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Organizations Affiliated with the Coalition for
a Strong United Nations
(descriptions are taken from their websites)

Alliance for Democracy
Current issues are: election monitoring, water watch council, strategic non-violence curriculum

The alliance is a new populist movement - not a political party - setting forth to end the domination of our economy, our government, our culture, our media and the environment by large corporations. We aim to promote true democracy in our country and help achieve a just society with a sustainable, equitable economy. We work together with other organizations, both here and abroad, who share these goals.

American Friends Service Committee

The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Committed to the principles of nonviolence and justice, it seeks in its work and witness to draw on the transforming power of love, human and divine.

Baha'i Community of Cambridge

Boston Pan-African Forum

The BPAF is a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) open-membership organization that was  created in 1997 in order to promote a widespread appreciation of current social,  economic, political and other issues affecting relations between Americans and  peoples of African descent around the world. It seeks to mobilize all sectors of  American society especially regarding U.S. foreign policy and international  relations. The BPAF is based in Boston with a membership throughout New England.

Boston Research Center
for the 21st Century

The Boston Research Center for the 21st Century is an international peace institute that envisions a worldwide network of global citizens developing cultures of peace through dialogue and understanding. We believe that the best hope for the realization of this vision is through the active cultivation of an inclusive sense of community, locally and globally.

Citizens for Global Solutions
New England 
(formerly the World Federalist Association of New England)

CGSNE is a nonprofit organization of citizens who, since 1947 have been dedicated to the belief that the goals for which the United Nations was created - "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained" - can be achieved only if such obligations are accepted as binding.

Earth Action
A network of 2,200 civil society organizations in more than 160 countries, has begun work with others to create the World Future Council of globally recognized moral leaders who will speak for global citizen values and the long-term well-being of the planet. The primary work of the World Future Council will be conducted in smaller issue-oriented Action Networks. The first Action Network will focus on children. Moe than 200 members of parliament have indicated their interest in joining a Parliamentary Children’s Rights Network. This group will work collaboratively with the Parliamentary Network to develop and build support for specific policy initiatives to fully implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and meet the basic needs of the world’s children.

First Unitarian Society in Newton/b>

The Institute for Global Leadership
provides new leadership and development models to implement the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World.

The Institute for Resource
and Security Studies
promotes policies and practices that enhance global human security; builds capacities and develops policies whereby conflict-torn communities engage in cooperative actions that promote peace and social reconstruction; works on sustainable development; examines the environmental and social impacts of nuclear, fossil and renewable energy systems

International Physicians
to Prevent Nuclear War
is gearing up for a showdown at the next formal review of the NPT at the UN in May 2005. There, they will demand that all governments commit to launching negotiations on a time-bound, step-by-step framework for eliminating nuclear weapons by 2020

Mass. Peace Action
a chapter of the national grassroots peace organization, Peace Action, is supporting a Campaign for a New Foreign Policy, which is based on the following principles: support human rights and democracy; reduce the threat from weapons of mass destruction; and cooperate with the world community

Newton Dialogues
on Peace and War
one of many community peace and justice groups which formed after 9/11, supports security strategies through the United Nations, and opposes militarism and unilateral, preventive wars. This group has endorsed CSUN’s Peace Platform

The Peace Abbey
Each year on United Nations Day, October 24, CSUN and friends join the friends of the Peace Abbey in a 13-mile UN Walk from Sherborn, MA to the State House

Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
President Ikeda’s 2004 Peace Proposal includes the strengthening and reform of the UN; nuclear disarmament and progress toward abolition; and the expansion and enhancement of human security. He urges that a "UN People’s Forum" be held in 2005 to consider ways in which the UN can be strengthened and to stress the importance of fostering a global environment in which conflict is resolved through the rule of law as a central countermeasure to terrorism; secondly, he proposes a special session of the UN General Assembly dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons to be attended by heads of state and government and  discussion of the formation of a new specialized agency within the UN to deal with nuclear disarmament.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)
is supporting Earth Rights International in defending the Alien Tort Claims Act, a law which enables U.S. multinational corporations to be held accountable for their human rights violations, and in particular a case against Unocal.

United Nations Association
of Greater Boston
has introduced a new Human Rights Unit for their Global Classrooms curriculum which models the United Nations in high schools.

Veterans for Peace

Veterans for Peace, Inc. (VFP) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others

(a) Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war.
(b) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations 
(c) To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
(d) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
(e) To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use nonviolent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.

We urge all people who share this vision to join us

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Boston Section

National Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
WILPF has an office at the UN which also works on peacebuilding and other women’s issues