Scriptorium

Stand up for what is right

Linked with Lara Shankar – India, and with India: Homeless Street Children.

Girls must learn to cook; She can’t go to high school in the next town – it’s too far; My daughter won’t go to the village school anymore, there are no separate toilets for girls. Where is the point in her studying mathematics? Discrimination against the girl child doesn’t always take the form of abuse, foeticide or violence … (more).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
News and Events;
Donate Online;
audio; and video; and e-greetings (by children’s drawings);
Polls; and Voices /speak out your Opinion;
Get involved; and Careers;
Mumbai address with city map: CRY – Child Rights and You, 189/A Anand Estate, Sane Guruji Marg, Mumbai – 400 011, India;
Contact, with addresses in more cities and their maps.

About / who we are:

• – Imagine pulling out your child from school just because you are unable to find a job that pays enough to support your family.
• – Imagine your daughter could not attend school just because it has no toilets.
• – Imagine entire generations of your family being born into bonded labour, with no hope of breaking free.
• – Imagine a country. Call it India, if you will, where 10,000 Indians died from entirely preventable causes.

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A monthly review – in english and in espanol

Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

… Friends, Once a year War Times/Tiempo de Guerras asks for financial support. As an all-volunteer, online project, we operate on a shoestring budget. But we still need a few thousand dollars a year to pay for our website, e-mail service, postage and other bottom-line expenses. To raise money for War Times this year, one of our staffers is again running a “Marathon for Peace.” (See below for his message about the race.) So you can help War Times build a long haul peace movement and Max run his long haul 26.2 miles at the same time. No donation is too small or too large. All donations are tax-deductible, you can donate online or send a check to: War Times [new address]: P.O. Box 22748, Oakland CA 94609, USA. Thanks! – on the Homepage.

Download the October 2008 Online-Issue, 4 pdf-pages;
Download the Back Isssues;
Volunteer Staff;
Resources: (Resources on Iraq, Antiwar Activism and News, Speakers, Artists, Exhibits and Films, Books);
Action Planning: for extensive listings see United for Peace;
Month in review, and past articles: in the right column
Newsletter: in the left column;
Address: War Times/Tiempo de Guerras, P.O. Box 22748, Oakland CA 94609, USA;
Contact.

About /Mission: The terrorist attacks of September 11 marked the beginning of a new and frightening period in our history. Thousands of people died that day, and their families along with the country as a whole are still struggling to recover. But President Bush’s response of « permanent war against terrorism at home and abroad » has further endangered the lives and liberties of millions of people everywhere.

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The organisation holds ‘special’ Consultative status with United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Interfaith International is a non-governmental association of individuals. Its purpose is to provide a space to its members and associates to promote the rights of persons of all different religions and ethnic groups. It was created in 1993 at the ‘World Conference on Human Rights’ sponsored by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria … (about 1/2).

All internal pages of this website have the same URL. To reach them, please click on the items in the left column:

• About Us, and Report to members of Interfaith International July 2007, and Progress Report October 2007;
• UN statements;
• Speech Archives;
• UPR;
• Press Releases;
• Events;
• Photo Gallery;
• Links;
• II team;
• Contact and Permanent Headquarters Adress: 1246 Corsier, Geneva, Switzerland.

About 2/2: … The founding personalities are His Eminence Sayyed Mohammed Musawi, president of the World Islamic League (WABIL) and Charles Graves, D. Theol. a Christian.

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We who believe in freedom cannot rest — Ella Baker

Linked with the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement.

