Scriptorium

Linked with Sebastien Fath – France.

The Association for the Sociology of Religion ASR is an international scholarly association that seeks to advance theory and research in the sociology of religion. Formed in 1938 as the American Catholic Sociological Society, ASR traces its roots to scholars in search of a hospitable place for both empirical study and social criticism animated by the social teachings of the church. Our 700+ members come from all continents of the world, and their interests and perspectives are just as diverse and global. The Association encourages and communicates research that ranges widely across the multiple themes and approaches in the study of religion, and is a focal point for comparative, historical and theoretical contributions to the field. In addition, the Association facilitates the sharing of members’ interests with sociologists in other associations and scholars of religion in other disciplines.

News and Announcments;
2008 Annual Meeting: Religion Crossing Boundaries, Session Paper Authors and Presenters Pre-registration (required of all program participants);
Recent Past & Archives;
Membership;
Grants, Awards, Lecutres;
Publication Opportunities /Call for Papers;
Links;
Address: Association for the Sociology of Religion, 618 SW 2nd Ave., Galva IL 61434-1912, USA;
Contact (scroll down).

About: The Association was founded in 1938 as the American Catholic Sociological Society. By the mid-1960s, members interests began to focus on the sociology of religion, and in 1971 the ACSS changed its name to the Association for the Sociology of Religion.

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Linked with Steven M. Greer – USA, and with Announcing the Orion Project.

The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project working to fully disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems. We have over 400 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret.

On Wednesday, May 9th, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. The weight of this first-hand testimony, along with supporting government documentation and other evidence, will establish without any doubt the reality of these phenomena.

Download and watch the press conference on May 9, 2001 (with low resp. high quality video-streams);
testimonies;
acknowledgments;
the campaign;
press coverage;
media gallery;
news & updates;
IRS non-profit status letter;
address main office: The Disclosure Project, PO Box 265, Crozet VA 22932, USA;
contacts.

About: … Beginning in 1993, I started an effort that was designed to identify firsthand military and government witnesses to UFO events and projects, as well as other evidence to be used in a public disclosure.

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Women and Children transforming our World

Linked with Ann Njogu – Kenya.

See the world through the eyes of women, with the wonder and possibility of a child.

Homepage, with many links);
content;
programs;
events;
submit (your writings);
in the press;
newsletter;
links;
contact.

Special Edition February 15, 2008: Braving bullets and increasing sexual assaults, Kenyan women are organizing from the mass evacuee camps to the newsrooms to save their beloved nation. Read:

• featured articles;
• related articles;
• video accounts (with Ann Njogu, Shailja Patel, Leah Okeyo, Alberta Wambua);
• take action;
• global gatherings.

About: A social media enterprise, our mission: connecting women to transform our world. WorldPulse is a global media organization dedicated to broadcasting the untapped voices and innovative solutions of women worldwide … (full text).

Building Global Links for Justice, a project of Global Resistance

Linked with Indian FAX ACTION about Coca-Cola.

India Resource Center works to support movements against corporate globalization in India. We provide timely information on transnational corporations to Indian movements. We also educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India. India Resource Center is a project of Global Resistance. Global Resistance works to strengthen the movement against corporate globalization by supporting and linking local, grassroots struggles against globalization around the world. Our goal is to ensure that those most impacted by globalization are engaged in and at the forefront of the movement against corporate globalization … (about 1/2).

Homepage and latest actions;
sitemap;
Issues;
news;
action (actually centered on Coca-Cola for Indian people’s water resources);
press;
contact by e-mail, attn. Amit Srivastava, Coordinator, India Resource Center, and Director of Global Resistance.org (named on all this Google-search Results).

About 2/2: History: India Resource Center is the result of numerous discussions with activists in India spanning a wide array of issues.

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Linked with Stephen J. Gallagher – USA.

The Council for Secular Humanism Web Site provides timely information concerning the activities of the Council for Secular Humanism and also acts as a general educational resource on secular humanism. Please select a topic from the navigation bar on your left, or the drop-down menu above, for more information … (full text).

Sitemap;
programms;
news;
free enquiry (the multi secularist agenda);
public actions;
the secularist humanist bulletin;
online articles of the last bulletin;
links;
institute for the secularization of the Islamic socity;
contact.

