Links
Below is a set of resources around the web divided into the these sections:
Peace, Non-Violence & Organization
Social Justice & Human Rights
Gay & Lesbian Rights
Globalization
Miscellaneous
If you'd like your organization included here, or have a link to suggest, see below.
Peace, Nonviolence & Organizing Links
Through PeaceNet, take action for positive social change in the areas of
peace, social and economic justice, human rights and the struggle against racism.
An idea whose time has come. Inspired by the one-day Moratorium on November 15, 1969 during the Vietnam War, which encouraged local activists all over the country to do events of all kinds as part of a nationwide Vietnam War Moratorium Day, on November 15, 1969. On high school and college campuses, town squares, places of worship, neighborhoods, work places and public gathering places teach-ins, talks, debates, film screenings, pickets,
protests, vigils, and protests took place. Public opposition to the
war was growing deeper and wider.
On the 3rd Friday of September 2007, the Iraq Moratorium was born, with locally volunteer-organized grassroots events in over 100 places around the country. Each and every month on the 3rd Friday, actions take place in villages, towns and cities across the country. This project has no funding from major donors, patrons, underwriters or foundations. It relies entirely on the generosity of small donors like yourself. Each local event is created and put in to action by local activists. The strength and purpose of the project is in its website that serves to promote, publicize and post reports on each local event through the national website. This in turn helps activists and people everywhere be sble to easily connect with others acting locally in their own communities across the country to share ideas, information and strategies on how best to publicize the pro-peace/anti-war messege. This can only grow with your participation. Tell others about the Iraq Moratorium Project. Include the website in every Press Release you put out. Mark your calendars: the 3rd Friday of each month as Iraq Moratorium Day Read about the 3rd Friday events state-by-state throughout the country, or post your own upcoming event on the project's website: www.IraqMoratorium.org.
The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity.
We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or
civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war. W.R.L.
is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the U.S., founded in 1923. Publishes
a quarterly magazine, WIN.
The Nonviolence Web is the home to many of the U.S.'s most dynamic peace and
justice groups.
AVP is a nationwide and worldwide association of volunteer groups offering
experiential workshops in conflict resolution, responses to violence, and
personal growth.
The Ruckus Society provides training in the skills of non-violent civil disobedience
to help environmental and human rights organizations achieve their goals.
The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors supports and promotes
individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.
1515 Cherry St
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-563-8787
Fax 215-567-2096
info@objector.org
630 20th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
510-465-1617
Fax 510 465-2459
Veterans for Peace is an organization made up of men and women veterans who
realize that wars are easy to start and hard to stop; they advocate alternate
methodes of resolving conflits.
216 South Meramec Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105
(314) 725-6005
Fax: (314) 725-7103
E-mail: info@veteransforpeace.net
On Martin Luther King's birthday, January 15, 2006, a new progressive student
action national organization was born, taking its name from the 1962-1969 S.D.S..
Already there are over 100 local chapters of S.D.S. on college and high school
campuses across the country. They have held regional meetings around the country
and had their first national conference in August 2006 in Chicago. One of the
original S.D.S., slogans, "Dare to struggle, dare to win" still holds true
today.
Students for a Democratic Society
P.O. Box 40921
New York, N.Y. 10304
Dedicated to peace, anti-war, anti-intervention, pro-Constitution.
Human Rights & Social Justice
Publishes the "Shop With A Conscience Consumer Guide" to companies that make and sell sweatshop-free and union-made clothing. Founded in 2003, they assist sweatshop workers globally in their struggles to improve working conditions and form strong, independent labor unions. They are also building a national sweatfree movement with the unity and political strength to generate significant market demand for products that are made in humane conditions by workers who earn living wages.
SweatFree Communities
Liane Foxvog, National Organizer
140 Pine Street #10
Florence, MA 01062
phone: (413) 586-0974
fax: (413) 584-8987
email: liane@sweatfree.org
www.sweatfree.org
WILPF works for women's rights, world disarmament, racial and economic justice,
an end to violence, and towards assuring peace freedom, and justice.
