Photo by Judy Miner, staff of WNPJ – Peace Walk in Custer at the MREA Fair, June - 2005
2006 DIRECTORY of MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
Page 1 of 168 WISCONSIN NETWORK FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE 122 STATE STREET, RM 402 MADISON, WISCONSIN 53703-2500
608-250-9240 www.wnpj.org
Steve Burns, Program Coordinator [email protected] Judy Miner, Office Coordinator [email protected]
“The purpose of the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice is to facilitate activities, cooperation, and communication among Wisconsin organizations and individuals working toward the creation of a world free from violence and injustice.”
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Table of Contents
About WNPJ ...... …...... p. 4
Letter of Introduction by the Chair of WNPJ..……………....p. 5
Organizations Listed Alphabetically...... p. 7
Organizations by Geographic ZIP Code...... p. 9
Contact Persons Listed Alphabetically...... p. 11
Organizational Profiles Listed Alphabetically...... p. 14
Contact Information for Legislators...... p. 166
Directory Order Forms...... p. 167
Page 3 of 168 ABOUT THE WISCONSIN NETWORK FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE (WNPJ)
What are the origins of WNPJ? On February 23, 1991 more than 350 people representing over 60 communities throughout the state responded to a call from Rep. Frank Boyle, Superior. They crowded into the Assembly Chambers of the State Capitol to gather strength from one another in their frustration and concern about the Gulf War. Out of that gathering arose the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice.
What does WNPJ do? The Network works for these things in common: * alternatives to militarism * training in active nonviolence * economic justice * grassroots democracy * global community * respect for diversity * sustainable agriculture and development * a safe, clean environment * human rights for all * empowering activists
Who belongs to WNPJ? Both individuals and organizations. Membership is $25 for individuals, $35 for families, $52 for sustaining members. Organizational membership is $40 for groups without paid staff and $60 for those with paid staff. However, no members are excluded because of limited resources and larger contributions are always welcome.
What are WNPJ's Projects? ** An Assembly each fall for all WNPJ members and friends. ** Steering Committee Meeting each spring for one or more representatives of all WNPJ member organizations. ** Publication of Net Work News, a bimonthly newsletter or bulletin, which highlights the work of groups from around the state and includes a peace and justice calendar of events as well as numerous networking suggestions and action alerts. ** A website with information about the Network and its activities, a peace and justice calendar, action alerts and contact information about each member organization, links and more. ** Production of an annual WNPJ Directory of Member Organizations. ** Presentation of Wisconsin Peacemaker of the Year Awards. ** Support of the Network by linking people and their expertise through e-mail, a website Speakers Bureau listing , participating in and building coalitions, and providing programs for members and groups throughout the state.
Page 4 of 168 WNPJ Executive Committee Officers
Chair: ALFRED MEYER 608-232-9945, Madison [email protected]
Vice Chair: CECIL FINDLEY 608-233-9583, Madison [email protected] Letter from the Chair of WNPJ February 2006
Treasurer: SHEILA SPEAR 608-835-6594, Madison [email protected] Dear Members and Friends of WNPJ,
Secretary: ABBY ADAMS th 715-340-2850, Stevens Point This is the 9 annual Directory of the Wisconsin Network for Peace and [email protected] Members-at-Large Justice. It describes the work of the 152 member organizations that collaborate Newsletter: HILDEGARD DORRER 608-849-4219, Waunakee [email protected] in our joint work for peace and justice throughout Wisconsin and beyond.
CHUCK BAYNTON 414-961-1467, Whitefish Bay One purpose of this Directory is to encourage and facilitate communication [email protected]
BONNIE BLOCK, Madison 608-256-5088 - [email protected] among WNPJ members. We hope, too, that it will inspire individuals and
BARBARA BOEHME, Middleton 608-831-1786- [email protected] other organizations to join the efforts of WNPJ and our member groups SALLY ANN BRICKNER 920-403-3978, DePere [email protected] listed below.
WIX COVEY, 715-675-9681, Wausau [email protected] As described herein, our member organizations are large and small, faith-based KATHY DAKTER 608-254-6022, Wisconsin Dells [email protected] and secular, purely local groups and affiliates of national organizations, rural
CAROL HANNAH 715-634-1319, Hayward and urban, of minority and majority cultures, with memberships including [email protected]
CONNIE KANITZ 920-722-6438, Menasha women and men of all ages, races, classes, and sexual orientations. These are [email protected]
HIROSHI KANNO the many faces of Wisconsin working to bring peace and justice into individual 608-253-7266, Wisconsin Dells [email protected]
MARY ANN LOGUIDICE lives, as well as local, state, national and international affairs. 608-348-3497 [email protected]
CAROL LUKENS 715-842-4538, Wausau This directory is a central part of WNPJ’s networking function – we invite you [email protected]
GEORGE MARTIN to take the time to look through this directory and learn about what your fellow 414-964-5158, Milwaukee [email protected]
CHAMOMILE NUSZ citizens are working on. See if there is someone down the road or across the 920-362-0251, Waupaca [email protected] state who you might want to contact. MARY BETH SCHLAGHECK 608-846-7924, Windsor [email protected]
CHAR THOMPSON Additional copies are available in printed version, or in electronic form. See 608-231-2445, Madison [email protected]
JACK TIFFANY the attached ordering forms on page 167 in the back of the Directory. 608-233-8506, Madison [email protected]
Page 5 of 168 Our website – www.wnpj.org – has organizational contact information on it, as well as information about WNPJ, a calendar of events around the state, action alerts, links to other sites and more. Check the calendar as you are planning an event to avoid scheduling conflicts, and use the calendar to post information about what activities you do schedule. WNPJ also uses e-mail - [email protected] - to send out announcements and information.
WNPJ was formed fifteen years ago in response to the Gulf War. As we compile this growing directory of peace and justice work in Wisconsin and beyond, we are experiencing another war in Iraq.
History repeats itself, reminding us that if we don’t change the direction we are going in, we will end up where we are headed!
Thank you for all that you and your organizations do to head us towards a brighter day. Please let us know how the Wisconsin Network of Peace and Justice can better assist you and we welcome your participation with WNPJ.
For Peace with Justice,
Alfred Meyer Chair
Page 6 of 168 153 WNPJ MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY
-Action Wisconsin – Madison -Gray Panthers of Wisconsin - Madison -Alliance for Animals, Inc – Madison -Great Lakes Region Social Concerns Network- Madison -Anathoth Community Farm-Luck -Habiba Foundation - Janesville -Beloit Monthly Meeting of Friends -Hill Connections - Chaseburg -Benedict Center, Inc.-Milwaukee -Interfaith Justice and Peace Group –LaCrosse -Benedictine Women of Madison -International Committee for the Peace Council-Madison -Bring the Troops Home Now Coalition of Central WI -Juneau County Peace Committee - Mauston Wisconsin Dells -Kickapoo Peace Circle - Viroqua -Cable United Church of Christ -Lakeshore Peacemakers - Manitowoc -Camp Woodbrooke – Richland Center -Loaves and Fishes Catholic Worker– Duluth -Candlelight Coalition - Wauwatosa -Lutheran Office for Justice and Peace - LaCrosse -Casa Maria Catholic Worker Community- -Madison Arcatao Sister City Project Milwaukee -Madison Area Peace Coalition -Center Advocates - Milwaukee -Madison Campaign for Free Speech TV -Church Women United in Wisconsin - Madison -Madison East Students for Freedom and Peace (MESFAP) -Churches Center for Land and People-Middleton -Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance -Citizens Energy Cooperative of Wisconsin - -Madison Friends of International Students Waupaca -Madison Friends Meeting -Citizens for Global Solutions – Dane County -Madison Hours Co-op -Citizens for Global Solutions - Whitewater -Madison Infoshop -Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger-Merrimac -Madison Mennonite Church -Coalition for Wisconsin Health - Madison -Madison/Rafah Sister City Project – Madison -Colombia Support Network - Madison -Madison Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Campus -Concerned Citizens of Newport, Inc – Wisconsin Ministry Dells -Madison-area Urban Ministry -Concerned Citizens of Stevens Point -Madison Women for Peace: CODEPink -Congregation of St Agnes, -Madtown Liberty Players – Madison Justice, Peace, Ecology Committee-Fond du Lac -Mary House – Wisconsin Dells -Coulee Progressives - LaCrosse -Midwest Renewable Energy Association - Custer -Dale Heights Presbyterian Church, -Mining Impact Coalition of Wisconsin - Madison Outreach Committee-Madison -Money, Education and Prisons Task Force-Madison -Dane County Religious Committee on -National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance - Madison Central America -National Peace Foundation – branch in Eau Claire -DeKalb Interfaith network for Peace and Justice -Neighbor to Neighbor Progressive Network – Madison -Dells Country Progressive Voices -North Country Fair Trade – St. Paul, MN -Democratic Socialists of America-South Central WI -Northwoods Peace Fellowship - Wausau -Domestic Abuse Intervention Services-Madison -Nukewatch-Luck -Driftless Community Radio - Viroqua -Pax Christi - Madison -East Timor Action Network – Madison -Peace Action Wisconsin - Milwaukee -ELCA Greater Milwaukee Synod, -Peace Economics-Madison Peace and Justice Committee -Peace North – Hayward -Families & Friends for Social Responsibility - -Peace Seekers of Washington County – West Bend Madison -People for Peace – Waupaca -Family Farm Defenders - Madison -Peregrine Productions - Madison -Fellowship of Reconciliation, Fox Valley - Appleton -Physicians for Social Responsibility-Madison -First Congregational Church, UCC-Menomonie -Plowshare Center – Waukesha -First United Methodist Church, Church and Society- -Portage Area Peace Seekers Madison -Preserve Our Climate - Madison -Fox Valley Peace Coalition - Menasha -Progressive Forum of Washington Island -Franciscan Sisters of Mary - Madison -Progressive Voices - Baraboo -GLSEN-SCW - Madison -Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice -Grandmothers for Peace, Northland Chapter- -Racine Dominicans Justice Outreach Superior -Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative-Madison
Page 7 of 168 -Red Cedar Peace Initiative - Menomonie -Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of WI - Madison -United Nations Association, Dane County -Rock County Citizens for Peace – Janesville -United Nations Association-USA, Greater Milwaukee -Rockford Peace and Justice Action Comm. – -United Nations Association of Wisconsin - Elkhorn Rockford, IL -UW Madison United Faculty & Academic Staff, AFT #223 -Rock Ridge Community-Dodgeville -UW Milwaukee’s Peace Studies Program -Rock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation - Janesville -UW-Platteville Students for Peace and Justice -Saint Bede Monastery-Eau Claire -University United Methodist Church - Madison -St. Norbert Abbey Justice and Peace Committee -Veterans for Peace-Chapter 25 - Madison -St. Norbert College, Peace and Justice Center -Veterans for Peace-Chapter 80, Lake Superior Area -Sauk Prairie Area Peace Council – Sauk City -Watertown Peace and Democracy Coalition -School of Americas Watch - Madison -Waukesha Catholic Worker -School Sisters of Notre Dame-Elm Grove -WAVE Educational Fund - Milwaukee -SEIU District 1199W/United Professionals -Waysmeet Quaker Center – Richland Center for Health Care - Madison -Winds of Peace - Projects in Vietnam - Madison -Sinsinawa Dominicans – River Forest, IL -Winnebago Peace and Justice Center - Oshkosh -Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi - Milwaukee -Wisconsin Citizen Action - Milwaukee -Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross-Green Bay -Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence - Madison -Sisters of St. Joseph, TOSF - Chicago -Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba -Sisters of the Divine Savior-Milwaukee -Milwaukee -Social Justice Council, First Unitarian Society -Wisconsin Community Fund - Madison -Madison -Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua - Madison -Socialist Party of Wisconsin - Milwaukee -Wisconsin Council of Churches, -Socialist Party, South Central Local – Madison Peace & Justice Committee – Sun Prairie -SOS Senior Council – Dane County -Wisconsin Democracy Campaign – Madison -South Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO – -Wisconsin Draft Counseling Network - Madison Madison -Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition - Madison -Southern Lakes Citizens for Peace - Elkhorn -Wisconsin Greens – Sun Prairie -Southwest Wisconsin Peace Fellowship-Platteville -Wisconsin Resources Protection Council - LaCrosse -Stop the War - Madison -Wisconsin Women’s Network - Madison -The Madison Institute -Women's International League for Peace & -Under the Bodhi Tree - Janesville Freedom, Madison Branch -United Methodist Federation for Social Action- -Yahara Friends Meeting - Monona Wisconsin Chapter - Middleton -YWCA of the Coulee Region-La Crosse
Page 8 of 168 Organizations, Sorted by ZIP Code
53066...... Oconomowoc....Watertown Peace and Democracy Coalition 53090...... West Bend...... Peace Seekers of Washington County 53121...... Elkhorn...... Southern Lakes Citizens for Peace, United Nations Association- WI 53122...... Elm Grove...... School Sisters of Notre Dame 53186...... Waukesha...... Plowshare Center, Waukesha Catholic Worker 53190...... Whitewater...... Citizens for Global Solutions 53202-33...... Milwaukee...... Benedict Center, Candlelight Coalition, Casa Maria Catholic Worker Community, Center Advocates, Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, ELCA Greater Milw. Synod, Peace Action Wisconsin, Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, Sisters of the Divine Savior, Socialist Party of WI, United Nations Association-USA - Greater Milwaukee, UW-Milwaukee Peace Studies Program, WAVE Educational Fund 53403...... Racine...... Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice, Racine Dominicans Justice Outreach 53512...... Beloit...... Beloit Monthly Meeting of Friends 53533...... Dodgeville...... Rock Ridge Community 53545-7...... Janesville...... Habiba Foundation, Rock County Citizens for Peace, Rock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation, Under the Bodhi Tree 53561...... Merrimac...... Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger 53562...... Middleton...... Benedictine Women of Madison, Churches Center for land and People, Dane County Religious Committee on Central America, 53581...... Richland Center…..Waysmeet Quaker Center, Camp Woodbrooke 53583...... Sauk City...... Sauk Prairie Area Peace Council 53590...... Sun Prairie...... WI Council of Churches 53597...... Waunakee...... Money, Education and Prisons 53701-44...... Madison...... Action Wisconsin, Alliance for Animals, Inc., Church Women United, Citizens for Global Solutions, Coalition for Wisconsin Health, Colombia Support Network, Dale Heights Presbyterian Church, DSA, Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, East Timor Action Network, Families and Friends for Social Responsibility, Family Farm Defenders, First Unitarian Society, First United Methodist Church, Franciscan Sisters of Mary, GLSEN-SCW , Gray Panthers, Great Lakes Region Social Concerns Network, Int’l Comm for the Peace Council, Madison Arcatao Sister City, Madison Area Peace Coalition, Madison Campaign for Free Speech TV, Madison East Students for Freedom and Peace, Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance, Madison Friends of Int’l Students, Madison Friends Meeting, Madison Hours Coop, Madison Infoshop, Madison Mennonite Church, Madison Women for Peace:CODEPink, Madison/Rafah Sister City Project, MUUYACM, Madison-Area Urban Ministry, Madtown Liberty Players, Mining Impact Coalition, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Neighbor to Neighbor Progressive Network, Pax Christi, Peace Economics, Peregrine Productions, PSR, Preserve our Climate, Rainbow Bookstore, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, School of Americas Watch, SEIU, Socialist Party/South Central Local, SOS Senior Council – Dane Co., South Central Fed. of Labor, Stop the War, The Madison Institute, United Methodist Federation, UNA-Dane County, University United Methodist Church, UW-United Faculty and Academic Staff, AFT #223, Veterans for Peace/Chapter 25, Winds of Peace –Project in Viet Nam, WI Citizen Action, WI Coalition Against Domestic Violence , Wisconsin Community Fund, WCCN , WI Democracy Campaign, WI Draft Counseling Network, WI Fair Trade Coalition, WI Green Party, WI Women’s Network, Women’s League for Peace and Freedom, Yahara Friends Meeting 53818...... Platteville...... SW WI Peace Fellowship, UW-Platteville Students for Peace and Justice 53013...... Baraboo...... Progressive Voices 53901……………Portage………….Portage Area Peace Seekers 53948……………Mauston…………Juneau County Peace Committee
Page 9 53965...... Wisconsin Dells…... Bring the Troops Home Now Coalition of Central WI, Concerned Citizens of Newport, Inc., Dells Country Progressive Voices, Mary House 54115...... DePere...... St. Norbert Abbey Justice and Peace Committee, St. Norbert College Peace and Justice Center 54220...... Manitowoc...... Lakeshore Peacemakers 54246...... Washington Isle.....Progressive Forum of Washington Island 54311...... Green Bay...... Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross 54401 ...... Wausau...... Northwoods Peace Fellowship 54423...... Custer...... Midwest Renewable Energy Association 54481...... Stevens Point...... Concerned Citizens of Stevens Point 54601-03...... LaCrosse...... Coulee Progressives, Interfaith Justice/Peace Group, Lutheran Office for Justice and Peace, WI Resources Protection Council, YWCA 53621...... Chaseburg...... Hill Connections 54665...... Viroqua...... Kickapoo Peace Circle, Driftless Community Radio 54701-02...... Eau Claire...... National Peace Foundation, Saint Bede Monastery 54751...... Menomonie...... First Congregational United Church of Christ, Red Cedar Peace Initiative 54821...... Cable...... Cable United Church of Christ 54843...... Hayward...... Peace North 54853...... Luck...... Anathoth Community Farms, Nukewatch 54880...... Superior...... Grandmothers for Peace 54901...... Oshkosh...... Winnebago Peace and Justice Center 54915...... Appleton...... Fellowship of Reconciliation –Fox Valley 54935...... Fond du Lac...... Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes 54956...... Menasha...... Fox Valley Peace Coalition 54981...... Waupaca...... People for Peace, Citizens Energy Cooperative of Wisconsin 55803-12...... Duluth, MN...... Loaves and Fishes Catholic Worker, Veterans for Peace/Chapter #80 60115...... DeKalb, IL...... DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice 60305...... River Forest, IL....The Sinsinawa Dominicans 60606...... Chicago...... Sisters of St. Joseph, TOSF 61104...... Rockford, IL...... Rockford Peace and Justice Action Committee 55105...... St. Paul, MN...... North Country Fair Trade
Page 10 CONTACT PERSONS FOR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS, LISTED ALPHABETICALLY *Althoen, Buzz –ELCA Greater Milwaukee Synod – Peace and Justice Committee *Alvarado, Barbara - Madison Arcatao Sister City Project *Anderson, Scott D. - Wisconsin Council of Churches, Peace and Justice Committee - Sun Prairie *Arbogast, Tom - Sauk Prairie Area Peace Council *Arenas, Carlos - Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua *Bagovich, Rich – Coalition for Wisconsin Health - Madison *Baime, Peggy - Gray Panthers of Wisconsin *Barder, Katy – School of Americas Watch - Madison *Barnes, Betty – University United Methodist Church – Madison *Bartelt, Steve – Concerned Citizens of Stevens Point *Becker, Susan – Church Women United - Madison *Blood, Gabe – Great Lakes Region Peace and Justice Committee - Madison *Blouin, Dave - Mining Impact Coalition - Madison *Boehm, R. (Mike) – Winds of Peace – Projects in Vietnam - Madison *Boehme, Barbara - Dane County Religious Committee on Central America *Bradley, Charles and Susanna – Portage Area Peace Seekers *Breckbill, Carola – Madison Mennonite Church *Brickner, Sally Ann – St. Norbert College Peace and Justice Center – De Pere *Brown, Lee – UNA-USA Dane County - Madison *Buetter, Brian – Madison Friends of International Students *Bunzel, Brian – Peace Seekers of Washington County – West Bend *Burkholder, Lee - Church Women United in Wisconsin – Madison *Buttke, Craig – Midwest Renewable Energy Association - Custer *Campbell, Stanley – Rockford Peace and Justice Action Committee – Rockford, IL *Carpenter, Terry - Neighbor to Neighbor Progressive Network - Madison *Cavanaugh, Jim - South Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO – Madison *Cheslak, Mona – Grandmothers for Peace – Duluth *Colson, Marjie – SOS Senior Council – Dane County *Cooper, Wendy - Social Justice Council, First Unitarian Society – Madison *Covey, Wix – Northwoods Peace Fellowship - Wausau *Crane, Cindy – GLSEN - SCW - Madison *Czarnezki, Elaine – Sisters of the Divine Savior – Milwaukee *Dakter, Kathy – Dells Country Progressive Voices – Wisconsin Dells *Depies, Tom – Watertown Peace and Democracy Coalition *Dewane, Tim - School Sisters of Notre Dame - Milwaukee Province, Office of Global Peace and Justice *Dixon, Cassandra – Mary House – Wisconsin Dells *Dols, Chris – Madison Campaign for Free Speech TV *Drzewieck, Maria - Sisters of St Francis of the Holy Cross-Green Bay *Eden, Jean – Yahara Friends Meeting – Madison area *Emspak, Frank - United Faculty and Academic Staff-University of Wisconsin, AFT #223 - Madison *Ends, Tony - Churches’ Center for Land and People – Middleton *Farsetta, Diane – East Timor Action Network – Madison *First, Joy – Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance - Madison *Flaherty, Patrick – Center Advocates - Milwaukee *Flory, John – North Country Fair Trade – St. Paul *Freker, Josh – Action Wisconsin - Madison *Fuelleman, Amy – Madison Women for Peace:CODEPink! *Garb, Joel – Veterans for Peace – Chapter #25 - Madison *Gebhard, Mary Francis - St. Bede Monastery - Eau Claire *Gedicks, Al - Wisconsin Resources Protection Council - La Crosse *Geertz, Yvonne – Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance *Gibson, Bill – Madison East Students for Freedom and Peace *Gomez-Ibanez, Daniel - International Committee for the Peace Council - Madison *Gosting, Dorothy - United Methodist Federation for Social Action - Wisconsin Chapter *Gussert, Andy – Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition - Madison *Haebig, Tom – Peace Seekers of Washington County – West Bend *Hain, Jon – Madison Hours Coop
Page 11 *Hallberg, James – Driftless Community Radio - Viroqua *Halligan, Marcia – Kickapoo Peace Circle – Viroqua *Hannah, Carol – Peace North – Hayward *Harbaugh, Stacy – Wisconsin Women’s Network –Madison and MUUYACM *Hart, Leah – School of Americas Watch - Madison *Heitzer, Art – Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba - Milwaukee *Herro, Steve – St. Norbert Abbey Justice and Peace Committee – DePere *Hill, Mary Pat, OSM – Hill Connections - Chaseburg *Holmes, Kathryn C. – Beloit Monthly Meeting of Friends *Holmes, Tom and Sue – Progressive Voices - Baraboo *Hunter, Linda – Lakeshore Peacemakers – Manitowoc *Jenny, Trudy – Pax Christi – Madison *Jensen, Sethe – Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance - Madison *Johnson, Kent – Lutheran Office for Justice and Peace – LaCrosse *Jones, Nina –Plowshare Center – Waukesha *Joseph, Andrea – UW Milwaukee Peace Studies Program *Kailin, Clarence – Socialist Party – South Central Local - Madison *Kanitz, Connie – Fox Valley Peace Coalition - Menasha *Kanno, Hiroshi – Concerned Citizens of Newport, Inc. – Wisconsin Dells *Kass, Barbara - Anathoth Community Farms – Luck *Kavaloski, Jane H. and Vince - Rock Ridge Community – Dodgeville *Kenney, Dan – DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice – DeKalb, IL *Kiefer, John – Sauk Prairie Peace Council *Kimbrough, Bob – Socialist Party – South Central Local - Madison *Kinch, Richard – Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice *Kinder, Debbie – Bring the Troops Home Now and Dells Country Progressive Voices – Wisconsin Dells *Kinnaman, Ted – Rock County Citizens for Peace – Janesville *Kjome, June- Interfaith Justice and Peace Group – LaCrosse *Komba, Michael – Casa Maria Catholic Worker Community – Milwaukee *LaForge, John - Nukewatch – Luck *Lang, Alfred – Waysmeet Quaker Center – Richland Center *Lang, Jenny – Camp Woodbrooke – Richland Center *Larson, Lynn – Cable United Church of Christ *Lawrence, Betsy – Wisconsin Community Fund - Madison *Lewis, Sister Mary Ellen – Franciscan Sisters of Mary – Madison *Loguidice, Mary Ann - Southwest Wisconsin Peace Fellowship – Platteville *Lowenstein, Jennifer – Madison/Rafah Sister City Project *Mahaffey, Meagan - Wisconsin Citizen Action – Madison *Martin, George – Peace Action Wisconsin – Milwaukee *McCabe, Mike - Wisconsin Democracy Campaign – Madison *McGinley, John – Juneau County Peace Committee - Mauston *McGovern, Susan – United Nations Association-USA, Greater Milwaukee Chapter *McKillip, Regina - The Sinsinawa Dominicans- River Forest, IL *McNally, Kit Murphy - Benedict Center - Milwaukee *Meinhardt, Dave– UW Platteville Students for Peace and Justice *Meyer, Alfred - Physicians for Social Responsibility-Madison *Meyer, Debby – Wisconsin Democracy Campaign - Madison *Miles, Mike - Anathoth Community Farms – Luck *Miller, Bonni –People for Peace – Waupaca *Miller, Midge - The Madison Institute (TMI) *Mueske, Drew – Winnebago Peace and Justice center - Oshkosh *Naar-Obed, Michele – Loaves and Fishes Catholic Worker *Nelson, Sue - Habiba Foundation and Rock Valley – Fellowship of Reconciliation - Janesville *Nitzel, Lori – Alliance for Animals, Inc. – Madison *Noel, Laura – Domestic Abuse Intervention Services - Madison *Nossal, Susan – Preserve Our Climate - Madison *Novascone, Mary Ann – Sauk Prairie Area Peace Council – Prairie du sac *Nusz, Chamomile – Citizens Energy Cooperative of Wisconsin - Waupaca
Page 12 *Olah, Laura - Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) - Merrimac *Olson, Barb – Madison/Rafah Sister City Project *Outreach Committee - Dale Heights Presbyterian Church, Outreach Committee – Madison *Pagosa, Dorothy – Sisters of St. Joseph, TOSF - Chicago *Palmer, Dian – SEIU District 1199W/UP – Madison *Parker, Janet – WI Draft Counseling Network - Madison *Pavlick, Anthony – Citizens for Global Solutions - Whitewater *Peck, John – Family Farm Defenders - Madison *Pennings, Scott – Wisconsin Council of Churches, Peace and Justice Committee - Madison *Ploeser, James - Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance *Poeschl, Bob – Wisconsin Green Party - Oshkosh *Preston, Marty – Bring the Troops Home Now Coalition of Central Wisconsin – Wisconsin Dells *Provost, Jan - Grandmothers for Peace – Superior *Quinn-Gruber, Mary Lou – Eventimental – Madison *Ratliffe, Ben – Stop the War – UW-Madison *Reuschlein, Bob - Peace Economics and Citizens for Global Solutions - Dane County *Richards, Tom - Red Cedar Peace Initiative – Menomonie *Robson, George - Democratic Socialists of America - South Central Wisconsin Area *Romano, Sam – Southern Lakes Citizens for Peace, and United Nations Association-Wisconsin – Elkhorn *Rothaupt, Jeanne – First Congregational United Church of Christ - Menomonie *Rowe, Barbara - Money, Education and Prisons (MEP) – Waunakee *Rose, Heidi - WAVE Educational Fund - Milwaukee *Ruff, Allen – Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative - Madison *Rummel, Marsha - Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative – Madison *Ryan. Jenni – Winnebago Peace and Justice Center - Oshkosh *Santiago, Sarah – Madison East Students for Freedom and Peace (MESFAP) *Shade, Gerald – Socialist Party of Wisconsin *Scholtes, Matt - Peace Action Wisconsin – Milwaukee *Schraufnagel, Nancy – Citizens for Global Solutions – Dane County *Senn, Irene –Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi – Milwaukee *Sorensen, Gary – Veterans for Peace – Chapter 80, Lake Superior Area *Spear, Sheila - Madison-area Urban Ministry *Staff – First Congregational Church UCC - Menomonie *Sterk, Jamie – Under the Bodhi Tree – Janesville *Stolzenberg, Lou – First Methodist Church, Church and Society - Madison *Storch, S. Stella – Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, Justice Peace and Ecology Office – Fond du Lac *Sultan, Cathy – National Peace Foundation – Eau Claire *Taggart, Art - Coalition for Wisconsin Health – Madison *Thiesen, Mary – Lakeshore Peacemakers - Manitowoc *Thompson, Char – Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin- Madison *Tiffany, Jackson –Madison Friends Meeting, Peace and Social Concerns Committee *Urfer, Bonnie - Nukewatch – Luck *Van Grinsven, Donna - Fellowship of Reconciliation - Fox Valley – Appleton *Van Maren, Cathy – Coulee Progressives - LaCrosse *Verber, Jean, O.P. – Racine Dominicans Justice Outreach - Racine *Vick, Gail – Madtown Liberty Players - Madison *Vogeler, Rae – Madison Area Peace Coalition *Walgenbach, Mary David –Benedictine Women of Madison – Middleton *Walker, Mike – Candlelight Coalition - Wauwatosa *Weber, Sr. Priscilla – Franciscan Sisters of Mary - Madison *Weill, Ruth – Wisconsin Green Party *Wilson, Marilyn – Families and Friends for Social Responsibility *Williams, David – Peregrine Productions - Madison *Williams, Judith - Waukesha Catholic Worker *Wolff, Diane - Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence - Madison *Wright, Pat – Progressive Forum of Washington Island *Yuenger, Jamie – YWCA of the Coulee Region – La Crosse *Zarate-Laun, Cecilia - Colombia Support Network - Madison *Zeldin, Lea - Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom - Madison
Page 13 WNPJ MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS in 2006, Listed Alphabetically
Action Wisconsin
Contact: Josh Freker
Address: 122 State St. #309, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-441-0143
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: www.actionwisconsin.org
Purpose: Action Wisconsin, Inc., is a statewide organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. We carry out this mission through education, advocacy, grassroots organizing, coalition-building, and electoral involvement. These efforts are designed to educate the general voting public, sensitize the media, promote a politically active and effective organizational membership, and better inform policymakers on issues of concern to our members.
