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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Sept. 2009 book about Don and Lois Booth
girights.objector.org/
GI Rights Hotline
www.thewitness.org/agw/wakeleelynch122204.html
Summary of sources.
www.objector.org/ Central Committee
for Conscientious Objectors
COUNTER-RECRUITMENT
MVPP packet "Think Before You Enlist: A Reality
Check "
Boston Area "Alternatives
to the Military" booklet. (Huge 15MB) .pdf file, ready to print
and distribute.
www.afsc.org/youthmil/ and
www.afsc.org/youthmil/ American
Friends Service Committee resources including pamphlets in Spanish.
http://www.leavemychildalone.org/
from the Working Assets people
www.justicewithpeace.org/?target=counter-recruit
Boston UJP effort, and list serve
www.youthandthemilitary.org/
National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth
http://www.militaryfreezone.org/
Cambridge group
http://www.wickedlocal.com/malden/news/lifestyle/columnists/x118365162
artticle on possible change to No Child Left Behind.
NEWS
www.truthout.org/docs_04/031804A.shtml
Summary of Waxman Report on 237 Misleading Statements by the Bush Administration,
Detailed
Report
www.alternet.org with Iraq News
Log
www.commondreams.org News Center
and commentary
www.cursor.org Alternative news and
commentary, several Middle East links
www.democracynow.org, Amy Goodman's
Pacifica Radio news with excellent commentary and links
http://electroniciraq.net/news/
breaking news from Iraq
informationclearinghouse.info
Commentary and compilation of resources from around the globe.
www.wagingpeace.org/ News, Commentary
and Action by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
West Bank Separation Wall displayed in Andover,
November 22, 2003.
Presidential Politics 2004
USA Today/AP maps of how counties voted. 2004
2000
Univ of Michigan interpretive
maps of 2004 election.
Peace Action's listing of where
the presidential candidates stand.
__Columbia Journalism Review campaigndesk.org/
__Univ. of Penn: Annenberg Center www.factcheck.org/
www.wagingpeace.org/ News, Commentary
and Action by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
INFORMATION
www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/corporateHRviolators.html
Global Exchange Most Wanted List: Corporate Human Rights violators
www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
War Resisters League tax pie chart 2005 for 2006
www.warresisters.org/2005_piechart.pdf
War Resisters League tax pie chart 2004
(opens in a separate window
so you can compare 2005 budget to 2006.)
www.boycott4peace.org Lists
corporations which profit from war
www.costofwar.com Costs of Iraq
War
www.iraqbodycount.net/ Reliable
statistics on civilians killed in Iraq
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
Soldiers killed
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/12/31_center-corporate-policy_war-profiteers.htm
Top Ten War Profiteers
IDEAS
www.axisoflogic.com/
"Axis of Logic," new information, insights,
commentary, comprehensive coverage
www.crisispapers.org/
"The Crisis Papers," progressive news
and commentary with excellent links
www.juancole.com/ Juan
Cole "Informed Comment," re. Middle East, history, and religion
www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/winningpeace.html
Video
www.commondreams.org/views04/0922-11.htm
If America were Iraq...
www.poetsagainstthewar.org/default.asp When laura Bush cancelled her
meeting with poets...
www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org
A think tank without walls
www.fourthfreedom.org Nonviolent
options to resolve international conflict
www.tompaine.com Common Sense,
a public Interest Journal
www.truthout.org Forum, alternative
news, and commentary
www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.02A.JVB.Patriot.htm
USA Patriot Act, a six part commentary series
www.warincontext.org Critical
global perspectives on war and terrorism
www.takebackthemedia.com/onearmy.html
Flash Movie re. how gov't treats troops
www.ecapc.org/ Every Church a Peace
Church. resources for churches.
Martin
Luter King Resources, from Fellowship of Reconciliation
www.commondreams.org/views04/0315-07.htm
Analyzing Spain's tragedy 3-11
Also recommended by Wheels of Justice:
www.counterpunch.org
www.thenation.com
www.utne.com
SCIENCE
see also MVPP pages on Depleted Uranium
committee
Nuclear Arms
2004
Bibliography by "Reaching Critical Will"
http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/legal/du.html
Dan Fahey, Advocate for veterans, seeking to be objective:
List of articles by and cited by Fahey (can sort by date)
http://www.danfahey.com/DanFahey/
http://www.wise-uranium.org/pdf/duemdec.pdf
http://www.wise-uranium.org/pdf/duunris.pdf
WISE/NIRS
Nuclear Monitor: European/American networking website
http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/
International
Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/
Depleted Uranium Education Project, from the International Action Center:
http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm
DU damage in new Iraq war San
Francisco Bay View 18aug04
Popular New
York Paper says look at DU: Sen Hillary Clinton insists.