About: The Council for Secular Humanism cultivates rational inquiry, ethical values, and human development through the advancement of secular humanism.

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conflict is part of daily life … but violence doesn’t have to be

Linked with Jo Vallentine – Australia.

The AVP Britain organises workshops which empower people to lead nonviolent lives, based on respecting and caring for ourselves and others. We believe there is a power for peace and good in everyone, and this power has the ability to transform our relationships … (full text).

our workshops;
work in prisons;
workshop dates;
work with us;
contact online (also AVPs in other countries).

What is AVP: The Alternatives to Violence Project is a network of volunteers running workshops for anyone who wants to find ways of resolving conflict without resorting to violence. We work in the community and in prisons.

the thinking behind AVP: We understand that conflict is a natural and normal part of life, and that it is possible to learn new ways of handling it. By holding workshops in which the participants consider the underlying causes of friction and violence, practical ways of dealing with situations of conflict are worked out.

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Linked with Jo Vallentine – Australia.

The Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia is a non-profit community group campaigning for an end to the nuclear industry and the adoption of safe energy strategies. (Homepage).

This website was produced by the Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia. This group came into being in 1997 (then known as the Anti-Uranium Coalition, AUCWA), to act as an umbrella group for organisations campaigning against the nuclearisation of Australia.

Our role is mainly in research, political lobbying and publication of information that we believe the community needs in order to make informed decisions about uranium mining, nuclear power, weapons and waste.

We are not a ‘special interest group.’ We are the tip of the iceberg, representing the 70-80% of Western Australians who oppose uranium mining and waste dumping in Australia, particularly in our home state. (About).

Linked with Jo Vallentine – Australia.

Project SafeCom Inc. is a non-profit association, incorporated in Western Australia in December 2001. The vision of Project SafeCom is laid out in the constitution as ‘a safe community’ for people of any race, gender, creed or nationality, who are displaced as a result of Wars or Political, Social, Climatological, Ecological and Geological upheaval and/or Disaster; and for other users as and when appropriate (Homepage 1/2).

What’s new and what’s News?
project;
constitution;
looking after people;
refugees;
sustainable earth;
sustainable shelter;
home of terror?
terrorism archives;
Contact.

Homepage 2/2: … In simple terms, Project SafeCom can be regarded as a ‘farm-based community respite care centre’, but it is much more than that. Project SafeCom also intends to be a fully operational farm as well as a holistic animal care environment.

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environmental marketing

terra choice.com, North America’s premiere environmental marketing agency, helps grow the world’s most sustainable companies. A science-based marketing firm, we help clients convert genuine environmental leadership into winning strategy, communications and positioning. Our products and services include:

• Validation products such as EcoLogoM, a global leader in third-party environmental certification;
• Consulting in environmental marketing strategy and communication as well as in policy, purchasing and program delivery;
• Market research, focused on “green” purchasers in B2B, B2G, and B2C commerce.

terra choice’s blog;
EcoLogoProgram;
Marinas;
EcoBuyerDatabase;
EcoMarketsSurvey;
Newsletter;
links;
addresses: in USA – TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc., 1706 Friedensburg Road, Reading, PA, USA 19606;
In Ottawa: TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc., 171 Nepean Street, Suite 400, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 0B4, Canada;
contact.

Consulting: The TerraChoice consulting practice helps customers convert environmental value into winning and profitable strategy, communication, and positioning. We help procurement organizations green their supply chains with policy, management and measurement. We also helpgovernments and international agencies use the market to advance sustainability.

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also called PRIP Trust

PRIP’s niche:

• To develop a vibrant, efficient and effective development sector;
• To build institutional capacities of the NGOs/ Civil Society Organisations for promoting Good Governance within the organisations and materialising their goals and objectives effectively.

PRIP Capacity Building Approach;
SMILING Small Initiative by Local Innovative NGOs;
CAPACITY BUILDING NEEDS of NGOs;
Mode of Operation;
address: House 72, Road – 8/A, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka – 1209, Phone: 88 02 8119111, 8110789, E-mail.
contact.

About:

• Vision: A Centre of Excellence for promoting “Good Governance” through building a vibrant, effective and gender equitable development sector by exploring and expanding human and institutional capacities in pursuance of Transparency, Accountability, Efficiency and Effectiveness.

