Resources

Local Chico and Northern California Resources

State and National Resources

  • Albert Einstein Institution - Advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world.
  • American Civil Liberties Union - Conservation of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
  • American Friends Service Committee - National Quaker organization - counter recruitment, war resistance, and social justice campaigns.
  • Center for Nonviolent Communication - A global organization helping people connect compassionately with themselves and one another through Nonviolent Communication language.
  • Fellowship of Reconciliation - Educates about domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience.
  • Freedom From War - Freedom From War is a non-profit international organization that welcomes everyone desiring a world of nonviolence, peace and social justice. Our vision is a world at peace, made possible by freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
  • Leave My Child Alone - National organization protesting the "No Child Left Behind" act and its hidden provisions, including sending student information to the military.
  • MercyCorps - Works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of communities to be their own agents of transformation.
  • Nevada Desert Experience - Working to stop nuclear weapons testing through a campaign of prayer, education, dialogue, and nonviolent direct action.
  • Peace X Peace - Empowers women to build sustainable peace locally and globally through connection, recognition, and eductation.
  • Search for Common Ground - "Our mission is very ambitious: to transform the way the world deals with conflict. We emphasize cooperative solutions, pursued on a realistic scale and with practical means. Current problems - whether ethnic, environmental, or economic - are simply too complex and interconnected to be settled on an adversarial basis."
  • Ten Thousand Villages - Supporting Fair Trade for 60 years.
  • Tri-Valley CAREs - The Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) is a Northern California group dedicated to ending nuclear weaponry, especially in their local Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab.
  • Western Center on Law and Poverty - Advances and enforces the rights of low-income Californians in health, housing and public assistance by working statewide for systemic change.