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CFWP Hot Link List
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Educational (in no particular order...)
The US in Iraq:
CFWP's New Informational Flyer
Polls in 2006 indicate that 50% of Americans still think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the US invaded in 2003. Obviously the word isn't getting out! Arm yourself with the facts you need to help educate the public with CFWP's concise, well-researched history of the US involvement in Iraq, going back to 1920. Updated August 2006!
 The Office of The Americas
Dedicated to furthering the cause of justice and peace through broad-based educational programs. OOA is a recognized source for documentation and analysis of current events in North America, Mexico, Central America, and South America, including the War on Drugs, human rights, and United States foreign policy.
For more info:
call 323-852-9808
visit officeoftheamericas.org
Middle East Research and Information Project
Free, web-only news analysis and commentary in addition to the in-depth coverage found only in the print quarterly Middle East Report.
http://www.merip.org/
 Middle East Peace Education Program
AFSC's Middle East Peace Education Program (MEPEP) in Pasadena strives to increase Southern California public understanding of the Middle East, its peoples, and its conflicts, and to encourage an appropriate US role in the region based on peace, justice and human dignity. It also includes a Teacher Resource Project.
www.mepeacela.org
Arlington West Film
The film, Arlington West, allows all to witness the poignant conversations, dramatic revelations, silences, personal experience, and share the tears with those who are paying the highest prices for war. A full array of opinions and sentiments are presented: Active Duty Soldiers and Marines, Military Families, Veterans, and Children are featured in this revealing 56 minute Documentary.
Arlington West now offers a curriculum and discussion aids for use with the film in schools.
www.arlingtonwestfilm.com
Peace Guides of
Southern California
Peace Guides endeavors to educate students, parents, teachers and the community about the hidden implications of military service and to help bring about the demilitarization of schools. They offer prompt information on resources to men and women of draft age about military life. This provides guidance for dealing with recruiters and other aspects of war that threaten our economy and constitution.
For more info:
11169 Braddock Dr., Culver City, CA 90230-4214
310-838-8513
e-mail: dynosaur@earthlink.net
 Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools
CAMS seeks to inform and educate the public, especially students, parents and school personnel, about the growing militarization of our schools, and to create and present positive nonviolent alternatives which promote the value of human life, justice and equity for all persons.
www.militaryfreeschools.org
 Global Children's Organization
The Global children's organization helps heal children traumatized by war or community violence by providing programs that find creative ways to live in diverse, peaceful communities. While creating hope, the programs teach the children how to resolve conflict and prevent future violence.
They also have an annual summer program in the San Bernardino Mountains.
For more info:
P.O. Box 67583, Los Angeles, CA 90067
call 310-581-2234
visit http://www.globalchild.org
Change-Links Progressive Newspaper
John Johnson's amazing calendar of calendars for Southern California peace and justice events. Everyone looks at this one. You can also submit items for the online calendar.
For more info:
e-mail: change@pacbell.net
web: http://www.change-links.org
ART FOR A CHANGE
Mark Vallen's comprehensive site for socially conscious art and action by himself and others. Mark is an outstanding artist going back years in L.A. alternative cultures, and his portraits of oppressed groups are especially powerful.
www.art-for-a-change.com
After Downing Street
After Downing Street is a coalition of over 100 veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups that has worked since May 26, 2005, to pressure both Congress and the media to investigate whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war. The coalition takes its name from the emergence in May and June of 2005 of several documents that quickly came to be known as the Downing Street Memos. It is nonpartisan and nonviolent.
www.afterdowningstreet.org/
Media Matters for America
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.
mediamatters.org/
BAGNews
This site has been up since 2000, and they are "in it for the long haul." Focus is anti-war, anti-conservative/Anti-Bush and also focus on media bias and corporate wrongdoing and consumer exploitation.
Featured on Surveillance Camera Players and ADBUSTERS Jam of the Day, they also developed a web and print series for former State Assembly Chair and L.A. ACLU President Antonio Villaraigosa for his LA Mayoral Campaign. Combining humor and independent news in a hybrid newspaper/ editorial cartoon format, BAGNews has been successfully contributing protest images, moral support as well as vital intellectual levity to the progressive movement.
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/
The multilingual, multicultural online journal and community of arts and ideas. They have a long list of antiwar links.
www.towerofbabel.com/linkslibrary/antiwar/
Shocked and Horrified:
Interesting and powerful paper written 9/15/01 by Larry Mosqueda. He puts his reaction to 9/11 in some historical perspective:
web.greens.org/s-r/27/27-01.html
"We Come For Peace"
by Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Remarks to April 20, 2002 Peace Rally in Washington, DC:
www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.24A.McKinney.Peace.htm
A Prayer For America
Read Congressman Dennis Kucinich's speech at the 2/17/02 Conference at USC:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12477
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Video
Teach-In Video
The Coalition for World Peace's "Community
Forum on the War On Terrorism" Teach In, which took place February
2nd at Fairfax High Scool, is now available on Video!
speakers and topics
include: Dr. Michael Parenti, political
analyst and author, on the international picture and terrorism,
Professor Ann Fagan Ginger, civil, criminal, and human rights legal
expert, on the global context and legal aspects of this war, Professor
Erwin Chemerinsky, constitutional law expert, on related threats
to our civil liberties, Margaret Prescod, women's rights
activist and social justice worker, on the effects of this war on
the domestic economy and the poor, Reverend
James Lawson, renowned nonviolence theorist, on alternatives to
war, Sonali Kolhatkar, an advocate for Afghan refugees, on
the situation in Afghanistan, Yossi Khen, a
leading Israeli peace activist, on Middle East peace issues,
Professor Mahmood Ibrahim, chair of the History Department at CalPoly,
on historical contexts, and closing call to action hosted by Danielle
Babineau of California Peace Action and Preston Wood of the
International Action Center
to order, please contact Ralph Cole at Justicevision:
213-747-6345
e-mail: DemocracyU@aol.com|
web: www.justicevision.org
Frank Dorrel video newly re-edited
and much improved
What I've Learned
About US Foreign Policy: The War Against the Third World CIA Covert
Operations and U.S. Interventions Since World War II What You Didn't
Learn in School and Don't Hear on the Mainstream Media
A
10-hour, 2-part video by Frank Dorrel
call 310-838-8131
or e-mail fdorrel@yahoo.com
to order
also visit: http://www.addictedtowar.com
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"There is a time when the operation of the machine
becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take
part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put
your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers,
upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've
got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own
it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from
working at all!"
Mario Savio
"What we are talking about here - whether one wants
to recognize it or not, or call it by its proper name or not - is
a form of self-censorship. I worry that patriotism run amok will
trample the very values that the country seeks to defend."
"It's unpatriotic not to stand up, look them in
the eye, and ask the questions they don't want to hear - they being
those who have the responsibility, the ultimate responsibility in
a society such as ours, of sending our sons and daughters, our husbands,
wives, our blood, to face death, to take death..."
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