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Quaker Meeting Aligns with Nuclear Treaty
Friend Timmon Wallis approached the meeting with an idea: Northampton could become the first faith community in the United States to come into compliance with the Nuclear Ban Treaty.Voting Rights, Racial Justice, and the Quaker Call to Action
FCNL’s Director for Justice Reform José Woss and local voting rights advocate Jaycee Brown will dialogue on their efforts to expand access to the ballot box through policy advocacy and local organizing. FCNL’s Bobby Trice will moderate the conversation.Quaker Meeting Minute on Israel-Palestine Conflict
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has worked for more than a century to promote a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.July Quaker Changemaker Event: Advocacy and the Arts
We’ve seen how creative advocacy like baking peace dove cookies and singing to senators has brought imagination, heart, and humanity to Friends’ advocacy with FCNL—and how it has led to major breakthroughs in relationship-building with members of Congress. FCNL’s July Quaker Changemakers event will elevate creative advocacy in a discussion about music and political change.FCNL Decries Attack on U.S. Capitol By Violent Mob
We are appalled by the violence shown by demonstrators who stormed the U.S. Capitol today.Building Bridges, Building a Movement: Loving Thy Neighbor in 2020
Love is hard, but Scripture is clear. We are called to love our neighbors - all our neighbors - without exception.Dismantling Racism and Militarism in U.S. Foreign Policy
The major challenges facing Americans today—pandemic disease, climate change, economic inequality, racial and gender injustice—cannot be solved without international solidarity and human compassion. Endless wars and endless Pentagon spending only exacerbate these problems, making people at home and abroad less safe. In this report, authors Salih Booker and Diana Ohlbaum analyze the racism and militarism at the core of U.S. foreign policy and offer a roadmap for progress toward a more sustainable, just, and peaceful world.A Quaker Vision for Migration Justice
Five Quaker organizations recently issued a joint statement on migration. “A Quaker Statement on Migration” draws on foundations the Religious Society of Friends and their work with migrants and on migration.Quaker Peacebuilding Efforts Before Kenya's Elections
According to David Bucura, coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative, “Kenya is in tension and is hot in some places now. There is big tension before the elections.” AGLI is a project of the Friends Peace Teams which supports peace activities in the Great Lakes region of Africa.No More Gun Violence #EnoughIsEnough
This morning, I put on my coat and joined FCNL staff on the sidewalk facing the Hart Senate Building. For 17 minutes, we joined the hundreds of thousands of school children, teachers, parents and allies all over the world who walked out of their classrooms and places of work, and with their bodies and voices, said enough is enough.