Work Plan to Support Peace
Support Peace Goals: Support Quaker Testimonies for Peace Objectives Oppose amount of increase in national military budget to help support human needs in the state
Support Peace Goals: Support Quaker Testimonies for Peace Objectives Oppose amount of increase in national military budget to help support human needs in the state
Goals: Maintain the environmental balance that supports the needs of all living creatures while also protecting public health and providing an improved quality of life Ensure an improved economic future by not wasting or compromising our environmental resources Provide local control over state assets to increase state resources Objectives: Preserve and enhance environmental protections Oppose … Read more
Goals: Protect the safety net for economically or physically challenged state residents, permitting them to be healthier contributors to their communities Prevent levels of disparity in wealth and opportunity that lead to social dysfunction and increased criminal activity Create and maintain programs, systems, and institutions required to keep people in good physical health Objectives: … Read more
Goals: Give priority to efforts to repair the harm suffered by victims over attempts to punish offenders Identify and address the causes of crime Replace costly incarceration for both juvenile and adult offenders through diversion, drug treatment, job training, and education whenever appropriate Redress the racial inequity of our current criminal justice system Support offenders’ … Read more
Convener, Criminal Justice Working Group: Sam Merrill email: SamM…@comcast.net Read More on our Facebook page 2017 Focus Issues: Quaker Voice on Washington Public Policy Criminal Justice Working Group Priority issues for the 2017 legislative session: Reform Legal Financial Obligations: Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs) amount to criminal justice debts owed by released prisoners. Specifically, LFOs are … Read more
Friends, Attached is an Alert concerning transportation issues. FCWPP advocates: A balanced package addressing roads, transit, walkability and bicycle amenities and the Special Needs Transportation Fund Stable state level funding sources Options for local jurisdictions to raise revenues to meet local needs In advance of a possible special legislative session in November, listening sessions on … Read more
To: FCWPP Activists, The following recommendation arose from the Local Responses to Global Challenges Working Group and has been approved by the Legislative and Executive Committees. I-522 is the measure on this November’s ballot that would require labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). “As members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) bearing … Read more
Contact your state senator today and ask her (or him) to: Support HB 2064 to fix our state’s current estate tax in order to maintain revenue streams dedicated to funding K-12 and higher education, and To block any effort to use HB 2064 to reduce the estate taxes paid by millionaires. Background: The state legislature … Read more
Legislators continue to negotiate on our state’s operations budget. The Senate Budget proposal described in the attached letter not only forces additional cuts in social services this session, it will force additional cuts in future legislative sessions. We need those who represent us in Olympia to know Friends believe we need to find ways to … Read more
Friends, Please send an email or make a phone call today to ask your representatives in the state legislature to support a state budget that maintains crucial social services and protection of our most vulnerable citizens while making sure the state has the revenue needed to fund these services. The current House and … Read more