LINKS FOR INFORMATION, RESOURCES, AND GREAT ORGANIZATIONS!


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Civil and Human Rights Organizations
  • American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) --Highly active civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage. The ADC is non-partisan. It was founded in 1980 by former Senator James Abourezk and has chapters nationwide.
  • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) --Works to assure that the Bill of Rights are preserved for each new generation. They do this through legal, legislative, and educational methods.
  • Amnesty International USA --The U.S. chapter of the largest international human rights organization, based in London, England.
  • Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) --Promotes fair and accurate representation of gay people in the media, right to the place where opinions are shaped.
  • Human Rights Campaign --Nation's largest lesbian and gay civil rights group.
  • Human Rights Watch --Investigates and works against human rights violations around the world, based in New York.
  • Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) --Promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through: support, education, and advocacy. Based in Washington, DC, with chapters across the country.

    Religious Organizations

  • American Friends Service Committee --Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service.
  • Catholic Worker Movement --founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person. Today over 140 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.
  • Christian Peacemaker Teams --An organization committed to "Getting in the Way"-challenging systems of domination and exploitation as Jesus did in the first century.
  • Maryknoll Mission --Catholic order devoted to alleviating poverty and working for social justice around the world.
  • Friends for a Non-Violent World --Quaker organization based in Minneapolis working for a non-violent society and world.
  • Mennonite Peace & Justice Committee --Works for peace around the world. Affiliated with the Mennonite Church.

    Education and Advocacy Organizations

  • AIDS Quilt --From the NAMES Project.
  • Bread for the World --Christian-based organization that works for policy change that affects hungry people in the United States and worldwide. Use our democratic potential to find policies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty.
  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists --Fifty year-old journal founded by atomic scientists after World War Two. Supports international cooperation to settle nuclear and military issues between sovereign nations and challenges the notion that nations can best achieve national security by building more and bigger weapons. Deviser of the "Doomsday Clock."
  • Center for Defense Information (CDI) --independent monitor of the military. Believes that strong social, CDI seeks realistic and cost effective military spending without excess expenditures for weapons and policies that increase the danger of war.
  • Crimes of War --Collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars seeking to raise awareness of the laws of war among the media, governments, the human rights and humanitarian aid communities, and the general public.
  • Friends for a Non-Violent World --Minneapolis-based group working to build a world where all people can speak truth to power, practice alternatives to violence, gain strength from community, and act in a spirit of cooperation to work for peace and justice.
  • Global Exchange --Research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world. Highly respected and effective organization.
  • Justice: Denied --The Magazine for the Wrongly Convicted
  • National Organization for Women (NOW) --Largest women's rights organization in the United States, with chapters across the country.
  • OneWorld --Dedicated to promoting human rights and sustainable development by harnessing the democratic potential of the Internet.
  • Seeds of Peace --Devoted to sowing the seeds of peace among children who have grown up with the horror of war. By teaching teenagers to develop trust and empathy for one another, Seeds of Peace is changing the landscape of conflict. Check this website for interesting summer job opportunities!
  • Truth in Justice --Organization working to free wholly innocent men and women convicted of crimes they did not commit.
  • United States Institute of Peace --Federal institution created to strengthen the U.S.'s capacity to promote peaceful resolution in international conflicts.

    Grassroots Activism and Political Organizations

  • Center for Campus Organizing --Progressive organization that supports social justice activism and investigative journalism on campuses.
  • Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) --supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.
  • Circlevision --Informs and educates on justice and peace issues in Minnesota
  • Democratic National Committee --Headquarters for the Democratic Party.
  • Green Parties of North America --Political movement dedicated to work for peace, a sustainable environment, democracy and social justice.
  • Greenpeace
  • Hague Appeal for Peace --creates new partnerships between citizens, governments, and international organizations. This "new diplomacy" will help us progress toward peace.
  • International Action Center (IAC) --Information, activism and resistance to militarism and war, linking with struggles against racism and oppression within the U.S.
  • New Party --A progressive political party that focuses on building a multi-racial political organization that works against "the stranglehold that corporate money and corporate media have over our political process."
  • Peace Action --National grassroots peace and justice group.
  • ProActivist.com --Internet site dedicated to photographically documenting progressive protests and demonstrations and assisting activists with their efforts.
  • Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) --Both state PIRGS and U.S.PIRG.
  • Rainforest Action Network --Works to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests. Concentrates to bring issues to public attention through education, communication, and direct action.
  • Republican National Committee --Headquarters for the Republican Party.
  • Veterans for Peace, Inc.
  • War Resisters League --Group committed to working against war and violence in our society.
  • Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) --Nonviolent feminist organization that works in solidarity with others to create a system of social equality, self-determination, and justice through education and empowerment of women. WAMM's purpose is to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression.
  • Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO) --A global organization actively working to increase women's visibility, roles and leadership in public policy-making through peace, gender, human rights, environmental and economic justice campaigns.

