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Borderlines |
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Dollars and Sense: The Great Education Debate In the jargon-filled world of economics, "Dollars & Sense is a shining exception," in the words of the editor of the Utne Reader. For more than twenty years, thousands of devoted readers have turned to Dollars & Sense for sharp, clear, biting analysis of contemporary economic affairs. |
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Prison Legal News Subscribe to this essential publication published behind bars! |
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Abya Yala Net This site presents information on Indigenous peoples in Mexico, Central, and South America. |
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ACLU's FOIA Guide |
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ACLU: Prisoners' Rights Project |
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ACTION Center |
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Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America (ACERCA) |
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Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) |
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Active Solidarity ActiveSolidarity.Net is the new online home of the Active Solidarity Collective and Anti-Racism for Global Justice (a project of the Challenging White Supremacy Workshops). |
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Adbusters |
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AFSCME: Anti-Privatization |
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Aid/Watch AID/WATCH monitors the development dollar, ensuring that aid money reaches the right people, communities and their environments. Australia-based. |
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Amazon Watch: Bolivia-Cuiaba Pipeline |
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American Civil Liberties Union The ACLU's mission is to fight civil liberties violations wherever and whenever they occur. A number of national projects address specific civil liberties issues: AIDS, capital punishment, lesbian and gay rights, immigrants' rights, prisoners' rights, reproductive freedom, voting rights, women's rights and workplace rights. This site contains a wealth of legal information, testimonies and other documents as well as ways to take action to defend our civil liberties. |
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American Federation of Teachers AFT is one of the major forces responsible for preserving and strengthening America's system of public education and its commitment to quality public service. The desegregation of public schools, the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the establishment of collective bargaining rights for teachers and other public employees, programs to meet the needs of disadvantaged children -- these are just a few of the causes AFT has championed over the years. |
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American Friends Service Committee: US-Mexico Border Program |
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American Indian Movement AIM helps the Native People of the Americas and Canada regain human rights and achieve restitutions and restorations. |
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Applied Research Center ARC is a public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change. Their ERASE project works with local groups in six U.S. cities to challenge institutional racism in public schools. |
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Arab American Institute The Arab American Institute was organized in 1985 to represent Arab American interests in government and politics. This section provides educational packets about Arab American culture, including a special section for educators, and ways to report racial hate crimes. |
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Arms Trade Resource Center (World Policy Institute) |
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Association for Progressive Communications |
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ATTAC (France) |
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Bank Information Centre |
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Bayer Hazard The site was set up by anti-GM activists in the UK as a response to Bayer's acquisition of Aventis Cropscience. It brings you the low down on Bayer --- who they are and what they are up to, as well as action reports and downloadable campaigning resources. |
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Boycott Esso International Esso/ExxonMobil boycott site. |
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Campaign Finance Information Center |
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Campaign for Labor Rights |
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Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids |
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Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace CCDP funds grassroots organizations in developing countries promoting human rights, community development and humanitarian aid. |
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Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives was founded in 1980 to promote research on economic and social issues facing Canada. The Centre monitors current developments in the economy and studies important trends that affect Canadians. They also publish the Education Monitor which covers classroom commercialism and globalism and education issues. |
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Cankpe Opi - Wounded Knee Site This First Nations' website provides background information and articles about Wounded Knee, and discussion around Leonard Peltier, AIM and the FBI. |
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CEE Bankwatch Network |
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Center for Commercial Free Education Founded in 1993, the Center for Commercial-Free Public Education is a national coalition of students, parents, teachers and other citizens working for commercial-free, equal education. |
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Center for Public Integrity |
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Center for Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technology Solstice is the online resource for information about renewable energy, efficiency, and sustainable development. |
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Center for Responsive Politics |
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Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education CACE is an academic center housed in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It is directed by Professor Alex Molnar author of, Giving Kids the Business: The Commercialization of America's Schools. CACE provides educators, policy makers, and the public with information about the nature and impact of commercial activities in schools for the purpose of promoting thoughtful educational practice and sound public policy. |
