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Civics
http://www.commoncause.org/
Common Cause is a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying
organization promoting open, honest and accountable government.
Supported by the dues and contributions of over 200,000 members
and supporters in every state across the nation, Common Cause
represents the unified voice of the people against corruption
in government and big money special interests.
http://www.moveon.org/
MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people
back into politics. With a system that today revolves around
big money and big media,
most citizens are left out. When it becomes clear that our "representatives" don't
represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril.
MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement,
supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political
voice. Our nationwide network of more than 600,000 online activists
is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic
participation available today.
www.truemajority.org
TrueMajority was founded by Ben Cohen,
Co-founder, Ben and Jerry’s.
It is a grassroots education and advocacy project of Priorities,
Inc., a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-deductible, 501(c)(3) corporations.
Once you register, you can go to our "Take Action" section
and send faxes on the issues we all care about to members of
Congress and national leaders. The "10 principles" outlines
our philosophy. After you register we will also send you e-mail
alerts on critical issues. With one click of a button you can
either send our suggested faxes or edit them yourself (and we'll
still send them for you.) You are always free not to participate
in any specific issue or remove your name from our list.
http://www.protest.net
Protest.Net is a collective of activists who are working together
to create our own media. By publishing a public record of our
political activities on the web we are taking a stand against
the established media. We are standing up and showing that serious
activism is alive and well at the dawn of the 21st century. Everyday
from Kansas to India activists are meeting, organizing, and protesting
to demand a better world for all. When the corporate media takes
note of our activities it is only to spit upon our struggle.
We are accused of being misinformed bleeding heart hooligans
with nothing better to do than march up and down blocking traffic.
Yet the rich get richer, and we are told to be complacent, to
wait for our due. They say the environment isn't being destroyed,
it's ok to kill millions of Iraqi's with vindictive sanctions
that the billions living in slums just need to work harder, that
global domination by corporate elite is the only way. Activists
around the world are fighting for a better world. We can't rely
on the media establishment to cover our movements. We will rise
up and seize the means of communication!
www.nationalpriorities.org
The National Priorities Project (NPP) offers citizen and community
groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy
priorities which promote social and economic justice.
www.votetoimpeach.org
Add campaign directed at impeaching George W. Bush. The
VoteToImpeach ad has appeared in the New York Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle and in other newspapers around the country.
This educational campaign that has reached millions has been
made possible by the many donations, large and small, of people
across the country. With your help, we will be able to continue
to focus attention through the mass media on this important
campaign
www.peacegeek.com
PeaceGeek is the dandy little software
program that will allow you to communicate more effectively
with your elected (and sometimes
not so elected) officials. PeaceGeek is a memo generator that
works in conjunction with your e-mail client (Outlook or Outlook
Express) and schedules your messages to be sent out on time,
so your vital input can be heard by the legislators who represent
you. How many times have you said to yourself "Aw nuts!
I meant to send my Senator some e-mail, but I forgot!" PeaceGeek
is here to help! Now you can pre-set the times and dates for
when to send that vital correspondence that will help your highly
paid public servants to hear your concerns and do their jobs
more efficiently.
Independent News
http://www.democracynow.org
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning
news program airing on over 140 stations in North America.Pioneering
the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy
Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public
Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite
television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network),
shortwave radio and the internet.
http://www.thenation.com
The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect,
or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to
bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really
critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence,
exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political
writing of the day is marred.
-- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865
Media
http://www.zmag.org/
A huge website updated many times daily and designed to convey
information and provide community. Over a quarter of a million
people a week use ZNet. Founded in 1995, ZNet offers information
through diverse watch areas and sub-sites, translations, archives,
links to other progressive sites, a daily commentary program,
and much more. The above link goes to the ZNet top page, and
the rest, such as Iraq Watch, antiwar materials, debates, recent
links, and much much more is all accessible from there.
www.adbusters.org
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a
not-for-profit, reader-supported, 85,000-circulation magazine
concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments
by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced by organizations
like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured on
MTV and PBS, in the Wall Street Journal and Wired, and in hundreds
of other newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows
around the world. While two-thirds of Adbusters' readers reside
in the United States, the magazine has subscribers in 60 other
countries, with one of the most diverse readerships of any publication.
