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ACORN
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Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 120,000 member families organized into 600 neighborhood chapters in 45 cities across the country. Since 1970 ACORN® has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to our members. Our priorities include: better housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. We achieve these goals by building community organizations that have the power to win changes -- through direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation.
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Aeolus Beta is an online publication for the next generation. Our goal is to help our readers and writers around the world understand each other's perspectives and opinions on matters that affect them. To make sure we accomplish this goal, we have recruited writers from as many
different backgrounds as possible, covering four continents. Our online magazine is free, and contains no ads. Our writing is of the highest standards, and offers a way to understand what people of the next generation think. In each Beta, we print many articles covering non-mainstream current affairs, regional society and culture, and perspective and opinion.
Our fundamental value is simple: For there to be peace, people need to understand each other. We are helping the next generation accomplish this.
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American Friends Service Committee
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About AFSC
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.
Founded in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian victims during World War I, today the AFSC has programs that focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth, in the United States, and in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and at the United Nations (Geneva and New York).
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ABOUT US
Awakened Woman was created in 1999 by Stephanie Hiller as an offering to the goddess -- a forum for the voices of women committed to freedom, justice and truth throughout the world.
We are a circle, a woman's circle which seeks to embrace all women's circles working towards the same end: the reassertion of women's wisdom for the benefit of all who live on this beautiful and abundant planet earth.
Please join us. Let us know what your group is doing, what you'd like to see on our pages, what your concerns are, and most precious of all, tell us your stories.
Together we can do what can none of us can do alone: we can wrap our arms around the world.
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Be The Cause
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Be The Cause properly defined is a movement dedicated to fostering progressive change. We see our mission as three-fold:
Progress Together - To facilitate projects designed to create opportunities of collaboration among progressive organizations and individuals: With strength, in unison, and in numbers, we can create the change that we all wish to see in the world. We know that what we do is not about any one organization or any one individual. We know that we are all part of one big universal team, one big family. Through our collective efforts we will write the pages of a new history.
Inspire Change - To facilitate projects that build inspiration in the lives of the general masses: We believe that reaching out to the general public is a necessary aspect of re-creating a peaceful planet. It will take the few of us to lead the change for the rest of us. In the end we believe that Be The Cause will have a membership of 7 Billion volunteers.
In Service - To facilitate projects that are designed to assist with humanitarian efforts around the globe: Our global long term vision is to ensure that every being is entitled to food, water, shelter, clothing, education, and world peace.
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Blah3.com is one of a new breed on the internet, forging a liberal viewpoint with a bare-knuckles attitude. Blah3 existed as a music and entertainment zine for nearly four years, before Election 2000 pushed the site in a more political direction. Along with the usual weblog entries, Blah3 offers commentary on news and world events and an emphasis on using web media to forward the liberal agenda. The site is the home of the popular 'Question Mark Campaign', which was started in reponse to the Bush administration's refusal to conduct a full, fair and open investigation into the events leading to the World Trade Center and Penatgon attacks. Now that the US is moving into the mid-term election season, the QM Campaign is openly advocating the election of Democrats, because getting the Congress out of Republican control may be the only way left to reverse the slide toward fascism in this country.
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California Peace Action
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California Peace Action is the nation's largest statewide peace organization, with 35,000 members and offices in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Sacramento and Santa Cruz. Peace Action has three primary political programs - abolishing nuclear weapons, cutting military spending, and ending U.S. arms exports to human rights-abusing governments. We are an advocacy organization and all of our work is dedicated to involving Californians in strategies for tangible, meaningful political change. We design our campaigns for the express purpose of increasing the political pressure on members of Congress from their constituents who seek a more peaceful future. We are the California affiliate of the national organization Peace Action. We organize, we agitate, we educate and we activate.
