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Six Tips for Participating in FCNL’s Legislative Priorities Process
A distinctive feature of the Friends Committee on National Legislation is our practice of asking Quakers around the country to help shape our work. This input becomes the basis of FCNL’s legislative advocacy in the coming Congress. Here are six tips to help you engage successfully and faithfully with this process in your community.H.R. 40 and the Quaker Push for Reparations
Learn how Quakers and friends are advocating for reparations in public policy and engaging in reparations projects in local communities.Quaker Power and Light
This is our time to speak truth to power. This is our time to invest in ourselves and our advocacy tools and skills, so that we can best support our most vulnerable communities. It is time to organize.FCNL Advocates Driving Change from Around the Country
This has been a challenging season, but rather than let the ongoing health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19 demobilize our advocacy, FCNL’s network of volunteer lobbyists around the country have expanded their efforts to shape government policy in large and small ways.July 2023: Inside the Greenhouse
Earlier this month, sixteen young people in Montana brought the state’s first constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. Montana. As we await the court’s decision, one fact is clear: Young people are on the frontlines of the environmental crisis. Our anxiety over the climate crisis is justified and should be considered when authorizing critical energy investments.We Need Migration Policies that Recognize the Humanity of All People
The American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Committee on National Legislation, institutions guided by the tenets of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), seek policies that uplift that of God in every human being. As such, we adamantly oppose the Secure the Border Act of 2023 (H.R. 2).Reverend Barber Reminds Advocates that an Attack on Affordable Healthcare Is an Attack on People of Color
A repeal of the ACA risks deepening the racial health gap in the U.SDecember 2024: Native American Legislative Update
A month after he became the first U.S. president to apologize to Native people for the horrors of the federal Indian boarding school system, President Joe Biden designated a new National Monument on the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
What Does Fierce Love Look Like?
These times call for love with an edge. Working for change today requires a ferocity and tenacity that colors the idea of love with the full range of its meanings. It is not passive, not necessarily nice or pretty. It is fierce.A Quaker Call: Environmental Justice for All
Join AFSC and FCNL advocates and community leaders to hear about our ongoing work for Environmental Justice, and hear how you can take action to promote environmental justice in your own communities.