The Eaton T. Fores Research
Center:
How To Remake The World
The ETFRC endorses the following organizations, each of which is working towards making the world a better environment for human beings to live in, whether through immediately needed political action, long-term ethical imperatives, or individual spiritual growth. The goals of the ETFRC are much more personal than sociological, but we recognize the importance of work at the sociological level, for that level is the environment in which individual consciousnesses live, move, and have their being.
The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
"The Barre Center for
Buddhist Studies is a non-profit educational
organization dedicated to bringing together teachers, students, scholars
and practitioners who are committed to exploring Buddhist thought and
practice as a living tradition, faithful to its origins and lineage, yet
adaptable and alive in the current world. The center's purpose is to
provide a bridge between study and practice, between scholarly
understanding and meditative insight. It encourages engagement with
the tradition in a spirit of genuine inquiry and investigation."
Save the Children
"The
inspiration and vision for Save the Children came in great part from
the international children's rights movement begun in England in 1919 by
Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the British Save the Children Fund. From this early
effort in the hills and hollows of Harlan County, Kentucky, grew a self-help
philosophy and practice still at work today in more than 45 countries: providing
communities with a hand up, not a handout. This
approach - working with
families to define and solve the problems their children and communities face
and utilizing a broad array of strategies to ensure self-sufficiency - is the
cornerstone of all Save the Children's programs. Through the decades, we
have evolved into a leading international relief and development organization."
The Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS)
"Science and knowledge are crucial to solving today's economic, environmental, and social problems. The definition and solution to these problems are not simple or short-term, and require the skills and perspectives of a wide range of participants. ISIS is committed to making science more open, democratic, and responsible to and inclusive of people. To that end, we aim to change the way science is defined and how knowledge is produced, acquired, and used. We are concerned with knowledge that is value-explicit and actively works with people. Our approach/process includes community organizing, education, and research."
The Drug Reform Coordination Network
"The Drug Reform Coordination Network's founding purpose is to stop the chaos and violence of the illegal drug trade, end the bondage of mass incarceration suffered by hundreds of thousands of nonviolent offenders, stem the spread of deadly epidemic disease, secure the right of patients to appropriate medical treatment, restore Constitutional protections and ensure just treatment under the law for all ... We at DRCNet are dedicated to working together and with our allies for the reform of our nation’s drug laws and to bring the currently uncontrolled markets in illegal drugs within the law, a necessary step in reestablishing popular respect for our legal institutions, reversing the ongoing corruption of law enforcement and the political system, restoring liberty, privacy and due process, and securing the public health and welfare. We oppose the prison-building frenzy and support rational, compassionate reforms consistent with the principles of Peace, Justice, Freedom, Compassion and Truth ..."
BLTC RESEARCH
"BLTC RESEARCH
was founded in 1995 to promote Paradise-Engineering.
We are dedicated to an ambitious global technology project. BLTC seek
to abolish the biological substrates of suffering. Not just in humans, but
in all sentient life ... The ethical importance of the decisions we take can
scarcely be exaggerated. For soon we'll be forced to choose how much
suffering in the living world we want to conserve and create. Or whether
instead we wish to abolish pain completely ... Life on earth can be animated
by gradients of ecstatic well-being beyond the bounds of normal human
experience. In the end, the greatest obstacles to superhealth and a
cruelty-free world may prove ideological, not technical."
St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital
"St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital®, located in Memphis, Tennessee,
is one of the world's premier centers for research and treatment of
catastrophic diseases in children, primarily pediatric cancers. The mission
of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is to find cures for children with
catastrophic illnesses through research and treatment. About 4,300 patients
are seen at St. Jude yearly, most of whom are treated on a continuing
outpatient basis as part of ongoing research programs. The hospital also
maintains 56 beds for patients requiring hospitalization during treatment.
To date, St. Jude has treated more than 19,000 children from across the
United States and 60 foreign countries."
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
"Families Against
Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) is a national nonprofit
organization founded in 1991 to challenge inflexible and excessive
penalties required by mandatory sentencing laws."
The Multidisciplinary Association for
Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
"MAPS is a membership-based non-profit research and educational organization. We assist scientists to design, obtain approval for, fund, conduct and report on research into the healing and spiritual potentials of psychedelics. Can you imagine a cultural reintegration of the use of psychedelics and
the states of mind they engender?"
"We are alarmed that
some of the current voices of stridency and division
may replace those of reason and unity. If these voices continue unchallenged,
the results will be predictable: a rise in "demonology" and hostility, a
breakdown in community and social spirit, a deterioration of free and open
dialogue, and the temptation to grasp at simplistic solutions for complex
problems. People For the American Way was established to address these
matters. Our purpose is to meet the challenges of discord and fragmentation
with an affirmation of 'the American Way.' By this, we mean pluralism,
individuality, freedom of thought, expression and religion, a sense of
community, and tolerance and compassion for others."
DrugSense
"We believe that prohibition is a system
which unleashes
powerful forces ... that inevitably make the underlying drug
problem worse while adding a series of costly unintended
side effects, including damage to the very values upon which
free nations have been founded."
The American Civil Liberties Union
"The American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is our nation's guardian of
liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend
and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people
in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The
ACLU's mission is to fight civil liberties violations wherever and whenever
they occur. The ACLU is also active in our national and state capitals,
fighting to ensure that the Bill of Rights will always be more than a
'parchment barrier' against government oppression and the tyranny
of the majority."
Harm Reduction Network
"The Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) is committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing. HRC fosters alternative models to conventional health and human services and drug treatment; challenges traditional client/provider relationships; and provides resources, educational materials, and support to health professionals and drug users in their communities to address drug-related harm.
"The Harm Reduction Coalition believes in every individual's right to health and well-being as well as in their competency to protect and help themselves, their loved ones, and their communities."
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