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  • December 2024: Native American Legislative Update

    Native American Legislative Update | December 18, 2024

    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.

  • Reverend Barber Reminds Advocates that an Attack on Affordable Healthcare Is an Attack on People of Color

    Update | July 12, 2017
    A repeal of the ACA risks deepening the racial health gap in the U.S

  • A Quaker Call: Environmental Justice for All

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    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.

  • Five Pieces of Wisdom from Quaker Changemakers

    Update | December 22, 2020
    Each month, FCNL brings individual Friends’ witness in the world into conversation with Quaker advocacy work through our Quaker Changemaker event series. Here are some highlights from this past years’ events.

  • Students Uniting: Then & Now

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  • Advocacy Teams Toolkit

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    One stop shop for everything Advocacy Teams: Report your actions, find important resources, connect with the network, and more!

  • Scott Duncan’s Trans-Pacific Work for Peace

    Update | August 29, 2024
    I first ran into FCNL when I was head of the fundraising department at AFSC in Philadelphia, and a friend of mine was in the development department at FCNL. When I retired here in Salisbury, Maryland, I became interested in FCNL and started to donate money to support their lobbying efforts. That’s the way I got introduced to the notion of citizen lobbying. I was just so impressed with the thoroughness and the clarity of the work that the staff did at FCNL.

  • Persistent Advocacy for Peace

    Update | June 24, 2019
    Yesterday, for the first time, the house voted to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) and end 18 years of war. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-13), was included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (H.R. 2968). In the coverage that follows, few newspapers are likely to report that a 76-year-old Quaker lobby has done the careful, long-term work to end a war that has spread to 19 countries.

  • Questions for Trump's New Foreign Policy Team

    Update | January 4, 2017
    President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees will help set the direction of U.S. foreign policy going forward. They need to be able to answer serious questions about building a more peaceful world.

  • Loving Our Neighbors: Congress Must Reverse U.S. Aggression Toward Cuba

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    President Trump recently mused about “taking” Cuba for himself: “It may be a friendly takeover, it may not be a friendly takeover… It wouldn’t matter because they’re really, they’re down to, as