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Committee in Solidarity with The People of El Salvador
CISPES has been working since 1980 in solidarity with the FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front) and the Salvadoran social justice movement to promote an alternative to the oppressive US-backed policies of the Salvadoran right. Today, a decade after the signing of the Salvadoran Peace Accords, the struggle for a more just society continues on many socio-economic fronts. CISPES currently works within the solidarity and anti-corporate globalization movements, to build a cross-border movement that can confront the injustices of the neoliberal economic model that is ravaging El Salvador and much of the globe. In particular, CISPES is now helping to launch a hemisphere-wide campaign against CAFTA, a proposed free trade agreement between the United States and Central America modeled on NAFTA, and which was promoted by George W. Bush in a March 2002 visit to El Salvador.
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Cities for Peace
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Cities for Peace Campaign
Cities for Peace is a rapidly growing coalition of local elected officials and concerned citizens working to get City Councils and other civic bodies to pass resolutions against a war on Iraq. Civic and religious leaders, educators, peace activists, business leaders and individuals from all sectors are coming together across the country to say "no" to President Bush's call for war. We the people of the U.S. are wary of a military venture against a country that has not attacked us. We are fearful that a war will lead to the deaths of thousands of Iraqis and US troops. We see this as a potentially dangerous distraction from fighting terrorism and we are aware that such a war would have devastating consequences on our city budgets and on local capacity to meet the current needs of our own communities in these difficult economic times.
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Citizens for Legitimate GovernmentTM--the national, internet-based group that arose in response to the breach of democratic principles in the 2000 presidential election contest--is a pro-democracy activist group established to expose the Bush coup d'etat, and to oppose the Occupation in all of its manifestations.
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Citizens for Legitimate Government
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Coalition for World Peace
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As members of the global human rights community, we pledge to redouble our efforts to build bridges of love, respect and understanding around the world. As we stand on the brink of disaster beyond imagination, we call on each other to bring an end to violence everywhere and create a future of peace and justice for all humanity. We are one planet, and peace can only reign where justice lives.
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Mission Statement
All living things depend upon one another for their very survival. We will work with other peace and social justice groups to promote a free and just society. We envision a society centered around human need not corporate greed. We are non-hierarchical, non authoritarian, non-patriarchal and practice consensus decision making.
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Coastal Convergence Society
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Collateral Terror
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[We must be the change we want to see. - Gandhi]
Western citizens must be aware of how their representatives are behaving around the world. If most Americans had known beforehand about the terror the U.S. Government had inflicted in various parts of the world, change would have come in time - unfortunately they didn't before 9/11, and most still don't know now. Don't let this happen, stay informed, remain objective in regard to what the mass-media and politicians tell you, listen to the outside world, take action. You can start here, by subscribing to Collateral Terror for free.
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Democracy Now! is a national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV show, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country. The program was launched six years ago as the only daily election show in public broadcasting. Because of its success, Democracy Now! broadened its focus and became a national news show committed to bringing the voices of the marginalized to the airwaves on issues ranging from the global to the local.
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Democrats.com
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Democrats.com, the "Aggressive Progressives," hosts the first online community for Democratic activists. We publish a daily newsletter for Democrats, moderated discussion, and coordinated action to elect Democrats and enact progressive policies.
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This is a resource for activist campaigns online, focusing on issues such as human rights, AIDS, environmentalism, corporate responsibility, and sustainable development. By linking to so many campaigns from one site, emailprotest provides the opportunity to surf the internet constructively by adding another voice to worthwhile international causes. The list on the home page is updated weekly, and the emailprotest selection is updated monthly. The inspiration behind this site comes from ideas such as those quoted below.
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FAIR
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FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
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I wish to introduce you to an amazing group which will roll back the most oppressive law in California's history, Families to Amend California's Three Strikes (FACTS). FACTS exists to amend the 3-Strikes law in California so it is only applicable to violent felonies. Nearly 75% of 2nd and 50% of 3rd strikes within California are for non-violent offenses.
And while FACTS understands the public's fear, anger and perception of crime (some FACTS members initially supported the 3-Strikes law as a way to protect the innocent from violent criminals), the facts and experiences not widely known except by the families whose lives have been destroyed by the 3-Strikes law, support their belief that the 3-Strikes law does not serve or benefit the people of California but rather the growing Prison Industrial Complex.
