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| Music | |
| PEACE NOT WAR CD (Vol 2) |
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| harrisradio.com |  |
| New Songs for Peace | This UNESCO-endorsed " New Songs for Peace " project is intended to encourage people to think about peace, talk about peace, and write a new song that we will collect and self-publish in a book. These new songs will promote peace, cultural acceptance and understanding for those who work towards peace throughout the world. |
| Centre for Political Song | Exists to promote and foster an awareness of all forms of political song; an appreciation of the role of political song in the social, political and cultural life of communities; and to facilitate research in all relevant areas of study. |
| GASCD | The GASCD was created as a project in May, 2001. Inspired from his experiences at the Quebec City Summit of the Americas , Chris Brown mobilized and galvanized many of his colleagues and friends in the music and social activist community to create GASCD |
| Songs for Peace | Music & The Arts for Peace on Earth |
| Just Think | Dave Olsen's amazing band of all original, socially-conscious jazz |
| Resist War | Chris Brown and Kate Fenner wrote the song Resist War during the latter part of 2002, as the USA moved closer to embarking on a war with Iraq. |
| War Free Radio: the Anti-war Top 40 | Listen to and vote for your favourite anti-war songs. If you have a song you wish to submit to the Anti-War Top 40, let them know. |
| David Rovics | "Songs of Social Significance" |
| Anne Feeney | ... the woman Utah Phillips calls "the best labor singer in North America." |
| Politics & Activism | |
| www.resisters.ca | The War Resisters Support Campaign, a broad-based coalition of community organizations, has launched a petition aimed at Canada's federal government to allow US war resisters who refuse to fight in Iraq to have refuge in Canada. Initial signatories include June Callwood, David Suzuki, Maude Barlow, Shirley Douglas, Naomi Klein, Anne-Marie MacDonald, Amir Khadir, Paul Cliche and M.G. Vassanji. |
| Canadian Peace Alliance | The Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA) is Canada's largest umbrella peace organization. Since its foundation in 1985 the organization has been helping member groups to act as a broad network, in order to provide a strong, coordinated voice for peace issues at the national level. |
| U.S. War Heroes of the Iraq War | We honor those soldiers who risked loss of liberty, economic deprivation, and social ostracism. Each of these men and women of the military have at some point refused to participate in (or at least aspects of) the immoral, illegal, unjustified war the United States is currently waging in Iraq. They obeyed their conscience over illegal orders. |
| Jeremy Hinzman | The first U.S. soldier to claim refugee status in Canada. |
| Brandon Hughey | Brandon Huhgey is a former member of the U.S. Army who left his country rather than participate in an illegal act of aggression. |
| Toronto Coalition to Stop the War | In the days and months leading up to the war, we saw the largest ever mobilizations against the war in human history. Since then there have been mass actions opposed to the occupation, most notably, 100,000 people in Washington DC on October 25th 2003 and 300,000 in London during George Bush's visit there. On March 20th 2004 there will be another massive global day of action against the occupation. |
| Bring Them Home Now | A campaign of military families, veterans, active duty personnel, reservists and others opposed to the ongoing war in Iraq and galvanized to action by George W. Bush's inane and reckless challenge to armed Iraqis resisting occupation to "Bring 'em on." |
| United for Peace & Justice | Don't mourne. Organize! In the wake of Bush's election, time to regroup and take the long view: The bad news is obvious and awful, but the good news is that our movement continues to grow. |
| Iraq Body Count | The worldwide update of reported civilian deaths in the Iraq war and occupation. |
| Cost of War | War affects everyone, not just those directly involved in the fighting. This webpage is a simple attempt to demonstrate one of the more quantifiable effects of war: the financial burden it places on our tax dollars. It shows how many resources and social services could have been funded with the money going to the war. |
| Global Exchange | An international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice. Since its founding in 1988, it has increased the US public's global awareness while building partnerships worldwide. |
| WTO Watch | Exposes the true corporte agenda of the World Trade Organization |
| Alternative Media | |
| Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community |
| Socialist Worker | Biweekly paper of the International Socialist in Canada. "Get organized. We need to rid the world of the private pursuit of profit which is leading to crisis, wars and repression. We need to replace it with a world run by workers and the poor – on the basis of the greatest possible democracy. " |
| John Pilger, Journalist | "It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it" (John Pilger). He is an invaluable resource for information on Iraq, Palestine, globalization and lots more. |
| truth out | Progressive news aggregate |
| "GI Special" Occupation News Bulletin |
Regularly distributed compilation of news from Iraq and about the unjust U.S. occupation. |
| Democracy Now! | Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 225 stations in North America.Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network), shortwave radio and the internet. |
| Free Speech Network | "What Democracy Looks Like!" Finally, after 50 years of television broadcasting, there now exists a national television channel that reflects the diversity of our society, provides perspectives that are under-represented or ignored by the mainstream media, and shines a national spotlight on engaged citizens working for progressive social change. |
| Iraq Occupation Watch | An international coalition of peace and justice groups, together with Iraqi counterparts, has launched a Baghdad-based International Occupation Watch Center |
| The Electronic Intifada | publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective. EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. |
| Dissident Voice | A Radical Newsletter in the Struggle for Peace and Social Justice |
The definitive soundtrack for this generation's peace movement.