Stark Warning on the Climate Crisis

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a landmark report on the levels of warming our planet can safely withstand and the steps we will need to take to avert a climate crisis. The results were shocking.

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  1. Update Imagine a World without Fear 

    Imagine a world in where women don’t need to expect men to harass or assault them; where people of color don’t have to be afraid of police; where immigrants and refugees are treated with compassion; where every child is beloved; where non-violent methods are the normal way to settle conflict; where every government works to reduce climate change.

  2. Press Release FCNL Welcomes New Ways to Track Ongoing Police Militarization 

    Washington, DC - The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) today applauded House appropriators taking several modest steps to change a 1997 law that created a pipeline of weapons and materials between the Pentagon and local police departments. The pipeline is known as the 1033 program after a provision in the recently renewed National Defense Authorization Act.

  3. Advocacy Resource Love Thy Neighbor 

    No Exceptions

    Our country is struggling with deep divisions. Amid the blame of and attack on those who are different - in political views, race, religion, country of origin, or sexual orientation - it becomes even more urgent to highlight the value we place in one another. FCNL's #LoveThyNeighbor (No Exceptions) campaign seeks to shift the narrative.

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  1. Annual Meeting and Quaker Public Policy Institute 2018 
    1. November 28-December 2, 2018 in Washington, DC

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