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No 32 Kowa Building, 5-2-32 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047. ph: (03) 3441-8291, fax: (03)3442-3220, email: [email protected]

Projects: Support NGOs working on environmental and womens’s issues, support NGOs networking with other NGOs outside of Japan and international relations programs.

Hino Hon-co 3-12-5, Hino-shi, Tokyo 191. ph: (0425) 84-4354, fax: (0425) 84-4354 (for first contacts please fax)

Projects: Spaying and neutering of cats and dogs at veterinary clinics and Dobutsutachi spaying van, finding homes for pets, writing petitions and visiting local administrations, holding rallies, demonstrations, information events and bazaars.

2-7-3 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083. ph: (03) 3263-9022, fax: (03) 3263-9463, email: [email protected]

Projects: Projects aim to create a network among people involved in environmental issues in Japan ad international exchange of information with Earth Day participants. Newsletter and publications regarding environmental issues.

Iwase Building, 1-14-1 Higashi-Tabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-0013. ph: (03) 3800-9416, fax: (03) 3800-9410, email: [email protected]

Projects: Educational publications, seminars and information services, human resources development in Japan, and sending volunteers to Cambodia.

401 Howamita Tsunazaka Bldg, 2-7-7 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073. ph: (03) 5442-3161, fax: (03) 5442-3431, email: [email protected]

Projects: International Contest and Exhibition of Children’s Paintings; publication of books and newsletters; environmental education materials; international conferences for young people; symposium and seminars; Save the Sea campaign projects; Tennis Forum and Rice Forum for Global Environment; exchange programs for youth in developing countries; planning and support of projects of international organizations and eco-tourism.

2^nd Floor, 3-17-24 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0031. ph: (03) 3951-1081, fax: (03) 3951-1084, email: [email protected]

Projects: Aid impact, wetlands preservation, Russian forests conservation, Amur Leopard Fund, hiking program, Ecotour and five kinds of newsletters.

5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150. ph: (03) 3407-8107, fax: (03) 3407-8164

Projects: A joint initiative of the United Nations University and the Japanese government. Provides a variety of information on environmental issues including volunteer opportunities in Japan. He center also has available computers for internet access.

(Office) 1-13-16 Noge, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0094. ph: (03) 3705-0233, fax: (03) 3705-0255, email: [email protected]

Projects: Newspapers; Fashion and Living Earth Catalogues - mail order ecology and fair trade goods; study meetings (the last Saturday of every month); study tours to India, Bangladesh and Kenya; Education/Outreach booths at events; information on organic/health food shops, restaurants and hotels; library resources for members. Selling safe, ecology goods which benefit you, the producer and nature.

Yoyogi Kaikan 4F, 1-35-1 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0053. ph: (03) 5351-5400, fax (03) 5351-5417, email: [email protected]

Projects: Lobbying at conferences and protest involving non-violent direct action against environmental destruction. Project areas include nuclear industry, ozone/climate change, toxics and ocean ecosystem.

6-30-2 Shindaji, Higashi-cho, Chofu-shi. ph: (0424) 88-8943, fax: (0424) 88-8943, email: [email protected]

Projects: current projects (2000) include Siberia Project, Free ORCA Project, Awareness Project: Ongoing meeting, discussions and Green Talk English Classes held every Wednesday at Meijiro Ecom Center.

Maruko Bldg 6^th F, 1-20-6 Higashi Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0015. ph: (03) 3834-2388, fax: (03) 3835-0519, email: [email protected]/jvc

Projects: International projects in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East include: rural development, reforestation, sustainable agriculture, improvement of living conditions, vocational training, social welfare services and health care.

Megumi Bldg, 6-5 Uguisudani-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0032. ph: (03) 3770-6308, fax: (03) 3770-0727, email: [email protected]

Projects: Monitoring Asian Development Bank activities, campaign on pulp factory in South Sumatra, etc.

c/o National Youth Center, Yoyogi Kamizono-cho, Shibiuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0052. ph: (03) 3460-0211, fax: (03) 3460-0386, email: [email protected]

Projects: Networking, Social development, Volunteer learning, Global Action, Volunteer Information and Research and Development.