The Action Wisconsin Education Fund, Inc. (AWEF), is a new division that aims to provide educational resources on legal matters and other issues for Wisconsin's LGBT citizens and their families and to educate the general Wisconsin public about the consequences of anti-LGBT prejudice.
Membership: Action Wisconsin has about 6,000 members.
(Update 1/06)
Page 14 Alliance for Animals, Inc.
Contact: Lori Nitzel
Address: P.O. Box 1632, Madison, WI 53701
Phone: 608-257-6333 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.allanimals.org
History: The Alliance for Animals has been in Madison for over 20 years and has helped implement positive changes for animals both in Wisconsin and nationwide.
Purpose: The Alliance for Animals is a Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization advocating for the rights of all non-human animals by campaigning for humane treatment and education for change. The Alliance for Animals advances its goals through demonstrations, media outreach, conferences, investigations, legislation, and person-to-person contact, as we strive to fundamentally transform how society views and treats all sentient beings.
Membership: There are about 1,000 throughout WI and around 100 throughout the U.S.
Geographical area: WI mainly, but also national/federal issues.
Who does the work: One 20/hr/wk paid staff (director) and the rest of the work is volunteer.
Working links: Working links: Primate Freedom Project, Madison Coalition for Animal Rights, Dane County Humane Society, WI Federated Humane Societies, Wisconsin Humane Society.
Projects: Campaigns against nonhuman primate research (www.madisonmonkeys.com) and fur (www.furfreewisconsin.com); Advocacy for vegetarianism (www.vegwisconsin.com), wildlife (www.savewisconsinwildlife.org), and companion animals. Outreach - tabling, public relations, advertising, newsletter, workshops. Legislation - lobbying and letter writing.
Publications: animal news. This is our newsletter sent to all members and interested parties.
Congressional District: We lobby all representatives and senators on the state and federal level, as well as city and county officials. (Update 2/06)
Page 15 Anathoth Community Farm
Contact: Mike Miles or Barb Kass
Address: 740 Round Lake Road, Luck, WI 54853
Phone: 715-472-8721 Fax: 715-472-4184 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.anathothcommunityfarm.org
History: Founded in 1986 to become an ongoing experiment in the practice of nonviolence, community, and sustainable living. Membership: 9 community members, mailing list of 600. Geographical area: Northern Wisconsin, USA, World. Who does the work: Work done by live-in community, volunteers, and friends. Funding by donations and bread labor. Working links: Nukewatch, Peace North, Northwoods Peace Initiative, Wheels of Justice, Catholic Worker Purpose: To promote the idea and practice of nonviolence as a way of life. Projects: Anathoth is a center for the study of non violence, community , and sustainable living. We have built an eco-village from the ground up which is one of our answers to much of what is wrong in the world. We host groups and individuals who come to see first hand what our solutions are as well as facilitating non violent action and education on a variety of issues. Publications: Anathoth Community Farm News. Congressional District: 7th, U.S. Representative David Obey. (Update 1/06)
Page 16 Beloit Monthly Meeting of Friends
Contact: Kathryn H.C. Holmes
Address: 960 East High Street, Milton, WI 53563
Phone: 608-868-2834 E-mail: [email protected]
Meeting House Address: 811 Clary St., Beloit, WI 53511
History: We have had full Meeting status since 1978, associated with Northern Yearly Meeting. We meet in Beloit each First Day at 11 am for unprogrammed worship and meet monthly for Meeting for Business. We also have Worship Sharing and Prayer Circle. In the past we have been involved in tax day leafleting, sponsoring a Cambodian family, and alerting legislators about issues of our concern.
Membership: 8 with formal membership.
Geographical Area of Work: State line area.
Who does the work: We have no paid staff and generally we share in the work of the Meeting.
Working links: Northern Yearly Meeting, Friends General Conference, Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Purpose: The term “Friends” in our name refers to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers. Our central purpose as a Meeting is to come together in worship and to nourish the spiritual life of the Meeting and of each person in the Meeting.
Congressional District: 1st, U.S. Representative Paul Ryan. (Update 2/05)
Page 17 Benedict Center
Contact: Kit Murphy McNally
Address: 135 W. Wells St. #700, Milwaukee, WI 53203
Phone: 414-347-1774 Fax: 414-347-0148
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.benedictcenter.org
History: Founded in 1974 to provide an alternative to jail for women in conflict with the law and to advocate for systemic reform in the criminal justice system. In 1999, the interfaith Jail Chaplaincy Program, long supported by the Center, became an official function of the agency.
Membership: Mailing list of about 4,700 and a Partners in Justice membership group started in 2001.
Geographical area of work: Primarily Milwaukee County with a focus on policy and legislation.
Who does the work: The Benedict Center has a full- and part-time staff of 24, a 15-member Board of Directors, and more than 400 volunteers.
Working links: Link with all types of social, economic, and racial justice organizations in pursuit of policy and legislative reform. Many projects involve the faith community, neighborhood and community organizations, government officials, and justice leaders.
Purpose: To work with victims, offenders, and the community to achieve a system of criminal justice that is fair and treats everyone with dignity.
Projects: Citizens Advisory Council to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice System, Community Justice Action Coalition (CJAC), CJAC Alternatives Committee, CJAC Education Reform Committee, CJAC Policy and Legislation Committee, CJAC Public Awareness Committee, Detention Committee, Community Justice Advisory Council for Day Reporting, Volunteer Jail Visitors, Restorative Community Service Project, Justice Circle, Community Justice Centers, Second Chance Employment Agency, bilingual/multi-cultural Day Reporting Center, and “The Great Prison Experiment” PowerPoint presentation.
Publications: Bimonthly Community Justice Guardian, quarterly Benedict Center newsletter, Conference Summary and Action Plan from the group, Money, Education and Prisons: “Standing at the Crossroads,” December 1999 Conference.
Congressional District: 4th and 5th. (Update 1/06)
Page 18 Benedictine Women of Madison
Contact: Mary David Walgenbach, OSB, prioress
Address: Saint Benedict Center, 4200 Cty Hwy M, Middleton, WI 53562-2317 Mailing address: Box 5070, Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-831-9300 (Mary David’s office) 608-836-1631 (St. Benedict Center’s general number)
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.sbcenter.org
History: The sisters of Saint Benedict first came to Madison in 1953 to establish a girls’ preparatory high school. In 1966, we created an ecumenical retreat and conference center. Our community continued this ministry for more than 35 years, providing hospitality to approximately 10,000 people annually. Benedictine Women of Madison, our ecumenical community that welcomes single women from various Christian faith traditions, began in 1998. Our vision of “weaving prayer, hospitality and care of the earth into a shared way of life” guides life and work at Saint Benedict Center.
Geographical area of work: Our work occurs primarily at our monastery and retreat center in Madison. Guests come from around the country and occasionally beyond to attend Benedictine spirituality retreats or to spend time on personal retreats. We have extended hospitality to refugee families from India, Guatemala, Vietnam and China. More than 30 Missionary Benedictine sisters from Korea, Brazil and the Philippines have lived with us while studying English. And we maintain relationships with sisters and various women in China, the Philippines, Kenya and Mexico.
Who does the work: Community members, paid staff, volunteers, Ecumenical Board, Sisters Council, Benedictine Life Foundation Board, and oblates
Working links: Religious and ecumenical groups, environmental restoration groups and organizations, monasteries of Benedictine women and men in the U.S. and abroad, and peace and justice groups.
Projects: 1) growing our ecumenical community; 2) restoring and preserving the environment at Saint Benedict Center; 3) raising funds for Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Nairobi, Kenya to help build educational facilities for children living near the Mathare slums; 4) offering spiritual resources (daily communal prayer, group and individual retreats, retreat leadership, spiritual guidance, theological library) to all who wish to deepen spirituality.
Community Membership: 6 sisters, and approximately 13,000 stakeholders (please note: we do not share, lend, rent or sell our membership list.)
Publications: Benedictine Bridge (published twice a year)
Congressional District: 2nd District, US Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 19 Bring the Troops Home Now Coalition of Central Wisconsin
Contacts: Marty Preston and Debbie Kinder
Address: 1510 River Road, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
Phone: 608-253-6658 E-mail: [email protected]
(Update 1/06)
Page 20
Cable United Church of Christ
Contact: Lynn Larson
Address: P.O. Box 279, Cable, WI 54821
Phone: 715-798-3066
E-mail: [email protected]
History: Organized September 11, 1901, as a Congregational Church.
Membership: 160.
Geographical area of work: Northwest Wisconsin Woods.
Who does the work: Pastor Lynn S. Larson; 9 board members; many volunteers
Working links: Wisconsin Conference, United Church of Christ; National U.C.C. Office of Peace and Justice Action; Wisconsin Council of Churches; National Council of Churches; World Council of Churches
Purpose: To become a community more and more faithful to Christ’s call to live love, peace, joy and justice.
Projects: Weekly gatherings to teach and learn love in action. Classes and service projects for children and youth, to learn helpful ways to respond to those in need. Providing facility to all nonprofit organizations of good will. Donating to help alleviate suffering and to build a more just and peaceful world.
Congressional District Representatives: David Obey, Bob Jauck, and Gary Sherman.
(Update 1/06)
Page 21 Camp Woodbrooke
Contact: Jenny Lang
Address: 30002 Shedivy Lane, Richland Center, WI 53581
Phone: 608-647-8703
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.campwoodbrooke.com
Description: Camp Woodbrooke is a small, creative, noncompetitive camp for younger children located on 220 wooded acres. Campers thrive in a caring, safe community where each person is challenged to explore the natural world and our talents and skills. The Woodbrooke program is based on the Quaker belief in the unique worth of each individual, the value of cooperation in a diverse community, and the creative exploration of our natural environment. We are accredited by the American Camp Association. We also offer Family Camp Weekends.
Campers and counselors develop program activities using their talents and experience. There are opportunities to develop physical skills such as archery, woodworking, cooking, swimming, pottery, and canoeing; and life skills such as being responsible for one’s actions and making decisions alone or in a group. Each person in our small community contributes to the smooth running of camp. Daily crews include setting tables, caring for goats and chickens, cleaning, tending and harvesting the garden.
(Update 2/05)
Page 22 Candlelight Coalition
Contact: Mike Walker
Address: 7326 Hillcrest Dr., Wauwatosa, WI 53213
Phone: 414-476-0112
E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.candlelightcoalition.org
History: Candlelight Coalition brings people together to work for just and peaceful resolutions of conflicts in our world. We organize community events to foster dialog and understanding, and to assist the victims of violence and injustice.
Membership: No formal membership. There are about 15 active members.
Geographical area of work: Wauwatosa and surrounding area.
Who does the work: All volunteer.
Working links with other organizations: Informal links to Unitarian Universalist Church West, St. Pius X Church, Peace Action, GROW (Grassroots Of Waukesha County).
Projects: January: "Bread & Butter Jam" concert benefit for Hunger Task Force; March: "Candlelight Conference" free informational workshops on peace and justice issues; September 21: International Day of Peace celebration December: Peace Potluck Dinner: We write & send holiday cards to Amnesty International Prisoners of Conscience.
Publications: Bimonthly newsletter digest of peace and justice-related news and action items.
Congressional District: Primarily Representative Sensenbrenner's District.
(update 1/06)
Page 23 Casa Maria Catholic Worker Community
Contact: Michael Komba
Address: P.O. Box 05206, 1131 N. 21st Street, Milwaukee, WI 53205
Phone: 414-344-5745
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.geocities.com/casa_maria_worker
History: Founded in 1966 to shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, help the needy with used furniture and clothing, and provide the basic needs to people in the inner city. Also serves as a response to the waste, injustice, and violence which are the roots of poverty and inequality. Follows the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933 in New York.
Membership: Volunteers committed to the philosophy of the Catholic Worker movement.
Geographical Area of Work: Greater Milwaukee Area.
Working Links: Welfare Warriors, Peace Action-Wisconsin, Compa, Milwaukee War Tax Resistance, Milwaukee Indymedia, Pledge of Resistance, Fellowship of Reconciliation, War Resister’s League, Voices de la Fronterra immigrant workers center and Holy Family Catholic Worker.
Purpose: To live out and teach nonviolent anarchy through the works of mercy and resistance to war and greed.
Projects: 1) taking in homeless women and children, providing basic needs for those who need them. 2) promoting nonviolence through nonviolent direct action and nonviolence trainings. 3) monthly pickets: at Taco Bell to support tomato pickers, corporate W-2 offices to protest racism, greed and funds going towards corporate salaries rather than people in need, gun shops and the ROTC at Marquette University. 4) active in campaigns against W-2 agencies (Maximus, UMOS and OIC), Kraft, M&M/Mars, Ford's fuel inefficiency, Starbucks, Coca Cola and others.
Publications: Monthly Newsletter Casa Cry.
Congressional District: 4th US Representative Gwen Moore. (Update 1/06)
Page 24 Center Advocates
Contact: Patrick Flaherty
Address: 315 W. Court St., Milwaukee, WI 53212
Phone: 414-271-2656 E-mail: [email protected]
Page 25 Church Women United in Wisconsin
Contact: Lee Burkholder and Susan Becker
Address: 1726 Chadbourne Avenue, Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-238-8104 (Lee) or 608-231-1817 (Susan)
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
History: Church Women United in Wisconsin (CWU in WI) is a part of the national movement of church women that was formed in 1941.
Membership: Open to all Christian women who wish to build an ecumenical community through worship, study, and cooperative action. Other women of faith may participate provided they understand the purpose of the movement. There are 41 CWU units in Wisconsin each representing multiple churches in their area. Key women from each church form the local units.
Geographical area of work: State of Wisconsin.
Working links: National offices of CWU are in Manhattan, NY, the Church Center at the UN (CWU is accredited as a nongovernmental organization), and Washington, DC.
Purpose: To grow in faith and extend our vision of what it means to be Christian women in society; to strengthen the ecumenical community; to work for a just, peaceful, and caring society; to use responsibly and creatively, the resources entrusted to us--intelligence, time, energy, and money --to carry out the mission of Christ.
Projects: An annual statewide gathering and a biannual regional gathering of women from WI, MN, IA, ND, SD, and NE. Local units determine their ongoing projects though each unit nationwide celebrates a World Day of Prayer, May Friendship Day, and World Community Day. Many also participate in the Fellowship of the Least Coin, which is an international effort to raise money for women's projects. [The Madison Unit represents 37 congregations and has created the Madison Ecumenical Center, which facilitates ecumenical communication and action by publishing an ecumenical directory and providing a mailing service to churches, clergy, and lay leaders, and staffs the Global Express, a fair-trade, nonprofit shop staffed and managed by volunteers.]
Publications: Local unit newsletters, CWU State Newsletter, and the national magazine The Churchwoman.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 2/06)
Page 26 Churches’ Center for Land and People (CCLP)
Contact: Tony Ends
Address: 4200 County Hwy M, Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: 608-831-9319 E-mail: [email protected]
History: Founded in 1989 as a response to rural vulnerability, discouragement and sense of isolation for farming people during severe economic crisis in both churches and other organizations; concern with the detrimental impact of concentration, scale, and specialization in agriculture; and support of family farms and alternative food systems. The Center serves as a voice in churches and society for people and the land. It is helping put programs and projects into place to address the needs of rural people in an ongoing crisis and meet challenges that call for earth stewardship, justice, community, and spirituality.
Membership: 2,000 on mailing list. Geographical area: Wisconsin and surrounding states
Who does the work: Director and part-time office assistant; board; volunteer committees.
Working links: Supportive and cooperative linkages with area organizations and institutions through interested leaders and members.
Purpose: Churches Center for Land and People is an ecumenical organization inviting all people of good will to address vital issues of the Earth and its people. We meet and work together to integrate earth stewardship, community, justice, and spirituality in an active spirit of renewal. We work to strengthen rural life and rural/urban relationships in a common ministry around farm and food production, farming people and agriculture, and essential resources affecting all forms of life. In shared ecological, social, and ethical commitment, we serve as a voice for rural perspectives and concerns to foster unity and hope.
Projects: Annual Rural Life Gathering; tri-state rural forums for church leadership; traveling workshops for spiritual-ethical reflection; Harvest of Hope Partnership with emergency fund for farmers and benefit sales featuring family farm products; Partners in Stewardship Training effort with on-farm apprenticeships in organic and sustainable agriculture practices.
Publications: Voices for People and the Land, a quarterly newsletter; Why Support the Family Farm: A Spiritual Reflection; Seasons of Celebration: Monthly Ways to Celebrate; Extremism: Concern and Challenge; and Gift of Quotations: Sustaining Our Spirits. Working on a book on “Sustaining Heart in the Heartland.”
Congressional District: Located in 3rd, U.S. Representative Ron Kind. Working to address rural challenges with urban and suburban cooperation in four states. (Update 10/05)
Page 27 Citizens Energy Cooperative of Wisconsin
Contact: Chamomile Nusz
Address: PO Box 438, Waupaca, WI 54981
Phone: 920-362-0251 or 1-800-504-7331
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cecofwi.com
History: Citizens Energy Cooperative of Wisconsin’s (CEC) mission is to provide people of Wisconsin the chance to own clean energy. Our members have come together with the clear belief that prices for fossil fuels will be rising much faster than the installation costs for renewable energy systems. Citizens of Wisconsin are joined in a cooperative effort to fund the installation of large scale and residential renewable energy systems that will decrease the pollution of our air and water here in Wisconsin, and bring a potential profit to Cooperative members.
Membership: 150
Geographical area of work: We will be installing systems throughout the state of Wisconsin.
Who does the work: We have a volunteer board of directors and a Project Review Committee; the Executive Director and Site Assessors are paid. The renewable energy systems are installed by contractors based here in Wisconsin.
Purpose: To increase the number of renewable energy systems and diversify the energy landscape in Wisconsin.
Projects: We have 3 large scale systems up in communities around the state as well as over 20 residential solar thermal systems installed on our members’ homes. We expect to be installing on average 2 to 5 solar water heating systems on homes weekly, and 1 large scale system a quarter. As members are added, we have the financial capability to add more large scale systems. Congressional Districts: All of Wisconsin. (Update 1/06)
Page 28 Citizens for Global Solutions—Dane County
Contacts: Bob Reuschlein, President, or Nancy Schraufnagel, treasurer
Addresses: 3264 Stonecreek Dr., Madison, WI 53719
Phone: 608-848-5248 (H) or 608-288-9192 (W)Fax: 608-274-4713
E-mails: [email protected] or [email protected] Website: www.globalsolutions.org
History: With hopes for a world without war, the World Federalist Movement was founded in 1947 as an outgrowth of World War II, inspired by the newly formed United Nations. Along with a strong international movement, it grew to build on this momentum toward world cooperation. Early World Federalists were Churchill, Nehru, Russell, and Einstein. Dane County Chapter founded in 1960 due to frustration that the UN's mission was being usurped; most active since 1980 creating the International Criminal Court 1998-2002. Changed name in 2003 to Citizens for Global Solutions. Recent years went from 12,000 to 20,000 members.
Membership: Approximately 70. Board of 6 working volunteers.
Geographical area of work: Dane County and nearby.
Working links: Citizens for Global Solutions in Washington DC; other Global Solutions chapters in Wisconsin; Dane County United Nations Association Chapter.
Purpose: Citizens for Global Solutions is working toward a democratic governing system where human needs are met at the most appropriate levels, from local to global, rather than ignored in defense of delusions of national sovereignty and superiority. By strengthening the United Nations, countries and communities could deal more effectively with domestic political and social concerns. The many problems that don't conform to national boundaries -- such as global warming, nuclear proliferation, genocide, overpopulation and mass migration, development disparities, environmental destruction, and globalization - would be dealt with globally and lawfully, with equitable participation, rather than abandoned to current forces of anarchy.
Projects: 1) Cooperation with the Dane County UNA chapter. 2) Partner Program. Six local members participate in the national Global Solutions Partner Program. This involves a bi-monthly national conference call, with directions for action projects. Current special emphases are: getting the U.S. to respect the UN charter in full, to ratify Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, to create an International Civilian Police Unit for peacekeeping, and to use the new International Criminal Court (against genocide) in Darfur. 3) Flash in a Box kits for young people.
Publications: Citizens for Global Solutions, a quarterly newsletter.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 29 Citizens for Global Solutions - Whitewater
Contact: Rollin Cooper, chapter president
Address: 1127 W. Walworth Ave., Whitewater, WI 53190
Phone: 262-473-5375 E-mail: [email protected]
History: The national World Federalists was begun at the end of WWII in 1947. The Whitewater Chapter began in 1960. The new name of the organization, Citizens for Global Solutions, reflects a national merger of World Federalists and its political action affiliate, Campaign for United Nations Reform.
Membership: 24 members.
Geographical area of work: Walworth and Rock Counties (mostly a 30-mile radius around Whitewater).
Who does the work: Board and Partners for Global Change do work of organization.
Working links: International World Federalist Movement, National Citizens for Global Solutions, and United Nations Association of South Central Wisconsin.
Purpose: World peace through world law with justice.
Projects: 1) Support the US joining in with the permanent International Criminal Court; 2) Reform and strengthen the United Nations; 3) Action every month to write elected representatives regarding a current issue; 4) Public forums; 5) UN Week activities and observances of Human Rights Day.
Publications: Monthly Newsletter, Whitewater Federalist.
Congressional District: 1st, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, and 2nd, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin.
(Update 1/06)
Page 30 Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger
Contact: Laura Olah, Executive Director
Address: E12629 Weigand's Bay South, Merrimac, WI 53561
Phone: 608-643-3124 Fax: 608-643-0005
E-mail: [email protected] Alternate E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cswab.org
History: Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) began as a "kitchen table" organization in 1990 when rural neighbors discovered their drinking water wells were polluted with high levels of carcinogenic solvents. Carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene, and chloroform were detected in the water supplies of three farm families at levels 15 times the safe standard. Toxins resulting from 50 years of weapons manufacturing from the nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant had moved undetected through the groundwater, poisoning drinking water wells more than a mile away. Our goal is to ensure a healthy sustainable future for our children and the earth by reducing risks to human health and natural systems, strengthening community- based work for environmental justice, and creating opportunities for the public to have a voice in the debate around protection of human health and the environment. As an organization, we empower community members and rely on them to develop, prioritize, and implement program work – ensuring a solid foundation for long-term social and environmental justice.
Membership/Geographical area of work: The role of CSWAB is to empower stakeholders and tribal members in the decision-making process; we believe this participation will provide a powerful, long-term solution to military toxics in our rural communities, and will ensure a safe, healthy environment for ourselves and generations to come. We serve a constituency rather than a paid membership.
Working links: Military Toxics Project, Madison Physicians for Social Responsibility, Clean Wisconsin, Sierra Club – John Muir Chapter, Ho-Chunk Nation, Sokaogon Chippewa Community – Mole Lake Band, Midwest Treaty Network, Indigenous Environmental Network, Wisconsin Community Fund, Community Shares of Wisconsin, and many more.
Purpose: The mission of CSWAB is to empower, unify, and strengthen communities affected by pollution; to restore the integrity of natural systems damaged by military activities including air, water, soil, and bio- diversity; and to ensure mutual respect and social justice for all peoples, free from any form of discrimination or bias.
Projects/issue areas: Community organizing, environmental justice, environmental protection and remediation, military toxics, environmental health, occupational health, protection and preservation of habitat and indigenous ecosystems, protection and restoration of groundwater and drinking water resource, and pollution prevention. The group publishes a free quarterly newsletter and maintains an electronic action alert list and website.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 31 Coalition for Wisconsin Health; Affiliate of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
Contacts: Rich Bogovich or Art Taggart
Mailing address: P.O. Box 1453, Madison, WI 53701
Office address: 1202 Williamson Street (in the Social Justice Center), Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-663-8322 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: www.wisconsinhealth.org
History: Founded in 1986.
Membership: About 60 member organizations and numerous individuals.
Geographical area of work: Statewide.
Who does the work: Part-time staff: Rich Bogovich and volunteers.
Working links: Nurses for a National Health Plan (NNHP), Wisconsin Citizen Action, Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN).
Purpose: Working for health care for everyone as a right, publicly funded, paid for by a single payer to eliminate profits and to decrease paperwork and administrative costs.
Projects: Educational Speaker's Bureau, to go anywhere in the state, Forums, and "grassroots" organizing for healthcare reform, renewed membership drive. Ongoing petition drive that has already gathered more than 4,000 signatures. Supported the Wisconsin Health Security Act, proposed in both houses of the State Legislature.
Publications: Quarterly newsletter. A summary of the Wisconsin Health Security Act is available on the on website.
Congressional District: Located in the 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin’s district, but work statewide. (Update 1/06)
Page 32 Colombia Support Network
Contact: Cecilia Zarate-Laun
Address: P.O. Box 1505, 29 E. Wilson, Suite 202, Madison, WI 53701
Phone: 608-257-8753 Fax: 608-255-6621
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.colombiasupport.net
History: Founded in 1988, in response to the human rights crisis in Colombia and to address the lack of accurate information on Colombia and the role of US military aid.
Membership/funding: National membership is around 3,000. Paid staff of one with 10-15 working volunteers and a board. Funded by individual memberships and foundations.
Geographical area of work: U.S. and Colombia.
Who does the work: Paid staff, volunteers and board.
