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Linked with Lara Shankar – India, and with India: Homeless Street Children.

Girls must learn to cook; She can’t go to high school in the next town – it’s too far; My daughter won’t go to the village school anymore, there are no separate toilets for girls. Where is the point in her studying mathematics? Discrimination against the girl child doesn’t always take the form of abuse, foeticide or violence … (more).

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Mumbai address with city map: CRY – Child Rights and You, 189/A Anand Estate, Sane Guruji Marg, Mumbai – 400 011, India;
Contact, with addresses in more cities and their maps.

About / who we are:

• – Imagine pulling out your child from school just because you are unable to find a job that pays enough to support your family.
• – Imagine your daughter could not attend school just because it has no toilets.
• – Imagine entire generations of your family being born into bonded labour, with no hope of breaking free.
• – Imagine a country. Call it India, if you will, where 10,000 Indians died from entirely preventable causes.

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A monthly review – in english and in espanol

Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

… Friends, Once a year War Times/Tiempo de Guerras asks for financial support. As an all-volunteer, online project, we operate on a shoestring budget. But we still need a few thousand dollars a year to pay for our website, e-mail service, postage and other bottom-line expenses. To raise money for War Times this year, one of our staffers is again running a “Marathon for Peace.” (See below for his message about the race.) So you can help War Times build a long haul peace movement and Max run his long haul 26.2 miles at the same time. No donation is too small or too large. All donations are tax-deductible, you can donate online or send a check to: War Times [new address]: P.O. Box 22748, Oakland CA 94609, USA. Thanks! – on the Homepage.

Download the October 2008 Online-Issue, 4 pdf-pages;
Download the Back Isssues;
Volunteer Staff;
Resources: (Resources on Iraq, Antiwar Activism and News, Speakers, Artists, Exhibits and Films, Books);
Action Planning: for extensive listings see United for Peace;
Month in review, and past articles: in the right column
Newsletter: in the left column;
Address: War Times/Tiempo de Guerras, P.O. Box 22748, Oakland CA 94609, USA;
Contact.

About /Mission: The terrorist attacks of September 11 marked the beginning of a new and frightening period in our history. Thousands of people died that day, and their families along with the country as a whole are still struggling to recover. But President Bush’s response of « permanent war against terrorism at home and abroad » has further endangered the lives and liberties of millions of people everywhere.

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The organisation holds ‘special’ Consultative status with United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Interfaith International is a non-governmental association of individuals. Its purpose is to provide a space to its members and associates to promote the rights of persons of all different religions and ethnic groups. It was created in 1993 at the ‘World Conference on Human Rights’ sponsored by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria … (about 1/2).

All internal pages of this website have the same URL. To reach them, please click on the items in the left column:

• About Us, and Report to members of Interfaith International July 2007, and Progress Report October 2007;
• UN statements;
• Speech Archives;
• UPR;
• Press Releases;
• Events;
• Photo Gallery;
• Links;
• II team;
• Contact and Permanent Headquarters Adress: 1246 Corsier, Geneva, Switzerland.

About 2/2: … The founding personalities are His Eminence Sayyed Mohammed Musawi, president of the World Islamic League (WABIL) and Charles Graves, D. Theol. a Christian.

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We who believe in freedom cannot rest — Ella Baker

Linked with the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement.

… Those who were tactically nonviolent used Nonviolent Resistance as a tool for building political power, – in demonstrations, as an organizing technique and style, and as a political strategy to achieve specific goals. But it was a tactic, not a philosophy of life; and in other situations, – both personal and political, – other strategies and tactics might be used. We who were tactically nonviolent used Nonviolent Resistance because we wanted to win. We saw nonviolence as the most effective way to accomplish our goals through political means. We did not love our enemies, nor did we believe that our redemptive suffering would win over racists and segregationists to a new world of inter-racial brotherly love. By 1963 the great majority of Freedom Movement activists in CORE, SNCC, NAACP, and even SCLC, were tactically nonviolent rather than philosophically nonviolent … (excerpt from Two Kinds of Nonviolent Resistance, by Bruce Hartford, 2004).

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Veterans Roll Call;
Nonviolent Resitance;
Our Thoughts;
Your Thoughts;
In Memory;
Movement Bibliography — Alphabetic List;
Archive;
History and Timeline of the Southern Freedom Movement;
the blog: Spartacus Educational;
Annual Report, January 2008;
Information on Fair Use;
Newsletter;
Links;
Contact.

About:
I.: The Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website (This website is of, by, and for Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s): The mass media called it the « Civil Rights Movement, » but most of us who were involved in it prefer the term « Freedom Movement » because it was about so much more than just civil rights.

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Literayc, Education and Science for Peace, Unity and Self-Reliance

Linked with Komal Srivastava – India.

… The BGVS is a registered society sponsored by the National Literacy Mission Authority. It came out of the efforts of Shri Sam Pitroda, at that time Advisor on Technology Missions to the then Prime Minister, late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, and Shri Anil Bordia the then Education Secretary. Having appreciated the effectiveness of the Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha of 1987 sponsored by NCSTC, DST, and by the people’s science movements, in communicating science to the people and propelling them to action during the very first meeting of General Council of NLM Authority held in July 1988, they together with the then minister of HRD Shri Shivshankar urged the People’s Science Movements to give all out support to the cause of literacy and plan a Jatha similar to BJVJ-87 but now for literacy … (full text about BGVS).

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Basic Education and Continuing Education;
Kala Jatha / Mobilisation;
Panchayats and Development;
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Reports and Articles;
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Address Natinal Office: Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Basement of Y.W.A., Hostel No. II, Avenue – 21, G-Block, Saket, New Delhi – 110 017, India;
Contact.

About / History: The expectation at the time of independence, fifty years ago, that political freedom and representative democracy will assuage the conditions of the people of India, has obviously not turned out to be true, since people continue to battle with problems of poverty, exploitation and ignorance.

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