Sonoma County Peace & Justice Center
[peaceandjusticesonomaco.org] [467 Sebastopol Avenue Santa Rosa, CA 95401] [707-575-8902]
We work to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice through active nonviolence as a way of life and as a means of radical change.
Mount Diablo Peace & Justice Center
[ourpeacecenter.org] [925-933-7850] [info@mtdpc.org][55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94596]
San Jose Peace & Justice Center
[sanjosepeace.org] [408-297-2299] [48 South 7th St, San Jose, CA 95112]
Peace and Justice Resource Center (PJRC)
[tomhayden.com/] [310-559-9522]
Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
[nuclearweaponsfree.org] [2201 Broadway, Ste 321 Oakland, California 94612]
Peace Action
* Peace Action West [www.peaceactionwest.org] [2201 Broadway, Suite 321, Oakland, CA]
Jon Rainwater, Executive Director [94612jrainwater@peaceactionwest.org] [510-849-2272 x106]
* East Bay Peace Action: Betty Brown [PO Box 6574, Albany, CA 94706]
* Peace Action of San Mateo County [sanmateopeaceaction.org][smpa@sanmateopeaceaction.org] [650-342-8244]
Sacramento Area Peace Action
[www.sacpeace.org] (916) 448-7157
Chico Peace and Justice Center
[chico-peace.org] Open 12-2pm M-F [526 Broadway Street Chico, CA 95928] [530-893-9078] [chico-peace@sbcglobal.net] Subscribe to our news updates
THE CHICO VIEWSPAPER: Where Chicoans Explore the Issues that Matter -
The Chico Peace and Justice Center's quarterly publication. The Viewspaper highlights a key social issue each quarter through the perspectives of six unique and dynamic Chicoan voices. The inaugural issue focuses in on the critical and sticky issue of taxes, and features reflective essays from Chicoans Stephanie Elliott, Chris Nelson, Dan Everhart, Michael Coyle, Steve Tchudi, and Carin Anderson.
Chico Peace Vigil, Going strong since 1960
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
[mcli.org] [510-848-0599] [PO Box 673, Berkeley, CA 94701-0673]
“International Human Rights Poster” [mcli.org/portfolio/international-human-rights-poster]
Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice
Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship Unitarian Universalists
[bfuu.org/events/social-justice]
meets on the First & Third Sundays of the month at 12:30 pm in the Benjy Room at 1606 Bonita Ave.
The Hal Carlstad Social Justice Center (HCSJC) is located in the Fireside Room on the 2nd floor of the BFUU RE Building with open hours from 1 - 5 pm M-F.
We have a "Partners for Justice" program with links to many of the groups that we work with on justice issues. To get on the Rise-Up Email list for activists in the SF Bay Area, send an email to [bfuusjev-subscribe@lists.riseup.net]
BFUU [bfuu.org] SUNDAY SERVICES begin at 10:30 am every Sunday.
[epicalc.org] [epicalc@gmail.com] [epicalc@lmi.net] [510-655-1162] [P. O. Box 9334, Berkeley, CA 94709]
“On the Edge of Peace — Voices from the faith-Based Peace and Justice Community”, a new anthology from EPI! Print copies of “On the Edge of Peace”, the price is $15.00 + $5.00 for shipping & handling (for orders outside the US, (or for multiple copies – a price break on shipping) please write or email us for the cost to you. You may read order information in our Donation section. Click here [peaceandjusticeparkhere.net/EPI/#donate].
Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County
[interfaithccc.org]
Oakland Peace Center
[oaklandpeacecenter.org]
United for Peace and Justice - Bay Area [unitedforpeace.org]
United for Peace and Justice – Bay Area is a regional, movement-building coalition that coordinates and supports the work of existing local groups and strives to strengthen or create solidarity where it is lacking.
United Nations Association (UNA)
"We the peoples of the United Nations determined... to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors..." Preamble, United Nations Charter, 24 October 1945.
East Bay Chapter [unausaeastbay.org] [unaeastbay@sbcglobal.net]. UNA Peace Center [510-849-1752] [2539 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley (at Blake)], hours are Tues - Sat 12-5. UNICEF cards, flags, international fair trade gifts, books, jewelry, T-shirts are available for sale.
Sacramento Chapter [unausasacramento.org] Eddie Lee, President [916-444-7800] [P.O. Box 163381 Sacramento, CA 95816-9381]
Occupy Beale AFB!
[solanopeacejustice.blogspot.com/2013/12/occupy-beale-afb.html]
Democratic World Federalists
[dwfed.org/index.php] [dwfed@dwfed.org] [415-227-4880] [55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 225.
San Francisco, CA 94105]
California No-Drones Network
[nodronesnetwork.blogspot.com]
[nodronescalifornia.blogspot.com]
[nodronescalifornia.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-8-beale-9-anti-drone-hearing.html]
Project SALAM: Support And Legal Advocacy for Muslims
[projectsalam.org]
Purpose of Project SALAM: This web site is devoted to researching and documenting the likelihood that the United States Justice Department’s post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecutions and convictions have included a significant number of Muslims who were in fact innocent of any crime. Other cases were severely overcharged and/or over sentenced.