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Center for World Indigenous Studies By democratizing relations between peoples, nations and states, the diversity of nations and their cultures will continue to enrich the world. |
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Centre for Science and Environment: Vehicular Pollution One of Indias leading environmental NGOs with a deep interest in sustainable natural resource management. |
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Chevron-Toxico A satirical site, which has very serious facts about ChevronToxico's injustices in Ecuador, Nigeria and Richmond, CA. |
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Christian Aid Christian Aid believes in strengthening people to find their own solutions to the problems they face. It strives for a new world transformed by an end to poverty and campaigns to change the rules that keep people poor. UK-based. |
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Christian Science Monitor: A Changed World An international daily newspaper, the Monitor has devoted a special section to covering world events post September 11. |
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Clary-Meuser Research Network |
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Co-op America Practical steps for using consumer and investor power for social change. |
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Co-op America: Boycott Action News Co-op America supports the use of boycotts as a powerful economic strategy consumers can use to enact social change. This site lists boycotts called by other organizations. |
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Co-op America: Sweatshops.org |
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Coalition Against BAYER-Dangers Formerly known as Bayer Watch, the CBG Network cooperates with partners in more than 30 countries, collects information about the Bayer Corporation and coordinates campaigns against violations of human and environmental rights. |
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Coalition for Headwaters Forest This site serves primarily as a historical archive of the Headwaters Forest campaign from 1995-1999. California-based. |
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Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras |
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Common Cause |
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Communities for a Better Environment CBE is an environmental health and justice non-profit organization, promoting clean air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities. |
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Community Alliance with Family Farmers |
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Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund CELDF provides free legal services to grassroots environmental organizations, including a Corporations and Democracy Program. |
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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility |
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Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador CONAIE is the representative body that guarantees Indigenous people of Ecuador the political voice that has too long been denied them, and that expresses their needs and goals within a rapidly changing world. |
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Consumer Project on Technology |
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Consumers International A worldwide non-profit federation of consumer organisations, dedicated to the protection and promotion of consumer interests. |
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Corporate Agriculture Research Project |
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Corporate Europe Observatory |
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Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation/Reconciliation Australia The Council provides a national focus for the process of reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the wider Australian community. |
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Council of Canadians |
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Critical Resistance |
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DataCenter/ImpactResearch |
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Death Penalty Focus |
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Earth Rights International |
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Earth Summit Watch: Shrimp Sentinel Online An internet forum for discussion and dialogue on the serious environmental and social impacts of increased global production of shrimp. |
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Education Week "Our goal is nothing short of being the place on the World Wide Web for people interested in education reform, schools, and the policies that guide them." Education Week on the Web is published by Editorial Projects in Education Inc. |
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Environmental Background Information Center |
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Environmental Health Coalition |
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Environmental Health Coalition: Border Environmental Justice Campaign This campaign works in solidarity with social justice groups in the border region to promote worker and community right-to-know about the chemicals used by maquiladoras, to increase their capacity to influence conditions that directly affect their health, and to demand cleanup of abandoned and contaminated sites. |
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Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative 28 U.S. environmental justice, climate justice, religious, policy, and advocacy groups call for action from the Bush Administration and Congress on climate change. |
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Environmental Justice Resource Center |
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Environmental Justice Resource Center The EJRC at Clark Atlanta University is a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, and provides assistance to people of color with the goal to facilitate inclusion into mainstream environmental decision-making. |
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Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide E-LAW gives public interest lawyers and scientists around the world the skills and resources they need to protect the environment through law. |
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Environmental Research Foundation ERF provides news and resources for environmental justice. |
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Environmental Rights Action ERA is dedicated to the defence of human ecosystems in terms of human rights, and to the promotion of environmentally responsible governmental, commercial, community and individual practice in Nigeria through the empowerment of local people. |
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Environmental Working Group: Pesticides |
