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A public
foundation that supports activist, community-based organizations working
for social, economic, and environmental justice in Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. |
Abercrombie
Family
Great photos of October
6 demonstration!
AlterNet
AlterNet.org is a project
of the Independent Media Insttitute, a nonprofit organization dedicated
to strengthening and supporting independent and
alternative journalism.
First launched in 1998,
AlterNet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative
journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology
and cultural trends to policy
debate, sexual politics and health issues. The AlterNet article database
includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources.
American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
| A grassroots civil
rights organization which welcomes people of all backgrounds, faiths and
ethnicities as members.
"ADC: Protecting civil
rights and advocating a
balanced Mideast policy"
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American
Civil Liberties Union of Washington
Nonprofit, nonpartisan,
membership organization devoted to protecting the basic civil liberties
of all Americans, and extending them to groups that have traditionally
been denied their basic civil rights.
American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
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Quaker
organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to
social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the
Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) belief in the worth of every person,
and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice. |
American
Gulf War Veterans Association
Documents it was the US military who set
fire to the oilfields of Iraq and
Kuwait in the Gulf War
Another
World is Possible
 Six
delegates between the ages of 19 and 26 plan to travel with a film crew
to Iraq and Palestine this Spring to make a film about their generation.
"As one war with Afghanistan continues and another war with Iraq looms
on the horizon, many young people are becoming impatient with the
Bush administration's careless treatment of our future. Our voices have
so far been unheard and unheeded but we hope to change that now by declaring
that Another World Is Possible and traveling to Iraq and Palestine to meet
our counterparts there. We recognize our connection with those of our generation
under attack and pledge to bring attention to their plight by traveling
with a film crew so that their voices might be heard with ours in declaring
an end tothis madness."
Artists
Network of Refuse and Resist
 "...group
of artists and art presenters who create and promote art that contributes
to a Culture of Resistance. We assist in the creation of new works and
new collaborations, hold discussions with artists, produce/facilitate concerts,
art exhibits and theatre events. Through building a network of artists
and producers of film, video, music, poetry, theatre, visual art, dance,
literature, we aim to build a culture and community of resistance."
Ballard
Peace Activists
The Ballard Peace March
attracted a lot of peace supporters who had never marched or been to a
rally before. These newcomers said they liked the flavor of the Ballard
Peace Activists and especially liked the projects we have been working
on. These projects include:
(1) "How to Organize
Your Own March & Rally Kit"
(2) "Recipes for Peace:
the Ballard Peace Activists Cookbook"
(3) a documentary:
"Community Voice and Empowerment: the Ballard Peace Activists and
the Seattle Peace Movement"
(4) and there
is now talk of a newspaper for Seattle's Peace Community, to keep our voting
constituency together.
(5) we are in
the early stages of considering/ organizing/ possibly sending a Ballard
Peace Team to Baghdad (Daniel Stevens).
Bill
of Rights Defense Committee
Supports repeal of
parts of the USA PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security Act, and Executive Orders
that infringe on Constitutional rights. This web site documents and supports
local efforts to restore civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights
of the U.S. Constitution, which have been threatened by the Act and Orders.
Blue
Triangle Network
 Join
the Blue Triangle Network, which dedicates itself to mobilizing the broadest
number of people to challenge and oppose immigrant repression: Take up
the symbol of the blue triangle to demonstrates solidarity with those disappeared
and detained by the government.
Call
to Conscience From Veterans to Active Duty Troops and Reservists
Started December 6,
2002, signatures up to date January, 9, 2003:
"We are veterans of
the United States armed forces. We stand with the majority of humanity,
including millions in our own country, in opposition to the United States'
all out war on Iraq. We span many wars and eras, have many political views
and we all agree that this war is wrong. Many of us believed serving in
the military was our duty, and our job was to defend this country. Our
experiences in the military caused us to question much of what we were
taught. Now we see our real duty is to encourage you as members of the
U.S. armed forces to find out what you are being sent to fight and die
for and what the consequences of your actions will be for humanity. We
call upon you, the active duty and reservists, to follow your conscience
and do the right thing."