[www.mecaforpeace.org], [510-548-0542], [1101 Eighth Street (near Gilman & San Pablo, lots of parking), Berkeley]
Organizing Benefit Programs for Women and Children in Palestine, fostering industry and trade with the world with products made by the People of Palestine including Extra-Virgin Olive Oil from the West Bank, Stunning Scarves & Shawls, Palestinian Embroidery, Olive Oil Soap and Palestinian Dead Sea Products, Olive wood toys, Hand woven rugs, Painted Ceramics from Jerusalem, Cookbooks and Kitchenware, Children's books, Arabic food and coffee! Organizers of the famous ANNUAL MIDDLE EASTERN HOLIDAY CRAFTS BAZAAR in Berkeley!
Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR)
The only organization in Israel made up of rabbis and rabbinical students from all denominations of Judaism, all of whom uphold the rabbinic concept of tikkun olam - "repairing the world" - referring to universal human rights and social justice.
Courage to Resist
[couragetoresist.org] [510-488-3559]
United States Labor Against the War (USLAW)
[uslaboragainstwar.org] [info (@uslaboragainstwar.org]
Here's what one union leader had to say about why he supports USLAW:
"USLAW is the sturdy bridge..." message from Fred Hirsch, Vice President, elect, of the Plumbers and Fitters Local 393:
I have been the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council representative on the Steering Committee of US Labor Against the War since 2003. USLAW
has functioned magnificently and economically with a skeleton staff of
three devoted, bright and talented leaders who are responsible to a
vastly experienced Steering Committee and a Board of labor movement
leading lights as Co-Convenors. We’re all asked to contribute to
many causes. Though I’m a fixed income retiree, I give to a few
groups, but more than any, I give what I can to USLAW to help keep it
afloat and fighting the good fight for all of us. Please give as
generously as you can. The labor movement needs the peace movement and
the peace movement needs the labor movement. USLAW is the sturdy bridge
between the two to the future that we all need. Your donated dollars
will go further with USLAW than with any other organization I know. In solidarity, [signed] Fred Hirsch
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of USLAW. USLAW's decade of activity established it as an organization that is truly unique, not only in the American labor movement, but in the global labor movement as well. It is the only organization that is rooted in the official institutions of the union movement but also counts among its affiliates non-traditional labor organizations like worker centers and ad hoc labor antiwar committees. It operates within the official bodies of unions but is not dominated by or subservient to them. It functions as the antiwar voice of the labor movement and labor's voice in the antiwar movement.
USLAW is a network of nearly 200 labor organizations [uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=16781] - including three national unions, more than two dozen labor councils, eight state labor federations, regional labor bodies, local unions - large and small - and official constituency group organizations - in both the AFL-CIO and Change to Win, and in independent unions like the National Education Association and United Electrical Workers. USLAW also has hundreds of individual associate members, including unrepresented workers, retirees and union members in both affiliated and unaffiliated organizations.
It made history in 2005 when it won overwhelming support for a resolution to put the AFL-CIO on record against the Iraq War, calling for rapid withdrawal - the first time in its 50 year history that the federation publicly opposed the deployment of U.S. troops into battle. This was possible because USLAW is organized "bottom-up" rather than "top-down".
USLAW is one of the architects of the Jobs-Not-Wars Campaign [salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/302/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11931&tag=JNW_USLAW] and cofounder of the New Priorities Network [newprioritiesnetwork.org/]. Highlights of some of its other accomplishments are recorded in a fact sheet [uslaboragainstwar.org/downloads/Achievements.Dec2012.pdf] posted to the USLAW website [uslaboragainstwar.org/].
Help USLAW start the new year with the resources it needs. USLAW has no big foundation grants. It is supported by its affiliates and members, and supporters inside and outside of the labor movement. It needs your support to carry on its work -- building an antiwar constituency in the American labor movement, providing ongoing solidarity to the unions and workers of Iraq and other targets of U.S. aggression, demilitarizing U.S. foreign policy, and redirecting our tax dollars to create an environmentally sustainable, just and equitable economy and society. Thank you for all you do and have done for justice, peace and democracy. Let's resolve together to make 2013 a year in which defeat the austerity schemes,end the U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan, win serious cuts in military spending and put our country on a new course.
Sign the Jobs-Not-Wars petition [salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/302/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11931&tag=JNW_USLAW]. Then send this to ten others. Ask them to join you in signing and then send it to ten of their friends.
We are the majority. We must not be silent!
