Mois : novembre 2008

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).

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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).

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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;
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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).

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• Training Programs;
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• 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);

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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).

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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).

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Address: Poor People’s United Fund, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02117, USA;
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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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