Church
Council of Greater Seattle
Brings hundreds of
Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, thousands of volunteers and numerous
religious organizations together to serve at-risk youth, the elderly, the
homeless and hungry; to advocate for global peace and racial and economic
justice; and to encourage ecumenical and interfaith cooperation.
Citizens
Concerned for the People of Iraq (CCPI)
&
Interfaith
Network of Concern for the People of Iraq
| Seattle-based
public awareness campaign and part of a nationwide and worldwide movement
dedicated to ending the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by members of
the United Nations Security Council. |
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Citizens
for a Legitimate Government
is a multi-partisan activist group established
to expose the Bush coup d'etat, and to oppose the Bush occupation in all
of its manifestations.
Common
Dreams News Center
National non-profit
citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together
to promote progressive visions for America's future. "Founded in 1997,
we are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as
a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism."
Communities
Against Rape & Abuse (CARA)
CARA pushes a broad
agenda for liberation and social justice while prioritizing anti-rape work
as the center of our organizing. CARA is spearheaded by survivors of sexual
and domestic violence who have led organizing efforts against forced institutionalization
of people with disabilities, against racist sterilization abuse of women
of color and poor women, and against the alarming criminalization of young
people. Organizers and activists demonstrate how these issues are intricately
connected to the process of undermining sexual violence.
Eat
The State (ETS)
Politics with a bite
First
Church of Chumbawamba
An Anti-War MP3: "Not
In My Name" - Adventures in Anti-Capitalism...
Greenlake
Peace Vigil
 Began
as a spontaneous demonstration of people in the Greenlake neighborhood
against the projected war on Iraq. "We are bound together only by a common
commitment to non-violence, to a diplomatic (rather than a military) solution
to the problems posed by the current administration in Iraq. We stand each
Sunday from 2 to 3 p.m. to bear witness that the people of this country
oppose a war on Iraq. We vigorously oppose the lies that have been invoked
to justify a war on Iraq. We decry the catastrophic civilian casualties
that would be inevitable in the event of an invasion, and we believe that
the destabilization of the region that would result from a war is not in
the best interests of this or any other country. Our vigil is open
to all. It is, we hope, a safe place to show the world what real
patriotism looks like. We, and not the forces that seek to lead us into
war, are America." |
Green
Party of Washington State
Offers
a principled alternative to the Democratic and Republican Parties. Greens
are committed to peace, social justice, environmental protection and
grassroots democracy - fundamental values that have been largely
abandoned by the two major parties.
Ground
Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
 Founded
in 1977, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action offers the opportunity
to explore the meaning and practice of nonviolence from a perspective of
deep spiritual reflection, providing a means for witnessing to and resisting
all nuclear weapons, especially Trident. |
Hate
Free Zone of Washington
Goals include:
1. Building a broad
based coalition of groups and leaders that will work together on a coordinated
platform for establishing a Hate Free Zone.
2. Mobilizing and facilitating
efforts to ensure the safety of targeted groups, as well as building cultural
understanding and awareness towards the long-term prevention of hate crimes
and discrimination.
3. Documenting, supporting
and expanding upon existing efforts by non-profit groups, government agencies,
religious communities and community groups to respond to the September
11 backlash.
4. Supporting community
mobilization in targeted communities through funding, technical assistance,
and referrals.
Humanists
of Washington (HOW)
An independent, secular,
educational organization dedicated to human advancement through reason,
science, and democracy. "We maintain an active and visible presence
in Washington state as we work toward a more Humanistic world."
Independent
Media Center - Seattle
Network of collectively
run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate
tellings of the truth. "We work out of a love and inspiration for people
who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions
and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity."
The Independent Media
Center was established by various independent and alternative media organizations
and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage
of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted
as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute
reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the
collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center produced a series
of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed
throughout the United States to public access stations.
The center also produced
its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via
the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through
the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station
based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open publishing system,
logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo,
CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and
autonomous network, hundreds of media activists setup independent media
centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy
over the next year. IMCs have since been established on every continent,
with more to come. |
Interfaith
Community Church
International
A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to End War and End Racism)
Leonard
Peltier Defense Committee
MoveOn
- News bulletins and action alerts
Catalyst for a new kind
of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in
finding their political voice. "Our nationwide network of more than
600,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive
outlets for democratic participation available today."