Christian Science Monitor index of articles on Depleted
Uranium.
www.idust.net/ Organization to to
study and publisize dangers of DU.
Dr. Dan Bishop spoke here 9/14/03.
www.thebulletin.org Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists
cadu.members.gn.apc.org
Campaign against Depleted Uranium
www.space4peace.org Global Network
against weapons and nuclear power in space
Added
8/2012
Beyond Nuclear www.beyondnuclear.org
Nuclear Information Resource Service www.nirs.org
Institute
for Energy & Environmental Research www.ieer.org
Citizens Awareness Network www.nukebusters.org
Sign up for Google alerts for "Vermont Yankee"
Fairwinds Energy Education www.fairewinds.com
US Role in Global Warming
Added
8/2024
Warheads to Windmills warheadstowindmills.org
ENVIRONMENT
People
for the Environment, is
a Merrimack Valley organization related to MVPP, and also associated with
Clean Water Action,
and Alliance
For a Healthy Tomorrow
http://www.audubon.org/ Audubon
US
http://www.massaudubon.org/index.php
Audubon MA
http://www.clf.org/ Conservation Law
Foundation, Boston
http://www.earthjustice.org/
Earth Justice...Earth needs a good Lawyer
http://www.wilderness.org/ The
Wilderness Society
http://www.savebiogems.org/newsletter/index.asp
Biogems law group
Delegation to Columbia: To be led by MVPP member,
Sean Donahue. June 13-30/04
GOVERNMENT
usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/secstrat2.htm#nss5 The National
Security Strategy, September 20, 2002 Section V re. the US right to take
preemptive military action
www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/policy/dod/npr.htm
The Nuclear Posture Review, January 8, 2002 (excerpts)
www.unitedforpeace.org/ United
For Peace and Justice
ORGANIZATIONS
www.aclu-mass.org/legal/yourrighttodemon.html
American Civil Liberties Union- Massachusetts explanations of rights.
www.afsc.org/ American Friends Service
Committee
www.fcnl.org/ Friends Committee on
National Legislation
www.clw.org Council for a Livable World
www.crimesofwar.org Project
www.icahd.org/eng/ The Israeli
Committee Against House Demolitions
www.moveon.org/ A group of 2,000,000+,
organizing campaigns over the web.
www.peace-action.org Peace
Action, the merger of SANE and The Freeze.
www.nonviolence.org/vitw/ Voices in the Wilderness
www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
NNet, A community of people committed to social change
www.grassrootsonline.org/index.html Grassroots International. Helps
local groups
Humanitarian Aid Projects
wakanow.com/ng/pages/learn-about-humanitarian-aid-projects#.UwzMkftnhDo
www.vitw.org Voices
in the Wilderness
www.bringthemhomenow.org
Bring Them Home Now
www.occupationwatch.org Occupation
Watch
www.electroniciraq.net Electronic
Iraq
www.peacefultomorrows.org
9-11
Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
www.veteransforpeace.org
Veterans for Peace
www.veteransforcommonsense.org
Veterans for Common Sense
www.mfso.org Military
Families Speak Out
www.endthewar.org End The War.org
www.globalexchange.org Global
Exchange
http://vcnv.org/
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
https://readingpeace.org/ Reading People for Peace
Hate
Has No Home Here1 2
2 separate pages. list of local links
2017 after Charlottesville. Links don't work, but can be copied.
www.bostonmobilization.org/index.php
Boston Mobilization
https://www.facebook.com/Cosechalawrence/
Cosecha immigrant rights
www.justicewithpeace.org/
United for Justice with Peace, UJP, regional events.
cppax.org/index.jsp Boston/Cambridge.
www.stopcorporatecontrol.org/
Mass Anti-Corporate Clearinghouse.
www.nhpeaceaction.org/ New
Hampshire group, with a listserve.
www.seacoastpeaceresponse.org/
NH Seacost group
www.planningforpeace.org
Greater Lowell group.
www.dissentisdemocracy.org
Lowell, MA peace web.
http://www.greaterlowellpeace.org./
northofbostonpeace/
North Shore group.
