# Common Dreams Site ID: 25320514 Markdown version: append .md to any URL Total sections: 535 ## Content Sections - [Politics](./politics/index.md): Section: Politics - Discover the latest political news on Common Dreams ✯ Breaking News & Progressive Opinion ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 (5594 posts) - [Climate](./climate/index.md): Section: Climate - Discover the latest news about the climate crisis on Common Dreams ✯ Breaking News & Progressive Opinion ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 (14127 posts) - [Economy](./economy/index.md): Section: Economy - Discover the latest news about the economy on Common Dreams ✯ Breaking News & Progressive Opinion ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 (11200 posts) - [Rights & Justice](./rights-justice/index.md): Section: Rights & Justice - Discover the latest news focused on rights and justice on Common Dreams ✯ Breaking News & Progressive Opinion ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 (17315 posts) - [War & Peace](./war-peace/index.md): Section: War & Peace - Discover the latest news focused on war and peace on Common Dreams ✯ Breaking News & Progressive Opinion ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 (14062 posts) - [Breaking News](./breaking-news/index.md): Section: Breaking News - Breaking news from Common Dreams ✯ Breaking News & Progressive Opinion ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 - [Opinion](./opinion/index.md): Section: Opinion - Discover the latest progressive opinion on Common Dreams ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 (116616 posts) - [News](./news/index.md): Section: News - Discover the latest news from Common Dreams ✯ Breaking News & Progressive Opinion ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 (102634 posts) - [Newswire](./newswire/index.md): Section: Newswire - Daily press releases and alerts from over 200 progressive organizations on The Progressive Newswire, a project of Common Dreams since 1997 (71409 posts) - [Further](./further/index.md): Section: Further - Opinion column by Abby Zimet on Common Dreams. ✯ Breaking News & Progressive Opinion ✯ Independent, non-profit journalism since 1997 (1291 posts) - [Planned Parenthood Action Fund](./organization/planned-parenthood-action-fund/index.md): Section: Planned Parenthood Action Fund - Planned Parenthood was founded over 100 years ago on the revolutionary idea that women have the right to access the information and care they need to live strong, healthy lives. Today, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) fights to protect that right--often in the face of extreme politicians trying to take it away. (3 posts) - [Trade Justice Education Fund](./organization/trade-justice-education-fund/index.md): Section: Trade Justice Education Fund - The Trade Justice Education Fund is a new nonprofit that sponsors public education programs designed to expand awareness about the worker rights, environmental and climate, and public health implications of U.S. trade policy. (5 posts) - [Profile Organization Test](./organization/test/index.md): Section: Profile Organization Test - Description - [ProsperUS](./organization/prosperus/index.md): Section: ProsperUS - ProsperUS is a coalition of movement groups, labor organizations, think tanks, experts, and advocates that believes government should invest in people. (12 posts) - [Repairers of the Breach](./organization/repairers-breach/index.md): Section: Repairers of the Breach - Repairers of the Breach is a nonpartisan 501c3 tax exempt not-for-profit organization that seeks to build a moral agenda rooted in a framework that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country. (1 posts) - [Fix Our Senate](./organization/fix-our-senate/index.md): Section: Fix Our Senate - Fix Our Senate is a coalition of more than 70 organizations who are joined together to ensure that the promises of progress are not blocked by the filibuster. (2 posts) - [ACLU Florida](./organization/aclu-florida/index.md): Section: ACLU Florida - The mission of the ACLU of Florida is to protect, defend, strengthen, and promote the constitutional rights and liberties of all people in Florida. We envision a fair and just Florida, where all people are free, equal under the law, and live with dignity. (17 posts) - [Alliance for Retired Americans](./organization/alliance-retired-americans/index.md): Section: Alliance for Retired Americans - The Alliance for Retired Americans is a national organization with 4.4 million members that advocates for retirement security for all Americans. (22 posts) - [ Green New Deal Network](./organization/green-new-deal-network/index.md): Section: Green New Deal Network - The Green New Deal Network is a 50-state campaign with a national table of 15 organizations: Center for Popular Democracy, Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Greenpeace, Indigenous Environmental Network, Indivisible, Movement for Black Lives, MoveOn, People's Action, Right To The City Alliance, Service Employees International Union, Sierra Club, Sunrise Movement, US Climate Action Network, and the Working Families Party. (12 posts) - [Concerted Action](./organization/concerted-action/index.md): Section: Concerted Action - Concerted Action is a one-stop consulting firm specializing in advocacy, organizing and the digital tools that power grassroots movements. We help non-profits and unions recruit supporters, build engaged and motivated communities and generate action. We're strategic, experienced, versatile and committed to your cause. Launched in 2015 as Blue Bulldog Digital and relaunched as Concerted Action in 2018. (1 posts) - [Costs of War](./organization/costs-war/index.md): Section: Costs of War - The Costs of War Project is a team of 50 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2010. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria. There are many hidden or unacknowledged costs of the United States' decision to respond to the 9/11 attacks with military force. We aim to foster democratic discussion of these wars by providing the fullest possible account of their human, economic, and political costs, and to foster better informed public policies. (12 posts) - [Fossil Free Media](./organization/fossil-free-media/index.md): Section: Fossil Free Media - Fossil Free Media is a nonprofit media lab that supports the movement to end fossil fuels and address the climate emergency. (47 posts) - [Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights](./organization/center-democratic-and-environmental-rights/index.md): Section: Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights - Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights is building a global movement to advance the rights of nature into law. (3 posts) - [Independent Jewish Voices Canada](./organization/independent-jewish-voices-canada/index.md): Section: Independent Jewish Voices Canada - Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is a grassroots organization grounded in Jewish tradition that opposes all forms of racism and advocates for justice and peace for all in Israel-Palestine. IJV has active chapters in cities and on university campuses across the country. (1 posts) - [Cascadia Wildlands](./organization/cascadia-wildlands/index.md): Section: Cascadia Wildlands - Cascadia Wildlands defends and restores Cascadia's wild ecosystems in the forests, in the courts, and in the streets. We envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and vibrant communities sustained by the unique landscapes of the Cascadia bioregion. (1 posts) - [Congressman Jamaal Bowman](./organization/congressman-jamaal-bowman/index.md): Section: Congressman Jamaal Bowman - Jamaal Anthony Bowman is an American politician and educator serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 16th congressional district since 2021. (18 posts) - [Environmental Defense](./organization/environmental-defense/index.md): Section: Environmental Defense - Environmental Defense Fund's mission is to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends. Guided by science and economics, we find practical and lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems. We work to solve the most critical environmental problems facing the planet. This has drawn us to areas that span the biosphere: climate, oceans, ecosystems and health. Since these topics are intertwined, our solutions take a multidisciplinary approach. We work in concert with other organizations -- as well as with business, government and communities -- and avoid duplicating work already being done effectively by others. (19 posts) - [National Coalition for the Homeless](./organization/national-coalition-homeless/index.md): Section: National Coalition for the Homeless - National Coalition for the Homeless is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission: To end and prevent homelessness while ensuring the immediate needs of those experiencing homelessness are met and their civil rights are respected and protected. We envision a world where everyone has a safe, decent, accessible and affordable home. (7 posts) - [U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines](./organization/us-campaign-ban-landmines/index.md): Section: U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines - The United States Campaign to Ban Landmines is a coalition of non-governmental organizations working to ensure that the U.S. comprehensively prohibits antipersonnel mines--by banning their use in Korea--and joins the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, as more than 160 nations have done. It is the national affiliate of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), founded in New York in 1992 and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate together with former ICBL coordinator Ms. Jody Williams of Vermont. We also call for sustained U.S. government financial support for mine clearance and victim assistance. (13 posts) - [Riverkeeper](./organization/riverkeeper/index.md): Section: Riverkeeper - Riverkeeper protects and restores the Hudson River from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies, through advocacy rooted in community partnerships, science and law. (9 posts) - [Free Gaza Movement](./organization/free-gaza-movement/index.md): Section: Free Gaza Movement - Free Gaza is a human rights group founded in 2006. Our mission is to break the Israel's illegal siege on Gaza's 1.8 million civilians, since it inflicts collective punishment on the Palestinians who live there and has destroyed its economy. Free Gaza believes in direct action in confronting Israel's abuse of Palestinians using non-violent means and has found these voyages to be one of the most effective ways to alert the world to the prison-like conditions of Gaza. Ultimately, there is no better example of direct action than Free Gaza's sustained attempts to break the siege on Gaza which Israel claims it no longer occupies (38 posts) - [Friends of the Earth Europe](./organization/friends-earth-europe/index.md): Section: Friends of the Earth Europe - Friends of the Earth Europe is the largest grassroots environmental network in Europe, uniting more than 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups. (1 posts) - [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists](./organization/bulletin-atomic-scientists/index.md): Section: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - The Bulletin equips the public, policymakers, and scientists with the information needed to reduce man-made threatsto our existence. (4 posts) - [Basel Action Network](./organization/basel-action-network/index.md): Section: Basel Action Network - Basel Action Network's mission is to champion global environmental health and justice by ending toxic trade, catalyzing a toxics-free future, and campaigning for everyone's right to a clean environment. (21 posts) - [Healthy California Now](./organization/healthy-california-now/index.md): Section: Healthy California Now - Healthy California Now is a statewide, non-partisan coalition of community, consumer, labor, health, disability, LGBTQ, business, and political organizations committed to building and broadening the movement to guarantee health care for all Californians. (1 posts) - [Groundwork Collaborative](./organization/groundwork-collaborative/index.md): Section: Groundwork Collaborative - The Groundwork Collaborative is dedicated to advancing a coherent and persuasive progressive economic worldview and narrative capable of delivering meaningful opportunity and prosperity for everyone. Our work is driven by a core guiding principle: We are the economy. Groundwork Collaborative envisions an economic system that produces strong, broadly shared prosperity and power for all people, not just a wealthy few. (99 posts) - [One Fair Wage](./organization/one-fair-wage/index.md): Section: One Fair Wage - One Fair Wage is a national organization of over 200,000 service workers, over 800 restaurant employers, and dozens of organizations nationwide all working together to end all subminimum wages in the United States and improve wages and working conditions in the service sector in particular. (3 posts) - [Progressive International](./organization/progressive-international/index.md): Section: Progressive International - Progressive International is an international organization uniting and mobilizing progressive left-wing activists and organizations. (6 posts) - [Data for Progress](./organization/data-progress/index.md): Section: Data for Progress - Data for Progress is a multidisciplinary group of experts using state-of-the-art techniques in data science to support progressive activists and causes. (41 posts) - [Congressman Ro Khanna](./organization/congressman-ro-khanna/index.md): Section: Congressman Ro Khanna - Congressman Ro Khanna represents the 17th District of California, which covers communities in Silicon Valley. (1 posts) - [Fight Corporate Monopolies](./organization/fight-corporate-monopolies/index.md): Section: Fight Corporate Monopolies - Fight Corporate Monopolies is a progressive political advocacy institution devoted to breaking up the economic and political concentrations of corporate power. (1 posts) - [Mijente](./organization/mijente/index.md): Section: Mijente - We are a political home for Latinx and Chicanx people who seek racial, economic, gender and climate justice. (2 posts) - [Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal](./organization/congresswoman-pramila-jayapal/index.md): Section: Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal - U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) (3 posts) - [Repair Our Democracy](./organization/repair-our-democracy/index.md): Section: Repair Our Democracy - Repair Our Democracy, a project of Democracy 21, is focused on defending the For the People Act against bad-faith attacks and outright lies. (10 posts) - [Oxfam America](./organization/oxfam-america/index.md): Section: Oxfam America - Oxfam is a global organization working to end the injustice of poverty. We help people build better futures for themselves, hold the powerful accountable, and save lives in disasters. (17 posts) - [Accountable.Senate](./organization/accountablesenate/index.md): Section: Accountable.Senate - Nonpartisan watchdog group Accountable.US recently launched the Accountable Senate War Room to fight back against those lawmakers who seek to overturn the will of the people by standing in the way of the smooth transition of power and the swift approval of nominees to ensure that the government can function and advance the interests of all American people, not just the rich and powerful. (8 posts) - [Farm Action](./organization/farm-action/index.md): Section: Farm Action - Farm Action leverages its research, policy development, advocacy campaigns, and political expertise to create a food and agriculture system that works for everyday people rather than a handful of powerful corporations. We are joined in our movement by farmers, ranchers, rural communities, food system workers, policymakers, advocates, and anyone who eats. (6 posts) - [The Sentencing Project](./organization/sentencing-project/index.md): Section: The Sentencing Project - The Sentencing Project is a leader in changing the way Americans think about crime and punishment. The Sentencing Project promotes effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice. (13 posts) - [Hunger Free America](./organization/hunger-free-america/index.md): Section: Hunger Free America - Hunger Free America is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit group working to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all Americans have sufficient access to nutritious food. (10 posts) - [Fridays for Future](./organization/fridays-future/index.md): Section: Fridays for Future - Fridays for Future (FFF) is a global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate. (3 posts) - [Family Farm Action](./organization/family-farm-action/index.md): Section: Family Farm Action - The Farm Action network leverages its research, policy development, advocacy campaigns, and political expertise to create a food and agriculture system that works for everyone, not just a handful of powerful corporations. (1 posts) - [National Family Farm Coalition](./organization/national-family-farm-coalition/index.md): Section: National Family Farm Coalition - Representing 30 farmer, rancher, fisher, and rural groups in over 40 states, National Family Farm Coalition mobilizes family farmers and ranchers to achieve fair prices, vibrant communities, and healthy foods free of corporate domination. (2 posts) - [Protect the Results](./organization/protect-results/index.md): Section: Protect the Results - Protect the Results is a joint project of Indivisible and Stand Up America to protect the valid results of the 2020 election. (1 posts) - [AFSCME](./organization/afscme/index.md): Section: AFSCME - AFSCME members provide the vital services that make America happen. With members in hundreds of different occupations, AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and prosperity and opportunity for all working families. (51 posts) - [Color Of Change PAC](./organization/color-change-pac/index.md): Section: Color Of Change PAC - Color Of Change PAC is a Political Action Committee focused on building We're the political action committee focused on building Black political power, uplifting Black voices, and celebrating Black joy. (2 posts) - [MPower Change](./organization/mpower-change/index.md): Section: MPower Change - MPower Change is a grassroots organizing movement rooted in diverse Muslim communities throughout the United States who are working together to build social, spiritual, racial, and economic justice for all people. (5 posts) - [Western Watersheds Project](./organization/western-watersheds-project/index.md): Section: Western Watersheds Project - Western Watersheds Project is an environmental conservation group working to protect and restore watersheds and wildlife through. (11 posts) - [WildEarth Guardians](./organization/wildearth-guardians/index.md): Section: WildEarth Guardians - WildEarth Guardians protects and restores the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West. Driven by passion, we've tackled some of the West's most difficult and pressing conservation challenges over the past three decades. We've celebrated small victories (banning leghold trapping in the state of Colorado), monumental triumphs (ending logging on more than 21 million acres in the Southwest), and everything in-between. (20 posts) - [The Elders](./organization/elders/index.md): Section: The Elders - The Elders are independent leaders using their collective experience and influence for peace, justice and human rights worldwide. The group was founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007. The Elders are Ban Ki-moon (Deputy Chair), Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, Hina Jilani, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, (4 posts) - [Gwich'in Steering Committee](./organization/gwichin-steering-committee/index.md): Section: Gwich'in Steering Committee - The Gwich'in Steering Committee was formed in 1988 in response to proposals to drill for oil in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (4 posts) - [Stop the Money Pipeline](./organization/stop-money-pipeline/index.md): Section: Stop the Money Pipeline - The Stop the Money Pipeline coalition is over 160 organizations strong holding the financial backers of climate chaos accountable. (20 posts) - [United Nations Human Rights - Special Procedures](./organization/united-nations-human-rights-special-procedures/index.md): Section: United Nations Human Rights - Special Procedures - The special procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. The system of Special Procedures is a central element of the United Nations human rights machinery and covers all human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political, and social. (1 posts) - [Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)](./organization/quaker-united-nations-office-quno/index.md): Section: Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) - Since 1947, QUNO has worked with diplomats, UN officials, and civil society to support a UN that prioritizes peace and prevents war. QUNO uses Quaker House and its convening power to facilitate off-the-record meetings and bring perspectives from outside the UN system in order to promote peacebuilding and the prevention of violent conflict at a policy level in New York. QUNO also works closely with the American Friends Service Committee and other Quaker Service Agencies in country, and with Friends' policy offices in Geneva, Washington, and Brussels. (1 posts) - [Communications Workers of America](./organization/communications-workers-america/index.md): Section: Communications Workers of America - Communication Workers of America (CWA) is America's largest communications & media union. CWA members work in telecommunications and information technology, the airline industry, news media, broadcast and cable television, education, health care, public service and education, law enforcement, manufacturing and other fields. (19 posts) - [The Endangered Species Coalition](./organization/endangered-species-coalition/index.md): Section: The Endangered Species Coalition - The Endangered Species Coalition's mission is to stop the human-caused extinction of our nation's at-risk species, to protect and restore their habitats, and to guide these fragile populations along the road to recovery. (9 posts) - [Center for Climate Integrity](./organization/center-climate-integrity/index.md): Section: Center for Climate Integrity - The Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) helps cities and states across the country hold corporate polluters accountable for the massive impacts of climate change. (58 posts) - [Climate Power](./organization/climate-power/index.md): Section: Climate Power - Climate Power 2020 is putting the Trump administration on defense every single day for ignoring experts, refusing to believe in science, surrendering our government to big oil executives, and gutting public health protections, all at the expense of future generations. The 2020 presidential election is the defining moment for how our nation addresses the climate crisis--our leaders must be emboldened to take immediate action on climate change and to build a just and equitable economy. The time to act is now. Learn more: climatepower2020.org (17 posts) - [Lower Drug Prices Now](./organization/lower-drug-prices-now/index.md): Section: Lower Drug Prices Now - Lower Drug Prices Now brings together a broad array of state and national partners to fight for transformative policy change that will finally ensure everyone has access to affordable medicine whether they have a sore throat, high blood pressure or an acute illness like cancer. (6 posts) - [NORML](./organization/norml/index.md): Section: NORML - Since its founding in 1970, NORML has provided a voice in the public policy debate for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition and favor an end to the practice of arresting marijuana consumers. A nonprofit public-interest advocacy group, NORML represents the interests of the tens of millions of Americans who use marijuana responsibly. (11 posts) - [National Education Association (NEA)](./organization/national-education-association-nea/index.md): Section: National Education Association (NEA) - The National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest professional employee organization, is committed to advancing the cause of public education. NEA's 3 million members work at every level of education--from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States. (24 posts) - [Democracy Initiative](./organization/democracy-initiative/index.md): Section: Democracy Initiative - The Democracy Initiative is a coalition of 75 organizations with a collective 45 million members fighting for workers, civil rights, social justice and the environment. DI partner organizations are united in their commitment to realizing the promise of American democracy where all people have an equal seat at the governance table. (3 posts) - [Small Business for Paid Leave](./organization/small-business-paid-leave/index.md): Section: Small Business for Paid Leave - Small Business for Paid Leave is a coalition of grassroots and small business membership organizations that shares resources and supports small businesses as they engage in paid family and medical leave policy development. Small Business for Paid Leave works in partnership with Paid Leave for All and advocates across the country. (1 posts) - [Campaign Legal Center](./organization/campaign-legal-center/index.md): Section: Campaign Legal Center - Campaign Legal Center (CLC) advances democracy through law, fighting for every American's right to participate in the democratic process. CLC uses tactics such as litigation, policy advocacy, communications and partnerships to win victories that result in a more transparent, accountable and inclusive democracy. (38 posts) - [Muslim Advocates](./organization/muslim-advocates/index.md): Section: Muslim Advocates - Muslim Advocates is a national civil rights organization working in the courts, in the halls of power and in communities to halt bigotry in its tracks. We ensure that American Muslims have a seat at the table with expert representation so that all Americans may live free from hate and discrimination. (29 posts) - [Congresswoman Ilhan Omar](./organization/congresswoman-ilhan-omar/index.md): Section: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar - Rep. Ilhan Omar represents Minnesota's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, which includes Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs. (9 posts) - [Accountable.US](./organization/accountableus/index.md): Section: Accountable.US - Accountable.US is a nonpartisan watchdog that exposes corruption in public life and holds government officials and corporate special interests accountable by bringing their influence and misconduct to light. In doing so, we