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New Peaceward Project

A new oral history archiving project from a Walk to Washington organizer features videos of Friends experienced in peace and social action work.

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September 16th, 2025

Ross Brubeck, an organizer of the Quaker Walk to Washington and attender at Brooklyn Meeting, has started a next phase of the Walk: Peaceward, a series of video interviews with Friends experienced in peace and social action work. The Peaceward project is an effort to collect, archive, and distribute the living memory of Quaker activism in witness of the peace testimony. In the first video, Brooklyn Meeting's Michael Phillips shares thoughts on his faith, the persecution of immigrants, and his time on Koinonia farms during the civil rights movement. 

As part of Peaceward, Ross plans to re-walk the route of May's walk to Washington this October-November, visiting Quaker meetings along the way and interviewing Friends about their beliefs and experiences. He's already recorded interviews with several NYC Friends. The videos of those interviews will be shared on the Walk to Washington YouTube page

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