3-1-14 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0014. ph: (03) 3769-1711, fax (03) 3769-1717, email: n/a

Projects: International conservation projects (over 11,000 projects in 130 countries) through WWF International; domestic conservation projects in Japan; grant programmes supporting over 400 research programmes. Projects in Japan include conservation projects in Nansei Shoto (preservation of coral reef, Iriomote wildcat, Amami rabbit, etc): wetlands conservation, environmental education and monitoring of international wildlife trade (TRAFFIC Japan).

	Australian Conservation Foundation
	Australian Koala Foundation
	Clean Up Australia Day
	Friends of the Earth International
	Greenpeace International
	World Wide Fund for Nature International

The Corner House, PO Box 3137, Station Road, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, UK DT10 1YJ. Ph: 44 1258-473795 Fax: 44 1258-473748; email: [email protected]

Publishes monthly briefings on subjects such as climate, nuclear contamination, biotechnology, globalization and other issues.

The Ecologist, Unit 18, Chelsea Wharf, 15 Lots Road, London, UK SW10 0 QJ. Ph: 44 171 351-3617; Fax: 44 171 351-3617; email: [email protected]

The Ecologist is a long-established bimonthly of the highest status and credibility, published by Edward Goldsmith. It features some of the finest experts in the world contributing articles investigating every aspect of environmental issues Escientific, cultural and economic.

FOEI, PO Box 19199, 100 GD Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Ph: 3120 622 1369; email: [email protected]

Friends of the Earth is an international environmental advocacy organization with member groups in sixty countries that often involve themselves in direct action. FOE is democratically based, with individual groups varying widely in their campaigns. For example, the Manchester group aids the Tree People and Diggers; the Nigerian group helps those fighting corporate armies. Many US groups concentrate on global warming issues, and many other British and European groups are fighting against biotech and for food purity. FOE attempts to mobilize grass-roots citizen efforts in order to rescue the planet from environmental disasters.

Greenpeace International, Keizersgracht 176, 1016 DW Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Ph: 31 20 523 6222, Fax: 31 20 523 6200

Active in food-related issues, especially biotech. Greenpeace is the leading independent, international organization that uses peaceful and creative activism to protect the global environment.

The Population Institute studies and provides figures on population, fertility, food security and other related issues.

The Sierra Club of Canada, 1 Nicholas Street, Suite 412, Ottawa, ON K1N 7B7. Ph: (613) 241-461, toll-free 1 (888) 810-4204; email: [email protected]. website: www.sierraclub.ca/national

Arguably the most active and effective general-issue environmental organization in the country, the Sierra Club of Canada spearheads campaigns on issues like biotechnology, toxic waste, pesticide reduction, forest and endangered species conservation, global corporate rule, the gas additive MMT and initiatives against human rights violations. The Sierra Club works on many levels, from public education and research to litigation and direct action, and is very different from its US counterpart, operating on a shoestring and tacking issues in a more direct manner.

The Third World Network is an independent network of organizations and individuals working on issues related to development and the North-South dichotomy. It researches and publishes extremely helpful books and articles on issues pertaining to struggles in the Third World; a daily out of Switzerland, the SUNS Bulletin; a twice-monthly magazine focussing on GATT, the WTO and the IMF, Third World Economics, and the famous monthly illustrated magazine, Third World Resurgence. The secretariat is in Penang, but it has offices in Delhi, Montevideo, Geneva, London and Accra.

The Union of Concerned Scientists, Two Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA 02238-9105. Ph: (617) 547-5552

This is a conservative group of hundreds of scientists who have banded together to investigate and publicize unimpeachable statements regarding global warming, deforestation and other issues.

Adbusters and Media Foundation, Kalle Lasn, 1243 West 7^th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6H 1B7. Ph: (604) 736-9401; Fax: (604) 737-6021; email: [email protected]. website: www.adbusters.org

The Media Foundation works to help people step back and analyze the role of public relations and advertising in the world. They expose abuses and brainwashing and especially try to fight the unregulated spread of a corporate consumerism that is wasting the life-support systems of the planet. There are groups practising frugality, downsizing and culture-jamming in all major cities. Contact the Media Foundation and they’ll help you find them.