make way for policies that advance the interests of all Americans, not just the rich and powerful. (182 posts) - [Climate Mobilization](./organization/climate-mobilization/index.md): Section: Climate Mobilization - Building a new movement of people across the United States to reclaim our future by initiating an emergency-speed, whole-society Climate Mobilization, reversing global warming and restoring a safe climate. (2 posts) - [GLAD](./organization/glad/index.md): Section: GLAD - Through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy, and education, (12 posts) - [Out & Equal](./organization/out-equal/index.md): Section: Out & Equal - Out & Equal is the premier organization working exclusively on LGBTQ workplace equality. Through our worldwide programs, Fortune 500 partnerships and our annual Workplace Summit conference, we help LGBTQ people thrive and support organizations creating a culture of belonging for all. (1 posts) - [American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees](./organization/american-federation-state-county-and-municipal-employees/index.md): Section: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees - AFSCME's 1.4 million members provide the vital services that make America happen. With members in communities across the nation, serving in hundreds of different occupations -- from nurses to corrections officers, child care providers to sanitation workers -- AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and freedom and opportunity for all working families. (2 posts) - [The Sunrise Project](./organization/sunrise-project/index.md): Section: The Sunrise Project - The Sunrise Project grows social movements to drive the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy as fast as possible. (5 posts) - [American Economic Liberties Project](./organization/american-economic-liberties-project/index.md): Section: American Economic Liberties Project - The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America's system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power. (39 posts) - [Poor People's Campaign](./organization/poor-peoples-campaign/index.md): Section: Poor People's Campaign - The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, is building a generationally transformative digital gathering called the Mass Poor People's Assembly and Moral March on Washington, on June 20, 2020. At that assembly, we will demand that both major political parties address the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism by implementing our Moral Agenda. (24 posts) - [Bend the Arc](./organization/bend-arc/index.md): Section: Bend the Arc - Bend the Arc is where progressive American Jews join together to fight for justice and equality for all. We are the only national Jewish organization focused exclusively on progressive social change in the United States. (42 posts) - [The Revolving Door Project](./organization/revolving-door-project/index.md): Section: The Revolving Door Project - The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement. (89 posts) - [Jewish Voice for Peace Action](./organization/jewish-voice-peace-action/index.md): Section: Jewish Voice for Peace Action - Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVP Action) is a multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis by transforming U.S. policy. (15 posts) - [Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez](./organization/congresswoman-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/index.md): Section: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district. (18 posts) - [TIME'S UP Now](./organization/times-now/index.md): Section: TIME'S UP Now - TIME'S UP(tm) Now is the nonpartisan and not-for-profit advocacy and political arm of TIME'S UP. We advocate for safe, fair, and dignified work for all in the public and private sectors, calling for an end to harassment and other related forms of discrimination on the job. And we fight to rebuild the systems that have taken away women's power for far too long. TIME'S UP Now is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. (1 posts) - [Oil Change U.S.](./organization/oil-change-us/index.md): Section: Oil Change U.S. - Oil Change U.S. is dedicated to supporting real climate leadership, exposing the true costs of fossil fuels, and building a just, equitable, and renewable energy future in the United States. (7 posts) - [Vote Climate U.S. PAC](./organization/vote-climate-us-pac/index.md): Section: Vote Climate U.S. PAC - Vote Climate U.S. PAC works to elect candidates to get off fossil fuels, transition to clean, renewable, energy and reduce carbon pollution by putting a fee on carbon, in order to slow climate change and related weather extremes. (6 posts) - [Community Change Action](./organization/community-change-action/index.md): Section: Community Change Action - Community Change Action is a national organization that builds power from the ground up. We believe that effective and enduring social movements must be led by those most impacted by injustice and voting is one essential lever of change. (6 posts) - [Democracy 21](./organization/democracy-21/index.md): Section: Democracy 21 - Democracy 21 is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to making democracy work for all Americans. Democracy 21, and its education arm, Democracy 21 Education Fund, work to eliminate the undue influence of big money in American politics, prevent government corruption, empower citizens in the political process and ensure the integrity and fairness of government decisions and elections. The organization promotes campaign finance reform and other related political reforms to accomplish these goals. (18 posts) - [Environmental Justice Foundation](./organization/environmental-justice-foundation/index.md): Section: Environmental Justice Foundation - Dynamic, agile and effective, the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is working to secure a world where natural habitats and environments can sustain, and be sustained by, the communities that depend upon them for their basic needs and livelihoods. (1 posts) - [Center for Popular Democracy Action](./organization/center-popular-democracy-action/index.md): Section: Center for Popular Democracy Action - Center for Popular Democracy Action promotes equity, opportunity, and a dynamic democracy in partnership with innovative base-building organizations, organizing networks and alliances, and progressive unions across the country. CPD Action builds the strength and capacity of democratic organizations to envision and advance a pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial justice agenda. (5 posts) - [Climate Justice Alliance](./organization/climate-justice-alliance/index.md): Section: Climate Justice Alliance - Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) formed in 2013 to create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. Our translocal organizing strategy and mobilizing capacity is building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. We believe that the process of transition must place race, gender and class at the center of the solutions equation in order to make it a truly Just Transition. (22 posts) - [Free Press Action](./organization/free-press-action/index.md): Section: Free Press Action - Free Press Action is fighting grave threats to the free and open internet, local journalism and a functioning democracy. (19 posts) - [International Rivers](./organization/international-rivers/index.md): Section: International Rivers - International Rivers is an environmental and human rights organization with staff on four continents. For three decades, we have been at the heart of the global struggle to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend on them. (11 posts) - [JVP Action](./organization/jvp-action/index.md): Section: JVP Action - JVP Action is an independent, non-partisan, 501(c)(4) organization formed as the political and advocacy arm of Jewish Voice for Peace. JVP Action is building a multi-racial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies to transform U.S. policy towards justice in Israel/Palestine. (1 posts) - [Open Markets Institute](./organization/open-markets-institute/index.md): Section: Open Markets Institute - The Open Markets Institute works to address threats to our democracy, individual liberties, and our national security from today's unprecedented levels of corporate concentration and monopoly power. By combining policy, legal, and market structure expertise with sophisticated communications and outreach efforts, Open Markets seeks not only to hold today's monopolies accountable for abuse of power, but to rebuild an economic system where progress is easier to achieve, because power is far more widely and equitably distributed (49 posts) - [Center for Popular Democracy](./organization/center-popular-democracy/index.md): Section: Center for Popular Democracy - The Center for Popular Democracy works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions. CPD strengthens our collective capacity to envision and win an innovative pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda. (24 posts) - [Stand Up America](./organization/stand-america/index.md): Section: Stand Up America - Stand Up America is a progressive advocacy organization with over two million community members across the country. Focused on grassroots advocacy to strengthen our democracy and oppose Trump's corrupt agenda, Stand Up America has driven over 600,000 phone calls to Congress and mobilized tens of thousands of protestors across the country. (197 posts) - [Demand Justice](./organization/demand-justice/index.md): Section: Demand Justice - Demand Justice is a progressive movement fighting to restore the ideological balance and legitimacy of the federal courts by advocating for court reform and vigorously opposing extreme nominees. (32 posts) - [By the People](./organization/people/index.md): Section: By the People - By the People is a movement fighting for an America that prioritizes the freedom and dignity of all of its people and fighting for a democracy that reflects the beauty of who we've become as a nation--starting first with removing the Trump administration. (3 posts) - [Stand.earth](./organization/standearth/index.md): Section: Stand.earth - Stand.earth (formerly ForestEthics) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with offices in Canada and the United States that is known for its groundbreaking research and successful corporate and citizens engagement campaigns to create new policies and industry standards in protecting forests, advocating the rights of indigenous peoples, and protecting the climate. Visit us at (28 posts) - [The Sanders Institute](./organization/sanders-institute/index.md): Section: The Sanders Institute - Founded in 2017 by Dr. Jane Sanders and David Driscoll, the mission of the Sanders Institute is to revitalize democracy by actively engaging individuals, organizations and the media in the pursuit of progressive solutions to economic, environmental, racial and social justice issues. The Sanders Institute seeks to bring truth to the policy debate with rigorous research, innovative and common sense policy, presented in dialogue with a range of advocates in order to engage everyone in the issues that really matter. (2 posts) - [Tax March](./organization/tax-march/index.md): Section: Tax March - The Tax March is a growing national movement that extends far beyond one day of marching. Led by working Americans who are tired of systems that are rigged in favor of the super-rich, the Tax March movement maintains that any reform to the tax code should be about closing loopholes for the wealthy and big corporations and building an economy that invests in working people, whether white, black, or brown, and prioritizes economic justice particularly for communities of color. (3 posts) - [Friends of the Earth Scotland](./organization/friends-earth-scotland/index.md): Section: Friends of the Earth Scotland - Friends of the Earth Scotland is campaigning for a world where everyone can enjoy a healthy environment and a fair share of the earth's resources. Climate change is the greatest threat to this aim, that's why we're calling for a just transition to a 100% renewable, nuclear-free, zero-fossil-fuel Scotland. (8 posts) - [Justice Democrats](./organization/justice-democrats/index.md): Section: Justice Democrats - Justice Democrats is recruiting and supporting progressive Democrats all over the country, starting with Congress. We're working to transform the Democratic Party while building independent power. We do this by running primary challengers against out-of-touch Democratic incumbents and organizing to hold the party accountable to our issues. (14 posts) - [Sunrise Movement](./organization/sunrise-movement/index.md): Section: Sunrise Movement - Sunrise Movement is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. (207 posts) - [Western Values Project](./organization/western-values-project/index.md): Section: Western Values Project - Western Values Project brings accountability to the national conversation about Western public lands and national parks conservation - a space too often dominated by industry lobbyists and their allies in government. (55 posts) - [Good Jobs First](./organization/good-jobs-first/index.md): Section: Good Jobs First - Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center for grassroots groups and public officials, promoting corporate and government accountability in economic development and smart growth for working families. (1 posts) - [Climate Works for All](./organization/climate-works-all/index.md): Section: Climate Works for All - Climate Works for All is comprised of environmental justice advocates, community organizations, and Labor unions with the goal of addressing climate change and income inequality. (1 posts) - [Democratic Socialists of America](./organization/democratic-socialists-america/index.md): Section: Democratic Socialists of America - The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has over 55,000 members and 200 local groups (as of November 2018) building working class power while establishing an openly democratic socialist presence in American communities and politics. (20 posts) - [Freedom From Facebook & Google](./organization/freedom-facebook-google/index.md): Section: Freedom From Facebook & Google - Freedom From Facebook, a diverse group of organizations sharing deep concerns about Facebook's extraordinary power over our lives and democracy, is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to use its broad authority to break up Facebook's monopoly and re-establish competition in the social networking space by spinning off WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger into independent businesses. Freedom From Facebook also calls on the FTC to develop interoperability standards, so users will have the freedom to communicate between competing social networks, as well as implement strong privacy rules to give users more control over the collection and utilization of personal information. Learn more at (4 posts) - [National Center for Transgender Equality](./organization/national-center-transgender-equality/index.md): Section: National Center for Transgender Equality - The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social justice organization based in Washington, D.C. NCTE is devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people. Founded in 2 (1 posts) - [As You Sow](./organization/you-sow/index.md): Section: As You Sow - As You Sow is the nation's non-profit leader in shareholder advocacy. Founded in 1992, we harness shareholder power to create lasting change that benefits people, planet, and profit. Our mission is to promote environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal strategies. (89 posts) - [Rootstrikers](./organization/rootstrikers/index.md): Section: Rootstrikers - Rootstrikers is a project of Demand Progress dedicated to reclaiming our government so it works for everyone and not just the wealthy and the well-connected. (7 posts) - [Every Voice](./organization/every-voice/index.md): Section: Every Voice - Every Voice is a national organization fighting for a democracy that works for everyone. Learn more at everyvoice.org. (1 posts) - [Direct Action Everywhere](./organization/direct-action-everywhere/index.md): Section: Direct Action Everywhere - Investigators with Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) enter farms, slaughterhouses, and other agricultural facilities to document abuses and rescue sick and injured animals. DxE's investigatory work has been featured in The New York Times, Nightline, and a viral Glenn Greenwald expose, and DxE activists led the recent effort to ban fur products in San Francisco. Activists have been (7 posts) - [Global Witness](./organization/global-witness/index.md): Section: Global Witness - Many of the world's worst environmental and human rights abuses are driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system. Global Witness is campaigning to end this. We carry out hard-hitting investigations, expose these abuses, and campaign for change. We are independent, not-for-profit, and work with partners around the world in our fight for justice. (13 posts) - [Earthworks](./organization/earthworks/index.md): Section: Earthworks - Earthworks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the adverse impacts of mineral and energy development while promoting sustainable solutions. (48 posts) - [National Abortion Federation](./organization/national-abortion-federation/index.md): Section: National Abortion Federation - The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers.Our members include individuals, private and non-profit clinics, Planned Parenthood affiliates, women's health centers, physicians' offices, and hospitals who together care for approximately half the women who choose abortion in the U.S. and Canada each year. Our members also include public hospitals and both public and private clinics in Mexico City and private clinics in Colombia. (25 posts) - [Representative Keith Ellison](./organization/representative-keith-ellison/index.md): Section: Representative Keith Ellison - Rep. Keith Ellison has represented the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives since taking office on January 4, 2007. The Fifth Congressional District is the most vibrant and diverse district in Minnesota with a rich history and traditions. The Fifth District includes the City of Minneapolis and the surrounding suburbs. (12 posts) - [Transgender Law Center (TLC)](./organization/transgender-law-center-tlc/index.md): Section: Transgender Law Center (TLC) - Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation. (2 posts) - [Sea Shepherd](./organization/sea-shepherd/index.md): Section: Sea Shepherd - Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. Our mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. (2 posts) - [American Promise](./organization/american-promise/index.md): Section: American Promise - American Promise mission is to empower, inspire, and organize Americans to win the cause of our time: the 28th Amendment. This historic reform will rebalance our politics and government by putting the rights of individual citizens and the interests of the nation before the privileges of concentrated money, corporations, unions, political parties, and superPACs. (1 posts) - [Americans For Tax Fairness Action Fund](./organization/americans-tax-fairness-action-fund/index.md): Section: Americans For Tax Fairness Action Fund - Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) is a diverse campaign of more than 425 national, state and local endorsing organizations united in support of a fair tax system that works for all Americans. It has come together based on the belief that the country needs comprehensive, progressive tax reform that results in greater revenue to meet our growing needs. This requires big corporations and the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes, not to live by their own set of rules. (2 posts) - [Biofuelwatch](./organization/biofuelwatch/index.md): Section: Biofuelwatch - Biofuelwatch provides information, advocacy and campaigning in relation to the climate, environmental, human rights and public health impacts of large-scale industrial bioenergy. (1 posts) - [Grassroots International](./organization/grassroots-international/index.md): Section: Grassroots International - Grassroots International connects people in the US with global movements solving the root causes of poverty and climate change. We are a trusted link to communities building power to protect their rights to land, food, and water for the well-being of people and the planet. (4 posts) - [End Rape On Campus (EROC)](./organization/end-rape-campus-eroc/index.md): Section: End Rape On Campus (EROC) - End Rape On Campus (EROC) provides confidential services. This message is intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. This email and all other communication from EROC employees are not substitutes for legal or mental health advice, as EROC employees are not lawyers or mental health professionals. (2 posts) - [Climate Justice Programme](./organization/climate-justice-programme/index.md): Section: Climate Justice Programme - The Climate Justice Programme (CJP) is an independent not for profit, non-government organisation that uses the law to expose environmental and human rights issues relating to climate change. (1 posts) - [Stop the Wall](./organization/stop-wall/index.md): Section: Stop the Wall - The Stop the Wall Campaign's aim to tear down the Wall is aligned with the Palestinian desire for liberation--for those of us inside and in exile, the young and old, those who have died, and those yet to be born. We are a grassroots movement uniting the struggle of the popular committees in the villages, refugee camps and cities struggling against the Wall and the settlements and the efforts of Palestinian civil society. (1 posts) - [Organization for Competitive Markets](./organization/organization-competitive-markets/index.md): Section: Organization for Competitive Markets - Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) is a national, non-profit public policy research and advocacy organization headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. (5 posts) - [Balestra Media](./organization/balestra-media/index.md): Section: Balestra Media - Balestra Media is a communications shop of energetic and savvy public relations professionals dedicated to providing a springboard for the progressive community into the news cycle, in ways that both reach and influence. (1 posts) - [The LGBT Network](./organization/lgbt-network/index.md): Section: The LGBT Network - The LGBT Network is an association of non-profit organizations working to serve the LGBT community of Long Island and Queens throughout the lifespan: Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (LIGALY), The Long Island LGBT Community Center (The Center), Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders - Long Island (SAGE-LI), and the Queens LGBT Community Center (Q Center). (1 posts) - [Pacifica Foundation](./organization/pacifica-foundation/index.md): Section: Pacifica Foundation - Started in 1946 by conscientious objector Lew Hill, Pacifica's storied history includes impounded program tapes for a 1954 on-air discussion of marijuana, broadcasting the Seymour Hersh revelations of the My Lai massacre, bombings by the Ku Klux Klan, going to jail rather than turning over the Patty Hearst tapes to the FBI, and Supreme Court cases. Those cases include the 1984 decision that noncommercial broadcasters have the constitutional right to editorialize, and the Seven Dirty Words ruling following George Carlin's incendiary performances on WBAI. The Pacifica Foundation operates noncommercial radio stations in five major metropolitan areas, and syndicates content to over 220 affiliates. It invented listener-sponsored radio. (1 posts) - [Compassion in World Farming](./organization/compassion-world-farming/index.md): Section: Compassion in World Farming - Compassion in World Farming was founded in 1967 in England by a British farmer who became horrified by the development of intensive factory farming. Over 40 years ago he decided to make a difference and take a stand against this farming system. In his lifetime, Peter Roberts saw the demise of veal crates and gestation crates in the UK, and in Europe achieved recognition that animals are sentient beings and secured a ban on the barren battery cage and gestation crates for sows (except for the period up to four weeks into pregnancy). (1 posts) - [UNHCR](./organization/unhcr/index.md): Section: UNHCR - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. (1 posts) - [Community Alliance for Global Justice](./organization/community-alliance-global-justice/index.md): Section: Community Alliance for Global Justice - Community Alliance for Global Justice educates and mobilizes with individuals and organizations to strengthen local economies everywhere. CAGJ is grassroots, community-based and committed to anti-oppressive organizing as we build solidarity across diverse movements. CAGJ seeks to transform unjust trade and agricultural policies and practices imposed by corporations, governments and other institutions while creating and supporting alternatives that embody social justice, sustainability, diversity and grassroots democracy. (1 posts) - [Elders Rising](./organization/elders-rising/index.md): Section: Elders Rising - Elders Rising calls on the older generation to defend a livable future for their children, grandchildren, and future generations. We believe the State of Utah and the Federal Government must respond to the crisis of climate change. We act for intergenerational justice and for the countless species that make a livable world. (1 posts) - [Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America](./organization/moms-demand-action-gun-sense-america/index.md): Section: Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America - Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was created to demand action from legislators, state and federal; companies; and educational institutions to establish common-sense gun reforms. (1 posts) - [The Right Livelihood Award](./organization/right-livelihood-award/index.md): Section: The Right Livelihood Award - The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to "honour and support courageous people solving global problems". It has become widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' and there are now 182 Laureates from 72 countries. (7 posts) - [Women's Earth & Climate Action Network (WECAN)](./organization/womens-earth-climate-action-network-wecan/index.md): Section: Women's Earth & Climate Action Network (WECAN) - The Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is a solutions-based organization established to engage women worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, direct action, trainings, and movement building for global climate justice. (43 posts) - [The International Rescue