My Voice for Peace.com
allows you to globally email all your elected officials or send email
simultaneously to a large number of major newspapers. Many other interesting
features, even a touch or two of grim humor. Click the logo to enter.
The
Nation
National
Not In Our Name Website
No
War Against Iraq Coalition of Washington
Centered around three
points of unity: No war against Iraq; No sanctions against Iraq; Defend
civil rights for both citizens and non-citizens.
Northwest
Immigrant Rights Project
Non-profit legal services
office that provides legal representation and community education to low-income
refugees and immigrants in Washington State.
Northwest
Labor & Employment Law Office (LELO)
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The President, he’s
got his war.
Folks don’t know
just what it’s for.
Nobody gives us
rhyme or reason.
Have one doubt they
call it treason.
LELO is one of
the organizations that signed
The New York Times
Peace Ad
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NYC
PeaceTeams.org
 "We
believe that under the circumstances, when this government seems willing
to flout international law, and ignore the opposition of the majority of
the world's people, the most effective and principled action we can take
to prevent this headlong rush to war is to go and stand, in spirit and
body, with the people of Iraq as witness, and as presence
to nonviolently oppose the US invasion.
We will facilitate and
support the travel and encampment of nonviolent peace teams to Iraq to
bear witness and report, while we mingle our living, breathing, American
bodies with those of the innocent people of Iraq. It is our hope that the
U.S. forces will refrain from attacking its own innocent citizens who stand
in testimony to the common bond of humanity."
Olympia
Movement for Peace & Justice
| "We are committed to
building a mass movement to further justice and peace.
We believe that the issues of justice and peace cannot be separated, and
that by furthering economic and social justice we create the conditions
for a peaceful world. Our long term goal is to build a society that meets
the needs of all people, not one based on profit and economic
values." |
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Paddlers
for Peace
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This group is created
for paddlers, sailors, boaters who support alternatives to war. It is non-partisan,
non-violent and non-dogmatic. We would simply like to promote and encourage
Peace, through paddling, by organinizing floating "processions for Peace"
in and around Seattle. |
Peace
and Justice Events Calendar
Calendar compiled by
Jean Buskin.
Amazingly comprehensive
resource for actions and events throughout the Seattle area.
People's
Coalition for Justice (PCJ)
Community organization
that fights against police brutality and for police accountability.
Photos
of the February 15 Peace March in Seattle
Poets
Against the War
 In
the face of the near unanimous opposition from U.N. members, despite the
disapproval of the vast majority of citizens of the world, in defiance
of the advice of its own intelligence agencies, and contrary to both common
sense and fundamental notions of morality, the Bush administration seems
to be on a rocket sled headed for war.
The next few weeks will
likely prove to be critical. Please register your protest and add your
name to our numbers by submitting a poem or brief commentary. Be part of
our National Day of Poetry Against the War on February 12.
Port
Townsend Peace Movement
The Port Townsend Peace
Movement is a coalition of individuals and organizations uniting in the
spirit of democracy to promote education and community participation for
peaceful resolution of world conflict.
Potlucks
for Peace
The
Progressive
Project
Against the Present Danger
Standing in Defense of International Law,
International Cooperation, and
Multilateralism....
Rainier
Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation
"Our purpose is to
build a compassionate faith community which is multicultural in membership
and celebration and which works for justice in our
neighborhoods, our
city, and the wider world."
Refuse
and Resist!
 There
can be no commonality of purpose, healing of divisions, or coming together
as one nation behind this new course. To acquiesce further in silence is
to be complicit. It is not enough to hope that all of this will simply
go away. There must be massive resistance.
- Refuse &
Resist! Founding Statement
Rooting
Out Evil
In February 2003, Rooting
Out Evil will be sending a team of volunteer
weapons inspectors into that greatest of rogue nations, the United States
of America. We have selected the US as our first priority based on criteria
provided by the Bush administration. According to those criteria, the most
dangerous states are those run by leaders who:
1) have massive
stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons;
2) ignore due process
at the United Nations;
3) refuse to sign and
honour international treaties; and
4) have come to power
through illegitimate means.
