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Cuba Links
CUBA CENTRAL
www.cubacentral.com is a joint project sponsored by organizations working to change U.S. policy from a strategy of confrontation to one of normalized relations and common sense between the United States and Cuba. Included are groups fighting for repeal of the ban on legal travel by Americans to Cuba as well as organizations with wide-ranging interests in reforming policy toward Cuba and other nations in the Hemisphere. Cuba Central is currently coordinating a petition campaign to end the travel ban.
To learn more about Cuba Central and to sign the petiition please visit their web-site: www.cubacentral.com
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Latin America Working Group
The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) is a coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations. Since 1983, the coalition has been striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region. The Working Group regularly convenes its participating organizations to analyze developments in Washington and the hemisphere, and to craft common positions and effective strategies for action. The Working Group's staff members assist organizations in designing and implementing coordinated advocacy efforts and public education campaigns. LAWG provides information to nongovernmental organizations, congressional offices, the media, and citizens concerned with U.S. policy towards Latin America.
To learn more about The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) visit their web-site: www.lawg.org
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Haiti Links
FONKOZE
Espwa Bel Viv
Hope for a Better Life in Haiti
We at Indigo are pleased to support Fonkoze, a three year old organization devoted to promoting development from the grassroots up in Haiti. At a time when so much of the news from Haiti is discouraging, Fonkoze is making solid progress in improving the lives of many Haitians. Fonkoze provides support to farmers, Ti Machann street vendors and small entrepreneurs with micro-credit loans, secure local banking, training in literacy and business skills and other programs.
"Here at Fonkoze, we believe that economic democracy can be an avenue to true political democracy, especially when development comes from the base, and encompasses broad grassroots participation." Father Joseph Phillippe - Coordinator, Fonkoze
To learn more about Fonkoze visit their web-site: www.fonkoze.org
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Haiti Support Network
The Haiti Support Group (HSG) is an association of individuals who support the Haitian people in their struggle for justice, human rights, and participatory democracy. It is a solidarity group based in the United Kingdom. The HSG was launched in June 1992 in the aftermath of the military coup d'etat that overthrew the democratic government.
To learn more about the Haiti Support Network visit their web-site: www.gn.apc.org/haitisupport.htm
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National Coalition for Haitian Rights
Established as the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees in 1982 by a coalition of 42 U.S. and Haitian religious, labor and human rights organizations, NCHR aimed to assure that Haitian asylum applicants receive fair hearings in the United States and educate the U.S. public about the political and economic causes of the Haitians' flight from their homeland.
In 1995, armed with a new agenda and a new name, NCHR initiated a new programmatic division for helping increase the political effectiveness of the Haitian-American community, so that this community at the margins of power and recognition might soon begin to enjoy more fully the benefits of participating in U.S. democracy.
In the United States, NCHR has pioneered in national litigation, education and advocacy efforts designed to halt the deportation and secure the legal status of Haitian boat people. The Coalition's efforts over several years were instrumental in gaining passage of reforms in U.S. immigration law in 1986 enabling more than 40,000 Haitians to attain legal residency. As a plaintiff in a landmark case against the Department of Justice, NCHR helped secure parole into the U.S. for nearly three hundred Haitian asylum-seekers who had been quarantined for as long as twenty months at the U.S. naval station at Guant‡namo Bay, Cuba. This legal effort led ultimately to the closing of what was probably the world's first prison camp for HIV-positive refugees.
NCHR has also assumed international leadership in organizing support for human rights in Haiti. Over the last ten years, NCHR staff members have conducted numerous investigative missions to Haiti and published more than thirty reports on the status of human rights there. Together with Americas Watch, NCHR set up a three-month long Election Watch in 1987 to monitor what were meant to be Haiti's first free elections, and which instead ended in an army bloodbath. We followed with a parallel month-long monitoring of the successful democratic elections in December 1990. We established in 1992 a permanent NCHR office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, for promoting human rights and democratic reforms.
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Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante
This is the non-profit organization founded in Haiti in 1987 by Dr. Paul Farmer, which is chroniucled in Tracy Kidder's fascinating book Mountains Beyond Mountains . Read the book! Today PIH is doing effective work in Health, particularly in AIDS and Tuberculosis, not only in Haiti but in Peru, Russia ad around the world.