Committee](./organization/international-rescue-committee/index.md): Section: The International Rescue Committee - The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. (53 posts) - [Women Cross DMZ](./organization/women-cross-dmz/index.md): Section: Women Cross DMZ - Women Cross DMZis an organization led by women working globally for peace in Korea. In May 2015, on the 70thanniversary of the division of Korea, Women Cross DMZ led a historic women's peace walk across the De-Militarized Zone from North to South Korea to draw global attention to the urgent need to end the Korean War with a peace treaty, reunite divided families, and ensure women's leadership in peacebuilding. www.womencrossdmz.org (5 posts) - [Acadia Center](./organization/acadia-center/index.md): Section: Acadia Center - Acadia Center is a non-profit, research and advocacy organization committed to advancing the clean energy future. Acadia Center is at the forefront of efforts to build clean, low-carbon and consumer-friendly economies. Acadia Center provides accurate and reliable information and offers a real-world and comprehensive approach to problem solving through innovation and collaboration. (1 posts) - [American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC)](./organization/american-sustainable-business-council-asbc/index.md): Section: American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) - The American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) advocates for policy change and informs business owners, policymakers and the public about the need and opportunities for building a vibrant, broadly prosperous, sustainable economy. Founded in 2009, its membership represents over 250,000 businesses in a wide range of industries. (40 posts) - [The New York Immigration Coalition](./organization/new-york-immigration-coalition/index.md): Section: The New York Immigration Coalition - The New York Immigration Coalition aims to achieve a fairer and more just society that values the contributions of immigrants and extends opportunity to all. The NYIC promotes immigrants' full civic participation, fosters their leadership, and provides a unified voice and a vehicle for collective action for New York's diverse immigrant communities. (48 posts) - [GAIA](./organization/gaia/index.md): Section: GAIA - GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration. (2 posts) - [The Culinary Union](./organization/culinary-union/index.md): Section: The Culinary Union - The Culinary Union was chartered on November 1, 1935 and 2015 marked the 80th anniversary of the organization that has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Nevada hospitality workers and their families with union wages and benefits. In eight decades, the Culinary Union has become an essential economic institution and a strong political force in the Battle Born State. (1 posts) - [The American Immigration Council](./organization/american-immigration-council/index.md): Section: The American Immigration Council - The American Immigration Council, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is a powerful voice in promoting laws, policies, and attitudes that honor our proud history as a nation of immigrants. Through research and policy analysis, litigation and communications, and international exchange, the Council seeks to shape a twenty-first century vision of the American immigrant experience. (5 posts) - [Citizens Against Monopoly](./organization/citizens-against-monopoly/index.md): Section: Citizens Against Monopoly - Citizens Against Monopoly's mission was to protect liberty and democracy from gigantic corporate monopolies. When we criticized Google for its monopoly practices, our program's funding was cut. We're continuing the fight -- and we need you to join us. (1 posts) - [Our Revolution](./organization/our-revolution/index.md): Section: Our Revolution - Our Revolution will reclaim democracy for the working people of our country by harnessing the transformative energy of the "political revolution." Through supporting a new generation of progressive leaders, empowering millions to fight for progressive change and elevating the political consciousness, Our Revolution will transform American politics to make our political and economic systems once again responsive to the needs of working families. Our Revolution has three intertwined goals: to revitalize American democracy, empower progressive leaders and elevate the political consciousness. (25 posts) - [United We Dream](./organization/united-we-dream/index.md): Section: United We Dream - United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country. We create welcoming spaces for young people - regardless of immigration status - to support, engage, and empower them to make their voice heard and win! (8 posts) - [National Women's Law Center](./organization/national-womens-law-center/index.md): Section: National Women's Law Center - The Center has worked for more than 40 years to protect and promote equality and opportunity for women and families. We champion policies and laws that help women and girls achieve their potential at every stage of their lives -- at school, at work, at home, and in retirement. Our staff are committed advocates who take on the toughest challenges, especially for the most vulnerable women. (3 posts) - [SumofUs](./organization/sumofus/index.md): Section: SumofUs - SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we're not afraid to hold them to account when they don't. Barely a day goes by without a fresh corporate scandal making headlines. From polluting the environment to dodging taxes - when left unchecked, corporations don't let anything stand in the way of bigger profits. In an age of multinational companies that are bigger and richer than some countries, it can be easy to feel powerless. But there is a chink in their armor. The biggest corporations in the world rely on ordinary people to keep them in business. We are their customers, their employees, and often their investors. When we act together, we can be more powerful than they are. Together, our community of millions act as a global consumer watchdog - running and winning campaign (17 posts) - [Global Zero](./organization/global-zero/index.md): Section: Global Zero - Global Zero is the international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons. It is led by more than 300 eminent world leaders and backed by a half a million citizens worldwide. For more information, please visitwww.globalzero.org. (25 posts) - [The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)](./organization/immigrant-legal-resource-center-ilrc/index.md): Section: The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is a national nonprofit that works with immigrants, community organizations, legal professionals, and policy makers to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people. Through community education programs, legal training & technical assistance, and policy development & advocacy, the ILRC's mission is to protect and defend the fundamental rights of immigrant families and communities. www.ilrc.org (3 posts) - [NAACP Legal Defense Fund](./organization/naacp-legal-defense-fund/index.md): Section: NAACP Legal Defense Fund - Founded in 1940, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is the nation's first civil and human rights law organization and has been completely separate from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) since 1957--although LDF was originally founded by the NAACP and shares its commitment to equal rights. LDF's Thurgood Marshall Institute is a multi-disciplinary and collaborative hub within LDF that launches targeted campaigns and undertakes innovative research to shape the civil rights narrative. In media attributions, please refer to us as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund or LDF. (4 posts) - [Network Lobby](./organization/network-lobby/index.md): Section: Network Lobby - NETWORK, advocates for justice inspired by Catholic sisters, educates, organizes, and lobbies for economic and social transformation. They have a more than 40-year track record of lobbying for critical federal programs that support those at the margins and prioritize the common good. (5 posts) - [NIAC Action](./organization/niac-action/index.md): Section: NIAC Action - NIAC Action is the grassroots, civic action organization committed to advancing peace and championing the priorities of the Iranian-American community. We are a nonpartisan nonprofit and the 501(c)4 sister organization of the National Iranian American Council, which works to strengthen the Iranian-American community and promote greater understanding between the American and Iranian people. (41 posts) - [Asian Americans Advancing Justice](./organization/asian-americans-advancing-justice/index.md): Section: Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) advocates for an America in which all Americans can benefit equally from, and contribute to, the American dream. Our mission is to advance the civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all. Advancing Justice | AAJC is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1991 in Washington, D.C. (2 posts) - [Freedom of the Press Foundation](./organization/freedom-press-foundation/index.md): Section: Freedom of the Press Foundation - Freedom of the Press Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping support and defend public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government. We work to preserve and strengthen the rights guaranteed to the press under the First Amendment through crowdfunding, digital security and internet advocacy. (10 posts) - [Progressive Congress Action Fund](./organization/progressive-congress-action-fund/index.md): Section: Progressive Congress Action Fund - Progressive Congress Action Fund is a 501(c)4 organization that serves as the vital linkage between progressive Members of Congress and grassroots organizers around the country, turning bold policy ideas into action and advancing a progressive agenda. (1 posts) - [The Main Street Alliance](./organization/main-street-alliance/index.md): Section: The Main Street Alliance - The Main Street Alliance (MSA) is a national network of small business coalitions working to build a new voice for small businesses on important public policy issues. Main Street Alliance members are working throughout the country to build policies that work for business owners, their employees, and the communities they serve. (68 posts) - [Millions Marching For Medicare For All](./organization/millions-marching-medicare-all/index.md): Section: Millions Marching For Medicare For All - Millions Marching For Medicare For All is a collective of everyday Americans, taking the streets to demand that access to quality care be expanded to all people regardless of income. We chant "healthcare is a human right" as we shut down business as usual in the fight to save our lives. (1 posts) - [The World Health Organization](./organization/world-health-organization/index.md): Section: The World Health Organization - The World Health Organization's goal is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people. Together we strive to combat diseases - infectious diseases like influenza and HIV and noncommunicable ones like cancer and heart disease. We help mothers and children survive and thrive so they can look forward to a healthy old age. We ensure the safety of the air people breathe, the food they eat, the water they drink - and the medicines and vaccines they need. (3 posts) - [Senator Elizabeth Warren](./organization/senator-elizabeth-warren/index.md): Section: Senator Elizabeth Warren - Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat and fearless consumer advocate who has made her life's work the fight for middle class families, was elected to the United States Senate on November 6, 2012, by the people of Massachusetts. (7 posts) - [Rep. Barbara Lee](./organization/barbara-lee/index.md): Section: Rep. Barbara Lee - Congresswoman Barbara Lee has been representing California’s 13th District since 1998. She is the highest ranking African American woman in Democratic Leadership, serving as Co-Chair of the Policy and Steering Committee. She also serves on the Budget Committee and the powerful Appropriations Committee, which oversees all federal government spending. (4 posts) - [John Conyers, Jr., Congressman](./organization/john-conyers-jr-congressman/index.md): Section: John Conyers, Jr., Congressman - John Conyers, Jr., Congressman (2 posts) - [The Commonwealth Fund](./organization/commonwealth-fund/index.md): Section: The Commonwealth Fund - The Commonwealth Fund--among the first private foundations started by a woman philanthropist, Anna M. Harkness--was established in 1918 with the broad charge to enhance the common good. The mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. (1 posts) - [Social Security Works](./organization/social-security-works/index.md): Section: Social Security Works - Social Security Works' mission is to: Protect and improve the economic security of disadvantaged and at-risk populations; Safeguard the economic security of those dependent, now or in the future, on Social Security; and Maintain Social Security as a vehicle of social justice. (123 posts) - [Mercy for Animals](./organization/mercy-animals/index.md): Section: Mercy for Animals - Mercy For Animals believes that a humane society is possible. We are committed to reducing the greatest amount of suffering for the largest number of animals. Our efforts focus on protecting farmed animals--the most abused and exploited animals on the planet--and utilize a broad range of strategic approaches that seek to expose cruelty, prosecute abusers, and inspire consumers to make compassionate food choices. (4 posts) - [American Federation of Teachers](./organization/american-federation-teachers/index.md): Section: American Federation of Teachers - The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do. The American Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, was founded in 1916 and today represents 1.6 million members in more than 3,000 local affiliates nationwide. (25 posts) - [Nuclear Age Peace Foundation](./organization/nuclear-age-peace-foundation/index.md): Section: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's mission is to educate and advocate for peace and a world free of nuclear weapons, and to empower peace leaders. (15 posts) - [Climate Disobedience Center](./organization/climate-disobedience-center/index.md): Section: Climate Disobedience Center - Climate Disobedience Center is an organization designed to serve as a catalyst for direct action, creating points of vivid moral clarity, emboldening both climate activists and the unlikeliest of allies, to capture the heart and soul of the climate debate. (1 posts) - [Open Media](./organization/open-media/index.md): Section: Open Media - OpenMedia is a community-driven organization that works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. We operate as a civic engagement platform to educate, engage, and empower Internet users to advance digital rights around the world. (3 posts) - [Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund](./organization/community-environmental-legal-defense-fund/index.md): Section: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund - The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is helping build a decolonial movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights-building upward from the grassroots to the state, federal, and international levels. (19 posts) - [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament](./organization/campaign-nuclear-disarmament/index.md): Section: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - CND campaigns non-violently to rid the world of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and to create genuine security for future generations. CND opposes all nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction: their development, manufacture, testing, deployment and use or threatened use by any country. (36 posts) - [Bold Alliance](./organization/bold-alliance/index.md): Section: Bold Alliance - Bold Alliance is a non-profit organization fighting fossil fuel projects, protecting landowners against eminent domain abuse, and working for clean energy solutions while building an engaged base of citizens who care about the land, water and climate change. (7 posts) - [The Greenlining Institute](./organization/greenlining-institute/index.md): Section: The Greenlining Institute - Greenlining is the solution to redlining. We advance economic opportunity and empowerment for people of color through advocacy, community and coalition building, research, and leadership development. (15 posts) - [Physicians for Reproductive Health](./organization/physicians-reproductive-health/index.md): Section: Physicians for Reproductive Health - Physicians for Reproductive Health unites the medical community and concerned supporters. Together, we work to improve access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including contraception and abortion, especially to meet the health care needs of economically disadvantaged patients. (5 posts) - [Americans for Tax Fairness](./organization/americans-tax-fairness/index.md): Section: Americans for Tax Fairness - Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) is a diverse campaign of more than 420 national, state and local endorsing organizations united in support of a fair tax system that works for all Americans. It has come together based on the belief that the country needs comprehensive, progressive tax reform that results in greater revenue to meet our growing needs. This requires big corporations and the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes, not to live by their own set of rules. (70 posts) - [Climate Action Tracker](./organization/climate-action-tracker/index.md): Section: Climate Action Tracker - The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific analysis that measures government climate action against the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2degC, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5degC. (2 posts) - [American Federation of Government Employees](./organization/american-federation-government-employees/index.md): Section: American Federation of Government Employees - The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union proudly representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas. Workers in virtually all functions of government at every federal agency depend upon AFGE for legal representation, legislative advocacy, technical expertise and informational services. (57 posts) - [Patriotic Millionaires](./organization/patriotic-millionaires/index.md): Section: Patriotic Millionaires - The Patriotic Millionaires is a group of high-net worth Americans who share a profound concern about the destabilizing level of inequality in America. Our work centers on the two things that matter most in a capitalist democracy: power and money. Our goal is to ensure that the country's political economy is structured to meet the needs of regular Americans, rather than just millionaires. We focus on three "first" principles: a highly progressive tax system, a livable minimum wage, and equal political representation for all citizens. (262 posts) - [Congresswoman Barbara Lee](./organization/congresswoman-barbara-lee/index.md): Section: Congresswoman Barbara Lee - Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a Democrat, represents the 13th District in California. (37 posts) - [Progressive Change Campaign Committee](./organization/progressive-change-campaign-committee/index.md): Section: Progressive Change Campaign Committee - The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (BoldProgressives.org) is a million-member grassroots organization building power at the local, state and federal levels. It engages in electoral work and issue advocacy work -- fighting on democracy issues and for economic populist priorities like expanding Social Security, Medicare For All, a Green New Deal, student debt cancellation, and Wall Street reform. PCCC has been a proud supporter of Elizabeth Warren since her first run for Senate and was the first national political organization to endorse her for president in the 2020 election. (6 posts) - [Indivisible](./organization/indivisible/index.md): Section: Indivisible - Indivisible Project (501c4) drives coordinated campaigns, powering the grassroots Indivisible movement to defeat the rightwing takeover of American government and win an inclusive democracy and bold progressive policies. (41 posts) - [Stop the War Coalition](./organization/stop-war-coalition/index.md): Section: Stop the War Coalition - Stop the War was founded in September 2001 in the weeks following 9/11, when George W. Bush announced the "war on terror". Stop the War has since been dedicated to preventing and ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere. Stop the War opposes the British establishment's disastrous addiction to war and its squandering of public resources on militarism. We have initiated many campaigns around these issues. (48 posts) - [Friends of the Earth Action](./organization/friends-earth-action/index.md): Section: Friends of the Earth Action - Friends of the Earth Action provides extra political muscle on legislative battles here in the U.S. to our sister organization, Friends of the Earth, which is part of a network of affiliates in 76 nations around the world. Friends of the Earth Action and its affiliated PAC make thoughtful political endorsements, provide direct support to candidates and place environmentalists in the field on critical campaigns. (5 posts) - [Earthrights International](./organization/earthrights-international/index.md): Section: Earthrights International - EarthRights International (ERI) is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment, which we define as "earth rights." We specialize in fact-finding, legal actions against perpetrators of earth rights abuses, training grassroots and community leaders, and advocacy campaigns. Through these strategies, EarthRights International seeks to end earth rights abuses, to provide real solutions for real people, and to promote and protect human rights and the environment in the communities where we work. (31 posts) - [Free Speech for People](./organization/free-speech-people/index.md): Section: Free Speech for People - Free Speech For People is a national non-partisan non-profit organization founded on the day of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC that works to defend our democracy and our Constitution. (87 posts) - [National Employment Law Project](./organization/national-employment-law-project/index.md): Section: National Employment Law Project - For more than 45 years, NELP has sought to ensure that America upholds for all workers her promise of opportunity and economic security through work. NELP fights for policies to create good jobs, expand access to work, and strengthen protections and support for low-wage workers and the unemployed. (4 posts) - [Open Debate Coalition](./organization/open-debate-coalition/index.md): Section: Open Debate Coalition - Open Debate Coalition is the sponsor of the OpenPresidentalQuestions.com project--bringing together the PCCC, Americans for Tax Reform, and dozens of influential left, right, and Silicon Valley coalition members to give the public a voice in the second debate, which will feature questions from the internet. (1 posts) - [Navdanya International](./organization/navdanya-international/index.md): Section: Navdanya International - Navdanya is a movement for Earth Democracy based on the philosophy of 'Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam' (The Earth as one Family). We protect the India's biodiversity based food heritage through Bija Swaraj, Ann Swaraj, Bhu Swaraj and Gyan swaraj. (4 posts) - [Shut It Down - Climate Direct Action](./organization/shut-it-down-climate-direct-action/index.md): Section: Shut It Down - Climate Direct Action - In October 2016 activists under the banner of 'Shut It Down - Climate Direct Action' took the climate future into their own hands by shutting down all the tar sands oil flowing into the US from Canada. (6 posts) - [Grassroots Global Justice Alliance](./organization/grassroots-global-justice-alliance/index.md): Section: Grassroots Global Justice Alliance - Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ) is a national alliance of US-based grassroots organizing (GRO) groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color. We understand that there are important connections between the local issues we work on and the global context, and we see ourselves as part of an international movement for global justice. (5 posts) - [SOA Watch](./organization/soa-watch/index.md): Section: SOA Watch - SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to close the SOA and change the oppressive US foreign policy that the school represents. To date, over 70,000 Latin American soldiers and police have been trained at the US taxpayer-funded institution. (1 posts) - [Green Party of the US](./organization/green-party-us/index.md): Section: Green Party of the US - The Green Party of the United States is a grassroots national party. We're the party for "We The People," the health of our planet, and future generations instead of the One Percent. (42 posts) - [Live Share Grow](./organization/live-share-grow/index.md): Section: Live Share Grow - Live Share Grow uses creative nonviolent action to interrupt business-as-usual; invites the 100% to live, share, grow; points to the viable alternatives, and actively participates in local, sustainable, just, and equitable ways of being in the world. (1 posts) - [Advancement Project](./organization/advancement-project/index.md): Section: Advancement Project - Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization. Rooted in the great human rights struggles for equality and justice, we exist to fulfill America's promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy. We use innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change. (4 posts) - [Chicago Teachers Union](./organization/chicago-teachers-union/index.md): Section: Chicago Teachers Union - An affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT), CTU is the third largest teachers local in the country and the largest local union in Illinois. (20 posts) - [Indigenous Environmental Network](./organization/indigenous-environmental-network/index.md): Section: Indigenous Environmental Network - Established in 1990 within the United States, IEN was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues (EJ). IEN's activities include building the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, health of both our people and all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities. (122 posts) - [Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition](./organization/financial-accountability-and-corporate-transparency-fact-coalition/index.md): Section: Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition - The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition is a non-partisan alliance of more than 100 state, national, and international organizations working toward a fair tax system that addresses the challenges of a global economy and promoting policies to combat the harmful impacts of corrupt financial practices. (34 posts) - [Coalition to Stop Gun Violence](./organization/coalition-stop-gun-violence/index.md): Section: Coalition to Stop Gun Violence - The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is a 501(c)(4) organization that was founded in 1974. We seek to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy. Our organizational structure is unique among national gun violence prevention organizations. CSGV is composed of 47 national organizations working to reduce gun violence. (6 posts) - [The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights](./organization/leadership-conference-civil-and-human-rights/index.md): Section: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States. Through advocacy and outreach to targeted constituencies, The Leadership Conference works toward the goal of a more open and just society - an America as good as its ideals. (159 posts) - [Stop Mass Incarceration Network - Chicago](./organization/stop-mass-incarceration-network-chicago/index.md): Section: Stop Mass Incarceration Network - Chicago - The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. (1 posts) - [International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)](./organization/international-campaign-abolish-nuclear-weapons-ican/index.md): Section: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) - The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of more than 400 non-governmental organisations in 95 countries. We are calling on governments to launch negotiations on a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, which would place them on the same legal footing as chemical and biological weapons and help pave the way to their complete elimination. (23 posts) - [Progress Michigan](./organization/progress-michigan/index.md): Section: Progress Michigan - Progress Michigan aims to provide a strong credible voice that holds public officials and government accountable, assists in the promotion of progressive ideas and uses state-of-the-art web based new media to creatively build grassroots support for progressive ideas. (26 posts) - [350 Action](./organization/350-action/index.md): Section: 350 Action - 350 Action is the independent political action arm of the non-profit, non-partisan climate justice group 350.org. (79 posts) - [Climate Action Network International](./organization/climate-action-network-international/index.md): Section: Climate Action Network International - The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 950 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) from over 110 countries working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. (2 posts) - [Climate Tracker](./organization/climate-tracker/index.md): Section: Climate Tracker - The Carbon Tracker Initiative is a not-for-profit financial think tank that seeks to promote a climate-secure global energy market by aligning capital markets with climate reality. Our research to date on unburnable carbon and stranded assets has begun a new debate on how to align the financial system with the energy transition to a low carbon future. www.carbontracker.org (1 posts) - [Regeneration International](./organization/regeneration-international/index.md): Section: Regeneration International - Regeneration International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to building a global network of farmers, scientists, businesses, activists, educators, journalists, governments and consumers who will promote and put into practice regenerative agriculture and land-use practices that: provide abundant, nutritious food; revive local economies; rebuild soil fertility and biodiversity; and restore climate stability by returning carbon to the soil, through the natural process of photosynthesis. (1 posts) - [Ecojustice](./organization/ecojustice/index.md): Section: Ecojustice - As Canada's only national environmental law charity, Ecojustice is building the case for a better earth. (38 posts) - [Together for Global Justice (CIDSE)](./organization/together-global-justice-cidse/index.md): Section: Together for Global Justice (CIDSE) - Our 17 member organisations from Europe and North America come together under the umbrella of CIDSE to fight poverty and inequality. We challenge governments, business, churches, and international bodies to adopt policies and behavior that promote human rights, social justice and sustainable development. These are important elements of our mission, which we try to achieve through joint advocacy, campaigning and development cooperation work. We work with people of all faiths and none. (1 posts) - [Carbon Underground](./organization/carbon-underground/index.md): Section: Carbon Underground - TheCarbonUnderground was created to be the umbrella organization responsible for organizing, communicating and educating the world about the powerful climate change-reversing ability of healthy soil, and for helping to create the transformation of enough farms and grasslands to restore a healthy climate. (1 posts) - [Fight for $15](./organization/fight-15/index.md): Section: Fight for $15 - Fast food workers are coming together all over the country to fight for $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation. We work for corporations that are making tremendous profits, but do not pay employees enough to support our families and to cover basic needs like food, health care, rent and transportation. (43 posts) - [sHELLNO](./organization/shellno/index.md): Section: sHELLNO - We are a coalition of activists, artists, and noisemakers battling Shell in Seattle. - [Pembina Institute](./organization/pembina-institute/index.md): Section: Pembina Institute - The Pembina Institute is an organization unlike any other working to protect Canada's environment today. We combine the research and technical capacity of a think tank with the values and advocacy of an environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) and the entrepreneurial and business sense of a for-profit consulting firm. This equips us with a unique ability to employ multi-faceted and highly collaborative approaches to change. Pembina's 50 staff in B.C., Alberta, Ontario and the Northwest Territories use research, advocacy and consulting as tools toward our goal of leading Canada's transition to a clean energy future. (1 posts) - [Global Justice Now](./organization/global-justice-now/index.md): Section: Global Justice Now - Global Justice Now is a democratic social justice organisation working as part of a global movement to challenge the powerful and create a more just and equal world. We mobilise people in the UK for change, and act in solidarity with those fighting injustice, particularly in the global south. (124 posts) - [La Via Campesina](./organization/la-campesina/index.md): Section: La Via Campesina - La Via Campesina is the international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity. It strongly opposes corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies that are destroying people and nature. La Via Campesina comprises about 164 local and national organizations in 73 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Altogether, it represents about 200 million farmers. It is an autonomous, pluralist and multicultural movement, independent from any political, economic or other type of affiliation. (3 posts) - [Grassroots Leadership](./organization/grassroots-leadership/index.md): Section: Grassroots Leadership - At Grassroots Leadership, we believe no one should profit from the imprisonment of human beings. We live in the most incarcerated society in the history of the world. Every day we confront a prison industry that preys on pain because our addiction to locking people up dehumanizes all of us. (4 posts) - [New York Civil Liberties Union](./organization/new-york-civil-liberties-union/index.md): Section: New York Civil Liberties Union - The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is one of the nation's foremost defenders of civil liberties and civil rights. Founded in 1951 as the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, we are a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization with eight chapters and regional offices and nearly 50,000 members across the state. (2 posts) - [Privacy International](./organization/privacy-international/index.md): Section: Privacy International - Privacy International is committed to fighting for the right to privacy across the world. We investigate the secret world of government surveillance and expose the companies enabling it. We litigate to ensure that surveillance is consistent with the rule of law. We advocate for strong national, regional, and international laws that protect privacy. We conduct research to catalyse policy change. We raise awareness about technologies and laws that place privacy at risk, to ensure that the public is informed and engaged. (3 posts) - [National Iranian American Council (NIAC)](./organization/national-iranian-american-council-niac/index.md): Section: National Iranian American Council (NIAC) - The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 2002 to give voice to the Iranian-American community. From being the trusted voice on U.S.- Iran relations, to pushing forth legislation that protects individuals of Iranian heritage from systematic discrimination, to celebrating our cultural heritage, NIAC creates a lasting impact in the lives of the members of our community. (140 posts) - [Restaurant Opportunities Centers United](./organization/restaurant-opportunities-centers-united/index.md): Section: Restaurant Opportunities Centers United - The mission of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United is to improve wages and working conditions for the nation's restaurant workforce. We are 13,000 restaurant workers, 100 high-road employers, thousands of engaged consumers united for raising restaurant industry standards. (1 posts) - [U.S. Right to Know](./organization/us-right-know/index.md): Section: U.S. Right to Know - U.S. Right to Know is a nonprofit investigative research group focused on promoting transparency for public health. We are working globally to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten the integrity of our health, our environment and our food system. (17 posts) - [Share the World's Resources](./organization/share-worlds-resources/index.md): Section: Share the World's Resources - STWR is an independent civil society organisation campaigning for a fairer sharing of wealth, power and resources within and between nations. Through our research and activities, we make a case for implementing economic sharing as a pragmatic solution to a broad range of interconnected crises that governments are currently failing to address - including hunger, poverty, climate change, environmental destruction and conflict over the world's natural resources. (3 posts) - [National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health](./organization/national-latina-institute-reproductive-health/index.md): Section: National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health - The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health is the only national reproductive justice organization dedicated to building Latina power to advance health, dignity, and justice for 26 million Latinas, their families, and communities in the United States through leadership development, community mobilization, policy advocacy, and strategic communications. (8 posts) - [Don't Shoot Coalition](./organization/dont-shoot-coalition/index.md): Section: Don't Shoot Coalition - The murder of Michael Brown and its aftermath have exposed the ongoing crisis of police-on-black crime. As we work toward justice for the Brown family, we must also address the ongoing systemic problems of police practices in black, brown and all oppressed communities. We come together as diverse local organizations to speak with one voice, so that the greater St. Louis area can become a model for justice for all across the United States. (3 posts) - [Environmental Action](./organization/environmental-action/index.md): Section: Environmental Action - Founded at the first Earth Day with a mission to protect the planet and all of us who live on it, we are Environmental Action. We stand up to big polluters, take on the corrupt politicians and give everyone in America a chance to be an environmentalist with simple, powerful actions. Ready to take action for the planet? You're in the right place. (1 posts) - [Fight for the Future](./organization/fight-future/index.md): Section: Fight for the Future - Fight for the Future is a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology liberates -- not oppresses -- us. (220 posts) - [Oceana](./organization/oceana/index.md): Section: Oceana - Oceana is the largest international ocean conservation and advocacy organization. Oceana works to protect and restore the world's oceans through targeted policy campaigns. (75 posts) - [UltraViolet](./organization/ultraviolet/index.md): Section: UltraViolet - UltraViolet is a powerful and rapidly growing community of people mobilized to fight sexism and create a more inclusive world that accurately represents all women, from politics and government to media and pop culture. (99 posts) - [Huu-ay-aht First Nations](./organization/huu-ay-aht-first-nations/index.md): Section: Huu-ay-aht First Nations - As a leader among First Nations, the Huu-ay-aht will create certainty for its people and generate wealth for financial independence by providing economic opportunities, social, cultural and recreational programs for all Huu-ay-aht. (1 posts) - [Latino Advocacy](./organization/latino-advocacy/index.md): Section: Latino Advocacy - Latino Advocacy provides consulting for non-profits in the areas of policy, advocacy, organizing and membership development, workshops and meetings facilitation, focusing on racial justice and immigrant rights. (3 posts) - [Western Environmental Law Center](./organization/western-environmental-law-center/index.md): Section: Western Environmental Law Center - The Western Environmental Law Center uses the power of the law to safeguard the public lands, wildlife, and communities of the American West in the face of a changing climate. We envision a thriving, resilient West, abundant with protected public lands and wildlife, powered by clean energy, and defended by communities rooted in an ethic of conservation. (49 posts) - [Rolling Jubilee](./organization/rolling-jubilee/index.md): Section: Rolling Jubilee - Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal. Debt resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits. (1 posts) - [Coalition for Peace Action](./organization/coalition-peace-action/index.md): Section: Coalition for Peace Action - The Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) is a grassroots citizens organization which brings together people of all ages, backgrounds, professions, and political persuasions in support of three goals: global abolition of nuclear weapons, a peace economy, and a halt to weapons trafficking at home and abroad. (11 posts) - [Rodale Institute](./organization/rodale-institute/index.md): Section: Rodale Institute - Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach. For more than sixty years, we've been researching the best practices of organic agriculture and sharing our findings with farmers and scientists throughout the world, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating consumers about how going organic is the healthiest options for people and the planet. (5 posts) - [Food Research and Action Center](./organization/food-research-and-action-center/index.md): Section: Food Research and Action Center - The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) leads efforts to broaden low-income children's access to healthy school lunch and breakfast, summer and afterschool meals and child care food in the child nutrition reauthorization process. (1 posts) - [Reject and Protect](./organization/reject-and-protect/index.md): Section: Reject and Protect - Reject and Protect is led by the "Cowboy Indian Alliance," a group of ranchers, farmers, and tribal communities from along the Keystone XL pipeline route. (1 posts) - [The Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars](./organization/upstate-coalition-ground-drones-and-end-wars/index.md): Section: The Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars - The Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars is made up of antiwar organizations and formed around resistance to the MQ-9 Reaper Drone program at Hancock Field Air Force Base. (6 posts) - [Center for Reproductive Rights](./organization/center-reproductive-rights/index.md): Section: Center for Reproductive Rights - The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person. (73 posts) - [People's Action](./organization/peoples-action/index.md): Section: People's Action - People's Action builds the power of poor and working people, in rural, suburban, and urban areas to win change through issue campaigns and elections. (190 posts) - [Jewish Voice for Peace](./organization/jewish-voice-peace/index.md): Section: Jewish Voice for Peace - Jewish Voice for Peace is a national, grassroots organization inspired by Jewish tradition to work for a just and lasting peace according to principles of human rights, equality, and international law for all the people of Israel and Palestine. JVP has over 200,000 online supporters, over 70 chapters, a youth wing, a Rabbinic Council, an Artist Council, an Academic Advisory Council, and an Advisory Board made up of leading U.S. intellectuals and artists. (108 posts) - [Iraq Veterans Against the War](./organization/iraq-veterans-against-war/index.md): Section: Iraq Veterans Against the War - Matt Howard, Communications Director 646.723.0989Media@ivaw.org (15 posts) - [US Robin Hood Tax Campaign](./organization/us-robin-hood-tax-campaign/index.md): Section: US Robin Hood Tax Campaign - The U.S. Robin Hood Tax would set a 0.5% tax on the trading of stocks, 50 cents on every $100 of trades, and lesser rates on trading in bonds, derivatives and currencies in the U.S. It marks the return of a tax on financial transactions in place in this country during the years 1914 to 1966. Some form of the financial tax is in place today in more than 40 countries. Who's behind it? We are Nobel Prize-winning economists, former US Vice Presidents and founders of Microsoft. We are Ronald Reagan's Budget Director, the UN's Secretary General and the Archbishop of Capetown. We are union members, nurses, small business owners, community organizers, faith leaders, AIDS activists, environmentalists, movie stars and musicians, and we are part of a global movement of more than 220 million people in 25 countries who are fighting for a Robin Hood Tax - a small tax on Wall Street trades. We are a force to be reckoned with, and we are demanding justice. (5 posts) - [Chesapeake Climate Action Network](./organization/chesapeake-climate-action-network/index.md): Section: Chesapeake Climate Action Network - The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) is the first grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our mission is to build and mobilize a powerful grassroots movement in this unique region that surrounds our nation's capital to call for state, national and international policies that will put us on a path to climate stability. - See more at: https://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view;=itemlist&... (24 posts) - [Council of Canadians](./organization/council-canadians/index.md): Section: Council of Canadians - Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada's leading social action organization, mobilizing a network of 60 chapters across the country. (116 posts) - [Haiti: Make Births Safe](./organization/haiti-make-births-safe/index.md): Section: Haiti: Make Births Safe - Haiti: Make Births Safe is a new campaign consisting of international and Haitian nonprofits working to ensure the health of mothers and children in northern Haiti. By investing in local medical facilities, training community healthcare providers and empowering women with knowledge and support, H:MBS takes a systemic approach to providing effective and accessible maternal and newborn care. (1 posts) - [Center for Corporate Policy](./organization/center-corporate-policy/index.md): Section: Center for Corporate Policy - The Center for Corporate Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable. (2 posts) - [Our Children's Trust](./organization/our-childrens-trust/index.md): Section: Our Children's Trust - Our Children's Trust is a nonprofit organization advocating for urgent emissions reductions on behalf of youth and future generations, who have the most to lose if emissions are not reduced. OCT is spearheading the international human rights and environmental TRUST Campaign to compel governments to safeguard the atmosphere as a "public trust" resource. We use law, film, and media to elevate their compelling voices. Our ultimate goal is for governments to adopt and implement enforceable science-based Climate Recovery Plans with annual emissions reductions to return to an atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration of 350 ppm. (40 posts) - [The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund](./organization/partnership-civil-justice-fund/index.md): Section: The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund - The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund is a public interest legal organization that brings a unique and cutting edge approach dedicated to the defense of human and civil rights secured by law, the protection of free speech and dissent, and the elimination of prejudice and discrimination. Among the PCJF cases are constitutional law, civil rights, women's rights, economic justice matters and Freedom of Information Act cases. (5 posts) - [Friends of the Earth International](./organization/friends-earth-international/index.md): Section: Friends of the Earth International - Friends of the Earth International is the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 74 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. With over 2 million members and supporters around the world, FOEI campaigns on today's most urgent environmental and social issues. (86 posts) - [Labor Network for Sustainability](./organization/labor-network-sustainability/index.md): Section: Labor Network for Sustainability - Labor Network for Sustainability is dedicated to engaging trade unions, workers and our allies to support economic, social, and environmental sustainability. LNS provides a community for those in the labor and sustainability movements and their allies who care about economic justice, ecology, and equality. Our members are helping labor become a force for advancing worker interests - while advancing the broader social good. (6 posts) - [GetEQUAL](./organization/getequal/index.md): Section: GetEQUAL - GetEQUAL was, from 2010 to 2018, an American non-profit organization and advocacy group which advocates for LGBT social and political equality through confrontational but non-violent direct action. (2 posts) - [Backbone Campaign](./organization/backbone-campaign/index.md): Section: Backbone Campaign - Backbone Campaign's mission is to provide creative strategies, artful activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights, thriving communities, and ecological wellbeing. (1 posts) - [The Breast Cancer Fund](./organization/breast-cancer-fund/index.md): Section: The Breast Cancer Fund - The Breast Cancer Fund works to connect the dots between breast cancer and exposures to chemicals and radiation in our everyday environments. (1 posts) - [Forest Peoples Programme](./organization/forest-peoples-programme/index.md): Section: Forest Peoples Programme - Forest Peoples Programme supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure their rights, control their lands and decide their own futures. (11 posts) - [Families Against Mandatory Minimums](./organization/families-against-mandatory-minimums/index.md): Section: Families Against Mandatory Minimums - By advocating for sensible state and federal sentencing reform, FAMM helps: Mitigate the taxpayer burden of overcrowded prisons; Shift resources from excess incarceration to law enforcement and other programs proven to reduce crime and recidivism; and Mobilize the thousands whose lives are adversely affected by unfair sentences to work constructively for change. (1 posts) - [United Students Against Sweatshops](./organization/united-students-against-sweatshops/index.md): Section: United Students Against Sweatshops - United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is the nation's largest youth-led, student labor campaign organization, with affiliated locals on over 150 campuses. USAS affiliates run both local and nationally-coordinated campaigns for economic justice in partnership with worker and community organizations. Since 1997, USAS has won precedent-setting campaigns, educated students about the growing dominance of corporations in the globalized economy, as well as the intersectionality of identity and social justice issues with the labor movement, and has trained tens of thousands of young activists to become skilled organizers, researchers, and campaigners in labor and social justice organizations. (1 posts) - [The Jeremy Hammond Defense Committee](./organization/jeremy-hammond-defense-committee/index.md): Section: The Jeremy Hammond Defense Committee - The Jeremy Hammond Defense Committee is a coalition of family members, activists, lawyers, and other supporters who are working together to protect free speech and to support Jeremy Hammond. The committee's goal is to provide information to the public and the press, to organize events related to Jeremy's case, and to support Jeremy while he is in jail. For more information, please visit https://freejeremy.net. (1 posts) - [Idle No More](./organization/idle-no-more/index.md): Section: Idle No More - Idle No More is not an organization, but a movement, and includes hundreds of Indigenous grassroots organizers from across Turtle Island who are engaged in local resistance struggles against resource extraction corporations and the Canadian government ignoring and defying Treaty rights. (4 posts) - [Committee to Protect Journalists](./organization/committee-protect-journalists/index.md): Section: Committee to Protect Journalists - The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. We defend the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. (33 posts) - [All Out](./organization/all-out/index.md): Section: All Out - In 76 countries it is a crime to be gay; in 10 it can cost you your life. All Out is mobilizing millions of people and their social networks to build a powerful global movement for love and equality. Our mission is to build a world where no person