Working links: There are ten other chapters of CSN: Northern Ohio, Grand Rapids, Methow Valley, Minneapolis, Montana, New York, Washington State, St. Louis, Seattle, and Syracuse, as well as Madison.
Purpose: Colombia Support Network is an activist grassroots organization that works through sister communities to help Colombians create a peaceful participatory democracy and an economically just Colombian society. We condemn violations of human rights by all actors involved in the conflict, including guerrilla groups, military, paramilitary, police, multinational corporations and foreign agents, including U.S. defense contractors. We support and provide political space for organizations and individuals that work for a nonviolent, just political solution to the conflict in Colombia.
Projects: Education--organize slide presentations and presentations in schools, publish newsletter and magazine, and organize speaking tours. Advocacy--Colombia Support Urgent Action Service which sends letters to Colombian officials in response to human rights abuses on behalf of subscribers to the service. Citizen Diplomacy--Dane County/Apartado Sister Community projects and annual delegations to Colombia.
Publications: Quarterly newsletter, Action on Colombia.
Congressional District: Located in 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin, but work is national. (Update 1/06)
Page 33 Concerned Citizens of Newport, Inc.
Contact: Hiroshi Kanno
Address: N9947 Thompson, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
Phone: 608-253-7266 E-mail: [email protected]
Purpose: CCN's achievements this past year are as follows:
1. Worked with other environmental groups to develop ground and surface water legislation
2. Worked to promote a progressive social and environmental agenda such as helping to sponsor Fighting Bob Fest, attending the World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, and attending the WTO meeting in Cancun, Mexico. In the midst of the Kyoto Conference, when Bush invaded Iraq, CCN joined with a Japanese Peace group and demonstrated at the Forum.
3. Worked with Wisconsin Stewardship Network in inviting Maude Barlow and Robert Glennon to their annual meeting, where the focus was on water.
4. CCN is developing a campaign of corporate accountability against the bottled water industry. Grants are being sought to develop a marketing campaign to slow the consumption of bottled water. We also continue to monitor the efforts of major water bottling companies to establish wells and plants in our state.
5. CCN produced a new brochure entitled Why are you Drinking bottled Water. Copies are available by contacting Hiroshi Kanno - email: [email protected]
6. CCN website www.kNOwbottledwater.org is now on line. Check it out.
7. CCN in conjunction with the Polaris Institute distributed 1000 activity packets to student activist groups in Canada and the US.
8. CCN has participated in forums and presentations in WI and across the country.
(Update 1/06)
Page 34 Concerned Citizens of Stevens Point
Contact: Steve Bartelt
Address: 9011 County N, Almond, WI 54481
Phone: 715-366-2444
E-mail: [email protected]
History: In the fall of 2002, a group of people began holding a weekly demonstration in downtown Stevens Point to protest against our government's planned attack against Iraq. Then an informal grouping of people began meeting in the Union at UWSP to plan other events, and eventually that group became an umbrella for all antiwar actions and efforts in Stevens Point (including the weekly demonstration), taking the name Concerned Citizens of Stevens Point.
Membership: Concerned Citizens has no formal membership.
Geographical area of work: Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
Who does the work: All of the work is voluntary.
Working links: We are loosely linked with a peace group, People for Peace, in Waupaca, Wisconsin.
Purpose: Besides complaining, endlessly, about the sorry state of the World, we have been known to host anti-war (or, depending on perspective, pro-peace) demonstrations and public forums designed to educate (we are currently planning a couple of them for later this Spring). We are working with other activist groups, and with WNPJ, to develop a Draft Counseling Network, should such become necessary. We compile and distribute information, news, commentary, etc., that is not otherwise available through conventional media. We meet on a regular basis, sometimes fruitfully, other times not, always to the benefit of each other’s (often challenged) sanity.
Congressional District: 7th District, Representative David Obey. (Update 1/06)
Page 35 Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes
Justice, Peace and Ecology Office
Contact: S. Stella Storch, OP
Address: 320 County Road K, Fond du Lac, WI 54935
Phone: (920) 907-2315 Fax: (920) 921-8177
E-mail [email protected] Website: www.csasisters.org
History: A Roman Catholic order of women religious that created a Justice, Peace and Ecology Office in 1990 to raise issues on justice, peace, and ecology and coordinate activities for and of the congregation.
Membership: just over 300 Sisters, and over 200 Associates.
Geographical Area of work: Central office is in Wisconsin but work is in 16 states, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Who does the work: One full-time coordinator, half-time staff.
Working links: Links with Catholic churches locally and globally. Active and supporting member of the 8th Day Canter of Justice, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Leadership Conference for Women Religious (LCWR), and NETWORK, Pax Christi, CHA, SOA Watch, and UNANIMA International.
Purpose: The congregation is committed to the transformation of the world, the church, and themselves through promoting systemic change for the quality of life, justice for the economically poor, and furtherance of the role of women in church and society, mutuality, inclusivity, and collaboration.
Projects: Work with Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) in New York in taking shareholder action with corporations to hold them accountable. -Work with United for Diversity, a local group focusing on welcoming diversity. -Manage a listserv that is international and reaches about 250 people, with weekly (or so) action alerts. -Part of UNANIMA International, a UN NGO made up of 14 congregations with a current focus on trafficking of women and children for prostitution. -Organize groups going to SOA/WHISC at Fort Benning, GA. -Have a video and book library with materials which can be sent anywhere.
Publications: JUSTPEACE newsletter, published four times a year.
Congressional District: 6th, U.S. Representative Thomas E. Petri. (Update 1/06)
Page 36 Coulee Progressives
Contact: Cathy Van Maren
Address: 2815 Highland St., La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone: 608-788-4039 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.CouleeProgressives.org
Purpose of the Coulee Progressives - gathering and disseminating information about progressives groups, programs, events and actions in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area and beyond and helping to educate about and motivate toward a more just and peaceful world. (updated 2/06)
Page 37 Dale Heights Presbyterian Church, Outreach Committee
Contact: Outreach Committee
Address: 5501 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-233-0134 Fax: 608-233-0959
Website: www.hows.net
Membership: Congregational membership of 90.
Working links: John Knox Presbytery, MOM, Madison-area Urban Ministry, Church Women United, Synod, and all Presbyterian organizations.
Purpose: Mission statement is: "We are an open and accepting fellowship of Christian believers, expressing love by caring for and committing ourselves to each other, our community, and the world."
Projects: Outreach Committee provides educational forums for adult members and helps carry out local mission of the church. Projects vary as needs vary.
Publications: Dale Heights Newsletter.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 2/05)
Page 38 Dane County Religious Committee on Central America
Contact Person: Barbara Boehme
Address: 5520 Century Avenue #3, Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: 608-831-1786 Fax: 608-849-4219 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: Founded in 1984 as a result of the US invasion of Grenada and a fear of the US military presence in Central America.
Membership: Approximately 8 – 10 individuals who meet monthly for education, mutual support, and joint action regarding Central American issues. These meetings are at the Trinity Methodist Church at 1123 Vilas Ave, Madison, held on the second Thursday each month, 7:15 am, with a speaker, coffee and rolls provided.
Geographical area of work: Madison area.
Who does the work: Volunteers.
Working links: Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua, Community Action on Latin America, and Madison Area Sister City Project.
Purpose: Solidarity with the people of Central America.
Projects: Promotion of the sale of Equal Exchange Coffee and the Jubilee 2000 movement. Part of the campaign to close School of the Americas.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 39 DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice
Contact: Dan Kenney
Address: 220 Pardridge Place, DeKalb IL 60115
Phone: 815-754-0641 E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: www.dekalbinterfaithnetwork.org
Page 40 Dells Country Progressive Voices
Contacts: Kathy Dakter and Debbie Kinder
Address: 3720 9th Drive, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
Phone: 608-254-6022 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
History: Recently formed in December, 2004
Membership: No formal membership requirements. There are 100 members and growing.
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin Dells and surrounding areas.
Who does the work: Volunteers.
Purpose: To promote peace and justice by providing a venue for informational speakers on regional, national, and global issues of importance. We hope to inspire and promote the call to activism.
Congressional Districts: 2nd, 3rd and 6th.
(Update 12/05)
Page 41 Democratic Socialists of America - South Central Wisconsin Area
Contact: George Robson
Address: 127 Vilas Hubbard Pkwy, Lodi, WI 53555
Phone: 608-592-5437
Secretary’s E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.dsausa.org
History: Founded in the mid-1980’s locally to work on issues of social and economic justice such as healthcare, worker's rights, voter's rights, human rights, and elimination of poverty. Affiliated with National DSA, which emerged from the New American Movement and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee under the leadership of Michael Harrington in the late 1970s.
Membership: Approximately 40 on the mailing list.
Geographical area of work: South-central Wisconsin.
Working links: Other chapters of Democratic Socialists of America and Coalition for Wisconsin Health.
Purpose: To work with a diverse group of people and commit to working on economic and social justice for all.
Projects: Prison reform, tax equity.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 42 Domestic Abuse Intervention Services
Contact: Laura Noel, Director
Address: P.O. Box 1761, Madison, WI 53701
Phone: 608-251-4445 24-hr crisis line. Toll free number for Dane County is 800-747-4045
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.abuseintervention.org
Membership: Approximately 200 active volunteers.
Geographical area of work: Dane County.
Who does the work: An average of 30 full- and part-time staff, work-study students, interns, and over 200 active volunteers.
Projects: Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS) is a community-based feminist organization in Dane County committed to ending domestic abuse. The purpose of our work is twofold: to empower those who have been affected by violence, and to transform societal attitudes and institutional barriers that perpetuate violence and the abuse of power and control in our society.
DAIS has been providing safety and support to victims of domestic violence in Dane County since 1977. Programs include: 24-hour crisis/help line, 25-bed emergency shelter, crisis response, support groups, legal advocacy, programming for children, and prevention/education services.
Publication: The Common Woman, newsletter.
Congressional Districts: 2nd (Update 2/06)
Page 43 Driftless Community Radio
Contact: James Hallberg
Address: PO Box 53, Viroqua, WI 54665
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: www.radiodriftless.org
History: radiodriftless is a listener-sponsored, non-commercial, free-speech internet community radio station that began broadcasting from Viroqua, on June 30th, 2005.
Mission: our pledge is to foster world peace through world music and to keep an eye and an ear open for the corporate media fascists. We definitely would like to create audio coverage for any/all peace movement activities in Wisconsin.
Salutations: yours for the long haul, in the struggle for peace and justice!! p.s we broadcast m-f from 8am and weekends from 10am (or so).
(update 1/06)
Page 44 East Timor Action Network - Madison
Contact: Diane Farsetta Address: 1217 Spaight St., WI 53703
Phone: 608-244-4563 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.aideasttimor.org (Madison), www.etan.org (national)
History: One of the first local chapters of ETAN/US to form, in late 1991. We've worked over the last 15 years in support of human rights and justice for East Timor, through public education, protest, media work, and educating our elected representatives. We formed the first official US sister city with East Timor in 2001, between Madison and Ainaro.
Membership: Open to all and free.
Working links: We are active members of the local sister city coalition group, and often collaborate with area solidarity, peace, and social justice groups. We were a founding member of the Madison Area Peace Coalition, and have been a leader in Dane County’s observance of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
Purpose: The East Timor Action Network/U.S. (ETAN) is a grassroots human rights organization working in solidarity with the people of East Timor. ETAN supports human dignity for all East Timorese by advocating for womens rights, democracy, sustainable development, sound environmental practices, and comprehensive social, legal and economic justice. To this end, we work to influence the policies of the US government and international institutions as they relate to East Timor. ETAN is also motivated by the need for continued vigilance to ensure genuine self- determination for the people of East Timor.
Projects: Our main focus is our sister-city relationship. Through the Madison-Ainaro Sister-City Alliance, we are continuing and strengthening our solidarity work with one of the most disadvantaged communities in East Timor. Our current sister-city projects include agricultural support and local scholarships and we highlight UW investment in companies which provide weapons to Indonesia and exploit Indonesia's natural resources. We also work to educate and organize against human rights abuses in Indonesia, and campaign against the growing US support for the Indonesian military.
Publications: Ainaro Lia-Foun (local ~ 1x/year); Estafeta (ETAN/US newsletter, ~ 3x/year)
Congressional District: WI-2nd (Update 2/06)
Page 45 ELCA Greater Milwaukee Synod - Peace and Justice Committee
Contact: Buzz Althoen
Address: 6919 N. Milwaukee River Parkway, Glendale, WI 53209-2907
Phone: 414-228-9647
E-mail: [email protected]
History: Started in the late 1980s and have pushed a number of peace and justice issues over 15 years.
Membership: Ten interested members who meet monthly, first Wednesday of the month, 9:30 am -12 pm (noon) at the ELCA offices, located at 1212 S. Layton, Milwaukee, 53215 .
Geographical area of work: Southeast Wisconsin Lutheran Church .
Who does the work: Our work is volunteer. Any postage or paper work is paid for by the Greater Milwaukee Synod.
Working links: MICAH in Milwaukee
Purpose: To make statements on peace and justice issues and keep Lutheran congregations in the greater Milwaukee area informed.
Projects: We continue to support the new infancy of the Treatment Instead of Prison (TIP) bill passed by the 2005 budget bill. We currently are educating our members on the function and importance of the United Nations in the world by offering speakers and educational materials. We are also promoting education workshops in Synod churches on racism, so we may better understand it and, eventually, try to get rid of it.
Publications: Some mailings to congregations in our Synod.
(Update 1/06)
Page 46 Families and Friends for Social Responsibility
Contact: Marilyn Wilson
Address: 2639 Mason, Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-231-2277
History: Families and Friends for Social Responsibility started in 1988 as a group of friends discussing ways to work for peace and justice.
Membership: Open to general membership. Donations are greatly appreciated.
Geographic area of work: International contact with group in England with similar interests.
Who does the work: All work is done by volunteers.
Working links: Paradigm of Great Britain and other state and national peace and justice organizations.
Purpose: Our mission is to work and play as families and friends for spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual wholeness.
We work for peace and justice with a joyful heart. We strive to live in loving families and communities. We care for our wellness and the wellness of others. We sustain and replenish the environment.
Projects: Speaking at public hearings on the need for peaceful, nonviolent alternatives to the threats of war, supporting universal health care, and speaking on ways to address environmental issues affecting human health and sustainability.
** Our group plans to make our primary fund-raising effort, a volunteer super-fund, to assist the electric utility rural co-operatives and electric utility companies in their efforts to solve the environmental, human, and animal health hazards of electrical pollution, ie., stray voltage, poor power quality, harmonics and high frequencies.
** Light comedy and commitment is periodically provided by the United States of America Ladies Auxiliary.
** Annual children’s art festival
Congressional District: Statewide. (Update 2/05)
Page 47 FAMILY FARM DEFENDERS
Contact: John E. Peck, executive director
Mail address: P.O. Box 1772, Madison, WI 53701
Phone and Fax: 608-260-0900 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org/
History: Family Farm Defenders (FFD) was formed in 1994 out of grassroots struggle against the dairy checkoff system and the introduction of synthetic bovine growth hormone (rBGH) and has since grown into a national coalition around the goal of creating a farmer-controlled and consumer-oriented food/farm system that places people before profit. Toward this end, FFD works on issues of sustainable agriculture, rural justice, consumer safety, fair trade, animal welfare, workers rights, and food sovereignty. It is FFD’s belief that healthy, safe, accessible food is a basic human right, and that all communities should be able to control their own agricultural future.
Membership: Approximately 2,500 nationwide with 400 of those in Wisconsin.
Geographical area of work: Statewide, national, and global.
Who does the work: FFD has one part time staff person, plus numerous volunteers and active board members.
Working links: FFD is an active member of many other groups, including: Churches' Center for Land and People, Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance, 50 Years is Enough Campaign, Rural Coalition, National Family Farm Coalition, Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, Community Food Security Coalition, and Via Campesina, to name a few.
Projects: Current FFD campaigns include: 1) Mobilizing grassroots opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), factory farm expansion, exploitation of farmworkers, import of milk protein concentrate (MPC), food irradiation, free trade regimes (FTAA, WTO); 2) Building a local food/farm network; greater public support for family farming, consumer right-to-know and sustainable agriculture; direct markets for fair trade products that guarantee farmers a living wage such as our "Family Farmer" fair trade cheese project, as well as fair trade school fundraising opportunities; 3) Sponsoring international farmer-to-farmer delegations, "reality" fieldtrips, and other educational events that cross borders and bridge the gap between the global North and global South, as well as rural and urban communities.
Publications: Quarterly newsletter, "Defender"
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 1/06)
Page 48 Fellowship of Reconciliation - Fox Valley Local Group
Contact: Donna Van Grinsven
Address: 1906 E. Lourdes Dr., Appleton, WI 54915
Phone: 920-735-9198 E-mail: [email protected]
History: Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) was founded nationally (and internationally) during World War I. Local chapter founded in 1991.
Membership: Five active volunteers; mailing list of 155.
Geographical area of work: Fox Valley (Appleton, Neenah-Menasha, and Oshkosh).
Who does the work: Volunteers.
Working links: One of the 62 local groups of the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA.
Purpose: The mission of FOR is to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and racial and economic justice.
Projects: Participate in FOR National Projects: People’s Campaign for Nonviolence, Stop the Hate, Campaign of Conscience for the Iraqi People and Close the SOA. We are quite happy that ELF is shut down. So, we are looking for a new project. Monthly peace vigils. Daily individual prayers for peace, 8:30 am. Compiled information files on conscientious objection (CO) to war, and presented a workshop to college-age students on this topic, as an on-going project. We are available to present this workshop to others interested in this topic. We are also currently planning a Lantern Float for the summer of 2006.
Publications: Peace News, published quarterly.
Congressional District: 6th, U.S. Representative Thomas Petri ; 8th, U.S. Representative Mark Green (Update 1/06)
Page 49 First Congregational United Church of Christ
Contact: Jeanne Rothaupt
Address: 420 Wilson Avenue, Menomonie, WI 54751
Phone: 715-235-5838 (church) E-Mail: [email protected]
Membership: Local congregational membership of 500 [Membership open to everyone.] Staff of 4 with a 14-member board. Funded by contributions.
Geographical area of work: Dunn County.
Working links: National United Church of Christ and Wisconsin Conference-UCC.
Projects: Identification as a "Just Peace" church; Support for Dunn County Interfaith Caregivers, Habitat for Humanity, CROP Walk, Bread for the World, Farmer to Farmer Fair Trade Coffee, and support for SERRV/A Greater Gift. Support of members in witnessing in Chiapas, Mexico and at the School of the Americas, Fort Benning, GA. Providing meeting place for PFLAG, AA, and other groups.
Publications: Congregational newsletter.
Congressional District: 3rd, U.S. Representative Ron Kind. (Update 1/06)
Page 50 First United Methodist Church - Church and Society Committee
Contact: Lou Stolzenberg, Chair
Mailing Address: 203 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-236-0320 (Lou)
E-mail: [email protected]
History: This is a regular committee of First United Methodist Church, Madison.
Membership: Committee appointed from membership of FUMC.
Geographical area of work: Madison area.
Who does the work: Members of the committee and other members of the church.
Working links: We work with other committees in the church, as well as appropriate boards of the denomination and the Wisconsin Conference.
Purpose: To encourage the local church to work on issues of peace and justice.
Congressional District: 2nd Madison. (Update 2/06)
Page 51 Fox Valley Peace Coalition
Contact: Connie Kanitz
Address: 516 Riverway, Menasha, WI 54952
Phone: 920-722-6438
E-mail: [email protected] Coordinator’s e-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.focol.org/peace
History: This Fox Valley Peace Coalition started in late fall of 2002 as a protest group in response to the threat of war in Iraq.
Membership: 120 on the e-mail list.
Geographical area of work: Fox Valley (Appleton, Neenah, Menasha, Oshkosh, and surrounding cities of the Fox Valley).
Working Links: We are associates of the MultiCultural Center. We're establishing links with Lawrence University, area churches, area high schools, and are interested in speaking with/supporting individuals who have family members serving in Iraq.
Purpose: Promote peaceful resolution of conflict and social-economic justice in our homes, community, nation, and world through education, advocacy, and witness.
Projects: We have a monthly rally on the first Saturday of each month at Houdini Square, corner of College Avenue & Appleton St. downtown Appleton from 11 to noon. We encourage letters to the editors. We are finding out how area high schools are handling military recruitment and the ‘opt out’ option of students asking the school not to share personal contact information with the military. We will have an observance on the anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. We occasionally cosponsor a peace concert with F.O.R. and will be giving a presentation at the Social Justice Coalition on the first Tuesday in August, 2006. We send legislative alerts and share information from area groups to our email list.
Congressional District: 6th U.S. Representatives Thomas Petri ; 8th Mark Green. (Update 1/06)
Page 52 Franciscan Sisters of Mary
Contact: Sr. Mary Ellen Lewis and Sr. Priscilla Weber
Address: 1012 Erin St., Madison, WI 53715
Phone: 608-255-1510 Website: www.fsmonline.org
History: Founded in St. Louis, MO in 1872. Origins in Wisconsin in 1912.
Membership: 160 total members, with 6 sisters in Wisconsin.
Purpose: Our mission is to be present, hospitable, and compassionate. We choose to stand with our sisters and brothers who are poor and on the margins of society.
Congressional District: 2nd (Update 2/05)
Page 53 Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network of South Central Wisconsin
Contact: Cindy Crane, Ex. Director
Address: 301 S. Bedford St., Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-661-4141 E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.glsenscw.org Fax: 608-227-0141
History: Established locally in 1996, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network of South Central Wisconsin (GLSEN-SCW) is a chapter of the largest national grass roots organization working to create safe schools for LGBT youth.
Membership: 300 members and 700 on the mailing list.
Geographical Area of Work: South-central Wisconsin.
Who does the work: Three staff (2.5 FTE).
Working links: Briarpatch/Teens Like Us, Madison Metropolitan School District, Diverse and Resilient.
Purpose: To end anti-gay bias in K-12 schools .
Projects: Gay-Straight Alliance outreach, teacher training initiatives, teaching teachers how to intervene in times of conflict.
Publications: GLSEN updates in our newsletter
Congressional District: 2nd, US Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 54 Grandmothers for Peace
Contact: Jan Provost (Superior) Mona Cheslak (Duluth)
Address: 2614 North 22nd Street, Superior, WI 54880
Phone/Fax: 715-394-7929
E-mails: [email protected] (Jan) or [email protected] (Mona)
History: Founded in 1982 because of a belief that the possession of nuclear weapons and the intent to use them is morally wrong.
Membership: 60 local members. There are also two members of the men’s auxiliary. To become a member send name and address and we will take care of the rest. Dues ($5.00 a year) and donations fund the work.
Geographical area of work: Duluth/Superior/Ashland area.
Who does the work: Volunteers.
Working links: Grandmothers for Peace International, based in California [20,000 members worldwide.]
Purpose: Work with other peace groups to rid the entire world of nuclear weapons forever. Work to create a peaceful world for our grandchildren.
Projects: Annual (non-war) toy drive. Yearly scholarships awarded to local high school seniors and college students who work for peace and justice. Letter/fax campaigns. Participated in the Million Mom March in Washington DC for better gun control. Gaining signatures for banning land mines. Protesting continuation of the School of Americas.
Publications: Quarterly newsletter.
Congressional Districts: 7th, U.S. Representative David R. Obey. (Update 1/06)
Page 55 Gray Panthers of Wisconsin
Contact: Peggy Baime Age and Youth In Action Address: 614 S. Dickerson, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-255-6096 E-mail: [email protected]
History: Founded in 1969 by Maggie Kuhn in an effort to end the Vietnam War. Wisconsin chapter organized in 1980.
Membership: About 30 [membership is $20].
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin.
Who does the work: Members.
Working links: WISPIRG, WI Resources Protection Council, National Planned Parenthood, WORT, Earth Justice, Welfare Warriors.
Purpose: To educate, advocate, and petition for: environmental issues (clean air, water, food), public universal health system, and peace/justice. We network with many organizations on these issues. Memberships welcome, all genders, class, color, and age. We have an intergenerational philosophy.
Congressional Districts: Statewide districts 1-8. (Update 1/06)
Page 56 Great Lakes Region Social Concerns Network
Contact: Gabe Blood
Address: P.O. Box 1162, Madison, WI 53701
Phone: 608-267-2081 (office) 608-256-6453 (home)
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.bvmcong.org/
History: Members of the Great Lakes (GL) Region of the Sisters of Charity BVM organized a regional Social Concerns Committee in addition to a community-wide Social Justice Network and a Women's Network.
Membership: Any BVM member, associate, or friend of the community can attend the quarterly meetings of the GL Social Concerns Committee at Wright Hall in Chicago. All members and associates, who are on the GL region's mailing list, receive minutes.
Geographical area of work: The areas of interest are determined by the individual participants. Issues and activities can be international, national, state, or local.
Who does the work: All volunteers.
Working links: Project Irene sponsored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious of Illinois, 8th Day Center, and linkages with groups focused on peace, capital punishment, women in prison, housing, farm workers, immigrants, fair trade, SOA Watch etc.
Purpose: To work on social justice issues together and to bring regional attention to theses issues thus involving more members and associates.
Projects: Equal Exchange Coffee Project to encourage members and associates to purchase fair trade coffee. In addition to the GL Social Concerns Committee, the congregation is a member of the Interfaith Center of Corporate Responsibility and recently established a Shareholder Education and Advocacy group composed of Members and Associate volunteers. The congregation's Officers and Stewardship Committee address issues of corporate responsibility. Members and associates have received training at SOA Watch and have assisted with "peace-keeping" at the SOA weekend.
Congressional District: The Wisconsin members of the GL Social Concerns Committee live in Madison and Milwaukee. (Update 1/06)
Page 57 The Habiba Chaouch Foundation
Contact: Sue Nelson
Address:2424 Andre Ave, Janesville, WI 53545
Building bridges for tomorrow.... Phone: 608-741-3764 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.habiba.org
History: Incorporated in 1991, we support an ongoing effort to establish friendship between Arab, Arab/Americans, and Americans. While we were defining our mission and our identity, Habiba Chaouch died suddenly. Because she opened her home and her heart to Americans, with the blessing of her family, we named the Foundation after Habiba. The Habiba Chaouch Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. (We are also known now as the Habiba Foundation).
Membership: We are not a membership organization, and have a mailing list of over 400.
Geographical area of work: Primarily in Southern Wisconsin/Northern Illinois area because of funding limitations. We have been as far away as the Twin Cities. Our financial support comes from all over the country.
Who does the work: Sue Nelson with the assistance of board members. We are all volunteers.
Working links: American Friends Service Committee, Wisconsin Youth Company, schools, festivals, Madison Children’s Museum, Americans for Middle East Understanding.
Purpose: To lessen the level of violence in the world through education and exchange.
Projects: We focus on giving children facts and interesting ideas about Arab cultures and the people through a traveling display (10’x10’) for community events and festivals. We sponsor community programs for adults to provide information on Arab cultures and their contributions to the world. We have a mini-display, “Children around the Arab world,” for schools and libraries, plus we give books to libraries.
Publications: The Habiba.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 58 Hill Connections
Contact: Mary Pat Hill, OSM
Address: PO Box 24, Chaseburg, WI 54621
Phone: 608-788-6622 Fax: 608-788-6622 (may need to call first)
E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://hillconnections.org
History: Hill Connections was initiated by Mary Pat Hill, OSM, as a free-lance ministry in 1998 and as a web site in 1999. Marguerite Samz, OSM, has been collaborating with the web ministry since 2002. Mary Pat and Marguerite are Servants of Mary of Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
Geographical area of work: Hill Connections is based near La Crosse, Wisconsin. Website reaches people around the world; there were approximately 122,000 visitors in 2005.