Our Mission...
is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair. We draw on the resources of the world’s elite medical and academic institutions and on the lived experience of the world’s poorest and sickest communities. At its root, our mission is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone. When our patients are ill and have no access to care, our team of health professionals, scholars, and activists will do whatever it takes to make them well—just as we would do if a member of our own families—or we ourselves—were ill.
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Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou
The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou exhibition, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History from October 1998 until January 1999, explored the arts and culture of the Afro-Caribbean religion of Vodou. More than 500 objects—from sequined flags to medicine packets—were featured. Also highlighted were prototypes of several altars, each honoring different religious deities.
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Haitian Art Society
The association was formed in 2003 to strengthen and expand interest in and understanding of Haitian Art and Artists.
Our website provides information about the HAS and our events and also about other Haitian art events. We provide links to other sites about Haitian art and culture.
We have an HAS Members Community BulletinBoard for posting events or news relevant to Haitian art and culture.
There are regional chapters of the HAS located in Washington, D.C. and in New York City.
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Mexico Links
Los Amigos del Arte Popolar
Los Amigos Del Arte Popular is a national, non-profit organization comprised of collectors and aficionados of Mexican folk art. Practiced by Mexico's indigenous people, and melding both originally Mexican and Spanish colonial art, Mexican folk art has a rich tradition which we invite you to explore here. Our website showcases the popular art of Mexico including danced masks, lacquer ware, clay pottery & paper mache. To learn more about Fonkoze visit their web-site: www.ladap.org
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Afropop Worldwide
Afropop is a radio program, a web site, a searchable database, an international musical archive, a team of researchers, and a travel series to Africa and Latin America . “Afropop” is also now used as a general term to describe popular African music.
In 1988, interest in international pop was at an all-time high and Afropop was launched by NPR as a weekly series. It was the first of its kind and, years later, the program has expanded its vision to include the music and cultures that encompass the entire African Diaspora. Now known as Afropop Worldwide (APWW), the program is still the standard for both the curious and the connoisseur.
Hosted by one of Africa 's best-loved broadcast personalities, Georges Collinet, and produced by Sean Barlow for World Music Productions, Afropop Worldwide is currently distributed by PRI Public Radio International to over 100 stations in the U.S. The series is also heard in Europe and Africa .
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KENYA AIDS INTERVENTION PREVENTION PROJECT GROUP
KAIPPG is a community based volunteer organization located in Kakamega, Kenya dedicated to fighting AIDS and poverty.
KAIPPG is a grassroots NGO that grew out of a commitment to helping others and has developed to include dedicated and caring volunteers throughout the world. We now have a large organization working throughout several provinces in W.Kenya, a branch office in the United States, and 20 online volunteers from around the globe,including China, Japan,Egypt, India, Australia, the Philippines, Kenya, the US,England, Malaysia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
To learn more about KAIPPG visit their web-site: www.kaippg.org
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Djembe African Drums
This web site is dedicated completely to Djembe African Drums and its history. Here you can find lot of interesting facts regarding Djembe African Drums and Djembe African culture. Learn more about the things coming through hundreds of years to modern days.
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African Krobo Trade Beads information and history.
African Trade Beads are culturally, historically and archaeologically important in Ghana. This web site introduces the reader to African Trade Beads in Ghana through the histories of living people who wear, trade or produce African Trade Beads. As part of the project to conserve and display the Museum of Archaeology bead collection, the site aims to explain how the African Trade Beads that are found in Ghanaian markets and in the archaeological record came to Ghana, and why.
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World-wide Non-Profit Links
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.
www.afsc.org
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Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
www.amnesty-usa.org
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Oxfam International
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12organizations working together in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, members of Oxfam International believe they can achieve greater impact in addressing issues of poverty by their collective efforts. To achieve the maximum impact on poverty, Oxfams link up their work on development programs, humanitarian response, lobbying for policy changes at national and global level. Our popular campaigns and communications work is aimed at mobilizing public opinion for change.
www.oxfam.org/eng
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UNICEF
Created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946 to help children after World War II in Europe, UNICEF was first known as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations system, its task being to help children living in poverty in developing countries. Its name was shortened to the United Nations Children's Fund, but it retained the acronym "UNICEF," by which it is known to this day.