Our readers are professors and students; activists and politicians;
environmentalists and media professionals; corporate watch dogs
and industry insiders; kids who love our slick ad parodies and
parents who worry about their children logging too many hours
a day in the electronic environment.
www.takebackthemedia.com
Take Back The Media is a cooperative project by progressive
American citizens. We are dismayed at the pro-government, pro-corporate
bias shown by American media, and we intend to do something about
it. Many American share our views on how the media promotes a
pro-war, pro-big corporation agenda, and our numbers are growing
every day. While we do not advocate any violent action against
private property or citizens, we do advocate using the Power
of The Purse and non-violent action to bring back responsibility
to the corporate media.
www.bushwatch.net
Bush Watch is a daily political internet magazine based in Austin,
Texas, a non-advocacy site paid for and edited by Politex, a
non-affiliated U.S. citizen.
http://www.horizonmag.com/
On-line magazine.
www.akpress.org
Our goal is to make available radical
books and other materials, titles that are published by independent
presses, not the corporate
giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the
world. The sorts of books we stock are less and less available
from the corporate publishers, booksellers & websites.
www.pbs.org
PBS, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is a private, non-profit
media enterprise owned and operated by the nation's 350 public
television stations. A trusted community resource, PBS uses the
power of noncommercial television, the Internet and other media
to enrich the lives of all Americans through quality programs
and education services that inform, inspire and delight. Available
to 99 percent of American homes with televisions and to an increasing
number of digital multimedia households, PBS serves nearly 100
million people each week.
Web Activism
http://www.actforchange.com/
ActForChange allows individuals to speak out on urgent issues
of the day found on our news site such as gun violence and environmental
degradation. We give you a direct link to the decision-makers
who can make a difference on these issues-free of charge.
http://www.thenation.com/actnow/
ActNow aims to help people act on their beliefs by putting readers
in touch with creative ways to register informed dissent.
www.ustrek.org
The Odyssey is a 100% volunteer run,
Internet-based non-profit. Our mission is to promote global
awareness among youth and involve
them in activities to create positive change in the world. The
Odyssey is an Internet-based educational non-profit. Our mission
is to use the Internet to promote global awareness among
youth and involve them in activities to create positive
change in the world. Our work has garnered us numerous
awards and notable mentions from such organizations as the US
State Department, Education World, USA Today, Excite, and the
Microsoft Encarta Schoolhouse, among others.
www.peacetrek.org
The Odyssey is a 100% volunteer run, Internet-based non-profit.
Our mission is to promote global awareness among youth and involve
them in activities to create positive change in the world.
Since 1999, The Odyssey has used the Internet to take hundreds of thousands
of K-12 students on an otherwise impossible field trip--a journey back in
time and around the world for FREE! More than 3000 classes in over 80 countries
have followed our team of young educators on a journey through Latin America,
Africa, the Middle East, India and China in the World
Trek, and through the US past and present in the US Trek. Through digital photos,
video, audio, and text, students meet kings and refugees, climb snow capped
peaks and swim the Dead Sea, and learn of ways to Make a Difference in their
homes and the world around critical current issues such as environment, poverty,
and racism.
Peace and Nonviolence
www.nonviolence.org
Nonviolence.Org is a complete new media
virtual organization. It was started by one person--me, Martin
Kelley--in my home office
in 1995. Almost eight years later, it continues to be run out
of my home office in a largely volunteer capacity. As each year
has passed I've been able to identify it more clearly as a ministry.
Yet while my motivations are ultimately faith-based, for eight
years it's continued to hover more-or-less on the cusp on "New
Media" publishing. Here at the precipice of a second U.S.-Iraq
war, search engines are naming it one of most essential antiwar
sites in the world.
www.worldwidewamm.org
WAMM is a nonviolent feminist organization that works in solidarity
with others to create a system of social equality, self-determination
and justice through education and empowerment of women. WAMM's
purpose is to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression.
http://www.peacepledge.org
Sponsored by a growing coalition of national and local groups,
the Iraq Peace Pledge is a way for you to: Publicly register
your opposition to war on Iraq, add your name to a national list
of citizens opposed to war that will be delivered to Congressional
offices, join a coordinated national campaign to prevent a war
with Iraq (choose ways to get involved below). Would your organization
like to join the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, a nationally
coordinated campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience?
