FCNL In the News: 2011

Pushing to End the War in Afghanistan in Daily Kos by Senator Jeff Merkley, 12/1/2011. FCNL credited by Senator for its "smart, engaged, fierce grassroots effort" in pushing for withdrawal.

Will Congress take Iran Diplomacy Off the Table? by FCNL's Kate Gould in The Hill, 11/15/2011

Supporting Peace-Not War-in Kenya by FCNL's Cassidy Regan in Foreign Policy in Focus, 11/11/2011

Will Congress Support Robust Diplomacy? by FCNL supporter Dr. William Beeman in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11/4/2011

Prevention is Cheaper than Cure by FCNL's Cassidy Regan in The Hill, 11/4/2011

Arms Control Groups Appeal to Obama for Help with Congress in an article in Foreign Policy, 11/1/2011

US gains in Afghanistan fragile, uncertain (Matt Southworth in an Al Jazeera article. D. Parvaz, 10/5/2011

War Veteran-Turned Activist Urges End to Wars, Help for Afghan People (Matt Southworth in the New Rochelle Patch, 10/1/2011)

Is this the America we want it to be?: Letter to the editor written by FCNL General Committee member Stephen Long, published in the Richmond Times Dispatch (6/6/11)

Time to Exit from Afghanistan: Letter to the editor written by FCNL Field Committee Clerk Tom Ewell, published in the Seattle Times (6/6/11)

Interview with Matt Southworth on Freedom's Phoenix radio station (5/30/2011)

Budget Deal Boosts NNSA Nonproliferation Funds (NTI: Global Security Newsletter, 4/13/2011)

Forthcoming: The UN Climate Talks and the Prevention of Violent Conflict (Staff member Alex Stark, Friends Journal, April 2011)

Serious budget cuts must include military (Deb Fink, Des Moines [IA] Register, 2/2/2011). Deb is a volunteer organizer in Iowa with FCNL’s Our Nation’s Checkbook campaign.

Federal budget (constituent Blair White, Times Leader (OH), 1/27/2011)

Pentagon spending must be cut (constituent Mary Ryan-Hotchkiss, Beaverton (OR) Valley Times, 1/27/2011)

When "Clean Energy" Isn't Clean (Staff member Nick Mann, CommonDreams.org, 1/27/2011)

With 36,000 Troops Set to Deploy in 2011, Is Permanent War on the Horizon? (Staff member Matt Southworth, Truthout, 1/20/2011)

A Nation of Laws? Or Assassins? (Staff member Jim Cason, Otherwords, 1/20/2011)

New Year's Resolution: Cutting the Military Budget (constituent Kathy Stackhouse, New York Times, 1/1/2011)