Mois : novembre 2008

FORGET-ME.net

a personal site from Yann FORGET – in english / et français – (his bio)

Just a Homepage full with interesting links:
… an excerpt … un extrait …

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The Whirled Bank Group

(No texts, articles or bla-bla, we all know what happens, so they present only links … to which I added (full down) some links out of my blogs … here already NGOs – we and others /All NGOs – sorted alph, updated every end of a month – you may find there some Civil Groups you want look at).

Links on their homepage:

Get involved /more links on their homepage:

Other links:

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The Kick Them All Out Projet KTAO

… While all attention was fixated on the totally controlled presidential race, everyone ignored the heart of the problem, the Congress! The powers-that-be con everyone into believing all the power lies with El Presidente. Well, it doesn’t my friends. The Congress has more power than the executive branch and the Congredss has authorized everything that’s happening … (Homepage).

Main Site Drectory;
The KTAO project;
The Corporation (a video in 2 parts);
Story Archive;
The KTAO info only index page;
Free Video Library;
All Federal Representatives;
Latest News;
Mailing List;
Support this project;
Address: The Kick Them All Out Projet, P.O. Box 1086, Crestone, CO 81131, USA;
Contact.

About: (excerpt): … Our campaign goals fall along two complementary strategies.  The first is to produce a pile of commercials and YouTube/Google videos to get the Kick them All Out Project and Fire Congress campaign into mass public awareness.

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OpenSecrets.org

Center for Responsive Politics

Linked with Maxine Waters – USA, and with Congresswoman Waters Calls on USAID to Save the Lives of Children Starving in Haiti.

OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use our free site to shine light on your government. Count cash and make change. (Homepage).

Sitemap;
Action Center Overview;
Capital Eye Reports;
News and Analysis;
Archive;
Influence and Lobbying;
Politicians and Elections;
Campaign Finance Links;
Address: The Center for Responsive Politics, 1101 14th St., NW, Suite 1030, Washington, DC 20005-5635, USA;
Contact (scroll down).

About /Our Mission: Inform, Empower & Advocate – Celebrating our 25th anniversary in 2008, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the organization aims to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry and a more responsive government. In short, CRP’s mission is to:

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Philosophy Talk

The program that questions everything … except your intelligence

Liked with Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Lebanon and USA,  and with renegade trader with renegade ideas – that work.

Philosophy Talk is a weekly, one-hour radio series produced by Ben Manilla. The hosts’ down-to-earth and no-nonsense approach brings the richness of philosophic thought to everyday subjects … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Where to listen;
Watch videos of past programs;
Upcoming Topics;
The blog PhilosophyTalk;
(sorry, no contact or address available).

About 2/2: … Topics are lofty (Truth, Beauty, Justice), arresting (Terrorism, Intelligent Design, Suicide), and engaging (Baseball, Love, Happiness).

This is not a lecture or a college course, it’s philosophy in action! Philosophy Talk is a fun opportunity to explore issues of importance to your audience in a thoughtful, friendly fashion, where thinking is encouraged.

Staff/Actors: … (more).

(Copyright: © 2004-2007 Stanford University).

Food Research and Action Center FRAC

Fighting Hunger in America

Linked with too many hungry children in USA.

The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC works with hundreds of national, state and local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations to address hunger and its root cause, poverty … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Donate;
News; and Archive;
Federal Food Programs;
Hunger in the US;
Afterschool Resource Center; and Campaign to end Childhood Hunger;
Child Nutrition Center; and Food Stamp Center;
FRAC data Center;
Address: Food Research and Action Center FRAC, 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 540, Washington, DC 20009, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 38 million people in our nation – 13.9 million of them children – live in households that suffer from hunger or live on the edge of hunger. This hunger and “food insecurity” are far too widespread in our wealthy society. Hunger in the United States is a problem that can be cured.

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Asian Legal Information Network ALIN

in english and in korean

It becomes possible in current digital age to double the ability of an individual through public ownership and sharing of information, and in conformity therewith, legal information-related institutions of Asian countries devote considerable efforts to international exchanges and cooperation … (about /Vision 1/2).

Homepage in english;
Homepage in korean;
Sitemap;
CHARTER OF THE ASIA LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK;
Outline of ALIN /Asian countries;
Partnership; and Resources;
Alin News; and Partner News;
Links; and Forum;
Address: 90-4 Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-890, Korea;
Contact.

About /Vision 2/2: … In order to operate any optimal network, however, there lies a precondition which requires not only effective exchanges and cooperation but also the diversity of individual character. In other words, it requires a standardized guideline or venue which makes it possible to smoothly exchange any information if the effect of network put in the most suitable conditions.

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Children's Rights and You CRY

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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War Times /Tiempo de Guerras – a monthly review

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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Interfaith International

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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Civil Rights Movement Veterans

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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Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti BGVS

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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The Catalyst Project

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:

Projects:

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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Citizens Commission on Human Rights CCHR

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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Poor People’s United Fund PPUF

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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