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  • Emancipation Without Freedom

    FCNL in the News | July 11, 2017

    Racism and white supremacy, the malignant cancers plaguing America today, are a joint system destroying black and brown bodies. In the past, the Klan did that destroying. Today, statistics do. Those statistics amount to the erasure of people.

  • Zoe Laky

    Person - Summer Intern 2017 | July 10, 2017

    Zoe studies psychology at Bryn Mawr College and brings to FCNL her passion for social justice issues. She currently works as a Teaching Assistant at Bryn Mawr. Zoe has experience working on environmental farming, education in policy making, and research on social inequality.

  • Miriam Myers

    Person - Summer Intern 2017 | July 10, 2017

    Miriam comes to FCNL from Bryn Mawr College, where she majors in Political Science and minors in Spanish. She has interned at San Francisco’s City Hall and has interest in grassroots organizing, immigration and housing rights.

  • Indian Health Care Update

    Update | June 28, 2017
    This week, it’s all about health care – repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with… well, something.

  • Quakers Show Support for Medicaid

    FCNL in the News | June 28, 2017
    As the Senate vote on healthcare reform quickly approaches, Quakers have been among the leading voices in faith-based advocacy to argue for the protection of Medicaid against caps and rollbacks.

  • FCNL Opposes the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act and Kate’s Law

    Statement | June 28, 2017
    The House of Representatives is voting on two bills that further criminalize immigrants, expand detention, and undermine community well-being, rather than offering a lasting remedy for a punitive and outdated immigration system. FCNL urges members of Congress to oppose these bills.

  • Supreme Court Allows Part of Muslim Ban to Go Into Effect

    Statement | June 26, 2017
    The Friends Committee on National Legislation is disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court decided to allow part of President Trump’s travel ban to go into effect while it considers the broader Executive Order.

  • 21 Organizations Urge Congress to Fully Fund the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

    Letter | June 23, 2017
    Twenty-one organizations write to Congress in strong support of the request made by the Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for $230,000 in the FY 2018 Legislative Branch Appropriations Act to fund bipartisan staffing of the Commission.

  • The FCNL Experience: Lobbying on the Lawn

    Update | June 20, 2017
    FCNL intern Hannah Misangyi shares her first time meeting a member of Congress.

  • 22 Organizations Urge Robust Conflict Prevention Funding

    Letter | June 20, 2017
    Twenty-two organizations write to the U.S. House and Senate Committees on Appropriations to thank them for their leadership to ensure the continuation of critical conflict prevention and peacebuilding funding in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017 as well as to express concerns for conflict prevention funding for Fiscal Year 2018 as proposed by the White House Budget Proposal.