will have to sacrifice their family or freedom, safety or dignity, because of who they are or who they love. - [All Out](./organization/all-out-0/index.md): Section: All Out - In 76 countries it is a crime to be gay; in 10 it can cost you your life. All Out is mobilizing millions of people and their social networks to build a powerful global movement for love and equality. Our mission is to build a world where no person will have to sacrifice their family or freedom, safety or dignity, because of who they are or who they love. (1 posts) - [Penn Student Labor Action Project](./organization/penn-student-labor-action-project/index.md): Section: Penn Student Labor Action Project - Penn Student Labor Action Project is a student-worker collective that strives for the transformation of our community and material conditions to create a better reality. (1 posts) - [David Suzuki Foundation](./organization/david-suzuki-foundation/index.md): Section: David Suzuki Foundation - We collaborate with Canadians from all walks of life, including government and business, to conserve our environment and find solutions that will create a sustainable Canada through science-based research, education and policy work. (1 posts) - [Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI-CATS)](./organization/michigan-coalition-against-tar-sands-mi-cats/index.md): Section: Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI-CATS) - The Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI CATS) seeks to unite the people of Michigan towards a common goal of stopping all transportation and refining of tar sands oil in the state and advocating against the production/transportation of tar sands everywhere. (4 posts) - [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change](./organization/intergovernmental-panel-climate-change/index.md): Section: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. The World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme established the IPCC in 1988. (1 posts) - [Concerned Citizens for Justice](./organization/concerned-citizens-justice/index.md): Section: Concerned Citizens for Justice - Concerned Citizens for Justice (CCJ): Educating, Agitating, Motivating, and Organizing in Chattanooga! (1 posts) - [StopWatching.us](./organization/stopwatchingus/index.md): Section: StopWatching.us - StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across the political spectrum. We came together in June 2013 to demand the U.S. Congress investigate the full extent of the NSA's spying programs. Go here to read our letter to U.S. Congress demanding accountability and reform. (1 posts) - [Representative Adam Schiff](./organization/representative-adam-schiff/index.md): Section: Representative Adam Schiff - Rep. Adam Bennett Schiff is an American lawyer, author, and politician who has served as a U.S. representative since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he has represented California's 28th congressional district since 2013. (1 posts) - [Freedom to Work](./organization/freedom-work/index.md): Section: Freedom to Work - FreedomtoWork.org is a national organization committed to banning workplace harassment and career discrimination against lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender Americans through public education, policy analysis, and legal work. (2 posts) - [Stand Up! Chicago](./organization/stand-chicago/index.md): Section: Stand Up! Chicago - Stand Up! Chicago is a coalition of community and labor organizations and working families standing up together to demand good jobs and a strong investment in our community's schools and neighborhoods. (1 posts) - [Gulf Restoration Network](./organization/gulf-restoration-network/index.md): Section: Gulf Restoration Network - The Gulf Restoration Network (GRN) is a network of environmental, social justice, and citizens' groups and individuals committed to restoring the Gulf of Mexico to an ecologically and biologically sustainable condition. www.healthygulf.org. (1 posts) - [Americans Against Fracking](./organization/americans-against-fracking/index.md): Section: Americans Against Fracking - Fracking and drilling associated with fracking pose a direct and immediate threat to the drinking water, air, climate, food, health and economies of communities across the United States. Americans Against Fracking is comprised of entities dedicated to banning drilling and fracking for oil and natural gas in order to protect our shared vital resources for future generations. (2 posts) - [Natural Resources Council of Maine](./organization/natural-resources-council-maine/index.md): Section: Natural Resources Council of Maine - The Natural Resources Council of Maine is the leading nonprofit membership organization working statewide for clean air and water; healthy people, wildlife and forests; and clean energy solutions. NRCM harnesses the power of science, the law, and the voices of more than 12,000 supporters to protect the nature of Maine. Visit NRCM online at www.nrcm.org. (8 posts) - [Color of Change](./organization/color-change/index.md): Section: Color of Change - Color Of Change is the nation's largest online racial justice organization. We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by over one million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America. (63 posts) - [Our Power Campaign](./organization/our-power-campaign/index.md): Section: Our Power Campaign - Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a collaborative of over 35 community-based and movement support organizations uniting frontline communities to forge a scalable, and socio-economically just transition away from unsustainable energy towards local living economies to address the root causes of climate change. (4 posts) - [Credo Mobile](./organization/credo-mobile/index.md): Section: Credo Mobile - CREDO Mobile is a progressive phone company that makes it easy for its customers to fight for change - and raises millions of dollars for nonprofit groups that do the same. CREDO Mobile has raised more than $72 million for progressive groups, including the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Rainforest Action Network. (4 posts) - [Xerces Society](./organization/xerces-society/index.md): Section: Xerces Society - The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. Established in 1971, the Society is at the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programs. (1 posts) - [War on Want](./organization/war-want/index.md): Section: War on Want - War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership with people affected by globalization. We campaign for human rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice. (1 posts) - [OUR Walmart](./organization/our-walmart/index.md): Section: OUR Walmart - OUR Walmart works to ensure that every Associate, regardless of his or her title, age, race, or sex, is respected at Walmart. We join together to offer strength and support in addressing the challenges that arise in our stores and our company everyday. (20 posts) - [Amazon Watch](./organization/amazon-watch/index.md): Section: Amazon Watch - Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems. (39 posts) - [Center for Food Safety](./organization/center-food-safety/index.md): Section: Center for Food Safety - Center for Food Safety's mission is to empower people, support farmers, and protect the earth from the harmful impacts of industrial agriculture. Through groundbreaking legal, scientific, and grassroots action, we protect and promote your right to safe food and the environment. CFS's successful legal cases collectively represent a landmark body of case law on food and agricultural issues. (161 posts) - [One Wisconsin Now](./organization/one-wisconsin-now/index.md): Section: One Wisconsin Now - One Wisconsin Now is a statewide communications network specializing in effective earned media and online organizing to advance progressive leadership and values. (19 posts) - [Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance](./organization/great-plains-tar-sands-resistance/index.md): Section: Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance - Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance is a coalition of Great Plains organizations and individuals dedicated to using direct action to stop tar sands extraction and transportation infrastructure, like the Keystone XL pipeline, in the beautiful heartland of North America. (6 posts) - [Iraq Body Count](./organization/iraq-body-count/index.md): Section: Iraq Body Count - Iraq Body Count (IBC) is a citizens' initiative devoted to recording the violent civilian deaths that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention in Iraq. Its public database includes deaths caused by US-led coalition forces and paramilitary or criminal attacks by others. The project was founded in January 2003 by volunteers from the UK and USA who felt a responsibility to ensure that the human consequences of military intervention in Iraq were not neglected. (2 posts) - [Oil Change International](./organization/oil-change-international/index.md): Section: Oil Change International - Oil Change International is a research, communications, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the ongoing transition to clean energy. (243 posts) - [Fast Food Forward](./organization/fast-food-forward/index.md): Section: Fast Food Forward - Fast Food Forward is a movement of NYC fast food workers to raise wages and gain rights at work. It is part of the national movement of low-wage workers fighting for a better future. (1 posts) - [Food Democracy Now!](./organization/food-democracy-now/index.md): Section: Food Democracy Now! - Food Democracy Now! is a grassroots community dedicated to building a sustainable food system that protects our natural environment, sustains farmers and nourishes families. (9 posts) - [350Maine](./organization/350maine/index.md): Section: 350Maine - 350 Maine is a grassroots effort to bring people together across the state, sharing resources with our allies, friends, and other groups performing important environmental work and engaging individuals who have expressed interest in supporting the ideals and aims of 350.org, an international environmental organization. 350.org aims to build "a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis," and we in Maine--though we organize and act independently--stand in solidarity with this global effort. In our communities and with our neighbors, from the coast to the mountains, and from our smallest towns to our largest cities, we will strive and fight for a more sustainable world, a healthier Maine, and a better tomorrow. - [Arise Chicago](./organization/arise-chicago/index.md): Section: Arise Chicago - Arise Chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education and organizing and advocating for public policy changes. Its Worker Center is a community resource for workers, both immigrant and native-born, to learn about their rights and join fellow workers to improve workplace conditions. (2 posts) - [KyotoNOW!](./organization/kyotonow/index.md): Section: KyotoNOW! - KyotoNOW! is a Cornell student organization formed in response to the US rejection of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. Our student-run campaigns work to promote a sustainable, just future and advance policy on climate change on the university, local and national levels. (1 posts) - [Making Change at Walmart](./organization/making-change-walmart/index.md): Section: Making Change at Walmart - Making Change at Walmart is a campaign challenging Walmart to help rebuild our economy and strengthen working families. Anchored by the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), we are a coalition of Walmart associates, union members, small business owners, religious leaders, community organizations, women's advocacy groups, multi-ethnic coalitions, elected officials and ordinary citizens who believe that changing Walmart is vital for the future of our country. (4 posts) - [Reprieve](./organization/reprieve/index.md): Section: Reprieve - Reprieve is a UK-based human rights organization that uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantanamo Bay. (478 posts) - [Warehouse Workers United](./organization/warehouse-workers-united/index.md): Section: Warehouse Workers United - Warehouse Workers United is an organization committed to improving the quality of life and jobs for warehouse workers in Southern California's Inland Empire. (1 posts) - [Tar Sands Blockade](./organization/tar-sands-blockade/index.md): Section: Tar Sands Blockade - Tar Sands Blockade is a coalition of Texas and Oklahoma landowners and organizers using nonviolent direct action to physically stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. (9 posts) - [Just Foreign Policy](./organization/just-foreign-policy/index.md): Section: Just Foreign Policy - Just Foreign Policy is an independent and non-partisan membership organization dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy by mobilizing and organizing the broad majority of Americans who want a foreign policy based on diplomacy, law and cooperation. (5 posts) - [Park Center for Independent Media](./organization/park-center-independent-media/index.md): Section: Park Center for Independent Media - The Park Center for Independent Media, launched in 2008, is a national center for the study of media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. Throughout history, technological and social upheaval have given rise to independent media voices. Today, independent media are growing amid crisis and conglomeration in mainstream journalism, and the rise of the Internet and new forms of media production and distribution. The Center's mission is to engage media producers and students in conversation about career paths in independent media, and financially viable ways to disseminate news and information. The center examines the impact of independent media institutions on journalism, democracy, and a participatory culture. Jeff Cohen is the foundi (6 posts) - [Chelsea Manning Support Network](./organization/chelsea-manning-support-network/index.md): Section: Chelsea Manning Support Network - The Chelsea Manning Support Network was a coalition of groups and individuals engaged in supporting the U.S. Army whistleblower. (25 posts) - [New Bottom Line](./organization/new-bottom-line/index.md): Section: New Bottom Line - The New Bottom Line is a new and growing movement fueled by a coalition of community organizations, congregations, and individuals working together to challenge established big bank interests on behalf of struggling and middle-class communities. Together, we are working to restructure Wall Street to help American families build wealth, close the country's growing income gap and advance a vision for how our economy can better serve the many rather than the few. Coalition members include PICO National Network, National People's Action (NPA), Alliance for a Just Society, and dozens of state and local organizations from around the country. (1 posts) - [WikiLeaks](./organization/wikileaks/index.md): Section: WikiLeaks - WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth. We are a young organization that has grown very quickly, relying on a network of dedicated volunteers around the globe. Since 2007, when the organization was officially launched, WikiLeaks has worked to report on and publish important information. We also develop and adapt technologies to support these activities. (15 posts) - [Maplight](./organization/maplight/index.md): Section: Maplight - MapLight is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that reveals money's influence on politics. (7 posts) - [Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)](./organization/council-american-islamic-relations-cair/index.md): Section: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a grassroots civil rights and advocacy group. CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims. (181 posts) - [DRM Capitol Group](./organization/drm-capitol-group/index.md): Section: DRM Capitol Group - DRM Capitol Group serves as a voice for undocumented youth. Our work ensures that undocumented youth are represented in the halls of power and are correctly and directly informed of the actions of Congress, Executive Agencies, and the Courts. (1 posts) - [Handicap International](./organization/handicap-international/index.md): Section: Handicap International - Handicap International is an independent and impartial international aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights. Since its creation in 1982, Handicap International has established development programs in more than 60 countries and it has worked in various emergency situations. Eight national associations comprise the Handicap International network: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Switzerland. Together, the national associations mobilize resources, jointly manage projects and promote the organization's principles and actions around the world. Handicap International is one of the six founding organizations of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL (6 posts) - [United Wisconsin](./organization/united-wisconsin/index.md): Section: United Wisconsin - United Wisconsin is the non-partisan grassroots organization heading up the recall efforts of Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch in Wisconsin. The group plans to continue its work as the recall campaign moves forward. For more information, visit www.unitedwisconsin.com. - [Workers Independent News](./organization/workers-independent-news/index.md): Section: Workers Independent News - Workers Independent News (WIN) is focused on the issues and concerns of working people. As a news service, WIN is devoted to bringing the voices of workers, their families, communities and organizations to the widest public possible, using all means of electronic media. WIN packages news for distribution to radio stations, Internet radio, websites, for podcast and print publication. (1 posts) - [Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA)](./organization/organic-seed-growers-and-trade-association-osgata/index.md): Section: Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) - The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) develops, protects and promotes the organic seed trade and its growers, and assures that the organic community has access to excellent quality organic seed, free of contaminants and adapted to the diverse needs of local organic agriculture. (9 posts) - [London Guantanamo Campaign](./organization/london-guantanamo-campaign/index.md): Section: London Guantanamo Campaign - The London Guantanamo Campaign campaigns for justice for all prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, for the closure of this and other secret prisons, and an end to the practice of extraordinary rendition. (3 posts) - [Born Free USA](./organization/born-free-usa/index.md): Section: Born Free USA - Born Free USA is a national animal advocacy nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, contributions to which are tax-deductible. Our mission is to end the suffering of wild animals in captivity, rescue individual animals in need, protect wildlife -- including highly endangered species -- in their natural habitats, and encourage compassionate conservation globally. - [National Domestic Workers' Alliance](./organization/national-domestic-workers-alliance/index.md): Section: National Domestic Workers' Alliance - Founded in 2007, the National Domestic Workers Alliance organizes domestic workers in the United States for respect, recognition and labor standards. Through leadership development, strategic campaigns and alliance building we seek to help build a vibrant movement for social and global justice. (1 posts) - [Ocupy Wall Street](./organization/ocupy-wall-street/index.md): Section: Ocupy Wall Street - Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan's Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #OWS is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to expose how the richest 1% of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future. (1 posts) - [Occupy Wall Street](./organization/occupy-wall-street/index.md): Section: Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan's Financial District, and has spread to more than 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. For more visit https://occupywallst.org (19 posts) - [Center for Responsive Politics](./organization/center-responsive-politics/index.md): Section: Center for Responsive Politics - Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. (3 posts) - [Tar Sands Action](./organization/tar-sands-action/index.md): Section: Tar Sands Action - Tar Sands Action is a program of Peaceful Uprising, which is a project of International Humanities Center a 501(c)(3) charitable trust. (9 posts) - [Senator Bernie Sanders](./organization/senator-bernie-sanders/index.md): Section: Senator Bernie Sanders - United States Senator for Vermont (463 posts) - [Congressman Raul Grijalva](./organization/congressman-raul-grijalva/index.md): Section: Congressman Raul Grijalva - Serving the People of Arizona's 7th District (6 posts) - [Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy](./organization/institute-taxation-and-economic-policy/index.md): Section: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy - Founded in 1980, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization, based in Washington, DC, that focuses on federal and state tax policy. ITEP's mission is to inform policymakers and the public of the effects of current and proposed tax policies on tax fairness, government budgets, and sound economic policy. ITEP's full body of research is available at www.itepnet.org. (15 posts) - [Nobel Women's Initiative](./organization/nobel-womens-initiative/index.md): Section: Nobel Women's Initiative - The Nobel Women's Initiative was established in 2006 by sister Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Betty Williams and Mairead Maguire. We six women - representing North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa - have decided to bring together our extraordinary experiences in a united effort for peace with justice and equality. (4 posts) - [NukeFree.org](./organization/nukefreeorg/index.md): Section: NukeFree.org - NukeFree.org works to stop construction of new atomic reactors and to close those now in operation. In their place they seek a truly green-powered Earth, run entirely on renewables and efficiency. - [Peaceful Uprising](./organization/peaceful-uprising/index.md): Section: Peaceful Uprising - Peaceful Uprising is committed to defending a livable future through empowering nonviolent action. (2 posts) - [Jobs With Justice](./organization/jobs-justice/index.md): Section: Jobs With Justice - Jobs with Justice is a national network of local coalitions that bring together labor unions, faith groups, community organizations, and student activists to fight for working people. It works with 47 coalitions in 24 states across the country. More information can be found at their website www.jwj.org. (4 posts) - [Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich](./organization/former-congressman-dennis-kucinich/index.md): Section: Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich - Dennis Kucinich is an American politician. A U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1997 to 2013, he was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2004 and 2008. (238 posts) - [Demand Progress](./organization/demand-progress/index.md): Section: Demand Progress - Demand Progress amplifies the voice of the people -- and wields it to make government accountable and contest concentrated corporate power. Our mission is to protect the democratic character of the internet -- and wield it to contest concentrated corporate power and hold government accountable. (176 posts) - [Strengthen Social Security Campaign](./organization/strengthen-social-security-campaign/index.md): Section: Strengthen Social Security Campaign - The Strengthen Social Security Campaign is comprised of more than 300 national and state organizations representing more than 50 million Americans from many of the nation's leading aging, labor, disability, women's, children, consumer, civil rights and equality organizations. (5 posts) - [Voces de la Frontera](./organization/voces-de-la-frontera/index.md): Section: Voces de la Frontera - Voces de la Frontera is Wisconsin's leading immigrant rights group - a grassroots organization that believes power comes from below and that people can overcome injustice to build a better world. (65 posts) - [Citizens for Tax Justice](./organization/citizens-tax-justice/index.md): Section: Citizens for Tax Justice - Citizens for Tax Justice, founded in 1979, is a 501 (c)(4) public interest research and advocacy organization focusing on federal, state and local tax policies and their impact upon our nation. CTJ's mission is to give ordinary people a greater voice in the development of tax laws. (7 posts) - [The Yes Men](./organization/yes-men/index.md): Section: The Yes Men - Ever since 1996, the Yes Men have used humor and trickery to highlight the corporate takeover of society, the neoliberal delusion that allows it, the corporate Democrats' responsibility for our current situation, and so on. And while we're all about "building awareness," we do realize that's not all there is, and that it's only ongoing campaigns that really make change. (26 posts) - [America's Voice](./organization/americas-voice/index.md): Section: America's Voice - America's Voice -- Harnessing the power of American voices and American values to win common sense immigration reform. The mission of America's Voice is to realize the promise of workable and humane comprehensive immigration reform. Our goal is to build the public support and create the political momentum for reforms that will transform a dysfunctional immigration system that does not work into a regulatory system that does. (89 posts) - [Program on Inequality and the Common Good](./organization/program-inequality-and-common-good/index.md): Section: Program on Inequality and the Common Good - The Program on Inequality and the Common Good focuses on the dangers that growing inequality pose for U.S. democracy, economic health and civic life. It is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies and based in Boston, MA. (1 posts) - [Move to Amend](./organization/move-amend/index.md): Section: Move to Amend - MovetoAmend.org is a coalition supported by hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of individuals dedicated to ending the illegitimate legal doctrines that prevent the American people from governing ourselves. (31 posts) - [Survival International](./organization/survival-international/index.md): Section: Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples. Survival is the only organization working for tribal peoples' rights worldwide. We work with hundreds of tribal communities and organizations. We are funded almost entirely by concerned members of the public and some foundations. We will not take