… Those who were tactically nonviolent used Nonviolent Resistance as a tool for building political power, – in demonstrations, as an organizing technique and style, and as a political strategy to achieve specific goals. But it was a tactic, not a philosophy of life; and in other situations, – both personal and political, – other strategies and tactics might be used. We who were tactically nonviolent used Nonviolent Resistance because we wanted to win. We saw nonviolence as the most effective way to accomplish our goals through political means. We did not love our enemies, nor did we believe that our redemptive suffering would win over racists and segregationists to a new world of inter-racial brotherly love. By 1963 the great majority of Freedom Movement activists in CORE, SNCC, NAACP, and even SCLC, were tactically nonviolent rather than philosophically nonviolent … (excerpt from Two Kinds of Nonviolent Resistance, by Bruce Hartford, 2004).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Table of Contents;
Photo Album – Images of a Peoples’ Movement;
Veterans Roll Call;
Nonviolent Resitance;
Our Thoughts;
Your Thoughts;
In Memory;
Movement Bibliography — Alphabetic List;
Archive;
History and Timeline of the Southern Freedom Movement;
the blog: Spartacus Educational;
Annual Report, January 2008;
Information on Fair Use;
Newsletter;
Links;
Contact.

About:
I.: The Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website (This website is of, by, and for Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s): The mass media called it the « Civil Rights Movement, » but most of us who were involved in it prefer the term « Freedom Movement » because it was about so much more than just civil rights.

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Literayc, Education and Science for Peace, Unity and Self-Reliance

Linked with Komal Srivastava – India.

… The BGVS is a registered society sponsored by the National Literacy Mission Authority. It came out of the efforts of Shri Sam Pitroda, at that time Advisor on Technology Missions to the then Prime Minister, late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, and Shri Anil Bordia the then Education Secretary. Having appreciated the effectiveness of the Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha of 1987 sponsored by NCSTC, DST, and by the people’s science movements, in communicating science to the people and propelling them to action during the very first meeting of General Council of NLM Authority held in July 1988, they together with the then minister of HRD Shri Shivshankar urged the People’s Science Movements to give all out support to the cause of literacy and plan a Jatha similar to BJVJ-87 but now for literacy … (full text about BGVS).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Basic Education and Continuing Education;
Kala Jatha / Mobilisation;
Panchayats and Development;
Publications / Janvachan;
Reports and Articles;
Statistics and Links;
Address Natinal Office: Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Basement of Y.W.A., Hostel No. II, Avenue – 21, G-Block, Saket, New Delhi – 110 017, India;
Contact.

About / History: The expectation at the time of independence, fifty years ago, that political freedom and representative democracy will assuage the conditions of the people of India, has obviously not turned out to be true, since people continue to battle with problems of poverty, exploitation and ignorance.

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Catalyst Project is a center for political education and movement building based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are committed to anti-racist work in majority white sections of left social movements with the goal of deepening anti-racist commitment in white communities and building multiracial left movements for liberation. We are committed to creating spaces for activists and organizers to collectively develop relevant theory, vision and strategy to build our movements. Catalyst programs prioritize leadership development, supporting grassroots fighting organizations and multiracial alliance building. (Welcome).

Homepage and Bookstore;
our work;

Resources:

• Training Programs;
• Movement Strategy Resources;
• Analysis and Strategy;
• Catalyst Project Workshop Readers;
• Heads Up Collective;

Projects:

• the Closing Ceremony Thanks (of the Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program);
• Participant reflections;
• Anti-war program update;
• Anne Braden photo gallery (with 212 photos);

Staff;
Subscribe Catalyst Project Updates /newsletters;
Address: The Catalyst Project, 522 Valencia St #2, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA;
Contact.

Organization: Catalyst Project is a collectively run, democratic organization that prioritizes empowered leadership and accountability in our internal culture and practice.  We blend structures from non-profit staff organizations and volunteer based activist collectives.  We strive to incorporate our left, democractic, feminist and anti-authoritarian principles into our organizational model and our organizing practice.

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Added June 6, 2010: Linked also on our blogs with / Lié sur nos blogs aussi avec La Commission des Citoyens pour les Droits de l’Homme CCDH (au 7 juin 2010), and with / et avec NON AU PROJET DE LOI FACILITANT LES INTERNEMENTS PSYCHIATRIQUES.

Linked with Psychiatry and Drugs.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights CCHR is a non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights. It also ensures that criminal acts within the psychiatric industry are reported to the proper authorities and acted upon … (full text about).

Homepage;
Mission Statement; Mental Health Declaration of HR; PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS; videos; CCHR in action; take action;
publications; report abuse; sample US bills and resolutions; press room; museum; intro virtual tour; free DVD and information kit;
Contacts and all addresses worldwide.

