The Centre for Social Justice CSJ

The Centre for Social Justice is an independent think tank established, by Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP in 2004, to seek effective solutions to the poverty that blight parts of Britain.

News;
Media;
Policy work;
The Inner city challenge;
Our work in pictures;
UNICEF report;
Newsletter;
Contact and Online Enquiry.

Address UK: The Centre for Social Justice CSJ, 9 Westminster Palace Gardens, Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RL, tel. 020 7340 9650, Email

Address India: Centre for Social Justice, c-105, Royal chinmey Apartment off judges’, bunglows road near simundhar towers Bodakdev, Vastrapur Ahmedabad, India, Phone: 079-26854248, 097-25054329

Alliance: Putting social justice at the heart of British politics – The CSJ Poverty Fighter’s Alliance ensures the insights of small organisations working on the ground with Britain’s most vulnerable are taken on board by policy makers in central and local government. Tens of thousands of people working and volunteering in charities, or as carers, across the UK, know first hand the challenges the faced by people struggling on low income, to overcome debt, addictions, to come to terms with family breakdown, and the complexity of issues that keep people trapped in poverty. (full text).

About: What we do – The CSJ highlights the work of profoundly differing and unique small voluntary organisations and charities. These groups provide welfare in the most broken parts of British society.

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call to conscience

Homepage: We are veterans of the United States armed forces. We stand with the majority of humanity, including millions in our own country, in opposition to the United States’ all out war on Iraq. We span many wars and eras, have many political views and we all agree that this war is wrong. Many of us believed serving in the military was our duty, and our job was to defend this country. Our experiences in the military caused us to question much of what we were taught. Now we see our REAL duty is to encourage you as members of the U.S. armed forces to find out what you are being sent to fight and die for and what the consequences of your actions will be for humanity. We call upon you, the active duty and reservists, to follow your conscience and do the right thing.
In the last Gulf War, as troops, we were ordered to murder from a safe distance. We destroyed much of Iraq from the air, killing hundreds of thousands, including civilians. We remember the road to Basra — the Highway of Death — where we were ordered to kill fleeing Iraqis. We bulldozed trenches, burying people alive. The use of depleted uranium weapons left the battlefields radioactive. Massive use of pesticides, experimental drugs, burning chemical weapons depots and oil fires combined to create a toxic cocktail affecting both the Iraqi people and Gulf War veterans today. One in four Gulf War veterans is disabled … (full text).

All internal links work from inside the homepage, from the left column:

  • Sign this statement;
  • Veteran Signers as of September 11, 2005;
  • Veterans Call to Conscience, these Soldiers won’t Participate;
  • CO & GI Resources;
  • Speakers Bureau, Available for National & International Press;
  • The Call in Other Languages.

Contact Info: Veterans Call to Conscience, c/o VVAWAI PO Box 21604, Seattle WA 98111, e-mail.

jenna orkin's Act 2: From the Wilderness' Peak Oil

Linked with Michael C. Ruppert – USA, and with The Archive of ‘From The Wilderness’ FTW.

Head of the Blog: With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, « If there’s a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off. » In the world’s nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions… FTW’s Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin

Links: From The Wilderness Archive; Conflict of Interest, a 9/11 Windfall and the White House Council on Environmental Quality;

About (in the right column of the Frontpage): FTW is pleased to announce the launching of its new blog. Readers are invited to join in the online discussions of preparing for a post-Peak world. From Mike Ruppert’s Welcoming Message: « Tell us what you have learned. Share what you think (in the spirit of cooperation). Comment with only one prime directive, ‘What can we share here that will save lives by providing people with choices, experience, strength and hope?' »// FTW’s posting of comments to this blog should not be construed as an endorsement of their contents. Sometimes readers include links with which we’re unfamiliar or opinions with which we may not agree. This is a forum for a broad spectrum of ideas. In the spirit of community which is going to become ever more essential as peak oil takes over, we try to allow everyone a voice, within the parameters set out by Mike Ruppert in his Introduction. By submitting comments, you claim sole authorship and give permission for publication.

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The Archive of 'From The Wilderness' FTW

A RESEARCH TREASURE; AND MAP FROM PAST, TO PRESENT, TO FUTURE

Linked with Michael C. Ruppert – USA, and with jenna orkin’s Act 2: From the Wilderness’ Peak Oil Blog.

Homepage;
up-comming FTW events;
OIL & ENERGY (more than 110 original articles);
free e-mail alert list;
our achievements;
our writers;
Address: FTW, 655 Washington St., Ashland, OR 97520;
Contact: Phone, (541) 201-0090, E-mail.

About: From The Wilderness is about the publication of documented truth and the letting go of fear through education.

FEAR happens when we really don’t understand something and when we project, either consciously or subconsciously, into the future. The only real moment is NOW. We become FEARFUL of the unknown and of the things that we don’t want to face. When we don’t face problems NOW we guarantee that they will be worse – LATER.

Carl Jung wrote: « The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. »

The best way to stop living in fear is to educate oneself…arm the mind, so to speak. The most spiritual way to deal with fear is to approach it rather than run from it. It is from this commitment that true progress is made and that solutions unseen become solutions made real.

We provide you with well-researched data and material presented in various formats. We DO NOT operate from any fixed ideological, political or economic viewpoint. We present the data — what you do with it is up to you.
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International Social Service ISS

(auf deutsch, en français, in italiano)

Linked with ISS Press Release.

Homepage: … The role of ISS is to bring together all parts of a problem, allowing the individuals or families involved to see all options available to them, thus helping them to make the most appropriate choices. The International Social Service (ISS) is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to helping individuals and families with personal or social problems resulting from migration and international movement. ISS’s national branches, affiliated bureaux and correspondents in over 100 countries facilitate communication between social services to resolve these problems. The International Social Service provides help without discrimination of any kind …

Casework;
Training, Seminars;
Publications;
Cooperation;
Newsletters;
ICR – CIR adoptions;
International Reference Centre for the Rights of Children Deprived of their Family;
Address: International Social Service ISS, 32 quai du Seujet, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland;
Contact: Tel.: +41 22 906 77 00, Fax: +41 22 906 77 01, E-mail General Secretariat, E-mail International Reference Centre.

About: The organization: The International Social Service (ISS) is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to helping individuals and families with personal or social problems resulting from migration and international movement.

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