www.peacefultomorrows.org
Peaceful Tomorrows is an advocacy organization
founded by family members of September 11th victims who have
united to turn our
grief into action for peace. Our mission is to seek effective,
nonviolent solutions to terrorism, and to acknowledge our common
experience with all people similarly affected by violence throughout
the world. By conscientiously exploring peaceful options in our
search for justice, we hope to spare additional families the
suffering we have experienced—as well as to break the cycle of
violence and retaliation engendered by war. In doing so, we work
to create a safer world for the present and future generations.
http://www.warincontext.org/
Critical Perspectives on the War on Terrorism, War Against Iraq,
and the Middle East Conflict
www.endthewar.org
The National Network to End the War Against Iraq is a nation-wide
coalition of over 140 peace and justice, student and faith-based
organizations united to work for a common cause: ending the illegal,
unjust, and inhumane war being waged against the people of Iraq
by member states of the United Nations, led by the United States.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
United for Peace & Justice is a new
national campaign that brings together a broad range of organizations
throughout the
United States to help coordinate our work against a U.S. war
on Iraq.
www.warresisters.org
Across the political spectrum left, right
and center, everyone says they want peace. Too often they also
want a gun, an army,
or a bomb to ensure they get the "right kind of peace." War
Resisters League is unique because we believe, to quote the late
A.J. Muste, "There is no way to peace — peace is the
way." We reject the use of violence for national defense
or for revolutionary change. Deeply influenced by the teachings
of the Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi, as well as Thoreau, Tolstoy,
King, Deming, and others, War Resisters League believes war is
a crime against humanity. We use peaceful means to create a society
that is democratic, free of economic, racial, and sexual oppression.
The methods we use range from education to demonstrations to
lobbying to nonviolent direct action-at all times trying to see
those we oppose not as enemies, but as sisters and brothers.
www.objector.org
The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors supports and
promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations
for war.
http://antiwar.com
This site is devoted to the cause of
non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists,
leftists, "greens," and
independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with
our opposition to imperialism.
www.urbanpeace.org
urbanPEACE is a national, spiritually-based empowerment
initiative with a mission to inform, incite and empower peacemaking
in urban environments using self-awareness and community-making
practices to bridge spirit and social transformation.
www.bvfp.org
Black Voices for Peace (BVFP) is a national action network of
Black people of African Heritage working for justice and peace
in the United States and abroad. Founded by human rights, peace
and environmental justice activist Damu Smith, BVFP was formed
to organize a progressive Black community response to horrific
attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. The
BVFP Peoples Action Network (BVFP-PAN) is sponsored by BVFP as
a multi-racial action network in support of BVFP's mission.
www.veteransforpeace.org
Veterans For Peace is a national organization founded in 1985.
It is structured around a national office in Saint Louis, MO
and comprised of members across the country organized in chapters
or as at-large members. There is an annual convention in August
for members from across the nation. Members receive periodic
VFP publications. The organization includes men and women veterans
from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts
and peactime veterans. Our collective experience tells us wars
are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often
the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary.
Veterans For Peace is an official Non-Governmental Organization
(NGO) represented at the UN.
www.veteransforcommonsense.org
Veterans for Common Sense seeks to inject the element of Common
Sense into debates over war and national security. In an age
when the majority of public servants have never served in uniform,
the perspective of war veterans must play a key role in the public
debate over national security issues in order to preserve the
liberty veterans have fought and died preserving.
http://www.nisbco.org/
The Center on Conscience & War (CCW), formerly the National
Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO),
was formed in 1940 by an association of religious bodies. CCW
works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors. The
Center is committed to supporting all those who question participation
in war, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents,
documented or undocumented immigrants--or citizens in other countries.
Environment
http://www.nrdc.org
NRDC
is the nation's most effective environmental action organization.
We use law, science, and the support of more than 1 million members
and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild
places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living
things. Worth Magazine has named NRDC one of America's
100 best charities, and Charity Navigator has given NRDC
four stars (out of a possible four).
http://www.greenpeace.org
Greenpeace
is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries
across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. To maintain
its independence, Greenpeace does not accept donations from
governments or corporations but relies on contributions from
individual supporters
and foundation grants. As a global organisation, Greenpeace
focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's
biodiversity
and environment.
