Catégorie : Civil Society

The National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITE: EDSITEment, the best of the humanities on the web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world’s great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.

March 2007, this months feature: Exploring Women’s History;
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About EDSITEment: Partners: National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency established to promote knowledge of human history, thought, and culture. For more than thirty years, educators and students throughout the nation have benefited from NEH grants that create and preserve knowledge, identify and disseminate reliable learning resources, and empower teachers through professional development programs. EDSITEment brings the NEH commitment to excellence in humanities education to the Internet.

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Linked with We the People Foundation, for Constitutional Education.

The Give Me Liberty 2007 Conference, Washington DC, March 29-31, 2007 (Thursday-Saturday); Volunteer; Contact us.

One of three organizations that are working together to get government in New York State back under the control of the people and the New York Constitution. These three organizations provide a triple-threat offense on constitutional issues designed to address educational, litigational and activist dimensions, respectively:

– We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc.;
– All-County Taxpayers Association (ACTA);
– We The People Congress.

The We The People Congress has been established for the purpose of developing in the public forum, from the ordinary, non-aligned citizenry, a constituency committed to what Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to as a « militant, non-violent, mass-movement » with the goal of achieving substantial reforms in the structure and process of government in the State of New York, through constitutional means.

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In July 2004, almost 1800 Citizens initiated a landmark federal lawsuit to have the Judiciary declare – for the first time in US history – the full constitutional meaning of the First Amendment Petition clause: The Right to Petition … (full text Homepage).

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Mission Statement: The We the People Foundation is a non-profit research and educational foundation. Our purpose is to promote a deeper understanding of the history and nature of America?s unique constitutional system of government and the power it affords our citizens to hold government leaders at all levels accountable for their actions. The Foundation?s programs facilitate effective civic action intended to compel government officials to obey our federal and state constitutions.

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Linked with Radhika Coomaraswamy – Sri Lanka.

ICES is one of the leading think tanks in the world researching and publishing on violent group conflict and related issues of governance and development. Established in 1982, the original mandate of the Centre being the study of ethnic conflict and gender issues, it is probably the first of its kind to focus attention on violent group conflict and has done pioneering work on the subject related to South Asia and many other parts of the world.

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About: The International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) is a world leader in the study of violent group conflict. Established in September 1982, the Centre was a pioneer in the field of conflict studies and research when the subject of conflict was not the fashionable subject for academic research and teaching that it is today. The work it has done covers South Asia and many other parts of the world which is also unusual for a think tank located in a small developing country. However, ICES also soon concluded that the study of violent group conflict needs to be studied and understood in its broader socio-economic, political context and global context. Thus the focus of the ICES soon widened to encompass a much broader research and publication agenda that extended to, among other things, sustainable development, governance and gender. The ICES vision is animated by six themes:

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Linked with Michel Bauwens – Belgium & Thailand, with The cult of Ken Wilber, with FIVE FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS, and with The Political Economy of Peer Production.

Homepage with many good links to blogs, interviews, members, friends, news, resources etc. etc.; more on wiki; Contact.

About: The Foundation for P2P Alternatives proposes to be a meeting place for those who can broadly agree with the following propositions, which are also argued in the essay or book in progress, P2P and Human Evolution:

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