Scriptorium

The power to end war and prevent future wars of aggression

Linked with 2008 a year of opportunity for peace advocates.

VotersForPeace is educating, organizing and activating voters to end the occupation of Iraq and prevent future wars of aggression. Our mission is to mobilize anti-war voters into a visible and effective political force that cannot be ignored. We provide voters with the information and tools they need to be effective peace advocates; this includes educating their friends and family on the occupation, writing letters to the media, and holding congressional and presidential candidates accountable … (full text, about 1/2).

Homepage and latest articles;
sign the voters pledge;
take action;
peace perspective /archive;
our yahoo discussion group;
antiwar politics;
address: VotersForPeace, 2842 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21218;
write the candidates;
contact: Tel. 443-708-8360

About 2/2: … The first thing that voters can do to take action is sign the Voters’ Pledge. This sends an important message to their elected officials and it empowers other voters to take a stand and demand withdrawal from Iraq.

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Linked with Raul Humberto Yzaguirre – USA .

The largest national Latino civil rights an advocacy organization in the United States, NCLR works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans.

Sitemap;
general agenda;
focus issues;
topics;
publications;
special events;
NCLR affiliate network;
corporate relationship opportunities;
contact.

About: The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) – the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States – works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans.

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Linked with Daniel H. Yergin – USA.

CERA, an IHS company, is a leading advisor to international energy companies, governments, financial institutions, and technology providers. CERA delivers critical knowledge and independent analysis on energy markets, geopolitics, industry trends, and strategy. Our services help decision makers anticipate the energy future and formulate timely, successful plans in the face of rapid changes and uncertainty. CERA is valued for our independence, fundamental research, foresight, and original thinking. Our unique integrated framework enables us to offer new insights ahead of conventional wisdom, providing a comprehensive « early warning system » that has a direct impact on investment, decision making, and performance. (About 1/2).

Homepage;
sitemap;
News;
upcoming events;
CERA-week & executive interviews;
FAQ;
photo gallery;
contact: by website, by Tel. +1 617 866 5992 or by e-mail.

About 2/2: CERA’s expertise covers all major energy sectors – oil and refined products, natural gas, and electric power – on a global and regional basis. CERA delivers services through:

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… the journal of African American political Thought and action

In the fall of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Africa;
Blacks & Latinos;
black caucus;
media;
political economy;
black agenda blog;
‘like us‘;
contact: click on mail-icon above at right on the ‘about-page’.

About (2/2): Historic « firsts, » « mosts, » and « onlys » are the hallmarks of Glen Ford’s long career.

The son of famed disc jockey Rudy “The Deuce” Rutherford, the first Black man to host a non-gospel television show in the Deep South – Columbus, Georgia, 1958 – Glen was reading newswire copy on-the-air at age eleven. Glen’s first full-time broadcast news job was at James Brown’s Augusta, Georgia radio station WRDW, in 1970 – where ‘The Godfather of Soul” shortened Glen’s surname to “Ford.”

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Left Business Observer is an 8-page more-or-less monthly newsletter on economics and politics in the U.S. and the world at large. A list of back issues since 1990 is on this web site … (About 1/2);

Download for free the book ‘Wall Street’, by Doug Henwood, 382 pdf-pages;

Homepage;
current issue;
articles;
back issues (with some articles for free);
Frothing at the house: suddenly the housing bubble is everywhere;
The Meaning of Seattle, An interview with Noam Chomsky, by David Barsamian;
radio;
address: Left Business Observer LBO, 38 Greene St – fl 4, New York NY 10013-2505, phone 212-219-0010, fax 212-219-0098;
contact by e-mail.

About (2/2): LBO, founded in 1986, is edited by Doug Henwood. Henwood is also a contributing editor of The Nation and does a weekly program on New York’s Pacifica outlet. [The show is on most Thursdays, 5-6 PM eastern time. Click here to listen to WBAI. Click here for radio archives.] His book, The State of the USA Atlas, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1994; his Wall Street was published by Verso in 1997 (paperback, 1998) to great acclaim and impressively vigorous sales (over 20,000). His book After the New Economy was published by The New Press in October 2003.

Profiles, etc. … (full text).