    Volunteer, Relief and Humanitarian Organizations

  • Americorps --Government funded volunteer corps. Members serve for one year in a nonprofit. Will pay for a living allowance and an educational stipend.
  • Doctors Without Borders --World's largest independent relief agency aiding victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural and human-caused disasters. Recipient of 1999 Nobel Peace Prize
  • The Global Fund for Women --Works with groups around the world dealing with poverty, women's political participation and leadership, reproductive freedom and prevention of violence against women.
  • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
  • Peace Brigades International --grassroots non-governmental organization that explores and promotes nonviolent approaches to peacekeeping and support for human rights. Send teams of volunteers into areas of political repression and conflict. The volunteers accompany human rights defenders, their organizations, and others who have been threatened by political violence. The presence of these volunteers backed by an Emergency Response Network helps deter violence. Volunteers also conduct peace education workshops and spread information about the conflict situation.
  • Peace Corps
  • UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)

    Region-specific Campaigns

  • East Timor Action Network
  • Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
  • Free Burma Coalition
  • Free Tibet Campaign
  • International Campaign for Tibet
  • Iraq Action Coalition
  • Resource Center of the Americas --Committed to informing, education, and organizing for human rights, democracy and justice in the Americas. Based in Minneapolis.
  • SERPAGE: Servicio Paz y Justicia en America Latina --A Latin American peace and justice network. (in Spanish)
  • Servicio Internacional para la Paz / International Service for Peace (SISPAZ) --An international coalition devoted to finding a peaceful solution in the Chiapas region of Mexico. (both in Spanish and English)
  • Tibet Online
  • Voices in the Wilderness --Campaign to end the economic sanctions against the people of Iraq.

    Issue-specific Campaigns

  • 50 Years is Enough --A coalition of over 200 grassroots organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for greater global economic justice.
  • Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty --Works to end the death penalty in the United States through aggressive campaigns of public education and the promotion of tactical grassroots activism.
  • Coalition for Positive Sexuality (CPS) A grassroots direct-action volunteer group formed in the spring of 1992 by high school students. Supplies complete information on sex to young people who are sexually active now or just thinking about having sex. Info on safe sex, birth control, sexual preferences, and pregnancy to name a few.
  • International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
  • Jubilee 2000 USA --A global movement to cancel the crushing international debt of impoverished countries by the new millennium.
  • NARAL: National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League --Organization promoting the right for women to choose.
  • The Nuclear Resister --Provides information about and support for imprisoned anti-nuclear and anti-war activists.
  • School of Americas Watch
  • Stop the Reroute of Highway 55
  • Sweatshop Watch --Coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.
  • Vieques libre --Devoted to working against the U.S. Navy's practices on the island of Vieques off of Puerto Rico, which threaten the island's civilians. (In Spanish and English.)

    Student Organizations

  • Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) --National organization that promotes student leadership and involvement in volunteerism in order to mobilize students to lead a movement that increases community participation, promotes activism, and fosters social responsibility.
  • 180/Movement for Democracy and Education --A group dedicated to helping students and youth build a movement for political empowerment and participatory democracy.
  • Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) --National network committed to bringing the voices of young activists into leadership in the peace movement.
  • Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC)
  • Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) --Student run and student led national network of progressive organizations and individuals whose aim is to uproot environmental injustices through action and education.
  • Students United for a Responsible Global Environment (SURGE) --National student organization working to build a coalition among the many student and community organizations working for social and economic justice.
  • United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
  • Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) --Independent organization that supports and verifies licensee compliance with production codes of conduct. These codes of conduct have been developed by colleges and universities across the country to ensure that goods are produced under conditions that respect the basic rights of workers. It'd be really great if students at St. Olaf were able to pressure the school to sign on!

    Local Groups

  • Circlevision --Informs and educates on justice and peace issues in Minnesota.
  • Friends for a Non-Violent World --Quaker organization based in Minneapolis working for a non-violent society and world.
  • Resource Center of the Americas --Committed to informing, education, and organizing for human rights, democracy and justice in the Americas. Based in Minneapolis.
  • Stop the Reroute of Highway 55
  • Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) --Nonviolent feminist organization that works in solidarity with others to create a system of social equality, self-determination, and justice through education and empowerment of women. WAMM's purpose is to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression.

    Volunteer and Job Opportunities

  • Americorps --Government funded volunteer corps. Members serve for one year in a nonprofit. Will pay for a living allowance and an educational stipend.
  • Friends for a Non-Violent World --Minneapolis-based group working to build a world where all people can speak truth to power, practice alternatives to violence, gain strength from community, and act in a spirit of cooperation to work for peace and justice.
  • Idealist Non-profit Career Center --Search for social justice jobs (and internships)
  • Peace Corps
  • Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) --Both state PIRGS and U.S.PIRG.
  • Seeds of Peace --Devoted to sowing the seeds of peace among children who have grown up with the horror of war. By teaching teenagers to develop trust and empathy for one another, Seeds of Peace is changing the landscape of conflict.

