See also:
- Clarity Web-Portal for Issue Resolution and
Social Action.
 - Details solutions and everyday actions we can take to confront the
many issues we face: environmental, social, governmental, economic, etc. Provides links,
essays, articles, and other resources to that end. Takes on a systemic/holistic view of
the world and the issues we are facing.
- If Not Now: Citizen's Lobbying Tool - For
busy, progressive people who want to stay informed and involved. Follow issues, send
letters, monitor results on a wide range of issues sponsored by over a dozen major
progressive organizations (including Sierra Club, NOW, Common Cause, Children's Defense
Fund, ...), with daily updates, one-click letters to Congress, voter's scorecard, and
more.
- Activism, Boycotts, End Sweatshops & Child Labor
- Co-op America's Sweatshops.org aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair
trade, international human and labor rights.
- ActivistNet - New, comprehensive and advanced
internet directory and online networking center for political activism and social change.
Major issues include: Peace, Social Justice, Environment, Development, and Human Rights.
- Altruism.org - New site dedicated to all types of
altruistic projects. You can sign up here to register your project and fish around for
helpers.
- Americans Against Traffic Calming -
Traffic calming measures can injure and even kill, this site claims. (But do they kill as
many people as speeding motorists? Something to think about.)
- Billboard Liberation Front - Improving
outdoor advertising since 1977.
- The Campaign for Real,
Equitable Economic Development
- Center for the Study of Popular Culture -
"Political correctness, multiculturalism and other follies" Some legal activism;
mainly theory.
- CIVICUS - Worldwide Alliance for Citizen Participation
- "Promoting a worldwide community of informed, inspired, committed citizens who are
actively engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity." In English,
Espa�ol, Fran�ais.
- Co-op America - Much more than just ethical
shopping and investing - contains info on boycott campaigns; sweatshop activism; public
service; barter and LETSystems to regenerate local economies in the service of local
needs...
- Direct Action (from The
Nonviolence Web) - "Direct action differs from symbolic protest action, which is
lobbying someone in authority to change their policies." News and other resources
about direct action regarding varoius issues (peace, more).
- Do Something - Young People Changing the World
- Sponsored by MTV.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - "Protecting
Rights and Promoting Freedom in the Electronic Frontier". Protects freedom of speech
and privacy.
- Free Republic - "...the government and
the corporate media have over the years created, through regulation and policy, a liberal
propaganda machine whose goal is to continue the expansion of a collective state and to
control every aspect of our lives and fortunes. We on Free Republic are determined to
speak out against this illegal alliance..."
- Freedom Works! - "Freedom,
guns, schools, taxes, crime, liberty, Freedom is the best way to obtain a peaceful and
loving world."
- Global Ideas Bank - An International
Suggestion Box for socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects, with �1,000
UK sterling awards annually for the best ideas or projects submitted.
- Howard's Notebook - Online since 1982 (!) supporting
Peace, Justice and Freedom of Speech. Howard's Notebook was a BBS that has moved to the
www. Message board, chat room and live video.
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) - Radical labor
union dedicated to preserving democracy by overthrowing the capitalist system.
- June 4th Tenth
Anniversary Signature Drive - Exiled student leader Wang Dan has launched a global
signature drive for the rehabilitation of the June 4th Democracy Movement.
- League of the NewJust - Concerned about
growing environmental harm, the increasing power of transnational corporations and other
matters which affect the quality of life on Earth. "The chains of capitalism and the
quest for profit obscures the path leading to true happiness and self-actualisation. In
ignorant denial, capitalists fail to acknowledge the inherent unsustainability of their
system as well as its intrinsic wrongdoing, crime against, not only humanity, but against
a larger purpose, against mother Gaia and the great interrelated systems of the
Universe."
- Life History & Media Project -
What does it mean to be political these days? Young citizens tell their stories of using
the media to inform themselves and get involved in politics.
- Norbert's Bookmarks for Active
People - "More than 15,000 links on: Peace, Disarmament, Human Rights,
Environment, 3rd World, Social Justice, Politics, Iraq, Kosovo..."
- OpenWords.Com - Site suggests why activism
touches so few westerners and gives a simple why and how to speak up, to take a stand
because activism is so important today.
- Organisation for a Liberated Society - OLS has five
defining principles which the organization pledges to act on. These address issues of race
and cultural community, gender and sexuality, income and economic organization, diversity,
political organization, and authority.
- OurVoices - "Join the Global People's
Assembly movement! Time has come to establish a true grassroots decision-making body to
fill the void of global policy making. Millennium Peoples Assembly Network is a wide
coalition of large and small organizations dedicated to the inclusion of the People in the
new global power structure."
- Policy.com: Advocacy Groups -
Annotated collection of links to advocacy groups on a wide range of policy issues.
Unfortunately it's not categorised, but you can use the Edit/Find feature on your browser
to a find a word.
- Protest.Net - Helps people find out about
progressive protest, meetings, pickets, strikes, demonstrations, and conferences around
the world by providing a central calendar where the times and locations can be posted.
- Public Involvement Network (PIN) - Network members
include community groups, consultants, government officials and activists. The
international Network provides practical information about doing public involvement here
and now.
- Radicalism
Collection - A collection of the grassroots of change. This is history, where activism
began.
- Save the Good Friday Agreement
Coalition - Grassroots coalition from the USA to Ireland to Britain and Canada engaged
in an attempt to save the Irish peace process. We must lobby Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern
to keep the pledge they gave at the referendum when over 71% in the North of Ireland and
over 90% in the South voted their choice for the future by passing the agreement with an
overwhelming majority of the population of both sides of partition. Only the tho
governments can save the failing peace process, this can only be done if the GFA is
implemented NOW, it has been stalled for over a year, no time is left. Please help us,
before Ireland is faced with another 30 years of burying their dead from war. Mise Eire
- Student Activist Network - International network of
student activists.
- Sun Tzu - The art of war -
Seminal text on war. Written in the 16th century. It has been suggested this could be
applicable to campaigning and activism.
- Tapestry 2000 -
Women joining together to make an impact on our world by donating $1 each per month to a
needy cause.
- US Public Interest Research Group - A
nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to serving as a watchdog for the nation's
citizens and environment.
- WebActive - Weekly updated site offering
progressive activists an up-to-date resource. News from Democracy Now, Pacifica, etc. -
also has a WebActive Directory.
- Workers World - Socialist party fighting on all
issues facing the working class and oppressed peoples - Black and white, Latino, Asian,
Arab and Native, women and men, young and old... Fights for a socialist society - where
wealth is socially owned and production is planned for human need, not profit.
- The World Revolution - A new, large-scale
activist social movement for progressive social change, with a unified agenda and a
comprehensive approach. Major objectives & issue areas include: peace, social justice,
environmental balance, economic well-being, and ethical culture.
- International Conference on Alternatives to
Globalisation - Was attended by 100 delegates, and was held at the Development Academy
of the Philippines in Tagaytay City, Philippines. The conference was followed by a global
teach-in called "International Colloquium on Imperialist Globalization and
Crisis.", a half-day event held at the University of the Philippines in Diliman,
Quezon City, and was attended by more than 400 participants. (November 10, 1998)
- Usenet alt.activism - news:
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