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  • Progressive champion Sanders joins fight against Yemen war

    FCNL in the News | March 6, 2018

    “The two of them working together is certainly going to attract a lot of media attention and there’s been a lot of grassroots support for this issue,” said Kate Gould, the legislative director for Middle East Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker lobby.

  • Minute Concerning the War in the Middle East: Abington Monthly Meeting (PA)

    Meeting Minute | January 8, 2025
    In response to the recent widening of armed conflict in the Middle East, Abington Friends affirm the call for the immediate cessation of violence.

  • FCNL Written Statement for House Homeland Security Hearing on Refugees

    Letter | October 4, 2016

    Statement of Yasmine Taeb, Legislative Representative for Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Friends Committee on National Legislation, submitted to the hearing on: “Crisis of Confidence: Preventing Terrorist Infiltration Through U.S.

  • Tanzania Thomas

    Person - Advocacy Corps 2020-2021, - Staff | July 11, 2025
    Tanzania Thomas (she/her) is the Advocacy Corps Manager at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Tanzania oversees, coordinates and guides the work of the Advocacy Corps Program; a 10 month-long program that onboards up to 20 young adults organizing their local community around federal legislation.

  • Owen Kaplan, 18 and Charlotte Gorham, 18

    Person - SLW 2018 | June 7, 2018

    I wasn’t born into a Quaker family, but I transferred to a Friends school in second grade. I started attending Friends camp and Meeting more and more until I started feeling integrated into the community. I love being Quaker!

  • FCNL and Partners Tell Congress: Support North Korea Diplomacy and End of War Declaration

    Letter | November 19, 2019
    In a letter sent on July 9 to the House Rules Committee, FCNL joined a coalition of foreign policy organizations in supporting an amendment to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would affirm diplomacy with North Korea and call for a formal end of war declaration.

  • FCNL Joins Coalition to Call for NDAA Measure on Diplomacy with North Korea

    Letter | November 20, 2019
    FCNL and nine other foreign policy organizations urged leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to keep an amendment supporting diplomacy with North Korea in the final version of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

  • #FriendsLobby

    Update | July 23, 2019
    At the FCNL we are joined in our efforts to create a more just, peaceful, and equitable world by Quakers and friends around the globe who believe that change is possible. Together, we’re impacting policy and the political process through education, advocacy, and engagement with others.

  • Quaker Lobby Applauds Supreme Court’s Census Verdict

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), the Quaker lobby, applauds the Supreme Court’s ruling this morning that the administration did not provide adequate justification to include a question on citizenship in the 2020 census.

  • More Quakers Express Concern for Gaza War

    Update | July 24, 2024
    As the war in Gaza continues to escalate and reverberate throughout the Middle East, increasingly more Quaker churches and meetings have issued minutes to express their concern for the conflict.