Important Links
- STAR✦PAC has developed a set of Key Questions for candidates for federal positions (President, U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressional Representative).
- Friends Committee on National Legislation - FCNL - This is the lobbying arm of Friends (Quakers) in the U.S. Does not speak for all Quakers, but policy is made by a General Committee that is fairly representative of Friends.
- - Four Ways the U.S. Can Help Stop the Killing in Iraq and Syria
- Middle East - Find Nonviolent Political Solutions - Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is a research and education arm of Council for a Livable World which for more than 50 years has been advocating for a more principled approach to U.S. national security and foreign policy.
- United Nations Action to Counter Terrorism which includes the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and provides a comprehensive list of resolutions relating to terrorism, and forms a basis for a concrete plan of action: to address the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism; to prevent and combat terrorism; to take measures to build state capacity to fight terrorism; to strengthen the role of the United Nations in combating terrorism; and to ensure the respect of human rights while countering terrorism.
- American Friends Service Committee - AFSC's work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice. The organization's mission and achievements won worldwide recognition in 1947 when it accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with the British Friends Service Council on behalf of all Quakers.
- Veterans For Peace - A national organization founded in 1985. It is structured around a national office in Saint Louis, MO and comprised of members across the country organized in chapters or as at-large members.
- Peace Alliance - Participate in an historic citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace. There is currently a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives (HR 808). This measure will augment our current problem-solving options, providing practical, nonviolent solutions to the problems of domestic and international conflict.
- CODEPINK - A women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities.
- Physicians for Social Responsibility - A non-profit advocacy organization that is the medical and public health voice for policies to prevent nuclear war and proliferation and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment. PSR's 32,400 medical and health professionals and concerned citizen members, 31 PSR chapters, over 60 Student PSR chapters at medical and public health schools, and over 25,000 e-activists, along with national and chapter board members and staff, form a unique nationwide network committed to a safe and healthy world.