    Governmental Sources

  • Address directory to politicians of the world
  • CIA U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
  • CongressTrack from Project Vote Smart--resource to find how legislators have voted and other information
  • Thomas --Library of Congress site where you can search for Congressional bills and check their status
  • United Nations
  • UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
  • U.S. House of Representatives
  • U.S. Senate
  • U.S. State Department
  • The White House

    Various information...

  • Antenna --Association for Progressive Communications (APC) based in the Netherlands. The APC is a world-wide platform of host-organizations with members in more than 75 countries with more than 35.000 organizations from the social movement active on the domains of environment, development co-operation, labor, human rights, fugitive, peace, health, women, etc.
  • EmpowermentResources.com --Tools For Personal Growth, Social Change, and Ecology. Very comprehensive!
  • Essential Information --Great site with lots of resources and links in a wide spectrum of areas!
  • Human Rights Directory
  • Idealist Non-profit Career Center --Search for social justice jobs (and internships)
  • www.MichaelMoore.com --Website run by the well-known film director and activist, Michael Moore. A must visit site!
  • Northern Sun --catalogue full of progressive-minded t-shirts, posters, buttons, bumper stickers, and more!
  • Palestine Information Center
  • Peace Links
  • The People for Peace Project
  • Preamble Center --An independent research and public education organization concerned with the pressing social, economic and political challenges facing the United States.
  • Protest.net
  • Third World Traveler --publishes magazine articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the mainstream media about the impact of the policies of transnational corporations, international financial and trade institutions, the corporate press, and the United States government and its national security establishment on democracy, human rights, social and economic justice and the environment, in the Third World, and in the United States.
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • University of Minnesota Human Rights Library --Reference source for UN, US, and regional documents on human rights. Includes section on asylum and refugees, and human rights-related bibliographies and links.
  • World Bank --Multinational organization that facilitates economic development around the world. Resource for info on economic development and specific countries.

    Media sources (good & bad)

  • BBC --British Broadcasting Corporation World News
  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists --Fifty year-old journal founded by atomic scientists after World War Two. Supports international cooperation to settle nuclear and military issues between sovereign nations and challenges the notion that nations can best achieve national security by building more and bigger weapons. Deviser of the "Doomsday Clock."
  • Common Dreams News Center --Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. Plus links to many news services.
  • CNN
  • Dissent --Quarterly magazine of politics and culture. "A magazine of strong opinions, Dissent is also a magazine that welcomes the clash of strong opinions."
  • FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) --National media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship.
  • E Magazine --The Environmental Magazine.
  • In These Times --a left-wing journal
  • Irish News
  • Irish Times
  • Jakarta Post--For information on Indonesia and East Timor
  • Jerusalem Post
  • Jordan Times --independent Arab daily published in Amman, Jordan
  • Ha'aretz --Israeli newspaper (in English)
  • Le Monde Diplomatique --French news magazine that focuses on global issues (in English)
  • Manufacturing Dissent
  • Middle East Report --excellent source of information on the Middle East
  • Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  • Mother Jones (magazine)
  • The Nation
  • New York Times
  • Ms. Magazine --Well known feminist bimonthly magazine
  • National Public Radio --Okay source, but not always very comprehensive.
  • Pacifica Radio --Featuring the Pacifica Network News, a weekday evening newscast hosted by Verna Avery Brown, and Democracy NOW!, a weekday political affairs show hosted by Pacifica's award-winning Amy Goodman.
  • Peace Magazine
  • The Progressive (magazine)
  • Progressive Review --Publication based in Washington, DC that reports on variety of progressive issues. "Has taken on the Washington establishment since 1966."
  • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  • Salam Review --Maintained by the Boston Committee on the Middle East. Good source for Middle Eastern issues!
  • Institute for Southern Studies --Contains progressive journal for issues affecting the South.
  • Multinational Monitor --Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment. Published by Essential Information, Inc.
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press
  • South China Morning Post --Well known English newspaper based in Hong Kong.
  • Utne (magazine)
  • Washington Post
  • World Watch Magazine --Focuses exclusively on issues that will determine the Earth's long-term health: the battle to rein in an out-of-control consumer economy, to stabilize the global climate, and to protect our rapidly declining cultural and biological diversity.
  • ZNet from Z Magazine

    Progressive books, clothes, posters, etc.

  • Coalition for Positive Sexuality (CPS) A grassroots direct-action volunteer group formed in the spring of 1992 by high school students. Supplies complete information on sex to young people who are sexually active now or just thinking about having sex. Info on safe sex, birth control, sexual preferences, and pregnancy to name a few.
  • EmpowermentBooks.com --Books for personal growth, social change, and ecology.
  • Northern Sun --catalogue full of progressive-minded t-shirts, posters, buttons, bumper stickers, and more!

    Disclaimer: Although we may think these are great sites, the appearance of them on our website is in no way an endorsement of these organizations.


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