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Mission Statement:
ACTION Northwest is designed to increase solidarity between regional social activist groups by providing them with a network of support on their various platforms. Our Website
Building a movement for change one person at a time.
What we do:
ACTION Northwest connects, supports and advances the growth and effectiveness of multi issue organizations and grassroots socio/ economic justice groups. We help increase their capacity for collective action. We assist organizations in recruiting and developing new activists for civic participation in socio/economic justice and human rights by providing quarterly training workshops, supplying volunteers, sponsor events and give out grants so each organization can better achieve their objectives. ACTION NW works with organizations interested in:
EQUALITY.........HUMANITY.........JUSTICE.........LIBERTY
We are partnered with 400 organizations, artists, student groups, bands and schools throughout the Pacific NorthWest, with members in the Puget Sound region, Eugene, Portland, Bellingham, Tacoma Seattle and Spokane with more being added as we grow.
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New volunteers are always welcome. Just contact us at info(a)actionnw.net for more information. You can also find out more at our website . Of course, if you are in the Seattle area, you can visit our office at 1123 E John St. Our Eugene and Portland offices will be opening soon. We welcome anyone who is a social/civil rights activist or anyone who just wants to be involved to come join us. You can participate as much or as little as you want. Join the movement and help make a change in our world.

CURRENT PROJECTS:
Effecting Change: Tools for Activists Conference SEATTLE UNIVERSITY-- April 27-29th 2007 Conference Website
Ride share Programs
ACTION Rapid Response Fund
Revolutions Per Minute (24hr radio, regional newsletter and TV.)

Hearts of Hope Campaign Food/Toy Drive
A Night of ACTION(6 Regional bands, offical launch of RPM Radio)
Self Care Initiative
Trans Jail Policy
ACTION Northwest Eucation Fund 501c3

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ACTION Northwest connects, supports and advances the growth and effectiveness of multi issue organizations and grassroots socio/ economic justice groups. We help increase their capacity for collective action. We assist organizations in recruiting and developing new activists for civic participation in socio/economic justice and human rights by providing quarterly training workshops, supplying volunteers, sponsor events and give out grants so each organization can better achieve their objectives.

ACTION NW is designed to increase solidarity between regional social activist groups by providing them with a network of support on their various platforms.

We are partnered with 400 organizations, artists, student groups, bands and schools throughout the Pacific NorthWest, with members in the Puget Sound region, Eugene, Portland, Bellingham, Tacoma Seattle and Spokane with more being added as we grow.

New volunteers are always welcome. Just contact us at info(a) actionnw.net for more information. You can also find out more at our website. Of course, if you are in the Seattle area, you can visit our office at 1123 E John St. Our Eugene and Portland offices will be opening soon. We welcome anyone who is a social/civil rights activist or anyone who just wants to be involved to come join us. You can participate as much or as little as you want. Join the movement and help make a change in our world.

:CURRENT PROJECTS:

Ride share Programs
ACTION Rapid Response Fund
Revolutions Per Minute (24hr radio, regional newsletter and TV)
Hearts of Hope Campaign Food/Toy Drive
A Night of ACTION (6 Regional bands, official launch of RPM Radio)
Self Care Initiative
Trans Jail Policy
ACTION Northwest education Fund 501c3

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Movies:

Bob and Jack's 52-Year Adventure Directed by Stu Maddux Please check the website for when and where it will show. www.myspace.com/bobandjacksfilmI saw this wonderful film in Seattle and was deeply moved and inspired. Its sweetness will move you and cause you to rethink the boundaries we put on love, true love.I also met the film's Director, Stu Maddux, a talented friendly person. It is great to know that people like him are using film to make a difference while still entertaining. Contact him from his website if you want it in your town!

Television:

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FOOD

Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives

Supersize Me A film of epic portions

The Future of Food The disturbing truth behind genetically engineered foods


ANTI-WAR AND PROTEST

Ah! The Hopeful Pageantry of Bread & Puppet The art of protest puppets

Ann Wright in Austin Former official speaks out on Bush's crimes.

Arligton West A traveling cemetary raises questions about the Iraq war.

Elephant Fight Democracy in the streets at the Republican National Convention, 2004.

Grass Roots Views 5 short films from Mental-Rev Productions

Operation Veteran Freedom- Part 1 Iraq Veterans Against the War speak out.

Seymour Hersh- Chain of Command: From 9/11 A detailed look at the blunders of U.S. policy in Iraq.

Shocking and Awful Pt. 1 Deep Dish TV series on the Iraq war

Shocking and Awful Pt. 2 Deep Dish TV series on the Iraq war

Shocking and Awful Pt. 3 Deep Dish TV series about the Iraq war

Skipping in Camp Casey Cindy Sheehan's Vigil in Crawford, Tx.

The Downing Street Basement Tapes The truth about the "Downing Street Memo" literally goes underground at the Capitol.

Voices from the Movement The front lines of the US anti-war movement.

