FCNL in the News

Joint statement by Beyond the Bomb, CREDO, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Indivisible, J Street, MoveOn.org Civic Action, NIAC Action, Peace Action, VoteVets, Win Without War, and Women’s Action for New Directions on Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the Iran nuclear agreement.

And GOP leaders in the House who seek to defer to the Trump administration and avoid upsetting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other American partners invested in the war may attempt to prevent the vote from taking place altogether through arcane legislative maneuvers, said Kate Gould of the Friends Committee for National Legislation.

Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee should sign on to the Elie Wiesel Act for three reasons: strong interagency coordination to prevent genocide and atrocities; it saves Americans money, and it protects our troops.

The Graham-Cassidy proposal contains the same dangerous policies as the previous iterations of the ACA repeal bills. Just like the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the Graham-Cassidy bill repeals much of the Affordable Care Act and then on top of that ends the Medicaid program as we know it.

We’ve seen this movie before, complete with trumped-up charges of WMD. Americans must speak out now to head off another disastrous military adventure.

In an interview with I24News, FCNL Lobbyist for Human Rights and Civil Liberties discusses the Trump administration’s travel ban and its interpretation of a recent Supreme Court decision allowing a modified version of the executive order to go into effect. Calling the executive order “immoral” and “unconstitutional,” Taeb describes its impact on her own family and provides updates on related litigation.

Racism and white supremacy, the malignant cancers plaguing America today, are a joint system destroying black and brown bodies. In the past, the Klan did that destroying. Today, statistics do. Those statistics amount to the erasure of people.

At a time when many Americans feel powerless to effect change — and some are deeply concerned about the health of their democracy — it’s worth highlighting those instances when democracy actually works the way it’s supposed to.

Coverage in Mondoweiss lauds the two letters as, “yet another sign that the Democratic left is determined to stand up for Palestinian human rights,” and describes Issa Amro as, “the courageous and non-violent leader of protest actions in occupied Hebron.”

As the Senate vote on healthcare reform quickly approaches, Quakers have been among the leading voices in faith-based advocacy to argue for the protection of Medicaid against caps and rollbacks.