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Fellowship of Reconciliation
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FOR's Mission: FOR seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.
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The mainstream media and their poster-child, George W. Bush, would have us believe that only "the fringe" believe that Bush is an illegitimate President. They present us as "the fringe" in order to marginalize us and attempt to silence us. Rather than arguing with this characterization, we have chosen to embrace it proudly.
When a piece of fabric - or a government - begins to unravel, you get fringe. When it unravels completely, you're left with nothing but fringe.
We the People are "the Fringe". We're NOT going to go away, and we're NOT going to shut up.
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Global Exchange
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Building People to People Ties.
Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice 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.
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"Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds." - Gandhi
Solution - What would happen if several thousand Western citizens migrated to Iraq to stand side by side with the Iraqi people? The fact is that the world's most powerful nation would be stopped in its imperialist tracks if thousands of Westerners might be killed by its oil lust war. Never has there been a greater need for people to stand up and demand a sane and peaceful world. Voting and recycling is not enough, it is direct action that is desperately required. And never has there been more people more aware about the truth and ready to act. People are organizing and mobilizing like never before, the time has come and 'We the People' are responding. Now many of us are coming together to exercise our "freedom" by acting as voluntary human shields in the hopes of saving thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. This is not about supporting Saddam Hussein as our governments did, it is about saving the lives of those in our human family. So if you care enough and are fed up with the never ending excuses from the politicians and "experts" who historically perpetuate the status quo, you are invited to join us.
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Human Shields.org
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Independent Media Center
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The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
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The Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) was founded after the 9.11 tragedy by Faith leaders from Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and other traditions who say "Religious Communities Must Stop Blessing War...". ICUJP promotes critical examination of the costs of violence and war at home and in the world from the Faith perspective. We insist on respect for human rights, international law and the use of peaceful means in the resolution of conflicts.
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Jobs with Justice
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Jobs with Justice (JwJ) is a national network of coalitions of labor unions, religious, civil rights, women's, student, farm, and community organizations working together at the local level to defend and expand the rights of working people. Imaginative direct action tactics are the cornerstone of Jobs with Justice activities.
Recently, Jobs with Justice has mobilized thousands of working people and students to address a host of issues including corporate greed, the right to organize a union, globalization, health care, and living wage legislation.
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Started in March of 1992, the Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates' (KIWA) mission is to organize and empower low-wage immigrant workers in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles while building a progressive constituency in the immigrant community. KIWA uses creative direct action campaigns lead and organized by workers to fight for workers and immigrant rights. KIWA also works in solidarity with other groups on issues such as Legalization, Labor Law Enforcement, Police Accountability, International Labor Movement Support and garment worker advocacy. KIWA is part of the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON) that recently organized over 15,000 immigrants to march in the streets of LA on May 1st.
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Michael Moore
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Needs no introduction. Michael with his movies "Roger and ME" and "Bowling for Columbine" along with his best selling Books like "Stupid White Men" has been bringing a progressive message to the mainstream in a way that only Michael can do. Check out this website for his weekly messages and alerts.
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The mass media refuses to do their job. We have to do it for them. We are building a full-service activist organization dedicated to political sanity. We're rebuilding the vital center of US politics in the great American tradition and philosophy of Teddy, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. We are expanding this website to foster open-minded discussion, inform voters, and organize activism.
For us to succeed, we need your help. We need you to tell people about this site, to use the resources we provide, and to take the fight to the right-wingers, the media, and wishy-washy moderates too willing to play along with those who stole our election and who try to tell us to get over it.
There is a lot of work to do. You can help us. We need volunteers who can write, edit, illustrate, photograph and donate time and money. We hope to offer paid positions in the near future. We need funds for the webspace and hard work it takes to empower you.
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Mike Hersh.com
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Moveon.org
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What is MoveOn all about?
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.
