In Quaker meetings and churches, meeting minutes represent the wording of a decision or an agreed upon action to be taken by the meeting or church as a whole. FCNL recognizes the vitality of minutes as advocacy tools and as a means of communicating to members of Congress how a body of their constituents is thinking and acting on a particular issue.
Minute for Black Lives, approved June 13, 2020.
Whidbey Island Friends Meeting Statement for Dismantling Racism: A Faithful Ethical and Moral Framework, June 14, 2020
This collection of Quaker minutes and statements on police violence and racism come from Quaker organizations, meetings, and churches. Black lives matter. FCNL and the larger Quaker world are proclaiming this truth in our communities, our actions, and our statements.
Friends Meeting of Austin Minute on Responding to the Police Violence Against People of Color, June 2020.
Virginia Beach Friends Meeting sent this Peace Minute to their representatives and legislators, January 2020.
Vashon Friends Worship Group Minute on Climate and the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA), October 2019.
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