Linked with Oddom Van Syvorn – Cambodia.
One of the main purposes of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship is to build and support the socially engaged Buddhist community around the world. We do so by creating training, education, and practice opportunities for socially engaged Buddhists, supporting BPF chapters and affiliates, and generating Buddhist social analysis on issues such as race, gender, class, and social and economic justice (homepage).

Current projects;
get involved;
magazine;
resource center;
chapters;
annual reports;
support the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
address: Buddhist Peace Fellowship, PO Box 3470, Berkeley, CA 94703, USA, Tel: 510.655.6169, Fax: 510.655.1369 ;
contact.

About: Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s BPF open-hearted engagement with the world is expressed through expanding programs in the United States and Asia. Through BPF, Buddhists of many different traditions are developing individual and group responses to socially conditioned suffering.

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Linked with Baba Amte – India (1914 – 2008), and with Love in the time of want.

Take Heart India, a youth focused community enabling organisation focusing on educational and environmental projects in India. Take Heart primarily supports a parent organisation called the MSS, the lifetime achievement of the legendary Baba Amte … (main homepage).

Intro;
projects;
take actions;
events;
photo gallery;
The Maharogi Sewa Samiti MSS;
contact THI.

About THI: Take Heart India is a youth focused community enabling organisation focusing on educational and environmental projects in India. Take Heart primarily supports a parent organisation called the MSS, the lifetime achievement of the legendary Baba Amte. The awareness of Take Heart has been growing quickly over the years. In 2003 Take Heart became entirely student run. 34 student committee members were established at universities across the UK. Take heart is no longer entirely student run but remains entirely youth focused.

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

Welcome to the Enterprise Europe Network, your gateway to competitiveness and innovation. Wherever you are in Europe, you can get access to all the information you need to develop your business and find the right business partners. The network offers support and advice to businesses across Europe and helps them make the most of the opportunities in the European Union. Our services are specifically designed for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) but are also available to all businesses, research centres and Universities across Europe … (Homepage’s full text).

who does what;
the network in your country;
services;
FAQ;
EU portal;
EU law;
contact.

About the network: The Enterprise Europe Network is the largest network of contact points providing information and advice to EU companies on EU matters, in particular small and medium enterprises (SMEs). We provide practical answers to specific questions in your language.

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Enciclopedia y Biblioteca Virtual de las Ciencias Sociales, Económicas y Jurídicas

Linked with Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – England & Bangladesh.

En este sitio web puede encontrar gratis y accesible libremente, el texto completo de diccionarios, libros, cursos, revistas, vídeos y presentaciones multimedia sobre Economía, Derecho y otras Ciencias Sociales. También podrá comprar nuestra Enciclopedia EMVI en CD-ROM o inscribirse en los Encuentros Internacionales en Internet que organizamos cada mes. Vea aquí las NOVEDADES incluidas en los últimos días.

Homepage;
Universidad de Málaga;

Enciclopedia Virtual:

• Grandes Economistas;
• Dices;
• Explicaciones multimedia;
• Manual basico;

Biblioteca:

• BIBLIOTECA VIRTUAL de Derecho, Economía y Ciencias Sociales, 352 libros gratis;
• BIBLIOTECA DE TESIS DOCTORALES, de Derecho, Economía y otras Ciencias Sociales;
• Textos selectos de Economía y Sociedad;

… etc. etc.

The United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) promotes dynamic partnerships between the United Nations and non-governmental organisations. By providing information, advice, expertise and consulting and support service, NGLS is part of the United Nations effort to strengthen dialogue and win support for economic and social development. (about 1/2).

Homepage;
UN – NGO Relations;
Publications;
FAQ;
Links;
Addresses: New York: United Nations, NGLS – Room DC1-1106, New York NY 10017, United States, Tel. +1-212 963 3125, Fax +1-212 963 8712, Email;
Geneva: Palais des Nations, NGLS, 1211 Geneva 10, witzerland, Tel. 41-22-917-2076, Fax 41-22-917-0432, Email;
Contact.

