Holiday shopping DUers, please add to this list

[prodigal_green]

Family won't take no for an answer when you tell them you don't want anything for the holidays? Here are some ideas for what to put on your Christmas list (note, this is an off-the-top-of-my-head list...please add more!!!)

Membership to local cultural institutions (I live in NYC, so this is dead easy). While I luckily don't have any conservative relatives, this might be the easiest for RW family members to go along with.

Donations on your behalf to legal funds or specific legal interest groups such as:

ACLU http://www.aclu.org
Planned Parenthood http://www.plannedparenthood.org
Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp

NGOs such as:
Heifer International http://www.heifer.org
CARE http://www.care.org

Environmental groups:
Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org
Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Good idea...

It will be fun to get this conversation going:

Freeper relative: "What do you want for Christmas this year?"

Me: "Nothing. Just make a donation to the ACLU in my name."

Freeper relative: (long pause) "How about a nice toaster oven?"

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. Conversation continues:

"Nah. Seriously. I don't need anything, but I would love it if you'd give a donation to ACLU or HRC or Amnesty International in my name. That'd be great. Would you like the same?"

[prodigal_green]

3. That's why I threw in cultural institutions

I mean, would they really deny you a membership to the local Children's museum?

Of course, I suppose you could piss of creationists by asking for a membership to the local natural history museum!

[billyoc]

5. Do we HAVE any creationists in NYC?

I see them all day long on the tour busses I work on, but they're from out of town. ;)

[iamjoy]

4. ACLU Defends 2nd Amendment Rights

Really, they hired Bob Barr.

Bob Barr! Mr. Reagan worshiper himself.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Here's another

Refugees International www.refugeesinternational.org

[VivaKerry]

7. the local humane society.

always a good one~!

[OneBlueSky]

8. Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)

one of the oldest peace groups in the nation . . . and international in scope . . .

Fellowship of Reconciliaton (U.S.A.)
http://www.forusa.org

Vision and Mission Statements

FOR's Vision: We envision a world of justice, peace, and freedom. It is a revolutionary vision of a beloved community where differences are respected, conflicts are addressed nonviolently, oppressive structures are dismantled, and where people live in harmony with the earth, nurtured by diverse spiritual traditions that foster compassion, solidarity, and reconciliation.

FOR's Mission: FOR seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.

Since 1915, The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has carried on programs and educational projects concerned with domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience. A Nonviolent, Interfaith, tax exempt organization, The FOR promotes nonviolence and has members from many religious and ethnic traditions. It is a part of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), which has affiliates in over 40 countries.

[AgadorSparticus]

9. ASPCA and In Defense of Animals