Catégorie : Civil Society

Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International  Development Cooperation, and its Newsletter.

• To provide down-to-earth training for 20,000 participants in agriculture, developmental topics and other income generating activities by year 2010.
• To build a community for the Canadians abroad called « Maple Village » in a centrally located area in Africa for African-Canadians by 2015.
• To be actively involved in, committed to and promote rural and community development projects in Canadian communities and in Africa.
• To collaborate with both national and international institutions, development and donor agencies with simillar aims and objectives like CEFARD.
• To establish one-stop intitutions and vocational training centres and render consultancy services and knowledge sharing and information bank on agriculture and developmental issues.
• To render consultancy services to individuals, organizations, government agencies and institutions. (Initiatives).

Homepage;
Publications; Photo Gallery;
Institutional Collaboration;
Partners; Membership;
Foundation;
Job Opportunities /Network of Consultants;
Address: Headquarter Office, 1850 Albion Road, Unit 3, Toronto, Ontario M9W 6J9, Canada;
Contact.

About: CEFARD is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, and humanitarian organisation. CEFARD’s mandate is to champion the course of global poverty alleviation through agricultural resources and developmental tools mostly in the developing nations of the world.

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Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

The NNIRR works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status. As part of a global movement for social and economic justice, we are committed to human rights as essential to securing healthy, safe and peaceful lives for all. (Homepage).

Upcoming event;
Programs; Accomplishments;
News; Resources and Information;
Get involved;
Alerts archive;
Newsletter: link in the left column of all pages;
Board of Directors;
Contact.

About: MISSION: The NNIRR is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues. We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.

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Linked with James Zogby – USA, and with James Zogby and the Politics of Perception.

The Arab American Institute (AAI) represents the policy and community interests of Arab Americans throughout the United States and strives to promote Arab American participation in the U.S. electoral system. AAI focuses on two areas: campaigns and elections and policy formation and research. The Institute strives to serve as a central resource to government officials, the media, political leaders and community groups and a variety of public policy issues that concern Arab Americans and U.S. – Arab relations … (about AAI /mission).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
The 2009 Inaugural Celebration;
What we do;
Press; Issues;
Washington Watch;
Recources; Student Resource Center;
Why join AAI;
AAI Foundation;
Address: Arab American Institute, 1600 K Street, NW Suite 601, Washington, DC 20006, USA;
Contact.

About Arab-Americans: We’re an active constituency with a vital stake and voice in the issues dominating US public debates today. Read more about our votes, our opinions, and how Arab Americans are getting involved, in Get Involved.

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India Relief and Education Fund (IREF) is an all volunteer 501(c)(3) California based non-profit organization that raises funds for disater relief in India and supports India related social awareness education activities in India and in the U.S.  IREF stands for a socially just, secular, democratic and united India. Donations for donor specified organizations in India, consistent with IREF’s objectives, are welcome … (full text Homepage /donate /groups we sustain).

Publications, and its Catalog;
Resource Center /current affairs;
Organisations we sustain (homepage/ scroll down): National Fishworkers Forum NFF, Sahabhagi Vikash Abhiyan /Campaign for Participatory Development, Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group, Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti GRAVIS, Frontier;
Past work: relief, and education;
South Asian History;
Donate (by network for good);
Address: India Relief and Education Fund, P.O. Box 14360, Fremont, CA 94539, USA;
Contact.

About: India Relief and Education Fund (IREF) was founded in 1993 in the San Francisco Bay Area with the twin objectives of organizing India awareness educational activities in the U.S. and supporting like-minded organizations in India, as well as supporting disaster relief work in India.

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(Online Since July 1999 with a one page website)

Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

The National Chicano Moratorium Committee was re-formed in December 2, 1989 at a national meeting called by Union del Barrio and La Raza Unida Party in East Los Angeles over 20 people showed up from all over Occupied Mexico/Aztlan. The purpose of the meeting was to organize an Aztlan-wide mobilization for the « 20th Commemoration of August 29th, 1970 National Chicano Moratorium » in East Los Angeles. That initiative resulted in the largest Raza mobilization since the height of the Chicano Movement, over 8,000 Raza participants marched the streets of East Los Angeles to Salazar Park on August 25, 1990  … (full text);
Postal Address: National Chicano Moratorium Committee, P.O. Box 20411, Oxnard, Califas 93034-0411, USA; Contact by e-mail.

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The Chicano Moratorium – and related items – named and described on many other websites:

• The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based but fragile coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. Led by activists from local colleges and members of the « Brown Berets », a group with roots in the high school student movement that staged walkouts in 1968, the coalition peaked with an August 29, 1970 march in East Los Angeles that drew 30,000 demonstrators … (full text on wikipedia).  Its History on wikipedia;
• on calisphere /University of California – Homepage, Sitemap;
• the video: Ruben Salazar’s Legacy Lives On, 1.56 min, April 28, 2008;
• Chicano Moratorium, past and present;
• Protest marches;
• Protests against the Vietnam War;
• Mexican-American history; with Mexican Americans, Hispanic American history, History of the United States by ethnic group;
• History of Latino civil rights;
• History of civil rights in the United States;
• History of the United States (1865–1918), History of the United States (1918–1945), History of the United States (1945–1964), History of the United States (1964–1980).