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Virginia Faith Leaders Urge Rep. Goodlatte to Re-introduce Sentencing Reform
On Monday November 13th, the Friends Committee on National Legislation convened local faith leaders in Lynchburg, Virginia to call on Rep. Bob Goodlatte to re-introduce his 2015 Sentencing Reform Act.Now Is the Time: VOTE
Now is the time to exercise a fundamental benefit of our citizenship: VOTE in this election.May 2021: Inside the Greenhouse
On April 22-23, President Joe Biden convened 40 world leaders for a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to build support to address the climate crisis.Faith Groups to President Biden: Seize This Moment and Reduce Nuclear Dangers
President Joe Biden will soon have an opportunity to establish his overarching vision for the role nuclear weapons should play in U.S. national security. As the administration prepares to undertake its Nuclear Posture Review, FCNL stands united with 24 interfaith partners in calling on the President to move us closer to a world free from the existential threat of nuclear war.A First Look at the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Report
On May 11, the Department of the Interior released the first volume of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Report.
This Week in the World: What to know about the Venezuela War Powers Resolution Vote
Last night, the Senate narrowly failed to pass a War Powers Resolution to block President Trump from launching an unauthorized war against Venezuela.
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.