Visalia Quaker Friends Meeting
@visalia-quakers.bsky.social
In our Meetings we gather and worship together in stillness.
During that silent worship anyone who feels moved to share a message may do so. As friends believe that within each person is 'that of God', any message given in Meeting evokes this spirit.
During that silent worship anyone who feels moved to share a message may do so. As friends believe that within each person is 'that of God', any message given in Meeting evokes this spirit.
We are exercising our religious conviction to speak the truth as we see it. We believe with moral clarity, and in line with the definition of the crime of genocide, that the current actions in Gaza perpetrated by the Israeli government, constitute genocide.
Quakers Discern Genocide is Occurring in Gaza and Urge Courageous Action | Friends Committee On National Legislation
Eight Quaker organizations, including FCNL, have published a new statement expressing our belief that “in line with the definition of the crime of genocide, that the current actions in Gaza perpetrate...
www.fcnl.org
July 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
We are exercising our religious conviction to speak the truth as we see it. We believe with moral clarity, and in line with the definition of the crime of genocide, that the current actions in Gaza perpetrated by the Israeli government, constitute genocide.
Join us for a critical conversation with Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, who introduced the Block the Bombs Act, to prevent the Trump administration from sending weapons to Israel and by Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, who was detained for over 100 days without charges.
Stop ICE Abductions and Block the Bombs · American Friends Service Committee
Join us for a critical conversation with Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, who introduced a historic bill – H.R.3565, the Block the Bombs Act, to prevent the Trump administration from sending weapons to Is...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Join us for a critical conversation with Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, who introduced the Block the Bombs Act, to prevent the Trump administration from sending weapons to Israel and by Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, who was detained for over 100 days without charges.
Pictures & Stories of the AFSC and Visalia Meeting
Farmworker organizing
In the 1950s, AFSC began to work with migrant farmworkers fighting for basic services such as access to water, and elimination of tin-shack public housing. This work expanded into Proyecto Campesino i...
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July 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Pictures & Stories of the AFSC and Visalia Meeting
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We’re facing the most brazen rollback of our rights and fundamental freedoms in generations. It’ll take sustained, united, peaceful pushback to salvage our liberties from the fascist MAGA agenda. Join us on Thursday to “make good trouble” in response to Trump’s attacks on our civil and human rights.
Good Trouble Lives On
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, v...
goodtroubleliveson.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We’re facing the most brazen rollback of our rights and fundamental freedoms in generations. It’ll take sustained, united, peaceful pushback to salvage our liberties from the fascist MAGA agenda. Join us on Thursday to “make good trouble” in response to Trump’s attacks on our civil and human rights.
Here are a few areas where we saw minor, but important improvements from the original bill
What happened and what’s next after budget reconciliation | Friends Committee On National Legislation
Since late last year, we have been working to oppose, mitigate, and delay Trump’s budget reconciliation bill, what ultimately became the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1). The bill passed last wee...
www.fcnl.org
July 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Here are a few areas where we saw minor, but important improvements from the original bill
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New from FCNL's @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social in @rns.org:
War is not the answer, at home or abroad.
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War is not the answer, at home or abroad.
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War is not the answer, at home or abroad
(RNS) — And it is not a justification for the erosion of our civil liberties and democracy.
religionnews.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
New from FCNL's @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social in @rns.org:
War is not the answer, at home or abroad.
religionnews.com/2025/07/10/w...
War is not the answer, at home or abroad.
religionnews.com/2025/07/10/w...
Persistent Advocacy in the Face of Disappointment
Persistent Advocacy in the Face of Disappointment
Halfway through 2025 – and six months into President Trump’s second administration – we continue to collectively experience a politics of fear, anger, and chaos. The FCNL network has responded by mobi...
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July 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Persistent Advocacy in the Face of Disappointment
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“They’re just trying to get food for their families, and they’re being met with live ammunition.”
@hassaneltayyab.bsky.social joined @nader.org to discuss the latest on Gaza and the Israeli gov's disastrous "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."
www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/power-unch...
@hassaneltayyab.bsky.social joined @nader.org to discuss the latest on Gaza and the Israeli gov's disastrous "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."
www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/power-unch...
Power Unchecked
Hassan El-Tayyeb of the Friends Committee on National Legislation returns with an update on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the growing movement to end U.S.
www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“They’re just trying to get food for their families, and they’re being met with live ammunition.”
@hassaneltayyab.bsky.social joined @nader.org to discuss the latest on Gaza and the Israeli gov's disastrous "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."
www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/power-unch...
@hassaneltayyab.bsky.social joined @nader.org to discuss the latest on Gaza and the Israeli gov's disastrous "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."
www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/power-unch...
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Join One Million Rising, our campaign to train one million Americans to lead a local resistance movement. We're undertaking this new effort to dramatically ramp up defiance and non-cooperation tactics society-wide, whether it be at corporations, education, the media, or neighborhoods.
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
July 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Join One Million Rising, our campaign to train one million Americans to lead a local resistance movement. We're undertaking this new effort to dramatically ramp up defiance and non-cooperation tactics society-wide, whether it be at corporations, education, the media, or neighborhoods.
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Do you live in a blue state or city? Then your Democratic governor, mayor, or lawmakers have the power to stop secret police tactics like abductions by masked ICE agents. Our Blue State Defiance toolkit helps you identify who to contact. 👇
No Secret Police Act — Indivisible Blue State Defiance
www.bluestatedefiance.org
July 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Do you live in a blue state or city? Then your Democratic governor, mayor, or lawmakers have the power to stop secret police tactics like abductions by masked ICE agents. Our Blue State Defiance toolkit helps you identify who to contact. 👇
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No one has the right to follow orders
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
June 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
No one has the right to follow orders
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
We see a future where everyone is welcome. Where everyone has access to legal status. Where civil and human rights are respected. Where people are safe from detention and deportation. We work for a world where migration is a choice, not a necessity, because everyone has what they need to thrive.
Stronger With Immigrants
afsc.org
June 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We see a future where everyone is welcome. Where everyone has access to legal status. Where civil and human rights are respected. Where people are safe from detention and deportation. We work for a world where migration is a choice, not a necessity, because everyone has what they need to thrive.
Lifelines: Aid workers in Gaza is a short film that provides a window into the lives and work of two staff members from the American Friends Service Committee. AFSC staff in Gaza have provided lifesaving aid despite being displaced themselves and losing dozens of family members and loved ones, .
Lifelines: Aid Workers in Gaza
afsc.org
June 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Lifelines: Aid workers in Gaza is a short film that provides a window into the lives and work of two staff members from the American Friends Service Committee. AFSC staff in Gaza have provided lifesaving aid despite being displaced themselves and losing dozens of family members and loved ones, .