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Links

Below is a set of resources around the web divided into the these sections:

Peace, Non-Violence & Organization
Social Justice & Human Rights
Gay & Lesbian Rights
Globalization
Miscellaneous

If you'd like your organization included here, or have a link to suggest, see below.

Peace, Nonviolence & Organizing Links

PeaceNet

Through PeaceNet, take action for positive social change in the areas of peace, social and economic justice, human rights and the struggle against racism.

War Costs.org

War Resisters League

The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war. W.R.L. is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the U.S., founded in 1923.

Nonviolence Web

The Nonviolence Web is the home to many of the U.S.'s most dynamic peace and justice groups.

Project Censored

Project Censored is the permanent source for the real news that did not get reported widely in the U.S.media, both mainstream and alternative. They pub list an annual book of the most censored news stories of the year. An invaluable resource.

The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP)

AVP is a nationwide and worldwide association of volunteer groups offering
experiential workshops in conflict resolution, responses to violence, and
personal growth.

Ruckus Society

The Ruckus Society provides training in the skills of non-violent civil disobedience to help environmental and human rights organizations achieve their goals.

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)

The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors supports and promotes
individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.

1515 Cherry St
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-563-8787
Fax 215-567-2096
info@objector.org

630 20th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
510-465-1617
Fax 510 465-2459

Veterans for Peace

Veterans for Peace is an organization made up of men and women veterans who realize that wars are easy to start and hard to stop; they advocate alternate methodes of resolving conflits.

216 South Meramec Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105
(314) 725-6005
Fax: (314) 725-7103
E-mail: info@veteransforpeace.net

Students for a Democratic Society

On Martin Luther King's birthday, January 15, 2006, a new progressive student action national organization was born, taking its name from the 1962-1969 S.D.S.. Already there are over 100 local chapters of S.D.S. on college and high school campuses across the country. They have held regional meetings around the country and had their first national conference in August 2006 in Chicago. One of the original S.D.S., slogans, "Dare to struggle, dare to win" still holds true today.

Students for a Democratic Society
P.O. Box 40921
New York, N.Y. 10304

The Smedley Butler Society (U.S.)

Dedicated to peace, anti-war, anti-intervention, pro-Constitution.

Human Rights & Social Justice

SweatFree Communities

Publishes the "Shop With A Conscience Consumer Guide" to companies that make and sell sweatshop-free and union-made clothing. Founded in 2003, they assist sweatshop workers globally in their struggles to improve working conditions and form strong, independent labor unions. They are also building a national sweatfree movement with the unity and political strength to generate significant market demand for products that are made in humane conditions by workers who earn living wages.

SweatFree Communities
Liane Foxvog, National Organizer
140 Pine Street #10
Florence, MA 01062
phone: (413) 586-0974
fax: (413) 584-8987
email: liane@sweatfree.org
www.sweatfree.org

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

WILPF works for women's rights, world disarmament, racial and economic justice, an end to violence, and towards assuring peace freedom, and justice.

1213 Race Street
Phila., PA 19107
215-563-7110
Fax: 215-563-5527

The Fellowship of Reconciliation

FOR is an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a means of radical change and as a transforming way of life. The see to replace violence, war, and racism with nonviolence, peace, and justice. They educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and copassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.


P.O. Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960
(845) 358-4601
Fax:(845) 358-4924
E-mail: for@forusa.org

Amnesty International

Amnesty International works to free prisoners of conscience detained around the world because of their beliefs, ethic origin, sex, color, or language. Amnesty fights for fair trials for political prisoners as well as campaigning against the dealth penalty, torture, and cruel treatment of prisoners.

322 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-807-8400
212-463-9193
admin-us@aiusa.org

Global Exchange

Global exchange promotes human rights, social justice, and environmental causes around the world, as well as providing resources on the global economy and fair trade.

Global Exchange
2017 Mission St., Room 303
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel. (415) 255-7296
Fax: (415) 255-7498
www.globalexchange.org

Stop Sweatshops Campaign

UNITE! is running a "Stop Sweatshops" campaign. Their website provides a basic set of resources that can help you as a consumer figure out what you can do to fight sweatshops.

