Week 4 Resources

1. School of the Americas: Time to end a horrific legacy by David Batstone-People are gathering together to protest the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formely known as the school of the America's. Thousands of faith based activists will gather in Georgia Nov. 18-20 of this year.
2. Dobson Supports War Efforts In Iraq- "America comes as a liberator — not as a conqueror,” Dobson said. “To my knowledge, the U.S. is the first country in history that had the world’s most dominant military power, and yet did not use that hegemony to conquer, enslave, and plunder weaker nations." -from Dobson's Radio show, its archived if you want to listen to it.
3. Mennonite Central Commitee: A faith based organization which seeks to be active in this issues of war, poverty, and equality. They have a lot of different resources to become involved with.
4. Decade to Overcome Violence (2001-2010) Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace: This site gives links to various church organizations that are dedicated to Peace.
5. Interfaith Communities United for Peace and Justice: this is a local group in Pasadena, California. ICUJP was founded in Los Angeles after 9.11 to support the work of Faith leaders from Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish and other spiritual faiths and traditions who say "Religious Communities Must Stop Blessing War and Violence..."
6. United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 1300 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building. Links to local groups can be easily found on this website.
7. The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It - PBS did a film on Conscientious Objectors during WWII. This site allows you to read its history and its story.
8. The Poverty Draft: this is given by the Quakers as a means to educate people in low income areas to really assess whether the military is the right thing for them.
9. A FORCE MORE POWERFUL: A CENTURY OF NONVIOLENT CONFLICT: tells one of humanity's most important and least understood stories — how, during a century of extreme violence, millions chose to battle brutality and oppression with nonviolent weapons — and won. This is a PBS website and again, gives information regarding each of these endeavors.
10. Just Response: I found this rather amusing since we are trying to wade througth the Just war/pacifism debate. Maybe what we need is a just reponse. This site is dedicated in trying to do so.