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[Press Release] Quakers blockading Bow coal plant break camp after 24 hours

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Bow, NH — After blockading the railroad tracks that bring coal to the power plant in Bow for over twenty-four hours, a group of New England Quakers and fellow travelers gathered in prayer Sunday afternoon before breaking down their encampment around 2pm. The group was part of a pilgrimage that journeyed over 60 miles by […]

By Jay O'Hara July 16, 2017
In News

NH Union Leader Article on Ending Blockade

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BOW — A group of New England Quakers ended their rail blockade at the Merrimack Station coal-burning power plant on Sunday, after holding a protest on the site for more than 24 hours. More than a dozen from the group spent the night Saturday. They dismantled the encampment and makeshift blockade on Sunday afternoon. [Read […]

By Jonathan Vogel-Borne July 16, 2017
In News

Celebratory Gathering to End Pilgrimage

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Dear Friends, Greetings from the tracks at Bow. We can’t adequately express our gratitude for the love and support that have nourished us physically and spiritually this past week. And for those of you who joined us in any amount of walking in the past week. We are writing now to invite you to the […]

By Jonathan Vogel-Borne July 16, 2017
In News

WMUR TV Coverage of Pilgrimage

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Television news coverage of the Climate Pilgrimage from WMUR. Transcript summary BOW, N.H. — A group of mostly Quakers walked for seven days from Portsmouth’s Schiller power station to Merrimack Station in Bow to demonstrate against burning coal for energy. The station is the last coal-burning power plant in New England without a shutdown date. […]

By Jonathan Vogel-Borne July 16, 2017
In News

Article in Concord Monitor

Protesters march during a "climate pilgrimage" along railroad tracks that lead to the Merrimack Station, a coal-fired power plant, in Bow on Saturday, July 15, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)

Quaker-led environmental activists march on Merrimack Station By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER Monitor staff Saturday, July 15, 2017 On the seventh day of the Quaker-led “Climate Pilgrimage” across southern New Hampshire, the participants, who were marching for environmental preservation, sat down and rested. They sat down right in the middle of train tracks leading into Merrimack Station […]

By Jonathan Vogel-Borne July 16, 2017
In News

Article in NH Union Leader

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Quakers go on 60-mile pilgrimage from Portsmouth to Bow in protest of coal-fired plants By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM New Hampshire Sunday News Peter Blood was thinking about his grandfather last week as he walked across the state as part of a “climate pilgrimage” organized by New England Quakers… [Read more]

By Jonathan Vogel-Borne July 16, 2017
In News

Press Release for Direct Action

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 15, 2017 WEEK-LONG CLIMATE PILGRIMAGE BETWEEN NEW HAMPSHIRE COAL PLANTS ENDS WITH WORSHIP AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AT BOW PLANT Contact: Katherine Fisher 781-710-8798 kath.fisher@gmail.com John Humphries 860-216-7972 Bow, NH – After a week of walking, a group of New England Quakers and fellow travelers concluded a sixty mile pilgrimage between New […]

By Jonathan Vogel-Borne July 15, 2017
In News

Walking with Beauty and Blisters

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On the pilgrimage we average about 20 people walking each day. About 16 spend the night. We have gotten very used to eating in church basements and in sleeping on the carpets in church sanctuaries. We who’ve been on the road for 5 days walking to Bow coal plant. Each time we reach the church […]

By Minga Claggett-Borne July 14, 2017
In News

Great things did the Lord lead me into

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Friend Honor Woodrow, member of Framingham Monthly Meeting, wrote the following reflection at the end of Day 5 of our Climate Pilgrimage in Manchester, New Hampshire. It rained this morning… and after walking 30 miles in three days (which I confess I thought didn’t sound “too daunting”) my feet hurt, my legs were sore, I […]

By Jay O'Hara July 14, 2017
In News

Letter to Bow Plant Officials

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The following letter was sent to Bow plant officials July 5. July 5, 2017 Dear Officers at the Merrimack Station, We write to you to let you know of our planned religious pilgrimage through New Hampshire next week, and inviting you to join us at 10AM on Saturday July 15th for a worship service in […]

By Jay O'Hara July 14, 2017
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Recent News

  • [Press Release] Quakers blockading Bow coal plant break camp after 24 hours July 16, 2017
  • NH Union Leader Article on Ending Blockade July 16, 2017
  • Celebratory Gathering to End Pilgrimage July 16, 2017
  • WMUR TV Coverage of Pilgrimage July 16, 2017
  • Article in Concord Monitor July 16, 2017
  • Article in NH Union Leader July 16, 2017
  • Press Release for Direct Action July 15, 2017
  • Walking with Beauty and Blisters July 14, 2017
  • Great things did the Lord lead me into July 14, 2017
  • Letter to Bow Plant Officials July 14, 2017
  • Pioneer Valley Article About the Pilgrimage July 11, 2017
  • 2017 Climate Pilgrimage Begins July 10, 2017
  • Who is Organizing the Pilgrimage? June 14, 2017
  • Why am I Led to Walk and Shut Down a Coal Plant? May 13, 2017

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