Links for
Community Organizers & Activists
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Activism & Community
Organizing Resources
Activism: Peace: Nonviolent Civil
Disobedience
Activist San Diego is a social justice
organization that promotes and facilitates the development of an active,
inter-related, progressive community in San Diego through networking, culture
and electronic technology.
Advocacy Project was formed in 1998 to serve
the needs of civil society - particularly community based advocates for peace
and human rights.
Association for Community Organization &
Social Administration is a membership organization for community organizers,
activists, nonprofit administrators, community builders, policy practitioners,
students and educators.
Care Giving Resource
Center, Action Guide for Community Organizers
The Center for Community
Change
is committed to reducing poverty and rebuilding low income communities.
Center for
Tobacco Policy & Organizing,
Community Organizing.
Dobson, Charles October 2003.
The Citizen’s Handbook: A Guide to Building Community.
COMM-ORG mission is to help connect
people who care about the craft of community organizing.
Community Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of
practical information to support your work in promoting community health and
development.
Community Organizing Toolbox, A Funder's Guide to Community Organizing. Complete manual available
online and may be downloaded.
Community
Organizing And Leadership Community Internship includes
lots of links and resources.
Making Your Case,
a self-study course designed to help people with developmental disabilities and
their families create positive change through advocacy.
National Housing
Institute, Community Organizing:
Tactics and Theory
Neighborhood Funders Group is a national network of
foundations and philanthropic organizations. Our members support
community-based efforts that improve economic and social conditions in
low-income communities.
Online Resources for Activist Research
Power
and Resistance in the Social: The Critical Theory of Michel Foucault
Progressive Technology Project
strengthens
grassroots social change community organizing in poor communities and
communities of color.
State Politics on The Internet
Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet
Wellstone Action Network
brings
together thousands of people from across the United States in focused advocacy
campaigns on progressive issues
ADA WATCH campaign is a nonprofit
informational online network designed to activate the disability community's
grassroots in response to threats to civil rights protections for people with
disabilities.
ADAPT There's no place like home, and we mean real homes,
not nursing homes. We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the
community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and
other institutions.
DIMENET is a
national computer networking system that is accessible at multiple locations
and provides access for communications and information sharing among
individuals involved in the disability rights and independent living movements.
Disability Rights Advocates is a national and
international non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the
civil rights of people with disabilities.
Disabilitypride.com This is your location to
purchase stickers, posters and other products that express disability pride
concepts. A friend had the idea to "crip" anti-war slogans, and the
idea grew from there.
Disabled Peoples' International is a network of national
organizations or assemblies of disabled people, established to promote human
rights of disabled people through full participation, equalization of
opportunity and development.
The National Council on Disability (NCD) is an independent
federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress on issues
affecting Americans with disabilities.
NOT DEAD YET is a national, grassroots,
disability-rights organization which opposes the legalization of
physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, "futile care" guidelines,
coercive DNRs, and other forms of medical discrimination based on disabilities.
People First and Other
Self-Advocacy Links
S.A.B.E. Self Advocates Becoming Empowered
Speaking For Ourselves a non-profit organization,
is a pioneer in self-advocacy for people with disabilities.
Families USA is a national nonprofit,
non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality,
affordable health care for all Americans. See Tools
for Advocates.
Partnership for
America's Families was founded in 2003 to increase progressive voter participation in the
electoral process.
Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, Inc., is the world's largest and most trusted voluntary reproductive health
care organization.
Voices for Working
Families is
a nonprofit, nonpartisan 527 organization created to ensure that everyone in
this country can participate fully in America’s political life.
California National Organization
of Women media activism site.
Center for An Accessible Society is a national organization
designed to focus public attention on disability and independent living issues
by disseminating information developed through NIDRR-funded research to promote
independent living.
Center for
Community Change. Vol. 20 - 1998
How To Tell and Sell Your Story, A Guide to Developing Effective
Messages and Good Stories about Your Work
FAIR'S Media Activist Kit.
Inside this
kit you will find "how-to" guides for identifying, documenting and
challenging inaccurate or unfair news coverage, along with information about
how to promote independent media.
Family
USA ImPRESSive Media Tip Sheets
Institute for Public Accuracy seeks to broaden public
discourse. With systematic outreach to media professionals, the Institute
provides news releases that offer well-documented analysis of current events
and underlying issues.
