What's the difference between a prisoner of war and a homeless person?  According to the Geneva Convention, a Prisoner of War is entitled to food, shelter, and medical care.  The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is "committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty."

Join the international campaign to bring Pinochet to trial.  

Get involved in Crossing the Line:  A Citizen's Inquiry into Canada-US Relations. 

The iAbolish Freedom Action Network (FAN) sends out weekly action items, breaking news updates, and alerts on events in your area related to the movement to end contemporary slavery. 

Nine "Actions for the Planet." 

This is definitely worth bookmarking!  Vote for a Change.ca  is a voter education campaign for peace and justice.  
See also the site of the Centre for Social Justice.

"Think globally, recycle locally."  I just have to put the Freecycling URL again.  From http://freecycle.org  you can link to Freecycling sites all over the world - you'd be surprised how many cities have them.  Freecycling has been spreading like wildfire since it started in Arizona in May, 2003 - there are already 107 in Canada.  I can understand why  it is a tremendous use of technology to connect people to help reduce waste and cultivate a spirit of sharing and community. 

Speaking of reducing waste, you can get your name removed from junk mail lists

The federal government has finalized a $43.3-million deal with a subsidiary of US weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, to help with Canada's 2006 census. This despite a campaign by peace groups against taxpayer dollars going to a weapons producer.  There are also concerns about such a corporation having access to census data - the Chief Statistician of Canada says there is no risk to privacy. 

Canadian Scholars Press has just released a new book about the social determinants of health, called, oddly enough, Social Determinants of Health:  Canadian Perspectives (Dennis Raphael, ed.), featuring a stellar array of activists, academics and activist academics. 

Privacy advocates warn that the growing use of international treaties to bypass the will of national parliaments increasingly threatens civil liberties and freedom of the media.

People who give live longer, according to researchers at the US National Institutes of Health.  

Peace.protest.net provides a calendar of upcoming anti-war and anti-racist events.   

See especially the link to International Stop the Killing Day, April 17, 2005, and start thinking about what you could do in your community to observe it. 

Tell-Us-Your-Story.com is a forum for people with disabilities - and a rich educational resource.  

Find out more about Barack Obama - he might some day be president of the US. 

A mother's view of the costs of war, from Teri Wills Allison, of Military Families Speak Out.

The Revolutionary Knitting Circle's Proclamation of Constructive Revolution.  

If we're going to cherry-pick Biblical commandments and ignore the central message of love, Nicholas D. Kristof thinks maybe we should ban marriage altogether.  This essay is reminiscent of the famous open letter to Dr. Laura that's been making the e-rounds for a couple of years. 

Susan George on social forums (fora?) and the changing political landscape:  "Passion is not enough."

Development as conflict prevention - an interview with Susan Brown. 

Carolyn Bassett and Marlea Clarke on labour politics in South Africa. 

Seven must-see films, according to the online magazine, Toward Freedom.

"It's easy to think of our individual efforts as so insignificant and inconsequential that they're hardly worth the effort.  But when enough of us act in small ways, our combined impact can change history."   Paul Rogat Loeb says we never quite know when that last bit of effort will make all the difference.