Who does the work: Web ministry: two Servants of Mary primarily do the work; many others collaborate with and share their gifts. Outside financial partnership is sought to further the ministry.
Working links: Church Women United, La Crosse Interfaith Justice and Peace Committee, Servite Coalition for Justice, Women in Black, and many other social justice groups.
Purpose: The web ministry, http://hillconnections.org, is a project of Hill Connections, the free- lance ministry of members of the Servants of Mary of Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
The mission of the web site is to link and support Contemplation and Social Justice, faith with action. This ministry seeks to be educational, informational, and inspirational -- particularly for youth, those seeking spirituality, faith communities, and social activists. Goals include to: 1) Encourage links among spirituality, issues, people, ideas, and resources; 2) Develop faith-based, active citizenship; 3) Collaborate with others in building a faith-based, just, sustainable, and peace- filled world.
Projects: Hill Connections includes: faith reflections, inspirational people, rituals, links to spirituality and social justice sites, action alerts, an overview of social justice teachings and documents, introductions to social justice issues, announcements/calendars, prayer requests, and much more. A multi-faceted overview of Walking Gently on the Earth is in the process of development.
Congressional Districts: WI 3rd and 7th districts. (Updated 1/06)
Page 59 INTERFAITH JUSTICE AND PEACE GROUP
Contact: June Kjome
Address: 2525 S/32nd Street #13, La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone: 608-787-0466 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.hillconnections.org/ct/calendar2.htm
History: Founded in 1990 to bring an ecumenical, community-wide focus to peace and justice issues.
Membership: Not a membership organization. Holds monthly public meetings.
Geographical area of work: Greater LaCrosse area.
Who does the work: Volunteers.
Working links: With regional peace and justice activities/groups through interests of regular attendees.
Purpose: To build an area peacemakers’ support and witness group.
Projects: To seed and support ideas for other groups to implement. To organize peace vigils and demonstrations. To provide forums, and educational events, and encourage advocacy by members of the group.
Congressional District: 3rd, U.S. Representative Ron Kind. (Update 1/06)
Page 60 International Committee for the Peace Council
Contact: Daniel Gomez-Ibanez
Address: 2702 International Lane, Suite 108, Madison, WI 53704
Phone: 608-241-2200 Fax: 608-241-2209
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.peacecouncil.org
History: Founded in 1994 when several religious leaders asked for a way to work together and help each other's practical peacemaking activities.
Membership: Twenty Peace Councilors from a variety of religions set overall agenda and policy. Eleven Trustees administer programs with three full-time staff. Prospective Peace Councilors are invited to join by existing Peace Councilors. The work is funded by individual contributions and grants.
Geographical area of work: Global.
Who does the work: Peace councilors, trustees, staff, and volunteers.
Working links: Links with peace, human rights, environmental, religious, and other groups in each area where projects are under way. Accredited to the United Nations -- for example, as an observer at several diplomatic conferences concerning land mines.
Purpose: The mission of the Peace Council is to demonstrate that peace is possible, and that effective, inter-religious collaboration to make peace also is possible. In a world where religion too often is used to justify division, hatred, and violence, the Peace Councilors offer an alternative; the example of leaders from different religious communities working together in practical ways to relieve suffering and to make the world whole.
Projects: Actual projects under way are in the State of Chiapas (Mexico), North and South Korea, Thailand, Sudan, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine and support for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Publications: Newsletter and annual report. Also published Women and Religion in a Globalized World: A Conversation of Women's and Religious Leaders (2004) and Prayers for a World with No Landmines (1997).
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 61 Juneau County Peace Committee
Contact: John McGinley
Address: 217 Oak St., Mauston, WI 53948
Phone: 608-847-4929 E-Mail: [email protected]
Mission: Our group is focused on bringing peace to the world starting with Juneau County. We are interested in empowering and educating people to handle conflict without violence.
History: In the past we have created three affordable housing projects, offered a community mediation service, partnered with W2 to offer anger management classes, and partnered with the Robert Wood Foundation to offer assistance to senior citizens.
Membership: We have 10 members.
Project: We have offered a Peace Scholarship to graduating seniors since inception in 1980. Applicants are assigned a mentor from our membership and they design and implement a peacemaking project in the community. The maximum award is $1,000.
Congressional District: Ron Kind of the 3rd District.
(update 1/06)
Page 62 Kickapoo Peace Circle
Contact: Marcia Halligan
Address: S4001 River Road, Viroqua, WI 54665
Phone: 608-637-2079
E-mail: [email protected]
History: Formed January 17, 2002.
Membership and Projects: The Kickapoo Peace Circle began in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001 and the Quaker speaker series in November of that year. Eventually the focus of the group shifted to publishing Grassroots Initiative, an alternative paper printed three to four times a year and distributed mainly in southwestern Wisconsin. At this time, the future of Grassroots remains uncertain. However, communication remains as a theme of the various endeavors of those involved in this loosely-constructed group. A community website, www.kicktime.org, began last summer. It creates a village structure with pages for the various aspects of life in the area surrounding Viroqua. This website has editorial standards but tries to appeal to anyone in the community to contribute.
Also last summer a community radio station began web-streaming from Viroqua. Search out Radio Driftless at www.radiodriftless.org. Starting in September a weekly peace calendar airs covering projects and events. The scripts of peace calendars can be found by clicking ‘forums’ at the website and going to Peace Calendars. Anyone is our area should submit information about their projects or events to [email protected]. Radio Driftless has also joined WNPJ as a member group.
Members of our group started and sustain two peace vigils. The Viroqua peace vigil occurs on Thursdays between noon and 1 pm outside the post office on Jefferson St. The first Saturday of each month the Gays Mills vigil is held between 10 and 11 am at their post office. An on-line Kickapoo Peace discussion group also involves discussion of ideas, plans and information among interested participants.
Geographical area of work: The work of this group occurs mostly in southwestern Wisconsin. Viroqua and Gays Mills provide main focus points, but we welcome information and participation from people further afield.
Congressional District – 5th, Ron Kind is our Congressman. (Update 1/06)
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Lakeshore Peacemakers Local Group
Contact Persons: Linda Hunter or Mary Thiesen
Address: 2115 Indian Creek Drive, Manitowoc, WI 54220
Phone: 920-684-5590 E-mails: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: www.lakeshorepeacemakers.org
History: Founded in early 1980s to work on a nuclear weapons freeze.
Membership: Active e-mail list of about 75 and mailing list of about 25 more.
Geographical area of work: The northeastern shore of Lake Michigan, including the cities of Manitowoc, Mishicot, Maribel, Two Rivers, and Sheboygan.
Working Links: Member and affiliate of Peace Action Wisconsin and WNPJ.
Purpose: The Lakeshore Peacemakers is comprised of a group of individuals from the lakeshore area who are involved in peace and justice issues. Our purpose is three-fold: education, mutual support, and activism locally and globally on issues of peace and justice. We are enriched by all faith traditions and secular orientations committed to nonviolence. We seek to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. It is an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and a means of radical social change.
Projects: Voter registration and peace voter education, National Hot Lunch Program, referendum work in the school district, peace vigils, monthly business/education meetings, and special programs with films, speakers, and discussions.
Congressional Districts: 6th, U.S. Representative Thomas E. Petri; and 8th, U.S. Representative Mark A. Green. (Update 1/06)
Page 64 Loaves and Fishes Catholic Worker
Contact: Michele Naar-Obed Address: 1614 Jefferson St, Duluth, MN 55812 Phone:218-728-0629 E-Mail:[email protected]
History: an intentional community providing temporary hospitality to homeless men and homeless families. Also challenges the structures and powers that are responsible for the increasing disparity between the haves and have-nots through nonviolent direct action. Area of Work: mostly local and in the areas of northwestern Wisconsin, but some direct action work is done nationally and internationally. Who does the Work: The work is done by live in volunteers but also relies on help from members of the larger Duluth community. Working Links with Other Organizations: National Catholic Workers through newsletters and CW website; Nukewatch of Luck. Publications: Loaves and Fishes newsletter. Congressional District: Jim Oberstar’s district in Minnesota (updated 5/05)
Page 65 Lutheran Office for Justice and Peace
Contact: Rev. Kent Johnson
Address: 1707 Main St., Suite 121, LaCrosse, WI 54601
Phone: 608-397-7633 E-Mail: [email protected]
(update 11/05)
Page 66 Madison Arcatao Sister City Project
Contact Person: Barbara Alvarado
Address: P.O. Box 259205, Madison, WI 53725-9205
Phone and Fax: 608-251- 9280 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.us-elsalvador-sisters.org
History: The Madison Arcatao Sister City Project was created in 1986 through a City Council Resolution formulated by concerned Madisonians to bring light to state-sponsored violence against the people of Arcatao, El Salvador and to help end the isolation of targeted civilians. It increased local awareness of US foreign policy in El Salvador and provided humanitarian aid for the people of Arcatao suffering from the ravages of war.
Membership: Working Committee of 10-15 persons, and a group of several hundred volunteers.
Geographical area of work: Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. and El Salvador.
Who does the work: Core Working Group and one paid part-time staff person coordinates the work of many volunteers.
Working links: Member of the US - El Salvador Sister City Network, and Madison’s Sister Cities group. Links with the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN), Community Action on Latin America (CALA),Madison-Camaguey Sister City Association (MCSCA), the Madison Rafah Sister City Project, UW Student Labor Action Coalition, Family Farm Defenders, Just Coffee, Workers Rights Center/Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice.
Purpose:The Madison Arcatao Sister City Project and its Salvadoran partners provide mutual support and raise awareness about our common struggle for peace, justice and democracy. As partners, our central focus is building grass root coalitions both locally and on an international level as we organize around common issues of sustainable agriculture, fair trade, labor and immigrant rights and environmental preservation. Projects/Program: For twenty years, MASCP has accompanied the residents of Arcatao and neighboring communities through a series of advocacy, community development, health care and educational projects. MASCP has a scholarship program for students from Arcatao; communicates regularly with City Council of Arcatao; raises support for Salvadoran organizers in the regional area of Arcatao and two national sister city representatives based in San Salvador.Its program involves issues of fair trade, labor and immigrant rights and sustainable agriculture. MASCP in collaboration with local groups and the national US-El Salvador Sister City Network hosts Salvadoran visitors and send delegations to El Salvador to work on these global issues. Publications: Newsletter. Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 2/06)
Page 67 Madison Area Peace Coalition
Contact: Rae Vogeler
Mailing address: PO Box 8344, Madison, WI 53708-8344
Location address: 29 North Hancock (corner of Hancock and Mifflin).
Phone: 608-835-7501 (H) or 608-442-0030 (O)
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Website: www.madpeace.org
History: History: Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) was formed 9-25-01 by 200 area residents and a number of organizations in response to the 9-11 attacks. Determined our points of unity and organizational structure in the initial meeting. Sponsored city of Madison and county board resolutions calling for the cessation of bombing in Afghanistan, opposition to the war in Iraq, and opposition to the Patriot Act. Met with legislators to raise objections to the war and to attacks on civil liberties. Sponsored a “People for Peace” event that gathered blankets and supplies for families in Afghanistan. Have consistently been a voice to oppose and organize against the “War on Terror” and attacks on civil liberties, invasion of Iraq, US support of Israeli occupation, overthrow of Haiti’s government, U.S. torture and detentions and violations of international law. Have helped to legitimize dissent, criticize U.S. foreign and domestic policies, and organized for the impeachment of Bush administration, etc. Have sponsored a variety of activities including marches, rallies, forums and educationals, film showings, door-to-door canvassing, counter-recruitment in the schools, pickets, direct action, lobbying, tabling, seasonal caroling, giant puppets and street theater, and leafleting. Work in coalition with member groups and others to accomplish the above. Supported recent referendum campaign against war on Iraq and for bringing all troops home now.
Membership: About 900 individual members and 50 organizations.
Geographical area of work: Madison, Dane County, and surrounding area.
Who does the work: All volunteers, structured into ad hoc working groups. A coordinating committee, consisting of members elected at-large, facilitates communication between the working groups and coordinates overall activities.
Working links: Cooperate with the member groups in activities as requested by the organization and approved by general MAPC meeting.
Purpose: The mission of MAPC is to organize a broad-based movement to inform public opinion and promote US government policies that truly further peace, justice, and freedom in the world. These values are manifest in our three core principles: 1) Peace and justice, not war and revenge; 2) Unity and respect for diversity: stop scapegoating and harassment; 3) Protect human rights and civil liberties at home and abroad. We employ nonviolent strategies of communications, outreach, legislative initiatives, and direct action to promote our core principles and to further our goals.
Projects: Rallies, tabling, speakers bureau, leafletting, teach-ins, community outreach and education, street theater, guest columns, letters to editor, poetry readings and publication, legislative initiatives.
Publications: MAPC brochure; leaflets covering peace, civil liberties, and racial profiling issues; newsletter.
Congressional Districts: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 68 Madison Campaign for Free Speech TV
Contact: Chris Dols
Address: 206 N. Pinckney St., #2, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-215-7035 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cable.freespeech.org
History: The campaign has its origins in the National Conference on Media Reform held in Madison in the fall of 2003. Representatives of Free Speech TV attended the conference and Madison attendees became interested in the idea of bringing Free Speech TV to local cable. The campaign officially kicked-off in January of 2005.
Membership: We have 25 members. We are working to build a coalition of community groups that support media democracy and support for access to Free Speech TV’s programming.
Links: Groups that have signed-on so far include AFT 3220 TAA-PAC, Alliance for Animals, Center for Media & Democracy, Four Lakes Green Party of Dane County, Madison InfoShop, Madison Teachers, Inc., Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, South Central Federation of Labor, UW- Madison Green Progressive Alliance, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Wis-Kino.
Geographical area of work: Madison, Dane County.
Who does the work: One part-time staff member and a steering committee of volunteers.
Purpose: Madison residents are organizing to add Free Speech TV to local cable’s full-time offerings through Charter Communications. Our organization believes access to a diversity of viewpoints in the media is critical to the functioning of our democracy and that access to Free Speech TV would improve the quality of live in our community by helping to foster informed and civic-engaged residents. Free Speech TV is the first national, progressive television network. FSTV broadcasts independently-produced documentaries dealing with social, political, cultural, and environmental issues; commissions and produces original programming; develops programming partnerships and collaborations with social justice organizations; provides special live broadcasts from remote locations. See our website for more information.
Projects: The campaign organizes film screenings and other educational events to expose Madison residents to programming available through Free Speech TV. The main focus of the campaign is working to show Charter Communications support of Free Speech TV’s progressive programming in the Madison community.
Publication: The campaign has an email list: [email protected].
Congressional District: US Representative Tammy Baldwin in the 2nd district. (Update 1/06)
Page 69 Madison East Students for Freedom and Peace (MESFAP)
Contact: Sarah Santiago and Bill Gibson
Address: 2222 East Washington Avenue, Madison, WI 53704
Phone: 608-244-2460 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: Formed in early Spring, 2001.
Membership: Anyone at East High is eligible. We have about 30 members. The work is done at the High School and within the Madison community.
Who does the work? High school student volunteers and a teacher volunteer
Working links? Madison Area Peace Coalition
Purpose: MESFAP's focus of work is on opening the eyes and ears of youth to some of the unspoken injustices that exist and attempting to make the world a better place.
Projects: Organizing a raffle with proceeds going to an Afghani girl trying to attend college; raising funds to send to Guatemala through the Heifer International Project; presentation of counter- recruitment literature; raised funds for Darfur, Tsunami relief, Haiti, Palestine, Hurricane Katrina; hosted a teach-in about Darfur, the Iraq war, Palestine situation, Purple Heart presentation, and the Patriot Act; and maintain an educational wall at East High.
Congressional District: 2nd Congressional District (Tammy Baldwin)
(update 12/05)
Page 70 Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance (MadFTAA)
Contact: Yvonne Geerts or James Ploeser
Address: 1019 Williamson St., Madison WI 53703
Telephone: 608-347-4647 (cell) 608-262-9036 (w) FAX: 608-260-0900
E-mail: [email protected] OR [email protected] Website: www. madftaa.org
History: The Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance (MadFTAA) was formed in 1999 after the “Battle in Seattle” to organize a grassroots response to free trade regimes such as the WTO, World Bank, IMF, NAFTA, and FTAA, as well as to promote an alternative model of Fair Trade and global justice. MadFTAA has sponsored numerous educational events, conferences, and public forums on these topics, and facilitated the participation of Wisconsinites in global justice protests during free trade negotiations such as in Quebec, Washington DC, Cancun, and Miami. MadFTAA is also involved in annual events such as Buy Nothing Day, the International Day of Small Farmer Struggle, and the Fair Trade Holiday Fair, as well as the newly formed Yahara Food Farm Coalition. Speakers from MadFTAA are often asked to give presentations to other groups on the impact of corporate globalization and possible fair trade alternatives, participating in anti-sweatshop organizations and international solidarity campaigns.
Membership: MadFTAA has an active core group of about 10-12, with over two hundred on our listserv and other contact lists.
Geographical area of work: Broader Madison area, statewide, national and worldwide.
Who does the work: Volunteers. MadFTAA has no paid staff
Working links: In addition to a strong and growing coalition with campus based labor, civil rights and environmental activists, MadFTAA works closely with national global justice networks such as the 50 Years Is Enough Campaign, Global Exchange, World Social Forum, Via Campesina, and Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. It is also connected with the Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition, based in Milwaukee and various coalitions of regional Solidarity organizations that arise to resist the march of corporate 'free trade'.
Projects: MadFTAA exists to challenge corporate globalization, free trade, and neoliberal policies. It also works hard to create locally oriented fair-trade economic models within Madison and the greater Dane County bioregion. It is currently campaigning to ensure that the UW Madison campus serves only fair trade coffee from an exclusively fair trade roaster, hoping to leverage the University's market power for the good of the justice movement. MadFTAA has regular weekly meetings, produces educational materials and hosts films, speakers, and forums.
Publications: Some related factsheets of our own (such as “How Free Trade Hurts Wisconsin”); many of our resource files and videos are part of the Madison Infoshop collection available to the broader community.
Congressional District: #2 US Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 71 Madison Friends of International Students
Contact: Brian Beutter
Address: 716 Langdon St., UW Red Gym #223, Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-4010 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.intstudents.wisc.edu/mfis
History: For more than 50 years, Madison Friends of International Students (MFIS) has been connecting UW-Madison international students, scholars, and their families with individuals and families from the Madison community as a way to create global goodwill, understanding, and friendship around the world.
Membership: There are about 750 on the MFIS mailing list. New volunteers are always needed and welcome.
Who does the work: MFIS is an all-volunteer, non-profit group with no political or religious affiliation. Office support is provided by UW-Madison International Student Services.
Projects: MFIS offers Holiday Hospitality, Friendship Sharing, English Conversation Partners, Conversation and Coffee Hour, “Welcome to Wisconsin” Fall Picnic, State Capitol Reception, MFIS Annual Dinner, Temporary Housing, Furniture Loan, English Classes, and Coat Loan.
Congressional District: 2nd (Update 1/06)
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Madison Friends Meeting, Peace and Social Concerns Committee
Contact: Jack Tiffany
Address: 1134 Minocqua Crescent, Madison, WI 53705
Meeting House: 1704 Roberts Court, Madison, WI 53711
Phone: 608-233-8506 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.danenet.org/mmm/
History: Madison Friends Meeting was founded in about 1940. This Peace and Social Concerns Committee was formed about 1965 through the merger of a Peace Committee and a Social Concerns Committee to provide a way for Quakers in Madison to act on their traditional peace testimony and their concern for social justice.
Membership: About 150 people in the Friends Meeting and seven on the Peace and Social Concerns Committee and another 15 on related special projects’ sub-committees. Persons active in the Friends Meeting can join the Committee by indicating an interest.
Geographical area of work: South Central Wisconsin and Vietnam.
Working links: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Friends Committee on National Legislation, Northern Yearly Meeting, San Salvador Yearly Meeting, and Quaker Earth Care.
Purpose: The purpose of the Peace and Social Concerns Committee is to recommend funding for projects, and to provide leadership and information in support of projects and activities that promote peace and social justice, both locally and worldwide. These projects will be pursued in the spirit of nonviolence with the intention of fostering human compassion and understanding.
Projects: Support of Allied Neighborhood Projects, training in conflict resolution, and Madison Quaker projects in Vietnam.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative, Tammy Baldwin (Update 1/06)
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Madison Hours Co-op
Contact: Jon Hain
Address: 1202 Williamson St., Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-259-9050 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.madisonhours.org
History: Madison Hours was formed in 1996 to publish and support local currencies in and around Madison, Wisconsin.
Membership: 120 active.
Geographical area of work: Madison and surrounding areas.
Who does the work: 100% volunteer.
Working links: We work with food security, poverty and peace organizations. We are a member of Community Shares of Wisconsin, the Madison Area Peace Coalition, Wisconsin Community Fund, and the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice.
Purpose: The primary mission of the co-op is to create and sustain a local currency in order to promote economic equity and well-being and to promote cooperation among community members. Cooperative philosophy and values are an essential part of our enterprise.
Projects: We have a potluck on the 15th of every month. Location announced on our website. We also have a pancake breakfast on the second Sunday of each month at the Wil-Mar Center in Madison.
Publications: Quarterly publication of Hour Community. (Update 1/06)
Page 74 Madison Infoshop
Contact Person: Volunteers
Address: 1019 Williamson St., Madison WI 57303
Telephone: 608-262-9036 Fax. 608-260-0900
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.madisoninfoshop.org
History: The Madison Infoshop is a resource clearinghouse for progressive communities statewide. It has existed in various forms and locations for over a decade in Madison. We are a non-hierarchical, anti- authoritarian, all volunteer collective that provides informational resources, a safe space, and organizing assistance to individuals and groups working to achieve lasting social change. We aim to “educate, agitate and organize” ourselves and the surrounding community on local and global issues that challenge privilege and hierarchy and bring about peace and justice. Some of our resources available to the broader activist community include: radical video and book lending library, newspaper and zine collection, issue resource files. theater props, art supplies, graphix folders, public access to Internet, word processing, fax machine, and meeting/work space, as well as skills shares, trainings, and workshops on a wide variety of topics, from nonviolent direct action and street theater to silk screening and holistic health care.
Membership: The collective consists of a dozen people, with several hundred more supporters.
Geographical area of work: Madison, statewide, and regional.
Working links: The Madison Infoshop is part of a global network of infoshops and radical community resource centers and also a unionized jobshop recognized through the Industrial Workers of the World — IWW (I.U. 620). The Infoshop is a member and supporter of many other activist groups and grassroots projects such as the Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance, Food not Bombs, Biodiesel Collective, Critical Mass, Madison Earth Day to May Day Coalition, etc.
Projects: The Madison Infoshop is involved in numerous ongoing projects. Examples include organizing events and protests around free trade regimes such as the WTO and FTAA, hosting the “Be the Media” convergence in conjunction with the Media Reform Conference, bringing alternative cultural events to Madison such as Clamor Magazine and the Lost Film Fest, challenging irresponsible UW-Madison investments and tax-payer subsidized boondoggles such as the MG&E cogen power plant, as well as resisting downtown gentrification, sweatshops, and runaway consumerism.
Publications: The Madison Infoshop produces a wide range of fact sheets and brochures on all sorts of topics, many of which can also be found on our webpage. We also produce the popular “Dis-Orientation Manual” each year, an alternative resource guide for students and others who frequent UW-Madison.
Congressional District: #2 Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 2/06)
Page 75 Madison Mennonite Church
Contact: Carola Breckbill
Address: PO Box 44522, Madison, WI 53744
Phone: 608-873-0613 (home) 608-276-7680 (church) E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.madison-mennonite.org
Membership: About 120 members including children
Geographical area of work: We are an urban Mennonite congregation with most members living in Madison and a few in surrounding communities of Dane County
Who does the work: Many members are involved with projects under the rubric of peace and justice. The peace and service-related activities of our church are now assisted by a new committee entitled the Faith in Action Support Team; FAST supports and facilitates members who feel called to engage their faith in action-oriented ways.
Peace and Justice Committee (PJC): 1) Support of peacemakers in Israel/Palestine, especially the Christian Peacemaker Teams and Coalition for Secure Dwellings in the Occupied Territories; 2) Support of local events on nonviolent resolution of Middle East conflict; 3) Distribution of yard signs during initiation of Gulf War; 4) Peace vigils in Madison and Stoughton; 5) Letter writing campaigns. Recently, our PJC has focused on education relating to conscientious objection and draft counseling: Several of our members have undergone draft counselor training and participate in the Wisconsin Draft Counseling Network. We have put on numerous educational sessions about the draft for area churches and youth groups, including how to register as a CO. We have visited the offices of Senator Feingold and Representative Baldwin on several occasions, to raise awareness of the possibility of a draft and to ensure that the CO option remains intact.
Other committees and activities: 1) Interfaith Hospitality Network. Provides shelter and meals for community residents who lack these, on a rotating basis with other churches, for one weekend every 3 months. 2) Several of our members have written a book, accompanied by a song, entitled Praying With Our Feet, published in 2005 by Herald Press. The book tells the story, in song, of a family which participates in a local peace rally as an expression of their faith. 3) Mary House. A Catholic Worker house that houses family members visiting inmates. We assist the Mary House resident staff by performing chores inside and outside the house several days per year. 4) Mennonite Central Committee has periodic needs for relief kits, special projects, and disaster relief. 5) Church members participate in many other peace and justice-related projects.
Publication: Out church newsletter lists activities and opportunities.
Congressional District: 2nd, Dane County. (Updated 2/06, by Carl Stafstrom)
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Madison/Rafah Sister City Project
Contact: Jennifer Lowenstein or Barb Olson
Address: MRSCP, PO Box 55371, Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-215-9157 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.Madisonrafah.org
History: Founded January 2003.
Membership: About 20 active members and much larger group of supporters. Open to anyone who wants to participate in our projects.
Geographical area of work: Mainly Madison and Dane County, with some outreach elsewhere.
Who does the work: Volunteers.
Working links: Member of Madison Sister Cities group, member of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, working relationship with Olympia-Rafah Sister City in Olympia, Washington; member Madison Area Peace Coalition.
Purpose: To establish a people-to-people relationship between citizens of Madison and Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine; to focus on humanitarian, social, and cultural issues of concern to both cities; and to provide material assistance and support to the devastated community of Rafah. We were denied status of an official Madison Sister City, but continue to work as an NGO.
Projects: Health Committee: Powdered Milk to Rafah Campaign; Family Support Committee: Marketing beautiful, handmade embroidery by the women of Rafah; Olive Oil Project, selling West Bank Fair Trade olive oil; plan other activities including Educational Assistance and Pen-pals campaign and possible Urban Agriculture Project. Films, slide presentations, speakers, and videos available. Will continue to sponsor a variety of public educational activities.
