In our advocacy of Native American issues, FCNL follows the priorities set by Native groups. As a result, one of our top priorities is legislation to address the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigneous Peoples (MMIP).
Polly Attwood and Becky Jones are members of the New England Yearly Meeting’s Noticing Patterns Working Group.
Despite the expansive national discussion about racism, there has been too little attention to the connections between racism and militarism.
As Congress negotiates economic recovery legislation, the country is presented with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the economy.
For many of us who are Quakers, we have held the peace testimony as an article of faith.
Without understanding what motivates U.S. policymakers to seek global military domination, we will have trouble convincing them to abandon this counterproductive and morally repugnant course.
Violence interrupters or “credible messengers” as they’re sometimes called identify those most likely to commit violence, they intercede, mentor, teach nonviolence, provide alternative thought processes, and alter the group norms that would sustain or perpetuate violence.
On March 10, 2021, Sen. Dick Durbin (IL) introduced the America’s Clean Future Fund Act. Rep. Marie Newman (IL-03) introduced the companion bill in the House on April 12, 2021.
I first got involved in nuclear disarmament work as a teenager in Northampton, MA, volunteering after school at the local American Friends Service Commi
Friend Timmon Wallis approached the meeting with an idea: Northampton could become the first faith community in the United States to come into compliance with the Nuclear Ban Treaty.
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