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For over thirty years, NARAL has been the political arm of the pro-choice movement and a strong advocate of reproductive freedom and choice. NARAL's mission is to protect and preserve the right to choose while promoting policies and programs that improve women's health and make abortion less necessary. NARAL works to educate Americans and officeholders about reproductive rights and health issues and elect pro-choice candidates at all levels of government
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National Alliance to End Homelessness
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The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize the nonprofit, public and private sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness. The Alliance represents a united effort to address the root causes of homelessness and challenge society's acceptance of homelessness as an inevitable by-product of American life. Guiding our work is the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. The Ten Year Plan identifies our nation's current weaknesses in addressing the problem and lays out practical steps that our nation can take to change our present course and truly end homelessness within ten years.
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Preamble Constitution of the National Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization which shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests. Our aim is to bring together all those who regard adjustments to new conditions as more important than the veneration of precedent; who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers, and minority groups upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.
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National Youth and Student Peace Coalition
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What is NYSPC?
The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition was formed in repsonse to the events of September 11, 2001, and has worked to build strategc, long-term student and youth opposition to war, both abroad with bombs and bullets, and at home with racism, cuts to education, and freedom-limiting "anti-terrorism" policies. We are alive and active as of Fall 2002.
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Mission Statement
The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.
We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places.
We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment.
We strive to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations.
We work to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. We seek to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.
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No Blood for Oil !
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NoBloodForOil.org is a new affiliate of Voter March, Ltd. We support the pro-peace and anti-war movement and are adamantly opposed to the illegitimate Bush Administration's plans to wage unilateral war against Iraq to increase economic, political and military influence over the Middle East and its oil resources. NoBloodForOil.org has a Protests Calendar, -, Action Alerts & Anti-War resources, News Links, and Links to Anti-War Groups.
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No More Victims
No More Victims is dedicated to informing the public about the human costs of US foreign policy.
The site is currently under construction. Please follow the links for background and analysis of the looming war in Iraq
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No War For Oil! February 4th, 2002
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FEBRUARY 4th
ORGANIZE a demonstration for peace at your local gas station, on February 4th. On that day, hundreds of gas stations across the country and around the world will be targeted as we send a clear message that access to oil is not worth war.
Leafleting, vigils, street theater, and other forms of nonviolent direct action are all encouraged. Our intent is to communicate through education and peaceful confrontation that clean energy alternatives to oil exist, and that they can increase our security and give us true energy independence.
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The Not in Our Name Project was initiated at a meeting in New York City, on March 23, 2002. The meeting was called for by a letter, see below, that proposed ways to strengthen and expand resistance to the U.S. government's course in the wake of September 11, 2001.
The meeting adopted the proposal - and the Not in Our Name Project was born.
The Pledge of Resistance subsequently was written and then distributed at anti-war actions on April 20, 2002, along with a Call to take up the Not in Our Name Project.
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Office of the Americas
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The Office of the Americas is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the cause of justice and peace in the hemisphere through broad based educational programs. Founded in 1983 in Los Angeles, OOA is a recognized source for documentation and analysis of current events in North America, Mexico, Central America, and South America, including the War on Drugs, human rights, and United States foreign policy. The Office is often called upon to present expert testimony in litigation before the Federal Immigration Court.
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(formerly SANE/Freeze) works to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, the development of a peace-oriented economy, an end to the weapons trade, and promotes non-military solutions to international conflicts.
Peace Action has a membership of 85,000 persons, 27 state affiliates, and over 100 local chapters, making it the largest membership and activist peace network in the country. Peace Action members work for policy changes in Congress, state capitals, city halls and the United Nations.
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Peaceful Tomorrows
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Our Mission
Peaceful Tomorrows is an advocacy organization founded by family members of September Eleventh victims. Its mission is to seek effective nonviolent responses to terrorism, and identify a commonality with all people similarly affected by violence throughout the world. By conscientiously exploring peaceful options in our search for justice, we choose to spare additional innocent families the suffering that we have already experienced—as well as to break the endless cycle of violence and retaliation engendered by war.
