Mercy High School San Francisco

College preparatory high school for women, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy since 1952

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Here are some useful websites for Peace & Justice Issues

  • Mercy World
  • The Mercy International Association focuses on addressing global poverty and its current demonstration in the massive displacement of persons worldwide.

  • New Dream
  • When it comes to getting more of what matters, New American Dream can help. We offer resources that make it easier to live consciously, buy wisely, and join with others in the New Dream Community trying to make a difference.

  • Network Lobby
  • A Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace—educates, organizes and lobbies for economic and social transformation.

  • Human Rights Watch
  • Defending human rights world wide.

  • Catholic Relief Agency
  • The official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.

  • Justice Net
  • Create an active electronic community of justice and peace, a community of conscience–partners who engage, study, reflect, change and act at all levels on what causes injustice.

  • Sojourner Truth
  • Sojourner Truth, born into slavery about 1797, traveled the land as an itinerant preacher, telling the truth and working against injustice.

  • Free The Children
  • Free The Children is the world's largest network of children helping children through education. Through our organization's unique youth-driven approach, more than one million young people have been involved in our innovative programs in more than 45 countries.

  • Amnesty International
  • Working to protect human rights world wide.

  • Just Peace
  • Access to Catholic Social Justice teachings.

  • Death Penalty Issues
  • Facts and issues concerning the death penalty in the U.S.

  • National Labor Committee
  • Dealing with labor issues around the world and putting a human face on the global economy.

  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment—air, water, and land—upon which life depends

  • Sierra Club
  • A great resource for information on living a "green" lifestyle and about working to protect our environment.

  • Rainforest Action Network
  • Rainforest Action Network protects forests and the rights of their inhabitants by campaigning to break America’s oil addiction, promote sustainable logging, and bring green ethics to Wall St.

  • Non-Violence
  • News and commentary from a pacifists perspective.

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