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(This entry’s contact information was last verified in July of 2005)

Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

The SF day labor program is part of the San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory.

Formed in 1990 by a group of immigrant workers, together with community allies, who envisioned a space where laborers could unite to find temporary work to support themselves and their families. The program is committed to connecting workers to jobs with dignity, safety, and a just wage, and to providing employers with high-quality work performance. Contact the program during our business hours (7am-1pm, Mon-Fri, 7am-12pm Sat), at least one hour in advance, to hire one or more laborers for general and specialized work. Our Women’s Collective (which can be reached at the same number and requires one day’s advanced notice) can provide experienced domestic and office help. The program is a non-profit entity and the workers recieve 100% of all wages (webpage).

childcare; community-building; employment; gardening; immigrants; janitorial work; labor; news online; calendars; events and notices;
Address: c/o La Raza Centro Legal, 474 Valencia Street, Suite 295, San Francisco, CA  94103, USA;
Contact: Voice /Tel, US (415) 252-5375 ad US (415) 252-5376, Web.

About … not of the above SF Day Labor Program … but of its Top Organization, the San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory, which is an index to about 1000 organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area that are related to progressive activism and/or helping out disadvantaged people, plus links to related web sites elsewhere.

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Universitas Friburgensis, a project of the Medieval Institute (in de, in en, in fr, and in it).

The purpose of “e-codices” is to provide access to the medieval codices in Switzerland by creating a virtual library. At the moment, the virtual library contains 333 manuscripts from 16 different libraries. The virtual library will be continuously updated and extended. Last update: 12/09/2008. (Homepage).

Information;
Current sub-projects; Completed sub-projects;
Scholarly Cooperations and Support;
Metadata; Image Master Files;
Selected Press Coverage;
Terms of Use; FAQ;
Address: CESG / e-codices, Rue de l’Hôpital 4, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland;
Contacts.

The Codices electronici Confoederationis Helveticae CeCH Curatorium: E-codices is overseen by the « Codices electronici Confoederationis Helveticae » (CeCH) Curatorium of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW). The Curatorium works to further the digitization of the digitization of medieval manuscript holdings and the application of digitization technologies and techniques for manuscript-based scholarly research in medieval studies.

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a resource center for business

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

This website was developed as an anti-corruption resource for business. It explores and details the constructive role that business can play in fighting corruption and how this can be done jointly with other companies and stakeholders – an approach called “collective action”. Organizations and individuals are already successfully using collective action today, working with business associations, civil society, media, government departments and other stakeholders … (full text wellcome page).

Business case;
Guide;
Resources;
Case summaries;
Events;
Contact.

About: the summer of 2007, WBI began a series of discussions with representatives of the business community, NGOs and other anti-corruption stakeholders focused on the proposition that business could and, in fact, wanted to do more to be an active force for constructive change in high risk geographies or sectors. It became clear in the discussions that business wanted to go beyond internal compliance programs to external operational activities which would improve market and project transparency and competitiveness.

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

The Global Value Chains Initiative seeks to develop an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors and across geographic space. It is a multi-year effort to test and develop the GVC framework with the aims of creating greater analytical precision, intellectual impact and policy relevance. Our efforts include a research agenda, a publishing thrust, the development and dissemination of industrial upgrading handbooks for practitioners, and a series of intensive workshops convened to test and broaden the framework through interactions among network participants and with the broader academic, policy-making and activist communities. (Homepage).

Concept and Tools;
Researchers;
Publications;
News and Events;
User Community;
Physical Address: Center on Globalization, Governance & Competetiveness CGGC, Bay B, Erwin Mill, 2024 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27705, USA;
Mailing Address: Attn: Mike Hensen, Sr. Program Coordinator, Box 90420, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0420, USA;
Contact.

About: The Global Value Chains (GVC) Initiative is a loose network of researchers, activists, and policymakers that seeks to consolidate and foster the GVC perspective, an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors and across geographic space. It is an ongoing effort to test and develop the GVC perspective with the aims of creating greater analytical precision, intellectual impact and policy relevance.

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

• en français: Le Centre de recherche pour le développement international CRDI
• en espanol: Cenro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo CIID

IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

Homepage;
Working with us;
Career Opportunities;
Where we work /Country profiles;
Canadian collaboration;
Accountability;
History of IDRC;
Newsletter /Bulletin;
Mailing address: PO Box 8500, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1G 3H9;
Street address: 150 Kent Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1P 0B2;
Contact.

About:
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. Our support is directed toward creating a local research community whose work will build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

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

The Centre for International Competitiveness focuses on researching and exploring the competitiveness of economies and businesses. It is also the home of the influential World Knowledge Competitiveness Index, European Competitiveness Index, and the UK Competitiveness Index series of reports. (Homepage).

