Other Links

Websites on a variety of topics

These websites contain a great deal of information, and some topics overlap. If the links are not recognized by your server, then you can visit these sites by copying (copy & paste) the address directly into your address bar and clicking 'go'. This depends on your server. The least these sites will do is stimulate thought.


General sites addressing peace and justice issues:

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ United for Peace and Justice

http://www.internationalanswer.org/ Act Now to Stop War and End Racism

http://www.truthout.org The truth about a variety of social issues

http://www.warresisters.org/ The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war.

http://www.VoteNoWar.org Vote No War

http://www.moveon.org/ MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics.

www.globalexchange.org Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice.

http://vitw.org/ Links to "Voices in the Wilderness" organization, a group that is actively participating around the world in a variety of ways

http://www.nimn.org/ Not In My Name organization, created by a concerned Jewish community to act against Israeli violence

http://www.iowapeace.com/ A peace writer and activist in Iowa, with links to other sites related to peace, justice and diversity

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/interventions.htm US Interventions - 1798-Present (December 2005) This timeline lists US military and clandestine interventions abroad from 1798. The list does not pretend to be definitive or absolutely complete. It does, however, demonstrate that the US has engaged in military operations worldwide for political and economic reasons for more than two centuries. (Global Policy Forum)

 

Sites directly concerning the invasion and occupation of Iraq:

www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr091002.htm "Questions that won't be asked about Iraq" - Congressman Ron Paul, US House of Representatives, September 10, 2002

www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2470&sectionID=15 "Iraq:  Is It About Oil?" Institute for Health and Social Justice

http://www.iraqbodycount.net The worldwide update of reported civilian deaths in the Iraq war and occupation

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx Iraq Coalition Casualty Count

http://www.occupationwatch.org Monitoring, researching, and influencing the reconstruction of Iraq

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com Today in Iraq

Bush Administration's 237 Misleading Statements on Iraq (pdf file), (doc file), (html file) The Iraq on the Record Report, prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, is a comprehensive examination of the statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

 

Sites concerning human rights in Afghanistan:

http://www.antiwar.com/afghan/ Eye on Afghanistan

http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org Women for Afghan Women

http://hrw.org/campaigns/afghanistan/ Human Rights Watch: Afghanistan

 

Other anti-war sites:

www.prairienet.org/vvaw Vietnam Veterans Against the War

www.veteransforpeace.org Veterans Working Together for Peace: Justice Through Non-violence.

www.antiwar.com This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism.

www.sfheart.com/peace.html Dedicated to bringing about the change of heart leading to greater Peace and Love for everyone

http://www.neravt.com/left/invade.htm A Chronology of U.S. Imperialism from 1890 to 2003

 

Non-corporate-owned media:

http://www.alternet.org Alternet

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

http://www.democracynow.org/ Democracy Now!

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

http://www.truthout.com/ Truthout

http://www.zmag.org/ Z Magazine

 

Pages with impact:

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=221517 This site may require you to copy and paste the above address in your address line - this article has caused many tears, and is of a graphic nature.

http://vitw.us/library/archives/2002/01/000113.html Articles written about personal experiences; again, this site may bring tears

http://www.takebackthemedia.com Using the Power of the Purse and non-violent action to bring back responsibility to the corporate media.

 

Pages for Minnesota sites and activities:

http://www.antiwarcommittee.org Minneapolis Anti-War Committee

http://www.mapm.org/member.htm Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers

www.worldwidewamm.org/ Women Against Military Madness, Minneapolis, MN - sponsors information, activities and speakers, and local events for the area

www.heatercore.net/Babylon  Babylon Art and Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN

www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org St. Paul, MN

www.mic@globe.mic.umn.edu Minnesota International Center (612-625-4421)

www.peaceintheprecincts.org Peace in the Precincts is a grassroots effort to establish national security policies that will both embody and achieve our democratic hopes for peace and freedom.

 

Some sites concerning the effects of depleted uranium - used in the Gulf War by American military to facilitate the new arsenal of weapons - are:

www.veteransforpeace.org/Rokke2partwarning.htm (Former US Army Depleted Uranium team health physicist, Dr. Doug Rokke)

www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm Depleted Uranium Education Project