review of Books


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Author:Ā Tessa Allen

Illustrator:Ā Tessa Allen

Publisher:Ā Harper Collins

Age Group: 4 to 5 years, 6 to 8 years, 9 to 12 years

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Topics:Ā Activities, All-Age Activities, Environment and Stewardship, Lessons & Activities, Non-violent Resistance, Peacemaking, Quaker Values, Racial Justice, Social Action, Social Concerns, Social Justice

An Introduction

The Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC) is an international, cross-branch, grassroots network of Friends sharing a stewardship for lifelong Quaker faith formation through religious education. We formed in April 2014 and now serve more than 300 Friends in our network. We actively engage and support each other across languages and continents. We gather for regional and annual conferences and offer monthly Conversation Circles via an online conferencing platform.Ā 

Steering Circle

We share leadership as part of our collaborative mission, making decisions using the Quaker ā€˜sense of the meetingā€™ process, sitting in expectant, worshipful waiting for the emergence of shared truth. Read moreā€¦

Working Circles

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Our workĀ  takes place in ā€˜circlesā€™ or small groups of Friends who labor on a common task, usually meeting by video conference due to the geographic diversity of the membership. Read moreā€¦

The Resource Library

Finders Guide, a sampling of the collection

The QREC Resource Library is a place to share lessons and other educational information in support of our work as Quaker religious educators. This library is a forum for curricula, articles, videos and other educational materials on Quaker themes. You will also find principles, policies and procedures to strengthen operation of your child, youth and adult religious education programs.

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African Quaker Library

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Small Meetings

Young Adult Friends

Biblioteca QREC

Events

Find renewal, companionship, and help for nitty gritty issues in Quaker religious education, all the while opening spaces for Spirit to work and listening together for Godā€™s way forward.

QREC holds an annual conference and retreat. In addition we hold online Conversation Circles and post other religious education events as we learn about them.

Conversation Circles

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Religious education events of interest to Quakers from all parts of the world. Please let us know about upcoming online or in-person events happening in your area. See the list of upcoming eventsā€¦

Love at the Heart

Spiritual Practices

Discernment

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Quaker Family Culture

Finding the Light

Faith at Home

Home is the heart of faith formation for all families. This is especially true for Friends. As an experiential religion, Quakerism is best learned through living in loving community. Indeed, the vast majority of faith formation for our young Friends happens at home in the busy swirl of daily life.

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