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Seeing Israel's Occupation Through the Eyes of Palestinian Students
To say the students at the Ramallah Friends School have had to grow up too fast under the Israeli occupation is an understatement. They described life under the restrictive system of checkpoints and other forms of control and repression.The President’s Budget is Out: Here are Five Areas of Concern
Perhaps the best thing that can be said about President Trump’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2021 is that Congress will likely ignore it.Post-Paris Impressions
Last December, through the generosity of Lindsey Fielder Cook and Jonathan Wooley of the Quaker UN Office, I was blessed and accredited to participate in the “Blue Zone” of the UNFCCC negotiations in Paris (COP21), during the second week.The Enduring Legacy of 9/11
Practically every American over the age of 30 remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001. What figures less prominently in our collective consciousness is the horror, pain, and grief that other innocent civilians have experienced as a direct or indirect result of the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks.September 2022: Native American Legislative Update
Sept. 30 marks the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, an Indigenous-led grassroots effort to raise awareness of the far-reaching intergenerational impacts of the boarding school era.Our Legislative Priorities for the 118th Congress
Every two years, preceding the start of a new session of Congress, FCNL asks Friends and their meetings, churches, and other groups all over the country to discern which public policy issues they feel are most pressing.This Week in the World: Bombs into Bracelets: Addressing the Legacy of War
From 1964-1973, the United States dropped more than 250 million bombs on Laos. This was equivalent to one planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed.
But the harm did not end there.
Native American Trust Fund: Massive Mismanagement
Elouise Cobell has posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her advocacy for Native American self-determination and financial independence. FCNL lobbied Congress to approve the settlement in Cobell’s lawsuit against the U.S. government to ensure Native Americans were paid for the income on land held in trust for them.We Cannot Afford to Sit Back as White Supremacy Wrecks Our Society
The world changed following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black women and men. Millions of people were motivated to publicly protest these brutal murders and to proclaim that Black lives matter. Their deaths were the tipping point that roused the public’s conscience to confront racism publicly.Analyzing Third COVID-19 Bill and Looking Towards the Fourth
Congress just passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (H.R. 748), a third bill responding to the coronavirus pandemic.