Sitemap;
News; Latest Publications;
Competing for Knowledge;
Competitiveness Index Reports;
Consultancy Services;
Innovation;
Downloads;
Directors;
Addresses: Professor Robert Huggins, Cardiff School of Management, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Colchester Avenue, Cardiff, CF23 9XR, UK;
or: Dr Hiro Izushi, Aston Business School, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK;
Contact /Enquiry Form.

About: Founded in 2007, the Centre for International Competitiveness focuses on researching and exploring the competitiveness of economies and businesses.

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The Henry L. Stimson Center

Linked with Michael Krepon – USA, and with Does Threat Reduction Require Threat Inflation?

Founded in 1989, the Henry L. Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a unique combination of rigorous analysis and outreach. The Stimson Center’s work is focused on three priorities that are essential to global security:

• strengthening institutions for international peace and security;
• building regional security;
• reducing weapons of mass destruction and transnational threats;

… (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Events /Fact sheets;
Experts; Research Programs;
Publications; Press Room; Press Releases;
Address: The Henry L. Stimson Center, 1111 19th Street NW, Twelfth Floor. Washington, DC 20036, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … The Center’s approach is pragmatic — geared toward providing policy alternatives, solving problems, and overcoming obstacles to a more peaceful and secure world. Through in-depth research and analysis, we seek to understand and illuminate complex issues. By engaging policymakers, policy implementers, and nongovernmental institutions as well as other experts, we craft recommendations that are cross-partisan, actionable, and effective.

Vision and Motto;
History of the Stimson Center;
About Henry L. Stimson.

Linked with Karsten Kjaer – Denmark.

The Why Democracy House describes a real house in Cape Town, South Africa, where a group of young people from all parts of the world lived and worked together to create an online global conversation about democracy. The Why Democracy House was open from June untill October 2007. Members of the Democracy House still contribute to Why Democracy? (about).

Homepage;
The blog The Why Democracy House;
The bog WHY DEMOCRACY, with recent entries; blog contributors;
10 documentaries; Who’s involved;
News (with videos);
The debate /categories; The debate /discussions;
Library; Voting room; 10 questions;
Documents and downloads; About /participants;
Address: Don Edkins, Executive Producer STEPS International, PO Box 21545, Kloof Street, 8008, Cape Town, South Africa;
and: Mette Heide, Executive Producer STEPS International, Axeltorv 12, byg C., DK – 1609 Copenhagen V, Denmark;
Contact.

Introduction: Democracy is arguably the greatest political buzzword of our time and is invoked by everyone – but what does it mean? Can it be defined, measured, safeguarded? Can it be sold, bought, and transplanted? Can it grow? Can it die? What does it mean to people who can’t even talk about it? What does it mean to people who don’t believe in it? What does it mean to you?

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

• To provide down-to-earth training for 20,000 participants in agriculture, developmental topics and other income generating activities by year 2010.
• To build a community for the Canadians abroad called « Maple Village » in a centrally located area in Africa for African-Canadians by 2015.
• To be actively involved in, committed to and promote rural and community development projects in Canadian communities and in Africa.
• To collaborate with both national and international institutions, development and donor agencies with simillar aims and objectives like CEFARD.
• To establish one-stop intitutions and vocational training centres and render consultancy services and knowledge sharing and information bank on agriculture and developmental issues.
• To render consultancy services to individuals, organizations, government agencies and institutions. (Initiatives).

Homepage;
Publications; Photo Gallery;
Institutional Collaboration;
Partners; Membership;
Foundation;
Job Opportunities /Network of Consultants;
Address: Headquarter Office, 1850 Albion Road, Unit 3, Toronto, Ontario M9W 6J9, Canada;
Contact.

About: CEFARD is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, and humanitarian organisation. CEFARD’s mandate is to champion the course of global poverty alleviation through agricultural resources and developmental tools mostly in the developing nations of the world.

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Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

The NNIRR works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status. As part of a global movement for social and economic justice, we are committed to human rights as essential to securing healthy, safe and peaceful lives for all. (Homepage).

Upcoming event;
Programs; Accomplishments;
News; Resources and Information;
Get involved;
Alerts archive;
Newsletter: link in the left column of all pages;
Board of Directors;
Contact.

About: MISSION: The NNIRR is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues. We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.

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Linked with James Zogby – USA, and with James Zogby and the Politics of Perception.

The Arab American Institute (AAI) represents the policy and community interests of Arab Americans throughout the United States and strives to promote Arab American participation in the U.S. electoral system. AAI focuses on two areas: campaigns and elections and policy formation and research. The Institute strives to serve as a central resource to government officials, the media, political leaders and community groups and a variety of public policy issues that concern Arab Americans and U.S. – Arab relations … (about AAI /mission).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
The 2009 Inaugural Celebration;
What we do;
Press; Issues;
Washington Watch;
Recources; Student Resource Center;
Why join AAI;
AAI Foundation;
Address: Arab American Institute, 1600 K Street, NW Suite 601, Washington, DC 20006, USA;
Contact.

