The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees lives for its Projects, of which there have been more than twenty since its founding in 2006. These include our first project, the International Solidarity Movement of Northern California, which is still ongoing, and the spectacularly successful Free Gaza Movement, which broke the siege of Gaza by sea in August, 2008, and which became independent from the Association since then.

 

Other projects that closed or became independent include 14 Friends of Palestine, No Tax Dollars to Israel, the Barbara J. Raskin Scholarship Fund, the Global March to Jerusalem – North America, and others. We continue to fiscally sponsor projects concerned with human rights in the Middle East and Latin America, but are open to sponsorship without geographic limitations.  However, we respect the wishes of the projects to be known by their project names, and not necessarily their corporate affiliation.

 

The Association accepts projects that defend human rights and international law, with particular emphasis on those that are targets of powerful nations and interests, and which are often reviled in the corporate media of these countries.  We oppose violations of the national sovereignty of nations that pursue a national and foreign policy that is independent from, and not necessarily to the liking of, or approved by, the powerful.  We particularly defend indigenous peoples and their rights to sovereignty, as well as the repressed and their rights to dignity and human rights.  We defend the despised, the disenfranchised, and the objects of vilification campaigns, often by media that are widely regarded as respectable and who shape public opinion.  We welcome projects that expose deception, repression of information and corruption of the centers of power.