Adbusters is the glossy, radical and often funny monthly magazine of the culture-jammer movement, people trying to get out from under the propaganda of the profit-over-all mentality of corporate America. Subscriptions don’t help fund any corporations.

New Road Map Foundation, PO Box 15981, Seattle, WA 98115. Ph: (206) 527-0437, Fax: (206) 528-1120

The New Road Map Foundation is an all-volunteer, educational and charitable organization concerned with the role of personal responsibility and personal initiative in effecting positive global changes. They see a responsible and engaged individual working voluntarily for the common good as the key to the creation of a humane, sustainable culture. They are deeply involved with the growing frugality movement, which expanded greatly with the nine-step plan of Your Money or Your Life, by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. They offer audiocassette courses and workbooks to people wishing to gain control of their financial lives, with all proceeds donated to non-profit organizations. They also help fund other organizations and projects working towards a humane, sustainable future.

Northwest Environment Watch (NEW), Alan Dunning, director, 1402 3^rd Avenue, Suite 1127, Seattle, WA 98101-2118. Ph: (206) 447-1880; Fax: (206) 447-2270; email: [email protected]

Northwest Environment Watch is a non-profit research centre looking to find sustainable, long-term ways to live in harmony with the ecological area extending between northern California and southern British Columbia and bounded by the Rockies. They create indicators to track sustainability, and publish health checkups for the region, as well as long reports like The Car and The City, and What Can the Earth Afford? Beyond the Consumer Society in the Pacific Northwest. They accept no corporate funding.

Redefining Progress, 1 Kearn Street, 4^th Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94108. Ph: (415) 781-1191; Fax: (415) 781-1198; website: http//www.rprogress.org

The people at Redefining Progress are pioneers in the effort to develop a new measure for national well-being to counteract the inadequate Gross National Product. Their indicator, the General Progress Index, is an attempt to measure more than just the exchange of money in judging a society’s well-being. They believe that a world of true abundance lies not in more financial transactions, but in a high quality of life for all, sustained by the networks of nature and community and passed on from generation to generation.

Australian Gene Ethics Network, 340 Gore Street, Fitrzroy 3065, Victoria, Australia. Ph: 613 03 9416 2222; Fax: 613 03 9416 0767; email: [email protected]. website: http://www.zero.com.au/agen

This grassroots, nonprofit, public interest group monitors and tries to protect consumer rights and to demand labelling of genetically engineered products. They publish The Helix, a textbook designed for teachers and students in Grade 12 and university, and a newsletter, The Gene File.

Ecoropa, President, Christine von Wezsacker, Postfach 130 165, 53061 Bonn, Germany. Ph: 49 228 9181 033; Fax: 49 228 9181 034; email: [email protected]

Ecoropa’s fifteen-year-old German environmental group specializing in biotech, agricultural issues, toxics and food safety issues.

NAVANIA (seed-savers in India), Director, Vandana Shiva, A-60, Hauz Khas, New Dehli 110 016. Ph: 91 11 696 8077 or 651 5003; Fax: 91 11 685 6795; 696 2589

NAVANIA is involved with actively saving the seeds of rural India from patenting and industrial development.

Women’s Environmental Network Test Tube Harvest Campaign, 87 Worship Street, London, UK EC2A 2BE. Ph: 171 247-3327; Fax: 171-247-4740

Involved in direct action and education against biotech in England and Europe, WEN also has a unique research and campaign team, four members of which are biologists or geneticists. Their leaflets "Beware [EMO] Hazardous Food Ahead" and their briefing "What is Genetic Engineering?" are all used across the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and South America. Their publications include an extensive "Genetics Resource and Campaigns Pack", "The Giant Green Salmon and Other Cautionary Tales", a forty-page report out in June 1999, and a detailed selection of case studies of the unpredictability, failures, and mistakes of genetic engineering.

Biotech Action Montreal (BAM), c/o QPIRG-McGill, 3647 University, 3^rd Floor, Montreal, PQH3A 2B3. Ph: (514) 398-7432; Fax: (514) 398-8976; email: [email protected] (attn: BAM). website: www.ssmu.mcgill.ca/qpirg

This is a grassroots citizensEgroup that arose spontaneously in the wake of the news that Canadians are eating unlabelled genetically engineered organisms. They are typical of many other local organizations across Canada that are providing citizens with the opportunity to do something about the unregulated spread of Living Modified Organisms into our lives.

Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) Canada, 71 Bank Street, Suite 50421, Ottawa, ON K1P 5N2. Ph: (613) 567-6880; Fax: (613) 567-6884. website: www.rafi.ca

RAFI International, International Office, 110 Osborne Street, Suite 202, Winnipeg, MB R3L 1Y5. Ph: (204) 453-5259; Fax: (204) 925-8034; email: [email protected]

The Rural Advancement Foundation International is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with affiliate offices in Ottawa and North Carolina. RAFI is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural diversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies. They are currently very active in the controversies surrounding genetically engineered crops.

The Ram’s Horn, Brewster Kneen, Editor, S-12 C-11 RRRI Sorrento, BC. Ph/fax: (250) 675-4866; email: [email protected]

Brewster and Cathleen Kneen’s monthly newsletter will keep you abreast of crucial food issues in Canada and abroad for only twenty dollars a year. They can also put you in touch with activist groups on biotech and other agricultural issues in a Canadian city near you.

The Campaign for Food Safety, Ronnie Cummings, 860 Highway 61, Little Marais, MN 55614. Ph: (218) 226-4164; Fax: (218) 226-4164; email: [email protected]. website: www.purefood.org

A public interest organization that deals with issues of food safety and genetic engineering, the Campaign for Food Safety is allied with the Center for Food Safety in Washington. Their campaign tactics include public education, litigation boycotts, media work and direct action., CFS also publishes a free monthly electronic newsletter, Foodbytes. You can subscribe by emailing to: [email protected] and then writing "subscribe pure-food action".

The Edmonds Institute, Beth Burrows, Director, 20319 92^nd Avenue West, Edmonds, WA 98020. Ph: (425) 775-5383; Fax: (425) 670-8410; email: [email protected]. website (under construction): www.edmonds-institute.org

The Edmonds Institute is a public interest, non-profit environmental thinktank; its current emphasis is on biosafety, intellectual property rights and just policies for the protection of biodiversity. The institute encourages pro bono research and policy analysis by scientists and scholars, and its special talent is creating alliances and coalitions with like-minded organizations and individuals. The institute just won its litigation with the US Department of the Interior and the National Parks Service over the commercialization of biodiversity in Yellowstone National Park.

The Foundation on Economic Trends (FET) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to examine emerging trends in science and technology and their effects on the environment, economy, culture and society. Jeremy Rivkin is its president and founder.

The Humane Society of the United States, Eating with Conscience Campaign, 700 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879. Ph: (301) 258-3054 Toll-free 1 (800) 444-8359; Fax: (301) 258-3081; email: [email protected]

The Humane Society of the United States is fighting for safer and more humane conditions for food animals, in an effort to also help prevent the spread of E.coli, salmonella and BSE (Mad Cow) outbreaks in humans, which they contend are a natural concomitant of present industrial agriculture. The director of their Eating with Conscience campaign, Howard Lyman, was sued by the Cattlemen’s Association, along with Oprah Winfrey, for discussing on her show the dangers of Mad Cow disease and other infections in food.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Kristin Dawkins, Director, Trade and Agriculture Program, 2105 First Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404. Ph: (612) 870-3410; Fax: (612) 870-4846; email: [email protected]. website: http://www.iatp.org/iatp

IATP is working to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy. The data they gather are distributed as educational materials to policy makers and the public at large. This includes a mail-order service, video productions, PSA campaigns, and conferences and computer networks.

The International Center for Technology Assessment, The Center for Food Safety, 310 D Street NE, Washington, DC 20002. Ph: (202) 547-9359. website: http://www.icta.org

The International Center for Technology Assessment examines the economic, ethical, social, environmental and political effects of the applications of technology, and it carries on lawsuits against government entities and corporations where necessary. The Center for Food Safety addresses the impact of our food production system on human health, animal welfare and the environment. They are fighting for testing, labelling and regulation of genetically engineered foods, preserving strict national organic food standards, and preventing potential health crises caused by food-borne illness, including Mad Cow disease. Both are energetic sources of information and legal action.