national government money, because governments are the main violators of tribal peoples' rights, nor will we take money from companies which might be abusing tribal peoples. (14 posts) - [Physicians for Social Responsibility](./organization/physicians-social-responsibility/index.md): Section: Physicians for Social Responsibility - Physicians for Social Responsibility mobilizes physicians and health professionals to advocate for climate solutions and a nuclear weapons-free world. PSR's health advocates contribute a health voice to energy, environmental health and nuclear weapons policy at the local, federal and international level. (29 posts) - [Hands Across the Sands](./organization/hands-across-sands/index.md): Section: Hands Across the Sands - Hands Across the Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses political affiliations. This movement is not about politics; it is about protection of our coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife, and fishing industry. Let us share our knowledge, energies and passion for protecting all of the above from the devastating effects of oil drilling. (1 posts) - [Interfaith Worker Justice](./organization/interfaith-worker-justice/index.md): Section: Interfaith Worker Justice - Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers. (9 posts) - [CommonDreams.org](./organization/commondreamsorg/index.md): Section: CommonDreams.org - CommonDreams.org is a national nonprofit, progressive, nonpartisan citizens' organization founded in 1997. With millions of monthly readers, CommonDreams.org is one of the top progressive sites on the web and a powerful online voice for change in the United States and around the world. (1 posts) - [Global Justice Ecology Project](./organization/global-justice-ecology-project/index.md): Section: Global Justice Ecology Project - What differentiates Global Justice Ecology Project from most groups is our holistic approach to organizing. We believe that the compartmentalization of issues is enabling corporations and conservative forces to keep movements for change divided and powerless. We strive to identify and address the common roots to the issues of social injustice, ecological destruction and economic domination as a means to achieve a fundamental transformation toward a society based on egalitarian ideals and grounded in ecology. (22 posts) - [Witness Against Torture](./organization/witness-against-torture/index.md): Section: Witness Against Torture - Witness Against Torture is a grassroots movement that came into being in December 2005 when 24 activists walked to Guantanamo to visit the prisoners and condemn torture policies. Since then, it has engaged in public education, community outreach, and non-violent direct action. For the first 100 days of the Obama administration, the group held a daily vigil at the White House, encouraging the new President to uphold his commitments to shut down Guantanamo. (55 posts) - [World Future Council](./organization/world-future-council/index.md): Section: World Future Council - The World Future Council (WFC) works to pass on a healthy and sustainable planet with just and peaceful societies to our children and grandchildren. To achieve this, we focus on identifying, developing, highlighting and spreading effective, future-just policies for current challenges humanity is facing and promote their implementation worldwide. (4 posts) - [Environment America](./organization/environment-america/index.md): Section: Environment America - With Environment America, you protect the places that all of us love and promote core environmental values, such as clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and clean energy to power our lives. We're a national network of 29 state environmental groups with members and supporters in every state. Together, we focus on timely, targeted action that wins tangible improvements in the quality of our environment and our lives. (318 posts) - [Farm Sanctuary](./organization/farm-sanctuary/index.md): Section: Farm Sanctuary - Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy. (36 posts) - [United for a Fair Economy](./organization/united-fair-economy/index.md): Section: United for a Fair Economy - United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power that corrupts democracy, deepens the racial divide and tears communities apart. We use popular economics education, trainings, and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy. United for a Fair Economy believes another world is possible. We envision a global society which respects the humanity, rights, and creativity of all people. (30 posts) - [Progress Now](./organization/progress-now/index.md): Section: Progress Now - Building and activating the progressive movement online, state by state. - [Children & Nature Network (C&NN)](./organization/children-nature-network-cnn/index.md): Section: Children & Nature Network (C&NN) - The Children & Nature Network (C&NN;) was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working to reconnect children with nature. C&NN; provides access to the latest news and research in the field and a peer-to-peer network of researchers and individuals, educators and organizations dedicated to children's health and well-being. - [Win Without War](./organization/win-without-war/index.md): Section: Win Without War - Win Without War is a diverse network of activists and organizations working for a more peaceful, progressive U.S. foreign policy. We believe that by democratizing U.S. foreign policy and providing progressive alternatives, we can achieve more peaceful, just, and common sense policies that ensure that all people--regardless of race, nationality, gender, religion, or economic status--can find and take advantage of opportunity equally and feel secure. (48 posts) - [Wilderness Society](./organization/wilderness-society/index.md): Section: Wilderness Society - Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has led the conservation movement in wilderness protection, writing and passing the landmark Wilderness Act and winning lasting protection for 107 million acres of Wilderness, including 56 million acres of spectacular lands in Alaska, eight million acres of fragile desert lands in California and millions more throughout the nation. (27 posts) - [National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)](./organization/national-network-opposing-militarization-youth-nnomy/index.md): Section: National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) - NNOMY is a national networking body created in 2004 to unite national, regional and local organizations to oppose the growing intrusion of the military in young people's lives. NNOMY is network that seeks to bring to the forefront the importance and value of counter-recruitment organizing. It is not intended to function as an independent national organization, but rather as a coalition that strengthens the work of participating groups. www.nnomy.org - [Sunlight Foundation](./organization/sunlight-foundation/index.md): Section: Sunlight Foundation - The Sunlight Foundation was co-founded in 2006 by Washington, DC businessman and lawyer Michael Klein and longtime Washington public interest advocate Ellen Miller with the non-partisan mission of using the revolutionary power of the Internet to make information about Congress and the federal government more meaningfully accessible to citizens. (9 posts) - [Conservation System Alliance](./organization/conservation-system-alliance/index.md): Section: Conservation System Alliance - The Conservation System Alliance is a coalition of eighty conservation, historic preservation, faith-based, recreation, business, education and place-based friends groups representing millions of Americans nationwide. The Conservation System Alliance aims to protect, restore and expand the National Landscape Conservation System by making it permanent, well-funded, well-managed, and inclusive of the best natural and cultural resources under the Bureau of Land Management's care. - [School of The Americas Watch](./organization/school-americas-watch/index.md): Section: School of The Americas Watch - SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work. (22 posts) - [US PIRG](./organization/us-pirg/index.md): Section: US PIRG - U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), stands up to powerful special interests on behalf of the American public, working to win concrete results for our health and our well-being. With a strong network of researchers, advocates, organizers and students in state capitols across the country, we take on the special interests on issues, such as product safety,political corruption, prescription drugs and voting rights,where these interests stand in the way of reform and progress. (250 posts) - [Wake-Up Wal-Mart](./organization/wake-wal-mart/index.md): Section: Wake-Up Wal-Mart - WakeUpWalMart.com is about Americans joining together in common purpose to change Wal-Mart. There is only one force powerful enough to change the #1 Fortune 500 company in the world - the American people. WakeUpWalMart.com is about giving Americans the tools to empower themselves to change the world's largest employer. We are Wal-Mart's customers and we have the power to make Wal-Mart live up to its responsibility to its employees, our families, our communities and the nation. (8 posts) - [Violence Policy Center](./organization/violence-policy-center/index.md): Section: Violence Policy Center - The Violence Policy Center (VPC) works to stop gun death and injury through research, education, advocacy, and collaboration. Founded in 1988 by Executive Director Josh Sugarmann, a native of Newtown, Connecticut, the VPC informs the public about the impact of gun violence on their daily lives, exposes the profit-driven marketing and lobbying activities of the firearms industry and gun lobby, offers unique technical expertise to policymakers, organizations, and advocates on the federal, state, and local levels, and works for policy changes that save lives. The VPC has a long and proven record of policy successes on the federal, state, and local levels, leading the National Rifle Association to acknowledge us as "the most effective ... anti-gun rabble-rouser in Washington." (110 posts) - [Water Advocates](./organization/water-advocates/index.md): Section: Water Advocates - Water Advocates is the first US-based nonprofit organization dedicated solely to increasing American support for worldwide access to safe, affordable and sustainable supplies of drinking water and adequate sanitation. (5 posts) - [Servicemembers Legal Defense Network](./organization/servicemembers-legal-defense-network/index.md): Section: Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - Servicemembers Legal Defense Network is a non-partisan, non-profit, legal services, watchdog and policy organization dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). - [Project On Government Oversight (POGO)](./organization/project-government-oversight-pogo/index.md): Section: Project On Government Oversight (POGO) - The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more effective, accountable, open and honest federal government. (93 posts) - [Public Campaign](./organization/public-campaign/index.md): Section: Public Campaign - Public Campaign is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping campaign reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics. Public Campaign is laying the foundation for reform by working with a broad range of organizations, including local community groups, around the country that are fighting for change and national organizations whose members are not fairly represented under the current campaign finance system. Together we are building a network of national and state-based efforts to create a powerful national force for federal and state campaign reform. (9 posts) - [Physicians for Human Rights](./organization/physicians-human-rights/index.md): Section: Physicians for Human Rights - PHR was founded in 1986 on the idea that health professionals, with their specialized skills, ethical duties, and credible voices, are uniquely positioned to investigate the health consequences of human rights violations and work to stop them. PHR mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. (56 posts) - [National LGBTQ Task Force](./organization/national-lgbtq-task-force/index.md): Section: National LGBTQ Task Force - The National LGBTQ Task Force advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people. We are building a future where everyone can be free to be their entire selves in every aspect of their lives. Today, despite all the progress we've made to end discrimination, millions of LGBTQ people face barriers in every aspect of their lives: in housing, employment, healthcare, retirement, and basic human rights. These barriers must go. That's why the Task Force is training and mobilizing millions of activists across our nation to deliver a world where you can be you. Join us! (104 posts) - [Refugees International](./organization/refugees-international/index.md): Section: Refugees International - Refugees International is a Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates to end refugee crises, advocates for lifesaving assistance and protection for displaced people, and promotes solutions to displacement crises. (3 posts) - [Physicians for a National Health Program](./organization/physicians-national-health-program/index.md): Section: Physicians for a National Health Program - Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 21,000 members and chapters across the United States. (131 posts) - [Peace Alliance](./organization/peace-alliance/index.md): Section: Peace Alliance - The Peace Alliance is a nonpartisan citizen action organization representing a growing constituency for peace. A 501(c)4 organization established in March 2004, our mission is to empower civic activism for a culture of peace. Our vision is a future in which the practical programs and principles of peacebuilding are the bedrock of our personal, national and global interest and investment. (1 posts) - [Peace Action](./organization/peace-action/index.md): Section: Peace Action - Peace Action is the United States' largest peace and disarmament organization with over 100,000 members and nearly 100 chapters in 34 states, works to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, promote government spending priorities that support human needs and encourage real security through international cooperation and human rights. (184 posts) - [Population Action International (PAI)](./organization/population-action-international-pai/index.md): Section: Population Action International (PAI) - Population Action International (PAI) is an independent policy advocacy group working to strengthen political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights. Founded in 1965, PAI is a private, non-profit group and accepts no government funds. - [NAACP](./organization/naacp/index.md): Section: NAACP - Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors. (105 posts) - [Reproductive Freedom for All](./organization/reproductivefreedomforall/index.md): Section: Reproductive Freedom for All - For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion. (200 posts) - [National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP)](./organization/national-coalition-abolish-death-penalty-ncadp/index.md): Section: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) - The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) was founded in 1976 in response to the Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia which permitted executions to resume in the United States. Our mission: abolish the death penalty in the U.S. and support efforts to abolish the death penalty world wide. (2 posts) - [National Low Income Housing Coalition](./organization/national-low-income-housing-coalition/index.md): Section: National Low Income Housing Coalition - The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to ending America's affordable housing crisis. Established in 1974 by Cushing N. Dolbeare, NLIHC educates, organizes and advocates to ensure decent, affordable housing within healthy neighborhoods for everyone. NLIHC provides up-to-date information, formulates policy and educates the public on housing needs and the strategies for solutions. (74 posts) - [Vietnam Veterans Against the War](./organization/vietnam-veterans-against-war/index.md): Section: Vietnam Veterans Against the War - Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW) is a national veterans' organization that was founded in New York City in 1967 after six Vietnam vets marched together in a peace demonstration. It was organized to voice the growing opposition among returning servicemen and women to the still-raging war in Indochina, and grew rapidly to a membership of over 30,000 throughout the United States as well as active duty GIs stationed in Vietnam. Through ongoing actions and grassroots organization, VVAW exposed the ugly truth about US involvement in Southeast Asia and our first-hand experiences helped many other Americans to see the unjust nature of that war. Today our government is still financing and arming undemocratic and repressive regimes around the world. Meanwhile, many veterans are still denied justice -- facing unemployment, discrimination, homelessness, post-traumatic stress disorder and other health problems, while already inadequate services are bein - [Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law](./organization/lawyers-committee-civil-rights-under-law/index.md): Section: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law - The Lawyers' Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar's leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity - work that continues to be vital today. (239 posts) - [Marijuana Policy Project](./organization/marijuana-policy-project/index.md): Section: Marijuana Policy Project - The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is the number one organization in the U.S. legalizing cannabis. We passed 13 medical cannabis laws in the past 15 years, and we ran winning campaigns in eight of the 11 legalization states. No organization in the movement has changed as many cannabis laws, impacted as many patients and consumers, created as many new markets, or done more to end cannabis prohibition in the U.S. than MPP. (69 posts) - [Justice at Stake Campaign](./organization/justice-stake-campaign/index.md): Section: Justice at Stake Campaign - We're a nationwide, nonpartisan partnership of more than forty-five judicial, legal and citizen organizations. We've come together because across America, your right to fair and impartial justice is at stake. Judges and citizens are deeply concerned about the growing impact of money and politics on fair and impartial courts. Our mission is to educate the public and work for reforms to keep politics and special interests out of the courtroom--so judges can do their job protecting the Constitution, individual rights and the rule of law. (6 posts) - [Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy](./organization/institute-agriculture-trade-policy/index.md): Section: Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy - The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems. (64 posts) - [League of Women Voters](./organization/league-women-voters/index.md): Section: League of Women Voters - The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education and advocacy. The League's enduring vitality and resonance comes from its unique decentralized structure. The League is a grassroots organization, working at the national, state and local levels. (23 posts) - [International Campaign to Ban Landmines](./organization/international-campaign-ban-landmines/index.md): Section: International Campaign to Ban Landmines - The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is committed to an international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines. (25 posts) - [International Fund for Animal Welfare](./organization/international-fund-animal-welfare/index.md): Section: International Fund for Animal Welfare - The International Fund for Animal Welfare works to improve animal welfare, prevent animal cruelty and abuse, protect wildlife and provide animal rescue around the world. From stopping the elephant ivory trade, to ending the Canadian seal hunt and saving the whales from extinction, IFAW works to create solutions that benefit both animals and people. (44 posts) - [Jubilee USA Network](./organization/jubilee-usa-network/index.md): Section: Jubilee USA Network - Jubilee USA Network is an interfaith, non-profit alliance of religious, development and advocacy organizations. We are 75 U.S. institutions and more than 750 faith groups working across the United States and around the globe. We address the structural causes of poverty and inequality in our communities and countries around the world. (283 posts) - [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)](./organization/people-ethical-treatment-animals-peta/index.md): Section: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 2.0 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns. (12 posts) - [Families USA](./organization/families-usa/index.md): Section: Families USA - Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Working at the national, state, and community levels, we have earned a national reputation as an effective voice for health care consumers for 25 years. (10 posts) - [Fair Vote](./organization/fair-vote/index.md): Section: Fair Vote - FairVote acts to transform our elections to achieve universal access to participation, a full spectrum of meaningful ballot choices and majority rule with fair representation for all. As a catalyst for change, we build support for innovative strategies to win a constitutionally protected right to vote, universal voter registration, a national popular vote for president, instant runoff voting and proportional representation. (10 posts) - [Freedom to Marry](./organization/freedom-marry/index.md): Section: Freedom to Marry - Freedom to Marry is the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Headed by Evan Wolfson, one of America's leading civil rights advocates and lawyers, Freedom to Marry brings new resources and a renewed context of urgency and opportunity to this social justice movement. (90 posts) - [Global AIDS Alliance](./organization/global-aids-alliance/index.md): Section: Global AIDS Alliance - The mission of the Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) is to halt the global AIDS crisis and mitigate its impacts on poor countries hardest hit by the pandemic. (2 posts) - [Global Exchange](./organization/global-exchange/index.md): Section: Global Exchange - Global Exchange takes a holistic approach to creating change. With 20 years working for international human rights, we realize that in order to advance social, environmental and economic justice we must transform the global economy from profit centered to people centered, from currency to community. (5 posts) - [CorpWatch](./organization/corpwatch/index.md): Section: CorpWatch - CorpWatch works to promote environmental, social and human rights at the local, national and global levels by holding multinational corporations accountable for their actions. We employ investigative research and journalism to provide critical information on corporate malfeasance and profiteering around the world to foster a more informed public and an effective democracy. - [Drug Policy Alliance](./organization/drug-policy-alliance/index.md): Section: Drug Policy Alliance - The Drug Policy Alliance is the nation's leading organization promoting drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. (131 posts) - [Doctors Without Borders](./organization/doctors-without-borders/index.md): Section: Doctors Without Borders - Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. MSF's work is based on the humanitarian principles of medical ethics and impartiality. The organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. MSF operates independently of any political, military, or religious agendas. (149 posts) - [Electronic Frontier Foundation](./organization/electronic-frontier-foundation/index.md): Section: Electronic Frontier Foundation - The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. (58 posts) - [Council for a Livable World](./organization/council-livable-world/index.md): Section: Council for a Livable World - The Council for a Livable World promotes policies to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, and to minimize the risk of war through lobbying and by helping elect and support Members of Congress who share our goals. For more than 50 years, the Council for a Livable World has been advocating for a more principled approach to U.S. national security and foreign policy. (5 posts) - [Common Cause](./organization/common-cause/index.md): Section: Common Cause - Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy. We work to create open, honest, and accountable government that serves the public interest; promote equal rights, opportunity, and representation for all; and empower all people to make their voices heard in the political process. (629 posts) - [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington](./organization/citizens-responsibility-and-ethics-washington/index.md): Section: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government and public life by targeting government officials -- regardless of party affiliation -- who sacrifice the common good to special interests. CREW advances its mission using a combination of research, litigation and media outreach. (253 posts) - [Civil Society Institute](./organization/civil-society-institute/index.md): Section: Civil Society Institute - The nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute (https://www.CivilSocietyInstitute.org) is a think tank that serves as a catalyst for change by creating problem-solving interactions among people, and between communities, government and business that can help to improve society. Since 2003, CSI has conducted more than 20 major surveys and reports on energy and auto issues, including vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, consumer demand for hybrids/other highly-fuel efficient vehicles, global warming and renewable energy. (1 posts) - [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities](./organization/center-budget-and-policy-priorities/index.md): Section: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is one of the nation's premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. (52 posts) - [Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)](./organization/campaign-innocent-victims-conflict-civic/index.md): Section: Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) - Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) advocates on behalf of victims of armed conflict, working to ensure they receive recognition and assistance from warring parties. CIVIC persuaded the US Congress to establish programs for war victims in Afghanistan and Iraq, guides victims to assistance, brings