Congressional District: 2nd, US Representative Tammy Baldwin’s district. (Update 1/06)
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Madison Unitarian Universalist Young Adult and Campus Ministry (MUUYACM) Contact: Stacy Harbaugh, Program Coordinator Address: First Unitarian Society 900 University Bay Dr. Madison, WI 53705 Phone:(608) 852-5822 Fax: (608) 255-9809 E-mail:[email protected] Web Site: http://www.muuyacm.org Organizational History: MUUYACM is the oldest, recognized religious organization at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has a rich history of being a community for religious liberals and freethinkers. Today, the group is a home for Unitarian Universalist college students and young adults in the Madison area. Membership: Membership in MUUYACM is geared for 18-35 year olds who are interested in Unitarian Universalism. Geographical Area of Work: MUUYACM serves the Madison area. Who does the Work: MUUYACM is staffed by a minister at the First Unitarian Society and a part-time paid coordinator. Leadership comes from two co-chairs elected by the group members. Working Links with Other Organizations: MUUYACM serves students from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the Madison Area Technical College. MUUYACM is funded primarily by donors and members of the First Unitarian Society of Madison. Purpose: MUUYACM exists to provide a spiritual home for Unitarian Universalist young adults in Madison. The group meets for a weekly worship as well as social and volunteer activities. Projects: The group has had an annual trip to the vigil outside the School of the Americas and has organized alternative spring break trips that include a service project. Publications: See the website, http://www.muuyacm.org to download our weekly electronic newsletter. Congressional District: Tammy Baldwin’s in greater Madison (update 1/06)
Page 78 Madison-area Urban Ministry
Contact Person: Sheila Spear, President
Address: 2300 S. Park Street, Suite 5, Madison, WI 53713
Phone: 608-256-0906 Fax: 608-256-4387
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.emum.org
History: Madison-area Urban Ministry (MUM) was founded in 1973 in an attempt to give congregations an opportunity to engage in work in declining neighborhoods. Over the years, MUM is responsible for beginning and then "spinning off" programs which have become separate agencies such as Madison Community Health Center, Family Enhancement, Transitional Housing, Project Home, and Adult Day Care Centers.
Membership: About 50 congregations. Funded through contributions and grants. Paid staff of three and many volunteers.
Geographical area of work: Madison and Dane County.
Working links: Religious groups, Wisconsin Council of Churches, United Way, Dane County United, Community Action Coalition, schools, neighborhood groups, and mayor and county executive offices.
Purpose: MUM is a composed of spiritual people and neighbors working together for social change.
Projects: Restorative Justice Initiative with focus upon prisoner re-entry: Documentary Film Today's Prisoners, Tomorrow's Neighbors; Returning Prisoner Simulation - adult education workshop about re-entry; Speaker Bureau, Voices Beyond Bars; Circles of Support for returning prisoners. Greater Isthmus Group (GIG) sees housing as both a social and a racial justice issue, and works on inclusionary zoning, monitors Section 8 voucher availability and compliance, raises funds for eviction prevention and involves members of congregations in these efforts.
Publications: Monthly newsletter, The Dialogue, and monthly listing of volunteer opportunities/events called Social Action Connection.
Congressional District: 2nd, US Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 2/06)
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Madison Women for Peace: CODEPink
Contact: Amy Fuelleman
Address: 911 Laurie Dr., Madison, WI 53711
Phone: 608-274-5922 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.madwomen.org
Mission: Women for Peace is a women-centered and women-focused grassroots peace organization that employs a wide variety of protest, public education, and other tactics to achieve peace and social justice. As women and girls who face sexism in our communities, we recognize our common connections with oppressed people around the world. We strive to live the change we want in the world through our own process and dynamics. We value all members and their contributions, seek to be open and inclusive, and work to create a positive and encouraging atmosphere. Women for Peace pledges to support and communicate with other area peace and social justice organizations to maximize the effect of our energies.
History: Began in a blaze of pink and white as women and allies circled the State Capitol in a snowstorm on International Women's Day, March 8, 2003.
Geographical area of work: Madison area, expanding throughout the state.
Membership: All women are welcome.
Who does the work: Volunteers, sharing all aspects of inspiration, joy, and work.
Working links: CodePINK!; Women for Peace; WNPJ; Madison Area Peace Coalition.
Projects: 1) Picketed the media "Tour of Shame" at the local Fox affiliate criticizing the media's biased coverage of the war on Iraq; 2) Press conference on media consolidation, FCC, vote to allow increased concentration; 3) Mothers Acting Up Mother's Day parade at the Farmer's Market; 4) Participated in 16 Days of Action Against Gender Violence; 5) Collaborated with MAPC to plan and orchestrate the September 11 Peace Vigil and the October 25 "Spokes of Peace" rally; 6) Promoted and benefited from the "Songs in the Key of Peace" music tour; 7) Made wrapping paper and cinnamon goddesses which we sold at a table shared with WNPJ at the Fair Trade Holiday Fair; 8) Worked with other groups and individuals to stop the Concealed Carry (Weapons) in our state.
(updated 12/05)
Page 80 Madtown Liberty Players
Contact: Gail Vick
Address: PO Box 14321, Madison, WI 53708-4321
Phone: 608-239-1899 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.madlibplayers.org
History: Madtown Liberty Players (MLP) was formed in June of 2003. Several of the founding members were active in the Madison Area Peace Coalition, of which MLP is a proud member. Fusing art with politics, MLP has addressed the loss of civil liberties under the USA PATRIOT Act, the human costs of the war in Iraq, media reform, corporate control of our political system, marriage equality and environmental concerns.
Membership: Players in the Madtown Liberty troupe are all volunteers..
Geographical area of work: Productions have been staged in public spaces in the greater Dane county area, as well as in Stevens Point and Minnesota.
Working links: The Madtown Liberty Players has partnered with other organizations, notably the Clarence Kailin Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace, to raise public awareness of important issues. We have shared our props and puppets to other groups working for peace and justice and our beautiful puppets provide imagery and spectacle to regional rallies, neighborhood celebrations and community parades.
Purpose: Madtown Liberty Players was formed to fuse art with politics. The Madtown Liberty Players defend and celebrate public space in the twenty-first century -- where citizens can come together outside the realm of personal interests and commercial consumptive space to explore political and social issues.
Congressional District: 2nd
(Update 1/06)
Page 81 Mary House
Contact: Cassandra Dixon
Address: 3579 County Highway G, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
Phone: 608-586-4447 E-mail: [email protected]
Mission: Mary House is a Catholic Worker house, dedicated to offering support in terms of hospitality for visitors to those who come to see relatives and friends in the Oxford Prison.
History: Mary House has provided hospitality to visitors since 1989.
Membership: No paid staff or members. Volunteers welcome.
(Update 1-06)
Page 82 Midwest Renewable Energy Association
Contact: Craig Buttke
Address: 7558 Deer Road, Custer, WI 54423
Phone: 715-592-6595 E-mail: [email protected]
History: The Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. Founded in 1990, this grassroots organization was created to organize the first Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair in recognition of the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, membership in the MREA is open to all interested individuals and businesses.
Purpose: The mission of the MREA is to provide a network for sharing ideas, resources, and information with individuals, businesses, and communities to promote a sustainable future through renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Membership: More than 3,000 members and contributors on the mailing list.
Projects: Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair is the largest and longest running renewable energy educational event in the world. The Fair features hundreds of workshops, exhibits, and displays. It’s fun for the whole family. ReNew the Earth Institute, MREA’s educational facility and office, was purchased in 1998. Through the generous donations of members and friends, it is quickly becoming a state-of-the-art demonstration site for renewable energy equipment. Tours are available. Workshops throughout the year offer participants the chance to gain in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience. Topics include: general renewable energy, water and space heating, photovoltaic systems, wind systems, and alternative construction and sustainable living. Course catalogs available upon request.
Publications: ReNews, MREA’s quarterly newsletter, is printed on 100% recycled paper and includes information on the MREA, Midwest and regional happenings, and political updates.
(Update 1/06)
Page 83 Mining Impact Coalition of Wisconsin
Contact: Dave Blouin
Address: P.O. Box 55372, Madison, WI 53705-9l72
Phone: 608-233-8455
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.miningimpacts.net
History: Founded in 1994 as 501(c)(3) dedicated to education and research on mining.
Membership: Approximately 600 on mailing list. Volunteer Board.
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin and the Great Lakes bioregion.
Working Links: Numerous organizations such as the Sierra Club, Midwest Treaty Network, and Clean Wisconsin.
Purpose: Research and education about metallic and non-metallic mining.
Projects: Partner organization in Wolf Watershed Education Project.
Publications: Downstream, approximately quarterly.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 2/06)
Page 84 Money, Education and Prisons Task Group
Contact: Barbara Rowe
Address: PO Box 5311, Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-849-6019 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.wiprisons.org
History: Money, Education and Prisons (MEP) began as a conference planning group in 1998. Joann Griffin of Project Bootstrap was concerned about the impact of the growing prison system on minority communities and on the State’s education budget. Conferences were held in Middleton and Milwaukee in 1999. The success of the conferences moved the group to organize as an ongoing entity. Prison Awareness Week was featured in October 2001. A conference on Mental Health and the Prison System was held in 2002. MEP joined with the UW System in planning for a summit held at UW Oshkosh 2003, “A Summit on Community Justice, People, Prevention and Prisons: Reclaiming Safety for the Public Good."
Membership: Open to general membership. Dues are $15 annual, with a sliding scale.
Geographical area of work: Statewide membership.
Who does the work: No paid staff. Work is done by board members and volunteers.
Working links: MAFAAC - Madison Area Family Advisory/Advocacy Council's mission is to inform, support and advocate for families in the Madison Metropolitan School District through high school based clusters. .
Purpose: The Task Force on Money, Education and Prisons will focus public attention on the criminal justice system and mobilize public action: 1) To reduce the numbers of incarcerated persons; 2) To enact an appropriate balance between incarceration and community based programs that is humane, cost-effective and better preserves public safety; 3) To remove the disproportionate impact of our criminal justice on people of color, people in poverty, people of limited education and people with mental illness.
Projects: Conferences, newsletter, speakers bureau, phone issue, demonstrations, resource library, production of video and audio presentations, and website.
Publications: Bimonthly newsletter, Money, Education and Prisons.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 2/04)
Page 85 National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance – Madison Chapter
Contact: Joy First or Sethe Jensen Address: 6014 Gateway Green Monona, WI 53716 Phone: 608 222-7581 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Web Site: http://www.iraqpeldge.org
Organizational History: The Iraq Pledge of Resistance, founded in September of 2002, is a nationwide network of activists and organizations committed to ending the war in Iraq through nonviolent, Gandhian and Kingian resistance.
Membership: Open to anyone interested in following the guidelines of Gandhi and Martin Luther King in doing nonviolent civil resistance against the war.
Geographical Area of Work: This is a local chapter of a national organization.
Who does the Work: Volunteers
Purpose: To all who are sick of heart and conscience over the death and destruction in Iraq, we call on you to join us in nonviolent resistance to this war. For the sake of our humanity; for the sake of justice; for the sake of peace in Iraq, we must act now. And we cannot rest from our campaign of nonviolent resistance until our demands of peace and justice are met. We call for expressions of nonviolent resistance that are many and varied. From the offices of Congresspersons and Senators to military recruiters and military bases, from our payment of federal taxes to the facilities where weapons are made that become the profits and sorrows of empire, we welcome each and every person who is moved to engage in or support non-cooperation and nonviolent resistance, at whatever level, to take action.
Projects: The group organizes actions of civil resistance in Wisconsin. Several actions took place at Truax field in Madison before the war began and at the one year mark of the war. Several actions have taken place at military recruiting stations in Madison. In early 2006, the Madison chapter participated in a campaign endorsed by the national group "Call to Conscience of the U.S. Congress" and put pressure on Senator Kohl to speak out against the war. Members of the local group participate in national civil resistance actions, at the White House in September 2005, and at the Pentagon in March 2006. (update 1-06)
Page 86
National Peace Foundation - WI Contact: Cathy Sultan
Address: 1451 Blackberry Rd., Eau Claire, WI 54701
Phone: 715-839-9298 E-mail: [email protected] Website: nationalpeace.org
History: The National Peace Foundation (NPF) was established in 1982 as the companion organization to the National Peace Academy Campaign, which lobbied for the establishment of a peace academy. When the legislation establishing the US Institute of Peace (USIP) passed in 1984, the Campaign ceased and the Foundation took over as a membership organization, first supporting the implementation of the USIP legislation, and then establishing its own programs supporting conflict-resolution education and peace building for peacemaking in the US and internationally.
Membership: 6,000.
Geographical area of work: National wide in U.S.; Russia, South Caucasus, Africa (Zimbabwe), Cuba, Israel/Palestine.
Who does the work: Paid staff, board and a few volunteers .
Working links: NPF is a founding member of the Alliance for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention (AICPR), a coalition of organizations working in international peacemaking and peace building. This group works with The Africa University in Zimbabwe, Ivanovo University in Russia, Clemson University in South Carolina, and the Open World Leadership Center at the Library of Congress.
Purpose: The National Peace Foundation seeks to prevent conflict and build peace at home and around the world. NPF programs help people and their leaders develop citizen networks, advance peace education, and promote democratic values through international exchanges.
Projects: In partnership with the Institute of World Affairs and the US State Department's Wye River Peace Initiative, sponsors a Middle East Dialogue involving youth leaders of both Palestine and Israel. The Open World Leadership Program, under grants from the Open World Leadership Center at the Library of Congress, brings emerging leaders in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union to be hosted in cities and communities throughout the United States in order to gain significant firsthand experience on how American democracy works and how American citizens conduct their daily lives. The Russian Civic Network, NPF Board, Advisory Board, and Fellows work with communities, corporations, and local governments in Russia on strategies for solving local problems.
Publication: Will be reinstating our Peace Reporter newsletter shortly. (update 1/06)
Page 87 Neighbor to Neighbor Progressive Network - Madison
Contact: Terry Carpenter
Address: P.O. Box 258002, Madison, WI 53725-8002
Phone: (608) 277-1963 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: NNPN began in early 2005 with the introduction of its “Meet Your Scary Neighbor” game and launch of its website at www.nnpn.net. New website features are under development -- including the ability for any neighborhood to add their own webpage with Neighborhood News, Projects, Resources and more. Website enhancements will be available in the spring of 2006.
Purpose: Neighbor to Neighbor Progressive Network is a non-partisan, grassroots organization committed to having fun while advancing progressive moral values and policies. NNPN uses social events in neighborhoods and communities to reach people on a personal level. Our goal is to inform and empower a responsible and caring network of neighbors.
Projects: Each neighborhood or group decides which projects they want to initiate. NNPN will help facilitate that process. Some suggestions: Rain Gardens, Bike Paths, Community Gardening, Bio-Diesel, or Your Favorite Project.
(Updated 2/06)
Page 88 North Country Fair Trade
Contact: John Flory
Address: 1385 Goodrich Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105
Phone: 615-336-1698 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: ethicalgoods.com
History: North Country Fair Trade is a wholesale distributor of apparel products manufactured by Fair Trade businesses in Latin America. Current products include t-shirts and canvas tote bags available from two Fair Trade sources: 1) a Women’s Sewing Cooperative called Cooperativa Maquiladora Mujeres Nueva Vida, Nicaragua, and 2) Dignity and Justice Assembly Shop, Maquiladora Dignidad y Justicia, Piedras Negras, Mexico.
(Update 2/05)
Page 89 Northwoods Peace Fellowship
Contact: Wix Covey
Address: T 12631 Hwy. W, Wausau, WI 54403 Dedicated to peaceful alternatives for individuals and our community in North Central Wisconsin Phone: 715-675-9681 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: The Fellowship began in the mid 1990's, and has become very active since the spring of 2004. Membership: 15. Geographical area of work: Central Wisconsin. Who does the work: Volunteers. Purpose: Provide a forum for activists in our community to share their perspectives on issues of peace and social justice, create an opportunity for open dialogue to promote peace in our community, and celebrate our community’s stories of hope and inspiration.
We are involved with organizing the following opportunities for our community: 1)Nonviolent workshops, trainings and actions; 2) peace education with study groups which use literature and film resources as a means to create dialogue between individuals (Wausau Peace Studies and Merrill Peace Studies); 3) Counter military recruitment and conscientious objector education, training and legal assistance as alternatives for selective service and the military draft; 4) Venues for community members and activists to publish their perspectives on peace and social justice issues through opinion papers, newsletters and pamphlets; 5) Creative studies using the visual arts as a forum for peace building.
Congressional District: 7th District. US Representative David Obey. (Update 1/06)
Page 90 Nukewatch
Contacts: Bonnie Urfer and John LaForge
Address: PO Box 649, Luck, WI 54853
Phone: 715-472-4185 Fax: 715-472-4184
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nukewatch.com
History: Founded in 1981 as an outgrowth of the case U.S. vs The Progressive Magazine. The government attempted to censor the article by preventing publication of "The H-Bomb Secret" by Howard Morlan.
Membership: Approximately 2,165 on the mailing list in North America and Europe. (Membership is $25 a year.) Paid staff of two, twelve working volunteers, six-member board funded by contributions from members and grants.
Geographical area of work: United States.
Working links: The Nuclear Resister, War Resisters League, Loaves and Fishes in Duluth, US Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Powers in Space, Shundahai Network, Veterans for Peace, and Grandmothers for Peace International.
Purpose: Nukewatch is a Wisconsin-based peace action group dedicated to the abolition of nuclear power and weapons. It brings critical attention to the locations, movements, dangers, and politics of nuclear weapons, depleted uranium, food irradiation, and radioactive waste. Staff and volunteers advocate Gandhian nonviolence in education and action.
Projects: Education and information on US nuclear power and weapons policy and development. Watchdogs and publicizes the transport of radioactive waste, and the spread of the nuclear industry, and civil resistance campaign against depleted uranium weapons.
Publications: Quarterly newsletter, The Pathfinder ($15-$25/year).
Congressional: Located in 7th, US Representative David Obey, but work is national. (12/05)
Page 91 Pax Christi – Madison
Contact: Trudi Jenny
Address: 818 Hiawatha Dr., Madison, WI 53711
Phone: 608-233-1898 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: Marie-Marthe Dortel Claudot, a French woman, founded Pax Christi in1945 in the aftermath of World War II. She met regularly with a small group to pray for forgiveness, reconciliation and the peace of Christ after having witnessed fellow Catholics killing one another in the war. The movement spread across Europe and in 1972 Pax Christi USA was born. Mission statement: Pax Christi USA strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society. Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation. Pax Christi USA commits itself to peace education and, with the help of its bishop members, promotes the gospel imperative of peacemaking as a priority in the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the efforts of all its members and in cooperation with other groups, Pax Christi USA works toward a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. One of 250 local groups across the United States, Pax Christi Madison was formed in January 2004 to support local peacemaking efforts. For more information, see www.paxchristiusa.org.
Membership: 95 on mailing list; 25 in regular attendance at meetings.
Geographical Area of Work: Catholic Diocese of Madison
Who Does the Work: Volunteers
Purpose: Our mission is to explore Christ’s call to peace, nonviolence and justice and to witness to this call in our personal lives and in the wider community.
Projects: Pax Christi-Madison holds regular meetings at Edgewood College on the 2nd last Thursday of each month, participates in local peace initiatives and informs the community of their work at a table at the Madison Farmer's Market. Monthly programs are designed to inform the local community on issues of peace and justice. Topics for 2005-2006 include: • Impressions from Bolivia and Peru, presented by Rev. Tony Schumacher and Mary Klink
• The New Nuclear Danger, video presentation by Helen Caldicott, M.D.
• Depleted Uranium, presented by Mary Buntin, MPH, MS.
• Living a Nonviolent Life, presented by Bonnie Block, nonviolence trainer and peace activist
• Racism at the Local Level, presented by Barbara Golden and Ed Steichen, advocate for prison reform.
• SOA Watch Report, presented by participants in the 2005 SOA Watch in Ft. Benning, GA.
• Racism and the Church, video presentation by Fr. Bryan Massingale, Associate Professor at Marquette University
• Report from Colombia, presented by Rev. David Wanish, priest serving parishes in Lafayette County
• Counter Recruitment in Our Schools, presented by Mary Ann Novascone, of the Wisconsin Draft Counselors' Network.
• The Consequences of Water for Profit, presented by Arlene and Hiroshi Kanno, water rights activists. (Updated 2/06)
Page 92 Peace Action Wisconsin
Contacts: Matt Scholtes (Office Manager) George Martin (Program Director) Julie Enslow (Newsletter/Organizer) Eva Robar-Orlich (Organizer)
Address: 1001 East Keefe Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Phone: 414-964-5158 Fax: 414-431-0756
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.PeaceActionWI.org
History: Founded in 1977 as "Mobilization for Survival", what started as a group of activists meeting around a kitchen table has grown a statewide mailing list of over 2,000.
Membership/funding: About 2,000. (Annual membership is $10 limited income, $35 for an individual, $50 for a family, $100 sustainer, and $1000 lifetime.) Funded by membership dues, donations, fund raisers, and grants.
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin.
Who does the work: 3 paid staff, 2 unpaid staff and over 100 volunteers.
Working links: Nationally affiliated with Peace Action (peace-action.org), and United for Peace and Justice (unitedforpeace.org). Other formal affiliates: Milwaukee Coalition for a Just Peace, the Peace Seekers of Washington County, the Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice, and the Sheboygan Area PeaceSeekers. Our sister organization (the Peace Education Project) is also a member of Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee and Community Shares of Wisconsin.
Purpose: Peace Action uses education, legislative lobbying, public witness and nonviolent action in our work to end military intervention, abolish nuclear weapons and nuclear power, work for domestic gun control, and transfer military spending to meet human needs.
Projects: Current focus: End US war and occupation in Iraq and prevent a wider war. Committees: Middle East (Israeli/Palestinian conflict); Disarmament (Nuclear Abolition, End Missile Defense, the militarization of space); Counter-Military Recruitment (also Draft and Conscientious Objection); School of the Americas Watch; Pan-African Issues; Veterans for Peace; Cable TV (video production); Voter rights and Civil Rights.
Publications: Monthly newsletter, The Mobilizer. E-mail: Weekly Action alerts - To sign up, send a blank email to: [email protected] and look for the automatic response.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8; about 50% in Milwaukee. (Update 2/06)
Page 93 Peace Economics
Contact: Bob Reuschlein
Address: 3264 Stonecreek Drive, Madison, WI 53719
Phone: 608-848-5248 (home) or 608-288-9192 (office) Fax: 608-274-4713
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.realeconomy.com
History: Founded in 1985.
Geographical area of work: US, especially Midwest.
Working links: Citizens for Global Solutions, Madison Area Peace Coalition, and Radio for Peace International.
Purpose: Motivate the Midwest to abandon its economic colonization by the military industrial complex. We suffer in military buildups and prosper in military build-downs. High military states "own" the military industrial complex and low military Midwest states "rent" it. We pay the increased taxes without the spending benefit.
We teach the history of how military spending dominates all economies, depleting manufacturing, construction, and farming. Thus the current military buildup has stagnated the economy and led to lost manufacturing jobs. Trade has been with us for a decade now, seven years of prosperity and three of job losses. What's changed is the military increase of 80% in the last four years, preventing new manufacturing jobs from replacing the lost ones. Documents how military regions in the South and West are enriched at the expense of the manufacturing in the low-military Midwest where 41% of the nations jobs have been lost in the 2000-2002 buildup. National political dominance and murder rates are higher in the high military-economy states.
Projects: Promotion through conferences, videos, audiotapes, and radio. Education through workshops, research, and website.
Publications: Peace Economics (1986), Strength Through Peace (1989), Natural Global Warming, (1991), Real Economy (1999), Weather Wealth and Wars (1999), currently working on Black Hole, Military Spending and the Collapse of Empire.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 94
Peace North
Contact: Carol Hannah Address: 11864 N. Hwy 63, Hayward, WI 54843 Phone: 715-634-1319 Website: www.peacenorth.org
History: Formed in Jan. 2001. Membership: 70.
Geographical area of work: Namekagon River Valley (Drummond, Cable, Seeley, Hayward, LCO Reservation, Spooner, Trego). Who does the work: We're all volunteers. Working links: We collaborate primarily with the Northern Anti-war Coalition and Northwoods Peace Initiative. See our network page on website: http://www.peacenorth.org/network.htm. Purpose: Peace North is a group of concerned citizens in the Northwest Wisconsin area. Our mission is to promote a world of peace and justice. Our means: 1) Propose non-violent solutions to conflicts; 2) Be visible in our communities witnessing for peace; 3) Educate and motivate our fellow citizens and elected decision makers by: educating ourselves so that we can teach others; 4) Disseminating up-to-date information about peace and social justice activities by the use of : printed materials, maintaining an informative website, using community radio stations and newspapers, writing letters to local newspapers and to decision makers, talking to our neighbors when appropriate occasions arise, and sponsoring public events such as movies, workshops, etc.; 5) Network with other groups and seek the support of local religious groups to accomplish our mission. Projects: Peace-studies shelves in libraries, movie series, monthly peace vigils, web site, nonviolent actions. Sponsored nonviolence training seminars in 2003-2004. Congressional District: US Representative Dave Obey in the 7th. (Update 1/06)
Page 95 Peace Seekers of Washington County
Contacts: Brian Bunzel and Tom Haebig
Address: 6725 N. Trenton Road, West Bend, WI 53090
Phone: 262-338-7945 or 262-573-0045 (cell)
E-mail: [email protected]
History: Peace Seekers has been in West Bend even before the first Gulf War, but really grew after 9/11, with house meetings and support potlucks, meetings at local churches, vigils to stand for peace, speakers, displays at events, floats at parades, a regular newsletter, and sub-committees on Palestine, the draft, and legislative updates.
Projects: Vigils every fourth Saturday of the month.
Membership: There are 200 on the e-mail list and 50 on a phone tree list.
Congressional District: 5th with Rep. Sensenbrenner.
(Update 4/05)
Page 96 People for Peace
Contact: Bonni Miller
Address: 108 S. Main St, Waupaca, WI 54981
Phone: 715-256-2672
E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://wpfp.blogspot.com
History: The group has been active in the community since the 1980s, with particular drive during times of conflict.
Geographical area of work: Waupaca and surrounding communities.
Who does the work: Volunteers and diverse membership.
Working links: Many indirect links, nothing directly.
Purpose: To promote peace at home, in our communities, and throughout the world through education, peaceful protest, witnessing, networking, events that nurture peacemaking and promote solidarity.
Projects: Peace Day, Vigils for Peace, Peace Scholarships, Peaceful Protest, media efforts, discussions.
Congressional Districts: 6th, 7th and 8th (Update 2/06)
Page 97 Peregrine Productions
Contact: David Williams
Address: 616 S. Brearly, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-442-8399 E-mail [email protected]
History: Set up in Madison in late 2004 as a regional outgrowth of the Open University of the Left in Chicago.
Membership: At this point, not yet a membership organization; developing an email list.
Geographical area of work: Southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
Who does the work: Volunteer coordinator.
Working links: Open University of the Left in Chicago (est. 1987).
Purpose: To facilitate forums, multimedia presentations, and study groups on politics, philosophy, history, social theory, and current affairs; also facilitates author- and book-related events.
(Update 2/05)
Page 98 Physicians for Social Responsibility – Madison
Contact: Alfred Meyer
Address: PO Box 1712, Madison, WI 53701
Phone: 608-232-9945 Fax: 608-232-9464
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.psrmadison.org
History: The Madison chapter of PSR was founded in early 198l by doctors who were inspired to take action by Dr. Helen Caldicott’s speech on the devastation which the use of nuclear weapons would bring at ground zero and around the world.
Membership: About 300 members statewide with active Student PSR Chapters at the Medical College of Wisconsin and UW Madison. Membership is open to community members as well as medical professionals. See the website for details on joining.
Who does the work: Steering Committee, volunteers and a part time staff person.
Working links: Student PSR Chapter at UW-Madison Medical School; PSR National (www.psr.org); the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (www.ippnw.org) and numerous organizations.
Purpose: Fostering a healthy and sustainable environment, the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear security, reduction of violence and its causes, and access to health care for all.
Projects: 1) Wisconsin’s Environmental Health Network is a collaborative project with the Sierra Club Great Lakes Program and Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters Institute to bring together health care professionals and environmental advocates to promote sound clinical practice and public policy. 2) SMART Security, Sensible, Multilateral, American Response to Terrorism, is a policy platform addressing the root causes of terrorism, re-prioritizing our budget to achieve true security, and working to rid all nations of weapons of mass destruction. 3) Collaborative efforts with other organizations to address global climate change and environmental toxins by providing legal and legislative testimony, conferences, lectures and film series, and organizing and supporting activist events.
