Minneapolis Quakers to discuss their experience with ICE
Members of the Minneapolis Friends Meeting will meet with Newtown Quakers on Zoom to discuss their experience with ICE on Sunday, March 15 at 9:45 a.m. at the Quaker Meetinghouse, 219 Court Street, Newtown.
On the Zoom call from Minneapolis will be Terry Hokenson, Rick VandenDolder, and Deborah Jones.
Terry Hokenson is a lawyer, part-time carpenter, and author who has been involved in environmental, peace, racial, and labor justice since the 1960s. He has been a member of Minneapolis Friends Meeting for 33 years.
Rick VandenDolder has been widely involved in peacemaking and social justice, including marching for victims in Palestine and Latin America, lobbying with government legislators, being a Rapid Responder observer at ICE raids, a participant in Singing Resistance actions, as well as supporting immigrants in hiding with their needs.
Deborah Jones is the Clerk of the Minneapolis Friends Meeting Committee on Peace and Social Concerns for several years where she organized food drives, speaker events, and many other activities. She currently also is as a member of the Ministry and Counsel Committee.
The current administration has deployed about 3,000 federal agents across the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, making it the latest region targeted by the president’s mass deportation program.
Worship based on expectant silence in the manner of Friends will follow at 11:00 a.m