Search

1021 - 1030 of 1644 results

  • Dakota Pipeline Protest

    Update | August 17, 2020
    The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, joined by the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota peoples and an impressive number of friends and supporters, has launched a strong non-violent protest against the building of an oil pipeline across their ancestral lands. The project, known as the Dakota Access Pipeline, would cross under the Missouri River just upstream from the northern boundary of the tribe’s reservation lands.

  • FCNL Statement for House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Central American Migration

    Statement | October 5, 2016
    Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Statement for the Record for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, pertaining to its hearing: Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?

  • Viewpoint: Inspired by the Possibility of What Could Be

    Background | November 1, 2021
    I joined FCNL as the congressional advocate for the Native American Advocacy Program last June. But I started advocating for my community long before joining FCNL.

  • Grounded in Community: Organizing for Environmental Justice

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -
    Grounded in Community: Organizing for Environme

  • Advocacy Corps Past and Present: Community-Building Retreat

    Update | October 21, 2021
    Twenty-one Advocacy Corps organizers from the 2021-2022 class and the 2020-2021 class met for the first time in Washington, D.C. over Indigenous Peoples’ Day Weekend.

  • Q&A: What Does Diane Randall Leave Behind at FCNL?

    Background | January 3, 2022
    After a decade of leadership, Diane Randall will be stepping down in December 2021 as general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation. We spoke with several members of the FCNL community to learn more about the legacy Diane Randall leaves behind.

  • A Quaker Statement on Migration

    Statement | December 11, 2020
    This statement was developed by American Friends Service Committee, Britain Yearly Meeting, Friends Committee for National Legislation, Quaker Council for European Affairs, and Quaker United Nations Office. It draws on their Quaker foundations and work with migrants and on migration.

  • Sam Fuller

    Person - Advocacy Corps 2016-2017 | January 3, 2017

    Sam Fuller is a senior Political Science and Economics double major at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. For the past year, Sam has been working with local community members and leaders to organize events that promote diversity and stand against hate.

  • Chelsey Adams, 23

    Person - SLW 2018 | June 7, 2018

    All of this feels really good: as a young person who knows how it feels to have very little power, to be able to face people that do and say, let me explain what will happen to us if you do XYZ.

  • Toetie Zwart, 23

    Person - SLW 2018 | June 7, 2018

    I’m not Quaker but I have been involved with Quaker fellowship.

    I’ve had five visits on the Hill so far. It’s engaging but hard because the future is not bright for the community that I work with. This issue is something I see and feel every day.