War and Peace Trilogy Three short films about the war in Iraq.

Who Got Glitched? & Report Back from Camp Events with Cindy Sheehan and Bev Harris


9/11

9/11 and the American Empire David Ray Griffin speaks out.

911 In Plane Site Video & photographic evidence of the largest coverup in modern history.

ftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11 An introduction to the 9/11 Truth Movement

Celsius 9/11 World Takeover and the War OF Terror

Confronting the Evidence: A Call to Reopen the 9/11 Investigation

Fahrenheit 9/11 The temperature where freedom burns.

Hijacking Catastrophe 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

Liberty Bound A meditation on the political and psychological effects of 9/11.

Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State Alex Jones strikes a blow aganst the Empire!

Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus The strange story of the 9/11 terrorist pilots and the flight schools they attended

Painful Deceptions An analysis of the September 11th attack

Solving the 9/11 Crime: A Citizens' Grand Jury Making the case for conspiracy

The Great Conspiracy The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw

The Truth and Lies of 9-11 Mike Rupert's investigation on government complicity in the 9/11 attacks, drugs and Peak Oil

Ananswered Questions About 9/11 - A Panel The founding of the 9/11 Truth Movement


HISTORY

Five Events with Michael Parentie Activism and Empire in an historical perspective.

Bowling for Columbine Is America a nation of gun nuts, or just nuts.

Howard Zinn: The Victims of War Is there ever really a "good war"?

Howard Zinn: "Where Are We Heading? US Foreign Policy, Terrorism, and Global Security

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train The life, times and ideas of a rebel historian.

In the Year of the Pig Groundbreaking classic study of the Viet Nam War.

JFK Assassination Films: The Case for Conspiracy "…the best proof of the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy" - Oliver Stone

JFK: The Case for Conspiracy What really happened in Dealey Plaza?

JFKII: The Bush Connection A look at Fox News and the dangers of corporate media.

Rich Media, Poor Democracy How journalism has been compromised by conglomerates

This Divided State A battle for free sheech in Utah's Mormon country.

Toxic Sludge Is Good For You The Public Relations Industry Unspun

Weapons of Mass Deception Think you can trust the media? Think again.

What Democracy Looks Like A sampler of programs from Free Speech TV.


POLITICS

A Patriot Act Are we in the midst of a theocratic coup in America

Bush Family Fortunes The best democracy money can buy, with Greg Palast

Bush's Brain Truly scary look at Karl Rove's career of dirty politics.

Dennis Kucinich: A vision for America A presidential candidate speaks out for peace.

George W. Bushisms The accidental (nit)wit & wisdom of our president.

Greg Palast & Scott Ritter "Floidagate and Beyond" & "The True Meaning of America"

Helen Caldicott: "On the First Anniversary of the 9/11
9/11 and the madness of US nuclear policy.

How Arnold Won the West Arnold runs for Governor and the circus comes to town.

Internationally Speaking Voices from around the world address America's foreign policy.

Invisible Ballots How computer voting machines threten democracy.

On Power Dissent and Racism A series of discussions with Noam Chomsky

The Big Fix 2000 Who is behind those electronic voting machines.

The Overspent American Why We Want What We Don't Need

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election The undermining of democracy in America.


GLOBALIZATION

American Jobs Is our way of life at stake?

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy & Come September Two talks by Arundhati Roy, with Howard Zinn

Kilometer Zero A powerful stand aganst the WTO in Cancun, Mexico.

Life and Debt The cost of golbalization on the poor people of Jamaica.

Michael Parenti: Terrorism and Globalization The dark side of "free trade".

No Logo- Brands,Globalization & Resistance The battle against corporate cultural colonialism

The Corporation Modern corporations meet the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath

The Corporation - Bonus disc Too big a topic for just one film

The Fourth World War The global struggle against globalization.

The Miami Model A clash between competing visions of globalization in the Florida police state.

The Yes Men Changing the world one prank at a time

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE A document of the WTO protests in Seattle


DRUGS

Gary Webb: Crack and the CIA Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras & the Crack Cocaine Explosion

In Search of the American Drug Lords - The CIA and The Mob The life and times of Barry Seal: CIA agent and drug smuggler

Plan Columbia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure ...the first US oil war of the 21st century

Secret Heartbeat of America - The CIA and Drugs The history of links between the CIA and drug traficking.