Message from the President: Most people today have difficulty understanding the destructive impact psychiatry has on communities around the world. For far too many, the lesson is learned only after a psychiatrist has destroyed some part of their life.

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housing – food – justice

Linked with Kip Tiernan – USA.

Our mission at the Poor People’s United Fund is to advocate for a change to the current policies, programs, conditions and perceptions affecting poor and homeless people and to alleviate the pain and suffering they are forced to endure. We seek to provide a consistent, resolute and credible voice for poor and homeless people and to counter the misperceptions and misinformation that blame poor and homeless people for the current social and financial crises. (About).

Homepage;
Membership;
Publications /the book Urban Meditations;
Events /resources;
Want to help or make a donation;
History and Programs;
Founders and Staff Bios;
Board of Directors;
Newsletter;
Address: Poor People’s United Fund, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02117, USA;
Contact.

A Message from Kip, (on the Homepage): Dear Brothers and Sisters,

For over 25 years Fran Froehlich and I have been friends and human services colleagues with a thirst for justice, working in the trenches of suffering. We have spent years helping to create an ethic that might meet these new desperate needs, and we have been responsible for creating and supporting a number of human service alternatives.

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also in german (Bildung statt Fundamentalismus)

Linked with Reinhard Erös – Germany, with Fighting for peace with the weapons of literacy, with The International Council on Security and Development ICOS, and with POPPY FOR MEDECINE.

The GERMAN AID for AFGHAN CHILDREN GAAC is a private initiative of a family in Regensburg, Germany: Dr Reinhard Eroes, Annette Eroes and their five children Veit (24), Urs (22), Welf (21), Cosima (12) and Veda (12). The organization was created 1998 to aid the medical and educational needs of Afghan refugee women and children in Pakistan and Afghanistan … (about 1/2).

Homepage /start / lectures in english /our partners;
download printable information, in english,
Projects:

• Paghman Trutz High School
• Schools at Jalalabad
• Village School of Zawa
• Village School of Chewa
• Sir Peter Ustinov School
• Start of Building Additional Schools
• « Iron Cow » (Milk Supply for Children)
• Mother-and-Child Hospital
• Unicef
• Basic Health Units
• Orphanage « Children`s House Afghanistan

Contributions (scroll down /Liga Bank Regensburg);
Afghanistan;
Address: Dr. med. Reinhard und Annette Erös, Im Anger 25, 93098 Mintraching, Germany;
Contact.

About 2/2: … GAAC evolved through German Federal Armed Forces physician Dr. Eroes and his great expertise, acquired in over twenty years of related work. During these years, he worked extensively with UN and international relief organizations to provide humanitarian and disaster relief within the area as well as in India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, Albania, Rwanda and East-Timor. Dr Eroes worked in and for Afghanistan since 1985.

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formerly known as The Senlis Council (London)

Linked with Reinhard Erös – Germany, with Kinderhilfe Afghanistan /German Aid for Afghan Children GAAC, and with POPPY FOR MEDECINE.

ICOS is an international policy think tank committed to implementing change at all policy levels, by bridging the gap between people and policy in three key areas: … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Fellowship Programme;
Events;
Publications;
POPPY FOR MEDECINE;
ICOS film/video reports;
ICOS maps;
Links;
Centre of Excellence on Public Security‘s website;
General Info: Tel +44 207 953 3755 (UK), e-mail.
Contacts (with 6 addresses worldwide).

About 2/2: (three key areas): …

GLOBAL SECURITY PROGRAMME:

The Global Security Programme aims to support innovative political leadership on security and development crises in conflict zones. Through field research such as the ICOS survey of 17,000 Afghan men on their perceptions of current security and development issues in Afghanistan, the programme provides policy-makers and the wider public with informed strategic response options, and the grassroots perspectives necessary to unlock progress.

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Linked with Kate Michelman – USA.

