The Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia

4554-12th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105. An affiliate of the War Resisters League and National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
Tel: (206) 547-0952, Fax: (206) 547-2631. E-mail: nacc (at) drizzle (dot) com

We hope these links are helpful in keeping you informed, updated, and involved. If there are other links you feel should be included on this page, please don't hesitate to pass them along to cmtc @ igc.org. Note that while some of the organizations linked to are not kindred spirits with NACC, they provide valuable information nonetheless. In other words, a link doesn't necessarily imply an endorsement (though it often will!). Last update: October 15, 2003.

Current News And Analysis

• Daily Worldwide Media Roundups
  • Antiwar.com.
  • Common Dreams News Center.
  • Cursor Media Patrol.
  • Global Beat.
  • Iraq Journal.
  • The Rational Enquirer.
  • The War In Context.
• Blogs
  • Eyeteeth.
  • Iraq War Reader.
  • Larry Johnson.
  • Talking Points Memo.
  • This Modern World.
  • Whiskey Bar.
• Opinion
  • Noam Chomsky.
  • Counterpunch Newsletter.
  • Eat The State! Newspaper.
  • Robert Fisk.
  • Paul Krugman.
  • MediaLens.
  • George Monbiot.
  • Greg Palast.
  • John Pilger.
  • Heather Wokusch.
  • Z Magazine.
• News Sources
  • Al-Ahram Newspaper (Cairo).
  • Alternet.
  • Foreign Policy In Focus.
  • Fragments Zine.
  • The Guardian Newspaper (London).
  • HumanRightsNow.org.
  • Independent Media Center.
  • Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
  • Media Workers Against War.
  • Monthly Review Magazine (New York).
  • The Nation Magazine (New York).
  • Nowar Collective.
  • Pacific Life Research Center.
  • Peace, No War.
  • Peace News Magazine.
  • The Political Economy of War and Peace.
  • The Progressive Magazine (Madison).
  • TomPaine.com.
  • United States Institute of Peace Library.
  • War Times Newspaper.
  • World Socialist Web Site.

Graphics

• Addicted To War.
• Fragments.
• Garage Doors Against The War.
• "Get Your War On".
• Make Your Choice.
• PeaceRoots Billboard Campaign.
• Signs Of Protest.
• Subvertise.
• USA Patriot Art.
• The Works on Shirts Project.

Upcoming Events and Actions

• In the Seattle Area:
  • Bainbridge Neighbors for Peace.
  • Hate-Free Zone.
  • Peace and Justice Calendar.
  • SeattleActivism.org.
  • SNOW Coalition.
• Nationwide and Worldwide:
  • National Actions and Events.
  • United for Peace -- actions and events by state.
  • Worldwide Actions and Events.

Other Ways To Get Involved

• 10 Things To Do To Protest The War On Iraq.
• 101 Ways To Stop The War On Iraq.
• 198 Methods Of Nonviolent Action.
• ACLU Actions.
• Boycott The War!.
• CauseNet Action Center.
• Cities for Peace.
• Consumers On Strike Against The War.
• E-mail the Senate Judiciary Committee: "Repeal The PATRIOT Act -- Do Not Expand It!"
• Friends Committee on National Legislation.
• Iraq Speakers Bureau.
• Moratorium to Stop the War.
• MoveOn.org.
• My Voice For Peace.
• The Nation's Peace Portal.
• "No Iraq War" Yard Signs.
• NonviolenceHelp.
• Nonviolence Trainers.
• Okanogan Highlands Bottling Company.
• Prosecute George W. Bush for War Crimes (petition).
• Stop the New PATRIOT Act.
• Stop The War Central.
• Training For Change.
• Traprock Peace Center.
• True Majority -- fax your reps for free!
• Writing About War.

Local, National, and International Organizations

• Peace Links (a nice compilation of organizations).
• Alliance For Nuclear Accountability.
• American Friends Service Committee and Canadian Friends Service Committe.
• Bill Of Rights Defense Committee.
• Center For Economic & Social Rights.
• Committee Opposed to Militarism and The Draft.
• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors.
• Fellowship of Reconciliation.
• The GI Rights Hotline.
• Greenpeace.
• Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action.
• The Institute for Policy Studies.
• International ANSWER.
• IslamOnline.
• The Lawyers' Committee On Nuclear Policy.
• Military Toxics Project.
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee.
• Night's Lantern.
• Nonviolent Peaceforce.
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
• The Nuclear Resister.
• Peace Action.
• Physicians For Social Responsibility.
• The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
• Resist.
• The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
• Student Environmental Action Coalition.
• U.S. Labor Against War.
• Veterans For Common Sense.
• Veterans For Peace.
• Voice For Change.
• War Resisters International.
• War Resisters League.
• Western States Legal Foundation.