Organizing
Guide, Media and Press Releases
Protest.Net is a collective of activists
who are working together to create our own media.
SPIN Strategic Press Information
Network Project provides comprehensive media training, intensive media
strategizing, and resources to community organizations across the country. SPIN
helps grow the capacity of grassroots groups to shape public opinion and garner
positive media attention.
WorkingForChange is an online journal of
progressive news and opinion published by Working Assets.
Opposition and Investigative
Research
Bovee, John
2004. Opposition Research online article.
Bovee, John 2004. How
to do opposition research on the internet. Online article. Retrieved
February 16, 2004 from
Center for Investigative Reporting
is an
independent news organization that strengthens democracy by exposing injustice
and abuse of power.
Center for Public
Integrity provides the American people with the findings of our
investigations and analyses of public service, government accountability and
ethics related issues.
Opensecrets.Org. Reports on spending during elections.
Political Investigation/Research:
Opposition/Vulnerability Research
ACORN®, the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest
community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000
member families organized into 700 neighborhood chapters in 51 cities across
the country.
Alliance for Economic Justice
was formed
by 18 labor unions to heighten visibility and focus attention on the three key
economic areas of job creation, health care, and trade.
America Coming
Together ACT was
started by grassroots and political leaders who share a vision of a progressive
America.
American Civil Liberties Union is our nation’s guardian of
liberty. We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and
preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this
country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Our job is to
conserve America’s original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights.
Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics,
Skills, and Ideas Second Edition draft Complied and Edited by Shawn Ewald
California National Organization For Women is the largest state
organization of feminists – both women and men – in the United States.
Center for Advancement of Nonviolence
whose
objective is to increase awareness, educate and promote the principles of peace
and nonviolence.
Center for Community Change
is committed
to reducing poverty and rebuilding low income communities.
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Gray Panthers is a national
organization of intergenerational activists dedicated to social change.
Housing America has mobilized pediatricians,
religious leaders, students, community-based organizations and other
constituencies to end America's housing crisis.
Joan B. Kroc Institute
for Peace & Justice. Through education, research, and peacemaking
activities, the Institute offers programs that advance scholarship and practice
in conflict resolution and human rights.
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people
back into politics. With a system that today revolves around big money and big
media, most citizens are left out. When it becomes clear that our
"representatives" don't represent the public, the foundations of
democracy are in peril. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots
involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political
voice.
Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest
and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
TrueMajority. TrueMajority was started in
order to compound the power of all those who believe in social justice, giving children
a decent start in life, protecting the environment, and America working in
cooperation with the world community.
The National Whistleblower
Center is
a nonprofit, tax exempt, educational and advocacy organization dedicated to
helping whistleblowers.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
was founded
in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF
works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for
women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to
establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can
assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. WILPF site
for effective lobbying and organizing techniques.
Common Dreams is a national non-profit
citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to
promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997, we are
committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political
organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism.
Institute for Global Communications played a
formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots
organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental
sustainability, women's rights, conflict resolution and worker rights.
Virtual Activism Purpose is strengthening nongovernmental
organizations' effectiveness and outreach through internet access and presence.
Our target is the most marginalized NGOs in the Global community, with particular
attention to women's organizations.
Periodicals, Journalism, and Authors
Avocado Press. Publishing books and
periodicals on disability rights and the disability experience since 1981.
Crip Commentary. Laura Hershey's Whenever Web
Column
Mouth Magazine. We're a bi-monthly magazine,
usually only in print, but here's an online sample. We're now the only
disability rights-oriented magazine put to printed page, and that is our focus.
Powells.com.
Books
dealing with activism and peace studies
Ragged Edge
Magazine. Ragged Edge magazine is successor to the
award-winning periodical, The Disability Rag. In Ragged Edge, and on this
website, you'll find the best in today's writing about society's "ragged
edge" issues: medical rationing, genetic discrimination, assisted suicide,
long-term care, attendant services. We cover the disability experience in
America -- what it means to be a crip living at the start of the 21st century.
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Directory of Political
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Democratic National
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Green Party of the United States (Green
Party)
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Republican National
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