This April, hundreds of people from across the country joined us in Washington, D.C., for our first-ever Friends Changemaker Weekend. Across generations, faiths, and backgrounds, we came together to deliver one clear message to Congress: Not Another Penny for War on Iran.
Our advocacy came at a critical moment for peace, just six weeks after President Donald Trump launched an illegal, immoral, and disastrous war on Iran.
In just those six weeks, we saw horrors unleashed. Hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls were killed in a U.S. airstrike. Thousands more civilians in Iran and throughout the region were killed, along with 13 members of the U.S. military. President Trump issued a genocidal threat to destroy Iran’s “entire civilization.” The global economy was thrown into turmoil. Regular people, already facing an affordability crisis, saw gas prices and energy bills surge. Across the globe, the cascading economic consequences threatened to throw millions of the world’s most vulnerable people into hunger and poverty.
From the outset of the war, FCNL and our network sprang into action, carrying forward our long history of work as a leading voice for peace in Washington, D.C.
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