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Toolkit for Activists You can choose your level of activity: from sending a message to your legislator based on our Action Alerts  to organizing a delegation to meet with your legislator in your district or at the Capitol in Olympia on Quaker Lobby Day. Step One:Connect. Join the Action Alerts Network Quaker Voice’s Action Alerts … Read more

DATE: Tuesday, February 10 at 9:00 am (registration at 8:30am)LOCATION: Washington State Capitol   Pritchard Building, Washington Room   415 15th Ave SE, Olympia, WA 98501 Registration is due by February 3rd! FCWPP is an endorsing organization of Safe & Just Alternatives (SJA), a campaign that seeks to end the death penalty. SJA is organizing teams of … Read more

Dear Friends, It’s just two weeks until your ballot will be mailed to your home. FCWPP supports a “Yes” vote on Initiative 594, which would require criminal and public safety background checks on all firearms sales and transfers including gun shows, online sales, and private sales with certain exceptions. These background checks would be the … Read more

Dear Friends of FCWPP, You are invited to participate in the fall meeting of the Steering Committee of Friends Committee on Washington Public Policy (FCWPP). The meeting will be at 7 pm on Friday September 26 at Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting (PNQM), at Lazy F camp near Ellensburg. We’ll be meeting at 7 pm in … Read more

Your elected representatives say they want you to meet with them before the 2015 legislative session begins in January. Many organizations are already firming up their work plans for the 2015 legislative session. Groups are finding legislators who will take lead roles advocating for the bills their constituents want passed, and they are continuing to … Read more

  Dear Friends of FCWPP,You are invited to participate in the spring meeting of the Steering Committee of Friends Committee on Washington Public Policy (FCWPP).  The meeting will be at 7 pm on Friday April 25 at Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting (PNQM), at Lazy F camp near Ellensburg.As part of the agenda for this meeting, we’ll … Read more

This post “Challenging session ends with several significant successes” is also available as a PDF file: 2014 End of Session Report-1. The importance of your voice to the Washington state legislature’s decision making process increases as the Senate’s majority caucus becomes increasingly dominated by other voices that advocate most strongly for reduced government and increased … Read more

Two issues from FCWPP’s workplan are still being considered by the Washington legislature. Both will be decided by Thursday, and both are in the Supplemental Operations Budget that the House submitted last week to the Senate. The effort to reduce crime by providing post-secondary education opportunities to eligible individuals while incarcerated is supported with a … Read more

Friends, The Washington state legislative session is down to the wire!  All bills, unless necessary to implement the budget, must be passed by tomorrow: Friday, March 7th. If you have not communicated with your state senator in the last week, we encourage you to copy the following message into an email, addyour name and your … Read more