In this QuakerSpeak video, Ruth Flower discusses her decades of work with FCNL. Whether it’s world peace, climate change, poverty, or justice, Ruth has lobbied Congress about it. And she wants you to become a lobbyist, too.
In this QuakerSpeak video, Jennie Isbell explores her journey from skepticism into activism.
Friends have always been very active in addressing our government and its rule. In this QuakerSpeak video, we ask Marge Abbott and Noah Baker Merrill why Quakers care about politics.
In this QuakerSpeak video, former FCNL Clerk Dorsey Green explores her experience clerking the General Committee. She explains the difference between everyone agreeing and finding the sense of the meeting.
In this QuakerSpeak video, Young Adult Friends discuss their relationships with FCNL and Quakerism. They talk about finding spiritual homes in Quaker meetings, and staying engaged throughout their twenties and thirties.
Small steps are constantly being made in a long and difficult journey. We must learn from both the Torture Report and the recent Committee Against Torture review and admit responsibility. Only after acknowledging the full scope of U.S. torture can we heal and prevent these horrific mistakes from repeating themselves.
We recognize that building peace and countering injustice require systemic change as well as personal change. This change requires us to be directly involved as constituents. It requires us to evaluate the candidates and vote for the people we believe are best qualified to lead our country and to govern fairly—even if those candidates don’t represent us on every issue.
The Pentagon is preparing for a world remade by climate change. The agency’s “2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap” clearly lays out the connection between climate and national security. It argues that climate change adds to the burdens of already fragile and weak states, creating an environment ripe for political dissent and instability.
Climate change is considered by many to be the greatest challenge facing humanity. We are the first generation to recognize the errors in the way we live our lives, and perhaps the last generation able to do something about it. The stakes are vast and monumental.
Ending mass incarceration means working to close the front door of prisons, preventing nonviolent offenders from being incarcerated in the first place. It also means opening doors for people after release.
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