RAFI USA, PO Box 640, Pittsboro, NC 27312, Ph: (919) 542-1396, Fax: (919) 542-0069; email: [email protected]

See description of the Rural Advancement Foundation above, under food issues and biotechnology (Canada).

Seed Savers Exchange, Kent Whealy, RR 3, Box 239, Decorah, IA 53101. Ph: (319) 382-5990; Fax: (319) 382-5872

This group grows, saves, distributes and sells organic and heritage seed. They also fund workshops for Third World participants to increase their knowledge of sustainable food cropping.

SoilFoodWeb Inc., Elaine Ingham, President, SoilFoodWeb Inc, 980 NW Circle Boulevard, Corvallis, OR 97330. Ph: (541) 752-5066; Fax: (541) 752-5142; email: [email protected]

This organization advises, educates and provides the means for farmers to wean their soils from agricultural chemicals and learn how to build soil for sustainable agriculture.

Food safety issues information can also be obtained, in the US, by calling: Food First, (510) 654-4400 or Consumer’s Union: (914) 378-2000

The Council of Canadians, 502-151 Slater Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5H3. Ph: (613) 233-2772. Fax: (613) 233-6776; email: [email protected]. website: www.canadians.org

The Council of Canadians is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization supported by more than 100,000 members. It serves as a government watchdog, critic of corporate crime and catalyst for grass-roots organizing. The council works to protect Canadian sovereignity and promote democratic rights. They have proved tirelessin fighting undemocratic globalized trade, tackling such issues as unregulated, unlabelled genetically engineered food, corporate control of the media, and the forced introduction of trade-protected toxins like MMT.

The International Forum on Globalization, 1555 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94109. Ph: (415) 771-3394 Fax: (415) 771-1121; email: [email protected]. website: www.ifg.org

The IFG is an alliance of leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers from twenty-five countries, formed to stimulate joint activity and public education in response to the global economy.

Institute for Policy Studies, 733 15th Street, NW, Suite 1090, Washington, DC, 10005-2112. Ph: (202) 234-9382; Fax: (202) 387-7915

The IPS is a Washington thinktank established more than thirty years ago, under President John F Kennedy.These days, it is concerned primarily with democracy and justice issues as they relate to trade. It works closely with the fifty-eight-member Progressive Caucus on Capitol Hill, to link its staff with national networks of scholars, activists, and citizens to articulate a new progressive agenda for America at the local, state and national levels. See their website at www.netprogress.org.

PR Watch, Center for Media and Democracy, 3318 Gregory Street, Madison, W1 53711. Ph: (608) 233-3346; Fax: (608) 238-2236; email: [email protected]. website: http://www.prwatch.org

The Center for Media and Democracy, founded by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, keeps an eye on transnationals and their media manipulations. They publicize issues like SLAPP suits, corporate censorship and marketing to children. Their newsletter, PR Watch, is published quarterly.

The Transnational Resource and Action Center (TRAC), Corporate Watch, Internet magazine, PO Box 29344, Presidio Station, San Francisco, CA 94129. Ph: (415) 561-6567; email: [email protected]. website: www.corpwatch.org

This organization keeps track of corporate power and analyzes the dangers to democracy and to human rights. Their Internet magazine is a rich source of information about who is doing what and how to combat it.

Appalacian Voices, 197 New Market Center, Boon, NC 28607. Ph: (828) 963-2651

This small organization is sponsoring research and helping find solutions to air pollution effects. It also helps fight strip mining of forests, including mountain-top removal that supplies today's huge industrial chip mills.

The David Suzuki Foundation, Suite 219, 2221 W. Forth Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6K 4S2. Ph: (604) 732-4228; Fax: (604) 732-0752; email: [email protected]. website: www.davidsuzuki.org

The David Suzuki Foundation is a non-profit research group that tries to study the underlying structures and systems that cause environmental crises, in order to bring about fundamental change. The Foundation commissions research, supports the implementation of ecologically sustainable models, works to educate the widest possible audience to support change, and urges decsion makers to adopt policies that encourage individuals and busniesses to adopt policies that encourage individuals and busniesses to act within nature's constraints. The David Suzuki Foundation has mounted Canada's largest and most sustained campaign to understand and find solutions to global climate change. They are involved in a waterhsed restoration project with the Musqueam Indian Band, and have organized the Pacific Salmon Forests Project, to help people understand how the interaction between fish and forests is crucial to the survival of both. Among other projects, the David Suzuki Foundation fights unsustainable logging, and has researched ten stories of fisheries that work.