The Humanitarian Consequences of War in Iraq

• These links have been moved to a different page.

Victims Of U.S. And U.S.-Financed Terrorism

• Afghanistan
  • American Council for Voluntary Action.
  • Amnesty International.
  • Center for Economic and Social Rights.
  • Civilian casualties of the air war in Afghanistan.
  • Christian Aid.
  • Oxfam.
  • "Afghan Crime Wave Threatens Aid Efforts".
  • "Afghanistan: A Nation In Danger Of Collapse", Zaher Wahab interviewed by Dave Mazza.
  • "Afghanistan Retakes Heroin Crown".
  • "Living In Poverty and Abandonment, The Barely Functioning State That Trusted Its Saviours", by Phil Reeves.
  • "No Compensation For Afghan Bomb Victims: U.S. Military".
  • "Re-Establishing The Rule Of Law", by Amnesty International.
  • "Strange Victory: A Critical Appraisal Of 'Operation Enduring Freedom' And The Afghanistan War", by Carl Conetta.
  • "Warlords, Not Kabul, Still Rule Provinces", by Lucy Morgan-Edwards.
  • "World Bank Chief Issues Opium Alert", by Faisal Islam.
• Central America
  • The Guatemalan Military: What The Files Reveal, from the National Security Archive.
  • "Quicksand & Blood", by Robert Parry.
• Colombia
  • Colombia Report.
  • Colombia Support Network.
  • Killer Cola.
  • National Mobilization on Colombia.
  • Z Magazine.
  • "South America In The Age Of U.S. Supremacy", by Jorge Rogachevsky.
  • "The War On Human Rights In Colombia", by Philip Cryan.
• Cuba
  • "The Instruments Of U.S. Policy In Cuba", by Philip Agee.
  • "Cuba In The Cross-Hairs: A Near Half-Century Of Terror", by Noam Chomsky.
• East Timor
  • East Timor Action Network.
  • "Ford, Kissinger And The Indonesian Invasion, 1975-1976" at the National Security Archive.
• Iraq
  • Amnesty International.
  • Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq.
  • Education for Peace in Iraq Center.
  • Electronic Iraq.
  • Iraq Occupation Watch.
  • The Red Cross.
  • The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
  • The UN Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
  • The UN Refugee Agencey (UNHCR).
  • World Food Programme.
  • Texas Center for Documentary Photography.
  • Voices in the Wilderness.
  • "13 Myths About The Case For War In Iraq", by Organizers' Collaborative.
  • "Arming Iraq: A Chronology Of U.S. Involvement", by John King.
  • "Myths And Misconceptions About The War In Iraq", by Brendan Nyhan and Bryan Keefer.
  • "Seeing The Iraqi People", by Ramzi Kysia.
  • Target Iraq: Imminent Threat Analysis.
  • The U.S. Tilt Towards Iraq, 1980-1984 (National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 82).
  • "War Crimes, U.S. Planners, And Iraq's Water Vulnerability", by Thomas Nagy.
• Palestine
  • Alternative Information Center.
  • The Electronic Intifada.
  • International Solidarity Movement.
  • Israeli Refuseniks.
  • Jerusalem Independent Media Center.
  • Not In My Name.
  • Palestine: Information With Provenance.
  • Palestine Today.
  • "Dignity And Solidarity", by Edward Said.
  • "A Hopeless Life For Palestinians In Lebanon's Refugee Camps", by David Lamb.
  • "'I Am In The Midst Of A Genocide': E-mails From Gaza", by Rachel Corrie.
  • "Living Behind The Wall", by Jennifer Peterson.
  • "Palestinians Need Witnesses", by Kathleen and Bill Christison.
  • "Punishment By Detail", by Edward Said.
  • "Where Does The Anti-War Movement Go From Here?", by Michael Neumann.
• Turkey
  • Press Agency Ozgurluk.
• Vietnam
  • "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths", by the Toledo Blade.

Contours Of U.S.-Sponsored Terrorism

• Scholarship
  • Author William Blum.
  • Books by Noam Chomsky.
  • Latin America Working Group.
  • NarcoNews.com.
  • Rebuilding After War.
  • School of the Americas Watch.
  • "The Age Of Unilateral War", by Gabriel Kolko.
  • "America's Imperial Ambition", by John Ikenberry.
  • "The Algebra Of Infinite Justice", by Arundhati Roy.
  • "Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence", by Martin Luther King.
  • "Blood On Their Hands", by John Pilger.
  • "The Cage Of Occupation", by Linda S. Heard.
  • Noam Chomsky Interview, by David Barsamian.
  • "Imperial Ambition", by Noam Chomsky.
  • "The President's Real Goal In Iraq", by Jay Bookman.
  • "Sorrows Of Empire", by Chalmers Johnson.
  • "War Is Peace", by Arundhati Roy.
  • "War On Terror: False Victory", by John Pilger.
  • "Who Terrorizes Whom?", by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson.
• From The Horse's Mouth
  • Air Force Publishing.
  • "Joint Vision 2020".
  • Leaflet Gallery (Leaflets dropped over Iraq beginning November 28, 2002).
  • The National Security Archive.
  • "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America".
  • Project For The New American Century.
  • "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources For a New Century.
  • Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance.

