
| Calendar of Upcoming Events | The Caltech Progressive Coalition welcomes Caltech students, faculty, and staff across a broad ideological spectrum who are interested in working hard for peace, human rights, and economic justice. For instance, we are active participants in the nationwide campus movement against the sanctions and bombing war in Iraq. For more information, contact progress@ugcs.caltech.edu. |
| Movie: Paying the Price Friday, April 13 7:30pm A documentary about death and oil in Iraq |
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Get informed about coming events: join our campus mailing list and discussion list! Write progress@ugcs.caltech.edu to be added or removed. |
| News and Events | |
| ZNet | ZNet has compiled numerous original articles and links regarding the NATO bombing. They include Chomsky, Said, Bennis, Herman, Albert, Johnstone, Gunder Frank, Shalom, Myrdal, Wallerstein, Klare...and organizational statements from Committee of Correspondence, Greens, War Resisters, dissidents in Yugoslavia, etc. etc., plus activist links and tools. |
| APBnews.com | Where cops get their news. 'nuff said. |
| Common Dreams News Center | Breaking news and views for progressive-thinking Americans. |
| Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting | FAIR is the national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. We seek to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press. We scrutinize media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. |
| Protest.Net | Violence and war beget more violence and war. Join the thousands around the world who are protesting the illegal bombing of Yugoslavia. Say NO the bombings say NO to all US/Nato military interventions! |
| The Christian Science Monitor | |
| Stratfor | "Stratfor is a private intelligence company, serving businesses globally. It is located in Austin, Texas. We provide for our clients in-depth analysis focusing on geopolitical issues that can affect an organization's economic interests globally." |
| Yugoslavia | |
| beograd.com - War Edition | A comprehensive web site devoted to covering all angles of the war in Kosovo: THE source of timely news coverage. |
| Who Gave Up What | Differences Between Ahtisaari-Chernomyrdin Agreement With Milosevic and the Rambouillet Text |
| Free Serbia | "Other Voices From Serbia" - a Serbian perspective on the war in Kosovo. Lots of news, links, editorials, facts, etc. |
| Labor Statments Against the War in Yugoslavia | |
| Images and Sounds of Kosovo | This web site has movies and sound clips from ground zero in Kosovo |
| Text of the Rambouillet Agreement | (Note Appendix B) |
| World Act Now! | A site with Yugoslavian history, appeals, protests, poetry, analyses, and maps. |
| War Against Yugoslavia | Photos of recent bombings of a civilian passenger train. |
| Iraq and the Middle East | |
| UN Sanctions Against Iraq | A site with dozens of links to sources of more information. |
| UN Panel Report on Oil-for-Food | Report of the second panel established pursuant to the note by the president of the the Security Council of 30 January 1999 (S/1999/100), concerning the current humanitarian situation in Iraq |
| Starving Iraq: One Humanitarian Disaster We Can Stop | A 40-page review of the case against sanctions on Iraq |
| Iraq Action Coalition | The Iraq Action Coalition provides a wealth of information on the current situation in Iraq, as well as organizes grassroots activism against the U.S. policy toward Iraq. |
| Americans Against World Empire | This site is about the consequences of Washington's policies in the Middle East and their tremendous toll in death and hatred towards America. We are a conservative/libertarian coalition opposed to blockading and bombing Iraq and other Moslem nations. |
| Imperialist War in the Middle East | This site contains dozens of links to information on the war against Iraq. |
| The Iraq Crisis | A site with information and resources about U.S. policy toward Iraq. |
| Labor | |
| Campaign for Labor Rights | Campaign for Labor Rights mobilizes local support in the United States and Canada for the campaigns of our partner organizations. We build bridges between local activists and many of the major organizations around the world. We are involved in struggles for the rights of working people. |
| East Timor | |
| Timor Today | Timor Today is a slick site with lots of up to date news and information, as well as backgruond and history of East Timor. |
| East Timor Action Network | ETAN/US provides information about, and ways to help, East Timor, which was invaded and subjugated by US ally Indonesia in 1975. ETAN advocates changing US foreign policy and urges support for self-determination and human rights for East Timor. |
| Miscellaneous | |
| The Turning Point Project | The Turning Point Project is a new non-profit organization, formed in 1999 specifically to design and produce a series of educational advertisements concerning the major issues of the new millennium. |
| Caltech Vegetarian Club | Local Vegetarian Restaurants, links to veggies sites, and recipes from the Caltech community |
| Jubilee 2000 | Jubilee 2000 is a global movement to celebrate the millennium by cancelling the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries by the end of 2000. The debts are unjust, unpayable and have killed too many people. Millions of people around the world are linking together to say enough is enough. |
| Los Angeles Burma Forum | "The source for the latest information on current economic and political conditions in Burma (Myanmar), as well as American local government and corporate involvement." |
| The Noam Chomsky Archive | Noam Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books dissecting such issues as U.S. interventionism in the developing world, the political economy of human rights and the propaganda role of corporate media. |
| American Friends Service Committee | The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. |
| School of Americas Watch | SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work. |
| Pasadena Local | |
| Food Not Bombs, Pasadena | We are one of over 100 autonomous chapters protesting militarism and poverty by serving free vegetarian food to people in need and in support of on-going political organizing efforts. We believe that society and government should value human life over material wealth. |