the human cost of war to the attention of policymakers and the public, and is advocating a new global standard of conduct that warring parties should help where they have hurt. (5 posts) - [Corporate Accountability](./organization/corporate-accountability/index.md): Section: Corporate Accountability - Corporate Accountability stops transnational corporations from devastating democracy, trampling human rights, and destroying our planet. (65 posts) - [CARE](./organization/care/index.md): Section: CARE - CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives. (21 posts) - [Center for Defense Information](./organization/center-defense-information/index.md): Section: Center for Defense Information - The Center for Defense Information (CDI) provides expert analysis on various components of U.S. national security, international security and defense policy. CDI promotes wide-ranging discussion and debate on security issues such as nuclear weapons, space security, missile defense, small arms and military transformation. (1 posts) - [Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation](./organization/center-arms-control-and-non-proliferation/index.md): Section: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation - Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century. The Center is funded by grants from private foundations and the generosity of thousands of individual donors. (37 posts) - [Center for Democracy & Technology](./organization/center-democracy-technology/index.md): Section: Center for Democracy & Technology - The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media. (20 posts) - [Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare](./organization/labor-campaign-single-payer-healthcare/index.md): Section: Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare - The primary purpose of the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care is to increase grassroots labor support for H.R. 676 as an essential element in winning the support of Congress to enact the National Health Care Act "Medicare for All" as the public policy of this country because we believe that health care is a human right. (3 posts) - [Veterans for Peace](./organization/veterans-peace/index.md): Section: Veterans for Peace - Veterans For Peace is a global organization of Military Veterans and allies whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices. We inform the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars. Our network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes: educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars. (92 posts) - [National Priorities Project](./organization/national-priorities-project/index.md): Section: National Priorities Project - The National Priorities Project (NPP) is a 501(c)(3) research organization that analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent. Located in Northampton, MA, since 1983, NPP focuses on the impact of federal spending and other policies at the national, state, congressional district and local levels. For more information, go to https://nationalpriorities.org. (45 posts) - [Campaign for America's Future](./organization/campaign-americas-future/index.md): Section: Campaign for America's Future - The Campaign for America's Future is the strategy center for the progressive movement. Our goal is to forge the enduring progressive majority needed to realize the America of shared prosperity and equal opportunity that our country was meant to be. (70 posts) - [National Whistleblowers Center](./organization/national-whistleblowers-center/index.md): Section: National Whistleblowers Center - Since 1988, the NWC and attorneys associated with it have supported whistleblowers in the courts and before Congress and achieved victories for environmental protection, government contract fraud, nuclear safety and government and corporate accountability. (101 posts) - [Constitution Project](./organization/constitution-project/index.md): Section: Constitution Project - The Constitution Project is a politically independent think tank established in 1997 to promote and defend constitutional safeguards. More information about the Constitution Project is available at https://constitutionproject.org/. (95 posts) - [Media Matters for America](./organization/media-matters-america/index.md): Section: Media Matters for America - Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. (81 posts) - [Human Rights First](./organization/human-rights-first/index.md): Section: Human Rights First - Human Rights First is a non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization based in New York and Washington D.C. Human Rights First believes that building respect for human rights and the rule of law will help ensure the dignity to which every individual is entitled and will stem tyranny, extremism, intolerance, and violence. (186 posts) - [Peaceful Tomorrows](./organization/peaceful-tomorrows/index.md): Section: Peaceful Tomorrows - Peaceful Tomorrows is an organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who have united to turn our grief into action for peace. By developing and advocating nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice, we hope to break the cycles of violence engendered by war and terrorism. Acknowledging our common experience with all people affected by violence throughout the world, we work to create a safer and more peaceful world for everyone. (16 posts) - [Human Rights Campaign](./organization/human-rights-campaign/index.md): Section: Human Rights Campaign - The Human Rights Campaign represents a grassroots force of over 750,000 members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, HRC envisions an America where LGBT people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community. (48 posts) - [Citizens Trade Campaign](./organization/citizens-trade-campaign/index.md): Section: Citizens Trade Campaign - The Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) is a national coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious, and other civil society groups founded in 1992 to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We are united in a common belief that international trade and investment are not ends unto themselves, but instead must be viewed as a means for achieving other societal goals such as economic justice, human rights, healthy communities, and a sound environment. (7 posts) - [Lambda Legal](./organization/lambda-legal/index.md): Section: Lambda Legal - Lambda Legal is the oldest national organization pursuing high-impact litigation, public education and advocacy on behalf of equality and civil rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV. The work we do has impact on the way we live -- we change laws, policies and ideas. (1 posts) - [National Center for Lesbian Rights](./organization/national-center-lesbian-rights/index.md): Section: National Center for Lesbian Rights - The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education. (1 posts) - [Food & Water Watch](./organization/food-water-watch/index.md): Section: Food & Water Watch - Food & Water Watch mobilizes regular people to build political power to move bold and uncompromised solutions to the most pressing food, water, and climate problems of our time. We work to protect people's health, communities, and democracy from the growing destructive power of the most powerful economic interests. (1100 posts) - [Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)](./organization/nuclear-information-and-resource-service-nirs/index.md): Section: Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) - Nuclear Information and Resource Service is the information and networking center for people and organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues. (31 posts) - [Sustainability Institute](./organization/sustainability-institute/index.md): Section: Sustainability Institute - The Sustainability Institute was founded in 1996 by the late Donella (Dana) Meadows to apply systems thinking and organizational learning to economic, environmental and social challenges. We believe that unsustainability does not arise out of ignorance, irrationality or greed. It is largely the collective consequence of rational, well-intended decisions made by people caught up in systems - ranging from families and communities to corporations, governments and economies - that make it difficult or impossible to act in ways that are fully responsible to all those affected in the present and to future generations. - [Government Accountability Project](./organization/government-accountability-project/index.md): Section: Government Accountability Project - The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a 30-year-old nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. We pursue this mission through our Nuclear Safety, International Reform, Corporate Accountability, Food & Drug Safety, and Federal Employee/National Security programs. GAP is the nation's leading whistleblower protection organization. (113 posts) - [People For the American Way (PFAW)](./organization/people-american-way-pfaw/index.md): Section: People For the American Way (PFAW) - People For the American Way works to build a democratic society that implements the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity and justice for all. We encourage civic participation, defend fundamental rights, and fight to dismantle systemic barriers to equitable opportunity. We fight against right-wing extremism and the injustice it fosters. (264 posts) - [National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)](./organization/national-network-immigrant-and-refugee-rights-nnirr/index.md): Section: National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) - The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues. We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status. (1 posts) - [Alliance for A New Humanity](./organization/alliance-new-humanity/index.md): Section: Alliance for A New Humanity - Our mission is to connect people, who, through personal and social transformation, aim to build a just, peaceful, and sustainable world, reflecting the unity of all humanity. The Alliance recognizes at the core of its vision the unity of all life, and a wholehearted adherence to the noblest aspirations of humankind, as proclaimed in all spiritual and humanist traditions that call for compassion and the celebration of life. The values and principles of the emerging movement for a new humanity, and of the Alliance, which is trying to serve it, are based upon the support of policies, causes and actions that favor respect for life, human dignity, freedom, ecological sustainability and peace. - [Americans for Democratic Action](./organization/americans-democratic-action/index.md): Section: Americans for Democratic Action - ADA is America's most experienced independent liberal lobbying organization. In the spirit of the New Deal and ADA founders Eleanor Roosevelt, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, and former Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey we lobby through coalition partnerships, through direct advocacy, and through the media. (19 posts) - [International Labor Rights Forum](./organization/international-labor-rights-forum/index.md): Section: International Labor Rights Forum - ILRF is an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide. ILRF serves a unique role among human rights organizations as advocates for and with working poor around the world. We believe that all workers have the right to a safe working environment where they are treated with dignity and respect, and where they can organize freely to defend and promote their rights and interests. (6 posts) - [MADRE](./organization/madre/index.md): Section: MADRE - MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that partners with community-based women's groups to advance women's human rights, challenge injustice and create social change in contexts of war, conflict, disaster and their aftermath. MADRE advocates for a world in which all people enjoy individual and collective human rights; natural resources are shared equitably and sustainably; women participate effectively in all aspects of society; and all people have a meaningful say in policies that affect their lives. For more information about MADRE, visit www.madre.org. (78 posts) - [Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)](./organization/council-hemispheric-affairs-coha/index.md): Section: Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) - Founded in 1975, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt independent research and information organization, was established to promote the common interests of the hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America. (10 posts) - [Hottpac.org](./organization/hottpacorg/index.md): Section: Hottpac.org - Head off the Threat Political Action Committee, hottpac.org, is the only national PAC working on the grassroots level, focused exclusively on electing candidates to reverse climate change. We are distinct because of the centerpiece of our platform: Reduce greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, 80% below 1990 levels by 2025 - a generation sooner than existing proposals. - [Rising Tide North America](./organization/rising-tide-north-america/index.md): Section: Rising Tide North America - Rising Tide is a grassroots network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the roots causes of climate change and promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis. Rising Tide was formed in the Netherlands in 2000 to bring a more radical voice to the COP6 (UN Conference of the Parties) climate talks that attempted (unsuccessfully, largely due to the efforts of the US delegation) to salvage what of substance was left of the Kyoto Protocol. Employing popular education and direct action to address the root causes of climate change with a focus on climate justice, Rising Tide now spans three continents. (8 posts) - [350.org](./organization/350org/index.md): Section: 350.org - 350 is building a future that's just, prosperous, equitable and safe from the effects of the climate crisis. We're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. (780 posts) - [Avaaz.org](./organization/avaazorg/index.md): Section: Avaaz.org - Avaaz.org is a new global web movement with a simple democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most people everywhere want. "Avaaz" means "Voice" in many Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European languages. Across the world, most people want stronger protections for the environment, greater respect for human rights, and concerted efforts to end poverty, corruption and war. Yet globalization faces a huge democratic deficit as international decisions are shaped by political elites and unaccountable corporations -- not the views and values of the world's people. (4 posts) - [Brennan Center for Justice](./organization/brennan-center-justice/index.md): Section: Brennan Center for Justice - The Brennan Center for Justice is a nonpartisan law and policy institute. We strive to uphold the values of democracy. We stand for equal justice and the rule of law. We work to craft and advance reforms that will make American democracy work, for all. (132 posts) - [Credo Action](./organization/credo-action/index.md): Section: Credo Action - CREDO Action, part of CREDO Mobile, is a social change network of over five million activists, sending tens of millions of petition signatures and hundreds of thousands of phone calls to decision-makers each year. CREDO Action members also participate in meetings, protests and other direct action for progressive change. (52 posts) - [Democracy for America](./organization/democracy-america/index.md): Section: Democracy for America - Democracy for America is our nation's largest progressive political action community. With over 725,000 members nationwide, DFA is a grassroots powerhouse working to change our country and the Democratic Party from the bottom-up. We provide campaign training, organizing resources, and media exposure so our members have the power to support progressive issues and candidates up and down the ballot. Join us in delivering results for a progressive America! (5 posts) - [Get Afghanistan Right.com](./organization/get-afghanistan-rightcom/index.md): Section: Get Afghanistan Right.com - Get Afghanistan Right! opposes military escalation in Afghanistan and supports non-military solutions to the conflict.Get Afghanistan Right - [Green For All](./organization/green-all/index.md): Section: Green For All - Green For All is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. By advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities - Green For All fights both poverty and pollution at the same time. - [Grassroots Netroots Alliance](./organization/grassroots-netroots-alliance/index.md): Section: Grassroots Netroots Alliance - GNA sees itself as complementary, yet also an alternative, to MoveOn.org and other pre-existing progressive, radical, and libertarian online networks. GNA believes that America's life or death, multi-faceted Crisis demands that we move beyond single-issue campaigns and limited focus activism to a radical but practical multi-issue platform that stimulates local alliance building and grassroots action, focused on pressuring the politicians, and pushing through legislation that can move us out of the Crisis. - [It's Getting Hot In Here.org](./organization/its-getting-hot-hereorg/index.md): Section: It's Getting Hot In Here.org - It's Getting Hot in Here is the voice of a growing movement, a collection of voices from the student and youth leaders of the global movement to stop global warming. Originally created by youth leaders to allow youth to report from the International Climate Negotiations in Montreal, It's Getting Hot in Here has since grown into a global online community, with over 100 writers from countries around the world. (1 posts) - [MoveOn](./organization/moveon/index.md): Section: MoveOn - MoveOn is where millions mobilize for a better society--one where everyone can thrive. Whether it's supporting a candidate, passing legislation, or changing our culture, MoveOn members are committed to an inclusive and progressive future. We envision a world marked by equality, sustainability, justice, and love. And we mobilize together to achieve it. (82 posts) - [Planned Parenthood](./organization/planned-parenthood/index.md): Section: Planned Parenthood - Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is many things to many people. We are a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital health care services, sex education, and sexual health information to millions of women, men, and young people. (83 posts) - [Reality Coalition](./organization/reality-coalition/index.md): Section: Reality Coalition - The Reality Coalition is a project of the Alliance for Climate Protection, Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the League of Conservation Voters, and tells the truth about coal today - it isn't clean. We are challenging the coal industry to come clean - in its advertising and in its operations. You can learn more about the reality of "clean" coal here or take action and help stop misleading coal campaigns. - [ONE Campaign](./organization/one-campaign/index.md): Section: ONE Campaign - ONE is a grassroots campaign and advocacy organization backed by more than 2 million people from around the world and every walk of life who are committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. (1 posts) - [Netroots Nation](./organization/netroots-nation/index.md): Section: Netroots Nation - Netroots Nation amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Within that campus, we strengthen community, inspire action and serve as an incubator for progressive ideas that challenge the status quo and ultimately affect change in the public sphere. (1 posts) - [TrueMajority.org](./organization/truemajorityorg/index.md): Section: TrueMajority.org - TrueMajority was founded by Ben Cohen, Co-founder, Ben and Jerry's. It is a grassroots education and advocacy joint project of UsAction and UsAction Education Fund. The 10 founding principles outline our the philosophy of TrueMajority. - [Organic Consumers Association](./organization/organic-consumers-association/index.md): Section: Organic Consumers Association - The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots 501(c)3 nonprofit public interest organization, and the only organization in the U.S. focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the nation's estimated 50 million consumers of organically and socially responsibly produced food and other products. OCA educates and advocates on behalf of organic consumers, engages consumers in marketplace pressure campaigns, and works to advance sound food and farming policy through grassroots lobbying. We address crucial issues around food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability, including pesticide use, and other food- and agriculture-related topics. (92 posts) - [Institute for Local Self-Reliance](./organization/institute-local-self-reliance/index.md): Section: Institute for Local Self-Reliance - The Institute's mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens. (17 posts) - [Alliance for Climate Protection](./organization/alliance-climate-protection/index.md): Section: Alliance for Climate Protection - The Alliance for Climate Protection is undertaking an unprecedented mass persuasion exercise based on scientific facts. Through a new combination of non-partisan alliances with Americans from all walks of life and innovative and far-reaching communication techniques the Alliance will focus on presenting the facts about climate change and its solutions to the general public in an accurate, clear and compelling manner. - [Apollo Alliance](./organization/apollo-alliance/index.md): Section: Apollo Alliance - The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of business, labor, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution in America to reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil, cut the carbon emissions that are destabilizing our climate, and expand opportunities for American businesses and workers. - [Foreign Policy In Focus](./organization/foreign-policy-focus/index.md): Section: Foreign Policy In Focus - FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and recommends policy alternatives. We believe U.S. security and world stability are best advanced through a commitment to peace, justice and environmental protection as well as economic, political, and social rights. We advocate that diplomatic solutions, global cooperation, and grassroots participation guide foreign policy. - [Food First](./organization/food-first/index.md): Section: Food First - The purpose of the Institute for Food and Development Policy - Food First - is to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger. Food First supports a "bottom-up" approach to solving world hunger, asserting the ability of all countries to feed their own people if they focus on agriculture for subsistence rather than for export. (3 posts) - [Economic Policy Institute](./organization/economic-policy-institute/index.md): Section: Economic Policy Institute - EPI is an independent, nonprofit think tank that researches the impact of economic trends and policies on working people in the United States. EPI's research helps policymakers, opinion leaders, advocates, journalists, and the public understand the bread-and-butter issues affecting ordinary Americans. (82 posts) - [Institute for Policy Studies](./organization/institute-policy-studies/index.md): Section: Institute for Policy Studies - Institute for Policy Studies turns Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice and the Environment. We strengthen social movements with independent research, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, scholars and elected officials. I.F. Stone once called IPS "the think tank for the rest of us." Since 1963, we have empowered people to build healthy and democratic societies in communities, the US, and the world. Click here to learn more, or read the latest below. (90 posts) - [Community Change](./organization/community-change/index.md): Section: Community Change - The mission of the Center for Community Change is to develop the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and public policies for the better. (9 posts) - [Oakland Institute](./organization/oakland-institute/index.md): Section: Oakland Institute - The Oakland Institute is a policy think tank whose mission is to increase public participation and promote fair debate on critical social, economic and environmental issues in both national and international forums. (18 posts) - [Earth Policy Institute](./organization/earth-policy-institute/index.md): Section: Earth Policy Institute - As a small organization with a global mission, the Earth Policy Institute has designed a unique information dissemination model, capitalizing on the synergy between a worldwide network of book publishers, the communications media, and the Internet. Through this distribution network, countless individuals and organizations have become aware of the environmental issues facing the world and many have been inspired to take action. - [Breakthrough Institute](./organization/breakthrough-institute/index.md): Section: Breakthrough Institute - The Breakthrough Institute is a small think tank with big ideas. Breakthrough is committed to creating a new progressive politics, one that is large, aspirational, and asset-based. We believe that any effective politics must speak to core needs and values, not issues and interests, and we thus situate ourselves at the intersection of politics, policy, philosophy, and the social sciences. (1 posts) - [Center for Media and Democracy](./organization/center-media-and-democracy/index.md): Section: Center for Media and Democracy - The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a non-profit investigative reporting group. Our reporting and analysis focus on exposing corporate spin and government propaganda. We publish PRWatch, SourceWatch, and BanksterUSA. Our newest major investigation is available at ALECexposed.org. We accept no funding from for-profit corporations or the government. If you would like to make a financial contribution to support our work, please click here. (53 posts) - [Dēmos](./organization/demos/index.md): Section: Dēmos - Demos is a think tank that powers the movement for a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy. Through cutting-edge policy research, inspiring litigation, and deep relationships with grassroots organizations, Demos champions solutions that will create a democracy and economy rooted in racial equity. (87 posts) - [The Cornucopia Institute](./organization/cornucopia-institute/index.md): Section: The Cornucopia Institute - The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit farm policy research group, is dedicated to the fight for economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Their Organic Integrity Project acts