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch has been protecting human rights around the world for over 25 years. Their web site is regularly updated and provides news and investigations about ongoing human rights violations.

United Students Against Sweatshops

United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers’ rights

1413 K St. NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
phone: 202-NO-SWEAT
fax: 202-393-5886

Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Questioning Resources

="http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/lgbtq-college-student-guide/">Affordable Colleges Online.org (LGBTQ College Student Guide) (U.S.)

This is an online guide for LGBTQ high school students considering college. Our goal in creating this guidebook was to show LGBTQ students the various on-campus and online resources they can use to make their college experience more welcoming and supportive. This extends to LGBTQ teens, especially those preparing to make the transition from high school to college.

Key updates to the guide include:
• A list of the Most LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges for 2016
• Extensive tips for searching for a LGBTQ-friendly school
• Updated information about various LGBTQ student organizations that have a presence at most colleges and universities
• Additional online resources for LGBTQ students
Please help make more people aware of this useful online resource by putting a link to it on your own website, blog, Facebook page, other social media or email list serve. Distribute a handout flyer about this guide at events your or your organization attends.

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) (U.S.)

GLAAD is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) (U.S.)

GLSEN is the leading national organization fighting to end anti-gay bias in K-12 schools. Formerly Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN)

The Human Rights Campaign (U.S.)

The Human Rights Campaign provides a national voice on gay and lesbian issues, effectively lobbying Congress; mobilizing grassroots action in diverse communities; investing strategically to elect a fair-minded Congress; and increasing public understanding through innovative education and communication strategies. HRC is a bipartisan organization that works to advance equality based on sexual orientation and gender expression and identity, to ensure that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (U.S.)

NGLTF is the national progressive organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. NGLTF's vision and commitment to social change is building a powerful political movement in the fifty states and the District of Columbia.

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) (U.S.)

PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.

Globalization Links

Wal-Mart Watch

Wal-mart Watch is a nationwide publc education campaign to challenge the world's largest retailer to become a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen. It is a project of the Center for Community and Corporate Ethics. Visit their website and their MySpace page: myspace.com/walmartwatch. page

Centre for Research on Globalization

The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research and media group of writers, scholars journalists and activists. The CRG is based in Montreal. It is a registered non profit organization in the province of Quebec, Canada.

The Global Research webpage at www.globalresearch.ca publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on social, economic, strategic, geopolitical and environmental processes.

Direct Action Network (DAN)

The Continental Direct Action Network consists of many autonomous locals working to overcome corporate globalization and all forms of oppression.

PO BOX 1485
Asheville NC, 28802

Miscellaneous Links

Adbusters

Adbusters is a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Their aim is "to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century."

CommonDreams.org (U.S.)

Many consider this non-profit daily aggregator of news and opinion from the progressive side to be the best on the web. A valuable resource to bookmark, Commondreams gathers news and info from many sources every day for more than a decade now.

MichaelMoore.com (U.S.)

The official Michael Moore home page.

prwatch.org

The wesbite of the Center for Media & Democracy, a watchdog group in Madison, Wisconsin, organized by Sheldon Rampton to scrutinize the corporate and political public relations induytry in the U.S. Updated weekly. Important inside info you won't find elsewhere!

Teaching for Change

Located in Washington, D.C., Teaching for Change "provides teachers and parents with tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.

Teaching for Change also organizes the Zinn Education Project, named after historian Howard Zinn (1923-2010) on which they post important stories from radical and progressive U.S. history every day. You can also find the Zinn Education Project on Face Book, as well as on their page within the Teaching for Change website.

By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens." They also run a bookstore inside the renowned "Busboys & Poets" restaurant/bar/film/theatre/performance space on "V" Street. A second "Busboys & Poets" opened in 2007 in Shirlington, Virginia. Two more locations have opened as well. They offer an outstanding selection of books by mail and in the original "Busboys & Poets" location bookshop. For more info:

Leeds Postcards

One of our postcard suppliers from the U.K.

WhoWhatWhy.org

Investigative journalist Russ Baker's website, author of "Family of Secrets"

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