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Thread #50135   Message #759267
Posted By: GUEST
03-Aug-02 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: Join The Current Anti-War Movement:!!!!
Subject: RE: Join The Current Anti-War Movement:!!!!
No it isn't. It is a realistic assessment of the website. I saw no evidence of serious involvement in the anti-war movement on the web site linked to, and I did further follow-up by doing a web search on the organization collecting funds, the People's Rights Funds, Inc. whose website (which doesn't tell you much of anything about who these people are) found here:

http://www.peoplesrightsfund.org/

So I went to Guidestar, the national database for information on nonprofits (a standard tool used by activists to find financial information on legitimate 501(C)3 nonprofits, and it has no listing there. Guidestar's website is here:

http://www.guidestar.org/index.jsp

This organization isn't in any of the databases those of us working in the social justice movement use to check on an outfit claiming to be a nonprofit. It wasn't listed at the About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs:

http://nonprofit.about.com/index.htm

or at the Foundation Center's website list of online nonprofits, found here:

http://fdncenter.net/funders/grantmaker/gws_pubch/publist.html

The fact of the matter is kat, you are the one being childish and naive, not to mention patronizing. I've been around Mudcat long enough enough to know that you love to spout lovely rhetoric, but rarely know shit about the subjects you claim to be so supportive of. Like this for instance. Rather than playing along with the internet chat group activists -) here at Mudcat, I'd rather just be honest, and call a spade a spade. If that offends you, so be it. This website looks suspicious to me.

I also posted to the Orwellian thread, telling harpgirl that if she wanted help finding a way to get connected into the anti-war movement, to post her city of residence, and I would post contacts for her in the thread.

Everyone else, I suggest you put on your caveat emptor glasses when viewing this website.