The Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia

P.O. Box 85541, Seattle, WA 98145. An affiliate of the War Resisters League and National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
Tel: (206) 547-0952, Fax: (206) 547-2631. E-mail: nacc (at) drizzle (dot) com

2008

• BAY-Peace; Oakland, California: $2,000 for a Counter-Recruitment Boot Camp tour.
• Blue Mountain Peace and Justice Community; Pendleton, Oregon: $1,000 to grow the numbers and effectiveness of its activists.
• Books To Prisoners; Seattle, Washington: $1,000 to fund a move to a new office, and to increase its volume of mailings.
• Casa Maria Catholic Worker; Milwaukee, Wisconsin: $1,500 to expose homeless children to protests, conferences, and progressive events.
• Chico Peace And Justice Center; Chico, California: $500 for its Getting Your Act Together workshop.
• Coalition To March On The RNC And Stop The War; Minneapolis, Minnesota: $1,000 to march on the RNC and stop the war.
• Community Alliance For Global Justice; Seattle, Washington: $1,000 for its Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere ! Dinner and Fair.
• The Free Gaza Movement; El Cerrito, California: $2,000 to break the Israeli siege of Gaza with humanitarian supplies.
• Honk West; Seattle, Washington: $500 to organize for the local installment of the annual Honk Fest.
• Institute Of Urban Homesteading; Oakland, California: $500 for its inaugural season of classes in gardening, permaculture, kitchen arts, herbal medicines, creative arts, and the body.
• Peace Action Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin: $1,750 for Back To Basics: Grassroots Organizing To End The U.S. Occupation Of Iraq campaign.
• Peaceful Vocations; Fort Worth, Texas: $2,000 for its Project Step It Up '07-'08.
• Peacemakers' Society; Cameroon: $1,656.20 for training Youth Group leaders in secondary- and high-schools and universities.
• Seattle CISPES; Seattle, Washington: $500 for its Solidarity Cycle Against Repression in El Salvador.
• Stop The War Machine; Albuquerque, New Mexico: $1,000 for a campaign against Albuquerque-based military contractors.
• Suscol Intertribal Council; $500 to be used toward the construction of a Native American Healing and Cultural Center.
• Whatcom Peace And Justice Center; Bellingham, Washington: $1,000 for organizing students and parents to advocate for recruiter-intimidation-free environments in district schools.
• Young Women In Action Kenya; Mlolongo, Kenya: $1,000 to put in place peace-building institutions amid conflicts and ethnic wars in Kenya.

2006

• Appalachian Peace and Justice Network (Ohio).
• The Currents Project (Eastern Washington).
• The Military Draft & Counseling Project (Portland).
• The South Dakota Peace & Justice Center.
• Justice Works! (Seattle).
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (Brooklyn).
• The Peacemakers' Society (Cameroon).

2005

• Project YANO (San Diego).
• Military Out of Our Schools-Bay Area.
• South Dakota Peace & Justice Center.
• Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (Seattle).
• Peace & Justice Center (Fort Collins).
• Whatcom County Peace & Justice Center (Bellingham).

2004

• Austin Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation; Austin, Texas: $500 to continue educating and lobbying representatives to support the Peace Tax Fund bill (to create a Conscientious Objector status so tax dollars would not go to military spending).
• Casa Maria Catholic Worker House; Milwaukee, Wiconsin: $300 to help fund the children of the CW house residents to educate about and sell fair trade chocolate, with proceeds going to three international groups (chosen by the youth) and a portion as earnings for their work.
• Columbia River Fellowship for Peace; Hood River, Oregon: $1500 to increase counter recruitment efforts in area high schools via workshops exploring the realities of being a soldier and conscientious objection to war, and increasing the number who opt out from letting the school give their info to military recruiters.
• Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project; Olympia, Washington: $500. To help further the establishment of the sister city relations begun by Olympia resident Rachel Corrie (killed while protecting a home from demolition).
• Palestine Solidarity Committee; Seattle, Washington: $300 to fund an increased education and outreach effort throughout Washington state about justice for Palestinians, and the creation of a response network on media and legislative issues.
• The Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County; Santa Rosa, California: $1500 to continue counter recruitment work by providing alternative career materials, increasing opt out-rates, translating all materials, educating those in delayed entry that they can still not enlist, etc..
• Prisoner Express; Ithaca, New York: $500 to help fund a prisoner support project sending books, and also soliciting creative work from prisoners, which are printed in newsletters and sent to all participants.
• Student Environment Action Coalition; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: $1500 to continue the Militarism and the Environment campaign on college campuses, educating and organizing around the large impact that U.S. militarism has on the environment (direct war impacts as well as toxins and nukes).
• Swadhina; Calcutta, India: $400 to help fund a multifaceted effort to reduce domestic violence and social violence in a context of empowerment and nonviolence.

2003

• Appalachian Peace and Justice Network; Athens, Ohio; $994 for its Working to Bring War Dollars Home campaign.
• Community Alliance for Global Justice; Seattle, Washington; $1,000 for its Fall Media & Action campaign to building resistance to the FTAA.
• ETAN/Madison; Madison, Wisconsin; $1,500 to send agricultural hand tools, seeds, and information to East Timor.
• Nonmilitary Options for Youth; Austin, Texas; $300 for operating funds to help counter the influence of military recruiters and JROTC.
• Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane; Spokane, Washington; $1,000 for multi-issue community organizing.
• Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas; Wichita, Kansas; $1,000 for its Close the SOA campaign.
• Student Environmental Action Coalition; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; $1,000 for its Militarism & the Environment campaign.

2002

• Appalachian Peace and Justice Network, Athens, Ohio; $1,200 for "Democracy Requires Dissent," a series of events and actions to teach, encourage, and inspire nonviolent dissent.
• Peace Action Wisconsin, Milwaukee; $1,500 for their "War Is Not the Answer" campaign to challenge the increases in military spending being proposed by the Bush administration.
• Washington [D.C.] Peace Center; $1,500 for educational workshops for youth, centering on peace and justice work in the aftermath of September 11 -- including development of a resource manual, and training a cadre of facilitators.
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC), Ithaca, New York; $1,000 to update and revise their key publication, War Tax Resistance and the IRS.
• Ekta Parishad, in Bhopal, India; $1,500 for a training workshop and outreach prior to a padayatra (long foot march) in central India to empower poor people and reduce societal violence.
• Books to Prisoners, Seattle; $1,500 to support their program of sending books and other reading materials free of charge to prisoners.
• Ruckus Collective, Seattle; $500 to support publication of their progressive newspaper on the University of Washington campus.

2001

• Project YANO (Project on Youth and Non- military Options), San Diego CA: $1,000.
• Colmena Collective, multi-issue community resource and activist center, Bellingham WA: $1,000.
• GRIP, a Quixote Center project investigating death row cases for evidence of innocence, Hyattsville MD: $1,000.
• EPIC, working to end US-Ied economic sanctions against Iraq, Washington DC: $1,500.
• Community Action Network, multi-issue community resource and activist center, Seattle WA: $1,500.