Publications: A chapter newsletter and quarterly national PSR Monitor.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin (Update 2/05)
Page 99 Plowshare Center
Contact: Nina Jones
Address: 880 N. Grand Ave., Waukesha, WI 53186
Phone: 262-547-5188 (office), 414-467-8519 (cell)
E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 262-547-8428
History: The Plowshare Center, formerly known as Waukesha Center for Peace and Justice, was started in 1989 by a group of individuals who were interested in creating a presence for peace education in Waukesha. Our first project, Plowshare Gifts, was established in 1990 as an active model of peace through economic justice. Over the years, we have sponsored speakers, forums and events to educate about issues of social concern. We have also held classes on conflict resolution, parenting for peace, and organic gardening/earth issues.
Membership: 150 members (total mailing list of 600)
Geographic area of work: In Waukesha County, mainly, with education outreach. Our Fair Trade Gift Shop does offsite sales and programs mostly around S.E. Wisconsin.
Who Does the work: Three paid staff (manager and two part-time clerks) for the shop; volunteers to help staff the shop. Twelve board members, with five board committees functioning with volunteers from Plowshare membership.
Working links: Shop-Waukesha Downtown Business Association; Carroll College history and other academic departments; Waukesha Catholic Worker; Waukesha Racial Diversity Task Force; Waukesha County Family Peace Initiative; Waukesha United Nations Association; Waukesha South High School Unity Group; and the University of Wisconsin Waukesha Student Peace Organization.
Purpose: Our mission is “making peace relevant to the world around us.”
Projects: Fair Trade Gift Shop with items from over 43 developing countries. Forums, speakers, and events on cultural, political, environmental issues about countries where we get products for our shop and on other issues of peace and economic justice. Educating our store customers about “Fair Trade” issues and doing talks at churches and schools about the “Fair Trade” concept and corporations which are socially responsible and just. Workshops for teachers on peace and social justice topics.
Publications: Quarterly newsletter and flyers for speakers and events
Congressional District: 5th with Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (Update 1/06)
Page 100 Portage Area Peace Seekers
Contact: Charles and Susanna Bradley
Address: W11551, State Rd. 33, Portage, WI 53901
Phone: 608-742-3315 or 608-742-7644 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: Formed in October, 2005.
Membership: 12 active members.
Mission: To be a presence for peace in the Portage area.
Projects: We want to make peace visible in our area of the state by: taking part in local parades; placing a peace pole in a local park; working on counter-recruitment in our local high school; distribution of toy soldiers everywhere, with the message “Bring (or) Send Me Home”; promotion of speakers to our community.
(Updated 2/06)
Page 101 Preserve Our Climate
Contact: Susan Nossal
Address: 138 West Gorham St., Madison WI 53703
Phone: 608-255-9260 E-Mail: [email protected]
Page 102 Progressive Forum of Washington Island
Contact: Pat Wright
Address: 1441 Jackson Harbor Road, Washington Island, WI 54246
Phone: 920-847-2721 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: Formed in spring 2005 to bring together island residents to discuss and work together on local, state and national issues.
Mission: To educate ourselves and act collectively on issues of importance to our lives.
Projects: Campaign on informed military recruitment at our school, sponsored educational workshops on national budgeting process, the environment and economy, trade policies and national and personal debt (upcoming in spring 2006). Study group on Middle East history and US foreign policy and a discussion group on faith and politics.
Membership List: There are 33 households on our email list.
(updated 1/06)
Page 103 Progressive Voices
Contacts: Sue and Tom Holmes
Address: 602 Lake Street, Baraboo, WI 53913
Phone: 608-356-5989
E-mail: [email protected]
History: This educational lecture series came into being from the tax refund money received from the Bush administration in 2001. Before the money could be spent, it had to meet two criteria: 1) to be spent locally, and 2) to be spent to educate the general public on the hot button issues of the day. We bring a speaker to the area once every two months from October to June.
Membership: There is no membership. Free and open to the public.
Geographical area of work: Baraboo, Sauk County, and surrounding areas, including Madison.
Who does the work: Volunteers.
Working links: We sponsor a Peace On Earth/Goodwill Toward Progressives Party during the time between Christmas and New Year’s.
Purpose: To educate the public about hot button issues of the day via lectures given by people with firsthand knowledge of their topic followed by a question and answer discussion session.
Projects: Fightin' Bob (LaFollette) Fest
Congressional District: Second Congressional District (Update 2/04)
Page 104 Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice, Inc.
Contact: Richard Kinch
Address: PO Box 521, Racine, WI 53403
Phone: 262-638-0204 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: Founded in early 2002 by Racine area people fearful of the consequences of the domestic and international behavior of the US government. We developed a statement of principles and position statements on Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
We have about 70 dues-paying members and over a hundred on our list serv. Turn-out for presentations is 30-60.
Projects: We have had speakers on Iraq, including Jeremy Scahill and Jeff Leys; Mike Miles, Jennifer Lowenstein, and Othman Atta on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; John LaForge for the War Resisters’ League; Chris Ahmuty, Alison Parker, and Matt Rothschild on the Patriot Act of 2001; and speakers on just war principles, the impact of military spending on local budgets, the origins of Iraq, and religion in the Middle East. We picketed Congressman Paul Ryan’s Racine office; ran full-page Not in Our Name ads three times; demonstrated for peace weekly from February into April 2003 at Racine’s busiest intersection. On the anniversaries we read the names of the thousand US deaths in downtown’s Monument Square. A peace rally in October 2005 brought out 300. Our big peace doves were the hit of Racine’s 4th of July parade. We organized a benefit concert of international music for Iraqis and sponsored musicians Cameron and Kristina. We are planning for 2006 speakers on Israel/Palestine, Islam, torture, and the media. We continue to discuss a draft counseling project, getting Democracy Now! on local radio, and remounting a Web site. We get pressure to expand our priorities and activities but are sticking with US foreign and security policy, mostly.
Although we have helped organize public demonstrations, bought newspaper ad space, and write letters to the editor, our activities have been aimed mostly at citizen education. Virtually all of our communication is by Internet. We distribute an events calendar about every 3 weeks by e-mail. We have our own list serve and use others’ as well.
Links: We have become a provider of information and local networker. We work closely with, and receive invaluable assistance from, Peace Action Wisconsin (of which we are an affiliate) and the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice. Local allies have been the Racine Dominican Sisters and peace groups at UW-Parkside and in Kenosha, the Racine/Kenosha Central America Solidarity Coalition (CASC), the Racine Interfaith Coalition, and the Kenosha-Racine Greens.
Mission: “The Coalition is an initiative to promote citizen understanding, raise public awareness, and encourage participation in the democratic process for the purpose of achieving peace and just relations among peoples and nations and protecting civil liberties.” (updated 1/06)
Page 105 Racine Dominicans Justice Outreach
Contact: Jean Verber, O.P.
Address:5635 Erie St., Racine, WI 53402
Phone: 262-639-4100 E-Mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.racinedominicans.org FAX: 262-639-9702
History: Established in 1865; Justice and Rights Commission created in 1992 (JRC). Justice Outreach Office created in August of 2004, following justice education work in the 1970’s.
Membership: 199
Geographical area: Mostly Wisconsin, with missions in Detroit, AZ, IL, IN, MO, NV, OH and NM.
Who does the work? All community members are part of the JR Commission; committee members of JRC work in collaboration with the Justice Outreach Office Socially Responsible Investment team, Ministry Fund committee and the Racine Dominicans Ministries Board.
Working links with other groups: CASC, MSN, Peace action, Racine Peace Committee, NETWORK, 8th Day Center, Dominican Justice Promoters, and Center of Concern.
Purpose: Our mission: “Committed to Truth; Compelled to Justice”. 2005 priority is to address violence in all its forms – “Promote justice by exposing and addressing sources and practices of violence in self – relations – politics – church – society”
We’re also working with globalization, the WalMart campaign, corporate accountability, international campaign on water issues and abuses in Latin America.
Congressional District: Paul Ryan’s.
(Update 10/05)
Page 106
Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Contacts: Marsha Rummel and Allen Ruff
Address: 426 West Gilman Street, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-257-6050 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.rainbowbookstore.org
History: Founded July 1989 to create cooperative ownership for a radical bookstore.
Membership: Cooperative with about 750 consumer members. (Two types of membership--$15 per consumer per year, or work about four hours per week. Stock is also available for $50, $100 and $500 shares, with a membership for as long as you keep your stock with Rainbow. Both get discounts on books, etc.)
Geographical area of work: Madison area and an on-line resource/bookseller for progressive activists around the state.
Who does the work: 4 paid staff, almost 30 volunteers, and 5 member Board of Directors.
Working links: Radical and anarchist bookstores/info shops, local activist groups.
Purpose: Collectively owned and managed bookstore that strives to be more than a business. We provide progressive books, magazines, crafts and ephemera and act as a resource for activists and scholars.
Projects: Casa Di Popolo: popular education about political issues, author events, forums, and study groups. We have doubled our retail space and would like to do more events with WNPJ members: author events, meetings, poetry readings, music, etc. Come visit out new expanded space. Call Allen Ruff to talk about events.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 107 Red Cedar Peace Initiative
Contact: Tom Richards
Address: E5291 865th Ave., Boyceville, WI 54725
Phone: 715-632-2324 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.wispeace.org Listserv: WisPeaceInfo, monitored by Ted Miner ([email protected])
History: Founded in the fall of 2002 as a long term institution replacing ad hoc activist efforts on the environment, land use, and peace issues.
Membership: Informal, about 25.
Geographical area of work: City of Menomonie and Dunn County.
Who does the work? Volunteers.
Working links: Women in Black, GreenSense, Farmer to Farmer, Friends for a Non-violent World, First Congregational Church, UCC-Menomonie, MoveOn, and Northwoods Peace Initiative.
Purpose: Red Cedar Peace Initiative works for a world where nonviolence is the norm for resolving conflict. To that end, Red Cedar Peace Initiative seeks to educate its members and the community on the tools of nonviolence as the most effective and enduring means of resolving conflict within ourselves, families, communities, nations, and the whole natural world. We resolve to take action according to nonviolent principles to promote peace and social justice in all areas of our lives.
Projects: Sponsor speakers on American foreign policy issues. Organize rallies and peace vigils. Teach-ins at UW-Stout. Other activities include writing guest columns, letters to editors, dramatic readings, lobbying Congress, and exploring energy alternatives. We provide nonviolence training. Sponsor community events such as Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration, Earth Day celebrations.
Congressional District: 3rd, US Representative Ron Kind (Update 1/06)
Page 108 Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin
Contact: Char Thompson
Address: 2716 Gregory St., Madison, WI 53711
Phone: 608-231-2445 E-mail: [email protected]
Membership: Wisconsin people who have served in the Peace Corps and allies; approximately 150 members.
Projects: Monthly program meetings and production of an annual calendar. Proceeds of the calendar fund international development projects. (Calendar mailing address is 271 Oakridge Ave., Madison, WI 53704.)
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 01/06)
Page 109 Rock County Citizens for Peace
Contact: Ted Kinnaman
Address: 1213 Columbus Circle, Janesville, WI 53545
Phone: 608-754-2490 E-mail: [email protected]
History: Evolved from anti-Vietnam activities in the late 1960s to early 1970s.
Membership: No official membership; we do have a mailing list of those who are unofficially considered to be members of about 165 people.
Geographical area of work: Rock County.
Who does the work: Board.
Working links: WNPJ.
Purpose: Promote peace activities.
Projects: Stop whichever war we happen to be engaged in.
Publications: Occasional newsletters.
Congressional District: 1st, US Representative Paul Ryan. (Update 1/06)
Page 110 Rockford Peace and Justice Action Committee
Contact: Stanley Campbell
Address: 201 7th Street, Rockford, IL 61104
Phone: 815-964-7111 E-mail: [email protected]
History: Founded in 1983 to stop US military aid to El Salvador, Rockford Peace and Justice Action Committee (RP&JAC) quickly expanded to take on practically most peace and justice issues. It now operates a fair trade store. Membership: 250, with a number of fellow-travelers. Geographical area of work: Northwest IL. Who does the work: About 20 dedicated volunteers. Working links: Vets for Peace, SOA Watch, Chicago Religious Leadership Network, Northern Illinois peace groups, WNPJ. Purpose: Raise peace and justice issues in the area. Sell fairly traded gifts and peace buttons. Projects: Weekly "Coffee Talks" and annual peace programs. Hosted a regional peace conference in 2004 at Rockford College. Runs a fair trade store. Publications: Peace Times Congressional District: Illinois, District 16 (Update 1/06)
Page 111 Rock Ridge Community
Contacts: Jane Hammatt and Vince Kavaloski
Address: 3817 Evans Quarry Road, Dodgeville, WI 53533-9042
Phone: 608-935-3007 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
History: Land and housing cooperative (Quaker-oriented) approximately 25 years old.
Membership: 10 adults and their children.
Geographical area of work: Southwest Wisconsin.
Who does the work: Work done as individuals and as a collective.
Working links: Fellowship of Reconciliation, Madison-area Urban Ministry, Friends Committee on National Legislation; Grassroots Citizens for Peace; UNA/USA.
Purpose: Create circles of peace in our families, community, and world.
Congressional District: US Representative Ron Kind. (Update 1/06)
Page 112 Logo by Bonnie Urfer Rock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation
Contact: Sue Nelson
Address: 2424 Andre Ave., Janesville, WI 53545
Phone: 608-741-3764 E-mail: [email protected]
History: We are a spiritually based peace group whose vision came out of the Beloit Friends Meeting. Our goal is to offer at least two programs each year with speakers from all over who are voices for peace. We have always done more than the minimum. The Rock Valley FOR is an officially-allowed organization by the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA. The Fellowship of Reconciliation USA seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally. Our fiscal sponsor is the Habiba Chaouch Foundation
Membership: At this time we are considering anybody who asks to be part of our work and sends contributions to be a supporter of Rock Valley - FOR. There are 174 signed up for our mailing list.
Geographical area of work: Rock Valley areas with support from as far north as Watertown, as far west as Brodhead, and as far east as Clinton and Delavan.
Who does the work: Sue Nelson, Scott Crom and the steering committee .
Working links: Beloit Friends Meeting, Madison Monthly Meeting of Friends, Cameron and Kristina/Baghdad and Beyond, American Friends Service Committee, and Rock County Citizens for Peace. We are hoping to link up with Southern Lakes Citizens for Peace.
Purpose: We provide discussion of the issues of war and injustice through programs and vigils.
Projects: Occasional programs. The first Monday of the month is Pray for Peace at St. John’s Lutheran Church from 6:30-7:30 pm. Weekly vigil at Ryan's office. We are working with American Friends Service Committee to find sites for the “Eyes Wide Open Project.”
Publication: The Peacemaker.
Congressional Districts: 1st District, Paul Ryan; 2nd District, Tammy Baldwin (Update 1/06)
Page 113 Saint Bede Monastery
Contact Person: S. Mary Frances Gebhard
Address: St. Bede Monastery, PO Box 66, Eau Claire, WI 54702
Phone: 715-834-3176 Fax: 715-834-4292
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected].
Website: www.saintbede.org
History: Peace and Justice Committee was formed 30 years ago.
Membership: 36 sisters.
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin, Texas and Jamaica.
Who does the work: Staff and volunteers.
Working links: Federation of St. Benedict.
Purpose: Direct aid and advocacy with legislators.
Projects: Support local soup kitchen, Interfaith Hospitality Network, and prison chaplains.
Publications: The Tidings, four times a year.
Congressional Districts: Statewide, but located in the 3rd, with US Representative Ron Kind
(Update 1/26/06)
Page 114 St. Norbert Abbey Justice and Peace Committee
Contact: Steve Herro
Address: 1016 N. Broadway, DePere, WI 54115
Phone: 920-337-4300
E-mail: [email protected]
History: The Committee was formed in 1995 to advise the Abbot of St. Norbert Abbey and his council on matters related to justice and peace.
Membership: There are presently five committee members. Membership is open to any Norbertine frater, brother, priest, associate, or friend of the order. Members are appointed by the Abbot of St. Norbert Abbey.
Geographical area of work: The committee is especially concerned with justice and peace in areas of the world served by St. Norbert Abbey.
Who does the work: All committee members are volunteers. The committee chair does most of the work.
Working links: The committee works closely with the Peace and Justice Center of St. Norbert College and the justice and peace ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay.
Purpose: To advise the Abbot and Abbot's Council on matters related to justice and peace; to help educate Norbertine priests, brothers, fraters, and friends of the Abbey on matters related to justice and peace; to serve as a referral agent for those interested in justice and peace opportunities.
Projects: The committee is particularly interested in civil rights of immigrants in the Green Bay area and affordable housing in the area, and campaign finance reform.
Congressional District: 8th District, US Representative Mark Green. (Update 1/06)
Page 115 St. Norbert College, Peace and Justice Center
Contact: Sr. Sally Ann Brickner
Address: 100 Grant St., DePere, WI 54115 Phone: 920-403-3881
E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 920-403-4088 Website: http://www.snc.edu/pjc
History: The Peace and Justice Center was founded on July 1, 1998 after receiving a grant from the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) Community that founded St. Norbert College. A diverse group of faculty members, people from the Green Bay Diocese, Norbertines, staff, and students engaged in planning to fulfill a significant need for Center at our Catholic, liberal arts institution of higher learning, firmly embedded in the Norbertine tradition.
Membership: Our e-mail discussion list has 124 subscribers. Our newsletter has grown to 592 subscribers. Our website has 19,771 visitors monthly from around the world.
Geographical area of work: From northeastern Wisconsin to the world.
Who does the work: The office staff includes one part-time Director, one part-time staff assistant who is responsible for clerical functions for the Center, and several student workers. An advisory Peace and Justice Committee meets monthly.
Working links: Green Bay Diocese, St. Norbert Abbey, St. Norbert College International Center, St. Norbert College student organizations, and other social justice organizations.
Purpose: The Peace and Justice Center at St. Norbert College promotes the building of community through the study and practice of peace in curricular and co-curricular programs.
Publication: Monthly newsletter during the academic year, E-mail discussion list, & web page.
Congressional District: Wisconsin - 8th Congressional District (Update 2/06)
Page 116 Sauk Prairie Area Peace Council
Contact: Tom Arbogast and John Kiefer
Address: S10698 Troy, Sauk City 53583
Phone: 608-643-3067 (Tom) or 608-544-3702 (John)
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
History: Founded in February of 1984 to alert the public to the dangers of the arms race through grassroots education.
Membership: About 125, with two working volunteers, and a steering committee of 5 members. (We accept voluntary contributions.)
Geographical area of work: Sauk Prairie, Lodi, Reedsburg, Baraboo, Mazomanie, and Spring Green areas.
Purpose: Education and action at the grassroots level on issues of peace, justice and the environment.
Projects: Monthly public education programs September through May, meeting the 3rd Tuesday of the month, 7:30 – 9:30 pm at River Arts Center Gallery, Sauk Prairie High School. Establishment of a Peace and Justice section in the Prairie du Sac Public Library, which is called the Sam Day, Jr. Memorial Peace and Justice collection. Donations are welcome.
Congressional District: 2nd, U. S. Representative Tammy Baldwin (Update 1/06)
Page 117 School of Americas Watch
Contacts: Leah Hart and Katy Barder (Cecil Findley, advisor)
Address: 2314 Rowley Ave., Madison, WI 53726
Phone: 608-441-1424 E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
History: The School of Americas Watch (SOAW) group was founded in January 2004 by students and community members who had traveled to Ft. Benning in November.
Membership: 20, students from MATC, UW-Madison and Edgewood College, community members.
Geographical area of work: Madison, WI. and Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Who does the work: Volunteers and board.
Working links: SOAW, national group; Edgewood; The Crossing.
Purpose: SOAW-Madison is a nonviolent, nonpartisan group whose main goal is to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation through the following means: 1) Participating in the annual march on Ft. Benning Military Base, promoting peaceful participation in the annual march by seeking to enlist participants and by securing funds to help underwrite their expenses. 2) Educating ourselves and the public about peace and justice issues in relation to WHINSC.
Projects: February lobbying day, writing letters to representatives, and annual march to Ft. Benning in November, plus holding fundraising events.
Congressional District: 2nd.
(Update 01/06)
Page 118 School Sisters of Notre Dame – Milwaukee Province
Office of Global Peace and Justice
Contact: Tim Dewane, Director of the Office of Global Justice & Peace
Address: 13105 Watertown Plank Road, Elm Grove, WI 53122-2291
Phone: 262-787-1023 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 262-207-0051
Website: http://www.ssnd-milw.org/shalom.htm
History: The School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) is an international order of women religious. Known particularly for their teaching, they are committed to promoting human rights and human dignity in all aspects of ministry and life. They have been serving throughout North America for the past 150 years.
Membership: There are over 500 sisters and associates in the Milwaukee Province engaged in a wide variety of services and ministries.
Geographical area of work The Milwaukee Province includes all of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana. Globally there are over 4,600 School Sisters of Notre Dame in some 30 countries across 5 continents.
Working links: Mount Mary College, Notre Dame Middle School, Interfaith Conference Peace and International Issues Committee, Milwaukee Clean Clothes Campaign, Jubilee USA, and the United Nations (as an NGO).
Projects: The Office of Global Justice and Peace has paid staff. Sisters and associates serve voluntarily on the office's Global Justice and Peace Commission and on the Corporate Responsibility Committee. The key focus areas are human rights - (particularly the trafficking of women and children and sweatshops), international debt, welfare reform, restorative justice, education, integrity of Creation, School of the Americas, racial equality, shareholder resolutions/alternative investments.
Publications: The Circle is a newsletter distributed to all SSNDs throughout the Milwaukee Province every two weeks. One page of each newsletter is dedicated to social justice information and actions.
Congressional Districts: District #5, US Representative James Sensenbrenner Jr. Also District #1, US Representative Paul Ryan and District #4, US Representative Gwen Moore.(Update 2/06)
Page 119 SEIU District 1199/United Professionals for Quality Health Care
Contact: Dian Palmer
Address: 2001 W. Beltline, Hwy 201, Madison, WI 53713
Phone: 608-277-1199 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.seiu1199wi.org
History: Since the 1970s SEIU District 1199W/United Professionals for Quality Health Care has represented health care workers employed at nursing homes, counties, cities, the State of Wisconsin, and private hospitals. We actively organize for more health care workers to join us in our efforts to win safe working conditions, such as when we passed legislation for safe needles for all heath care workers, and as we fight to end mandatory overtime and win safe staffing levels in health care facilities and have worked to pass guaranteed health care coverage for all.
Membership: Almost 4,000 health care professionals.
Geographical area of work: State-wide.
Who does the work: An elected board of our membership governs our union. Our board hires staff to help coordinate member programs as identified by members. Staff with the help of elected member-leaders recruits member-volunteers to execute the programs and do the work of our union.
Working links: We are also proud to be part of the largest union of health care workers, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and our SEIU WI State Council. Proudly affiliated at all levels with the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).
Purpose: It is our mission to improve the lives of working people and their families and lead the way to a more just and humane society.
Projects: Organize our members to stand together with a winning plan to gain strong union workplace contracts and help organize health care workers where they work to join us in our efforts. We engage in on-going contract campaign activities as needed. We secure and defend the rights of all workers to organize. We engage in grassroots, non-violent direct action to win needed change from private and public employers and from elected decision-makers. At our core, we strive to hold private and public health care employers accountable to our patients and their employees.
Publications: A periodic member newsletter. Congressional Districts: All Wisconsin. (2/06)
Page 120 Sinsinawa Dominicans
Contact: Regina McKillip, OP, Office of Peace and Justice
Address: 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest, IL 60305
Motherhouse: 585 County Rd. Z, Sinsinawa, WI 53824-9999
Phone: 708-366-6244 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 708-771-4510
History: Founded in 1847 to preach and teach the Gospel.
Membership: 750 sisters.
Geographical area of work: USA, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Trinidad.
Working links: GEA, Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, CCR, NETWORK, Amnesty International, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and Dominican Leadership Conference.
Purpose: Called to proclaim the Gospel through the ministry of preaching and teaching in order to participate in the building of a holy and just society.
Projects: 1) Shareholder Action Committee; 2)Woman's Issue Group; 3) Anti Racist Training Team; 4) Alternative Investments; 5) Project IRENE; 6) Faith and Resistance Working Circle; 7) Restorative Justice.
Congressional District: The Motherhouse is located in the 3rd District, represented by US Representative Ron Kind. (Update 2/05)
Page 121 Sisters of Saint Francis of Assisi
Contact: Irene Senn
Address: 3221 S. Lake Dr., Milwaukee, WI 53235-3799
Phone: 414-744-1160 E-mail: [email protected]
Membership: Currently approximately 329 sisters and 95 associates
Geographical area of work: Primarily midwest, although we also have sisters and associates on the east coast and in 21 states as well as in Taiwan.
Who does the work: Our Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation coordinates the work for the Congregation with the help of an active committee.
Projects: Currently working to integrate the Congregation’s latest Corporate Stand on the Sacred Web of Life within congregational life.
Congressional Districts: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. (Update 2/05)
Page 122 Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross
Contact: Maria Drzewiecki, OSF - Justice and Peace Coordinator
Address: 3025 Bay Settlement Road, Green Bay, WI 54311 (after August, 2006, address is 3110 Nicolet Dr., Green Bay, WI 54311)
Phone: 920-468-1828 or 920-884-2732 Fax: 920-468-1207
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.gbfranciscans.org
History: Founded in 1881 to serve the needs of the immigrant community in Brown County.
Membership: Total of 77 sisters and 35 associates.
Geographical area of work: Northeast Wisconsin.
Who does the work: Most directly, the Peacemaking Committee (10-15 volunteers among sisters and associates), half-time Justice and Peace Coordinator; collaboration by other sisters and associates. No paid staff.
Working links: NETWORK, St. Norbert College Peace and Justice Center, Common Cause, 20/20 Vision, Wisconsin Catholic Conference, Pax Christi USA, Jubilee USA Network, Franciscans International, WI Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign, Center of Concern, Peace Action WI, JOSHUA (Congregation-based Justice Organization), and others to a lesser degree.
Purpose: Strive through education and healing and various areas of Christian ministry to build the Lord's Kingdom; work to uphold human dignity, pursue peace and promote Gospel Justice.
Projects: We work on the support for abolition of the death penalty, debt cancellation for the most impoverished countries, campaign finance reform, “Bread not Stones Campaign” to redirect excessive military spending toward response to human needs, protection of family farms, needs and rights of the poor in Nicaragua, educational outreach on justice and peace issues (especially to groups of youth), literacy education, job procurement and assistance in acquiring citizenship for Hmong and Hispanic people, and letter writing to national and state legislators on issues to support the poor, peace, and earth care.
Congressional Districts: 8th, US Representative Mark Green, and 6th, US Representative Thomas Petri. (Update 1/06)
Page 123 Sisters of St. Joseph, Third Order of St. Francis
Contact: Dorothy Pagosa, SSJ- TOSF, Director for Social Justice
Address: 205 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 312-641-5151 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 312-641-1250
Website: www.ssj-tosf.org
History: The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis are a community of over 400 Franciscan women, under the patronage of St. Joseph, founded in 1901 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where our motherhouse remains to this day. The congregation was founded in response to a need that existed, to serve as teachers in Polish American neighborhood parishes in the Midwest. As years have gone by, the specific mission has changed, but the founding spirit remains the same.
Membership: About 400 sisters and 85 associates make up the membership of SSJ-TOSF.
Geographical area of work: Today, the missioned presence of the Congregation is felt throughout 104 cities in 14 states and 4 locations off the mainland; 117 members are in Wisconsin.
Who does the work: Sisters and associates.
Working links: Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Franciscan Federation, 8th Day Center for Justice, to name just a few.
Purpose: Dedication to Jesus Christ involves us intimately with His liberating and reconciling mission: to make God more deeply known and loved, and in so doing, to draw all persons to fuller and freer life. Together, with all our sisters and brothers who strive for a more just world, we undertake those activities which promote the material and spiritual development of the human family.
Projects: Clare Oaks Continuum of Care Facility, Clare Woods Academy, Marymount Health Care Systems, Inc., Regina High School, Trinity High School.
Publications: Gathering Place. (Update 1/06)
Page 124 Sisters of the Divine Savior
Contact: Elaine Czarnezki
Address: 4311 N. 100th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53222-1393
Phone: 414-466-0810 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.sistersofthedivinesavior.org
History: Founded in 1888 to spread Jesus’ goodness and kindness to all God’s people, especially those who experience the least quality of life.
Membership: United States 105; Internationally 1,245
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin, Alabama, California, Arizona, Tennessee, Rome, and 31 regions around the world.
Purpose: Extend mission of Jesus in contemporary ways according to the needs of the culture and our gifts.
Projects: Tithing, direct service and advocacy. 1) Participation in interest free loans for housing and education of the poor. 2) Participation with Habitat for Humanity, Crop Walk, Project Equality, etc. 3) Letter-writing, e-mail sending and calling campaign for systemic change. 4) Stop Human Trafficking Task Group. 5) Tsunami Relief effort for Sri Lanka went from an urgent appeal to long- term support.
Publications: Newsletter on justice and peace action possibilities. STOP TRAFFICKING (monthly publication on human trafficking). To be added to the mailing list, please e-mail: [email protected].
Congressional District: 5th. US Representative F. James Sennsenbrenner, JR. (Update 1/06).
Page 125 Social Justice Council, First Unitarian Society
Contact: Wendy Cooper
Address: 900 University Bay Drive, Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-233-9774 ext 25 Fax: 608-233-6079
E-mail: [email protected]
History: The Social Justice Committee of First Unitarian Society (FUS) has existed for several decades under various names. The Madison FUS congregation is about 120 years old.
Membership: The committee is comprised of about 20 members or affiliates of First Unitarian Society.
Geographical area of work: Dane County.
Working links: We work collaboratively with national and community organizations and faith bodies that share our progressive values on social justice issues.
Purpose: To translate Unitarian Universalist values concerning social and economic justice into action, and to work collaboratively with other organizations and faith bodies on social justice issues, including economic justice, human rights, and environmental action.
Projects: We have projects underway in the areas of economic justice, human rights, environmental justice, and the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizens. Our task force on peace and justice is very active locally. We try to balance service projects with advocacy, witness, and organizing activities.
Publications: Our publications include the bimonthly newsletter, weekly Order of Service, and our web page.
Congressional District: 2nd, US Representative Tammy Baldwin (Update 2/04)
Page 126 Socialist Party of Wisconsin
Contact: Gerald Shade
Address: 1001 East Keefe Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Phone: 414-962-0814
History: Founded in 1897 to better living and working conditions of working people.
Membership: Over 100, with a board of 11 and volunteer staffing
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin.
Working links: Socialist Party of Milwaukee, South Central Wisconsin, and USA.
Purpose: Promote democratic socialism.
Projects: Promoting the principles of democratic socialism, implementing Agenda for Social Improvement, producing pamphlets including ones on campaign reform, welfare policy, and economic injustice.
Publications: Newsletter, Wisconsin Socialist Observer, and pamphlets on various topics including welfare policy.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 6/05)
Page 127 Socialist Party of Wisconsin - South Central Local
Contacts: Clarence Kailin and Robert Kimbrough
Address: PO Box 259824, Madison, WI 53725
Phone: 608-238-1266
E-mail: [email protected]
History: The Socialist Party of Wisconsin was founded in 1897 (four years before the Socialist Party – USA); this chapter was chartered in 1975.
Membership: 33 members, more on mailing list; this group is not a 501(c)3.
Geographical area of work: South Central Wisconsin.
Who does the work: Volunteer members.
Purpose: Promote democratic socialism, realizing democracy here and elsewhere through true democratic means and always advocating peace and justice.
Projects: Providing information pamphlets, position papers, speakers bureau, tabling at events, and canvassing.
Publications: Pamphlets.
Congressional District: 2nd Tammy Baldwin (Update 11/04)
Page 128 SOS Dane County - Senior Council "Save Our Services"
Contact: Marjie Colson
Address: 122 State St. #401, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-256-7626
E-Mail: [email protected]
History: The Dane County SOS Senior Council was founded in the early 1980s, in response to a conservative effort to weaken the decades-old public retirement program. Our original mission was to become part of a nationwide movement organized to protect the program. In 1985, the organization, with the assistance of Meriter Hospital and the Physicians Plus organization, developed a health program for senior and disabled persons in Medicare, called the Capital Care Health Plan. SOS members who are also enrolled the Capital Care Health Plan, pay nothing for their Medicare services.
Number of members: 500
Congressional District: Tammy Baldwin’s (7-05)
Page 129 South Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Contact Person: Jim Cavanaugh
Address: 1602 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53715
Phone: 608-256-5111 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 608-256-6661
Website: http://www.scfl.org
History: Founded in 1893 to respond to the oppression of the working class.
Purpose: Umbrella organization for local labor unions.
Membership: Local unions voluntarily affiliate. Currently 79 local labor organizations representing about 35,000 workers are affiliated with the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL). Three paid staff, a board of 9, and 500 working volunteers. Funded by per capita payments by local unions.
Geographical area of work: Dane, Sauk, Iowa, and Columbia Counties.
Who does the work: Paid staff and volunteers.
Working links: Wisconsin State AFL-CIO (website: www.wisaflcio.org) and national AFL-CIO (website: www.aflcio.org).
Projects: Many, including the Campaign for a Living Wage.
Publication: Union Labor News.
Congressional District: 2nd, US Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 130
Southern Lakes Citizens for Peace
Contact: Sam Romano
Address: PO Box 643, Elkhorn, WI 53121
Phone: 262-723-5329
E-Mail: [email protected]
Organizational History: Incorporated in 2005, and this group has been meeting since 1985; originally affiliated with 20/20 Vision and with the Wisconsin Freeze, but became an “ad hoc’ local group that met monthly as a loose volunteer group.
Membership: 40 paid members; mailing list of 225
Geographical Area of Work: Walworth county, western Racine, and western Kenosha counties.
Who does the Work: volunteers
Working Links with Other Organizations: Voices for Change, Move-On, and Walworth Dems
(Update 11/05)
Page 131 Southwest Wisconsin Peace Fellowship
Contact: Mary Ann Loguidice
Address: 700 N. Court, Platteville, WI 53818
Phone: 608-348-3497 E-mail: [email protected]
History: Founded in 1981 in opposition to US involvement in Central America and its support for the Contras in Nicaragua.
Membership: About 25 with a 3-member steering committee and 8 working volunteers. (Membership is by attending the meetings.)
Geographical area of work: Southwest Wisconsin.
Purpose: Education of the community on justice issues and participation of members in action for social change.
Projects: 1) Involvement with Platteville Public Schools to provide information on alternatives to military service (for example, travel and job experience as a volunteer); 2) Justice for minority students at UW-Platteville both on campus and in the community; and 3) Human rights issues at the "supermax" prison in Boscobel.
Congressional District: 3rd, US Representative Ron Kind. (Update 1/05)
Page 132 Stop the War
Contact: Ben Ratliffe
Address: 102 N. Franklin St. #108, Madison WI 53703
Phone: 608-333-2274 E-Mail: [email protected]
Projects: We are currently building a student strike, scheduled for March.
Who does the work: We are an organization without paid staff.
Membership: We list about 10 active members and about 20-50 rotating members from UW- Madison (due to school year our member list is never constant or complete.
Page 133 The Madison Institute
Contact: Midge Miller, Founder
Address: Meriter Heights, #710, 110 S. Henry, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-238-7177 E-Mail: [email protected]
Website:http://www.themadisoninstitute.org
History: Founded in 1985 as a public policy study center providing a focus for fresh, independent thinking and expression from the liberal-progressive perspective. The Madison Institute (TMI) has brought nationally known speakers to Madison, created opportunities for citizen education and discussion, sponsored significant events, and produced books, articles, and audio/video tapes.
Membership: Not a membership organization, but an activist-participant organization which encourages its participants to advocacy. Sixty or more individuals take active part in the monthly sessions of the Progressive Round Table. The Board has 9 members and 4 associates.
Geographical area of work: Presently TMI's reach is mostly Madison and environs. The goal is to reach out nationally and become an effective progressive counter-force to the conservative Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks.
Who does the work: Volunteers and board.
Working links: Works closely with many other like-minded groups.
Purpose: To study, educate, and stimulate thoughts and action about social, economic, and political justice. TMI is a not-for-profit, volunteer, cooperative, citizen based, progressive/liberal policy research, study, education, and action organization.
Projects: 1) The Progressive Roundtable; 2) Public lectures, seminars and conferences; 3) Audio and videotapes of conference proceedings; 4) Informative internet web page with wide linkages to other compatible groups’ web pages; and 5) Developing internship and fellowship programs and a speakers bureau.
Publications: See website. Contact Dan Cornwell (608-233-4900) for a list of articles, audio and video-tapes, and other publications.
Congressional District: 2nd, US Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 134 Under the Bodhi Tree
Contact: Jamie Sterk
Address: PO Box 2685, Janesville, WI 53547
Phone: 608-741-4113 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.underthebodhitree.org
History: Under the Bodhi Tree incorporated in March 2004 and became a 501©3 organization on Jan. 14, 2005. Our center has held classes, book studies, workshops, festivals and social get- togethers. We have formed a Board of Directors, created by-laws, and a mission statement. We have 6 board members, assisting the director. With the decision to concentrate our resources on an annual event, we have been focusing on connecting with other groups and individuals both for support and to promote our event.
Membership: Open to everyone. Approximately 300 on the mailing list.
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan.
Who does the work: Volunteers and the board of directors donate their resources, assisting the director in the work.
Purpose: Mission Statement: “Under the Bodhi Tree provides alternative educational opportunities and resources for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual information and growth for individuals and groups in an environment free of judgment and limitations.”
Projects: “Peacemaking II...a Celebration of Diversity”. A weekend (July 7, 8 & 9 - 2006) gathering is planned, with programs for all ages on peacemaking and diversity. There will be speakers, interactive workshops, drumming, and lots more as the program develops. Held at Camp Rotamer, this event is open to the public with no admission or program fees.
For information on upcoming gatherings, volunteer and fundraising opportunities, please check out the website.
Congressional District: US Representative Tammy Baldwin in District 2. (Update 1/06)
Page 135 United Methodist Federation for Social Action –Wisconsin
Contact: Dorothy Gosting
Address: PO Box 259855, Middleton, WI 53725
Phone: 608-255-2344 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.WisconsinUMC.org/MFSA
History: The Methodist Federation for Social Action was founded nationally in 1907 and wrote the Methodist Social Creed. This was the time of the Social Gospel and organizing around economic and labor issues. The Wisconsin Chapter was re-established in 1979 to help the United Methodist Church in Wisconsin focus on its social concerns.
Membership: About 80 dues paying members. (Most of the dues go to the national organization which directs the major lobbying and witness activity in the denomination.) Steering committee of 10. No paid staff.
Geographical area of work: Statewide.
Working links: National Methodist Federation for Social Action, Korea Exchange Program, Reconciling Congregation Program, and Wisconsin Coalition for Health.
Purpose: To keep the United Methodist Church involved in societal issues such as: 1) economic justice, 2) world peace, 3) human and civil rights, and 4) racial, ethnic, and gender equality.
Projects: Reconciling Church Program (to open the church to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons), Korean Exchange Program (joint work with church in Korea), Middle East Peace Project, Death Penalty and Abortion education within the church.
Publications: Plumbline, a quarterly newsletter to all United Methodist Pastors and Lay Delegates to the annual conference (Editor: Dave Steffenson, 344 W. Dayton St. #401, Madison, WI 53703 or [email protected]).
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 1/06)
Page 136 United Nations Association – USA Dane County Chapter
Contact: Lee Brown
Address: 360 W. Washington Ave. #807, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 663-5984 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.unausa.org (national website) www.una-usadanecounty.org (local)
History: The United Nations Association of the USA was started by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1945.
Membership: 200 local members. Dues to United Nations Association – USA (UNA-USA) are $40. Attendance to most of our events is open to all.
Geographical area of work: Dane County.
Who does the work: Officers, a board of 15, and members who volunteer.
Working links: Collaborated to sponsor Forums on Global Affairs. Local UNA invited the candidates for Wisconsin 2nd Congressional District seat (in 1998, 2000, and 2002) to speak on international issues. Work with Dane County Peace Coalition and the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice. UNA and the World Federalists Association of Dane County sponsor an annual United Nations Day Dinner and one joint meeting each year. Support UNICEF drive.
Purpose: "The purpose of UNA-USA is to study and promote the fundamental basis of peace and justice and the machinery necessary for its development. The Association shall carry on educational and informational activities so that the people of the US and their government may participate to the greatest extent practicable in the United Nations and other official international and regional organizations functioning in various fields of international cooperation and international law."
Projects: Each year we host 10 Chapter Meetings which feature speakers with special knowledge about international affairs and interested members of the public are welcome. We encourage Model UN Teams in High Schools and colleges; we are invited speakers in the schools to give a current history of UN work. We raised money to eliminate land mines. We coordinate the UNICEF drive each October. We host national and international speakers about the United Nations.
Publications: The InterDependent, a quarterly, national magazine. (update 11/05)
Page 137 United Nations Association-USA, Greater Milwaukee Chapter
Contact: Susan McGovern, President
Address: 3107 N. Hackett Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: 414-963-9924 E-mail: [email protected]
History: The Greater Milwaukee Chapter of the UNA (GMUNA) has been in existence since before the founding of the UN, as the UNA-USA was one of the grassroots citizens' groups that advocated for the creation of the UN in 1945. During most of the past 50 years former Milwaukee Mayor Frank P. Zeidler has been a member of the Milwaukee UNA.
Numbers of your Membership: Approximately 100, and growing.
Geographical Area of Work: City of Milwaukee and some surrounding suburbs of Milwaukee County; Chapter leaders serve on the UNA Wisconsin Division Board, a statewide organization.
Who does the Work: Some Chapter work is handled by the UNA-USA, Wisconsin Division Executive Secretary. The Executive Committee includes President: Susan McGovern; Vice President: Gareth Shellman; Treasurer: Barbara Martinka; Secretary: Les Hagensick; President Emeritus: Frank Zeidler.
Purpose: The UNA-USA is dedicated to educating and mobilizing Americans to support the principles and vital work of the UN, reforming and strengthening the UN system, promoting constructive US leadership in that system, and achieving the goals of the UN Charter. We are concerned with all of the issues addressed by the United Nations system, but especially those related to peace, human rights, human and social development, and humanitarian affairs.
Projects:
Recurring events: Speaker programs; UN Day observance on October 24; Human Rights Day observance on December 10; and participation in the Annual Assembly of the Wisconsin Division of the UNA.
Current projects: To raise public awareness of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, a combined Annual Assembly and “Call to Action and Celebration of the Global Campaign to 'Make Poverty History'" was organized for October, 2005. The Millennium Development Goals represent a comprehensive set of strategies to accelerate development, universalize primary education, and to reduce global poverty and hunger, inequality, disease, and environmental degradation, all by 2015. Following the conference, a chapter Millennium Campaign Committee was formed to take concrete action to advance the goals locally and through local-global partnerships. Non-members are invited to join us. The current projects of GMUNA's Education Committee include efforts to incorporate the UNA-USA's "Global Classrooms" curriculum in Milwaukee's urban schools and to involve area schools in educational UN Day observances.
Publications: One page monthly newsletter and meeting announcement.
Congressional Districts: 4th District, Gwen Moore-D; 5th District, James Sensenbrenner-R. (updated 2/06)
Page 138 United Nations Association -Wisconsin Division
Contact: Sam Romano
Address: 508 Church St., Elkhorn, WI 53151
Phone: 262-723-5329 (home) or 262-741-3236 (office)
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.unausa.org (national)
History: Founded in the mid-1940s to advocate for the creation of the United Nations.
Membership: About 450. Work is funded by membership fees and annual funds appeal to membership. No paid staff but administrative support is provided by UW-Milwaukee, Institute for World Affairs Outreach staff. Contact office staff for membership brochure.
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin.
Working links: There are local chapters or contact groups in Racine County, Waukesha County, Milwaukee County, Dane County, South Central Wisconsin (Rock and Walworth counties), and the Wausau area. About 100 members are also “at large”, i.e., not affiliated with a local chapter or contact group within the state. National affiliation with the UNA-USA.
Purpose: UNA's purpose is to provide public education about the UN, i.e., its history, purpose and programs. UNA members provide advocacy on behalf of the UN. Members also provide feedback on policy concerns through its annual global policy project in which specific policy concerns are discussed by members and feedback is provided to both UN and federal elected officials.
Projects: Annual observance of UN Day and Human Rights Day; co-sponsorship of model UN programs for students; annual assembly; letter writing and visits to congressional offices; global policy project; fundraising for landmine clearance projects, and several other educational and advocacy projects on behalf of the United Nations.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 2/05)
Page 139 University of Wisconsin - Madison – United Faculty and Academic Staff, AFT #223
Contact: Frank Emspak
Address: UFAS, School for Workers, Rm.422, 610 Lowell Hall, Madison WI 53703
Phone: 608-262-0680 E-mail: [email protected]
History: Founded in 1930 as a labor union representing faculty and academic staff at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Membership: 100.
Geographical area of work: University of Wisconsin Madison.
Working links: Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, Wisconsin Federation of Teachers, South Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 12/05)
Page 140 UW Milwaukee Peace Studies Program
Contact: Andrea Joseph
Address: PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53051
Phone: 414-229-6925 FAX: 414-229-3626 E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: www.uwm.edu/dept/peace/index.html
Organizational History: Academic Certificate Program for undergraduate students at UWM Membership: Students, faculty Geographical Area of Work: World Who does the Work: Paid university employees Working Links with Other Organizations: Institute of World Affairs, UWM’s Center for International Education Purpose: Educate students
(update 1/06)
Page 141 University of Wisconsin - Platteville, Students for Peace and Justice
Contact: Dave Meinhardt
Address: 308 Pioneer Tower, Platteville, WI 53818
Phone: 608-342-1635 E-mail: [email protected]
Purpose: The students for peace and justice are committed to promoting understanding and awareness of global, national, and local issues by exploring creative solutions.
Projects: Various forums on campus on issues ranging from glorification to peace and justice issues as well as environmental topics. Weekly meetings of the group on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm. in the UW-Platteville Student Center.
(Update 1/06)
Page 142 University United Methodist Church
Contact: Bette Barnes
Address: 1127 University Ave., Madison, WI 53715
Phone: 608-256-2353
History: Founded in 1913; has a long history of activism for peace and justice.
Membership: Seventy.
Geographical area of work: Madison area.
Who does the work: Board, volunteers, and the Pastor.
Working links: Porchlight Shelter, Port St. Vincent (a monthly meal), Bread for the World, Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice, Support for St. Mark’s food pantry, LGBT “Soulforce” support.
Purpose: Provide opportunities for worship, education (forums and classes), and service.
Congressional District: US Representative Tammy Baldwin, 2nd (Update 2/04)
Page 143 Veterans for Peace—Chapter # 25
Contact: Joel Garb
Address: 1019 Williamson St. #B, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-767-4099 E-mail: [email protected]
Websites: www.veteransforpeace.org (national) www.madveteransforpeace.org (local)
History: Founded nationally in 1985 and active in Wisconsin since 1988 as an organization of military veterans of all eras to engage in educational and humanitarian activities.
Membership: About 70 in Chapter 25. Our national membership is comprised of veterans from all wars spanning from the Spanish Civil War to the Gulf War. These members are distributed amongst 86 nationwide chapters and dozens of international affiliations.
Geographical area of work: Work done by volunteers in Wisconsin.
Working links: National Veterans for Peace, Inc., (VFP) is based in St. Louis, MO. Our international activities include working with our affiliations in El Salvador, Russia, Canada, Japan, Guatemala, Viet Nam, the Netherlands, Chiapas (Mexico), France, England, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vieques (Puerto Rico), and numerous others. A member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Coalition to Ban the Sale and Use of Landmines, VFP has been undertaking arduous tasks since its inception, from bringing medical aid to Central American nations to evacuating wounded children from war-torn Bosnian hospitals and securing medical treatment for them.
Purpose: 1) Increase public awareness of the costs of war; 2) Restrain our government from intervening, overtly or covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations; 3) End the arms race by reducing and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons; and 4) Abolish war as an instrument of international policy.
Projects: One project that the group is undertaking is to offer a countering presentation to the military recruiters in our area schools. (Contact Don McKeating for details. 608-274-3955.) We have also worked collaboratively to establish the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Peace Park in Neillsville.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 10/05)
Page 144 Veterans for Peace - Chapter # 80, Lake Superior Area
Contact: Gary Sorensen
Address: 4129 Jeffrey Rd., Duluth, MN 55810
Phone: 218-729-6712 E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: www.vfp80.org
History: Founded nationally in 1985. Active in Lake Superior Area since 1995.
Membership: 30 members in the northern peninsula of Michigan and in Wisconsin. Many of the members travel extensively in Mexico, the Far East, and the Middle East.
Geographical area of work: We work all over, following the lead of the National Veterans for Peace.
Who does the work: Volunteers with a board.
Meetings: Regular meetings the first Thursday of each month, 7 pm, at the Superior Public Library, Superior, WI.
Working links: National Veterans for Peace, Northland Action for Peace and Justice, Women Speak for a Sane World, Resisting Weapons in Space, Lake Superior World Affairs Council, Loaves and Fishes, and others.
Purpose: 1) To work with others to increase public awareness of the costs of war; 2) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly or covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations; 3) To end the arms race and reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons; and 4) To abolish war as an instrument of international policy.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8, and also in Minnesota’s 8th District.
(Update 1/06)
Page 145 Watertown Peace and Democracy Coalition
Contact Person: Tom Depies
Address: 805 Thackeray Trail, Oconomowoc, WI 53066
Phone: 262-567-7254 E-Mail: [email protected]
History: Started in February 2005.
Membership: 51
Geographical Area of Work: Watertown and rural area; east to Oconomowoc, south to Jefferson, and west to Lake Mills.
Who does the Work: An unpaid staff composed of the Peace Committee. It is a joint effort. We do not have 501 (c) status.
Working Links with Other Organizations: Peace Action WI.
Purpose: Promote peace, end corporatocracy, political campaign reform, un-embed the media and language framing, ecological wisdom, protect voter rights, and sustain church/state separation.
Projects: We support: peace rallies, such as the March 19 Watertown march for peace, weekly peace vigils, speakers, including George Martin on the "Reality of US Occupation in Iraq", plant Watertown city-wide flower boxes/displays, host WNPJ annual meeting in Watertown on Oct. 8th, and improve relations between the Hispanic community and the Watertown Police Department.
Congressional Districts: 2nd, 5th and 6th. (update 5-05)
Page 146 Waukesha Catholic Worker
Contact: Judith Williams
Address: 615 Lake Street, Waukesha, WI 53186
Phone: 262-524-8278 Fax: 262-549-5622
History: Ecumenical community initiated in 1994 and Catholic Worker House acquired in 1997.
Membership: Mailing list of 150 and extended community of volunteers.
Geographical area of work: Waukesha County.
Working links: Other Catholic Worker Houses, Peace Action-Milwaukee, Plowshare Center- Waukesha, Lake and Prairie Life Community.
Purpose: To engage in works of mercy, particularly care for the sick and visiting the prisoners. To be a house of hospitality and to take a spiritual stand for peace.
Projects: Bringing people from Central America to care for their medical and surgical needs; Jail ministry in the Waukesha County Jail by visiting and providing music for worship services; Prayer Group; Peacemaking Forums; Hospitality to people in treatment for anorexia and bulimia; Sponsor of a Vigil for Nonviolence, meeting every Sunday, 12-1pm, in Library Park, at Clinton and Wisconsin in Waukesha.
Publication: Seasonal newsletter.
Congressional District: 5th, US Representative Jim Sensenbrenner. (Update 1/06)
Page 147 WAVE Educational Fund
Contact: Heidi Rose
Address: PO Box 170393, Milwaukee, WI 53217
Phone: 414-351-9283 E-Mail: [email protected]
Page 148 Waysmeet Quaker Center
Contact: Alfred Lang
Address: 29951 Shedivy Lane, Richland Center, WI 53581
Phone: 608-647-5923 Fax: 608-647-5923 E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: www.Waysmeet.org
History: Waysmeet Quaker Center was organized as a not-for-profit corporation in 2000. There are three areas of focus; 1) Programs for Family Enrichment through weekend and week long family outings at Camp Woodbrooke, located near Richland Center, WI.; 2) Caring for Creation workshops and family participation weekends. The focus is understanding our natural world by living and observing close to nature, also held at Camp Woodbrooke; 3) The third area is Peace Building. Waysmeet organized programs use borrowed space for this area of progamming. A workshop for Draft Counselors was held in the Madison Friends House October 2004. A workshop, Prayer and Peacemaking is being held at Timber-lee Christian Center, March 11-13, 2005
Membership: Waysmeet provides programs as described in the history above. Participants are drawn from the Quaker community and other interested persons. The mailing list contains 350 names. The Draft Counselors public meeting drew 78 persons, with the counselor training workshop drawing 32. Typically the family weekends draw 25 to 30 participants.
Geographical area of work: Participants come from northern Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota
Who does the work: Programs are planned and hosted by volunteers. Some workshop leaders are paid.
Working links: The main links are with Camp Woodbrooke and Quaker meetings in the upper midwest.
Purpose: There are three areas of focus; 1) Family focused retreats; 2) Exploring Natures World with families and adult groups; and 3) Peace Building retreats and workshops for adults and students
Publications: Flyers related to specific programs.
Congressional District: Representative Ron Kind represents our area. (Update 2/05)
Page 149 Winds of Peace
Projects in Viet Nam sponsored by Madison Quakers, Inc.
Contact: R. (Mike) Boehm
Address: 2313 East Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53704
Phone: 608-244-9505 Fax: 608-255-1800 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.mylaipeacepark.com
History: These projects, sponsored by Madison Quakers, Inc., began with the establishment of the My Lai Loan Fund in January 1994. The aim of these projects are to provide badly needed economic aid to the poor of Viet Nam, especially in My Lai which was the site of a massacre by US troops. They also provide much needed healing to both the people of Viet Nam and America from the wounds of the war.
Geographical area of work: Nationally and in Vietnam.
Working links: Madison Friends Meeting is the fiscal agent for all projects. The Women's Union of Viet Nam, the Children's Protection Fund of Quang Ngai Province, the Education Authority of Quang Ngai Province. Funding organizations and individuals are from all over the country.
Projects: 1) Building a peace park in My Lai “as a place for children and a place where all people can meditate over the past with its suffering and losses while also hoping for a better future”; 2) As of January, 2006, Madison Quakers, Inc., has established loan funds in sixteen villages including My Lai. (These funds have provided loans to more than 3,000 women and have a repayment rate of about 98%); 3) Improving My Lai's infrastructure by helping to build a new 20- room primary school, providing a filtration system and new pumps for the local hospital, and helping bring electricity to the homes of the poor; and 4) An art pen-pals project between elementary schools in My Lai and Madison.
Publications: Newsletter, Winds of Peace.
