groupes en action

Linked with Candi Smucker – USA.

At Ten Thousand Villages, we work with over 120 artisan groups in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to bring you fair trade jewelry, home decor, gifts and more. As one of the world’s oldest and largest fair trade organizations, we build long-term relationships with artisans that are based on mutual understanding and respect. Fair trade enables artisans to earn a fair wage and provides the opportunity for a better quality of life. (Homepage).

Sitemap;
Fair Trade: A Worldwide Movement;
What Fair Trade Means;
How We Practice Fair Trade;
IFAT: Key Principles Of Fair Trade;
Our Fair Trade Friends;
Akron Offices, More than 130 Hearts, One Giving Mission;
How To Get Involved;
Find Artisans by region or coutry;
Ten Thousand Villages News;
About Us;
Contact.

Fair Trade: Unique Products. Unique Business: Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit fair trade organization that markets handcrafted products made by artisans from more than 130 artisan groups in 36 countries. As one of the world’s oldest and largest fair trade organizations, Ten Thousand Villages has spent more than 60 years cultivating long-term buying relationships in which artisans receive a fair price for their work and consumers have access to unique gifts, accessories and home decor from around the world. Enterprising Artistry: Ten Thousand Villages comprises a global network of social entrepreneurs who strive to improve the livelihood of disadvantaged artisans by building a market for handmade products in North America.

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Linked with Kate Donnelly – USA.

The United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation’s peacemakers. (Who we are).

Homepage;
News, Events and Newsletter;
2009 Peace Calendar;
Publications;
Media;
Resources;
Join WRL;
War Tax Resistance;
Address: War Resisters League, National Office, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012;
Contact.

What We Believe: The United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923.

Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation’s peacemakers. Our political influences span the globe; central are the teachings of the Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi, and of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., pacifist-feminist activist and theorist Barbara Deming, labor organizer Cesar Chavez, and peace agitators A.J. Muste and Dave Dellinger.

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Linked with Ellen Barry – USA.

The prison abolition movement seeks to abolish prison and the prison system which advocates of the movement claim are inhumane. Prison abolitionists present a broad critique of the modern Western criminal justice system, alleged to be both racist and classist as well as ineffectual at reforming criminals, decreasing crime, or reconciling the victims of crime … (wikipedia).

More on wikipedia:

• Advocates for prison abolition.
• Prison reforms and alternatives.
• Arguments made for prison abolition.
• List of organizations supporting prison abolition.

The prison abolition movementseems not having an own website, but it is named on many related publications:

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To search for the truth of the Hawaiian Culture

Linked with Roselle Bailey – USA /Hawai.

Ka `Imi Na`auao O Hawai`i Nei … means to search for the truth of the Hawaiian culture. Through hula, we help restore the culture to its original dignity. We teach how to understand, enjoy, and appreciate the medicine, science, art, language, crafts, philosophy and religion of the Hawaiian people. « E Mau Ke Ea, E Mau Ke Ola », Let the spirit live; may life and health flourish. (About).

Homepage;
Halau News;
Upcoming events;
Archives;
Classes;
Membership;
Bibliography;
Instruments;
Our Kumu;
Ceremonies;
Addresse: Ka`Imi Na`auao O Hawai`i Nei, P.O Box 1686, Kapa`a, Kaua`i, Hawai`i 96746;
Contact.

Halau History:

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Linked with Aileen Clarke Hernandez – USA, with NOW and Abortion Rights /Reproductive Issues, with National Organization for Women NOW, and with The California Women’s Agenda CAWA.

Founded in 1993, the African American Women’s Institute (AAWI) is a focal point for cross-cultural studies of  women in color … (Homepage 1/2).

Abstracts of Papers;
News;
Mission and Committee-Members;
AAWI Profiles;
Member Directories;
Address: AAWI, Howard University, P.O. Box 590492, Washington, D.C. 20059;
Contact.

Homepage 2/2: … The Institute seeks to build collaborative links with other local university women’s programs and community organizations and also seek to create scholarly exchange programs between the university and local institutions like the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, The Bethune Museum and Archives, and the Library of Congress, Research emphases include chronicling African American women’s history, research, and scholarship with particular emphasis on the upper south of the United States, using related fields like urban geography and history to study area-wide patterns of employment and migration. While examining the complex interface of race, sex, and class in the region, AAWI will also emphasize the compelling ways women have reshaped the culture and managed economic realities of the region. AAWI is also working to create a nexus between African-American women and other women of the DiaspOSP-RA and is developing a mentoring/support program and certificate program for women on the Howard Campus and in the community.