Websites on Peace and Justice suggested by Fr. John Dear
Campaign Nonviolence, and Pace e Bene, the Peace Group John Dear works with http://www.campaignnonviolence.org and www.paceebene.org
Essays on Nonviolence, updated daily: www.wagingnonviolence.org
The Fellowship of Reconciliation, interfaith peace organization: www.forusa.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