Background Information

• Concerning Civil Liberties Erosions (see also our Iraq War Fallout page)
  • American Civil Liberties Union.
  • The Bill of Rights Defense Committee.
  • Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering In The 21st Century.
  • Center for Constitutional Rights.
  • Civil Liberties Watch.
  • Grassroots America.
  • Justice for Lynne Stewart.
  • Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
  • "Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth Of An American Surveillance Society", by Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt.
  • "The Bush Administration And The End Of Civil Liberties", by Elaine Cassel.
  • "Foundations Are In Place For Martial Law In The U.S.", by Ritt Goldstein.
  • "A Guide To Provisions Of The USA PATRIOT Act and Federal Executive Orders That Threaten Civil Liberties, by Nancy Talanian.
  • "How To Take Back America", by Thom Hartmann.
  • "If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines", by Thom Hartmann.
  • "Imprisoned By The PATRIOT Act", by J.D. Lloyd.
  • "Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion Of Anti-Terrorism Act", by Charles Lewis and Adam Mayle.
  • "Moving Toward A Police State", by Michael Ratner.
  • "The New McCarthyism", by Matthew Rothschild.
  • "PATRIOT II's Attack On Citizenship", by Joanne Mariner.
  • "U.S. Steps Up Secret Surveillance", by Dan Eggen and Robert O'Harrow Jr..
  • "When Kafka Aligns With Orwell: Non-Cooperation And Resistance", by Anis Shivani.
• Concerning Depleted Uranium (see also our Iraq War Fallout page)
  • Federation of American Scientists.
  • The Four Reasons.
  • International Action Organization.
  • Issues on the Use and Effects of Depleted Uranium Weapons.
  • The Low Level Radiation Campaign.
  • Military Toxics Project.
  • The Trail Of A Bullet Series.
  • Traprock Peace Center.
  • WISE Uranium Project.
  • "Afghans' Uranium Levels Spark Alert", by Alex Kirby.
  • "Allies 'Told In 1991 Of Uranium Cancer Risks'", by Felicity Arbuthnott and Neil Mackay.
  • "Attack On Iraq Would Expose Soldiers To Depleted Uranium", by Scott Taylor.
  • "Blowing The Whistle", by Sandy Miller.
  • "Depleted Uranium Still Haunts Balkans", by Alex Kirby.
  • "Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost Of Depleted Uranium".
  • "Extreme Birth Deformities".
  • "Gulf War Syndrome, The Sequel", by Steven Rosenfeld.
  • "Hazards Of Uranium Weapons In The Proposed War On Iraq", by Dai Williams.
  • "Iraq: A Depleted Generation", by J.B. Russell.
  • "Iraqi Cancers, Birth Defects Blamed On U.S. Depleted Uranium", by Larry Johnson.
  • "Is The Pentagon Giving Our Soldiers Cancer?", by Hillary Johnson.
  • "Last Chance To Question U.S. Dirty Bombs For Iraq?", by Dai Williams.
  • "Lowry Unrealistic About Depleted Uranium", by Roger Longley.
  • "Mystery Metal Nightmare In Afghanistan?", by Dai Williams.
  • "Precision Destruction -- Indiscriminate Effects", by the Uranium Medical Research Centre.
  • "Radioactive Bombs Rain Down On Asia", by James Ridgeway.
  • "Remains Of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq", by Scott Peterson.
  • "Royal Society Spells Out Dangers Of Depleted Uranium", by Paul Brown.
  • "Toxic Ammo Is Tested In Fish Areas", by Larry Johnson.
  • "A Treatise on Military Weapons Containing the Radioactive Material: Depleted Uranium".
  • "U.S. Stocking Uranium-Rich Bombs?", by Elliott Borin.
  • "U.S. Wins Defeat Of Depleted Uranium Study", by Irwin Arieff.
  • "Uranium Wars: The Pentagon Steps Up Its Use Of Radioactive Munitions", by Marc Herold.
  • "The War Against Ourselves", by Doug Rokke.
• Concerning the Drug War
  • Drug War Casualty Statistical Graphs.
  • Drug War Facts.
  • "The War At Home", by Sanho Tree.
• Concerning International Law (see also our Iraq War Fallout page)
  • Charter of the United Nations.
  • The Geneva Conventions.
  • The Nuremberg Principles.
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • "A Duty To Disobey All Unlawful Orders", by Lawrence Mosqueda.
