Each year more than 400 students, recent grads, Quakers, and young adults gather to learn and lobby Congress at FCNL’s Spring Lobby Weekend.
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Spring Lobby Weekend 2023
March 25-28, 2023 | Washington, D.C.
Hundreds of young adult advocates from around the United States brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: interrupt violence by investing in programs to make our communities safer!
Attribution
Joe Molieri/FCNL
This is what I want to do. Be involved in grassroots advocacy. Spring Lobby Weekend was a great place and time to learn how to do it.
Spring Lobby Weekend 2022
Attribution
DAG Photo
March 12-15, 2022
More than 400 advocates gathered in-person and online for our first-ever hybrid Spring Lobby Weekend. We heard from powerful speakers about the decades-long effort to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Together, we discussed the stories we bring to our advocacy, practiced how to lobby, and learned from each other and experts about our policy ask: urging Congress to enact a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million of our undocumented neighbors.
Virtual Spring Lobby Weekend 2021
March 20-22, 2021
Hundreds of young adult advocates from all around the U.S. brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: Our country needs urgent action to end the crisis of systemic racism and militarization in policing.Hundreds of young adult advocates from all around the U.S. brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: Our country needs urgent action to end the crisis of systemic racism and militarization in policing.
Virtual Spring Lobby Weekend 2020
March 29-31, 2020
Hundreds of young advocates from all around the U.S. brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: now is the time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, mitigate the damage already being done by climate change, and protect vulnerable communities by passing carbon pricing legislation.
Spring Lobby Weekend 2019
March 23-26, 2019
Five hundred young advocates from all around the U.S. brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: Reject increased funding for immigration detention and deportation. Invest in alternatives to detention and expand accountability.
Spring Lobby Weekend 2018
Attribution
Jennifer Domenick
Marcy 23-26, 2018
Right before a major spending vote in Congress, 425 young adults came to Washington, DC from across the U.S. to lobby for a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers without hurting border communities or immigrant families.
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