Organizations Concerned with Issues of
Social Importance and Social Justice
- Directory of Political Leaders of the World (mail, email, phone, fax, WWW contact points for advocacy messages--defaults to US government; for other countries click on index button after selecting this link)
- American Civil Liberties Union
"The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States...."
- American Friends Service Committee
"Confronting the evils of his time, the Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet asked, 'Can we be both silent and innocent spectators?' His question searches us today, and the answer is clear. In this time of moral crisis, the American Friends Service Committee calls upon all people to come together to help heal the world...."
- Ben and Jerry's
"Shouldn't the U.S. ban land mines? Get active, get involved. Sign our on-line petition to President Clinton asking that the U.S. sign the International Treaty to Ban Land Mines...."
- Center for Neighborhood Technology
"We believe that the present and future of urban communities involve practical approaches to energy use, job creation, housing, development, food production and material use. These will lead to a healthier urban environment, a sustainable economy and more viable neighborhoods...."
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
"...The actual record of public job creation
initiatives, however, is far more promising. Research findings from a wide range of program evaluations and data collection efforts provide substantial evidence that publicly-funded jobs can be effective in boosting employment and earnings for disadvantaged populations, increasing the supply of entry-level jobs, and responding to pressing community needs...."
- City Limits
"The current edition of Child Welfare Watch, now available online, is devoted to exploring community-based child welfare services: To what extent do they currently exist? What form might a much broader commitment to community-based services take? And why is it so important that the current administration be encouraged to pursue a decentralization agenda?..."
- Children's Defense Fund
"Since 1973, CDF has been working to create a nation in which the web of family, community, private sector, and government supports for children is so tightly woven that no child can slip through. We believe that no child should be left behind, and that every child needs and deserves a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life...."
- ConflictNet
"ConflictNet promotes dialogue and sharing of information to encourage appropriate dispute resolution; highlights the work of practioneers and organizations; and is a proving ground for ideas and proposals across the range of disciplines within the conflict resolution field...."
- Death Penalty Information Center
"Racial minorities are being prosecuted under federal death penalty law far beyond their proportion in the general population or the population of criminal offenders. Analysis of prosecutions under the federal death penalty provisions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 reveals that 89% of the defendants selected for capital prosecution have been either African-American or Mexican-American...."
- Jesuit Advocacy Network
"Latest information from congressional hearings, analysis of pending legislation and a calendar of events on the three main issues the Jesuit Advocacy Network is tracking: Immigrant Human Rights, Housing and Welfare...."
- Kids' Campaign
"Take This Heart, a public television documentary, is the story of three boys living in a foster family in Seattle and struggling to make sense of their own fates. By exploring the experiences of a few children living in one foster family, the film gives voice to a population of children otherwise invisible to most of society...."
- Kidspage
"There are many different ways to get involved in your community that will have a positive effect on reducing crime. You can be a leader! Get rid of gangs! Prevent drug use! Partner with cops! Join an after-school program! Check out some of the ideas in this section of the Web site...."
- National Coalition on the Homeless
"While the causes of homelessness are complex, there is much an individual can do to help. No matter what your skills, interests, or resources, there are ways you can make a difference for some of the men, women, and children who are homeless...."
- National Organization for Women
"NOW President Patricia Ireland attended the large affirmative action march and rally in San Francisco on the day that Proposition 209 took effect, ironically the 34th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s moving 'I Have a Dream' speech. She encouraged supporters by saying, 'Standing together, women and people of color have the strength, and we will save the dream.'..."
- The Nonviolence Web
"There is a long tradition of conscientious objectors, those whose hearts and minds refuse to follow orders they deem to be immoral. Many are motivated by religious concerns, and consider any participation in killing or war to be against their religionís laws. Others resist government policies out of a sense of justice...."
- PEACE POWER!
"PEACE POWER! is a youth violence prevention strategy based on constructing interlocking practices in organizations and communities that are incompatible with violence and coercion. Unlike most violence prevention programs (some of which have been widely adopted without testing, the PEACE POWER! program is ased on state-of-the-art behavioral science. This research suggests that programs like this one (and PeaceBuilders) have the potential to reduce violence by 50% or more...."
- Southern Poverty Law Center
"In response to an alarming increase in hate crime among youth, the Southern Poverty Law Center began the Teaching Tolerance project in 1991 as an extension of the Center's legal and educational efforts...."
- The Urban Institute
"Probably the feature that most starkly contrasts community building with approaches to poverty alleviation that have been typical in America over the past half-century is that its primary aim is not
simply giving more money, services, or other material benefits to the poor. While most of its advocates recognize a continuing need for considerable outside assistance (public and private), community building's central theme is to obliterate feelings of dependency and to replace them with attitudes of self-reliance, self-confidence, and responsibility...."
- Women Leaders Online
"WLO is the first and largest women's advocacy group created on the Internet, seeking to build a network of one million women (and sympathetic men) to empower women in politics, society, the economy, the media, and cyberspace...."
- 10 Things Men Can Do to Reduce Violence Against Women
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