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  • Thursdays with Friends: Leading with Hope

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    Stephen Donahoe, FCNL’s director of development, talks with outgoing FCNL General Secretary Diane Randall about the impact of her decade-long leadership of FCNL.

  • Thursdays with Friends: A Season of Peace

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    Reviewing what we did to promote peace in 2020 and laying the groundwork for a new a season of peace in 2021.    

    Featured Guest: Diana Ohlbaum, FCNL Senior Strategist and Legislative Director for Foreign Policy

  • Thursdays with Friends: Time to Ban Landmines

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    It has been 24 years since the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty was first signed. Although the United States was among the first to call for it, it still has not ratified the treaty. Today, 60 countries are still contaminated by anti-personnel mines. Children accounted for 54% of all the resulting civilian casualties in 2019. Join us on April 8 for a Thursdays with Friends discussion with Ursala Knudsen-Latta, FCNL’s legislative representative for peacebuilding.

  • Thursdays with Friends: Advocates Advancing Change

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    Join me for a conversation with Shoshana Abrams to learn how FCNL Advocacy Teams are engaging with their elected officials.

  • Thursdays with Friends: Faith-based Advocacy Matters

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    For decades, activists from various faith groups have been lobbying congress, especially on issues of peace and justice. With our country’s changing demographic, can they still be effective in shaping Congressional actions on such issues as immigration and economic justice?

  • Thursdays with Friends: Public Health and Healthcare

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    FCNL believes that health care is a right. We seek a world where all people have adequate resources to maintain their health, where health care is supported by the federal government, and where health outcomes are considered in all matters of public policy.

  • Thursdays with Friends: Humanizing Nuclear Security

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    The extension of the New START treaty, the only treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, bodes well for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Yet, there are other opportunities today. Diane’s guest will be Emma Belcher, a nuclear non-proliferation expert and president, Ploughshares Fund.

  • Thursdays with Friends: The State of Immigration Reform

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    Join Diane Randall and Marisa León-Gómez Sonet, FCNL’s legislative associate for immigration and refugee policy, for a conversation about the state of immigration policy in the United States.

  • Thursdays with Friends: The Climate Crisis and Racism

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    The latest IPCC Report is essentially “code red” for the planet. The science is clear: Humans are unequivocally warming the atmosphere, ocean, and land, and the impacts of that warming are already being felt across the globe. In this crisis, communities of color will be the most affected.

  • Thursdays with Friends: Investing in Native Communities

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    Ahead of Indigenous Peoples Day, join us for a look at FCNL’s priorities as we advocate with and for Native communities.