Jobs Not Wars coalition
[jobs-not-wars.org]
Bay Area New Priorities Campaign
[www.newprioritiescampaign.org] [newprioritiescampaign (@gmail.com]
The Campaign for New Priorities brings together organizations and individuals from diverse constituencies, communities and movements to demand of our public officials a change of direction for the U.S. – one that prioritizes putting people back to work, restoring and fully funding essential public services, rebuilding and repairing infrastructure, funding the development of new alternative energy technologies, cleaning up and protecting the environment, developing a sustainable peace economy, reducing poverty and inequality, and generally meeting important social and other human needs.
New Priorities Declaration of Principles -
If you agree with these principles, we invite you to sign the Declaration of Principles of the Campaign for New Priorities and get organizations to endorse it. After collecting a lot of signatures and endorsements from organizations, the Campaign will ask public officials in our communities adopt a resolution calling on Congress to adopt these priorities. It will ask them to hold hearings to let us explain how the economic crisis and cuts in public services impact our families, jobs and communities.
Build the campaign! Please take a moment now to send a message to as many people as you can urging them to sign the Declaration and urge their friends to do the same. We've made it very easy.
Just click HERE to send your message [salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2488/p/salsa/web/tellafriend/public/?tell_a_friend_KEY=8617]. Thanks for your support. Together we'll change the priorities and direction our country is taking!
PANinA: Peace and Nonviolence in Action
[www.panina.org]
"Nevada Desert Experience (NDE)"
[www.NevadaDesertExperience.org] [info@nevadadesertexperience.org]
NDE is the most visible peace and justice group in Nevada, a leading participant in the national anti-drone movement, and the only nuclear abolition group that focuses on the Nevada National Security Site (the nuclear testing site). We organize local Nevadans as well as amplify the voices of peace-oriented people of faith from all over the country.
SOA Watch: Close the School of the Americas
[soaw.org] [202-234-3440] [info@soaw.org] [PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017]
Disarm Activist
[disarmamentactivist.org]
Lamorinda Peace and Justice
The Lamorinda Peace and Justice Group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month from 7 to 9pm in the fireside room of Lafayette Methodist Church, 955 Moraga Road, Lafayette. Our group is committed to working to support a healthy planet, a thriving local community, and a safe, equitable world for all. For more information, call 925-946-0563
Cynthia McKinney (and friends)
[enduswars.org] [livestream.com/dignity] [myspace.com/dignityaction] [myspace.com/runcynthiarun] [twitter.com/cynthiamckinney] [facebook.com/CynthiaMcKinney] [youtube.com/runcynthiarun]
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
[forusa.org] [P.O. Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960] [845-358-4601]
* Oakland [510-763-1403]
* 2017 Mission St #305 San Francisco [510-763-1403]
Since the 1920s, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has sent delegations of peacemakers to regions of the world in conflict and to nations regarded as U.S. enemies. This people-to-people outreach, a form of civilian diplomacy, has taken Americans to such places as Vietnam, the former Soviet Union, Iraq, Nicaragua, Israel/Palestine, and the Philippines. FOR currently sends peace delegations to the Middle East, to Colombia, and to Mexico.
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
[PO Box 652 Brunswick, ME 04011]
[207-443-9502] [globalnet@mindspring.com]
[www.space4peace.org] [space4peace.blogspot.com]
WAR and LAW League, nonpartisan, nonprofit, for the rule of law in international affairs. [warandlaw.org/files/index.html]
Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas
[415-924-3227] [mitfamericas.org/Newsletter.htm]
Jews Against the Occupation
[http://www.jatonyc.org/]
A Jewish Voice of Opposition to the War on Palestinians - Jews Against the Occupation is an organization of progressive, secular and religious Jews of all ages throughout the New York City area advocating peace through justice for Palestine and Israel.
Jewish Voice for Peace
[http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org]
Opposed to Bombing Civilians? Sign Jewish Call to Action Petition - HELP END THE GAZA AND LEBANON INVASIONS NOW! Urge the U.S. to put a stop to the attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. Show the world there is a principled Jewish voice that opposes the collective punishment of an entire people.
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel
[http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3269]
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)
[www.cpt.org] [Box 6508 · Chicago, IL 60680-6508] [773-376-0550] [peacemakers@cpt.org]
Move to Amend
[movetoamend.org]
Veterans for Peace
[veteransforpeace.org]
Chapter 87 Sacramento Area [916-456-4595]
Peace Coalition of Monterey County
with Libertarians for Peace [lawsam1951@hotmail.com] [www.libertarians4peace.net]
Human Rights Centre - UN mandated University for Peace
[upeace.org] [hrc.upeace.org]
The Human Rights Centre of the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) and Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) jointly organize several online courses on human rights issues throughout the year, including: Health and Human Rights * Business and Human Rights Human Rights * Indigenous Peoples' Rights * International Human Rights Law (Foundation Course).
These certificate courses are aimed at professionals working with the United Nations, government officials, NGO staff, development workers, human rights advocates, academics and students. We will very much appreciate your kind help in disseminating this opportunity to interested candidates.
For more information about the courses and registration, please visit [www.hrea.org/upeace] or send an email to [elearning@hrea.org]. Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) [http://www.hrea.org/index.php?language_id=1]
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