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  • Annual Meeting and Quaker Public Policy Institute

    Page | August 29, 2024
    Each year hundreds of Quakers and friends gather to advocate for a more just and peaceful world.

  • FCNL Urges Pennsylvania Attorney General to defend the Indian Child Welfare Act

    Statement | June 22, 2020
    FCNL Executive Secretary Diane Randall submitted a letter to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro urging him to deny a request from the State of Texas to support a legal challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act.

  • FCNL Submits Comment Opposing Citizenship Question in 2020 Census

    Statement | August 7, 2018
    The Trump Administration has been seeking to add a question to the 2020 Census that would ask respondents to indicate whether they are a citizen of the United States or not. The proposed rule would go through the Department of Commerce, and would change how the Census intakes information.

  • 75 Years Later, It's Time to Call for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

    Update | November 25, 2020
    I am alive today because my grandmother grew up in Shiga, Japan instead of her mother’s home of Hiroshima. I am alive today because my grandfather happened to be away from his Nagasaki school visiting family in Kyoto on Aug. 9, 1945. My family—those who were not killed by the U.S. atomic bombings—collectively survived not one but two nuclear weapon attacks, the only ones in history.

  • Citizenship Is Essential

    Update | January 31, 2023
    It has been more than 30 years since Congress enacted the Immigration Reform and Control Act. This inaction comes at an enormous cost to our immigrant neighbors, coworkers, classmates, and friends—and there is a cost significant to the United States as a whole.

  • This Week in the World: A Historic Step Toward Truth, Justice, and Healing for Native Communities

    This Week in the World | October 25, 2024

    In a historic speech today, President Joe Biden offered a formal apology to Native communities for the U.S. government’s Indian Boarding Schools policies.

  • This Week in the World: Palestinians Have a Right to Live in Gaza

    This Week in the World | February 10, 2025

    During a visit from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, President Donald Trump made appalling comments proposing the ethnic cleansing and U.S. “takeover” of Gaza.

  • Andres Lerma and Vashti Meza

    Person - SLW 2018 | June 7, 2018

    I came to Spring Lobby Weekend to bridge the reality between the reality and the talk. I want to advocate for my people, my community. I feel a real sense of empowerment being able to talk to these people face to face and hold them accountable.

  • A Partner with Native Peoples

    Background | February 5, 2018
    In the 1970s, Nebraska Yearly meeting donated the annual proceeds of a cornfield to launch FCNL’s Native American advocacy program. This (literal) seed money enabled FCNL to create a persistent advocacy effort, building on a long history of concern for Native American affairs.

  • White Supremacy Is Wrong, and We Must Act

    Statement | August 21, 2017
    Our country is looking for moral leadership. President Trump is failing us.