INSPIRATION
- HANG IN THROUGH TOUGH TIMES: 1)
Read this inpiring essay by Howard Zinn,
Staying
the Course In Times of Trouble;
2) Discover that we are not alone by learning about peace efforts
by national
and local
organized labor, churches,
cities
, veterans;
3) Check in with the major national
& international peace organizations. to
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FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS: Find
& Contact. For excellent
Federal legislation analysis use
the
Friends Committee on National Legislation. to
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DRAFT
registration
& alternatives &
the new & devious draft bill in Congress
(click & enter "H.R. 3598") to
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LOCATE
REGIONAL/NATIONAL PEACE & JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS & ACTIONS:
the very useful SF
Bay Area Progressive Directory and
the new national gateway to progressive events and resource, Inlet.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IMMIGRANTS
& ACTIVISTS -- SEARCH, SEIZURE, ARREST, FBI, LOCAL POLICE,
I.N.S.!! 1)
Federal or local police search,National
Lawyers Guild (SF 415/285-1055); 2) Immigration, National
Immigration Law Center (English,
Spanish, Farsi, Arabic; 617/227-9727);
3) List of SF
Bay Area Progressive Legal Service; 4) Student
Rights, ACLU; 5) and more about various civil rights at ACLU
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ORGANIZED LABOR, ECONOMICS
& WAR: 1)
Monterey Bay Central
Labor Council; 2)Central US
Labor Against War; 3) The
Labor Educator; 4) International
Labornet; 5) Z-Net
Labor Watch; 6) United
For A Fair Economy workshop download;.
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WHAT'S
NUCLEAR WAR REALLY LIKE:
Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists describes bunker
bombs and all that terrible stuff; The
Pentagon's Nuclear Battle Plans is available on a scholarly
web site managed by Physicians
for Social Concern
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SURVIVORS & FAMILIES CRY
FOR PEACE..FROM RUBBLE
& DEATH :
1) 9/11 survivors speak out against war and for Peaceful
Tomorrows; 2) grieving Israeli & Palestinian families
seek peace as the Bereaved
Families' Forum; and 3) the Middle
East Children's Alliance confronts war's dreadful impact on
young lives; 4) Palestine
& Israeli Bereaved Families for Peace.
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ISRAEL/PALESTINE PEACEMAKERS:
1) Israeli military resistors and conscientious objectors to military
service, Yesh Gvul ; 2)
the Israeli-Palestine Center for
Research & Information ; 3) Americans Working for Israeli-Palestinian
Peace, Tikkun; 4) US Policy
on Israel/Palestine, Foreign
Policy in Focus - Middle East Section; 5) Rabbis
for Human Rights ; and New
Profile, an organization work for the civil-lization
of Israel; 6) the international Coalition
of Women for Peace 6) Jewish
Alliance for Justice & Peace to
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7) Support for Israeli Conscientious Objectors: American
Friends Service Committee
MIDDLE
EAST PERSPECTIVE 1)
the RCNV Middle
East Report page, 2) the Middle
East Policy Council; 3) the Middle
East Research & Information Project
3) Grass roots Middle East peace group, Gush-Shalom,
4) sign The
Peace Pledge - Register your opposition to War on Iraq
and...
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Insightful essays by RCNV associate and Mid East Scholar, Stephen
Zunes (part of the Foreign Policy in Focus website www.fpif.org):
1) "Seven
Reasons to Oppose a U.S. Invasion of Iraq"; 2)
"Iraq:
Ten Years After the Gulf War"; 3) "The
United States and Iraq: Policy Alternatives"; (with
Phyllis Bennis and Martha Honey); 4)
"The Gulf War: Eight Myths" and... to
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MAJOR
WORLD PEACE ORGANIZATIONS provide up to date and comprehensive
information: 1)
The interfaith Fellowship
of Reconciliation (FOR) (programs, delegations,
publications, campaign news, events calendar); 2)
The American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker social
justice organization (programs, volunteer activities, excellent
country reports); 3) The Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF),
which brings together women of different political beliefs to
help abolish the causes of war and work for peace and disarmament;
4) Sojourners,
integrating spiritual renewal and social justice and their superior
journal Sojourner's
Magazine; 5) On the front lines of war resistance action,
the War Resistors League
& No. Cal. War Resistors
League; 6) Credible and potent reports on health, violence,
nuclear weapons - Physicians for
Social Change; 7) Promoting global peace, justice, fair trade
and delegations, Global
Exchange; Women's Action with Code
Pink . to
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WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONS (WTO) & INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF): click
here for major list of research link in RCNV archives to
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HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, NEWS
& INFO at
REPUTABLE ORGS: Red
Cross & Red Crescent ; Oxfam;
American Friends Service Committee;
Mercy Corps; Church
World Service; Jewish
World Services; Catholic
Relief Services; Mennonite
Central Committee; Christian
Aid; United
Methodist Committee on Relief to
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COLOMBIA UPDATE
& NEWS at
Witness for Peace,
and the Colombia Support
Network. to
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MAHATMA GANDHI on
line writings and image/cartoon/photo
resources to
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TAXS & WAR TAX RESISTANCE:
Northern
California War Tax Resistance;Where does your tax money go,
War Resistors
League; tax resistance why, how and consequences, Nonviolenct
Action Community of Cacadia and the National
War Tax Resistance Coordinaing Committee. A variation on this
protest, development of a National
Peace Tax Fund. Tax reform; political campaign money = tax
benefits - Public Campaign.
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PROGRESSIVE VIEW POINT
Regional
scholars comment: Monterey Bay
Educators Against War.
Global justice: Human Rights
Watch
Wire service with vision: Common
Dreams
News:
Fairness
& Accuracy In Reporting
Writers:
Fairness
& Accuracy contributors
Middle East news: Jordan
Times
The one and only: Progressive
Populist perspective: The
Hightower Lowdown
Investigative journalism with a bite: Michael
Moore
Reliable friends:
Z-Net, Chomsky, Zinn and More
Truth in reporting: Independent
Media, aka Indymedia
Our own Santa Cruz
Indymedia
Excellent Practical P&J Information from Move
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IMPORTANT
SANTA CRUZ CONNECTIONS:
1) Best practical tips/guides/source for organizers: Skip
Spitzers Pages 2) Stay in touch with
Santa Cruz Regional political actions and event AND post your
organization's events. Subcribe by sending a blank e-mail to the
Santa Cruz Progressive
E-Mail List. 3) Regularly check the
Santa
Cruz Peace Coalition
calendar 4) The best SF Bay area calendar is provided
by Indybay.org to
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AMAZING
YOUTH ACTIONS & ORGANIZATIONS:
scroll
down the RCNV
Youth Programs web page. to
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DRAFT &
MILITARY ENLISTMENT INFO & COUNSELING:
the RCNV Draft & Military Alternatives Program
/ en
Español
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