Dear Friends,
At our July meeting for business, we changed the date of our August meeting and annual potluck at Rooks Park to Sunday, August 30, which will be our final meeting of the summer before resuming our normal schedule of weekly meetings at Olin Hall on Sept 6. As usual, we will meet east of the playground at 10:00 for meeting for worship. Please bring lawn chairs or a blanket, as well as some food to share following meeting. This will be our only meeting in August.
We hope you can join us, and encourage you to bring others.
Best wishes,
Walla Walla Friends
MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
--A Visit With Quaker Activist Bob Schultz of the
Friends Committee on National Legislation--
SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 11:00 AM, OLIN HALL FACULTY LOUNGE, WHITMAN COLLEGE
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The election of President Barack Obama and the seating of the 111th Congress have opened doors for promising new opportunities for “change we can believe in” on Capitol Hill. But active citizen involvement will be needed. The D.C.-based Quaker lobby, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, has a 65 year history in leading citizen action for peace, justice and earthcare, involving both Friends and non-Quakers.
Learn how this public interest lobbying is making a difference, both through FCNL staffers in D.C. and grassroots citizen activists across the country. Also, hear about the work of the Friends Committee on Washington Public Policy in Olympia.
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Bob Schultz is a retired professor of ethics and social philosophy, and serves on governing committees of FCNL. Having taught during the 70s and 80s at the University of Denver, he was appointed in 1990 to the founding faculty of the University of Washington Bothell. Among his teaching responsibilities, he regularly led the Washington D.C. Seminar on Human Rights, taking over 300 university students for week-long seminars to the State Department, the Pentagon, embassies, elected officials, and non-governmental organizations across the political spectrum.
The FCNL has enjoyed successes in recent years in its efforts to block funding for new nuclear weapons, to build Congressional support for banning cluster munitions, and to pass legislation prohibiting permanent U.S. bases in Iraq. It has also worked for authorization and funding of non-military resources, such as diplomats and civilian crisis response teams as instruments of U.S. foreign policy. In the presidential transition and early weeks of the Obama administration, FCNL staffers have enjoyed considerable access to Transition Team committees and newly appointed officials.
The public is cordially invited to this informal presentation-and-discussion following the regular 10:00 a.m. meeting of Walla Walla Friends (Quakers). Join in the meeting for worship, or come at 11:00.
