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  • Dreamers Need Us

    Update | March 19, 2021
    The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is under threat. We need you to take action over the next month to protect young immigrants from being deported away from the only country they call home.

  • Q&A: Advocating Native Issues

    Background | November 1, 2021
    How can Friends be allies with the Native community?

    Native organizations most often ask for lobbying support. FCNL’s monthly Native American Legislative Update makes that easy. Some Quakers want to become effective community educators.

  • Acting in Solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

    Background | August 17, 2020
    The protests and police violence at Standing Rock replay a centuries-old dynamic. The U.S. government is once again failing to protect the rights of Native Americans.

  • Nuria Raul

    Person - Former Staff, - Program Assistants 2022 | July 29, 2024
    Nuria Raul assists the Peacebuilding team in their efforts to lobby for U.S. foreign policy that aims to prevent and abate violent conflict globally.

  • Barbara Price Monahan

    Person | November 2, 2020
    Barbara Price Monahan retired as Associate Secretary for Development at FCNL as of December 31, 2019. She is currently serving as a consultant for development through the transition period.

  • Politics is Slowly Overcoming the Dignity and Justice of the Most Vulnerable

    Update | January 31, 2018
    We need to pass bills lowering mandatory minimum sentences, improving prison conditions, and authorizing programs to help formerly incarcerated individuals successfully reenter communities across the country

  • Aiyana Coard

    Person - Advocacy Corps 2022-2023 | August 10, 2022
    Aiyana Coard is an active and proud tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and a student at the NYU School of Professional Studies, pursuing her master’s degree in Global Affairs with a focus on human rights and international law.

  • “We get heard by listening”: FCNL Advocacy Teams Use Quiet Power to Make Noise in Washington

    Update | February 1, 2021
    The world of foreign policy can be noisy. In this interview, Anthony Wier, who leads FCNL’s work on nuclear disarmament, explains how the quiet, behind-the-scenes work done by grassroots FCNL Advocacy Teams cuts through the noise on Capitol Hill.

  • "It is too easy to feel helpless... We are not helpless"

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    Participants in the recent Spring Lobby Weekend left the March event buoyed with hope but also realistic of the challenges confronting two federal programs they sought to protect.

  • Civil Society Welcomes Bipartisan Legislation to Tackle Global Violence

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Thirty five Alliance for Peacebuilding members and partners welcome H.R. 5273, the Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act of 2018, introduced by Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ted Poe (R-TX), Mike McCaul (R-TX), Adam Smith (D-WA), Bill Keating (D-MA), and Paul Cook (R-CA) in the United States House of Representatives.