About Arab-Americans: We’re an active constituency with a vital stake and voice in the issues dominating US public debates today. Read more about our votes, our opinions, and how Arab Americans are getting involved, in Get Involved.

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India Relief and Education Fund (IREF) is an all volunteer 501(c)(3) California based non-profit organization that raises funds for disater relief in India and supports India related social awareness education activities in India and in the U.S.  IREF stands for a socially just, secular, democratic and united India. Donations for donor specified organizations in India, consistent with IREF’s objectives, are welcome … (full text Homepage /donate /groups we sustain).

Publications, and its Catalog;
Resource Center /current affairs;
Organisations we sustain (homepage/ scroll down): National Fishworkers Forum NFF, Sahabhagi Vikash Abhiyan /Campaign for Participatory Development, Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group, Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti GRAVIS, Frontier;
Past work: relief, and education;
South Asian History;
Donate (by network for good);
Address: India Relief and Education Fund, P.O. Box 14360, Fremont, CA 94539, USA;
Contact.

About: India Relief and Education Fund (IREF) was founded in 1993 in the San Francisco Bay Area with the twin objectives of organizing India awareness educational activities in the U.S. and supporting like-minded organizations in India, as well as supporting disaster relief work in India.

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(Online Since July 1999 with a one page website)

Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

The National Chicano Moratorium Committee was re-formed in December 2, 1989 at a national meeting called by Union del Barrio and La Raza Unida Party in East Los Angeles over 20 people showed up from all over Occupied Mexico/Aztlan. The purpose of the meeting was to organize an Aztlan-wide mobilization for the « 20th Commemoration of August 29th, 1970 National Chicano Moratorium » in East Los Angeles. That initiative resulted in the largest Raza mobilization since the height of the Chicano Movement, over 8,000 Raza participants marched the streets of East Los Angeles to Salazar Park on August 25, 1990  … (full text);
Postal Address: National Chicano Moratorium Committee, P.O. Box 20411, Oxnard, Califas 93034-0411, USA; Contact by e-mail.

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The Chicano Moratorium – and related items – named and described on many other websites:

• The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based but fragile coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. Led by activists from local colleges and members of the « Brown Berets », a group with roots in the high school student movement that staged walkouts in 1968, the coalition peaked with an August 29, 1970 march in East Los Angeles that drew 30,000 demonstrators … (full text on wikipedia).  Its History on wikipedia;
• on calisphere /University of California – Homepage, Sitemap;
• the video: Ruben Salazar’s Legacy Lives On, 1.56 min, April 28, 2008;
• Chicano Moratorium, past and present;
• Protest marches;
• Protests against the Vietnam War;
• Mexican-American history; with Mexican Americans, Hispanic American history, History of the United States by ethnic group;
• History of Latino civil rights;
• History of civil rights in the United States;
• History of the United States (1865–1918), History of the United States (1918–1945), History of the United States (1945–1964), History of the United States (1964–1980).

education is the property of on one, it belongs to the people as a whole, and if education is not given to the people, they will have to take it, (Che).

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• SOUL is a school to build a movement.
• SOUL is working to lay the groundwork for a powerful liberation movement by supporting the development of a new generation of young organizers – especially young women, young people of color, queer youth and working-class young people.
• We believe that – in order for young organizers to build an effective movement for fundamental social change – they need support to develop the nuts-and-bolts organizing skills they need to mobilize their communities and to deepen their political analysis and their visions for fundamental social change.
• SOUL is a training center designed to support the growing youth sector of the social justice movement. We run political education and organizing skills training programs, designed specifically to meet the particular needs of our generation of emerging movement leaders … (Mission).

Frontpage;
Programs: Educational Alternatives Program, Movement 101, Sunday Schools;
Resources;
Staff and Board;
Support/Donate;
Address: SOUL, 287 17th Street, Suite 225, Oakland, CA 94612, USA;
Contact.

About: As we enter into our 10th year, SOUL is deeply grateful to all of our allies for your support during this period. As you know, the SOUL Board is focusing our energy on moving forward the organization to best serve the powerful work of our partners and allies and to re-solidify the infrastructure of the organization for many more decades of building power in our communities.

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more than 850 million people go hungry every day

Hunger is inextricably linked to many other problems, such as poverty, disease, and deprivation.  In the fight against hunger, food is obviously essential, but so are efforts to help the hungry become self-sufficient and break the cycle of hunger and poverty.  Recognizing this, WFP works in a number of ways around the world to fight hunger and the conditions that breed it.  Among its various projects, WFP has a particular focus on the following programs: School Feeding, and Food Aid and HIV/AIDS. (On Issues).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
WFP around the world;
News;
Get involved;
How to help / donate:
Our blog;
blog archive;
stay iformed /newsletter;
Address: Friends of the World Food Program, 1819 L Street, NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC  20036, USA;
Contact.

About: FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: Friends of the World Food Program (Friends of WFP) is a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to building support for the World Food Program (WFP) and other hunger relief efforts.

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