NYDFF Feature: Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries by Janet Paxton Gardner
QUAKERS: The Quiet Revolutionaries describes the link between present day Quakers and their historical revolutionary role models. Quakers have been at the forefront of struggles for the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, anti-war and ecological activism. Iconic Quakers William Penn, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul and Bayard Rustin are featured.
The film shows how Quaker values have become a driving force in American democracy yet remain somehow out of the spotlight. We follow Philadelphia's Earth Quaker Action Team as they tackle PNC Bank's financing of mountaintop-removal coal mining. They walk a line between spirituality and activism, describing themselves as standing on the shoulders of Quakers who have come before.
Quakers are found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. But today, more than half of the Religious Society of Friends live in Africa.