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The Iraq Pledge of Resistance is modeled in part on the Pledge of Resistance that was used effectively in the 1980s to mobilize opposition to the U.S.-sponsored wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. It is an opportunity to publicly withdraw our consent from the Administration’s war plans, and to demonstrate that opposition in a deeply moving and politically effective way. Following in the tradition of nonviolent resistance of Gandhi and King, it is our intention, through mass, coordinated nonviolent action, to create the conditions under which the public and members of Congress can recognize the terrible destructiveness, and immorality, of a war against Iraq. And, as Gandhi and King did, we will use the most powerful symbols that ordinary citizens have at our disposal: our own bodies, and, at least temporarily, our freedom.
With the list still in formation, current national sponsors of the Iraq Pledge of Resistance include the Education for Peace in Iraq Center, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Global Exchange, Interfaith Network of Concern for the People in Iraq, Lutheran Peace Fellowship, National Network to End the War Against Iraq, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Voices in the Wilderness, and the War Resisters League.
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Progressive Portal
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Progressive Portal provides opportunities for effective, easy grassroots activism on a range of progressive issues. It is designed to remove the obstacles to increased activism that many busy people face, without compromising impact.
Progressive Portal is independent -- not part of any particular organization, party, or grouping -- although specific campaigns are often conducted in conjunction with leading grassroots organizations. The site is supported by users through donations and Day Sponsor monthly pledges.
Progressive Portal became active on May 15, 2001.
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About ADA
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) is an independent liberal political organization, founded in 1947 and dedicated to promoting individual liberty and economic justice. Our founders included Eleanor Roosevelt, labor leader Walter Reuther, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., theologian Ronald Niebuhr, and former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. ADA currently has 30,000 members. It operates out of Washington, DC and has some twenty chapters across the country.
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Visitors to the progressive websites have found there an abundance of intelligent and eloquent new voices. While there are a some professional journalists included, we encounter in addition scholars, lawyers, and scientists among others. These new voices, having despaired of finding responsible and candid dissenting opinions in the corporate media, have struck out on their own in this new medium of "digital pamphleteering." We salute them, support them, and through this site offer them anew to a public in desperate need of independent political opinion.
Our present soul-trying times call out for the same courage and ingenuity that Tom Paine spoke of 226 years ago, as we fight to return to civil political dialogue, progressive programs for our citizens, and sanity and respect for others in our foreign policy -- all the while not neglecting to protect ourselves from the very real terrorists both at home and abroad. We welcome you, and hope to hear from you. Together we can make a difference.
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The Crisis Papers
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The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (GN)
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The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (GN) was created in 1992 to build an international constituency to stop the nuclearization and weaponization of space. Now with over 165 affiliates on all continents, the GN is working hard to generate coordinated local activity around the world to keep space for peace.
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Support the Walk for Democracy
You can give your own grievance for Jeanette to take to the White House, read updates or give a small donation. Other than donations, she is also looking for publicity connections, lodging in the Midwest/northern parts of the United States and of course, more grievances to give to President Bush! I encourage you to check out the website and support Jeanette and folks like her – people who are will to speak out, even if it means putting your life on hold and making a physically demanding challenge like the one she has undertaken. People like Jeanette are important; sometimes it takes the will and the courage of one person to bear the grievances of all of us – figuratively and sometimes, even literally.
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The World's Biggest Hug for Peace
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SEPT 11, 2002
We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children - David Bower
We want this September 11, 2002 to be proclaimed "World Peace Day" and are inviting millions of people to start the day with a joyous "Hug for Peace" to remind us all that lasting world peace begins with each of us.
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It is our hope that The-Broadside.com can facilitate a comity of purpose by featuring a diversity of Progressive views and issues,in an inclusive venue, while encouraging everyone to organize, organize, organize, as a united front.
. . . And of course, we will keep on telling the Bushistas which end is up, and where they can stick it, with our editorial graphics and cartoons . . .
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ThePetitionSite.com
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ThePetitionSite is a Although Care2.com is a pro-environment site, we offer ThePetitionSite.com as a non-partisan tool for people working on a variety of issues and causes. What's in it for us? By driving traffic to ThePetitionSite.com and building community around causes we support the democratic process and are able to help organizations we support as well. Consequently, we will review petitions on any subject, and display petitions on all sides of an issue. Examples of these relationships are featured in the Spotlight sections on our homepage.
