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COFE

COALITION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

Social Action For Public Accountability

We invite you to sign our Guest Book (added 10-10-99):   

Send Email to: COFE@omnist.com

p.o.box 44322, Washington, DC, 20026-4322  -  phone:410-433-7314 fax:410-433-7096

Defending rights and promoting change to secure justice for Federal employees (their families and America's communities) in support of good government for citizens and taxpayers, with diversity, ethics, and competence.

NEW!  BeSeen Bulletin Board for COFE.  Go here for current comment, news, and views.  Post your own items and opinion:

Read the Willie Lynch Speech of 1712 and think "public servant" [click below:]

"The following treatise, to the knowledgeable, will be the missing link that has been sought to explain how we were put into the condition that we find ourselves in today." - Frederick Douglas

Perhaps it's time to bring a bit of community to the civil service - the following item from a recent Harvard graduate is worth remembering as we do our work and struggle together:

Of Snakes, Butterflies, and Small Acts of Kindness

Organizations dedicated to professions and professionalism in public service:

PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

CHAPTERS & CAMPAIGNS

Coming Soon! Membership and Chapter Organizing - COFE is committed to activist advocacy, systemic change, networking, education, and communication, so you can begin without waiting for us.  Several chapters are presently forming, so start organizing at your own agency now.  Build a network of committed, competent, capable folk, identify your issues, document the facts and cases, develop an action agenda, go online and design a web site, get nonagency email and a post office box, install a telephone and fax machine, enlist able volunteers, raise funds and set up a bank account, get the OPM guidelines on employee organizations and develop your governance, charter, and bylaws.  Include everyone.  We support coalitions across groups, reflecting diversity, ethics, and competence - e pluribus unum.  Remember what Gandhi said: "We must become the change we seek in the world."  Apply satyagraha (the firmness of truth) and "Speak truth to power."  Be proactive!

Currently waging a Campaign for Justice at the U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY.  Check the following link for what COFE wants:

COFE Campaign for Justice at DOE

LABOR:

Labor Groups

Labor Rights

VETERANS:

Links For Veterans

LINKS:

Employee Resources Zone

Government Accountability Project

Other Links

 If you haven't signed our Guestbook at the front, we invite you to return there, or to sign our second guest book: