Worthwhile Organizations I support

Investigates and publically exposes human rights abuses by all countries, uses visibility as a powerful weapon to stop torture, extrajudicial jailing and detention, execution, and other fundamental human rights abuses. Invisibility breeds abuse, by public exposure AI can often bring massive public pressure to motivate governments to improve their actions.

Most powerful and best funded of the political lobbying groups supporting LBGT rights in US government, works on both National and Local levels.

One of the most effective charities at exposing, preventing and prosecuting rape, as well as offering excellent support for victims.

One of the oldest and most repected of the environmental groups. They do not do any violent or destructive protesting like so many more radical environmental groups, yet are very effective at preventing rampant destruction of the environment.

Eve Ensler's world wide movement to end violence against women, this group does a lot of grass roots work to support battered women's shelters, help women escape abusive relationships, and they have a sub group called women without borders that does some wonderful work helping women in third world countries escape such attrocities as vivisections, enslavement, forced prostitution, and gross inequities in legal protections of their rights.

NOW Founded in 1966 this organizaztion is the foundation of the feminist movement in the US Highly activist, advocating for equal rights for women regardless of race, religion, age, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, economic status or location.

BPW Business and Professional Women is a supportive and helpful organization for working women. I belong to the Verdugo Hills Local. BPW has been a United Nations Non-Governmental Organization since the 40's

While I sometimes disagree on Gender PAC's separation from the larger LGBT community, they have done a lot of good work to promote protections and reduce descrimination against transgendered people of all types. Indeed without their work our representation in groups like HRC would probably be much weaker. For anybody with any variation of gender "flavor" this is a very worthwhile group to support.

Below is me with the HRC contingent getting ready to march in the Los Angeles Pride Parade in 2005

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