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TrueMajority Principles:
1. Attack poverty and world hunger as if our life depends on it. It does.
2. Champion the rights of every child, woman & man.
3. End our obstructionism to the world's treaties.
4. Reduce our dependence on oil and lead the world to an age of renewable energy.
5. Close the book on the Cold War and ease the nuclear nightmare.
6. Renounce Star Wars and the militarization of space.
7. Make globalization work for, not against, working people.
8. Ensure equal treatment under law for all.
9. Get money out of politics.
10. Close the gap between rich and poor kids at home.
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United for Peace
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United for Peace is a collaboration of national and international peace and social justice organizations and scores of local places of worship, peace centers, and community organizations.
We all share the belief that the commemoration of September 11 and the loss of thousands of innocent lives that happened on that day should bring us together to work for a peaceful future, not a future of more war and violence.
We are encouraging communities around the country to organize peace events during the week of September 11, 2002 in the hopes of transforming that day into an occasion that promotes a more just and peaceful world.
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Veterans Against The Iraq War is a coalition of American veterans who oppose war with Iraq.
Until and unless the current U.S. Administration provides evidence which clearly demonstrates that Iraq or any other nation poses a clear, immediate danger to our country, we oppose all of the Administration's pre-emptive and unilateral military and diplomatic activities geared towards provoking or initiating a military conflict with Iraq. Furthermore, we cannot support any war that is initiated without a formal Declaration of War by Congress, as our Constitution requires.
Although we detest the dictatorial policies of Saddam Hussein and sympathize with the tragic plight of the Iraqi people, we oppose unilateral and pre-emptive U.S. military intervention on the grounds that it would establish a dangerous precedent in the conduct of international affairs, that it could easily lead to an increase of violent regional instability and the spread of a much wider conflict, that it would place needless and unacceptable financial burdens on the American people, that it would further divert us from addressing critical domestic priorities, and that it would distract us from our stated goal of destroying international terrorists and their lairs.
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Veterans for Peace
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Veterans for Peace, Inc. (VFP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war. VFP was founded in 1985 by ex-service members committed to sharing the horrors they experienced.
We know the consequences of American foreign policy because once, at a time in our lives, so many of us carried it out. We find it sad that war seems so delightful, so often, to those that have no knowledge of it. We will proudly, and patriotically, continue to denounce war despite whatever misguided sense of euphoria supports it. Wage Peace!
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Voice of Freedom is dedicated to informing the public of actions by our government that affect our Unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, and our Constitutional Guarantees with an emphasis on Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Peaceably Assemble and Freedom to petition the Government to redress of grievances. Our mission is accomplished through: TV, Print, Radio, Internet; training and developing volunteer activists; participation at public/town hall meetings; grassroots petitions and other civic actions. Our motto "Freedom from Fear"
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Voices in the Wilderness is a joint US/UK campaign to end the economic sanctions against the people of Iraq. Since March 1996, nearly fifty Voices delegations have traveled to Iraq in open violation of the sanctions. Each small delegation represents thousands of people in America and England who oppose cruel economic warfare. We demand that the UN Security Council and the US government end these immoral and unjust economic sanctions that target the regime of Saddam Hussein but in fact punish millions of Iraqi people, young and old.
Today, as new threats are made against Iraq by the United States, we are maintaining a constant presence in Iraq to stand in solidarity with the Iraqi people. In the schools and hospitals, on the streets and in the homes of Baghdad, Basra, Mosul and other cities we have seen the effects of more than a decade of economic sanctions and frequent bombings. Now we see the anger and fear caused by new threats of violence.
Please join us as we do all we can to be voices for our brothers and sisters in Iraq.
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Voices in the Wilderness
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Vote Io Impeach
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About VoteNoWar.org
VoteNoWar.org is an educational campaign of International A.N.S.W.E.R.
