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Elections 2022: How to Engage
This is an extraordinary election year. As people of faith, our voices are needed not only to strengthen our democracy but to help end bigotry and hate, prevent electoral violence, and begin to heal the deep divisions in our country. Find ways to engage in the 2022 elections through early voting, volunteering as a poll worker, engaging in election protection work as a poll chaplain, and more.“I Rage Because I Love”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”Gertrude Smith
Gertrude Smith is a disabled caregiver, community enthusiast, and budding politician from Seaside, California. Gertrude is an elected member of the California Democratic Central Committee, and Vice President of the Monterey County Young Democrats.
Joe D'Antonio
Joe D’Antonio is the Program Assistant for Criminal Justice and Election Integrity. His primary responsibilities include lobbying members of Congress, writing policy updates, and conducting legislative research.Quaker Statement on Potential Israeli Annexation of the West Bank
As organizations that are part of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) we are deeply concerned about the threatened Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank. Such an action would violate international law, formalize land theft, further entrench inequalities and the denial of Palestinian rights, intensify human suffering, and make realizing a just and lasting peace more difficult.Anti-Poverty Programs Help Lift Americans Out of Poverty
Washington, DC (September 14, 2018) – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is encouraged to see the reduction in U.S. poverty and attribute this improvement to effective government programs like tax credits and food assistance. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau report, released this week, the official poverty rate decreased from 12.7 percent in 2016 to 12.3 percent in 2017, now totaling 39.7 million people.Advocacy Teams
Minute Concerning the War in Israel-Palestine: Wilmington Monthly Meeting (DE)
We grieve for the loss of life and suffering witnessed in Israel/Palestine on both sides. We value the lives of all people equally. In keeping with our Quaker Peace Testimony, we maintain that WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER to ending a conflict that has endured for more than 100 years.Corena Owens
Corena Owens is a junior International Studies major at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Corena has been attending West Grove Friends Meeting in Snow Camp, North Carolina since she was 5 years old.
RK Doering
RK Doering is an upper school educator at Moses Brown School, a Friends school in Providence, Rhode Island. Raised in both India and the United States, RK is a third culture kid and a graduate of Case Western Reserve University.