Prisons
http://www.nomoreprisons.org
The Prison Moratorium Project (PMP) is a multi-racial group
of young activists, com- munity members and formerly incarcerated
people. We are a nonprofit organization based in New York City
that works locally and nationally to stop prison expansion and
mass incarceration, and re-invest resources into communities
most impacted by criminal justice policies through educational
programs, alternatives-to-incarceration initiatives, housing
and sustainable economic development. Our mission is to explore
and implement strategies that will bring about a society less
dependent on prisons and incarceration.
http://www.prisonactivist.org
Prison Activist Resource Center is committed to exposing
and challenging the institutionalized racism of the criminal
injustice system and to further developing anti-racism as individuals
and throughout our organization. We provide support for educators,
activists, prisoners, and prisoners' families. This work includes
building networks for action and producing materials that expose
human rights violations while fundamentally challenging the rapid
expansion of the prison industrial complex.
Anti-Racism
http://www.antiracistalliance.com
This website is designed for individuals,
educators, activists and trainers who are interested in being
part of a national movement
for racial justice. This is a curriculum designed to create
change! A.R.A. holds to the vision that the will of White America
can be transformed for racial justice, and the transformation
will take place one person at a time. An accurate analysis of
a racialized America offers White Americans the possibility of
freedom from guilt and defensiveness, and Healing for America. It
can be accomplished through organized action for reparations
and racial justice. ARA is currently organizing New York City
area human service providers and educators to undo racism and
work for racial justice.
Space de-Militarization
www.space4peace.org
The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
was founded in 1992 by the joint efforts of the Florida Coalition
for Peace & Justice (FCPJ); Citizens for Peace in Space (Colorado
Springs); and New York-based Journalism professor Karl Grossman.
The inaugural meeting of the Global Network (GN) was held in
Washington D.C. City Council Chambers.
Civil Liberties
www.aclu.org
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is our nation's guardian
of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities
to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed
to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of
the United States.
Free Speech
http://www.blah3.com/
Free speech for the new century
www.voice4change.org
The mission at voice4change is to bring a positive message to
the broadest possible audience. There are many wonderful organizations
doing critical work to make our world a better place. Many of
these organizations have very informative web sites but do not
have the time to promote them. Our role will be to promote these
sites to increase their effectiveness.
http://www.p5e.com/
A Spoken Word collective based in Pensacola, Florida.
Youth Organizing
www.youthforpeaceandplanet.org
This project, first and fore mostly — is
to get youth working together, first locally in the Tri-State
NY - Rockland County
and surrounding east coast area but then from literally around
the country and world to make a beautiful Peaceful difference
for the better. This is a project to have a youth survey published
nationally and internationally to raise awareness for the issues
of concern to our youth, in the areas of our world's peoples,
youth around the planet; peace, non-violence, our animals/wildlife
we share the world with; and our Planet - the environment.
http://www.ippn.org/unsorted/ORCCO.htm
Center for Campus Organizing: CCO
is a national organization founded in 1995 to support progressive
and social justice activism
and investigative journalism on campuses nationwide. We
know that students and faculty have always played critical roles
in larger social movements for social justice in our society. The
Civil Rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War and the Anti-Apartheid movements
were all movements in which campus activists played critical
roles. This understanding is behind our deep commitment
to build movements for social justice in this country by making
the various student movements as strong as possible.
www.takingitglobal.com
TakingITGlobal (TIG) is an international organization, led by
youth, empowered by technology. TIG brings together young people
in more than 200 countries within international networks to collaborate
on concrete projects addressing global problems and creating
positive change.
Justice Networks
www.idealist.org
Action Without Borders connects people, organizations and resources
to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified
lives. Action Without Borders is independent of any government,
political ideology or religious creed. Our work is guided by
the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical
solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of
generosity and mutual respect.
www.thedartcenter.org
The DART Center's mission is to assist in the development of
strong grassroots, congregation-based, multi-issued community
organizations committed to democratic principles and values of
justice and fairness. Since its inception, the DART Center has
developed twenty metropolitan organizations spread throughout
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Kentucky, which
together make up the DART Network. Each local organization in
the DART Network has its own leaders, staff, funding base, and
accomplishments toward justice at the local level.
http://www.afj.org/
The Alliance for Justice is a national association of environmental,
civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer
advocacy organizations. Since its inception in 1979, the Alliance
has worked to advance the cause of justice for all Americans,
strengthen the public interest community's ability to influence
public policy, and foster the next generation of advocates
Active Communities of Faith
www.ncccusa.org
The
National Council of Churches, founded in 1950, is the leading
force for
ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States.
