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Websites on Peace and Justice suggested by Fr. John Dear: “A Persistent Peace,” the autobiography of Fr. John Dear, with photos and excerpts, www.persistentpeace.com Pax Christi USA, the National Catholic Peace Movement. www.paxchristiusa.org Pax Christi International, the international Catholic peace organization: www.paxchristi.net Pax Christi New Mexico, founded by Fr. John Dear, www.paxchristinewmexico.org Essays on Nonviolence, updated daily: www.wagingnonviolence.org The National Catholic Reporter, which includes a weekly column by Fr. John Dear, www.ncronline.org Philip and Daniel Berrigan, Elizabeth McAlister, and the Jonah House Community of Resistance and Nonviolence in Baltimore, Maryland: www.jonahhouse.org The Franciscan nonviolence program, "From Violence to Wholeness," www.paceebene.org The San Damiano Foundation, providing films about global poverty, St. Francis and peace, including “The Narrow Path,” about Fr. John Dear, www.sandamianofoundation.org The Fellowship of Reconciliation, interfaith peace organization: www.forusa.org The Jesuits, the website for the Society of Jesus: www.jesuit.org The Catholic Worker movement: www.catholicworker.org Thomas Merton, monk and peacemaker: www.merton.org Mairead Maguire and the peace movement in Northern Ireland: www.peacepeople.com Henri Nouwen, writings and society: www.henrinouwen.org Thich Nhat Hanh, writings and retreats, www.plumvillage.org Sister Joan Chittister, writings and schedule, www.benetvision.org Charles McCarthy, essays on Christian Nonviolence, www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org Franz Jagerstatter, Austrian farmer killed for refusing to fight for the Nazis, www.franzprayforus.org Richard Rohr and the Center for Contemplation and Action, www.cacradicalgrace.org Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners In Health, and medical work on behalf of the world’s poor, www.pih.org Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers, www.ufw.org/_page.php?inc=history/07.html&menu=research The War Resisters League: www.warresisters.org The Nuclear Resister, monthly update on all civil disobedience actions against war and nuclear weapons, www.serve.com/nukeresister Colman McCarthy’s Class on Nonviolence, www.1.salsa.net/peace/conv/index.html Orbis Books, publisher of great books on peace, justice, theology, and spirituality, www.orbisbooks.com “Democracy Now,” national radio show, featuring Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org "Voices for Creative Nonviolence," a campaign to end US warmaking in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, which features the work of John's friend, Kathy Kelly. www.vcnv.org The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space: www.space4peace.org Colombia Support Network, a solidarity group based in Wisconsin which promotes "a nonviolent, negotiated resolution to the conflict in Colombia," and raises awareness about the U.S.-backed war in Colombia. John has long been an advisory board member, and recently journeyed to Colombia with this group: www.colombiasupport.net Haiti Solidarity Groups: The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, www.ijdh.org www.haitiaction.net www.haitisolidarity.net www.parishprogram.org The U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation of Palestine, www.endtheoccupation.org Bat Shalom, Jerusalem Center for Women, www.batshalom.org Call to Action, a national Catholic organization promoting the teachings of the Second Vatican Council: www.cta-usa.org The complete writings of Mahatma Gandhi: www.mahatmagandhi.org Essays, information, and resources about Mahatma Gandhi: www.mkgandhi.org Mahatma Gandhi and the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence: www.gandhiinstitute.org Religious books and spiritual writers: www.spiritsite.com Dayton International Peace Museum, Dayton, Ohio (Fr. John Dear is an honorary trustee), www.daytonpeacemuseum.org Working for Peace in Central America: www.rtfcam.org Ignatian Spirituality and Prayer: www.sacredspace.ie William Hart McNichols’ Icons: www.standreirublevicons.com Brian Willson, writings: www.brianwillson.com Animal Rights and Vegetarianism: www.peta.org Sister Helen Prejean and her work to abolish the death penalty: www.prejean.org Abolishing the Death Penalty, The Death Penalty Information Center: www.essential.org Also, Equal Justice USA: www.quixote.org/ej The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: www.igc.org/ncadp Jubilee Campaign to abolish the death penalty: www.jubileeusa.org Moratorium Campaign to abolish the death penalty: www.moratorium2000.org People of Faith Against the Death Penalty: www.pfadp.org/index. Greenpeace at www.greenpeace.com Amnesty International: at www.amnesty.org Sojourners magazine: www.sojourners.com School of the Americas Watch: www.soaw.org The Nevada Desert Experience and the campaign to end nuclear weapons testing: www.nevadadesertexperience.org “United for Peace and Justice,” the national coalition of all national, regional and local peace and justice groups, www.unitedforpeace.org “September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows,” organized after 9/11 by family members who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001, but who stand against U.S. warmaking, www.peacefultomorrows.org Peacework Magazine: www.afsc.org/peacewrk.htm The Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh: www.thomasmertoncenter.org A complete list of all Plowshares anti-nuclear actions: www.plowsharesactions.org The UN Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence, Sponsored by all the Nobel Peace Laureates: www.nobelweb.org El Salvador solidarity: www.share-elsalvador.org "Agape Community," a community of Christian nonviolence in Massachusetts: www.agapecommunity.org Links to peace organizations around the world: www.betterworldlinks.org The Seamless Garment Network, working to abolish war, nuclear weapons, racism, sexism, the death penalty, consumerism, abortion and poverty: www.consistent-life.org The books and writings of Trappist monk and peacemaker Thomas Merton: www.thomasmertonbooks.com Promoting nuclear disarmament, the complete abolition of nuclear weapons: www.cnduk.org (England's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament); and www.fourthfreedom.org The book and film, "A Force More Powerful," about the power of creative, active nonviolence. www.aforcemorepowerful.org The life of Peace Pilgrim, the nonviolent woman who walked across the U.S. several times, promoting peace. www.peacepilgrim.net Catholic Social Teachings and the "JustPeace" program: www.justpeace.org The abolition of landmines.www.landmines.org Progressive News websites: www.commondreams.org www.antiwar.com www.tompaine.com The Life of Nelson Mandela. www.anc.org.za/people/mandela DATA, the campaign to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. www.data.org/flash.php “On the Line,” a documentary about peaceful resistance at the School of the Americas protest, featuring Fr. John Dear, Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, and Helen Prejean, www.onthelinefilm.com The Los Alamos Study Group, a campaign to disarm Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratories in New Mexico. www.lasg.org Nonviolent Peaceforce, an international organization that sends teams trained in nonviolence into war zones to build peace, www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org New England Nonviolence Trainers Network, www.nonviolencetraining.org Kirkridge Retreat Center, retreats on peace and justice near Stroudsburg, PA, www.kirkridge.org South African Peacemaking: The Capuchin Franciscan Peace Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, www.damiettapeace.org.za The Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio, www.wilmington.edu/pc The Amazon Rainforest Action Network, www.ran.org The Natural Resources Defense Council and Global Warming, www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/default.asp The Nobel Women’s Initiative, projects of peacemaking women who have won the Nobel peace prize, www.nobelwomensinitiative.org Swarthmore College Peace Collection, largest archives of national peace groups and peacemakers, started by Jane Addams, includes the papers of Fr. John Dear, www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace This website was created and maintained by Hopeworks 'N Camden.www.hopeworks.org |
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