The current US administration
fulfills all these criteria. And so, again
following Bush’s guidelines, Rooting Out Evil is demanding that his
administration allow immediate and unfettered access to international
weapons inspectors to search out their caches of chemical, biological,
and nuclear weapons.
We are currently assembling
an international team of weapons inspectors - so
far, it includes a Canadian Member of Parliament, a British Member
of Parliament,
a union leader, and a professor. And we're busy recruiting scientists,
religious leaders, military personnel, and others.
School
of the Americas Watch
National organization
to shut down the American Terrorist school at Fort
Benning, Georgia. |
Seattle
Peace Heathens
The Peace Heathens is a grass-roots,
street-level collective of free-spirited but highly motivated individuals.
We treasure the cultural and sub-cultural diversity of this city. We are
working for a sane, peaceful, diverse and mutually tolerant society, a
world of social and economic justice, sustainable ecology, and fair distribution
of wealth. Peace in the world at large begins in each community and ultimately
with each person.
The Peace Heathens promote this vision through a variety of means,
especially non-violent direct action. Since 1988 we've been involved
in activities ranging from the previous editions of this book to organizing
a variety of free concerts and benefit concerts to doing security for
political demonstrations to giving away food and clothing. Members of
the group have been involved as individuals in projects ranging from
needle exchange to information policy. (Please don't share needles.
Please don't trust the phone company. We love you.) Seattle
Women In Black
Part of an international
network of women standing in silent vigils calling for peace, justice and
non-violent solutions to conflict throughout the world. Started in
1988 in Israel/Palestine, the Women in Black network has spread to conflict
areas around the world. Each group is autonomous, but related in
the way women stand in quiet vigil dressed in black.
Join Seattle Women in
Black any Thursday from 5-6 PM at Westlake Park, wearing black/dark clothes.
Please keep silence unless you are leafleting. Men in support of
the aims of Women in Black are welcome to leaflet (1 or 2 at once) or to
stand in a group beside the women's vigil.
Socialist
Alternative
National organization
fighting in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation
and injustices people face every day. "We are union activists fighting
for workers' rights and militant, democratic labor unions; we are people
of color speaking out against racism, students organizing against sweatshops
and war, immigrants demanding papers for all undocumented workers, women
and men fighting sexism and homophobia."
Sound
Nonviolent Opponents of War (S.N.O.W.)
A Puget Sound area
coalition working to prevent escalation of war in Iraq and elsewhere, united
around the following points of unity:
Commitment to nonviolence
Condemnation of human
rights abuses
Opposition to all weapons
of mass destruction
Support of an International
Criminal Court
"We support U.S. foreign
policies which promote human rights, economic justice, and self-determination
for all people as the best way to prevent future acts of terrorism and
to promote global well-being."
StopAmerica.Org
Check it out for regular
updates on James Ujaama' case.
Truthout
All the news the Bush
Admin. doesn't want you to know...
United
for Peace & Justice
New national campaign
that brings together a broad range of organizations throughout the United
States to help coordinate our work against a U.S. war on Iraq. At an initial
meeting in Wshington, DC on October 25, more than 70 peace and justice
organizations agreed to form United for Peace and signed on to the following
statement: 
The demand placed
on us by world events is to deal with the Iraq crisis and to work to stop
the war that is being planned. This is unfolding in a global context where
other crises can and will erupt in connection to the Iraq crisis and they
too will demand our action. In addition, we will oppose new repressive
measures at home. We can and will work together now, focused on stopping
this war, and as we go forward we will discuss other issues and the larger
context. Unite for peace and say NO! to war. |
University
of Washington Coalition Against the War (UCAW)
The coalition was formed
the week before classes started at the University of Washington in response
to the likelihood of military a response to the September 11th tragedy.
While many of us still feel the pain of that day, we do not believe
that more killing is an appropriate, helpful or necessary response.
University Unitarian Church
(UUC)
A liberal religious community in Seattle since 1913 - Jon M. Luopa,
Minister.
Veterans
Against the Iraq War
is a coalition of American
veterans who oppose war with Iraq.