The right to choose is about more than a woman’s right to safe, legal abortion. Freedom of choice encompasses preventing unintended pregnancy through sex education and improved access to birth control, defending a woman’s right to bear healthy children, defending the independence of our nation’s courts, and addressing the inequities in reproductive health care … (Issues 1/2).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Siteguide;
News;
Choice Action Center;
Our Blog;
Our bloggers;
Issues 2/2;
Newsletter /e-mail Updates;
Donate;
Address: NARAL Pro-Choice America, 1156 15th Street, NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005, USA;
Contact.

About:
Our website is the first stop where you and pro-choice Americans from all walks of life can get the information, tools, and inspiration to make a difference.

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Linked with Aruna Roy – India.

Website of the MKSS (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan), Rajasthan, India: Among the pioneers of the Indian RTI (Right to Information) movement. This website contains articles, writings, social audit reports, videos, online tutorials, RTI Act/Rules, sample petitions and other tools and information, about the MKSS, Right to Work and Employment Guarantee and the Indian RTI movement … (Homepage).

Online RTI Training;
Presentations;
RTI in action;
RTI Acts;
Sample Petitions;
Writings;
Credits;
Recent Posts;
Forums;
Links;
Address: MKSS, Head Quaters: Village Devdoongri, Post Brar, District Rajsamand, Rajasthan, India;
Contact.

About: … Right to know, right to live – Building a campaign for the right to information and accountability – Sowmya Kidambi. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)- Championing the « Right to Information » in Rural India – Soumya Kidambi.

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Linked with Aruna Roy – India.

The NCPRI is a movement of committed individuals working towards making our government and society more transparent and accountable … (Homepage 1/2).

Sitemap;
Structure of NCPRI;
The Right to Information Act, 2005;
RTI CENTRAL RULES;
RTI STATE RULES;
RTI RULES FOR OTHER COUNTRIES;
Freedom Of Information FIO/RTI/Other Countries;
Newsletter;
Addresses:

• Shailesh Gandhi- Convenor, B2, Gokul Apartment, Podar Road, Santacruz(W), Mumbai – 400054, India;
• Suchi Pande, National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, 14, Tower 2, Supreme Enclave, Mayur Vihar Phase-I, New Delhi – 110 091, India;

Contacts.

… (Homepage 2/2) /Objectives: The National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) seeks to empower people and to deepen democracy, through promoting people’s right to information. Through the use of this right, it seeks to fight corruption and social apathy, to make governments, and other institutions and agencies having an impact on public welfare, more humane and accountable to the people, and to promote efficiency and frugality.

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Linked with Kate Fereday Eshete – Ethiopia and England, and with Kate, a girl who can’t say no.

(THIS WEB SITE IS BEING CONSTRUCTED DURING NOV 2008 SO PLEASE CHECK IT AGAIN LATER IN THE MONTH. (TO SEE CHANGES YOU MAY NEED TO CLICK VIEW/REFRESH ON YOUR BROWSER WHEN VIEWING THIS SITE). (Homepage).

Donate;
News;
Projects;
Links;
Contact Kate.

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The Empress Mentewab School is a charitable, non-profit-making primary school for poor children in Gondar. It is funded by donations. To support the school financially, please use the international bank transfer details given in the DONATE section:

• Do the children go on educational outings?
• Can I send books and toys to the school?
• Are there school fees?
• How is a child selected to join the school?
• How many children attend the school?
• Where is the school located?

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United Nation’s Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration DDR Resource Centre

The United Nations has been engaged in the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants in post-conflict situations for over fifteen years. Together with bilateral and non-governmental partners, the United Nations’ departments, programmes, funds, and agencies are operational in dozens of countries across the globe … (what is DDR).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Directory;
IDDRS (DDR reintegration standards);
Country Programmes;
DDR Resources;
Documents;
Submit Info;
Address: DDR, Room S-3035, Peacekeeping Best Practices Section, Department of Peacekeeping Operations Peacekeeping, United Nations, NY 10017 USA;
Contact: on about/scroll down.

About the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR: The UN DDR Resource Centre is developed and managed by the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR. The Working Group also performs the following key functions:
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