Organizations in the U.S.
Center for Victims of Torture
CVT is a Minneapolis based organization
that exists to heal the wounds of government-sponsored torture
on individuals, their families, and communities. CVT works
internationally to build healing communities where torture
survivors feel welcomed, protected and healed. CVT provides
services directly to torture survivors in the U.S. and Africa,
including medical and psychological treatment and social services.
Intermedia Arts
Intermedia Arts is Minnesota's premiere multicultural,
multidisciplinary arts center Rooted in Community. Intermedia
Arts began in 1973 as a group of student media activists, University
Community Video. Intermedia Arts belongs to the community it
serves and believe whole-heartedly in creative leadership development.
Our programs grow organically from the issues facing our neighbors,
friends and community members. Intermedia Arts is local and
global. We are youth and elders. We are cutting-edge and deeply
rooted in tradition. We are provocative and fun. We are us
and them.
Letters for Peace
Letters for Peace focuses on students and
bridges the cultural divide that the U.S. war and occupation
of Iraq have created. The project opens channels of communication
between young people of Iraq and young people of America, creates
an atmosphere of trust, respect and understanding, and helps
them discover that what they have in common is greater than
what separates them. Students exchange letters about their
lives and their feelings about war and occupation. Students
who have participated in the program have had their hearts
opened and their lives enriched.
You can participate by obtaining copies of the Letters for
Peace to share with classrooms, places of worship and youth
groups (Hard copies and CDs are available), and asking educators,
parents, students and youth groups to participate in Letters
for Peace by encouraging children to write to a child in Iraq.
Visit Letters
for Peace online. For more information click
here to
e-mail Tim Carlson.
Native Without a Nation
Native Without a Nation aims to introduce
Iraqi students in Syria to their peers in the rest of the world,
primarily by using videochat.
Northland Poster Collective
The Northland Poster Collective
online gallery and catalog store uses the worldwide web to
promote social justice. The online store features the art of
social justice, the tools of grassroots union organizing and
labor activism, and the craft of union workers. For a collection
of art work from the Iraq Art Project, please visit the Northland
Poster Collective.
The Advocates for Human Rights
The Advocates for Human Rights
(formerly Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights) is a non-governmental
organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of internationally
recognized human rights. The Advocates documents human rights
abuses, advocates on behalf of individual victims, educates
on human rights issues, and provides training and technical
assistance to address and prevent human rights violations.
RallyforIraq.com
RallyforIraq.com sells Iraq-themed vintage
t-shirts (the line is opening with a "Baghdad University" tee).
All proceeds raised from the shirts will be donated to the
Rally for Iraq Scholarship Fund, a fund started in 2008 to
help support Iraqi students pursuing higher education. The
fund will help defray some of the tuition costs and living
expenses for Iraqis seeking to study at institutions around
the world.
Women Against Military Madness
WAMM is hundreds of women and
men empowered to make social change through volunteer activism!
WAMM is a nonviolent feminist organization that works in solidarity
with others to create a system of social equality, self-determination
and justice through education and empowerment of women. WAMM's
purpose is to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression.
Since September 11, 2001, WAMM has been focused on opposing
the war on terrorism in all its forms, including attacks on
the civil liberties of immigrants and activists. A new committee
has formed to expose the danger of depleted uranium munitions,
and we expanded WAMM staff hours to allow us to do a larger
amount of program work.
Zing Foundation
The Zing Foundation brings much-needed resources
to social change through the human and financial contributions
of people with wealth and the power of the arts and other cultural
forms. The Zing Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization,
which was launched in 2004 and is based in the Boston area.
The Zing Foundation is not a grant-making foundation.
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