Links to Activist Resources
WESPAC Foundation, a peace and justice action network, based in White Plains, NY
Progressive News Network, community produced media for peace and social justice (No War Westchester’s sister organization!)
Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice
United for Peace and Justice, national coalition
iCasualties.org - Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
IraqBodyCount.net – update on civilians killed in the Iraq war and occupation
AfterDowningStreet.org – a nonpartisan coalition working to expose the lies that launched the occupation of Iraq (and the one that keeps it going) and to hold accountable its architects through impeachment.
Code Pink – women for peace
Concerned Families of Westchester
Consumers for Peace – ExxonMobil war boycott – working to encourage consumers to redirect billions of dollars in gasoline purchases to end the occupation of Iraq, impeach George Bush, and fund the the rebuilding and reconstruction of Iraq.
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Iraq Veterans Against War (IVAW)
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)
NationalPriorities.org – information on Iraq war funding and military spending
Center for Defense Information – analysis of US military and foreign policy
Arms Trade Resource Center – World Policy Institute research on arms sales
GlobalSecurity.org – news and information on US military issues and foreign policy
Progressive Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy in Focus - Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a “Think Tank Without Walls” connecting the research and action of more than 600 scholars, advocates, and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner. It is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and recommends policy alternatives. We believe U.S. security and world stability are best advanced through a commitment to peace, justice and environmental protection as well as economic, political, and social rights. We advocate that diplomatic solutions, global cooperation, and grassroots participation guide foreign policy.
Institute for Policy Studies - The Institute for Policy Studies turns Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice and the Environment. We strengthen social movements with independent research, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, scholars and elected officials. I.F. Stone once called IPS “the think tank for the rest of us.” Since 1963, we have empowered people to build healthy and democratic societies in communities, the US, and the world.
Center for International Policy - Promoting a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights
Oil Dependency and Military Intervention
Klare, Michael. “Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum,” Metropolitan Books, 2004.
Consumers for Peace – Exxon/Mobil boycott, consumer guide to gasoline and military intervention in Iraq
The Apollo Alliance – campaign to invest in clean energy, create 3 million jobs, and curb dependency on foreign oil
1Sky – campaign to cut carbon emissions
Cool Cities – local/regional action to address climate change
Nonviolent Direct Action Organizing
RANT Collective Organizing Resources - Direct action links and resources from nonviolence trainers’ collective
Nonviolence Training Project - Direct action links and resources
Ruckus Society - Direct action training materials
Bread and Puppet Theater - The Bread and Puppet Theater is one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in this country. Peter Schumann founded Bread and Puppet in 1962 on New York City’s Lower East Side. The Theater is now an internationally recognized company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art. Its shows are political and spectacular, with huge puppets made of papier-maché and cardboard, a brass band for accompaniment, and anti-elitist dances. Most shows are morality plays — about how people act toward each other — whose prototype is “Everyman.” Their overall theme is universal peace.
All Bread and Puppet Theater shows, created and designed by Schumann with input from the company, use music, dance and slapstick to get their point across. Their distinctive imagery — featuring puppets (of all kinds and sizes), masks, costumes, paintings, buildings, and landscapes — seemingly breathe with Schumann’s distinctive visual style of dance, expressionism, dark humor and low-culture simplicity.