  • "High Rates Of Incarceration Hit Black America Hard", by Cynthia Tucker.
  • "Law Professors' Statement Challenging U.S. War Plans".
• Concerning the Middle East and South Asia
  • Eqbal Ahmad Archive.
  • Alternative Radio tapes for sale.
  • Middle East Research and Information Project.
  • "Footprints In Steppes Of Central Asia", by Vernon Loeb.
  • Eqbal Ahmad Interview, by David Barsamian.
  • "Limbs Of No Body: Indifference To The Afghan Tragedy", by Mosen Makhmalbaf.
  • Robert Fisk Interview, by Matthew Rothschild.
• Concerning the Military Budget
  • Center For Defense Information's World Military Expenditures.
  • Center For Economic Conversion and Conversion-Related Links.
  • Cost Of War In Iraq.
  • Council For A Livable World.
  • National Priorities.
  • The Perpetual War Portfolio.
  • War Resisters League Pie-Chart.
  • The Washington Corporate War Tour.
  • What the World Wants Project.
  • "Military Waste Under Fire: $1 Trillion Missing", by Tom Abate.
• Concerning Overseas Military Bases
  • "Global Vigilance In A Global Village", by Madhavee Inamdar.
• Concerning U.S. Interests in the Middle East and South Asia
  • Professor Grover Furr.
  • Petropolitics: Oil and War In Iraq.
  • U.S. Department of Energy.
  • Baghdad Bazaar, by the Deutsche Bank.
  • Behind The Invasion of Iraq, by the Research Unit for Political Economy.
  • "Bush's Deep Reasons For War on Iraq: Oil, Petrodollars, And The OPEC Euro Question", by Peter Dale Scott.
  • "The Deadly Pipeline War", by Professor Marjorie Cohn.
  • "Pipelineistan", by Pepe Escobar: "The Rules Of The Game" (Part 1), and "The Games Nations Play" (Part 2).
  • "In Iraq, Water And Oil Do Mix", by Leah C. Wells.
  • "Oil Wars Pentagon's Policy Since 1999", by Ritt Goldstein.
  • "Post-Saddam Iraq: Linchpin Of A New Oil Order", by Michael Renner.
  • "The Taliban, The U.S., And The Resources Of Central Asia", by Peter Symonds.
  • "The Thirty-Year Itch: Oil and Arms", by Brian Griffey.
  • "U.S. Policy Towards Taliban Influenced By Oil -- Authors", by Juliet Godoy.
  • "Understanding The 'War On Terrorism': The Oil & Gas Interests", by Bob Aldridge.
• Concerning Recruitment Issues (see also our Iraq War Fallout page)
  • Bring Them Home Now.
  • Call To Conscience.
  • Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors.
  • Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft.
  • Conscientious Objection In America: Primary Sources For Research.
  • Refusing To Kill.
  • "The Education Of Corporal Gunderson", by Allen Gunderson.
  • National Youth and Militarism Program.
  • Project YANO.
  • Veterans Teaching Peace in Schools.
  • "Army, Marines Launch New Ads After War, But New Recruits Slow To Sign Up", by Catherine Valenti.
  • "Conduct Unbecoming", by Cathy Booth Thomas.
  • "Give Them Their Benefits!", by Ashley L. Decker.
  • "Military Now Has A License To Invade Privacy, Education", by Liz Raap.
  • "Soft Economy Aids Recruiting Effort, Army Leaders Say", by Eric Schmitt.
  • "Some Military Reservists Will Risk Jail To Resist Iraq Duty", by Prashant Gopal.
  • "U.S. Army Recruiter Crosses Mexico Border", by Mark Stevenson.
• Concerning Weapons of Mass Destruction (see also our Iraq War Fallout page)
  • "Mobile Missiles Back On Drawing Board, U.S. General Says", by Loring Wirbel.
  • "Not Iraq, But Anniston, Alabama", by Chuck Murphy.
  • "Pentagon Seeks Freedom To Pollute Land, Air, And Sea", by Andrew Gumbel.
  • "Pentagon Wants Mini-Nuke Ban Ended", by Julian Borger.
  • "Senators Rip Policy On Use Of Nuclear Arms", by Nicholas Kralev.
  • "Sliding Towards The Brink: More Useable Nuclear Weapons And The Dangerous Illusions Of High-Tech Warfare".
  • "Survey Shows Long Waits For Veterans' Health Care", by Kathryn Smith.
  • "To The Brink Of Nuclear War", by Rohini Hensman.
  • "U.S. Claims Of VX Nerve Agent Fall Apart", by Glen Rangwala.
  • "U.S. Plans For New Nuclear Arsenal", by Julian Borger.
  • "U.S. Prepares To Use Toxic Gases In Iraq", by Geoffrey Lean and Severin Carrell.