About 2/2: For over thirty years now the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) has played a major role as part of the UN system’s machinery for engaging with NGOs and civil society by providing a UN system-civil society interface and facilitating a number of innovations to UN system polices and practices towards its non-governmental constituents. In 1982 the UN General Assembly recognized and endorsed the role and work of UN-NGLS for the first time, and, in 1993, the General Assembly again recognized the value of UN-NGLS’s work.

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(also in french and spanisch)

National and Regional Human Development Report Workspace;
homepage & latest news;
sitemap;
human development;
reports;
statistics;
quick access to country factsheets;
contacts.

About: The Human Development Report Office team is organized into five units: operations, writing team, statisitcs unit, outreach and advocacy unit, and the National Human Development Report NHDR unit.

same in french

Linked with Terre des Hommes of Nov. 17, 2006 (some independent groups in french and german are then already named on this blog).

the Terre des Hommes International Federation TDHIF is a network of eleven national organisations working for the rights of children and to promote equitable development without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination (homepage).

The Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDHIF) ensures coordination among the Terre des Hommes organisations and representation at an international and European level. The TDHIF holds a consultative status with the United Nations, UNICEF, the ILO and the Council of Europe. It also works in collaboration with other networks pursuing similar aims (about).

download: annual report 2006, 34 pdf pages.

sitemap;
news;
activities;
campaigns;
what can you do;
resources and links;
press releases;
FAQ;
tdh Switzerland, leading to tdh Geneva.fr and tdh Basel.de;
tdh child relief foundation, Lausanne;
TDHIF Intranet;
contact.

About: Our Mission: The mission of the Terre des Hommes organisations is to provide active support to children, without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination.

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

In 1993, Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies jointly initiated an effort to enhance Central Asian Studies at the University.  This was a response in part to the increasing importance of the former Soviet Muslim regions on the world scene following the break-up of the Soviet Union … (full text, Introduction).

Homepage with latest news and upcoming events;
General Information;
Central Asian Studies at Harvard;
Related links;
See also the old website (all other pages are available through links from inside of this page);
Contact: Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street Rm S-320, Cambridge, MA 02138, e-mail, Tel. 617-496-2643, Fax. 617-495-8319

Focus and Goals of the Program: Central Asia defies any neat definition.  The primary focus of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus is on the newly independent, former-Soviet Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.  However, just as these countries are intimately related to surrounding regions, the Program is intended to be a resource for scholars studying such areas as the Caucasus, the Muslim and Turkic regions of Southern Russia and Western China, and the northern parts of Afghanistan and Iran.

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Breaking the Cycle of Humiliation

Linked with Yvonne Ryakiye – Burundi.

We are a global transdisciplinary network and fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who are dedicated to ending humiliating practices and breaking cycles of humiliation throughout the world. We believe that through this, space is opened for mutual respect and esteem to take root and grow. We suggest that a mindset of cooperation and shared humility is necessary – not a mindset of humiliation – if we wish to build a better world, a world of equal dignity for all.

See this 1 minute welcome video.

Site Map;
News;
Research;
Education;
Intervention Overview;
Publications;
Privacy Policy;
Links;
Contact.

About: who we are: We are a global and transdisciplinary network and fellowship of concerned researchers and practitioners, dedicated to ending cycles of humiliation throughout the world.

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Linked with Rebecca Adamson – USA.

We believe, that when armed with appropriate resources, Native peoples hold the capacity and ingenuity to ensure the sustainable economic, spiritual, and cultural well being of their communities. Homepage.

Chairman’s Message: B. Thomas Vigil, Chairman of the Board, First Nations (20 year report);
The One-Eyed Man is King, A Tribal Field Guide for evaluating and structuring investment in small business: Mike Roberts, President.
Combating Predatory Lending;
Publications;
Strengthening Native Families: Earned Income Tax Credit EITC;
Supporters;
Staff;
Board of directors;
Understanding Assets in Native Communities;
Research;
Contact.

About: Our Mission: Through a three-pronged strategy of Educating Grassroots Practitioners, Advocating Systemic Change, and Capitalizing Indian Communities, First Nations Development Institute is working to restore Native control and culturally-compatible stewardship of the assets they own – be they land, human potential, cultural heritage, or natural resources – and to establish new assets for ensuring the long-term vitality of Native communities.

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