Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders USA (DWB) is the U.S. affiliate of an international organization known around the world by its French name, Medecins Sans Frontieres. DWB volunteers offer assistance--primarily medical--to victims of armed conflict or natural disasters, and to residents of refugee camps. DWB observes strict neutrality and demands absolute freedom in performing its mission. The kinds of assistance DWB provides include: medical care, from surgery to vaccinations to nutrition and health education; logistical assistance in setting up shelter, communications, water processing and sanitation, power supplies, and transportation; and medical and food
supplies. DWB volunteers include general practitioners, surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatricians, obstetricians, nurses, and tropical medicine and public health specialists. The average length of service is 6 months for most physicians, but sometimes shorter for surgeons and anesthesiologists. The Volunteer Recruitment Department is based in the Paris office. Address:
Medecins Sans Frontieres, 8, rue Saint Sabin, 75544 Paris Cedex 11.
http://www.dwb.org
Society for Animal Protective Legislation
Since contributions are not tax deductible, the Society is always under funded.
"Nearly 100,000 horses are killed annually in foreign-owned slaughterhouses in America for human consumption in other countries.
With the upcoming Senate vote on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, Americans have a small window of opportunity to save a living legend
When horse accepted man onto his back and chose to carry his burdens, it changed the world. Horses have aided mankind through his most arduous and treacherous endeavors, from the sword to the plowshare. Humanity owes an incalculable debt to the horse. In Native American teachings, Horse enables shamans to fly through the air and reach heaven.
To steal someone's horse is to steal their power."- Willie Nelson 2006
Join Coyote's Corner, and more than 500 leading horse industry groups, humane organizations, equine rescues and veterinarians in our effort to end horse slaughter. For information on horse slaughter, to read Willie's public letter to Congress and to find your senators, go to the Society for Animal Protective Legislation http://www.saplonline.org/horses.htm
THE ANIMALI FARM
Animali Farm is a nonprofit horse Rescue/adoption group. This includes slaughter-house survivors, and PMU foals. They work with many PMU breeding centers that have recently lost their contracts, So many of their foals have deadlines before they are sold into the meat industry. If you have the room and the love please consider saving one of these beautiful animals, they also accept donations. http://www.theanimalifarm.com
Native Forest Council
The four largest holdings of publicly owned land in America make up 643 million acres, an expanse which includes mountains, forests, lakes, rivers and streams, deserts, prairies, and grasslands, rolling hills, dramatic canyons -- even swamps and tundra. These are lands set aside for all Americans to enjoy, and are held in the public trust by our government in National Forests, National Parks, Wildlife Refuges and land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). These lands provide clean air, water and soil, recreation, wildlife, spiritual and psychological renewal; and a glimpse of the way our nation was over 500 years ago.
Unfortunately, our government and corporate industry cannot be trusted to follow its own laws, to protect our heritage from harmful resource extraction and the short-term economic gain that comes as a result of harmful resource extraction on your publicly owned lands. Logging, grazing, mining, drilling, and the use of off-road vehicles are all important aspects of our economy, but do not need to be pursued at the expense of your tax dollars, or at the expense of our public lands ecosystems. The arguments against these practices are wide-ranging, including an honest emotional attachment to the intrinsic value of old-growth forests, as well as simple irrefutable economics.
The position of the Council is based on the simple logic that corporations are manipulating our laws and destroying our lands for profit, and in each and every industry, we can prove this fact with evidence gained the old-fashioned way: years of hard research and journalistic digging. Our arguments against these practices are categorized above. We hope that you too will discover that our natural heritage is best kept Forever Wild, and will be motivated to help us toward our goal: a full and permanent stop to all resource extraction on publicly owned lands.
http://www.forestcouncil.org/
Farm Aid
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Dave Matthews joined the Farm Aid board of directors in 2001. Farm Aid has raised more than $24 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture. Through public education and direct grants, Farm Aid supports national, regional and local efforts to promote sustainable agriculture, fight factory
farms, advocate for fair farm prices, and provide credit counseling and direct assistance to farm families in need.
Farm Aid works to keep family farmers on the land and is dedicated to building an American food and farm system that produces high quality, fresh food, protects our natural resources, and strengthens communities. Farm Aid supports family farmers and farm organizations that work toward this end. Confronting the challenges farmers face and promoting positive solutions, Farm Aid operates and supports hotlines to provide immediate and effective support services to farm families in crisis, and channels emergency grants to farm families threatened with hunger and the loss of basic services. Farm Aid provides program grants each year to dozens of family farm organizations that work locally to strengthen family farm agriculture.
http://www.farmaid.org
Navajo Prayer
I will be happy forever.
Nothing will hinder me.
I walk with beauty before me.
I walk with beauty behind me.
I walk with beauty above me.
I walk with beauty around me.
My words will be beautiful.
Walk in peace brothers and sisters. Coyote, Mudpuppy & Teah |
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