Congressional District: 2nd, U.S. Representative, Tammy Baldwin. (Update 1/06)
Page 150 Winnebago Peace and Justice Center
Contacts: Jenni Ryan, Drew Mueske, Bob Poeschl
Phone: 920-230-9752
E-Mails: [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]
Purpose: The Winnebago Peace and Justice Center is a community resource which provides physical space to empower local organizations and individuals committed to education and action in human rights, social justice and nonviolence. Mission Statement: The Winnebago Peace and Justice Center envisions a world of Peace, Justice, Freedom and Nonviolence. It is a revolutionary and empowering vision of a democratic community where differences are respected, conflicts are addressed nonviolently, oppressive structures are dismantled and people live in harmony with the earth, nurtured by diverse traditions that foster compassion, solidarity, and reconciliation. We go forth to commit ourselves to replace violence, war, racism, economic and environmental injustice through active nonviolence as a transforming, sustainable path of life and as a means of radical change-personally, locally, nationally, and globally.
History: The Winnebago Peace and Justice Center was founded in March of 2003 by Bob Poeschl. Since that time we have been holding weekly peace rally’s downtown Oshkosh on Friday afternoons. Our recent activities include a “Carnivale” to raise money for local high school art programs, “Earthdance” – a global dance and music festival for peace, and petitioning for the Troop Withdrawal Referendum. We hold an annual Martin Luther King Day March and discussion as well as monthly community pot luck dinners.
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month
Open Hours: Tuesdays: 6pm - 8pm and Saturdays: 2pm - 4pm
Membership: 300 people on the mailing list
(Update 1/06)
Page 151 Wisconsin Citizen Action
Contact: Meagan Mahaffey
Address: 1202 Williamson St. #B, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-256-1250 x 13 E-Mail: [email protected] or
[email protected] Website: www.citizenactionwi.org
History: Wisconsin Citizen Action is a grassroots citizens' organization dedicated to social, economic and environmental justice for all. Since 1982, we've been organizing people and winning victories around issues that matter. Examples of our accomplishments: * Improving access to affordable health care by winning implementation of SeniorCare (2003) and Badger Rx (2005). * Ensuring better educational opportunities for low-income children by securing $1.8 million in funding for Community Learning Centers (2003) and a five-fold increase for the SAGE program to reduce class size (1999). * Protecting children's health by initiating a landmark lead paint ordinance in Milwaukee, persuading the Common Council to take legal action against the lead paint industry, and helping win new legal provision for additional abatement through the state (2000). * Fighting water pollution by helping win the Mining Moratorium (1998) * Protecting food safety by helping to pass the federal Food Safety Act strengthening pesticide standards (1996) and guaranteeing the right for Wisconsin farmers to label their products BGH free (1994). * Winning new laws preventing home foreclosures for the unemployed and giving residents information about toxins they are exposed to at home and work (1987-8).
Membership: Citizen Action has approximately 61,000 individual members, covering every Assembly district in the state. Our affiliate base is comprised of over 150 of the state's leading labor, senior citizen, environmental, community, religious, women's, family farm, teacher, Latino and civil rights organizations and Native American tribes, including: AARP-Wisconsin, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, Wisconsin Education Association Council, NAACP, Clean Wisconsin, Coalition of WI Aging Groups, Planned Parenthood, Lutheran Office of Public Policy in Wisconsin, Voces de la Frontera, Wisconsin Council of Churches and the Potawatomi and Menominee Indian Tribes of WI.
Who does the work: Citizen Action has 20 full-time central staff members based in Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and Eau Claire, in addition to a statewide phone and field canvas staff in Milwaukee and Green Bay. The Board of Directors has 42 active volunteer-members including an 8 member Executive Committee.
Purpose: Wisconsin Citizen Action is a grassroots citizens' organization dedicated to social, economic and environmental justice for all. Citizen Action unites the political power of our members with the power of a diverse coalition to: win improvements that matter in our daily lives, give people a sense of their own power to shape the future and alter the relations of power to favor people over wealthy special interests. Our strategy is to build majority power around issue and electoral campaigns.
Projects: The Campaign for Health Security Over one million Wisconsin citizens lacked health insurance at some point during the last three years - and currently 1.2 million of our citizens have no coverage for prescription drugs. Wisconsin Citizen Action is coalescing senior citizen, consumer, church, community, labor and health care professional groups to ensure that all Wisconsinites have quality health care. Our 3 ½ year grassroots campaign to win Badger Rx included training 856 activists and 42 leaders on the issue, mobilizing over 950 people in events and rallies, generating thousands of letters to decision-makers, highlighting the issue in the media, and working with the Governor's office. In 2005, we developed our new Fair Share Health Care Campaign. We will continue in 2006 to focus on the failure of large, profitable businesses, like Wal-Mart, to offer decent health insurance coverage for their employees. As a result, many of their employees are left uninsured, while others are forced onto BadgerCare, the state's health insurance program that was designed to cover low-income, working families where the employer could not afford to offer health insurance. We also worked with SEIU, AFL-CIO, the Wisconsin Farmers Union, AFSCME and the Laborers in 2005 to help introduce the Action Plan for Affordable Health Care legislation that, if passed, would require the legislature to pass a health care coverage plan that covers at least 98% of Wisconsin residents and reduce overall health care costs by 15% by January 1, 2008. Wisconsin Citizen Action will continue in 2006 to tackle the health care crisis and will hold our legislators' feet to the fire to demand that they agree on a solution by a certain date.
Publications: Quarterly newsletter.
Congressional Districts: Statewide but located in 2nd, US Representative Tammy Baldwin; 4th, US Representative Gwen Moore and 8th, US Representative Mark Green. (updated 1/06)
Page 152 Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Contact: Diane Wolff, Executive Director (temporary)
Address: 307 S. Paterson St, Suite 1, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-255-0539 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 608-255-3560
History: Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV) is a statewide membership organization of domestic abuse programs, formerly battered and other individuals who have joined together to speak with one voice against domestic violence.
Membership: More than 300 domestic abuse programs for individuals and organizations. Membership is $25 for individuals, $5 for battered/formerly battered women, and $100 for organizations.
Geographical area of work: Statewide.
Who does the work: Paid staff of 29, funded primarily by state and federal grants, membership dues, donations and training fees. Board of 13 members.
Working links: Local member organizations in 95 locations and national domestic violence organizations. Member of National Network to End Domestic Violence.
Purpose: Changing societal attitudes about women, their children and violence. We offer the following services: training and technical assistance; a quarterly educational journal; forums for the involvement of battered women and their children; networking and support for programs serving battered women and for professionals in related fields; training for professionals in legal, medical, social service, child welfare, housing, education, and mental health fields; and policy/legislative advocacy.
Projects: National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL); Communities of Color Project, African-American Planning Project; National Health Care Standards Project. Ongoing projects and research in areas of policy, women of color, welfare reform, economic issues, and the law.
Publications: Quarterly educational journal.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 6/05)
Page 153 Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba
Contact: Art Heitzer
Address: 633 W. Wisconsin, Ave., Suite 1410 Milwaukee, WI 53203
Phone: 414-273-1040 ext 12 Fax 414-273-4859
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: www.wicuba.org
Vision and Purpose: The Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba consists of both organizations and individuals who have come together based on the points of unity and principles listed below. We hope you also subscribe to them and will join us:
• We support the normalization of relations with Cuba. • We oppose any policy of our government designed to increase the misery of the Cuban people in order to obtain political gain. • We oppose the ban on travel to Cuba and the recently intensified US economic embargo, which has restricted even food and medicine, and discouraged third countries that seek to trade with Cuba. • We support and encourage increased person-to-person contact between the US and Cuba, such as through religious, union, professional, and cultural organizations. US businesses should be allowed to trade with Cuba on the basis of mutual benefit. • We especially seek to overcome the artificial barriers dividing African-Americans in the US from people in Cuba, where a vibrant Afro-Cuban culture continues to thrive. • We also seek to particularly involve and promote activities by area residents of Latin American and Caribbean origin, so they may freely relate to our brothers and sisters in Cuba and help relieve their suffering in the current period. • The coalition is nonpartisan and nonsectarian. It is not affiliated with and does not support any political party or candidate. • We do not presume to tell the people of Cuba what political or economic system they should adopt; that is their decision, on behalf of a sovereign nation with the right of self- determination. • The coalition may share and forward information on related activities challenging the embargo that we, as a coalition, have not formally endorsed (such as study tours, and challenges to US restrictions).
The group is meeting monthly, the 2nd Tuesday of each month, at 7pm, at Milwaukee's Central United Methodist Church, 639 N. 25th St., Milwaukee. All welcome.
(Update 2/06)
Page 154 Wisconsin Community Fund
Contact: Betsy Lawrence
Addresses: Madison Office Milwaukee 1202 Williamson Street, Suite D 1442 N. Farwell #100 Madison, WI 53703 Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 608-251-6834 414-225-9965
Fax: 608-251-6846 414-225-9964
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.wcfund.org
History: Formed in 1982, the Wisconsin Community Fund (WCF) has provided over $3.75 million in grants and other program services to organizations working in the area for social justice.
Membership: 1,200 donors, 300 organizational members.
Geographical area of work: Awards grants to social justice groups in Wisconsin and occasionally Wisconsin-based organizations doing national or international work.
Who does the work: 1 full-time and 3 part-time staff, volunteers, board of directors, and committees.
Working links: Funding Exchange (FEX), Social Justice Center, Community Shares of Wisconsin and Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee, National Network of Grantmakers, and Donors Forum of Wisconsin.
Purpose: To award grants and other resources to nonprofits doing social justice work.
Projects: Social Justice Center, Media Vision, Verna Hill and Dorothy Shannon Fund, Workers Independent News Service (WINS), and Fund of the Sacred Circle.
Publications: WCF newsletter, annual report, and brochures.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 2/06)
Page 155 Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua
Contact: Carlos Arenas
Address: P.O. Box 1534, Madison, WI 53701
Phone: 608-257-7230 Fax: 608-257-7904
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.wccnica.org
History: Founded in 1984 to promote citizen diplomacy on the grassroots level between the people of Wisconsin and Nicaragua, building on the historic sister-state relationship, and to offer an alternative relationship to the destructive US government policies.
Membership: Approximately 1,200.
Who does the work: Work is done by a paid staff of 3 full-time, 2 part-time people, 25 working volunteers, and a 14-member board.
Geographical area of work: Most members are from Wisconsin but there are members across the USA as well as Canada and a few from other countries. Projects focus on Nicaragua and Wisconsin.
Working links: Community Action on Latin America, Various Sister-City Groups, UW Greens, The Nature Conservancy-Wisconsin Chapter, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Nicaragua Network, Committee for Health Rights in the Americas, Campaign for Labor Rights, Latin America Emergency Response Network, and the Small Enterprise and Education Promotion Network.
Purpose: The Wisconsin Coordinating Council of Wisconsin (WCCN) is a nationwide, nonprofit, membership-supported organization working in partnership with Nicaraguans to promote social and economic justice through alternative models of development and activism.
Projects: 1) The Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA) channels investments from socially responsible investors in the US and Canada to qualifying borrowers in Nicaragua supporting community-based economic development; 2) The US-Nicaragua Women's Empowerment Project focuses on issues of violence against women; 3) Facilitates the Madison-Managua Sister City Project; and 4) Educational events.
Publications: Quarterly newsletter, Nicaraguan Developments.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 2/04)
Page 156 Wisconsin Council of Churches, Peace and Justice Committee
Contacts: Scott D. Anderson, Ken Pennings (for publications)
Address: 750 Windsor Street, Suite #301, Sun Prairie, WI 53590
Phone: 608-837-3108 Fax: 608-837-3038
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Other e-mail contacts: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Website: www.wichurches.org
History: Incorporated in 1945. Office in Madison until 1995, when we moved to the MC building in Sun Prairie.
Membership: 24 judicatory units of 12 denominations, 2 Catholic dioceses have observer status, and 3 interfaith organizations; Madison-area Urban Ministry, Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, and Church Women United, have associate status. This represents 3,000 congregations with over one million church members statewide.
Geographical area of work: Statewide.
Who does the work: Executive Director, Coordinator for Ecumenical Formation, Public Policy Coordinator, Administrative Assistant, Accountant.
Working Links: WI Catholic Conference, WI Jewish Council, Lutheran Office for Public Policy, Madison-area Urban Ministry, Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, offices of all member judicatories.
Purpose: The mission of the Peace and Justice Committee (PJC) is to assist faith communities in Wisconsin in their ministry to the world of discovering, teaching, and living out the vision of nonviolent love, as taught and lived by Jesus. The present emphasis is on nonviolence as both a viable lifestyle and a means for social transformation.
Projects: The Peace and Justice Committee hosts one nonviolence event annually, supports the Nobel Laureates Peace Appeal for a Decade of Nonviolence & Family Pledge of Nonviolence, and brokers conversations with representatives of faith-based peace organizations with a goal toward working together in a more unified way.
Publications: ECUNEWS, E-News (on-line), E-Alert (on-line)
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 2/06)
Page 157 Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Contacts: Mike McCabe and Debby Meyer
Address: 210 N. Bassett St., Suite 215, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-255-4260, or toll free 1-888-455-4260 Fax: 608-255-4359
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.wisdc.org
History: The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) was founded in 1995 due to runaway spending in political campaigns.
Membership: About 1,700 individual members plus a statewide e-mail network of over 4,000. (There is no specific members dues structure. Contact WDC for more information.)
Who Does the Work: Small paid staff, volunteer board of directors and general volunteers. Funding from individual and organizational members and philanthropic grants.
Geographical Area of Work: Statewide.
Working Links: Over 40 coalition members.
Purpose: WDC is an independent, nonpartisan, grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations working for clean government and real democracy. The Democracy Campaign is a watchdog that tracks the money in state politics and advocates for campaign finance reform, media reform, election reform, and other pro-democracy reforms.
Projects: 1) Maintain the state’s only online searchable computer database that tracks special interest money in campaigns; 2) Conduct research documenting the flow of special interest money in the political system and the corrupting effect it has on public policymaking; 3) Advocate for a five-part “Power to the Voter” reform agenda that includes comprehensive campaign finance reform and election reforms; 4) Build a broad coalition of public interest organizations in support of campaign finance reform legislation; 5) Advocate for media reform and free air time legislation at the federal level; and 6) Co-sponsor the People’s Legislature, a multi-partisan citizen assembly devoted to building a statewide, grassroots movement to take back our government and rehabilitate our democracy.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 1/06)
Page 158 Wisconsin Draft Counseling Network – Madison
Contact: Janet Parker
Address: 2442 Upham, Madison, WI 53704
Phone: 608-257-2748 E-mail: [email protected]
History: The Wisconsin Draft Counseling Network was formed after a training session led by the Center on Conscience and War in October 2004 for counselors in southern Wisconsin.
Membership: About 30 draft counselors in southern Wisconsin.
Geographical area of work: We counsel people in Southern Wisconsin, and can refer people to other counselors throughout the state and nationally.
Who does the work: We are volunteers. Some of us were conscientious objectors (COs) during past wars, others are veterans, and some were draft counselors during the Vietnam War.
Working links: Our counselors include members of the Madison Area Peace Coalition, Vets for Peace, WNPJ, and other Wisconsin and national peace groups.
Purpose: We are 30 trained draft counselors throughout southern Wisconsin who can meet in person or counsel by telephone or e-mail. We offer counseling to support and advise people who want alternatives to military service.
Projects: We are providing counseling and plan to do public presentations and counter-recruiting in places where military recruiters are active, especially public high schools, to reach young people who oppose war and want to document their conscientious objector (CO) status in case of a future draft; military personnel who want to leave the military as COs; and people considering enlisting who need more reliable information than they can get from military recruiters. With enlistment numbers about 50% below the military's goals in 2004, recruiters are working harder than ever. A new draft is possible. The "backdoor draft" is already taking thousands of unwilling Americans to Iraq through stop-loss and call-ups of reserve units. The "poverty draft" fills our military with lower-income people who are aggressively recruited from communities where good jobs are scarce. Please contact us if we can help you or someone you know.
Congressional Districts: 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6. (Update 12/05)
Page 159
Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition
Contact: Andy Gussert, Coordinator
Address: 3129 Hermina St., Madison, WI 53714
Phone: 608-237-1659 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.wiscotrader.org Webmaster: [email protected]
History: Began to educate and organize against unfair trade before NAFTA. Agitated about the Free Trade Area of the Americas and sent a large group to the 2003 Miami protest. Recently got the City of Milwaukee to pass an anti-sweatshop purchasing ordinance. Helped persuade colleges to join the Worker Rights Consortium.
Membership: Presently a network of a thousand union, religious, peace, farm, environmental, and youth activists in Milwaukee and around Wisconsin. Moving to formal memberships.
Geographical area of work: Regular meetings in Milwaukee, networking activities in Madison, Racine, Green Bay, La Crosse, and other places.
Who does the work: A coordinator, committees and an active network.
Working links: The Wisconsin Fair Trade Campaign (WFTC) works with groups including the Milwaukee County Labor Council, the Milwaukee Greens, Interfaith Conference, Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, Wisconsin AFL-CIO, UNITE, Family Farm Defenders, Faith Community for Worker Justice, Citizens Trade Campaign, and other local and national groups.
Purpose: The WFTC brings together labor, religious, environmental, peace, and youth activists to fight for a system of trade and economic globalization that puts labor standards, environmental quality, and human rights first. We organize in Wisconsin, cooperate with national organizations, and build solidarity with grassroots groups around the world.
Projects: The WFTC is organizing against exploitative international institutions such as the World Bank, unfair trade legislation like Free Trade Areas of the Americas, and exploitative corporations including the clothing and coffee industries. We bring speakers about Colombia, Mexico’s FAT, Venezuela, and more. We promote action against sweatshops, and for sweatfree clothing, on campus and elsewhere.
Publications: Regular e-mail fair-trade bulletins.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 1/06)
Page 160 Wisconsin Green Party
Contacts: Bob Poeschl and Ruth Weill
Address: PO Box 1701, 1202 Williamson Street, Madison, WI 53701
Phone: 608-204-7336 (o) 920-312-0529 (Bob)
E-mails: [email protected] [email protected] (Bob) or [email protected] (Ruth)
Website: www.wisconsingreenparty.org
History: Founded as the Wisconsin Greens in 1988 to provide coordination of efforts and a statewide voice for local green activist groups. One goal was to work toward a Green political alternative in Wisconsin. In 1996, the Wisconsin Green Party was established when we gained ballot status for the first time. In 2000, the Nader-La Duke Presidential campaign received over 93,000 votes in Wisconsin. The party continued to grow in the 2002 elections when we ran Jim Young for Governor, Paul Aschenbrenner for State Treasurer who received close to 115,00 votes, and a number of local and regional candidates.
Membership: Over 600.
Geographic area of work: Local, regional, statewide, national, y todo el mundo.
Working links: Individual and local group affiliations throughout the state. The Wisconsin Green Party is a member of the Green Party of the United States (formed in 2001).
Purpose: The Green Party has four pillars to serve as its foundation: Social Justice, Ecological Wisdom, Nonviolence, and Grassroots Democracy. Our political philosophy is rooted in the awareness that all life is interconnected. Greens believe that we must develop new relationships amongst ourselves as human beings and also with the rest of nature - - relationships based on respect and harmony rather than domination. The Wisconsin Green Party seeks to provoke positive change in our society through electoral and grassroots efforts revolving around our four pillars.
Projects: Specifically, the Greens continue to work toward a more just and peaceful society through coalition efforts and political campaigns that address: Treaty Rights, Groundwater Protection, Economic Sustainability, Educational Opportunities, Social Equality, Democratic Reform, and Alternatives to War. Our more general agenda includes recruiting candidates to run in partisan and nonpartisan elections throughout the state.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 2/06)
Page 161 Wisconsin Resources Protection Council
Contact: Al Gedicks
Address: 210 Avon Street, #4, La Crosse, WI 54603
Phone: 608-784-4399 Fax: 608-785-8486
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.wrpc.net/index.html or www.wrpc.net
History: Founded in 1983 to protect Wisconsin's precious ground and surface waters from metallic sulfide mine pollution.
Membership: About 500. (Membership is $15, or $5 for low-income or retired persons. Send to WRPC, Box 263, Tomahawk, WI 54487.) No paid staff, 8-member steering committee, and 20 working volunteers.
Geographical area of work: Statewide and the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan, with chapters in Forest County, White Lake, and La Crosse.
Working links: Member of Anishinaabe Niijii, WATER campaign and the Wolf Watershed Educational Project.
Purpose: To educate the public about the hazards of metallic sulfide mining and corporate planning for a new mining district in northern Wisconsin, the U.P. of Michigan and the ceded territory of the Lake Superior Chippewa.
Geographical area of work: Statewide and the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan, with chapters in Forest County, White Lake, and La Crosse.
Projects: 1) Support for cancellation of Mole Lake's outstanding debt to BHP Billiton for purchase of the Crandon mine site at the headwaters of the Wolf River. 2) Opposition to Kennecott's nickel sulfide prospect on the Yellow Dog Plains in the U.P. and in the ceded territory of the Lake Superior Chippewa. 3) Opposition to the Mineral Processing Corporation's (MPC's) Back Forty zinc prospect in Menominee County, MI. 4) Produced video, “Keepers of the Water”, about the issues surrounding the proposed Crandon mine. 5) Wisconsin Resources Protection Council (WRPC) and Midwest Treaty Network co-produced a brochure, “Questions and Answers about BHP Billiton’s Proposed Crandon Mine in Wisconsin.” (Copies of the video and brochure are available through WRPC)
Publications: Newsletter (3-4 times/yr).
Congressional Districts: Statewide, but especially 3rd, US Representative Ron Kind, and 8th, US Representative Mark Green. (Update 1/06)
Page 162 Wisconsin Women’s Network
Contact: Stacy Harbaugh
Address: 122 State Street, #404, Madison, WI. 53703
Phone: 608-255-9809 Fax: 608-255-9809
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.wiwomensnetwork.org
History: The Wisconsin Women’s Network (WWN) was founded in 1979. The impetus for its formation was the dismantling of the Wisconsin Commission on the Status of Women. WWN’s agenda is based on the principles articulated in “Wisconsin Women and the National Plan of Action” resolutions adopted at the Wisconsin State meeting and the National Women’s Conference in Houston in 1977.
Membership: A coalition of organizations and individuals.
Geographical area of work: Wisconsin.
Who does the work: Part-time staff and volunteers.
Working links: WWN organizational members; WWN task forces focus on specific issues of concern.
Purpose: The Wisconsin Women's Network advances the status of women in Wisconsin through education, communication and advocacy.
Projects: Reproductive Rights Task Force, Task Force on Women and Aging, Self-Sufficiency Standard for Wisconsin, annual Milwaukee Legislative Breakfast, annual Stateswoman of the Year honor.
Publications: The Stateswoman bi-annual newsletter, WWN Update bi-annual issues bulletin, E-Bulletin news bi-weekly, Uncommon Lives of Common Women state history book, Self- Sufficiency Standard for Wisconsin.
Congressional Districts: Statewide Districts 1-8. (Update 12/05)
Page 163 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – Madison Branch
Contact: Lea Zeldin
Address: 5705 Forsythia Place, Madison, WI, 53705
Phone: 608-238-5740 E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.wilpf.org/ (national office)
History: Founded in 1915 by US and European feminists, to seek a negotiated settlement to the European conflict. Its purpose was broadened in 1918.
Membership: About 100-120. (Membership dues are $5 to$35.)
Geographical area of work: Local/national/international. The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has 142 US branches and sections in 37 countries.
Who does the work: Members and specific committees.
Working links: National WILPF and the Midwest branches in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Champaign-Urbana.
Purpose: To work for those economic/social/legal/psychological conditions which promote world peace, justice, and equality for all.
Projects: Our new study group project is the national WILPF Campaign on Water. We are planning quarterly public forums for the education of our membership and the general public. We also offer humanitarian/political support to the Dane County sister community in San Jose de Apartado, Colombia; meetings with speakers; annual Peace and Freedom Dinner; Tax Day leafleting; working to end sanctions against Iraq and Cuba and against military aid to Columbia; educational outreach with weekly vigils in Madison and Baraboo; a new project to provide audio and video materials to small town and rural libraries; in the planning stage, but not yet confirmed is a pot luck dinner and presentation by the author of " Citizen, Jane Addams and the struggle for Democracy." ; and STOPPING THE WAR ON IRAQ. WILPF is sponsoring an International Women's Peace Conference in Cuba in November. There will be planned Madison Branch representation. Meeting times are every second Wednesday of the month, usually at the Meriter Retirement Center in Madison.
Publications: Local bimonthly newsletter, national Peace and Freedom magazine, and International WILPF newsletter.
Congressional District: 2nd, US Representative Tammy Baldwin. (Update 2/06)
Page 164 Yahara Friends Meeting
Contact: Jean Eden – (Clerk)
Address: P.O. Box 259652, Madison, WI 53725-9652
Phone: 608-251-3375
E-mail: [email protected]
History: We have been meeting for worship and business since September, 2002. We now meet at Eagle School in Fitchburg, 5454 Gunflint Trail, which provides a good space for children.
Membership: Twelve adults and three children.
Purpose: To worship in the manner of Friends, to provide community for each other and those who want to join us, and to live our principles and faith.
Projects: We have joined and committed ourselves to the Earth Charter. We support a member in prison visitation. We co-sponsored the American Friends Service Committee “Eyes Wide Open” exhibit in November, working with the Madison Friends Meeting. We sponsored a youth peace vigil in December, and are preparing to do draft counseling.
Congressional District: US Representative Tammy Baldwin in the 2nd. (Update 1/06)
Page 165 YWCA of the Coulee Region, GALAXY/CRSJC
Contact: Jamie Yuenger, Social Justice Director
Address: 3219 Commerce Street, La Crosse, WI 54603
Phone: 608-781-2783 x3 Fax: 608-781–2906 E-mail: [email protected]
History: Gay Alliance of La Crosse Area Youth (GALAXY), founded in 1996, and Coulee Region Social Justice Coalition (CRSJC), founded in 1999, are programs of the YWCA of the Coulee Region, founded in 1906.
Membership: GALAXY serves about 150 youth, age 20 and under, and we do presentations for over 500 community members. CRSJC has 55 individual and 12 organizational members.
Geographical area of work: GALAXY/CRSJC serves the Coulee Region (La Crosse) area.
Who does the work: GALAXY/CRSJC operates with 1.5 full time staff and more than 60 volunteers.
Working links: Both groups are highly collaborative, working closely with other groups in the area to increase impact and efficiency. GALAXY also works with Diverse and Resilient on a statewide level.
Purpose: GALAXY's mission is to foster a safe and supportive community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth and their straight friends through leadership development, advocacy, education, and community organization. The Coulee Region Social Justice Coalition's (CRSJC) mission is to promote a community in which people of diverse backgrounds are empowered to improve the quality of life by addressing issues of bias, discrimination, and oppression.
Projects: Both groups provide constituent and community education (on topics such as ending oppression, risk reduction, activism), constituent and community leadership development and empowerment opportunities, social support and healthy social activities, and community development/capacity building for organizations and community members.
Publications: Disseminate materials to youth groups, schools, civic and service organizations.
Congressional District: 3rd, US Representative Ron Kind. (Update 1/06)
Page 166 Contacting Your Representatives ********************************************************
Phone Numbers to reach National Representatives:
Capitol Switchboard for all Members of Congress: 1-202-224-3121
Senator Russ Feingold: 1-202-224-5323
Senator Herb Kohl: 1-202-224-5653
White House Comment Line: 1-202-456-1111
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INFORMATION TO HELP YOU REACH YOUR LEGISLATORS IN WISCONSIN:
Legislative Hotline Numbers: 608-266-9960.
Statewide Toll-Free: 800-362-9472. Hearing Impaired: 800-228-2115
Page 167 Order Form for extra copies of the 2006 Directory
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