Issues
War is not the answer in Afghanistan. The transition process must involve a comprehensive, Afghan-led regional agreement with Afghanistan's neighbors to promote cooperation and regional stability.
We urge arms control and restrictions on the production, transfer, marketing, and sale of conventional weapons, including small arms. We seek U.S. ratification of and compliance with bans on nuclear testing, cluster munitions, and landmines.
Congress is on track to cut $900 billion from the Pentagon budget. Let's make sure members of Congress don't change their mind.
We work for a society free from discrimination, including on the basis of race, creed, gender, ethnic or national heritage, age, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition, genetic background, and gender identification.
We work to promote human security and the common good through a living wage, job creation (especially "green" jobs), access to retraining and good public education, and improved affordable health care for all without discrimination. We work to defend safety-net programs for those in need. We propose to support this effort through progressive taxation and cuts in military spending.
FCNL lobbies for a low-carbon future, one in which we in the United States reduce the use of fossil fuels and the emissions of carbon
pollution, thereby slowing the pace of climate change. In this future, energy is safe and affordable, and natural resources are not a source of conflict.
The way that the government takes in revenue through taxes and the way it chooses to spend it through the budget communicates deep and important stories about our nation. We support progressive taxation and cuts in military spending as a means to fund the things that our nation really need.
We seek a society with equity and justice for all and believe that the world should move toward becoming a global community that safeguards human rights and guarantees economic opportunity for all people in their country of choice.
FCNL supports sustained, direct, and comprehensive negotiations with Iran to prevent violence and to secure lasting solutions to regional conflict and the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear program.
FCNL urges the United States to emphasize multilateral aid, civilian peacebuilding, and regional and international diplomacy in Iraq. While pressing for removal of U.S. bases and combat forces, FCNL works to promote fulfillment of U.S. moral and legal obligations for reconstruction.
We support the restoration of full civil liberties and habeas corpus protections for all persons and urge that those accused of terrorism be prosecuted in civilian courts. As way opens, FCNL will continue Friends' long-standing witness for criminal justice reform that includes principles of restorative justice and the abolition of the death penalty.
FCNL urges the U.S. government to help prevent renewed deadly conflict in Kenya during its next national elections.
FCNL lobbies for the U.S. to engage in inclusive diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, holding all parties accountable to international law. On U.S. policy towards Iran, FCNL supports sustained, direct, and comprehensive negotiations with Iran to prevent violence and to secure lasting solutions to regional conflict and the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear program.
We work to promote and preserve tribal sovereignty of indigenous peoples within the United States and to support legislation that respects their rights, clarifies jurisdictional conflicts, promotes the well-being of all Native Americans, and honors treaty commitments.
More weapons do not provide enduring security. We work for nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, including strategic arms reduction and U.S. ratification of and compliance with bans on nuclear testing.
By strengthening U.S. contributions to diplomacy, development, and international cooperation, the United States could shift its foreign policy away from late military reaction to crises and toward early, peaceful prevention of deadly conflict.
We support the separation of church and state. We support guarantees for the free exercise of religion and oppose any action or attempt to favor particular religious beliefs or groups.
We oppose torture and secret prisons. We support the restoration of full civil liberties and habeas corpus protections for all persons.
