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28 August 2009

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US Quaker lobbyists ‘say it with flowers’ - preview
American Quakers are using ‘flower power’ to reduce tensions in the USA over healthcare reform


  • Friends Committee for National Legislation (FCNL), the Quaker lobbying group in Washington, DC, is asking Friends across the USA to send flowers to their political representatives with a message of support
  • The move comes as debate intensifies in the country over plans to allow wider access to health services


  • ‘We remain of the belief that the United States and Congress needs to pass healthcare reform this year’, said Jim Cason of FCNL
  • ‘As the debate here got more heated and, in our view, got away from a real listening conversation… it was important to bring a different perspective

  • Oliver Robertson

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