The People's Anti-War Referendum is a component of an ongoing campaign against war and racism and in support of grassroots democracy, including teach-ins, conferences, local and regional events.
The VoteNoWar.org campaign does not endorse any political candidates or intervene in political campaigns or take positions on specific pieces of legislation.
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Voter March
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Voter March is a non-profit, grassroots, internet group formed in response to the debacle of the 2000 election. There are more than 60 state and local chapters of Voter March, with a current membership of over 10,000 individuals. Part of the growing Pro-Democracy movement, Voter March is committed to seeing that meaningful voting reform is enacted to ensure that the rights of voters can never again be trampled on.
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Philosophy and Politics
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.
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War Resisters League
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Win Without War
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Our Mission
Win Without War is a coalition of national organizations representing broad constituencies that aim to Keep America Safe by advocating alternatives to preemptive war in Iraq. The coalition offers a mainstream, patriotic voice for engaging opinion makers, activating concerned citizens, and communicating effectively to the media.
What We Support
We are patriotic Americans who share the belief that Saddam Hussein cannot be allowed to possess weapons of mass destruction. We support rigorous UN weapons inspections to assure Iraq's effective disarmament. We believe that a preemptive military invasion of Iraq will harm American national interests. Unprovoked war will increase human suffering, arouse animosity toward our country, increase the likelihood of terrorist attacks, damage the economy, and undermine our moral standing in the world. It will make us less, not more, secure. We reject the doctrine—a reversal of long-held American tradition—that our country, alone, has the right to launch first-strike attacks. America is not that kind of country. We can achieve the valid U.S. and UN objective of disarming Saddam Hussein through legal diplomatic means. There is no need for war. Let us instead devote our resources to improving the security and well-being of people here at home and around the world.
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Women are the majority in the United States. We start most of the new businesses, make most consumer decisions and are the majority of Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries. Women have the most at stake in federal budget priorities, yet traditionally our voices have been absent or dismissed in debates on budget priorities and national security policies.
WAND is working to ensure that women's voices are heard at every table where those decisions are made.
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Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)
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Women's Enews
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About Women's Enews
Women's Enews is a nonprofit independent news service covering the issues that are of particular concern to women. Women's Enews editor, Rita Henley Jensen and staff have nearly a half-century of journalism experience with newspapers, wire services and national publications and are determined to deliver full and balanced reporting to Women's Enews readers.
Women's Enews grew out of a 1996 roundtable discussion conceived and funded by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and hosted by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. After additional research on the need for a media outlet to distribute news of concern to women and the opportunity to provide women's voices to commercial media, NOW Legal Defense undertook in 1999 to create Women's Enews as an Internet-based news service for all women, with a special emphasis on being a resource for commercial media. Two years later, NOW Legal Defense determined Women's Enews could sustain its success and stand on its own. January 1, 2002, Women's Enews was born as an independent news agency.
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Who we are and what we believe...
We mourn the tragedy of September 11, 2001 and stand united with the nation in recognizing the incomprehensible loss of life and sense of grief that gripped our world.
We are a gathering of peace activists and concerned citizens from the greater Worcester area who have rallied together to publicly, non-violently demonstrate our unity around the following issues:
We reject warfare as a response to the tragedy of September 11. It is our strong belief that a non-military response is the best strategy for a permanent end to terror. Just as we condemn these terrible attacks, we condemn all situations in which civilians are killed for the values or actions of their governments.
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Worcester Peace Works
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Yellow Times
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Today we live in an age of yellow journalism, where many of the mainstream news sources exploit, distort, and exaggerate the news to create sensations and attract readers. In a time where many injustices plague the world, YellowTimes.org finds it ridiculous that major news sources frequently publish television shows, such as Survivor, on their front pages.
In these "Yellow Times" that we live in, YellowTimes.org offers our readers an alternative to the exploitation of public figures, the distortion of real world problems, and the exaggeration of unimportant events. Since many world politicians are too cowardly to speak out against these injustices, YellowTimes.org decided in October of 2000 to expose these politicians to the public and inform the world of these injustices against humanity.
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