Urban Activism
- The ACTION Center is an
activist's collective in Philadelphia in which activists work as
full-time volunteers on many of the projects listed below. Lists a
variety of organizations within Pennsylvania.
- ACORNĘ, the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest
community organization of low- and moderate-income families, with over
100,000 member families organized into 500 neighborhood chapters in 40
cities across the country. Since 1970 ACORNĘ
has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to our
members. Our priorities include: better housing for first time
homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more
investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better
public schools. yes
- The Labor/Community
Strategy Center encompasses a multiracial, anticorporate
"think tank/act tank" and National School for Strategic
Organizing, and is committed to building democratic internationalist
social movements. The Strategy Center's work spans all aspects of
urban life. It emphasizes rebuilding the labor movement, fighting for
environmental justice, true mass transit for the masses, and immigrant
rights, as well as actively opposing the growing criminalization,
racialization, and feminization of poverty.
Social Activism
- From Local to Global- Community Activism in the new Millennium.
Smith College faculty members and students will join with
community-based activists from Western Massachusetts and beyond to
examine activism in two different, though overlapping, contexts: (1)
community activism in the United States; and (2) activism springing
from disputes about "borders." The
project's faculty and student fellows will examine the forums or
processes that communities use to develop solidarity, to empower
themselves, to build bridges to others, and to cope with situations of
relative powerlessness.
- Global
Solidarity Dialogue. Links Page has the following categories:
Communication; General; Human Rights; Indigenous People; Labor; Peace;
Personal; Regional; Urban; Rural; Women/Feminism.
- The Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU)
is a multi-racial organization of, by and for poor and homeless
people. We believe that we have a right to thrive - not just barely
survive. KWRU is dedicated to organizing of welfare recipients, the
homeless, the working poor and all people concerned with economic
justice.
- The Institute for Women's Policy
Research (IWPR) is a public policy research organization dedicated
to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of
critical importance to women and their families. IWPR
focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings,
work and family issues, the economic and social aspects of health care
and domestic violence, and women's civic and political participation.
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- The Hunger Site. A site
devoted to glocal politics of food donation.
- iAbolish - The
Anti-Slavery Portal. iAbolish is a project of the American
Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), a grassroots organization founded in 1993
to combat slavery around the world. AASG has broken a virtual media
blackout on slavery and helped free over 45,000 slaves. AASG Directors
- including survivors of slavery - have testified to Congress three
times and met twice with the Secretary of State. In September of 2000,
Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented
the Boston Freedom Award to AASG President Dr. Charles Jacobs. The
iAbolish web-portal has two primary objectives: to make slavery a
pressing human rights concern and to mobilize a powerful anti-slavery
movement.
Environmental Activism
- Institute for
Global Communications. As a project of Tides, IGC
shares the vision to actively promote change toward a healthy society,
one which is founded on principals of social justice, broadly shared
economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and sustainable
environmental practices. We believe healthy societies rely
fundamentally on respect for individual rights, the vitality of
communities, and a celebration of diversity. The Mission of IGC is to
advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for
peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and
environmental sustainability through strategic use of online
technologies.
- Critical Mass
Political Activism
- http://www.protest.net is a
collective of activists who are working together to create our own
media. By publishing a public record of our political activities on
the web we are taking a stand against the established media. We are
standing up and showing that serious activism is alive and well at the
dawn of the 21st century. Everyday from Kansas to India activists are
meeting, organizing, and protesting to demand a better world for all.
- From the 23rd to the 25th of February 1998, peoples' movements from
all continents met in Geneva and launched a worldwide coordination of
resistance against the global market, a new alliance of struggle and
mutual support called the Peoples'
Global Action against "Free" Trade and the World Trade Organization
(PGA). This new platform will serve as a global
instrument for communication and co-ordination for all those fighting
against the destruction of humanity and the planet by the global
market, building up local alternatives and peoples' power.
- Reclaim the Streets
Local Activism
- The IWW is a union for all workers, a
union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and in our
communities both to win better conditions today and to build a world
without bosses, a world in which production and distribution are
organized by workers ourselves to meet the needs of the entire
population, not merely a handful of exploiters.
- The International Labor Rights
Fund (ILRF), a nonprofit action and advocacy organization, uses
new and creative means to encourage enforcement of international labor
rights.
- For more than 15 years, the Labor
Defense Network (LDN) has been turning the slogans of
international labor solidarity into concrete action. When union
members in Latin America, Asia, and in the U.S. are abducted, jailed
or assassinated, when strikers are attacked, organizers threatened or
unions repressed, the LDN responds rapidly and effectively in the name
of concerned, dedicated U.S. labor activists: people like you. Yes