DONATIONS AND HELP
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WHO WE ARE
THE POLITICAL PLATFORM
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
HOW YOUR MONEY WILL BE SPENT
OUR HONOUR COMMITTEE
READ OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT
Mailing address USA Headquarters
FORCES, Inc.
P.O. Box 4267
Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744, USA
USA
Tax US identification number: 542023140
FORCES INTERNATIONAL (Forces, Inc.) is an
Educational non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Forces, Inc. has received the
Educational 501(c)3 non profit status from the Internal Revenue
Service. Your contribution may be tax deductible in the United
States. National FORCES chapters outside of the United States are
similarly structured according to the laws of the countries in
which they operate.
ACTIVISM? FORCES IS THERE!
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Whatever your choice, thank you!
Donations
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FORCES, Inc.
P.O. Box 4267
Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744, USA
USA
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I don't have money, but I still want to help. What can I do?
If you can't afford membership or donations you still can help by donating your time and skills that we would have to buy otherwise.
Below is what we need, but first, please read this.
Donating time and skills effectively
FORCES International is a seriously committed organization that fights
for your rights. Seriousness is an essential element when
fighting against the overwhelming power of governments and healthist
organizations financed with millions and millions of pharmaceutical
dollars.
Unfortunately, there seems to be some confusion between volunteer work
and what we shall call hobby dedication. For that reason we find it
necessary to define both.
Hobby dedication is an interest in a particular issue or activity
that is conditional to the availability of disposable time, and indeed,
it is a use of that disposable time. For example, collecting stamps,
participating in a chess club, raising occasional funds for the local
charity, or restoring collectible cars, are all examples of hobby
dedication. That does not mean that those activities are not taken
seriously. It means that, because of their own nature, hobby dedications
are not binding activities, and come as very low priorities that are
conditional to moods, spare time and, at any rate, altogether to
personal discretion, as they are non-essential activities exclusively
based on the whim of the individual, who mostly acts alone.
Volunteer work is the donation of a portion of one's own
professional time, to be employed with a commitment that is no
different than that which is applied to a paid and full-time job ,
and where one will often work in coordination with others, who in turn
rely on that volunteer work through organizational structure, funds and
resources, and count on the quality and on the timely delivery of the
work done, according to specification. As in any work environment,
work ethics are of the essence . That means that the volunteer worker
is expected to deliver what he/she has committed to in a professional
and timely manner and that, in case of unforeseen events that interfere
with expected performance, proper advanced notice is to be given to the
organizers so as to minimize or compensate for the problems created. In
short, volunteer work is a professional employment that is limited to
a part-time commitment agreed upon with the organization to which
the volunteer work is donated. Unpaid, volunteer work does not mean
having the licence to perform a task if and when one wants, deliver
according to a low-priority ?spare time? dedication, or even drop out
altogether without notification, on the grounds that the work
volunteered was never paid for in the first place. That attitude may be
appropriate to hobby dedications but is not acceptable for dedicated
volunteer work. Promise what you can and will deliver. We pay for
services unavailable via volunteer effort, and would rather pay, than
rely on the unreliable.
FORCES needs volunteer work, not hobby dedication . Actually, work
that is volunteered as a hobby dedication would be harmful to us, for it
would create continuous problems and dysfunctional operation. Please
consider that before volunteering your help. We are working to restore
liberty. This is serious work. It requires performance as promised, not
dilettante dedication, subject to competing hobbies or one?s mood.
If you are willing to donate volunteer work on those terms we need all
the help you can offer! Here is a partial list of what it?s badly needed
according to the skills you may have.
Sound and video Editors ? Our
Multimedia portal system is
designed to offer audio-video productions. The Multimedia portal is not
just designed to reproduce various videos. Most importantly, it is aimed
to give enhanced voice to our side, and to educate . That means that our
aim is to have the largest possible number of FORCES-produced materials.
The biggest limiting factor to that production is the editing time. Your
expert help as an audio-video editor would greatly enhance our
production capability.
Graphic Designers - For educational and advertisement functions
FORCES will rely more and more on graphics. Graphic
designers capable of creating banners, logos,
animations, and more generally to improve the appearance of our site,
would be a great asset to the organization.
