Links For A More Peaceful World
The
Teach
Peace Foundation
supports individuals and organizations working for
freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from
fear.
To join our team, click here. To add your organization to our list,
click here.
We list the following organizations to increase awareness of their good work.
Freedom From
Want - Lifestyle Simplification
Food First
- Highlighting root causes and
value-based solutions to hunger and global poverty, with a commitment to
establishing food as a fundamental human right.
The Center for a New American Dream - More
fun, less stuff.
Ecology Center - Promoting environmentally and socially
responsible practices through education and direct services.
The New Road Map Foundation - Promotes new
ways to navigate the road of life based on a vision of a cooperative human
community in a diverse yet interconnected world.
Woolman - A
high school semester studies program for juniors, seniors, and 1st year
postgraduates. Through a focus on the issues of peace, justice, and
sustainability, the Woolman Semester enriches a typical high school curriculum
Freedom From
Want – Health Care
Breast Cancer Action - Carrying the voices of
people affected by breast cancer to bring the changes necessary to end the
breast cancer epidemic.
Breast Cancer Fund - Identifies and advocates
for elimination of the environmental and other preventable causes of breast
cancer.
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine
-
Doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate and effective medical
practice, research, and health promotion.
Veterans Villages
- The foundation is a peaceful non-political, non-religious group of citizen who
are very
concern about the welfare of our children
returning
Home from the Middle East.
Freedom From Want – Educations & Politics
ACORN - The Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of
low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized
into 800 neighborhood chapters in 65 cities across the country.
Co-op America - Recognizes that voting with our dollars is a
powerful way to change the world. Every time you spend or invest your
hard-earned money you are voting -- and you have the power to vote for social
justice, ecological balance and a sustainable economy.
Democracy Matters - Informs and engages
college students and communities in efforts to strengthen our democracy. With
campus-based chapters throughout the country, we focus on the issue of private
money in politics and other pro-democracy reforms. Democracy Matters in this way
encourages the emergence of a new generation of reform-minded leaders.
Educators for
Nonviolence - A joint project of the
Metta Center and
The Dalai Lama
Foundation. The organization comprises educators, students, and others who
share this ideal and are interested in working together to make high quality
curricula and other resources available to encourage the integration of the
ideas and methods of nonviolence into any type of education system.
Greenaction - Mobilizes community power to
win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to
protect health and to promote environmental justice.
The Peace Alliance - A focused effort
to establish the US Department of
Peace.
The Not In Our Name Project - A national
network of individuals and organizations committed to standing with the people
of the world. As the Not in Our Name Pledge of Resistance states, "we believe
that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist
the injustices done by our government, in our names."
Redefining Progress - Works with partners
to influence the choices individuals make, resolve pressing social and
environmental issues, and pursue systemic change.
Freedom
From Want – Environment
Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
-
To make corporations more accountable for their behavior worldwide.
Alliance for the Wild Rockies - To save the
Northern Rockies Bioregion from habitat destruction
Bluewater Network - Protecting the Earth for
All Living Creatures.
Center for Biological Diversity - Working to
secure a future for animals and plants on the brink of extinction, the
wilderness they need to survive, and by extension the spiritual welfare of
generations to come
Center for Ecoliteracy - Promotes education
in the values, skills, and knowledge needed to create sustainable communities.
Center for Environmental Health
-
Countering environmental and consumer
health hazards, and changing corporate behavior through education, litigation,
and advocacy.
Clean Water Action - Working for clean, safe
and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, and the
creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses.
Commonweal - Helping adults and children with
health and learning challenges, and advancing the global search for a healthy
and sustainable future.
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
- An environmental health and justice non-profit organization, promoting clean
air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities.
Earth
Charter - The Earth
Charter is an authoritative synthesis of values, principles, and aspirations
that are widely shared by growing numbers of people
Earth Films - A non–profit production,
distribution and media project that specializes in environmental and social
issue documentaries.
Earth Island Institute
- Developing and supporting projects that
counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustains the
environment.
Forest Service Employees For Environmental Ethics (FSEEE)
-
Holding the Forest Service accountable for responsible land stewardship: the
land is a public trust, to be passed with reverence from generation to
generation.
Greenpeace
- A global organization focused on worldwide
threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.
Global Exchange - Promoting human rights and social justice.
Healthy Building Network
- Promoting
healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and
preserving the global environment
Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
Rock the Earth - A not-for-profit,
national public interest environmental organization dedicated to protecting and
defending America's natural resources through partnerships with the music
industry and the world-wide environmental community.
Sierra Club - Inspired by nature, members
work together to protect individual communities and the planet.
Tri Valley - Tri-Valley CAREs was founded in
1983 by local citizens concerned that nuclear weapons work at the Lawrence
Livermore and Sandia Livermore Laboratories was impacting the environmental
well-being of our communities.
Wildlands Project - Protecting and restoring
the natural heritage of
North America
through the establishment of a connected system of wildlands.
Union of Concerned
Scientists
Freedom of
Speech - News, Media & Literacy
Culture Jammers Media Foundation (Adbusters)
Democracy NOW
- A daily radio and TV news
program on over 300 stations pioneering the largest community media
collaboration in the U.S.
Essential Information - Includes the
Multinational Monitor, GIS project, and more.
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
- Includes t
Federation of
American Scientist Project on Government Secrecy -
Through research, advocacy, and public education,
the FAS Project on Government Secrecy works to challenge excessive government
secrecy and to promote public oversight.
Institute for Global Communications, including EcoNet,
LaborNet, PeaceNet,
ConflictNet and WomensNet
Literacy for Environmental Justice
-
Fostering understanding of environmental justice and urban sustainability in our
young people, to promote the long-term health of their communities
Making Contact -
A weekly international radio
program utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media.
Media Alliance - A training and resource center for media
workers, community organizations, and political activists.
Media Education Foundation
Mother Jones - An independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to
social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.
Pacifica News Network - Provides an outlet for the creative skills and
energies of the community.
The Nation
- Wages war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by
which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.
Real Audio - Feeds of Counter Spin, Pacifica
Network News, The Hightower Report, Radio Nation and much more, updated daily.
Z magazine
-
Znet a community of people concerned about social change.
Freedom
of Religion and from
Fear - Human Rights & Non-violence
ACLU - The ACLU is our nation's guardian of
liberty. We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and
preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this
country by the Constitution and laws of the United States
Center for the Study of Human Rights in the
Americas - CSHRA is an academic
initiative for the comprehensive study of human rights across the American
continent.
Ella Baker Center - Arming people with the
truth.
Human Rights Watch - Protecting the human
rights of people around the world
El Dorado Peace & Justice Community - Promotes lasting peace through
non-violent actions.
Freedom from
Fear – Nuclear Weapons
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - Initiates
and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen
international law and institutions, to use technology responsibly and sustainably, and to empower youth to create a more peaceful world.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative - Working to
reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Western States
Legal Foundation (WSLF)
- A non-profit, public interest organization founded in 1982,
which monitors and analyzes
U.S. nuclear
weapons programs and policies and related high technology energy and weapons
programs, with a focus on the national nuclear weapons laboratories.
Organizations
Spanning Multiple Issues
American Friends Service Committee
- A non-profit, non-governmental Quaker peace movement working on a wide
variety of issues that span all four freedoms.
Beyond War
- Working to explore, develop, and promote effective ideas, methods and actions
that will build a world in which conflicts are resolved nonviolently.
Community of Silo's Message - Based on the universal
principle that says, “treat others as you would like to be treated.” Promoting
nonviolence and non discrimination, peace and reconciliation, this community is
in the tradition of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
Davis Peace Coalition -
The Davis Peace Coalition is a coalition of diverse groups and individuals that
support peace and nonviolence. The Davis Peace Coalition seeks foreign and
domestic policies guided by a commitment to peace and justice achieved through
nonviolent, democratic means.
The Friends Committee on
National Legislation - Founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society
of Friends (Quakers), FCNL works with a nationwide network to advocate social
and economic justice, peace, and good government
Grandmothers for Peace International - Working on peace and justice issues for a better and safer world since 1982 with an emphasis abolishing
nuclear weapons.
Iraq Veterans Against The War
- A group of veterans who have been supporting veterans and peace since
9/11/01. They are committed to saving lives and ending violence in Iraq by an
immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces.
Jewish Voice
For Peace
- Works to achieve a
lasting peace that recognizes the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians for
security and self-determination.
PAX Christi International
- A non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a wide
variety of issues that span all four freedoms.
Peace Heroes
- A
volunteer organization that recognizes the good work of individuals.
Peace To Come
- Provides spiritual training to enable human beings to develop peace within
themselves and in the world.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Guided by the values and expertise of medicine. PSR works to protect human
life from the gravest threats to health and survival.
Resource
Center For Nonviolence -
Center of
excellence for information about alternatives to violence with a comprehensive
expertise in the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.
Therapists for Social Responsibility
- Psychotherapists working on local and global social actions. TSP is focused on
issues such as preventive wars, the Patriot Act, corporate injustice, cuts in
services and protecting the environment.
Unitarian Universalist Association - Represents the interests of more than one
thousand Unitarian Universalist congregations that are working on a wide variety
of peace projects.
Veterans for Peace
- A national organization founded in 1985. It is
structured around a national office in Saint Louis, MO and comprised of members
across the country organized in chapters or as at-large members.
Win Without War
- A coalition of organizations to keep American safe by advocating
international cooperation and enforceable international law.
World Service Corps
- An effort to provide incentives creating thousands or even millions of
volunteers.
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