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  • Voting Rights, Racial Justice, and the Quaker Call to Action

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series | March 2, 2022
    FCNL’s Director for Justice Reform José Woss and local voting rights advocate Jaycee Brown will dialogue on their efforts to expand access to the ballot box through policy advocacy and local organizing. FCNL’s Bobby Trice will moderate the conversation.
  • Joe Volk

    Person - Former Staff | June 14, 2023
    Joe Volk is an FCNL Executive Secretary Emeritus, having served in that role from 1990 to 2011. Currently, he serves on the General Committee of FCNL, the Corporation Committee of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the Corporation Committee of Haverford College, and is a trustee of the board of Wilmington College (OH).
  • Quaker Meeting Minute on Israel-Palestine Conflict

    Update | December 13, 2017
    The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has worked for more than a century to promote a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
  • July Quaker Changemaker Event: Advocacy and the Arts

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series | October 28, 2020
    We’ve seen how creative advocacy like baking peace dove cookies and singing to senators has brought imagination, heart, and humanity to Friends’ advocacy with FCNL—and how it has led to major breakthroughs in relationship-building with members of Congress. FCNL’s July Quaker Changemakers event will elevate creative advocacy in a discussion about music and political change.
  • FCNL Decries Attack on U.S. Capitol By Violent Mob

    Statement | January 7, 2021
    We are appalled by the violence shown by demonstrators who stormed the U.S. Capitol today.
  • Building Bridges, Building a Movement: Loving Thy Neighbor in 2020

    Event | December 19, 2019
    Love is hard, but Scripture is clear. We are called to love our neighbors - all our neighbors - without exception.
  • Quaker Peacebuilding Efforts Before Kenya's Elections

    Update | August 17, 2020
    According to David Bucura, coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative, “Kenya is in tension and is hot in some places now. There is big tension before the elections.” AGLI is a project of the Friends Peace Teams which supports peace activities in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
  • A Quaker Vision for Migration Justice

    Background | December 22, 2020
    Five Quaker organizations recently issued a joint statement on migration. “A Quaker Statement on Migration” draws on foundations the Religious Society of Friends and their work with migrants and on migration.
  • No More Gun Violence #EnoughIsEnough

    Update | March 15, 2018
    This morning, I put on my coat and joined FCNL staff on the sidewalk facing the Hart Senate Building. For 17 minutes, we joined the hundreds of thousands of school children, teachers, parents and allies all over the world who walked out of their classrooms and places of work, and with their bodies and voices, said enough is enough.
  • Calling for a Ceasefire: Israel-Palestine Briefing

    Event | October 25, 2023
    In war, civilians always pay the highest price. As the crisis in Israel and Palestine deepens following the attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s retaliatory violence, our voices are needed.