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  • FCNL Helps Lead Organizations in Calling for More Peacebuilding Support

    Letter | September 11, 2020
    FCNL, Alliance for Peacebuilding, and Search for Common Ground drafted a letter urging Congress to provide robust support for foreign assistance focused on preventing and mitigating conflict in a new COVID-19 supplemental funding package. The letter, which was signed by 69 other organizations, emphasizes that COVID-19 is not only a public health emergency, but also an economic crisis that could trigger conflict globally.

  • 50 Years After My Lai: A Personal Reflection

    Update | March 16, 2018
    When I entered the army in June 1967, my Basic Combat Training unit was at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Early on, one of our drill sergeants, a “lifer” who had plenty of combat experience from the Korean War to Vietnam, marched our platoon out into a field.

  • Sixty Groups Call for Passage of Senate Bill to Prevent Genocide and Atrocities

    Press Release | September 5, 2024
    Sixty organizations called on the Senate today to pass the bipartisan Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act as a step toward saving lives, protecting United States security and developing long-term solutions to violent conflicts.

  • Influence Local Media

    Advocacy Resource | October 28, 2020
    Newspapers in your area can influence policymakers and your community. Building a relationship with reporters and the editorial board of your local newspapers can help change or amplify their coverage of an issue you care about.

  • Minute on the War in Gaza, Whitewater (IN) Monthly Meeting

    Meeting Minute | 
    We cry out for the violence in Gaza to stop—for an end to the killing of Palestinians and for the Israeli hostages to be released.

  • Solitary Confinement and Quakers

    Statement | September 16, 2020
    This statement on behalf of the Friends Committee on National Legislation was submitted for the hearing: “Reassessing Solitary Confinement II: The Human Rights, Fiscal and Public Safety Consequences” to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights

  • 197 Organizations Call on President Obama to Rescind NSEERS

    Letter | December 1, 2016
    Members of President-elect Trump’s transition team have suggested that the Trump administration might reinstate NSEERS, a discriminatory system that functioned as a registry for Muslim immigrants. In this letter, FCNL and nearly 200 other organizations ask President Obama to take action to ensure that this does not happen.

  • FCNL Believes USAID Must Release All Yemen Funding To Help Fight COVID-19

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC – Today, the Friends Committee on National Legislation released a letter – signed by more than eighty other state and national organizations – stressing the importance of releasing all suspended USAID funding for Yemen.

  • Democracy is at Stake in the Impeachment Trial

    Statement | September 16, 2020
    The foundation of our country is at stake—whatever the outcome is of the ongoing impeachment trial in the Senate.

  • Inside the Greenhouse

    Inside the Greenhouse | June 17, 2020
    Inside the Greenhouse is a monthly newsletter about FCNL’s environmental work, ways to engage members of Congress, and stories that impact our work.