QV Webspinner Please help move House Bill 1320, Rep. Bob Hasegawa’s bill to create Washington Investment Trust, (WIT). The WIT is based on the model of North Dakota’s State Bank. In Bob’s words, “The concept: keep taxpayers’ money working here in Washington to build our economy. Currently, all tax revenues go into a “Concentration Account” held by … Read more
“While we are still analyzing the details, it appears the House Ways and Means Committee responded to concerns shared about the needs of our most vulnerable neighbors and found ways to retain most of the funding for Disability Lifeline and full funding for Apple Health for Kids in its proposed 2011 Supplemental Operating Budget. The … Read more
Goals and Objectives for FCWPP’s work in Criminal Justice, Local Responses to Global Challenges, and Economic Justice, including Health Care….
approved by FCWPP Steering Committee – January 15, 2011 1. CRIMINAL JUSTICE a. Goals: i. Give priority to efforts to repair the harm suffered by victims over applying punishments to offenders ii. Enable offenders to redeem themselves and reintegrate into society iii. Replace costly incarceration through diversion, drug treatment, job training, and education … Read more
FCWPP Alert: FCWPP Endorsement of Initiatives and a Referendum FCWPP recommends: a YES vote for the following: Initiative 1098: Tax Reform initiative (This Initiative was endorsed earlier by FCWPP; for details see the Alert of 5-21-2010 on our website: www.fcwpp.org). I-1098 reforms our unfair and imbalanced tax system and generates dedicated funding for education and … Read more
An article by Tom Ewell from Western Friend, June 2010 A room full of fifty Friends is gathered in the Olympia Friends Meetinghouse listening to a state legislator explain the complexities of offering prison reform measures to the Washington State legislature. Friends from various parts of the state have gathered for the second annual Quaker … Read more
Last week, the Steering Committee of the Friends Committee on Washington Public Policy minuted support of a state income tax and that “we encourage Friends in the State of Washington to read and consider I-1077 [1] and if they approve it to encourage their meetings to minute their support.” If approved by voters in November … Read more
Dear FCWPP Activists, This is a reminder that you are invited to the FCWPP Steering Committee meeting at Quarterly Meeting at Lazy F Camp near Ellensburg this coming Friday evening, April 23 at 7 pm. We will focus on reporting on our legislative work this past legislative session and hear reports from our Restorative Justice, … Read more
Dear Friends, We have sent out only a few legislative alerts this past short session because the legislature was so immersed in working out the budget. After an extended session a budget proposal is ready to be approved, but it needs our citizen support. Please consider calling your Senator and House members to urge … Read more
Dear FCWPP Friends, May I recommend as strongly as possible that you take time to view the Friday, April 2, Bill Moyers Journal if you did not see it Friday evening or have not already seen it on line: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04022010/watch.html. The program features an interview with Michelle Alexander who has written a book about the “drug … Read more