Clemency for Battered Women
I was bowled away by this project after seeing a film & presentation this Friday afternoon, for me it exemplified what this conference is about:
Susan Fair founded the Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project in 1991. Volunteer attorneys and advocates joined with her and distributed questionnaires to women in two Michigan prisons. Their aim was to identify women inmates who were convicted of murder and for whom the battered woman syndrome was an explanatory defense, but for whom that evidence was either not raised, raised inadequately, or rejected by the judge. Approximately 50 women were interviewed; 25 were identified as primary candidates for clemency petitions.
www.umich.edu/~clemency/clemency_manual/manual_intro.htmlsubmitted by: tomski
The International Union of Sex Workers
www.iusw.org/submitted by: tomski
The Creative America Project
The Creative America Project is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan effort to inspire and train creative professionals to lead in the public sector - including running for local office. We believe that creativity is at the heart of a robust democracy and that creative professionals have values, skills and experience needed in the civic arena. Our agenda is: Create. Act. Vote. Run.
www.creativeamerica.ussubmitted by: TomTee
Open democracy
openDemocracy is an independent website on global current affairs offering stimulating, critical analysis, promoting dialogue and debate on issues of global importance and linking citizens from around the world.
openDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy who's aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard. They believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice.
www.opendemocracy.netsubmitted by: tomski
Pioneers of change
Pioneers of Change is a global learning network of young people, in their 20's and 30's, who have committed to be themselves, do what matters, start now, engage with others, and never stop asking questions. The "pioneers" include social entrepreneurs, corporate and NGO professionals, civil servants, artists, teachers, and free agents from a variety of cultural and social backgrounds. Founded in 1999, Pioneers of Change today engages over 2000 participants in over 70 countries.
www.pioneersofchange.netsubmitted by: tomski
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
www.amnesty.orgsubmitted by: tomski
Search For Common Ground
Their goal is to: Transform the way the world deals with conflict. Emphasize cooperative solutions, pursued on a realistic scale and with practical means. Current problems - whether ethnic, environmental, or economic - are simply too complex and interconnected to be settled on an adversarial basis.
www.sfcg.orgsubmitted by: tomski
Creative Time: Artists' Response to AIDS 1984-2001
Creative Time has worked with a wide range of artists to give a strong voice to the battle against the AIDS crisis and critical issues that shape society. The attached link provides brief information on 21 activist projects presented from 1984 through 2001 that had social, political and artistic impact
creativetime.org/aids/aids.htmsubmitted by: loloweaver
Books Needed for New Orleans Libraries
New Orleans Public Library is asking for any and all hardcover and
paperback books for people of any age in order to re-stack their shelves.
Anything the libraries cannot use will be distributed to displaced
families or sold for library fundraising.
Send to:
Rica A. Trigs, Public Relations
New Orleans Public Library
219 Loyola Ave.
New Orleans, LA. 70112
www.nutrias.org/~nopl/foundation/donationsfaq.htmsubmitted by: loloweaver
