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  • Aurelio Anderson, 22

    Person - Advocacy Corps 2016-2017, - Summer Intern 2017, - SLW 2018 | June 7, 2018

    I am Quaker. I wanted to come this time because of the topic, immigration. I was born in La Gonave, Haiti, and I would be a dreamer if my father wasn’t American. I have relatives who are dreamers; my father taught English to immigrants in South Florida and then was a trainer for ESL teachers.

  • How to Talk Faith and Politics with Congress

    Update | September 16, 2020
    Our advocacy is rooted in the conviction that a better world is possible. As people of faith and conscience, we bring our deeply held beliefs into our work for policy change, and we know how important and powerful it can be to frame our advocacy in the language of our faith.
  • Friends in Washington: Past Volunteers and Projects

    Background | April 8, 2024
    FCNL has hosted Quaker volunteers as Friends in Washington for more than five decades. Friends in Washington have strengthened FCNL’s expertise in priority areas, written resource materials, and cultivated relationships with lawmakers from their states.
  • Join Me to Lobby for Sentencing Reform

    Update | October 6, 2020
    We are living under systems that seek to militarize law enforcement with weapons of war, systems coated in the nation’s stain of our original sin of slavery, and systems that seek to control and contain specific communities. Those communities are overwhelmingly black and brown. And. They. Matter.
  • Gratitude: A Radical (and Essential) Act

    Event | October 19, 2018
    What would our society would look like if we embraced gratitude? Not just privately, in gratitude journals and personal prayers… but as a civic practice?
  • FCNL’s Statement on Mark-Up of the NO BAN Act

    Statement | September 16, 2020
    The Friends Committee on National Legislation strongly opposes President Trump’s indefinite bans on nearly all travel from thirteen nations, unduly targeting Muslim-majority and African nations. These bans – in all their iterations – result in heartbreak and injustice for countless families across the globe.
  • Act in Hope this Season

    Update | December 7, 2018
    Even as our hearts are broken with the constant attacks on our immigrant and refugee neighbors, we are reminded that we are an Advent people - a people of hope.
  • Supreme Court Allows Part of Muslim Ban to Go Into Effect

    Statement | June 26, 2017
    The Friends Committee on National Legislation is disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court decided to allow part of President Trump’s travel ban to go into effect while it considers the broader Executive Order.
  • Access to Houses of Worship, School, and the Courts is a Constitutional Right

    Legislative Ask | 
    Oppose cutting vital social safety net programs to pay for indiscriminate immigration policies. 
  • An Advocate’s Guide to the Debt Ceiling

    Background | May 10, 2023
    The debt ceiling is set to be a flashpoint in Congress in the coming months. Here’s what you need to know about the debt ceiling debate, and why it affects our work for peace and justice.