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OAK
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Links and Resources
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Alternative Media and News Sources
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- Common Dreams News Center
- Politics, issues and breaking news with an emphasis on progressive perspectives.
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AFSC Chicago Progressive Events Calendar
- American Friends Service Committee's Progressive Calendar for the Greater
Chicago Area.
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- Voices
Exchange
- Chicagoland's
progressive source for independent speakers, performers, and films.
Voices Exchange was founded to put
civic, religious and educational organizations in touch with speakers,
performers and films whose message is not readily available in the main-stream
media.
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- The Nation Magazine
- Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865.
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- Truthout
- An excellent and growing progressive e-Zine.
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- The People's Weekly World
- News and views from a labor and left perspective.
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- CounterPunch
- Bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
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- The Progressive Magazine
- Journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad.
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- In These Times
- A national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago.
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- The Progressive Populist
- A journal from the Heartland that believes people are more important than corporations.
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- Independent Media Center
- A network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical,
accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. See also:
Chicago Independent Media Center
Other Peace Organizations
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- Illinois Coalition for
Peace and Justice
- April 1, 2006 marked the successful formation of the Illinois Coalition for
Peace and Justice, (ICPJ), a network of over eighty Illinois groups comprised of
labor, youth, faith-based, community, and peace and justice organizations. OPCTJ
is one of the founding organizations.
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United for Peace and Justice
- OPCTJ is a founding member of UFPJ which has emerged as one of the largest
peace and justice organization in the U.S. Find out about recent actions and
access peace and justice resources.
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- MoveOn.Org
- Join a nationwide network of online activists.
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- Chicagoans Against War on Iraq
- A group of citizens from many walks of life and policial persuasions who have come together to
voice opposition to the war and to the Administration's reckless, anti-democratic and aggressive
policies.
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- Third Unitarian Church of Chicago
- The Social Action Committee of Third Unitarian Church in Chicago is committed to activities that
promote social change for peace and justice.
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- American Friends Service
Committee
- The AFSC carries out service, development, social justice, and peace
programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide
conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's
work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions,
and cultures.
- Antiwar.com
- Devoted to the cause of non-interventionism, the site provides a great resource for
antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities.
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- Not In Our Name
- Initiated at a meeting in New York City, on March 23, 2002. The meeting was called for by a letter that
proposed ways to strengthen and expand resistance to the U.S. government's course in the wake of
September 11, 2001.
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- One Million Taxpayers for Peace
- An outgrowth of a "1040 Club" which involves refusing to pay a symbolic $10.40 of income
taxes which would go to war. This makes a statement, but being so low an amount, penalties
and interest are not a hardship, and it does not put the person's assets in risk of collection.
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- Peace Action
- Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze) works to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons,
the development of a peace-oriented economy, an end to the international weapons trade, and
promotes non-military solutions to international conflicts.
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- 8th Day Center for Justice
- Provides a critical alternative voice to the systems that suppress the human community and environment.
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- International Action Center
- Founded by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, provides peace movement coverage.
Activist Toolkits and Resources
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- The OPCTJ
Film Series Toolkit
- We are sharing what we have learned from our experience with our own
successful film series (co-sponsored by the Oak Park Public Library), In this
toolkit you can find flyer templates, publicity material, and many other
resources to organize your own successful film series.
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Voices Exchange
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Chicagoland's progressive source for
independent speakers, performers, and films. Voices Exchange was founded to put
civic, religious and educational organizations in touch with speakers,
performers and films whose message is not readily available in the main-stream
media.
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The Cost of the War
in Iraq: Where Does It End?
- A fact sheet from OPCTJ on the
cost of the Iraq war.
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- How to Plan an Action
- You’re upset about the war in Iraq. You’ve called and written your
representatives, you’re tired of just grumbling at the TV. You want to do more, but
you don’t know what or how. Maybe you don’t think of yourself as an organizer. But
if you’ve ever thrown a party, run a meeting, or gathered a group of friends together
to go to a show or a sporting event, you have the skills you need to organize a small
but effective action.
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- Inner Peace/World Peace Bibliography
- This bibliography was compiled as a resource for the weekly Inner Peace/World Peace gatherings
at the First United Church, in Oak Park, Illinois. The citations here have been contributed by
people attending those gatherings, by those working in peace and justice movements. At the end
of the bibliography there is also an extensive list of links to various peace and justice
organizations and resources.
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- Peace and Justice Organizing Training Program
- The Chicago Peace Response Coalition and OPCTJ have formed an Education Committee to identify
training and support needs of various peace and social justice organizations, and to plan some
educational activities to address these needs. This survey is designed to collect input from a
variety of organizations so that the most needed and useful training and educational activities
can be planned. Please take a moment to complete and submit the survey on behalf of your organization.
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- Global Exchange Organizor Toolkit
- Step-by-step instructions on everything from organizing a teach-in to writing a
press release to passing a city council resolution. Including "Ten Things You Can Do
to Stop the War on Iraq." The tutorial can also be downloaded in PDF format.
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- Anti-War Resource
- The Nation Magazine has compiled a list of articles, organizations, and activities
on response to the war and occupation in Iraq. This page also
includes additional links and resources.
Research Progressive and Educational Resources
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- Global Exchange
- A non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting
people-to-people ties around the world.
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- Working For Change
- A comprehensive Web site made up of resources for people with progressive values.
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- The World History Archives
- Documents for teaching and learning about world history from a
working-class and non-eurocentric perspective.
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- Human Rights Watch
- The largest human rights organization based in the United States. Human Rights Watch researchers
conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world.
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- US Labor Against the War
- Advocates, educates and
mobilizes in the US labor movement for a just foreign policy and against
US occupation of other countries.
- The AFL-CIO
Homepage
- Policy statements, press releases, papers on social issues (working
poor, international issues, NAFTA), news, botcotts, Organizing
Institute, Stand UP Campaign. Press releases and other public documents
archived by month from Dec.'94.
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- LaborNet
- The first regular Labor News web page in the United States. Founded
in 1991 to build a democratic communication network for the labor
movement.
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- Center for Defense Information
- A non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to independent research on the social, economic,
environmental, political and military components of global security.
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