UfP "Co-Sponsors" Re: Hollow ANSWER?

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Jan 24 02:55:29 PST 2003


At 1:08 PM -0500 1/23/03, Liza Featherstone wrote:
>a lot of those "co-sponsors" are tiny

Here's "a partial listing of the groups involved in United for Peace" (to use UfP's own words):

***** Aaron Patterson Defense Committee Academics For Justice American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee American Friends Service Committee American Muslims for Jerusalem American Renaissance Americans for Social Justice An Absurd Response to an Absurd War Anti-Capitalist Convergence Antiwar.com Arizona Green Party Asian American Movement E-zine Black Radical Congress Black Voices for Peace Brockport Students Against War (BSAW) CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities Campus Greens Center for Community Change Center for Constitutional Rights Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy at Cornell University Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment Central Nebraska Peace Workers Change the Game Church Women United Citizens for Participation in Political Action (CPPAX) Citizen Works Coalition Against Global Exploitation (CAGE) Coalition for World Peace Code Pink for Peace Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE) Committee to Free Pedro Pacheco Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism The Connected Collective Democracy Rising East End Women in Black Ecological Options Network (EON) Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Food Not Bombs, San Francisco and East Bay FootPrints for Peace Georgetown Peace Action Global Exchange Grassroots International The Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition Green Alliance Green Party of NYS Green Party of the United States Greenpeace House of The Goddess Center for Pagan Wombyn Houston Coalition for Justice Not War Idaho Green Party Independent Progressive Politics Network International Socialist Organization Institute for Policy Studies, Peace Working Group Iraq Pledge of Resistance A Jewish Voice for Peace Jews for Racial & Economic Justice KhaYUMbia Lamorinda Peace and Justice Group Left Turn LOKOJ - Bangladesh Long Beach Area Peace Network (LBAPN) Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives Middle East Children's Alliance Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) Mobilize New York Mothers Acting Up National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression National Coalition for Peace and Justice National Council of Churches National Lawyers Guild, NYC Chapter National Network to End the War Against Iraq NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW) Nukewatch Not In Our Name Nowar Collective Palestine Right to Return Coalition Pax Christi USA Peace Action Peace and Justice Committee of Capital District Greens Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ The PeaceMongers Society PeaceNoWar PeaceRoots Alliance Peninsula Peace and Justice Center Pennsylvania Lesbian and Gay Task Force People Against Oppression and War Peoples NonViolent Response Coalition (PNVRC) Pride At Work, AFL-CIO Progressive Business Network Psychologists for Social Responsibility Queers For Racial & Economic Justice Raging Grannies (Peninsula, CA chapter) Rouge Forum Ruckus Society San Mateo County League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) San Miguel Peacewalkers September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Shalom Center Shepherd College Green Party Shobak.Org (Outsider Asian Voices) SOA Watch Socialist Action Socialist Party USA Sojourners Speak Out Strategic Pastoral Action Students Against Social Injustice (SASI), McKendree College Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) Students Take Action for New Directions (STAND) Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations (STARC) Taking Aim Texans for Peace The Thomas Paine Project Tikkun Community TransAfrica Forum TrueMajority Undisputed Truth United for Justice with Peace US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation United Students Against Sweatsops (USAS) University of Maryland, College Park Peace Forum (UMCP Peace Forum) Unitarian Universalist Service Committee US Peace Council United Students Against Sweatshops Veterans for Peace Vietnam Veterans Against the War Vukani Mawethu War Resisters League War Times Washington Peace Center West Sonoma County Women's Peace Group Women's Action for New Directions (WAND) Western States Legal Foundation Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section Working Assets Z Magazine and ZNET

<http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=16> *****

How many of the above names really have _large mass organizations with some degree of internal coherence that actually have active members (rather than merely names on mailing lists)_, capable of rapid action, able to field some paid organizers and (more importantly) a large number of unpaid organizers, and effective at mobilizing their own rank-and-file members? -- Yoshie

* Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>



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