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Linked with Viviana Elisa Díaz Caro – Chile.

Derechos Chile, a web page dealing with the history of human rights abuses in Chile, beginning in 1973 when the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet took power and continuing through today’s current events. On this site you will find testimony, photographs, articles and other interesting information. With its link to The Santiago Times, Derechos Chile offers regular news stories about the continuing evolution of human rights issues in Chile. Here you will find information for everyone – for those with a limited understanding of Chile, and for those who participated in making its history. If you want to know more about the site, please continue reading (homepage).

Sitemap: Chrolology; UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP; LANDMARK EVENTS;  CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN CHILE; Photogallery;
Info Center: Santiago Times; Envrio Report; Trave Essays;
CHIP, the Chile Information Projet;
ARCHIVES;
Links;
Contact and about.

WHY KEEP LOOKING BACK AT THE PAST? The team that created this web page was motivated by a concern for the word « memory. » In the years that have gone by since Chile began its « transition » to democracy, there has been a constant call for people to forget. The effort to erase the memory of a very specific part of the country’s history comes most especially from one sector of the society. Still, as made evident by regular, every-day events, the contradictions from the past continue to have their effect today.

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helping make work more inspiring

Linked with Prabhu Guptara – India and Switzerland.

Career Innovation (Ci) develops research-based solutions that increase levels of performance and engagement at work. Our global research & development activities are funded by top employers, who collaborate to solve emerging challenges and gain recognition as inspiring places to work. Our career tools also help individuals find more fulfilling work – not just by changing jobs or companies, but also by taking a fresh approach to their current work that increases their satisfaction and contribution. In short, our goal is to help make work more inspiring. (Homepage).

Ci group;
Research and reports;
Ci solutions;
Career Tools;
Engaging Conversations;
Newsletter;
Address: The Career Innovation Company, 27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU, United Kingdom;
Contact.

About: Career Innovation is a small, visionary, networked research and technology business. Ci is based in Oxford, UK and works with clients and member companies across Europe and the United States.

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Linked with Michael Albert – USA.

There are two organisations with almost the same name:

1): The SDS 1960 organization: see on wikipedia:

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was, historically, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country’s New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. SDS was the organizational high point for student radicalism in the United States and has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. Participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current national student activist groups. Though various organizations have been formed in subsequent years as proposed national networks for left-wing student organizing, none has approached the scale of SDS, and most have lasted a few years at best … (full text on wikipedia/1960 organisation).
Their blog: the SDS organizer;

Links: New Left Archive; SDS Historical Documents and other links; Shut it down; The Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection; Further reading.

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2): The SDS 2006 organization: their homepage:
Bulletin June/July 2008, 23 pages;
Contact Regional Organizers (240 Total);
Join SDS;

See also on wikipedia: SDS’ main page, and also the wiki’s 2006, The New SDS: Beginning January 2006, there is a movement to start a new SDS. A small group of old SDS members joined with a Connecticut high school student to call for a new SDS fighting for civil rights and against war. Several chapters at various colleges were later started. On Martin Luther King Day of 2006, these chapters called for the first national convention since 1969 to be held in the summer of 2006.

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Linked with Bruce Fein – USA.

The American Freedom Agenda’s (AFA) mission is twofold: the enactment of a cluster of statutes that would restore the Constitution’s checks and balances as enshrined by the Founding Fathers; and, making the subject a staple of political campaigns and of foremost concern to Members of Congress and to voters and educators.  Especially since 9/11, the executive branch has chronically usurped legislative or judicial power, and has repeatedly claimed that the President is the law. The constitutional grievances against the White House are chilling, reminiscent of the kingly abuses that provoked the Declaration of Independence.
(full text, Homepage).

News;
Events;
Address: 910 17th St., NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20006;
Contact.

About: … The 10-point AFA statutory agenda would repeal the Military Commissions Act’s authorization of military commissions for the trial of alleged war criminals based on coerced or secret evidence. The trials should proceed in civilian courts or by courts-martial which feature time-honored procedural safeguards to insure reliable verdicts.

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Protecting Civil Liberties – Promoting Human Rights

Linked with Bruce Fein – USA, and with the American Freedom Agenda AFA.

Liberty campaigns – with the public, press and politicians – to influence government policy on issues that impact on our rights and freedoms … (Issues).

Homepage and latest news;
News and Events;
Liberty Constitution and Rules, 8 pages;
Join Us;
Job Opportunities;
Publications;
Newsletter;
Address: Liberty, 21 Tabard Street, London SE1 4LA, England;
Contact.

About: Who we are: Liberty is also known as the National Council for Civil Liberties. Founded in 1934, we are a cross party, non-party membership organisation at the heart of the movement for fundamental rights and freedoms in England and Wales. We promote the values of individual human dignity, equal treatment and fairness as the foundations of a democratic society.