Veterans
for Common Sense
An organization of
veterans who wish to inject be factor of common sense into debates over
war and policy in America. The unique perspective of the combat veteran
has been lost when the majority of our public servants have never served
in war. We seek democratic decision making as was intended by the
founding fathers.
 Vietnam
Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW)
is a national veterans'
organization that was founded in New York City in 1967 after six Vietnam
vets marched together in a peace demonstration. It was organized to voice
the growing opposition among returning servicemen and women to the still-raging
war in Indochina, and grew rapidly to a membership of over 30,000 throughout
the United States as well as active duty GIs stationed in Vietnam. Through
ongoing actions and grassroots organization, VVAW exposed the ugly truth
about US involvement in Southeast Asia and our first-hand experiences helped
many other Americans to see the unjust nature of that war....
"We believe that service
to our country and communities did not end when we were discharged. We
remain committed to the struggle for peace and for social and economic
justice for all people. We will continue to oppose senseless military adventures
and to teach the real lessons of the Vietnam War. We will do all we can
to prevent another generation from being
put through a similar
tragedy and we will continue to demand dignity and respect for veterans
of all eras. This is real patriotism and we remain true to our mission.
JOIN US!"
Vietnam
Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
Part of a network of
anti-imperialist veterans who are proud of our resistance to U.S. aggression
around the world. In the 1970s, to be a Vietnam veteran was to be against
the war. That proud legacy must be carried forward into the new millennium.
As veterans, we have been to the edge and seen the viciousness of Amerikkka
unmasked. We have no doubt that the bastards who sent us to war will
use their nuclear arsenal, along with unspeakably cruel conventional
weapons, to maintain their empire, after the Gulf War, and now with
their so-called war on terrorism.
Vote
to Impeach
George W. Bush must
Answer to the People!
Cast your vote to impeach
President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary
of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John D. Ashcroft
for high crimes and misdemeanors, and to have the case prosecuted and
tried in the U.S. Senate.
Wallingford
Neighbors for Peace
Active Seattle neighborhood
coalition concerned about the War in Iraq.
War
Resisters' League (WRL)
Committed not only
to eliminating war, but the causes of war--causes intricately linked to
the violence that pervades our society. "We know that even where there
seems to be 'peace,' the suffering of homelessness, hunger, lack of medical
care, and poverty is as violent to those upon whom it is imposed as any
war. We search for an answer to the violence in our society not in the
building of more prisons, but in programs that bring help to those in need.
The government centers its spending priorities on missiles and bombs despite
the unmet needs of millions of desperate people. WRL works for peace within
a framework of social justice."
Washington
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Mission:
Elimination of nuclear
weapons and other weapons of mass destruction
Achievement of a
sustainable environment
Reduction of violence
and its causes
Promotion of economic
and social justice
Founded in 1980, WPSR focused
throughout the 1980s on conveying locally the message of PSR/National,
that there is no meaningful medical response to nuclear war and that
"prevention is the only cure."
We
The People
No Anwers, No Taxes....
WebActive
RadioNation,
the weekly broadcast edition of The Nation magazine;
Pacifica Network
News, an in-depth look at the world;
Democracy NOW!
launched by Pacifica Radio in 1996 to open the airwaves on a daily basis
to alternative voices traditionally excluded from the political process;
Hightower Radio:
WebActive
is the exclusive Web source for Jim Hightower's entertaining daily two-minute
commentaries on politics and progressive issues;
WebActive Directory:
An
annotated, searchable directory of 1,250 progressive groups that are online;
Soapbox:
The "Op-ed" page of WebActive;
CounterSpin:
A
weekly look behind the scenes of the mainstream news.
Young
Koreans United of Seattle (YKU)
National organization
founded in 1984 with five chapters throughout major U.S. cities. YKU works
to promote peace, human rights and social justice in Korea and the United
States through education, grassroots organizing and advocacy.
ZNet
Huge website updated
many times daily and designed to convey information and provide community.
A quarter of a million people a week use ZNet. Founded
in 1995, ZNet offers information through diverse watch areas and sub-sites,
translations, archives, links to their progressive sites, a daily commentary
program, and much more.
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