The NCC's 36 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox member denominations
include more
than 50 million persons in 140,000 local congregations in communities across
the nation.
http://www.fcnl.org/
FCNL, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, is a Quaker
lobby in the public interest. FCNL seeks to bring the concerns,
experiences and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends
to bear on policy decisions in the nation's capital. FCNL's small
staff works with a nationwide network of thousands of Quakers
and like-minded people to advocate social and economic justice,
peace, and good government. Since its founding in 1943, FCNL
has witnessed from a basis of spiritual and ethical purpose,
as we seek change in both national policy and public opinion.
www.rastafaritoday.com
rastafaritoday.com
is your conscious online community welcoming and providing a
bridge between the Rastafarian community, our friends, curious
'onlookers,' in short, all humanity. In general, the teachings
of Rastafari advocates for the healthy development of the individual's
consciousness to procure healthy upstanding communities, where
equal rights and justice is the birthright of all. Therefore,
rastafaritoday.com is committed to providing platforms for dialogue,
consciousness (awareness) and most importantly resources through
an exposition of inspirational experiences, organizational listings/feature
and guides to taking action in order to uplift oneself for the
development of our global community. "Rastafari Today" is
livity, reality, consciousness and action… Rastafari Today is
creating the societies we dream and talk about. Rastafaritoday.com
is Rastafari Today.
Foundations and Fellowships
www.scoville.org
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
was established in 1987 to provide college graduates with the
opportunity to gain
a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and security. Twice
yearly, the Fellowship's Board of Directors selects a group of
outstanding individuals to spend six to nine months in Washington. Supported
by a monthly stipend, the Fellows serve as full-time project
assistants at the participating organization of their choice. In
the Program's first seventeen years, ninety-two fellowships have
been awarded.
www.henfoundation.org
The
HEN Foundation stimulates, develops and sustains mutual support
and collaborative advancement of grassroots activists, progressive
social movement organizations, and artist-activists. HEN raises
and distributes funds to develop and promote an international
community of artist-activists whose work furthers the causes
of anti-oppression, cultural innovation and peace-with-justice.
HEN connects artists with small grants, coordinates nationally-touring
political performance roadshows, connects progressive organizations
with artist-outreach workers, and produces and distributes a
yearly "WHEN THE HEN CROWS" CD compilation which chronicles the
work of HEN artist-activists and provides an annual oral record
of activist issues, struggles, and victories through music, spoken
word and spoken theater. The HEN Foundation supports leadership
of women and people of color within movements for justice.
www.globalexchange.org
Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education, and action
center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the
world. Since our founding in 1988, we have been striving to increase
global awareness among the US public while building international
partnerships around the world.
www.colombiamobilization.org
The Colombia Mobilization is calling on people of conscience
to converge converge from November 17-21, 2003 in Miami, Florida
to voice their opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas
agreement (FTAA) and from November 21-23, 2003 in Ft. Benning,
Georgia to speak out against the School of the Americas (SOA).
http://www.peacemakers.ca
Peacemakers Trust is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated
to research and education on conflict resolution and peace building.
http://culturejamming101.com/
A slide-show presentation and hands-on
workshop in the tactics & techniques
of creative media actions.
www.epic-usa.org
The Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) arose from a growing
concern over the plight of the Iraqi people, and the lack of
such concern in Washington, DC and the mainstream press. EPIC
works toward ending the UN economic sanctions against Iraq as
the only solution to Iraq's humanitarian crisis. We oppose all
sanctions that prevent or otherwise hamper a nation's ability
to provide for the public health of its people. In short, the
starvation of civilians as a method of warfare must end.
www.peace-action.org
Peace Action, the merger of SANE and The Freeze, has effectively
mobilized for peace and disarmament for over forty years. As
the nation's largest grassroots peace group we get results: from
the 1963 treaty to ban above ground nuclear testing, to the 1996
signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, from ending the
war in Vietnam, to blocking weapons sales to human rights abusing
countries.