Fund Raisers ? FORCES is a true grass-root organization and,
contrary to the childish insistencies of our enemies, we are not
financed by the tobacco industry, or by any other industry, directly or
indirectly. Being unbeholden to any single organization or interest
group preserves our objectivity and credibility, but money is a classic
?problem? of all volunteer organizations, whose potential effectiveness
can be considerably hampered by financial limitations. Skilled
fundraisers mindful of the cause and capable of raising funds through
donations solicited from individuals, institutions, business
organizations or investors anywhere in the world, would be a key to the
growth of our organization. Fair and advantageous agreements could be
established for compensation to such fundraisers.
Membership, donations and advertisement Coordinators ? The
steadiness of membership feed, more than anything else, guarantees that
?the lights are kept on.? Although our basic operations are manned by
volunteers who draw no salaries, expenditures exist nevertheless:
servers, server administrators, professional web masters, bandwidth
consumption, reimbursements, machine replacements, etc., are all
expenses that must be faced on a regular basis. Income such as from
donations and from advertisement solicitation is vital. Advertisement
sales are not difficult because of the huge number of documentable
visitors to the FORCES International web site, as well as its national
chapters in different languages ? from
Dutch to
Italian to
German . As
to compensation, arrangements similar as those for fundraisers could be
established.
Web Masters ? Although a legal, non-profit entity registered in
four different nations according to local laws, FORCES is largely based
on the Internet. That means that reliable web masters are indispensable
for our operation. Many more sections of the huge FORCES web site could
be open much sooner if more web masters would become available. Our
portals are PHP-based as opposed to HTML-based, and the web masters
should be skilled in that programming language.
Translators ? FORCES International is not just an
American/German/Italian/Dutch organization. Its approaches are likewise
varied, i.e. in its educational, news, and multimedia portals. The
intent of our organization is to be able, one day, to communicate our
educational and informational functions in all the major languages of
the world. That is because the healthist ideology and lifestyle control,
as well as the ?public health? epidemiological frauds, are truly global
problems, nowadays, and no country on Earth will be left untouched by
them. We believe that knowledge is the most powerful weapon against
fraud and superstition ? but knowledge must be carried by language, and
translators can increase our reach. The presence of reliable translators
would make it possible to activate multilingual sections of the website
? from news to scientific information ? in the main languages of the
Earth even without the presence of FORCES chapters in those countries.
Furthermore, one of the tactics of antitobacco is to make its victims
feel isolated, while offering a ?helping hand? (that is, conform, quit,
and use pharmaceutical products). To that end, information control is
essential to the prohibitionists, and servile mass-media in various
countries do not report worldwide resistance. In general, mass-media
attempts to make the local population believe that smoking bans
elsewhere are a ?success,? popular amongst non-smokers and smokers
alike. The media seeks to cripple and demoralize the organization of any
effective opposition. The knowledge that other countries are ?fighting
the fight? can be voiced only with the help of translators.
We need two translators per language from and into English for the
following languages:
? French
? Spanish
? German
? Italian
? Arabic
? Chinese
? Portuguese
State Educators ? As an educational organization, we need people
who are knowledgeable and capable of teaching long-distance. We can
provide the technical tools needed for the long-distance teaching. Among other
duties, Educators would disseminate the Citizens' Toolkit and answer
questions about facts. As with Translators for international
communication, one objective is to assure people
that they are not isolated. More than that, because FORCES works at the national and
international levels, we are familiar with the "antismoking playbook", so
to speak. This is important information that needs to be conveyed to
interested citizens as well as state legislators.
Scientific Readers ? One important function of our organization
is education through interpretation of the epidemiological evidence and
direct access of the readers to that evidence. The evidence must be read
and the essential data compiled into short charts that sum up that
evidence. For example, a study on passive smoking and heart
disease typically controls for two or three of the nearly 300
confounders for heart disease. The study would have to be read at least
summarily to discover its size and the number of confounders it has
actually controlled for. Those confounders would be marked in a special
table containing all the possible confounders of the disease, so that
the reader could have an immediate sense of the precision of the study
in question. That is what a scientific reader is for. Even people who do
not possess high specialization can extract such information after a short training session that can be done over computer or phone.
Data entry and data scouting ? FORCES has the ambition to become
the largest source of information on the Internet for the topics it
deals with and on the issues it addresses. A ?one-stop? information
centre would be immensely useful for researchers and for the education
of laymen, politicians, and activists. A data entry and scouting person
would have the task of finding relevant scientific information and/or
entering the current information into our portal systems for easy and
fast consultation.