Mois : août 2007

Protecting the constitutional principle of the separation of state and church.

Welcome to the Freedom from religion Foundation FFRF.
Our national association of nontheists has been working since 1978 to promote freethought and defend the constitutional principle of the separation of state and church. With more than 10,000 members (and growing fast), we are the largest group of atheists and agnostics in North America.

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Take Action;
Books;
News Releases;
Events;
Links;
Contact.

The Foundation has taken the lead in successfully challenging the faith-based initiative. FFRF’s lawsuit against the White House faith-based office is at the U.S. Supreme Court, awaiting a decision. Get involved: join or make a donation to our Legal Fund.

Membership in the nonprofit, tax-exempt Foundation includes a subscription of ten issues a year to the Foundation’s lively newspaper, Freethought Today. Your membership supports the Foundation’s work, now more critical than ever, to keep state and church separate.

Freedom depends upon freethinkers.

Linked with Luis Macas Ambuludí – Ecuador, with CONAIE, and with Native Web.

The Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country (Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik – Nuevo País) is an indigenist party in Ecuador. It was founded in January 1996 primarily as a way to advance the interests of a wide variety of indigenous peoples’ organizations throughout Ecuador. In the context of Ecuador’s indigenous movement, Pachakutik emerged after successful civil society mobilizations by large indigenous organizations such as CONAIE and CONFENAIE. Despite being backed by CONAIE and the workers’ Social Movement Cooperation, the party is not affiliated with the organizations, as its official purpose was to serve as an alternative to the traditional cluster of political parties that had ruled Ecuadorian politics. The party has been a topic of controversy among indigenous peoples throughout Ecuador because of its nature as a political party, and many indigenous people are unwilling to recognize it as representing their interests because they feel that the party has compromised too many indigenous demands in order to participate in the political process. (full text).

Homepage;
Mapa del sitio web;
Importantes;
Créditos;
Enlaces;
Contactenos: Calle Lugo 13-04 y Av. Ladrón de Guevara, La Floresta. Quito-Ecuador, Correo, Web.

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Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World

Linked with Luis Macas Ambuludí – Ecuador, with CONAIE, and with PACHAKUTIK.

NativeWeb is proud to announce NativeWiki, a new project to allow users to contribute information on Indigenous peoples around the world. We encourage everyone to feel free to joyously jump right in and to add and edit content, or create new pages with either new or old materials!

Communities;
Resource database;
Hosted Cities;
Books & music;
Submit an URL in our database;
Contact.

About: NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world; to foster communication between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving indigenous peoples’ usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide resources, mentoring, and services to facilitate indigenous peoples’ use of this technology.

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Representing the Indigenous Voice in a Modern World.

Linked with Luis Macas Ambuludí – Ecuador, with PACHAKUTIK, and with Native Web.

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador CONAIE – Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador, Actualización 31 Julio, 2007;

CONSEJO DE GOBIERNO DE LA CONAIE;
Eventos CONAIE; Ultimas noticias; Videoteca/videos; Inscribase/Inscription; Convocatoria; Galeria Fotografica; Enlaces/links;
Contact: Confed. Nacionalidades Indas del Ecuador CONAIE, Av. Los Granados E10 – 275 y 6 de Diciembre, Casilla 17 – 17 – 1235, WEB, E-mail, Telfs. (00593)(2)2-453-339, (00593)(2)2-452-335, Telefax (00593)(2)2-444-991.

LINK: See also their page on Natif Web (Natif Web’s homepage):

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Linked with Alzira Rufino – Brazil, and with Violência doméstica, Mulher Negra.

All page-links – written in portuguese, like Noticias, Mulher Negra, Genero, Agenda etc. – have to be clicked directly inside this same web-page-URL. There is also a link to some few translations in espanol and english:

(an english excerpt) Who we are – And a little bit of our history:

• Inaugurated on 30th of June 1990in Santos/SP;
• Since 1991, the CCMN offers juridic assistence to women, men and children in cases of racism and offers legal help to women and children that are victims of domestic and sexual violence;
• Offers since 1993 psychological advice to women and children assisted by CCMN´s juridic service. In cases of racism, this psychological advice is offered to black men, too;
• Co-promoted in 1993 the « 1st National Meeting of Popular Entities » about violence against women;
• Held in 1994 the « Meeting of Black Women of the Baixada Santista » concerning racial, sexual and domestic violence;
• In 1995 released the campaign « Violence Against Women: Zero Tolerance » and started the campaign « Violence against women, a question of Public Health »;
• In the racial field, we released in 1997 the campaign « For an Education Without Discrimination » to sensitize educators to an anti-racist education; Continuer la lecture de « The Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra CCMN »