UNICEF helps children get the care and stimulation they need in the early years of life and encourages families to educate girls as well as boys. It strives to reduce childhood death and illness and to protect children in the midst of war and natural disaster. UNICEF supports young people, wherever they are, in making informed decisions about their own lives, and strives to build a world in which all children live in dignity and security.
Working with national governments, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), other United Nations agencies and private-sector partners, UNICEF protects children and their rights by providing services and supplies and by helping shape policy agendas and budgets in the best interests of children.
www.unicef.org/
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General Art & Culture Links
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is a national, even international, family reunion asserting the ability of people to converse with and understand each other. At the Festival, tradition bearers, local scholars, and Smithsonian curators speak for themselves, with each other, and to the public. The Festival typically includes daily and evening programs of music, song, dance, celebratory performance, crafts and cooking demonstrations, storytelling, illustrations of workers' culture, and narrative sessions for discussing cultural issues. The Festival encourages visitors to participate -- to learn, sing, dance, eat traditional foods, and converse with people presented in the Festival program.
In the summer of 2004 the festival themes include Haiti: Freedom and Creativity from the Mountains to the Sea and Nuestra Musica: Music in Latino Culture
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Agora Gallery
Contemporary fine art gallery located in Soho , New York City. Art consulting services to private and corporate collectors. Exhibitions of paintings , sculpture and photography. Artist portfolios are reviewed.
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roberta fallon and libby rosof's
Artblog
Art reviews, deep thoughts, and gossip from Philadelphia and beyond.
The leading weblog for the Philadelphia art scene - yes, there is a Philadelphia art scene! Edited by Philadelphia art critics Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, this is the best way to find out whats going on and what's interesting in the arts in the Philadelphia area and beyond.
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This website is a nonprofit dedicated to masks, mask makers, and masquerade.
Mission
masks.org is a single-subject research library serving the global community. We are dedicated to preserving our cultural heritages through archiving images of masks and masquerade.
masks.org works worldwide with museums, libraries, educational institutions, communities, and individual artists to:
promote and improve public understanding of diverse world cultures, encourage individual and community artistic expression, model excellence and professionalism in internet education and research, enhance collaboration within the museum, library, and educational research communities.
Access to world mask art provides a vital, humanizing education. It is through the powerful spirit of the "other" faces of diverse world cultures that we can learn and grow in understanding our own.
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An on-line shop for mask collectors and folk art lovers featuring tribal masks from Africa, India, the Himalayas, Asia, China, Korea, Java, Bali, New Guinea, Northwest Coast America, Mexico, Guatemala, the Caribbean, and Native America. Also included are masks for Halloween, Party, Drama, Art, and Protection.
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Timothy Fisher is a Vermont artist whose whimsical work includes mixed-media paintings and wood sculpture.
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World Affairs Links
MoveOn.org
MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics. With a system that today revolves around big money and big media, most citizens are left out. When it becomes clear that our
"representatives" don't represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in
finding their political voice. Our nationwide network of more than 600,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today.
www.moveon.org
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Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is a leading public policy organization with 24,000 members representing the medical and public health professions and concerned citizens, working together for nuclear disarmament, a healthful environment, and an end to the epidemic of gun violence.
Founded in 1961, PSR led the campaign to end atmospheric nuclear testing by documenting the presence of Strontium 90, a byproduct of atomic test, in children's teeth. During the following two decades, PSR's efforts to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear war grew into an international movement with the founding of International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, with whom PSR shared the Nobel Peace Price awarded to IPPNW in 1985. During the 1990s, PSR built on this record of achievement by ending nuclear warhead production and winning a comprehensive ban on all nuclear tests.
Recognizing that other dangers now threaten us, PSR has expanded its mission to include environmental health, addressing issues such as global climate change, proliferation of toxics, and pollution. Facing an epidemic of gun violence that kills 28,000 Americans a year, PSR also works to address firearms as a major public health menace.
www.psr.org
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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is a national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV show, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country. We air Monday-Friday on over 120 stations including
Pacifica radio stations, Pacifica affiliates, WBIX.org, public access TV stations, Free Speech TV (DishNetwork Channel 9415), and Shortwave Radio (Radio for Peace International). We are available
to all stations.
www.democracynow.org
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