More than 20,000 people, mostly civilians in impoverished nations, are killed or maimed by antipersonnel landmines each year. The majority of the world s nations have banned landmines. The United States has not. Help with administrative tasks including data entry and mailings. Help organize a student landmines conference.
All activities are subject to change based on campaign needs.
Grassroots organizing experience preferred. Also involved in addressing these questions, but not in engaging student interns, will be EarthAction and Veterans for Peace. This project will include study by all participants of selections from the booklet Just Peacemaking, brief readings provided by AFSC about Colombia, and other documents. All of the participating organizations are dedicated to usefully engaging citizens in preventing war, building a culture of peace, and promoting basic rights for all people. All of them seek to do so in ways that engage their members and others locally for goals that affect people globally and that require better forms of international and transnational cooperation than now exist.