Mois : décembre 2007

(speakers, artists, exhibits, films)

Speak Out – Institute for Democratic Education and Culture – Is the country’s only national non-profit organization that promotes progressive voices on campuses and in communities. Committed to social, political, cultural and economic justice, Speak Out encourages critical and imaginative thinking about domestic and international issues through artistic and educational forums nationwide.
Speak Out works with 200 speakers and artists who represent the breadth of social movements as well as critically-acclaimed exhibits and films which inform and empower young people to take action for positive social change.

Use our web site to review our roster of speakers and artists, then contact our office for more information on costs and availability or to schedule an event on your campus or in your community.

Speakers & Artists/search;
Topics;
Who’s in the News;
Calendar of Key Commemorative Months and Dates;
Links and Resources for Campus Organizing;
Address: P.O. Box 99096, Emeryville, CA 94662, USA, Tel. 510.601.0182, e-mail;
contact & Information request form.

About/Mission and Programs: Speak Out – The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture is a national non-profit organization that educates, inspires and empowers young people to become activists for social justice.

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“Web game provides rice for hungry …  » FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1 billion grains of rice. Go to the FREE RICE Homepage, click on the answer that best defines the (appearing) word. If you get it right, you get a harder word, If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

Introduction;
F.A.Q.;
press;
privacy;
options;
where the rice goes;
e-mail for advertising;
No direct and transparent contact-address or e-mail is given.

About FreeRice: FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, poverty.com**.

FreeRice has two goals:

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Linked with Roger Burbach – USA.

Global Alternatives is dedicated to discussing the realities and challenges we face in the age of globalization. Due to the dominance of international corporate interests and the collusion of political elites, much of the world’s populace lives in misery, alienation and conflict while the planet earth is ravaged by imperial wars and an ecological crisis.

This difficult age makes it imperative to discuss alternative approaches, strategies, and visions. In the Americas there is a popular upsurge taking place against the established order. It is erupting on many fronts, assuming diverse political and social forms, providing hope and inspiration for the world at large.

By posting special studies and reports, and by promoting dialogue and research, Global Alternatives intends to contribute to an understanding of the new politics shaking the Americas and to participate in the shaping of an egalitarian and democratic world rooted in the globe’s diverse cultures, societies and alternative economic experiences.

News, articles;
strategic studies;
books;
videos;
events: Censa Events Calendar/Upcoming Events: There are no upcoming events at this time ( … Nov. 9, 2007);

Address: CENSA: Center for the Study of the Americas, 2288 Fulton St., Suite 103, Berkeley, CA;

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The Centre for Social Justice is an independent think tank established, by Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP in 2004, to seek effective solutions to the poverty that blight parts of Britain.

News;
Media;
Policy work;
The Inner city challenge;
Our work in pictures;
UNICEF report;
Newsletter;
Contact and Online Enquiry.

Address UK: The Centre for Social Justice CSJ, 9 Westminster Palace Gardens, Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RL, tel. 020 7340 9650, Email

Address India: Centre for Social Justice, c-105, Royal chinmey Apartment off judges’, bunglows road near simundhar towers Bodakdev, Vastrapur Ahmedabad, India, Phone: 079-26854248, 097-25054329

Alliance: Putting social justice at the heart of British politics – The CSJ Poverty Fighter’s Alliance ensures the insights of small organisations working on the ground with Britain’s most vulnerable are taken on board by policy makers in central and local government. Tens of thousands of people working and volunteering in charities, or as carers, across the UK, know first hand the challenges the faced by people struggling on low income, to overcome debt, addictions, to come to terms with family breakdown, and the complexity of issues that keep people trapped in poverty. (full text).

About: What we do – The CSJ highlights the work of profoundly differing and unique small voluntary organisations and charities. These groups provide welfare in the most broken parts of British society.

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Homepage: We are veterans of the United States armed forces. We stand with the majority of humanity, including millions in our own country, in opposition to the United States’ all out war on Iraq. We span many wars and eras, have many political views and we all agree that this war is wrong. Many of us believed serving in the military was our duty, and our job was to defend this country. Our experiences in the military caused us to question much of what we were taught. Now we see our REAL duty is to encourage you as members of the U.S. armed forces to find out what you are being sent to fight and die for and what the consequences of your actions will be for humanity. We call upon you, the active duty and reservists, to follow your conscience and do the right thing.
In the last Gulf War, as troops, we were ordered to murder from a safe distance. We destroyed much of Iraq from the air, killing hundreds of thousands, including civilians. We remember the road to Basra — the Highway of Death — where we were ordered to kill fleeing Iraqis. We bulldozed trenches, burying people alive. The use of depleted uranium weapons left the battlefields radioactive. Massive use of pesticides, experimental drugs, burning chemical weapons depots and oil fires combined to create a toxic cocktail affecting both the Iraqi people and Gulf War veterans today. One in four Gulf War veterans is disabled … (full text).

All internal links work from inside the homepage, from the left column:

• Sign this statement;
• Veteran Signers as of September 11, 2005;
• Veterans Call to Conscience, these Soldiers won’t Participate;
• CO & GI Resources;
• Speakers Bureau, Available for National & International Press;
• The Call in Other Languages.

Contact Info: Veterans Call to Conscience, c/o VVAWAI PO Box 21604, Seattle WA 98111, e-mail.