as a corporate and governmental watchdog assuring that no compromises to the credibility of organic farming methods and the food it produces are made in the pursuit of profit. (85 posts) - [Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA)](./organization/middle-east-childrens-alliance-meca/index.md): Section: Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) - The Middle East Children's Alliance is a nonprofit organization working for the rights and the well-being of children in the Middle East. MECA supports dozens of community projects for Palestinian children and refugees from Syria. Since 1988 we have delivered $27 million in food and medical aid to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. MECA welcomes the support of all people who care about children and their future. (16 posts) - [Center for Public Integrity (CPI)](./organization/center-public-integrity-cpi/index.md): Section: Center for Public Integrity (CPI) - The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern. The Center is non-partisan and non-advocacy. We are committed to transparent and comprehensive reporting both in the United States and around the world. (58 posts) - [FAIR](./organization/fairness-accuracy-reporting-fair/index.md): Section: FAIR - FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. (106 posts) - [Service Employees International Union (SEIU)](./organization/service-employees-international-union-seiu/index.md): Section: Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - With 2 million members in Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico, SEIU is the fastest-growing union in the Americas. Focused on uniting workers in healthcare, public services and property services, SEIU members are winning better wages, healthcare and more secure jobs for our communities, while uniting their strength with their counterparts around the world to help ensure that workers--not just corporations and CEOs--benefit from today's global economy. (159 posts) - [War Resisters League (WRL)](./organization/war-resisters-league-wrl/index.md): Section: War Resisters League (WRL) - The United States' oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and has been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation's peacemakers. (11 posts) - [Center for American Progress (CAP)](./organization/center-american-progress-cap/index.md): Section: Center for American Progress (CAP) - The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. We combine bold policy ideas with a modern communications platform to help shape the national debate, expose the hollowness of conservative governing philosophy and challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter. (73 posts) - [Green America](./organization/green-america/index.md): Section: Green America - Green America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982 and known until January 1, 2009 as "Co-op America." Green America's mission is to harness economic power--the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace--to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. (19 posts) - [Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)](./organization/center-science-public-interest-cspi/index.md): Section: Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) - Since 1971, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has been a strong advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science. (114 posts) - [National Lawyers Guild (NLG)](./organization/national-lawyers-guild-nlg/index.md): Section: National Lawyers Guild (NLG) - The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) works to promote human rights and the rights of ecosystems over property interests. It was founded in 1937 as the first national, racially-integrated bar association in the U.S. (93 posts) - [Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)](./organization/pesticide-action-network-north-america-panna/index.md): Section: Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) - PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America) works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five autonomous PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable society. (45 posts) - [Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)](./organization/center-constitutional-rights-ccr/index.md): Section: Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) - The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CCR is committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. (499 posts) - [Oxfam International](./organization/oxfam-international/index.md): Section: Oxfam International - Oxfam International is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. We are working across regions in about 70 countries, with thousands of partners, and allies, supporting communities to build better lives for themselves, grow resilience and protect lives and livelihoods also in times of crisis. (295 posts) - [Children's Defense Fund](./organization/childrens-defense-fund/index.md): Section: Children's Defense Fund - The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for 35 years to ensure a level playing field for all children. We champion policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education, and a moral and spiritual foundation. (13 posts) - [United for Peace & Justice](./organization/united-peace-justice/index.md): Section: United for Peace & Justice - United for Peace and Justice was founded, in 2003, to build a coalition of local and national peace and justice organizations to prevent the War on Iraq. The conflicts raging around the world today make it clear that the need to work for peace remains more important than ever. That is why UFPJ reorganized, in 2008, as a network and now operates with an all-volunteer Coordinating Committee, supported by one part-time staff member who assists with UFPJ action alerts, campaigns, and organizing. They meet weekly to manage the ongoing communication and administrative requirements of the network. (11 posts) - [Sierra Club](./organization/sierra-club/index.md): Section: Sierra Club - The Sierra Club is the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. We amplify the power of our 3.8 million members and supporters to defend everyone's right to a healthy world. (564 posts) - [World Wildlife Fund (WWF)](./organization/world-wildlife-fund-wwf/index.md): Section: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) - World Wildlife Fund is the largest multinational conservation organization in the world, works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. WWF's unique way of working combines global reach with a foundation in science, involves action at every level from local to global, and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature. (30 posts) - [National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)](./organization/national-parks-conservation-association-npca/index.md): Section: National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) - NPCA is a non-profit, private organization dedicated to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the U.S. National Park System. (66 posts) - [League of Conservation Voters](./organization/league-conservation-voters/index.md): Section: League of Conservation Voters - The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is turning environmental values into national priorities. To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV's mission is to advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies. (5 posts) - [Rainforest Action Network (RAN)](./organization/rainforest-action-network-ran/index.md): Section: Rainforest Action Network (RAN) - Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices staff in Tokyo, Japan, and Edmonton, Canada, plus thousands of volunteer scientists, teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens around the world. We believe that a sustainable world can be created in our lifetime and that aggressive action must be taken immediately to leave a safe and secure world for our children. (101 posts) - [Environmental Working Group (EWG)](./organization/environmental-working-group-ewg/index.md): Section: Environmental Working Group (EWG) - The Environmental Working Group is a community 30 million strong, working to protect our environmental health by changing industry standards. (306 posts) - [Earthjustice](./organization/earthjustice/index.md): Section: Earthjustice - Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. We bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations, coalitions and communities. (787 posts) - [Defenders of Wildlife](./organization/defenders-wildlife/index.md): Section: Defenders of Wildlife - Defenders of Wildlife is the premier U.S.-based national conservation organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of imperiled species and their habitats in North America. (94 posts) - [ForestEthics](./organization/forestethics/index.md): Section: ForestEthics - Founded in 2000, ForestEthics is a nonprofit environmental organization with staff in Canada, the United States and Chile. Our mission is to protect Endangered Forests and wild places, wildlife, and human wellbeing--one of our focus areas is climate change, which compromises all of our efforts if left unchecked. We catalyze environmental leadership among industry, governments and communities by running hard-hitting and highly effective campaigns that leverage public dialogue and pressure to achieve our goals. (29 posts) - [American News Project (ANP)](./organization/american-news-project-anp/index.md): Section: American News Project (ANP) - ANP is passionately dedicated to producing online video journalism that matters. (2 posts) - [Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)](./organization/progressive-democrats-america-pda/index.md): Section: Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) - Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and U.S. politics by working inside and outside of the party by working to elect empowered progressives and by building the progressive movement in solidarity with with peace, justice, civil rights, environmental, and other reform efforts. For more information about PDA, please see PDAmerica.org. (77 posts) - [Greenpeace](./organization/greenpeace/index.md): Section: Greenpeace - Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. (620 posts) - [National Organization for Women (NOW)](./organization/national-organization-women-now/index.md): Section: National Organization for Women (NOW) - The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (186 posts) - [Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)](./organization/union-concerned-scientists-ucs/index.md): Section: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) - The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. (447 posts) - [Worldwatch Institute](./organization/worldwatch-institute/index.md): Section: Worldwatch Institute - The Worldwatch Institute was a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C., founded by Lester R. Brown. Worldwatch was named as one of the top ten sustainable development research organizations by Globescan Survey of Sustainability Experts. Brown left to found the Earth Policy Institute in 2000. The Institute was wound up in 2017, after publication of its last State of the World Report. Worldwatch.org was unreachable from mid-2019. (110 posts) - [National Nurses United](./organization/national-nurses-united/index.md): Section: National Nurses United - National Nurses United, with close to 185,000 members in every state, is the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in US history. (266 posts) - [Congressional Progressive Caucus](./organization/congressional-progressive-caucus/index.md): Section: Congressional Progressive Caucus - The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is made up of nearly 100 members standing up for progressive ideals in Washington and throughout the country. Since 1991, the CPC has advocated for progressive policies that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties. (124 posts) - [Equality California (EQCA)](./organization/equality-california-eqca/index.md): Section: Equality California (EQCA) - Equality California is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots-based, statewide advocacy organization whose mission is to achieve equality and civil rights for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Californians. (118 posts) - [Center for Biological Diversity](./organization/center-biological-diversity/index.md): Section: Center for Biological Diversity - At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive. (1612 posts) - [Real News Network](./organization/real-news-network/index.md): Section: Real News Network - The Real News Network is a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism. Our staff, in collaboration with courageous journalists around the globe, will investigate, report and debate stories on the critical issues of our times. We are viewer supported and do not accept advertising, government or corporate funding. (99 posts) - [Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)](./organization/institute-public-accuracy-ipa/index.md): Section: Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) - A nationwide consortium, the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) represents an unprecedented effort to bring other voices to the mass-media table often dominated by a few major think tanks. IPA works to broaden public discourse in mainstream media, while building communication with alternative media outlets and grassroots activists. (1095 posts) - [Fairplay](./organization/fairplay/index.md): Section: Fairplay - Fairplay, formerly known as Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, educates the public about commercialism's impact on kids' wellbeing and advocates for the end of child-targeted marketing. Fairplay organizes parents to hold corporations accountable for their marketing practices, advocates for policies to protect kids, and works with parents and professionals to reduce children's screen time. (97 posts) - [Secular Coalition for America](./organization/secular-coalition-america/index.md): Section: Secular Coalition for America - The Secular Coalition for America represents nine national coalition partners who share the view that a secular government offers the best guarantee for freedom of thought and belief for all Americans. It works to protect the civil rights of nontheistic Americans, and lobbies the U.S. Congress on issues of concern to its constituents. The Coalition's website iswww.secular.org. (5 posts) - [CODEPINK](./organization/codepink/index.md): Section: CODEPINK - CODEPINK is a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs. (270 posts) - [Friends of the Earth](./organization/friends-earth/index.md): Section: Friends of the Earth - Friends of the Earth fights for a more healthy and just world. Together we speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. We organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of our economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature. (777 posts) - [Defending Rights & Dissent](./organization/defending-rights-dissent/index.md): Section: Defending Rights & Dissent - Defending Rights & Dissent strengthens our participatory democracy by protecting the right to political expression. About the merger of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation In 2015, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) and the Defending Dissent Foundation agreed to merge to place both organizations and their respective supporters in an even stronger position to help restore constitutional rights eroded by executive agencies. While BORDC was established to fight the PATRIOT Act in the wake of its passage under the Bush administration, DDF was founded decades ago to fight the McCarthy-era witch hunt that targeted law-abiding Americans on the basis of their political beliefs. Both organizations are committed to popular constitutionalism, and work with grassroots Americans from all walks of life to help them raise their voices to confront the national security state. (8 posts) - [Bread for The World](./organization/bread-world/index.md): Section: Bread for The World - Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. By changing policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, we provide help and opportunity far beyond the communities in which we live. (20 posts) - [Brady United](./organization/brady-united/index.md): Section: Brady United - Brady United formerly known as The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and its legislative and grassroots affiliate, the Brady Campaign and its dedicated network of Million Mom March Chapters, is the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence. We are devoted to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in our communities. (134 posts) - [Beyond Nuclear](./organization/beyond-nuclear/index.md): Section: Beyond Nuclear - Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic. (89 posts) - [Americans for Safe Access](./organization/americans-safe-access/index.md): Section: Americans for Safe Access - Americans for Safe Access is the nation's largest organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. (91 posts) - [Public Citizen](./organization/public-citizen/index.md): Section: Public Citizen - Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power and work to ensure that government works for the people - not for big corporations. Founded in 1971, we now have 500,000 members and supporters throughout the country. (1511 posts) - [Americans United for Separation of Church and State](./organization/americans-united-separation-church-and-state/index.md): Section: Americans United for Separation of Church and State - Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom. (189 posts) - [Amnesty International - USA](./organization/amnesty-international-usa/index.md): Section: Amnesty International - USA - Amnesty International is a global movement of millions of people demanding human rights for all people - no matter who they are or where they are. We are the world's largest grassroots human rights organization. (845 posts) - [Audubon Society](./organization/audubon-society/index.md): Section: Audubon Society - Now in its second century, Audubon connects people with birds, nature and the environment that supports us all. Our national network of community-based nature centers, chapters, scientific, education, and advocacy programs engages millions of people from all walks of life in conservation action to protect and restore the natural world. (8 posts) - [Action Against Hunger](./organization/action-against-hunger/index.md): Section: Action Against Hunger - Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF), an international relief and development organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and families, provides sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger. For nearly three decades, ACF has pursued its vision of a world without hunger by combating hunger in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity. (11 posts) - [Amnesty International](./organization/amnesty-international/index.md): Section: Amnesty International - Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. Our supporters are outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world - so we work to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity. We have more than 2.2 million members and subscribers in more than 150 countries and regions and we coordinate this support to act for justice on a wide range of issues. (623 posts) - [AFL-CIO](./organization/afl-cio/index.md): Section: AFL-CIO - The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) works tirelessly to improve the lives of working people. We are the democratic, voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions that represent 12.5 million working men and women. (108 posts) - [Africa Action](./organization/africa-action/index.md): Section: Africa Action - Africa Action is a national organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa. Through the provision of accessible information and analysis combined with the mobilization of public pressure we work to change the policies and policy-making processes of U.S. and multinational institutions toward Africa. The work of Africa Action is grounded in the history and purpose of its predecessor organizations, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), The Africa Fund, and the Africa Policy Information Center (APIC), which have fought for freedom and justice in Africa since 1953. Continuing this tradition, Africa Action seeks to re-shape U.S. policy toward African countries. (42 posts) - [American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)](./organization/american-friends-service-committee-afsc/index.md): Section: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization devoted to service, development, and peace programs throughout the world. Our work is based on the belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice. (14 posts) - [American Rivers](./organization/american-rivers/index.md): Section: American Rivers - American Rivers is the only national organization standing up for healthy rivers so our communities can thrive. Through national advocacy, innovative solutions and our growing network of strategic partners, we protect and promote our rivers as valuable assets that are vital to our health, safety and quality of life. Founded in 1973, American Rivers has more than 65,000 members and supporters nationwide, with offices in Washington, DC and the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast, California and Northwest regions. (94 posts) - [Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)](./organization/natural-resources-defense-council-nrdc/index.md): Section: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) - NRDC works to safeguard the earth--its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. We combine the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild. (417 posts) - [Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)](./organization/military-families-speak-out-mfso/index.md): Section: Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) - Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) is an organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones who are currently in the military or who have served in the military since the buildup to the Iraq war in the fall of 2002. Formed by two families in November of 2002, we have contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around the world. Our membership currently includes over 3,400 military families, with new families joining daily. (21 posts) - [Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)](./organization/association-community-organizations-reform-now-acorn/index.md): Section: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) - ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 350,000 member families, organized in 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S. and in cities in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Canada. (11 posts) - [Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)](./organization/center-economic-and-policy-research-cepr/index.md): Section: Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. In order for citizens to effectively exercise their voices in a democracy, they should be informed about the problems and choices that they face. CEPR is committed to presenting issues in an accurate and understandable manner, so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options. (445 posts) - [Free Press](./organization/free-press/index.md): Section: Free Press - Free Press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. We believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse and independent ownership of media platforms, and journalism that holds leaders accountable and tells people what's actually happening in their communities. (500 posts) - [Human Rights Watch (HRW)](./organization/human-rights-watch-hrw/index.md): Section: Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Human Rights Watch is one of the world's leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Our rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world. (783 posts) - [Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)](./organization/public-employees-environmental-responsibility-peer/index.md): Section: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) - PEER protects public employees who protect our environment. We are a service organization for environmental and public health professionals, land managers, scientists, enforcement officers, and other civil servants dedicated to upholding environmental laws and values. We work with current and former federal, state, local, and tribal employees. (449 posts) - [ACLU](./organization/aclu/index.md): Section: ACLU - The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 and is our nation's guardian of liberty. The ACLU works in the courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. (2144 posts) - [Voices for Creative Nonviolence](./organization/voices-creative-nonviolence/index.md): Section: Voices for Creative Nonviolence - Voices for Creative Nonviolence has deep, long-standing roots in active nonviolent resistance to U.S. war-making. Begun in the summer of 2005, Voices draws upon the experiences of those who challenged the brutal economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and U.N. against the Iraqi people between 1990 and 2003. (11 posts) - [Common Dreams](./organization/common-dreams/index.md): Section: Common Dreams - To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. - [Jill2016](./organization/jill2016/index.md): Section: Jill2016 - [Hancock 17](./organization/hancock-17/index.md): Section: Hancock 17 - [People's Vaccine Alliance](./organization/peoples-vaccine-alliance/index.md): Section: People's Vaccine Alliance - The People’s Vaccine Alliance is a coalition of over 100 organisations and networks, supported by Nobel Laureates, health experts, economists, Heads of States, faith leaders and activists, working together towards equitable access to medical technologies that help to prevent and respond to COVID-19 and future pandemics. (6 posts) - [Center for International Environmental Law](./organization/center-international-environmental-law/index.md): Section: Center for International Environmental Law - Since 1989, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) has worked to strengthen and use international law and institutions to protect the environment, promote human health, and ensure a just and sustainable society. (44 posts) - [Center for International Policy](./organization/center-for-international-policy/index.md): Section: Center for International Policy - The Center for International Policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable U.S. approach to foreign policy. 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