Our mission: Liberty seeks to protect civil liberties and promote human rights for everyone.

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Google’s Knol will change Content forever

Community site for Google’s new Knol Content Encyclopedia … KnolStuff.com is a brand new social netwoking community for Google’s Open Encyclopedia. This is a Community to discuss and learn about « Knol » and take advantage of what Google is offering. This site also supports the new Google OpenSocial Platform. Share with others updates and insights about Knol. Meet new people and network. (Homepage 1/2).

Open Social Blog;

Members: with their page, their friends, and with their blog.
Groups;
Events;
My page / Sign Up/In for sharing;
Contact: click on Sign In.

Google Knol is Open to the Public (Homepage 2/2):
Click also here.

Google Blog 7/23/2008: A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we’re making Knol available to everyone. Read more: … (full text).

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to prevent war and armed conflict

Linked with Rebecca Johnson – England.

The Past century was the most lethal in human history: Over 200 million people were killed in 250 wars and genocidal onslaughts, more people than were killed in warfare in the past two thousand years.* More than six million people have died in war since the end of the Cold War, when things should have changed for the better … (Preventing Violence: The Global Action Project 1/2).

Homepage;
Who we are;
Meetings: A UNEPS ‘White Paper’ Launched in Washington, DC;
Take Action;
UNEPS;
Newsletter;
Address; 675 Third Avenue, Suite 315. New York, NY 10017;
Contact.

Preventing Violence: The Global Action Project 2/2: … The world’s societies and governments already know how to stop the killing. What has been missing is a program for the sustained, integrated, worldwide application of their resources and knowledge. Global Action to Prevent War provides such a program.

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Linked with Rebecca Johnson – England, and with Britain’s new nuclear abolitionists.

The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy has been working since 1995 to promote effective approaches to international security, disarmament and arms control. Engaging with governments and civil society, Acronym provides reporting, analysis and strategic thinking on a range of issues relevant to peace and security, with special emphasis on treaties and multilateral initiatives … The Acronym Institute is grateful to the Ford Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund, and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust for their enabling support of our work and publications, including this website. (full text Homepage).

The Journal Disarmament Diplomacy;
The United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament;
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency;
WMD Possessors and Aspirants;
Disarmament Calendar 2008: Main Conferences & Events;
Glossary of Acronyms;
Links (for Organisations);
Address: The Acronym Institute, 24 Colvestone Crescent, London E8 2LH;
Contact: Tel: +44 (0) 20 7503 8857, Fax: +44 (0) 20 7503 8857, e-mail of Founding Director & Editor: Dr Rebecca Johnson.

About: The Acronym Institute was set up in November 1995 under the name ‘Disarmament Intelligence Review’. In April 1997 it became sole publisher of Disarmament Diplomacy, a journal of news, documentation and opinion pieces on disarmament and arms control negotiations. In September 1997 the Institute was legally established in London, UK, under the name The Acronym Institute.

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(APA = American Psychological Association)

Be it resolved that psychologists may not work in settings where persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the US Constitution (where appropriate), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights. (Homepage);
The 2008 Protest for an Ethical APA, Boston, August 16, 12pm – 2pm;
Governance Resolution, adopted by APA on February 22, 2008;
Resolution;
Sign the resolution;
Frequently Asked Questions about the Resolution;

Archived Links (with texts, videos, audios);
Links to more information about colleges and universities that have protested the APAs stance on psychologists’ involvement in illegal detention sites: Inside higher ED; and Psyche, Science and Society, Archive for May 24th, 2008.

About: We commend the American Psychological Association for having recently amended its 2007 Resolution Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Application to Individuals Defined in the United States Code as « Enemy Combatants » (Amendment)  so as to unequivocally condemn all techniques considered to be torture,  thereby closing loopholes that existed in the original Resolution (see below). However, the International Committee of the Red Cross determined in 2003 that the conditions in such Centers are themselves tantamount to torture. Yet psychologists maintain a presence in such sites and in 2007 the elected and appointed leaders of the APA voted once again against an amendment that would have prevented psychologists from working in facilities in which detainees are deprived of their human rights except as health personnel.

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Helping society move towards a socially just and environmentally restorative existence

Linked with Wiser Earth.org.

The Natural Capital Institute serves the people who are transforming the world. We are a team of researchers, teachers, students, activists, scholars, writers, social entrepreneurs, artists, and volunteers committed to the restoration of the earth and the healing of human culture. We do two things: we describe pathways of change in books and research reports, and we create tools for connecting the individuals, information, and organizations that create change … (Homepage).

