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Occupy Lawrence
Our mission is to stand in solidarity with the “Occupy” communities worldwide that originate from “Occupy Wall Street” and to promote awareness of social and economic injustice. We seek to inspire positive change through mutual collaboration and community building. We stand in unity to promote open dialogue so that everyone can voice ideas, seek solutions to common concerns, and implement those solutions through direct action.BackgroundOccupy Lawrence was initially formed as a group in solidarity with Occupy Wall...
updated November 1
Solidarity!
A group of people interested in discussing, exploring, and practicing new ways of living, eating, working, playing, and relating with one another and our environment in a radical way.
updated August 31, 2011
Social Service League
History:As the oldest service organization in Lawrence, the Social Service League has been providing cost-effective assistance to the financially challenged of Lawrence and Douglas County Kansas since 1863.
updated June 30, 2011
community - community
MO-KAN Bradley Manning Support Team
We are the local organizing group from Missouri and Kansas organizing support for PFC Bradley Manning while he is imprisoned at the Joint Regional Correction Facility at Coffin Road and 159th Street at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. We have many local members, but we also have participants from both coasts of the USA, Canada, England, the Netherlands, and Australia.We stand with accused whistle-blower US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.A 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst, Pfc. Manning faces decades in prison for allegedly leaking a video of a US...
updated April 28, 2011
Kansas Area Watershed (KAW) Council
The Kansas Area Watershed Council is one of the oldest bioregional groups on the continent. Our vision is to explore and celebrate the prairie ecosystem, and make community with each other, the land and sky.Many of us are active in continental bioregional organizing, local peace and justice work, ecofeminism, wetlands preservation, prairie restoration, holistic health and healing, consensus training, and many manner of enhancing and sustaining local culture.
updated April 19, 2011
Lawrence Action Network for Diversity LAND
We are a diverse group of student, religious, community organizations and concerned individuals that came together to advocate for common-sense solutions that uphold the values we share as Kansans, and move us forward together.
updated April 13, 2011
national/state - culture, community, education, human rights
Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy
The Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization incorporated in Kansas in December 2007. GPACE is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas and was formed in the context of legislative attempts to overturn the historic Kansas Department of Health and Environment denial of air quality permits for a coal-fired power plant expansion, and more than a decade of ignoring the state’s enormous wind and renewable energy potential.Mission StatementThe mission of the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy is...
updated March 29, 2011
Karlin Family Farms
This project is currently no longer active, but other projects are in the works.Purchased as a family homestead by Felix and Henrietta Karlin, for their eight adult children and many grandchildren in 1985. Purchased in 2008 by Rod Karlin their eldest son. Stewarded by Troy and Brady Karlin sons of Rod, since August 2009. We are currently turning these 10 acres on the corner of 31st/ Kasold Dr. in Lawrence, KS into a "beyond" organic farm and thriving homestead, with hopes of developing an education center for sustainability.
updated March 5
Cosmic Beauty School
We are building and modeling a sustainable shared space in East Lawrence by creating an examined, loving, & cooperative home. We are converting an old mixed-use residential/ commercial building into a demonstration site for compassionate intimacy, appropriate technologies, radical methods of intensive food production, urban permaculture, sustainable personal relationships, pro-dignity & anti-oppression social justice organizing.We currently have 4 bedrooms in our intentional community and are working on building more.  Nick and...
updated March 27, 2011
KAWR
KAWR shall serve Lawrence and the surrounding communities by providing a voice for local music, art, cultural and news programming that will cover a wide spectrum of programming from local to regional and traditional to experimental. KAWR shall strive to be the voice of Lawrence citizens and to provide a mechanism for all citizens to share their knowledge, wisdom, education and creativity with each other and the surrounding communities.
updated March 11, 2011
Compassion For All Animals
We do our part to help create a just, compassionate, and peaceful world for all animals who live here by actively promoting a lifestyle free of cruelty, exploitation, and slavery. We believe that all life is interconnected and that non-human animals are irreplaceable individuals with morally significant interests, and hence rights. This includes the right to live free from unnecessary suffering. Just as we fight for our human animal sisters and brothers, so too should we fight for our fellow nonhuman friends. We promote awareness through...
updated March 31, 2011
Wetlands Preservation Organization
We are a group actively fighting the construction of the South Lawrence Traffic-way through the wetlands south of Haskell Indian Nations University. We are an active eco-group at Haskell Indian Nations University.
updated March 27, 2011
Lawrence Sustainability Network
Join us in learning and exploring the many facets of sustainable living. Some of us are just becoming interested and some of us have been committed to it for a long while. Wherever you are is a good place to start! Together, we inspire and encourage one another along the way.Our MissionThe Lawrence Sustainability Network (LSN) promotes ecological sustainability, including local food production, resource conservation, and renewable energy. Our efforts towards sustainability encompass community self-reliance, localized economy, biological...
updated March 11, 2011
Lawrence Conscious Parenting Initiative
We are a group of parents who are willing to act on our own initiative to improve the quality of life for everyone. We desire to embrace a wholistic approach to well-being for our selves and our families.We embrace all styles of conscious parenting, including attachment parenting, breastfeeding, natural living, Waldorf education, homeschooling, spiritual living, ecological choices, and birthing with awareness.
updated March 27, 2011
city/community - community, health, social issues
Films For Action
Films For Action uses the power of film to raise awareness of important social, environmental, and media-related issues not covered by the mainstream news. Our goal is to provide citizens with the information and perspectives essential to creating a more just, sustainable, and democratic society.
updated March 28, 2011
Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice
The Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice is dedicated to the propositions that violence begets more violence, that the forms of violence are social and economic as well as physical, and that the human spirit can reach its highest potential only in an atmosphere of peace, mutual respect, and generosity. A truly peaceful society must be a just society with equal rights, opportunity and fairness for all, and a commitment to the general well-being.War is the antithesis of all these ideals and must be eradicated if the vision of a just...
updated March 27, 2011
Lawrence Fruit Tree Project
The Lawrence Fruit Tree Project provides a community-based solution to a critical and growing need for the direct access to healthy food. We work to educate, assist, and inspire the public to grow, steward, and utilize perennial food plants. Our aim is to build community, increase local food security, and create direct, lasting bonds between people and their urban environment.
updated March 27, 2011
city/community - community, food, sustainability, cities
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.Today, Iraq and Afghanistan members work to end the wars in both countries and fulfill their points of unity, which include: * Immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq and Afghanistan;* Reparations for the human and structural...
updated January 26, 2011
national/campus - government, war & peace, human rights
Lawrence Fair Food
Lawrence Fair Food (LFF) is a local branch of the Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA), which is a national network of students and youth who work in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW).In Lawrence, we work to raise awareness about farmworker struggles through the Campaign for Fair Food, while demanding social responsibility in this country's global food system.
updated April 16, 2011
KU Environs
Environs is a long-standing student-led environmental advocacy group at KU. We work hard to promote sound environmental practices on campus, in Lawrence, and regionally. Each semester gives us no shortage of activities to work on. Our only requirement for joining is that you share our common interest in striving for a sustainable campus and world. It isn't all busy work, however. We have plenty of social activities, which can include: hiking, camping trips, and our always amaaazing potlucks.
updated January 23, 2011
Sustainability Action Network
The Sustainability Action Network, a non-profit organization, is bringing awareness of the global crisis caused by climate change, energy vulnerability and economic instability to communities in the Kaw River (Kansas River) bioregion. We are initiating positive solutions inspired by the Transition and Permaculture Movements. We bring the tools needed to re-skill and re-localize our economy and create a more socially just and ecologically sustainable world.
updated March 27, 2011