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Centre d’Information et de Conseil des Nouvelles Spiritualités – Sectes, un autre regard

(les textes en i sont mes commentaires)

Le CICNS est une association sans but lucratif enregistrée sous le numéro W822000132 en préfecture de Tarn et Garonne (France).

Le CICNS n’est affilié ni ne fait la promotion d’aucune minorité spirituelle. Il est né de la nécessité d’engager une recherche sérieuse sur la place légitime de la recherche spirituelle dans une société, au-delà des passions, des certitudes et des amalgames tendancieux … (à propos du CICNS 1/2).

Avis important;
Etat des lieux;
Les événements tragiques (que le monde des dites normaux a bien aidé à provoquer) à l’origine du mythe des sectes;
Les activistes et la répression;
Alternatives à la pensée unique (en France au catholicisme);
actualités;
bibliographie;
FAQ;
le miroir de ce site;
adresse; CICNS, BP7, F-82270 Montpezat de Quercy;
contact par e-mail.

(A propos du CICNS 2/2): L’équipe du CICNS est constituée d’une douzaine de bénévoles …
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a home for Nagas on the net

Linked with Neidonuo Angami – India.

Homepage, some videos and travel destination;
Account (they want you register to see more, like more videos, photo gallery, forum, chat, contact etc. … but you may find many videos on YouTube);

are openly available:

• articles;
• news;
• north-east news;
• elections 2008.

Watch this video of people’s songs: 5 min, March 25, 2007.

See also:

• Nagaland in the free Dictionary;
• Kuknalim.com, about us;
• Site information from Alexa;
• Traffic details from Alexa;
• Nagalim.nl/news;
• Highland Dawn Media.

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partnering with the poor for a just world

Linked with Beena Sebastian – India.

SAFP is a Canadian-based international non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1965 by Monsignor Augustine Kandathil. SAFP is committed to seeking justice and working with the marginalized and poor of India regardless of caste, creed, gender or political affiliation. SAFP is in partnership with more than 50 Diocesan Social Service Societies/local NGO’s, over 52,000 sanghams/self-help groups (grassroots, community- based organizations), more than 25 Institution based rehabilitation centres (for the physically or intellectually challenged, the elderly destitute and the dying), and more than 19,000 families annually in India. SAFP is supported by a wide network of volunteers.

Who we are;
family to family development program;
community development programs;
annual report;
Newsletter archive;
contact / donate online;

About/history: The aim of SAFP was to meet basic needs of poor families and to encourage them to move toward self-reliance in order to become full, contributing members of their local community.

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The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice.

Homepage;
Services;
partners;
fellows;
blogs;
resources;
take action;
address: The Advocacy Project, 1326 14th Street NW, Washington DC 20005, phone: +1 202-332-3900, fax: +1 202-332-4600, e-mail;
contact/Feedback on the website.

About The Advocacy Project AP disseminate and use information, and in so doing advance social justice.

AP carries out this mission in two ways. First, we work directly with a selected number of partner organizations and offer them services aimed at strengthening their information and advocacy. Second, we seek to work with others who share our commitment to working with community-based advocates, but have a larger footprint or constituency. These can include donors, NGOs, and even governments.

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Serving, Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Women and Girls

Linked with Marta Prekpalaj – Kosovo.

KWN Leads the Way for Civil Society in the New Kosova. Kosova is changing. Whatever the result of Kosova’s political status the way in which civil society operates will also have to change. KWN is meeting new challenges and opportunities head on with a clear plan for the future.

Kosova Women’s Network was informally founded in 2000 by the current Executive Director,Igballe Rogova; but, the history of how KWN came to be an official network is a rich story of family, war, and a growing national movement … (about 1/2, … and more in this 5 pdf-pages).

Cooperations;
Publications;
Inside the KWN;
Members;
Resource Network;
Working in Kosova;
Women’s Voice, 2005/03;
KWN annual report 2005, 32 pdf-pages.
KNW annual report 2004, 28 pdf-pages.
address: St. Hajdar Dushi C-2, II/8 Prishtina, Kosova, Phone +381 (=) 38 245 850, e-mail;
contact on the website.

About 2/2: Kosova Women’s Network KWN was established in 2000 as an informal network of women’s groups and organizations from all over Kosova.

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