http://www.us.net/epf/index2.html
EQUAL PARTNERS IN FAITH is a
multi-racial national network of religious leaders and people
of faith committed to equality and diversity. Our diverse faith
traditions and shared religious values lead us to affirm and
defend the equality of all people, regardless of religion, race,
ability, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity. As people
of faith, we actively oppose the manipulation of religion to
promote inequality and exclusion.
www.thebreastcancersite.com
The Breast Cancer Site was founded to help offer free mammograms
to underprivileged women nationwide -- women for whom early detection
would not otherwise be possible. Breast cancer is the leading
cause of cancer deaths among women ages 40 - 55. Early detection
is the key to survival, yet 13 million women in the U.S. over
40 have never had a mammogram.
www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide
movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized
human rights. AI’s
vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the
human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit
of this vision, AI’s mission is to undertake research and action
focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to
physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression,
and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work
to promote all human rights.
http://electroniciraq.net/news
Electronic Iraq was launched on 8 February 2003 to offer a humanitarian
perspective during the then-looming conflict, as the U.S. government
made clear its determination to go to war against Iraq.
www.worldyouth.org
Youth of all ages, musicians, artists,
poets, parents, elders, activists, educators, mentors, media
makers, youth groups, faith-based
and community groups, labor unions are welcome. Together, we
create opportunities to develop our ideas, address concerns,
problem-solve, share talents, and nourish relationships. To date,
we’ve worked with over 4000 youth and mentors and dozens of bands
and performing artists in the greater Washington metro area and
youth who have visited DC to learn about social justice issues
through seminars and community service. Our city is often host
to major national and international demonstrations, events and
conferences. We work to connect our local community to these
events (and vice versa) and ensure that DC youth voices are heard
whenever possible.
www.addictedtowar.com
ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most
active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting,
carefully documented with 145 reference notes,
and heavily illustrated, ADDICTED TO WAR reveals
why the U.S. has been involved in more wars in recent years than
any other country.
www.earthfuture.com/stopthewar
Earthfuture : Stories from a Sustainable World is a book of
short stories, set in the early years of the new millennium.
The stories describe a world of ecovillages and self-organizing
neighborhoods, of near-zero garbage, of bicycles and climate-friendly
cars. They reveal a world of work-sharing and social investment,
of neighborhood democracy and the syntropy revolution, of a world-wide
Sustainable Trade and Environment Treaty, and the Earth Pledge.
In short, a world where wealth is defined by peace, a healthy
environment, and the high quality of relationships.
www.palestinetoday.org
PalestineToday is a joint effort of Al-Watan Center in Al-Kalil,
and Nonviolence International to share photographs and stories
of the lives of Palestinians and Israelis struggling to achieve
a just peace in the region. The program is managed by Nayef Hashlamoun,
a well know professional news photographer and peace activist
in Al-Kalil.
www.globalwellnesstreaty.org
We are dreamers, visionaries, unrepentant idealists. Like you,
we want to make the world a better place. More specifically,
the Alliance for the GWF Treaty involves a core group of academics-turned-activists
in the Philadelphia area. Collectively, our specialties include
politics and international relations, communications, sociology,
theology, ethics and economic development. On the Steering Committee,
Gordon, Don, and Larry have all taught peace studies courses.
Our Treasurer, Linda Thomasson, is an attorney. Although none
of us has ever written a treaty before, we worked from good models
and with the advice of Jim Dougherty, who served on the United
Nations Disarmament Board, 1981-89, and Van Weigel, who has written
extensively about economic development in the low-income nations.
Also, we have solicited and received advice and helpful critiques
from many other sources, most notably Dr. Randall Forsberg of
the Institute for Disarmament Studies, and former Ambassador
Robert Seiple, founder of the Institute for Global Engagement.
www.haguepeace.org
The Hague Appeal for Peace [www.haguepeace.org] is an international
network of peace and justice organizations dedicated to sowing
the seeds for the abolition of war through the implementation
of the Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century
(UN Ref A/54/98), a set of 50 recommendations developed at the
Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in 1999, the largest international
peace conference in history. We are focused on promoting a Global
Campaign for Peace Education dedicated to the integration of
peace education into curricula and communities worldwide as a
means of reducing violence and preventing war.