Society - Activism - Resources
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Free Speech Internet Television
- You can make a video about your alternative viewpoint, and these kind folks will provide a web server for it, or you can watch other people's videos. This site is filled to the brim with cool stuff!
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Peace and Environment Resource Centre
- Educates and empowers the public on peace, environment and social justice issues; supports groups, online library search of books and magazines, lots of links, discussion forum, some publications.
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Center For Creative Learning
- Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other "social threats."
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FlyingFish
- Seeing through the mists of the media with links to alternative news/media
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Activism.net
- Insightful, annotated links to information categorized by area of activist interests.
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Grassroots Political Newsletter
- Monthly political newsletter covering the nuts and bolts of political campaign techniques, psychology, and philosophy.
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Open Words
- Open thoughts and open words' links for newbie activists
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National People's Action
- Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US.
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Social Criticism Review
- Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific/technical complex.
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WTO Watch Org
- The global information center on the WTO, trade, and sustainable development.
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Chardon Press - Resources for Social Change
- Fundraising, nonprofit and community organizing resources. Publishers of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal. Free articles and advice online. Books, and magazines. Secure online ordering.
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Information Leaflets for Activists
- A coalition of 500 European organizations working against racism, has put together a series of short practical tip-sheets on Fundraising, Electronic Action (using email and the internet), Communication and Networking, and other issues of interest to grassroots organizations everywhere. Use the tip sheets online, or print out as handouts.
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TwistMagick's Activist Resources
- Short list of links.
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International Website Against Fascism and Racism
- Portal and news site for antifascist and antiracist (antifa/ra) people and groups. Also a free hosting service for antifa/ra groups. Online since 3/97.
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Free Radical
- Dispatches from the burgeoning radical activist scene, in L.A. Kauffman's weekly chronicle of the "new unrest."
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On The Road With John Tarleton
- Professional journalist with camera who posts articles of real people, activists and reformers around the globe.
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EmpowermentResources.com
- Tools for Personal Growth, Social Change, and Ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale.
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Organizers' Collaborative
- A nonprofit group harnessing the collaborative potential of the Internet and working to making computers accessible as a tool in support of community-based, social change organizing.
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TechRocks
- "Encourages and enables foundations, advocacy groups, and leading activists to use technology to achieve their goals, to increase participation from interested constituencies, and achieve change more quickly than by traditional organizing and advocacy methods alone."
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You Can Make a Difference
- Gizmoq's site is dedicated to making the world a better place, with links to voice your opinion and attempt to "save" the world.
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Tools for Organizers, Activists, Educators, and Other Hell-Raisers
- Information on activist organizing and getting people motivated on any issue.
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PR Media Consultants
- Offers training and consultancy for public-interest groups on how the media really work and how to maximise exposure in the media.
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Activists E Z.com
- Do it yourself resources for activists with annotated links and tools to speak up.
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OverthrowTheGov.com
- Founded by Arianna Huffington as a place for citizens with a deep concern for the state of the U.S. and its political system. The site centers on a call to action, an 11-point manifesto and links to political reform and antipoverty groups that can help people organize in a grassroots movement.
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The Earthwatcher's Cryptodesk
- Links to tools and resources for news gathering, research, homework, activism and the alternative cyber-underground.
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Public Info Research Namebase
- A database of articles on various political and paranormal subjects with information about their authors.
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Activism Strategy
- Michael Albert provides an extensive FAQ on Nonviolence. Based on hundreds of actual E Mail questions by activists at the WTO demonstration in Seattle, Washington.
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Project Biodiesel
- Generating interest and awareness for: alternative fuels, sustainable living, and fine arts renovated communities.
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Midwest Academy
- Training and consulting for activist organizations. Regularly scheduled five day training sessions around the country. Manual: "Organizing For Social Change."
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Programs on Corporation, Law and Democracy
- POCLAD has a starter kit for activists to create local groups to re-examine what corporations mean to the world and community.
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Bindman & Partners
- Civil liberties solicitors specializing in defence of eco-protestors, animal rights activists & those arrested for direct action or participation in mass demonstrations etc. in the UK.
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Earthrights Solicitors
- Provides legal advice and assistance to environmental campaigners.
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Monkey-Wrench Graphix
- Non-profit DIY operation printing t-shirts and designing graphics for campaigns and struggles for social justice.
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Non-Violent Resistance Network (NVRN)
- To network non-violent direct action activists in the UK and supply with information about NVDA events. [Contact details only]
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Talamh Housing Co-Op
- Permaculture/organic garden activist safe haven, involved in local anti-open cast trident ploughshares, rts/free party stuff & anything & everything anti-state. [Contact details only]
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Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association (London, UK)
- "Over the years the FNA has fought for development that would benefit both residents and local businesses. We've gained improvements to our environment and more affordable housing. We've built up a wealth of knowledge about the issues that affect our neighbourhood, and the contacts to enable local people to influence the decisions that affect our lives here."
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Reclaim the Law: Direct Action, Lawful Excuse and a Jury's Conscience.
- Although few people know of it, the jury's power of a verdict according to conscience is enshrined in law [both British and American] as a bulwark against oppressive measures of the state.
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News From Nowhere
- An independent bookshop run on a not-for-profit basis by a collective of women workers, specialising in radical and anti-oppression books and magazines. Site highlights new titles in stock, plus features links to activist and other sites based in the Liverpool and Merseyside region.
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Stapleton-Ward Planning
- Interactive tools to encourage involvement in community activities. Derby, U.K.
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Forefront: A Global Network of Young Human Rights Activists
- This holiday season you can make a different sort of gift, supporting a young human rights activist in addition to, or as a meaningful break from, routine holiday shopping.
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Resist, Inc.
- For more than 30 years, Resist has funded progressive organizations in the United States that are actively part of a movement for social change.
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The William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice
- Fighting racial injustice and carrying on the tradition of William Kunstler, renowned civil rights lawyer. Currently focusing on the repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws, and prison system reform.