Who we are: Current Interns, Board Members and Staff;
Our History;
WISER;
WiserEarth;
WiserBusiness;
WiserEarth Partners;
WISER Platform;
Newsletter: Please drop a note to NCI’s outreach coordinator Melinda Kramer;
Address: Natural Capital Institute, 3 Gate Five Road, Suite A, Sausalito, California 94965;
Contact. Tel: 415.331.6241, Fax: 415.331.6242, e-mail.

(About)/WISER Guidelines:

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The Hindu caste system has been called a « hidden apartheid » and the single greatest existing social evil. But outside of the subcontinent few people know much about it, even among leftists … (Homepage 1/2).

News; Maharashtra burning; Mumia Abu-Jamal case; social function of caste; Caste among Muslim; Letters to workers vanguard; discrimination against untouchable survivors of the South Asian tsunami; More readings; Links;
Contact by e-mail.

Placed as External Links:
Human Rights Watch-report on casts;
Read my guestbook;
Sign my guestbook;
Country Study: Cast and Classes;
Dalits & Human Rights: The Battles Ahead, By P. Sainath.

About (Homepage 2/2):
Some 250 million people around the world were born untouchable. They live throughout South Asia, as well as in Japan and parts of West Africa. Over 160 million of them are in India, where they make up more than one-sixth of the population, and where over 580 million more people belong to other oppressed castes and tribes.

The purpose of this site is to share our ideas and research. Our perspective is Marxist. It will take a socialist revolution to create the material basis for abolishing the caste system. And only a party that openly fights against caste oppression can lead the workers of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to power.

We are not that party, or any kind of organization.

This site is run by Sujatha and Alan. Sujatha grew up in an untouchable family in Andhra Pradesh.
See also: Sujatha’s multi-generational family narrative;

waging politics online

Linked with Matt Stoller – USA, with videos concerning the US, and with Finding Your Obviousmeter.

Blogpac funds progressive leadership and experiments with injecting new voices in the political process using internet activism. We give grants, no strings attached, to activists on the internet who have a demonstrated record of success in either creating progressive change or creating the space for progressives to make change. We also seek moments to inject progressive power into the political system through focused internet and new media activism, (about 1/2).

Blogpac grants money to two sets of emerging leaders.

• 1) Activists who have created change outside of a traditional party or campaign structure.
• 2) Local bloggers that build community spaces for activists in their state.

Homepage/main and latest posts;
Press;
In the right column: find sign up and blogroll;
Contribute;
Address: Blogpac, P.O. Box 30727, Philadelphia, PA 19104;
Contact: by e-mail, online.

About 2/2: Who We Are: Matt Stoller is the President of Blogpac. Formerly blogging with MyDD, he now incites the masses and offers strategic advice to the Democrats from his perch at OpenLeft. In 2005, he worked as the blogger for Jon Corzine for Governor, and for Simon Rosenberg for DNC Chair. He has been blogging since 2002 and has since become a caricature of himself.

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Linked with the french groups ARTANES and PLANeS.

From choice, a world of possibilities:

• PPF is a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.
• We are a worldwide movement of national organizations working with and for communities and individuals.
• We advocate for universal access to contraceptives, gender equality and safe abortion.

Homepage;
Sitemap;
News;
What we do;
Resources;
Regions where we work;
How to help;
Volunteers;
Newsletter;
Contacts.

About: We are a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.
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Fondation Suisse pour la santé sexuelle et reproductive
(aussi en allemand /auch auf deutsch)

Lié avec/linked with International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF.

Organisation faîtière des centres de consultation en planning familial, grossesse, sexualité et éducation sexuelle, PLANeS s’engage pour que le droit et l’accès aux prestations de santé sexuelle et reproductive soient assurés à toute personne … (page d’accueil).

PLANeS est membre de l’IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation).

Plan du site;
Infos et publications;
Activités;
Association / Conseil d’Experts;
Notre réseau;
Liens Suisses;
Liens internationaux;
Contact.

Qui est PLANeS ?

• La Fondation PLANeS, créée en 2000, est une organisation à but non lucratif, indépendante de toute appartenance politique et confessionnelle. Elle succède à l’Association Suisse de Planning Familial et d’Education Sexuelle (ASPFES), fondée en 1993. PLANeS s’engage pour la promotion de la santé sexuelle et reproductive, ainsi que pour les droits de la population qui y sont liés.
• PLANeS est l’organisation faîtière suisse des centres de consultation en planning familial, grossesse et sexualité, des services d’éducation sexuelle et des associations professionnelles dans ces domaines. C’est une fondation, dans laquelle se trouve intégrée une association.
• PLANeS est le membre suisse de l’IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation), organisation mondiale non-gouvernementale de planning familial.

Pour quoi PLANeS s’engage-t-elle?

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