Books:

ACTION NORTHWEST BOOK CLUB

Strangely Like War : The Global Assault on Forests
by Derrick Jensen, George Draffan.
The Culture of Make Believe
by Derrick Jensen.
Plan of Attack
by Bob Woodward.
Against All Enemies : Inside the White House's War on Terror--What Really Happened
by Richard Clarke.
House of Bush, House of Saud : The Secret Relationship Between the World's
Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by Craig Unger.
Fraud : The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You
by Paul Waldman.
Terrorism and Tyranny : Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
by James Bovard.
The Price of Loyalty : George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
by Ron Suskind.
Bush at War
by Bob Woodward.
Silent Scourge : Children, Pollution, and Why Scientists Disagree
by Colleen F. Moore.
Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And Its Time to Take It Back
by Jim Hightower.
The Greatest Sedition Is Silence : Four Years in America
by William Rivers Pitt.
Perversions of Justice : Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-American Law
by Ward Churchill.
Silencing Political Dissent : How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten
Our Civil Liberties
by Nancy Chang, Howard Zinn (foreword).
The Iron Triangle : Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group
by Dan Briody.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy : An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters
by Greg Palast.
Death in the Air : Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare
by Leonard Horowitz.
Agents of Repression : The Fbi's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
by Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall.
Water Wars : Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva.
Earth Rising : The Revolution, Toward a Thousand Years of Peace
by Nick Begich.
Dreaming War : Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
by Gore Vidal.
Selling Out : How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams Through Legislation and Betrays Our Democracy
by Mark Green.
Water Wars : Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst
by Diane Raines Ward.
Struggle for the Land : Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization
by Ward Churchill, Winona LaDuke.
The Cointelpro Papers : Documents from the Fbi's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
by Ward Churchill et al.
Silent Theft : The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
by David Bollier.
Alternatives to Economic Globalization
by John Cavanagh et al.
The War on Freedom : How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001
by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
Blinded by the Right : The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
by David Brock.
Crashing the Party : Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender
by Ralph Nader.
The New Nuclear Danger : George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
by Dr. Helen Caldicott.
Unequal Protection : The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
by Thom Hartmann.
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
by Dominique Lapierre, Javier Moro - Recounts the 1984 Union Carbide chemical disaster.
When Smoke Ran Like Water : Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
by Devra Lee Davis.
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train : Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders,
and a Plan to Stop them All
by Brian Czech.
Deceit and Denial : The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution by Gerald E. Markowitz, David Rosner.
Trust Us, We're Experts : How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber.
Fatal Deception : The Untold Story of Asbestos - Why It Is Still Legal and Still Killing Us
by Michael Bowker.
Earthsummit.Biz : The Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development
by Kenny Bruno and Joshua Karliner.
Blue Gold : The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke.
Eating in the Dark : America's Experiment With Genetically Engineered Food
by Kathleen Hart.
The Coming Storm : Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future
by Bob Reiss.
Global Spin : The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (second edition)
by Sharon Beder.
Toxic Deception : How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health
by Dan Fagin and Marianne Lavelle.
When Corporations Rule the World, second edition
by David C. Korten.
Our Stolen Future : Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?
A Scientific Detective Story
by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
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Middle East "Military Escalation Brewing"

Middle East 'Military Escalation Brewing' by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO - After another round of Egypt-brokered talks between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions, a cessatio...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:12:00 PST

Initiative To Dsicriminate Against Gay People On CA Ballot

Initiative To Discriminate Against Gays Gets Place on California Ballot by John Wildermuth Sacramento - A constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California was placed on the Nov. 4 ball...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:12:00 PST

Bush "Plans Iran Air Strike By August"

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Posted by ACTIONNW on Thu, 29 May 2008 08:25:00 PST

New York 8th Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher May Get Axe

New York 8th-Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher May Get Ax by Juan Gonzalez Students at a South Bronx middle school have pulled off a stunning boycott against standardized testing. More than 1...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:10:00 PST

US War Resister Loses Bid to Stay in Canada

US War Resister Loses Bid To Stay in Canada by Nick Kyonka After a 22-month battle to earn a home in Toronto, a former American soldier was told yesterday he will become the first Iraq War resister t...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:08:00 PST

Senate Passes No-Strings War Funding Bill

Senate Passes No-Strings War Funding Bill by Mohammed A. Salih WASHINGTON - While the future commander of U.S. military operations throughout South Asia and the Middle East assured lawmakers Thursday...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:04:00 PST

San Francisco Mayor Condemns Refusal to Marry Gays

San Francisco Mayor Condemns Refusal to Marry Gays by Adam Tanner and Mary Milliken SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose fight to allow same-sex weddings won California court app...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:04:00 PST

Amazon Indians Lead Battle Against Power Giant’s Plan to Flood Rainforest

Amazon Indians Lead Battle Against Power Giant's Plan to Flood Rainforest by Patrick Cunningham in Altamira, Brazil The Amazonian city of Altamira played host to one of the more uneven contests in re...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:01:00 PST

Ex-Guantanamo Inmate Finds Distracted Audience at US Congress

Ex-Guantanamo Inmate Finds Distracted Audience at US Congress by Fanny Carrier A handful of US lawmakers gave only half an ear to the testimony on Tuesday of a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Wed, 21 May 2008 03:45:00 PST

Not Enough Done to Protect Biodiversity

Not Enough Done to Protect Biodiversity by Julio Godoy BONN - The UN conference on biodiversity opened in the former German capital Bonn this week in the face of new evidence that many countries, par...
Posted by ACTIONNW on Wed, 21 May 2008 03:44:00 PST