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  • How FCNL Decides Priorities and What's Next

    Update | August 15, 2024

    People who are new to FCNL often ask me how we decide where to focus. Amid concerns for a wide variety of issues for peace and justice, how does FCNL discern where to concentrate our efforts to impact federal policy?

  • Seeking Truth, Healing, and Right Relationship: Quakers and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -
    In conversation with Paula Palmer and Jerilyn DeCoteau, FCNL’s Congressional Advocate for Native American Advocacy Portia Kay^nthos Skenandore-Wheelock will discuss FCNL’s work to build support for the bipartisan Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act (S. 2907/H.R. 5444). Paula and Jerilyn will share from their expertise and experience co-directing Towards Right Relationship with Native Peoples with Friends Peace Teams. Director of Quaker Leadership Alicia McBride will moderate the conversation.

  • The Torture Report

    Background | September 26, 2016
    Small steps are constantly being made in a long and difficult journey. We must learn from both the Torture Report and the recent Committee Against Torture review and admit responsibility. Only after acknowledging the full scope of U.S. torture can we heal and prevent these horrific mistakes from repeating themselves. 

  • Q&A: Figuring Out the Quaker Role in Ukraine With Michael Eccles

    Background | July 18, 2022

    For Friends in Europe, the invasion of Ukraine has sparked urgent discussions about how to respond to the continent’s largest conflict since World War II.

  • Quaker Lobby Criticizes Attorney General’s Biblical Justification for Breaking Up Families

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC (June 15, 2018) – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) today strongly criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for using the Bible to justify the separation of children from their families at the United States-Mexico border.

  • Diaspora Organizer Gathering

    Event |  -

    This program trains Diaspora advocates to work in their own communities with support from the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and to organize constituents to lobby Congress.

  • This Week in the World: Senate Passes Truth and Healing Commission Bill!

    This Week in the World | December 20, 2024

    BREAKING: Today, the Senate unanimously passed the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act (S. 1723)! This is “a landmark milestone in the fight for truth and healing,” FCNL’s Rachel Overstreet said.

  • What Members of Congress Are Saying About FCNL

    Background | November 9, 2017
    Members of Congress value FCNL’s persistent and principled approach to advocacy. Here’s what they and their staff are saying about this work.

  • Becky Steele

    Person | October 7, 2016

    Becky Steele Becky is a constitutional and civil rights lawyer from Portland, ME who served as a Friend in Washington in early 2016. She focused at FCNL on campaign finance and election reform.

  • Quaker Lobby Honors Representative Cole at 80th Annual Meeting

    Press Release | November 16, 2023
    Representative Tom Cole (OK-04) will receive the FCNL Justice Award today by FCNL during their 80th Annual Meeting, taking place through November 19.