Rainforest Action Network, 221 Pine Street, No 500, San Francisco, CA 94702. Ph: (415) 398-4404; Fax: (415) 398-2732; email: rainforest@ran-org. website: www.ran.org

Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grass-roots organizing and non-violent direct action.

World Resources Institute, 10 G Street NE Suite 800, Washington, DC 20002. Ph: (202) 729-7600; Fax: (202) 729-7610; email: [email protected]. website: http://www.wri.org

The World Resources Institute is a public and grant-supported educational organization that believes a healthy environment and a healthy economy can coexist. Current areas of research include economics, forests, biodiversity, climate change, energy, sustainable agriculture, resource and environmental information, trade, technology and health. Their ground-breaking report on The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge is a must-read for all Canadians.

EarthFirst ! Journal, PO Box 1415, Eugene, OR 97440. Ph: (541) 344-8004; Fax (541) 7688

EarthFirst! works mostly on the West Coast of the United States, but does have offices in Boston. Although its members are most famous for non-violent direct action (blockades, demos, sit-ins and the like), they also help oranize communities, petition governments, and educate the public, like most democratic groups.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, PO Box 628, Venice, CA 90294. Ph: (310) 301-7325; Fax (310) 574-3161. To contribute money call: 1 (888) whale-22. website: http://www.seashepherd.org

Paul Watson is captain of the Sea Shepherd vessel and a direct-action environmental activist. For the last two decades, he and members of his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have tried to protect sea mammals by putting themselves between harpooners and whales, and by sinking whaling ships. He has been beaten by sealers in Newfoundland, jailed in Iceland for sinking ships, and lionized by many as one of the only lines of defence between the survival and extinction of a constantly shrinking marine animal population.

Other non-violent action groups include Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace (above).

The Center for Environment, Health and Justice helps families protect their children from chemical poisons and their communities from toxic waste dumps. It was founded, as the Citizen's Clearing House on Hazardous Waste, by Lois Gibbs, the leader of the first successful community campaign against toxics, Love Canal. CHEJ works for, and is supported primarily by, blue-collar workers, farmers, low-income families and people of colour. Frightened victims of suspected toxics can turn to their Science and Technical Assistance Program, led by Harvard-trained toxicologist Stephen Lester. CHEJ publishes over 130 guides and fact-pacts and three periodicals, Everyone's Backyard, Environmental Health Monthly and Dioxin Digest. The tiny staff spends only 14% of their budget on fundraising and administration. This is a grass-roots organization, one of the most effective in the world.

Oronto Douglas, lawyer and friend of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nobel Prize-winning poet executed by Nigerian dictators five years ago, is deputy director of ERA. This organization attempts to disseminate news of the human and environmental abuses by multinational oil companies, like Shell Oil and Chevron, in alliance with paramilitary and government groups in the Niger Delta. They also help coordinate the worldwide Shell boycott, and can provide information on the activitiesof these corporations in the Third World.

Pesticide Action Network, 116 New Montgomery, Suite 810, San Francisco, CA 94105. Ph: (415) 541-9140; Fax (415) 541-9253. email: [email protected]

The Pesticide Action Network is a fast and scientifically reliable source of information. They know what compounds your food contains, and can tell you exactly how dangerous and common they are. PAN can also show you how to organize to limit or eliminate pesticide use in your area.

Project Underground, Danny Kennedy, Project Coordinator, 1916a Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley, CA 94703. Ph: (510) 705-8981; Fax: (510) 705-8983. email: [email protected]. website: http://www.moles.org

Project Underground fights the toxic pollution and human rights violations of the current worldwide goldrush on metals, led in large part by Canadian corporations. They provide information, legal help and outside research to people suffering the effects of the world land-grab for minerals.

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