The Catalyst Project

Catalyst Project is a center for political education and movement building based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are committed to anti-racist work in majority white sections of left social movements with the goal of deepening anti-racist commitment in white communities and building multiracial left movements for liberation. We are committed to creating spaces for activists and organizers to collectively develop relevant theory, vision and strategy to build our movements. Catalyst programs prioritize leadership development, supporting grassroots fighting organizations and multiracial alliance building. (Welcome).

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Address: The Catalyst Project, 522 Valencia St #2, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA;
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Organization: Catalyst Project is a collectively run, democratic organization that prioritizes empowered leadership and accountability in our internal culture and practice.  We blend structures from non-profit staff organizations and volunteer based activist collectives.  We strive to incorporate our left, democractic, feminist and anti-authoritarian principles into our organizational model and our organizing practice.

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights CCHR

Added June 6, 2010: Linked also on our blogs with / Lié sur nos blogs aussi avec La Commission des Citoyens pour les Droits de l’Homme CCDH (au 7 juin 2010), and with / et avec NON AU PROJET DE LOI FACILITANT LES INTERNEMENTS PSYCHIATRIQUES.

Linked with Psychiatry and Drugs.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights CCHR is a non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights. It also ensures that criminal acts within the psychiatric industry are reported to the proper authorities and acted upon … (full text about).

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Mission Statement; Mental Health Declaration of HR; PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS; videos; CCHR in action; take action;
publications; report abuse; sample US bills and resolutions; press room; museum; intro virtual tour; free DVD and information kit;
Contacts and all addresses worldwide.

Message from the President: Most people today have difficulty understanding the destructive impact psychiatry has on communities around the world. For far too many, the lesson is learned only after a psychiatrist has destroyed some part of their life.

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Poor People’s United Fund PPUF

housing – food – justice

Linked with Kip Tiernan – USA.

Our mission at the Poor People’s United Fund is to advocate for a change to the current policies, programs, conditions and perceptions affecting poor and homeless people and to alleviate the pain and suffering they are forced to endure. We seek to provide a consistent, resolute and credible voice for poor and homeless people and to counter the misperceptions and misinformation that blame poor and homeless people for the current social and financial crises. (About).

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Publications /the book Urban Meditations;
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History and Programs;
Founders and Staff Bios;
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Address: Poor People’s United Fund, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02117, USA;
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A Message from Kip, (on the Homepage): Dear Brothers and Sisters,

For over 25 years Fran Froehlich and I have been friends and human services colleagues with a thirst for justice, working in the trenches of suffering. We have spent years helping to create an ethic that might meet these new desperate needs, and we have been responsible for creating and supporting a number of human service alternatives.

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Kinderhilfe Afghanistan /German Aid for Afghan Children GAAC

also in german (Bildung statt Fundamentalismus)

Linked with Reinhard Erös – Germany, with Fighting for peace with the weapons of literacy, with The International Council on Security and Development ICOS, and with POPPY FOR MEDECINE.

The GERMAN AID for AFGHAN CHILDREN GAAC is a private initiative of a family in Regensburg, Germany: Dr Reinhard Eroes, Annette Eroes and their five children Veit (24), Urs (22), Welf (21), Cosima (12) and Veda (12). The organization was created 1998 to aid the medical and educational needs of Afghan refugee women and children in Pakistan and Afghanistan … (about 1/2).

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download printable information, in english,
Projects:

  • Paghman Trutz High School
  • Schools at Jalalabad
  • Village School of Zawa
  • Village School of Chewa
  • Sir Peter Ustinov School
  • Start of Building Additional Schools
  • « Iron Cow » (Milk Supply for Children)
  • Mother-and-Child Hospital
  • Unicef
  • Basic Health Units
  • Orphanage « Children`s House Afghanistan

Contributions (scroll down /Liga Bank Regensburg);
Afghanistan;
Address: Dr. med. Reinhard und Annette Erös, Im Anger 25, 93098 Mintraching, Germany;
Contact.

About 2/2: … GAAC evolved through German Federal Armed Forces physician Dr. Eroes and his great expertise, acquired in over twenty years of related work. During these years, he worked extensively with UN and international relief organizations to provide humanitarian and disaster relief within the area as well as in India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, Albania, Rwanda and East-Timor. Dr Eroes worked in and for Afghanistan since 1985.

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The International Council on Security and Development ICOS

formerly known as The Senlis Council (London)

Linked with Reinhard Erös – Germany, with Kinderhilfe Afghanistan /German Aid for Afghan Children GAAC, and with POPPY FOR MEDECINE.

ICOS is an international policy think tank committed to implementing change at all policy levels, by bridging the gap between people and policy in three key areas: … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Fellowship Programme;
Events;
Publications;
POPPY FOR MEDECINE;
ICOS film/video reports;
ICOS maps;
Links;
Centre of Excellence on Public Security‘s website;
General Info: Tel +44 207 953 3755 (UK), e-mail.
Contacts (with 6 addresses worldwide).

About 2/2: (three key areas): …

GLOBAL SECURITY PROGRAMME:

The Global Security Programme aims to support innovative political leadership on security and development crises in conflict zones. Through field research such as the ICOS survey of 17,000 Afghan men on their perceptions of current security and development issues in Afghanistan, the programme provides policy-makers and the wider public with informed strategic response options, and the grassroots perspectives necessary to unlock progress.

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