QV Archive

This is an archive of old Quaker Voice posts.

Tell your legislators you support a capital gains tax to fully fund our social safety net; and you support cap and trade

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Click What can Friends Do? to learn what FCWPP recommends you ask of your legislators. Everyone comes comes to Olympia at the start of each legislative session with high hopes. Progressives hope to finally reverse the regressive nature of our state’s tax system to fully fund needed social safety net programs, protect our environment, and … Read more

Take Action

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Take Action Want to get involved? Make a difference? Here are some steps you can take. Join our Action Alert network– it’s free and it’s easy.  Just register here.  We’ll send you actions to take on the important issues facing Washington.  Communicate directly to your legislators online. Join Quaker Voice as a contributing member.  Help … Read more

Action Tool-kit

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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

2/10/15 Death Penalty Lobby Day, Register by 2/3/15

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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

FCWPP urges Yes for I-594, No for I-591firearms related initiatives

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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

7 pm 9/26/14 Come to Fall Steering Com. of FCWPP at Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting

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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 state legislators want to see you

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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

Spring meeting of the Steering Committee of Friends Committee on Washington Public Policy (FCWPP)

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  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

Challenging session ends with several significant successes

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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

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