1213 Race Street
Phila., PA 19107
215-563-7110
Fax: 215-563-5527
FOR is an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a means
of radical change and as a tranforming way of life. The see to replace violence,
war, and racism with nonviolence, peace, and justice. They educate, train,
build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and copassionate actions locally,
nationally, and globally.
P.O. Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960
(845) 358-4601
Fax:(845) 358-4924
E-mail: for@forusa.org
Amnesty International works to free prisoners of conscience detained around
the world because of their beliefs, ethic origin, sex, color, or language.
Amnesty fights for fair trials for political prisoners as well as campaigning
against the dealth penalty, torture, and cruel treatment of prisoners.
322 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-807-8400
212-463-9193
admin-us@aiusa.org
Global exchange promotes human rights, social justice, and environmental causes
around the world, as well as providing resources on the global economy and
fair trade.
Global Exchange
2017 Mission St., Room 303
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel. (415) 255-7296
Fax: (415) 255-7498
www.globalexchange.org
UNITE! is running a "Stop Sweatshops" campaign. Their website provides
a basic set of resources that can help you as a consumer figure out what you
can do to fight sweatshops.
Human Rights Watch has been protecting human rights around the world for
over 20 years. Their web site is regularly updated and provides news and investigations
about ongoing human rights violations.
United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of
campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions
and workers’ rights
1413 K St. NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
phone: 202-NO-SWEAT
fax: 202-393-5886
Gay & Lesbian Rights Links
GLAAD is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive
representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating
homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
GLSEN is the leading national organization fighting to end anti-gay bias in
K-12 schools. Formerly Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN)
The Human Rights Campaign provides a national voice on gay and lesbian issues,
effectively lobbying Congress; mobilizing grassroots action in diverse communities;
investing strategically to elect a fair-minded Congress; and increasing public
understanding through innovative education and communication strategies. HRC
is a bipartisan organization that works to advance equality based on sexual
orientation and gender expression and identity, to ensure that gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender Americans can be open, honest and safe at home, at
work and in the community.
NGLTF is the national progressive organization working for the civil rights
of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. NGLTF's vision and commitment
to social change is building a powerful political movement in the fifty states
and the District of Columbia.
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered
persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse
society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end
discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends
of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation
and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful
of human diversity.
Globalization Links
Wal-mart Watch is a nationwide publc education campaign to challenge the world's
largest retailer to become a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen.
It is a project of the Center for Community and Corporate Ethics. Visit their
website and their MySpace page: myspace.com/walmartwatch.
page
The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research
and media group of writers, scholars journalists and activists. The CRG is
based in Montreal. It is a registered non profit organization in the province
of Quebec, Canada.
The Global Research webpage at www.globalresearch.ca publishes news articles,
commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing
on social, economic, strategic, geopolitical and environmental processes.
The Continental Direct Action Network consists of many autonomous locals working
to overcome corporate globalization and all forms of oppression.
PO BOX 1485
Asheville NC, 28802
Miscellaneous Links
Adbusters is a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters,
students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist
movement
of the information age. Their aim is "to topple existing power structures
and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century."
The official Michael Moore home page.
Mark Frankenburg has written a timely warning in novel form, "Just Say No To Fascism - a Fable" about
how a corporate aristocracy is soft selling us a dictatorship. America is living
in denial due to The Big Lie. Our nation, under the Bush neocon regime, fits
all 14 early warning signs of fascism defined by Professor Lawrence Britt.
Our country can be paralleled to an alcoholic, or addict, since we as a nation
are so sick with denial of the problem, so in fear of what we don't want to
admit the truth about the direction our nation is headed. We, as a people,
are like a hooked fiend - dependent on militarism and corporatism. Do we have
to wait for the addict to "hit bottom"? His book (280 pages, trade paperback) is available to purchase on his wesbite. The site has many other very good features and links.
A mail-order business in Washington, D.C., Teaching for Change "provides teachers and parents wit tols to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world." They also run a bookstore inside a restaurant/bar/film/theatre/performance space on "V" Street, called "Busboys & Poets" and in a second "Busboys & Poets" that opened in 2007 in Shirlington, Virginia. They offer an outstanding selection of books by mail and in their two bookshops.
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