www.witnessforpeace.org/newengland/
Sean Donahue leads delegations
www.crossroads-coffeehouse.org/
supported by Pat Scanlon of Vets. for Peace
Cosponsors of Helen Caldicott event, 9/23/06:
www.c-10.org C-10 Research & Education
Foundation
www.cleanwateraction.org/ma Clean Water Action
www. opkentucky.org Dominican
Sisters of Kentucky (Eastern Region)
www.masskenya.org Greater Newburyport/Bura Alliance
www.wand.org/chapters/nport
Greater Newburyport WAND (Women's Actions for New Directions)
www.janebernhardt.com/hibakusha_project Hibakusha Peace Project (Jane
Bernhardt)
www.imaginestudios.org/ magine
Studios
jabberwocky.booksense.com
Jabberwocky Books
www.nscpj.org North Shore Coalition
for Peace and Justice
www.peaceactionme.org Peace
Action Maine
www.pentucketpeoplesfoundation.org
Pentucket People's Foundation
www.seacoastpeaceresponse.org
Seacoast Peace Response
www.sapl.org Seacoast Anti-Pollution
League
www.sierraclubmass.org/groups/ecg/ecg.html
Sierra Club, Essex County Chapter
www.veteransforpeace.org
Veterans for Peace Chapter 45
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PEACE STUDIES at local universities
Brandeis University,
Massachusetts
http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/Slifka/
MA, Co-existence and Conflict
The Five College Program
in Peace and World Security Studies - http://pawss.hampshire.edu/
Multidisciplinary educational endeavour of the Five College Consortium
of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. News and events, publications, and information
for students and faculty.
School for International
Training, Vermont
http://www.sit.edu/graduate/mact/index.html
MA, Conflict Transformation
New England Peace Studies Association (NEPSA)
NEPSA Officers:
Gordon Fellman, Co-Chair
Brandeis University
Abbie Jenks Greenfield,
Co-Chair
Greenfield Community College
Eric Matez, Secretary
Odyssey School
Dot Walsh, Treasurer
The Peace Abbey
Peace and Conflict
Studies Institute
UMass Lowell
Prof. Robert Gamache
University of Massachusetts,
Boston
http://www.disres.umb.edu
MA Dispute Resolution, with concentrations in International Conflict and
Organizational Conflict
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
University of New
Hampshire
Middle Eastern Studies Program
Coordinator
Jeannie Sowers
Assistant Professor of Political Science
310B Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1752
Fax: (603) 862-0178
E-mail: jeannie.sowers@unh.edu
Core Faculty
Alasdair Drysdale
Professor of Geography
102D Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3144
Fax: (603) 862-4362
E-mail: drysdale@cisunix.unh.edu
Svetlana Peshkova
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
315 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1848
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: s.peshkova@unh.edu
Ruwa Pokorny
Instructor of Arabic
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Murkland Hall
Phone (603) 862-4005
Fax (603) 862-1690
Jeannie Sowers
Assistant Professor of Political Science
310B Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1752
Fax: (603) 862-0178
E-mail: jeannie.sowers@unh.edu
Ethel Sara Wolper
Associate Professor of History
A409 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3884
Fax: (603) 862-1502
E-mail: esw@cisunix.unh.edu
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University
Brandeis
Crown Center for Middle East Studies | Brandeis University
Origins of the Peace Symbol
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/addpages/PeaceSymbolArticle.html
http://www.classbrain.com/artaskcb/publish/article_116.shtml
A negative history, disputed elsewhere: http://www.nisbett.com/symbols/peace_sign.htm
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pea-cnd.html
COMIC RELEIF
War got you down? You're in good company. Here are links to some funny
sites, some individual, some to check in for updates. Most lead to others.
Many links from Working For Change including cartoons, columns, video
www.ucomics.com/patoliphant/2004/02/03/
Oliphant, still drawing since Viet Nam days.
www.ucomics.com/boondocks/
Boondocks current day with archives.
www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20040211
Doonesbury, one day of many.
http://www.ucomics.com/tomtoles/
Tom Toles
CONTACT THE MEDIA
www.al-awda.org/media
www.commondreams.org
www.fair.org/media-contact-list.html
www.pmwatch.org
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (Macmillan, USA, 2010) ISBN 0-8050-9141-6 by Andrew Bacevich.
The Many Sides of Peace. By Brayton Shanley. A handbook for changes in daily living.
Finding My Radical Soul, a Memoir, by Frances Crowe to be published later this year.
Atomic States of America, on nuclear reactor communities is on interlibrary loan. Review. available on-line: http://www.amazon.com/Atomic-States-America-Kelly-McMasters/dp/B00B15N9YC . Ruth Canonico reported on the film. It shows people who have been directly affected by radiation leaks, on Long Island and in Pennsylvania, and other places. Ruth highly recommended the film.
By Tom Gale
Jan 31, 2017 opposing nuclear arms
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