Report from the Technology Working Group

PROJECTS

(Things we’d like to see done)

Ω A Directory of all SMoD Nat’l. Conference attendees

made available to all attendees

Ω Means of outreach to others

Concentrate on local groups affected

(Check “National Priorities Project” for those most affected by the corporate-military budget; contact them)

Ω Use “MySpace” and “YouTube”

NB: WRL has a “MySpace.”

Ω War profiteering working group = CONTRACTS group. Washington DC

Some conference calls

Note: failed to set up “Truman Commission” in Congress.

Listserv; can be with a nonprofit. Charlie Cray; Taxpayers for Common Sense.

Waxman’s staff is on it.

Ω Could WRL put up a “blog” of counter-corporate actions across the nation?

Ω Grants

RESOURCES

Ω Arms Trade Resource Center

NB. Frida Berrigan often collects and “popularizes” the research.

Ω Center for Defense Information

Ω WILPF

Short guide, on web, with many links, to help with YOUR community’s war profiteers;

Concentrating on WMD.

Working vs. corporate “personhood”

Has Manual locating local MoDs.

Ω POCLAD (Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy)

Ω Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities

Ω Pugwash

Ω Corporate Watch

Corporate Watch moving toward a kind of “Wiki” on corporations. Cross between Wiki and Source Watch. Check every 15 days. When verified, it’s “locked.”

Similar: Source Watch, run by PR Watch

[Wikipedia – open to all.

Sourcewatch – someone watches it, if you don’t have a source, I won’t publish it.]

NB: people can do bits of research.

Ω United Nations Environmental Program meeting in Nairobi

NB: People (especially youth) are more easily “grabbed” by environment than by war.

Ω Jarret Lovell

Can provide university resources

(Some copying, Printing, etc.)

Ω Grants:

TIDES Foundation

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