Peace and Social Concerns: starting points

These pages are created by Ann Arbor Quakers concerned about Peace and Justice. They are offered as a starting point.
-Lisa Klopfer (klopfer@umich.edu)

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Ann Arbor Friends Meeting

Rabih Haddad (archived page, no longer active)

Quaker Organizations

For a complete list, see Russell Nelson's page http://www.quaker.org/#2

Lake Erie Yearly Meeting http://www.quaker.org/leym/

Friends General Conference http://www.fgcquaker.org/

Michigan Friends Center http://comnet.org/local/orgs/mfc/

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee http://www.pym.org/peace-and-concerns/

American Friends Service Committee http://www.afsc.org/

Friends Committee on National Legislation http://www.fcnl.org/

Quaker History and Practice

A list of Quaker-related sites and newsgroups http://www.quaker.org/

soc.religion.quaker Answers to Frequently Asked Questions http://www.faqs.org/faqs/Quaker-faq/

George Amoss' Quaker Electronic Archive & Meeting Place http://www.qis.net/~daruma/

AFSC's Quaker Information Center http://www.quakerinfo.org/

A collection of original texts and essays on Quaker history http://www.strecorsoc.org/quaker.html

Pacifism and Nonviolence

Fellowship Of Reconciliation http://www.forusa.org/

Christian Peacemaker Teams http://www.cpt.org/

Every Church a Peace Church http://ecapc.org/

CCCO http://www.objector.org/

CCW Center on Conscience and War (was NIBSCO) http://www.centeronconscience.org/

Witness For Peace http://www.witnessforpeace.org/

PaxChristi http://www.paxchristiusa.org/

War Resisters League http://www.warresisters.org/

Peace and Justice Support Network http://peace.MennoLink.org/

Writings on Christian Pacifism http://www.bluffton.edu/~mastg/pacifism.htm

Search For Common Ground http://www.sfcg.org/

Culture of Peace Links http://www.unesco.org/cpp/uk/sites/index.html

Nonviolence Org http://www.nonviolence.org/

INCORE Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/

Peace Taxes

National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund http://www.peacetaxfund.org/

Conscience and Peace Tax International http://cpti.ws/

National War Tax Resistance Committee http://www.nwtrcc.org/

War resisters League http://www.warresisters.org/

article: http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0412-01.htm

Disarmament and World Peace

Quaker United Nations Office http://www.geneva.quno.info/
Council for a Livable World http://www.clw.org/
School of the Americas Watch http://www.soaw.org/
Voices in the Wilderness http://www.vitw.org/
Peace Action http://www.peace-action.org/
The Nuclear Resister http://www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister/
Peace Brigades International http://www.peacebrigades.org
Hague Appeal for Peace http://www.haguepeace.org
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom http://www.wilpf.org/
Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/
Ploughshares Fund http://www.ploughshares.org
Nuclear Age Foundation http://www.wagingpeace.org/
Pugwash Online http://www.pugwash.org/index.htm
International Campaign to ban Landmines http://www.icbl.org/
Trident Ploughshares http://www.tridentploughshares.org

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U.S. and Michigan Electoral Politics

MI Voter Education http://www.publius.org/

Michigan Electronic Library - Gov't Resources http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=9

Voter Information Services http://www.vis.org/

Uncle Sam - Who's Who in the Federal Government http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/whos.html

U.S. Senate http://www.senate.gov/

U.S. House http://www.house.gov/

U.S. White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/

League of Women Voters http://www.lwv.org/

Thomas - Legislative Information http://thomas.loc.gov/

Social Justice and Civil Rights

Food Gatherers http://www.foodgatherers.org/

SOS Community Services http://comnet.org/local/orgs/sos/

Avalon Housing http://www.avalonhousing.org/

Center for Community Change http://communitychange.org/

ACLU http://www.aclu.org/

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee http://www.adc.org/

Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/

International Freedom of Expression eXchange http://www.ifex.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/

Action

FCNL's Legislative Action Alert http://www.fcnl.org/act_lam_current/actnow_lam_index.htm

FCNL's Monthly Letter-Writing Project http://www.fcnl.org/act_monletr_currnt/actnow_monltr_index.htm

FOR's Action Network http://www.forusa.org/actionnetwork/subscribe.html

FAIR http://www.fair.org/index.html

Center for American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/

Christian Coalition (to see what they're up to) http://www.cc.org/actionalerts.cfm

News

Common Dreams News Center http://www.commondreams.org/

The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/

The Nation http://www.thenation.com/

Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/

In These Times http://www.inthesetimes.com/

Znet http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

Guardian Unlimited http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Peacework Magazine http://www.afsc.org/peacework/

Alternative Press Index http://www.altpress.org/

Ann Arbor Area Realtors http://www.aaabor.com/

National low-income housing coalition http://www.nlihc.org/

Unitarian Universalist Affordable Housing Corporation http://www.uuahc.org/

Institute for Community Economics http://www.iceclt.org/clt/

Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) http://www.mshda.org/

Death Penalty

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.ncadp.org/

Amnesty International USA http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/pendex.html

Death Penalty Information Center http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/index.html

Google Directory on Death Penalty http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Crime_and_Justice/Death_Penalty/

Ann Arbor Area

Ann Arbor District Library http://www.aadl.org/

Michigan Peaceworks (was Ann Arbor Area Committee for Peace) http://justpeaceinfo.org/

City of Ann Arbor http://www.ci.ann-arbor.mi.us/

Washtenaw County http://www.ewashtenaw.org/

Huron Valley Community Network http://www.hvcn.org/

Friends in Deed http://comnet.org/local/orgs/friends/

Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice http://www.icpj.net/

Michigan Peace Teamhttp://michiganpeaceteam.org/mpt/

Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor http://www.mca-aa.org/

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