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Dakota Pipeline Protest
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
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?FCNL Praises House Climate Change Resolution
On the eve of the Pope’s historic visit to Washington, a group of Republican lawmakers called upon Congress to commit to act to address changes in the climate, including efforts to balance the human impacts of climate change.Viewpoint: Inspired by the Possibility of What Could Be
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.Q&A: What Does Diane Randall Leave Behind at FCNL?
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.Grounded in Community: Organizing for Environmental Justice
Advocacy Corps Past and Present: Community-Building Retreat
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.Chris Letts
Chris Letts managed FCNL’s website and email advocacy program. In this capacity, she wrote extensively for FCNL’s digital presence and communicates with activists around the country. She led FCNL’s 2016 website redesign.
Kiarra Broadnax
Kiarra Broadnax is a rising junior at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama majoring in Political Science with a double minor in Communication and Sociology.Shoshana Abrams
Shoshana Abrams served as FCNL’s Advocacy Teams Manager. In that role she was responsible for deepening and expanding our Advocacy Teams program, a network of hundreds of Quakers and friends lobbying to build congressional champions for peace and justice.