Directory - World Affairs

Organization: Amnesty International Mid-Atlantic Office
Address: 600 Pennsylvania Ave. SE 5th Floor Washington, D.C. 20003
Phone #: 202-544-0200
Contact person: Jen Horwitz
E-mail: jhorwitz@aiusa.org
URL: www.amnestyusa.org
Mission statement: Amnesty International's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. AI is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion.

Organization: Berks Peace Community / Peace Information Center
Address: 108 North Sixth Street Reading, PA 19601
Phone #: 610-779-8226
Contact person: John Hoskyns-Abrahall
E-mail: john@bullfrogfilms.com
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Mission statement: A non-partisan organization whose purpose is to inform and educate the people of Berks County on issues of war and peace. Our efforts are directed toward informing citizens and thereby provide them with the tools essential to the development of a sound policy in a democratic society.

Organization: Charter for Compassion
Address: 55 Vandam Street New York, New York 10013
Phone #: 212-346-9333
Contact person:
E-mail: compassion@globaltolerance.com
URL: www.charterforcompassion.com
Mission statement: The Charter for Compassion is a collaborative effort to build a peaceful and harmonious global community.

Organization: Coalition for Peace Action
Address: 1 West Baltimore Pike, Suite 3, Lansdowne, PA 19050
Phone #: 610-623-3724
Contact person: David Gibson
E-mail: dgibson@peacecoalition.org
URL: www.peacecoalition.org
Mission statement: The Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) is a grassroots citizen's organization, which brings together people of all ages, backgrounds, professions, and political persuasions in support of three goals: Global abolition of nuclear weapons, a peace economy, and a halt to weapons trafficking at home and abroad.

Organization: Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern (LEPOCO)
Address: 3 West Fourth Street, (Southside) Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone #: 610-691-8730
Contact person:
E-mail: lepoco@fast.net
URL: www.lepoco.org
Mission statement: LEPOCO is a non-profit citizens group of more than 500 members, primarily in the Lehigh Valley area of eastern Pennsylvania. LEPOCO works to build a just society and a peaceful world through nonviolent action. Activities and programs occur as need dictates and the interest of our members allows.

Organization: Military Mental Health
Address:
Phone #: 877-877-3647
Contact person:
E-mail: military@mentalhealthscreening.org
URL: www.militarymentalhealth.org
Mission statement: Education, screening, and support resources for service members and their families.

Organization: Sacred Fire Community
Address: PO Box 540612 Waltham, MA 02454-0612
Phone #: 267-295-7394
Contact person:
E-mail:
URL: www.sacredfirecommunity.org
Mission statement: The SFC is an international community, sponsoring fire circles across three continents. In addition, we foster a variety of events, projects, and publications that support human efforts to stay connected in healthy community. At the core of our work and our identity are gatherings called fire circles, simple fellowship around consecrated Fires in safe and neutral spaces.

Organization: Sharing Jerusalem
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Contact person: Jim Vitarello
E-mail: jim.vitarello@sharingjerusalem.org
URL: www.sharingjerusalem.org
Mission statement: We support a comprehensive negotiation process in which the religious and political leaders of Israel and Palestine determine the exact details of how to resolve these important and complex issues, with the active support of the use government, the European union Russia and the united nations.

Organization: Soldier's Angels
Contact person: Tracy Campbell
Address: 527 N. 5th Street, Reading, PA 19606
Phone #: 610-406-0282
E-mail: ctlpa25@gmail.com
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Mission statement: Soldiers' Angels is a volunteer-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing aid and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and their families.

Organization: Veterans for Peace
Address: 621 N. Saint Elmo Street Allentown, PA 18104
Phone #: 484-553-9476
Contact person: Louise Legume
E-mail: louise.legun@rcn.com
URL: veteransforpeace.org
Mission statement: (a) increase public awareness of the costs of war (b) aide restraining our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations (c) assist to end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons (d) seek justice for veterans and victims of war (e) aide to abolish war as an instrument of national policy.