As we mark the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, FCNL joined the Ploughshares Fund and dozens of partners in a community statement calling for urgent global disarmament and nuclear arms control.
Eighty years ago, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people. Eight decades after those attacks, we are once again called to change course.
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My name is Bridget Moix and I have the joy and honor of serving as General Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). FCNL is a Quaker lobby organization based here in DC and working with a network of passionate and persistent advocates around the country to advance federal policy for a better world.
What a joy to spend a week serving as the Friend of the Week at Quaker House Chautauqua. It was full of deep dialogue, seeking understanding across difference, educating one another on the issues of the day, and building community for a better world.
Nearly 80 years after the Trinity Test, the first nuclear test that was the focus of the film Oppenheimer, Congress has finally passed the largest expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in history.
“I’m so scared. I can hear the explosions near our home,” my aunt in Tehran whispered to me, her voice shaking over the phone. “May God help us all for what’s coming.”
The Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Native American advocacy work is grounded in our commitment to seeking right relationships with Indigenous communities. This has involved advocating for the Truth and Healing Commission Act (S.761), a bill that would establish a commission to investigate federal Indian boarding school policies. U.S. government Indian boarding schools were a failing to meet treaty obligations to tribal nations.
People usually think of Quakers sitting silently in worship. While this is a common aspect of Friends’ religious practices, our community also has a commitment to living our faith in action.
President Donald Trump may invoke the Insurrection Act, a centuries-old law which would enable him to use the military for his mass disappearances and to suppress protest in a huge abuse of presidential power.
Since March 2, 2025, the Israeli government has blocked almost all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, driving more than 2 million people into a deepening famine. This comes after over 600 days of bombing, forced displacement, and nearly two decades of blockade.
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