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Farmed and Dangerous Don't eat farmed Salmon. |
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Federation of American Scientists: Ballistic Missile Defense |
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Focus on the Global South |
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Forest Action Network The Forest Action Network works to stop the destruction of forests and forest ecosystems by seeking an end to industrial forestry and replacing it with ecologically-sound, First Nations and community-controlled ecoforestry. Canada-based. |
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Forests Forever Forests Forever works to protect and enhance the forests and wildlife habitat of California through educational, legislative and electoral activities. |
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Framework Convention Alliance |
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Free Mumia |
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Friends Committee on National Legislation FCNL, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, is a public interest lobby advocating social and economic justice, peace, and good government. This section offers statements, links to other organizations and ways to take action. |
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Friends of River Narmada The friends of the Narmada valley and its people present the perspective of grassroots organisations on the issue of large dam construction on the river Narmada in central India. |
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Friends of the Earth UK: Real Food Campaign |
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Genetic Resources Action International |
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Global Exchange |
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Global Exchange GX's Fair Trade Program provides a sustainable model of international trade based on economic justice. |
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Global Policy Forum |
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Global Response Environmental Action and Education Network. |
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Global Trade Watch |
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Global Vision News Network By linking a worldwide network of media partners, GVVN works to counter the current lack of diversity in world news by giving a voice to previously unheard local sources of news and information. This section focuses on the stories post September 11. |
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Go Fair Trade Network Web-based email, discussion board and chat place for fair trade issues. |
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Good Neighbor Project The Good Neighbor Project provides technical, legal and strategic support to concerned plant neighbors and workers to prevent pollution and promote sustainable local industries. |
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Green Action Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies to protect health and environment and promote environmental justice. |
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Greenpeace International: Climate |
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Greenpeace: AES--Dirty Deals for Dirty Energy This report shows AES Corporation's track record of illegal dumping, toxic spills, and lawsuits. |
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Greenpeace: "Sinking Fast" A report on how factory trawlers are destroying US fisheries and marine ecosystems. |
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Greenpeace: Environmental "Marshall Plan" A proposal to invest funds into closing Chernobyl and developing alternative means of power. |
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groundWork groundWork is a non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organization working primarily in South Africa but increasingly in Southern Africa. |
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Haiti Support Group HSG supports the Haitian people in their struggle for justice, human rights, and participatory democracy. |
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Human Rights Watch: Corporations and Human Rights |
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Human Rights Watch: Prison Project |
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Indigenous Environmental Network An alliance of grassroots Indigenous peoples to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws. |
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Indigenous Environmental Network: Mining Page |
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INFACT An extensive collection of original research on the tobacco industry including a boycott of tobacco corporations, the Human Toll of Tobacco Photo Project, and Corporate Hall of Shame. |
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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Institute for Policy Studies |
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International Forum on Globalization |
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International Indian Treaty Council IITC is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from the Americas and the Pacific working for the sovereignty and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous rights, traditional cultures and sacred lands. |
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International Rivers Network IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. |
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Jobs with Justice |
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Jubilee 2000 |
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Just Shoppers' Guide A series of informative bulletins on issues of ethical shopping. Based in New Zealand. |
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Librarian's Index to the Internet |
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Mangrove Action Project MAP is dedicated to reversing the degradation of mangrove forest ecosystems worldwide. |
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Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network |
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Maquladora Solidarity Network (Canada) |
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Menominee Nation: Treaty Rights and Mining Impacts |
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Mexican Labor News and Analysis |
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Mineral Policy Institute Dedicated solely to researching and campaigning on mining issues, MPI seek to stop exploration and mining in inappropriate areas or where the impacts are unacceptably high. MPI publishes Mining Monitor, a quarterly 16-page newsletter about the social, economic and environmental impacts of the mining industry. |
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Mining Watch (Canada) |
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Mobilization for Global Justice |
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Montana Environmental Information Center Fighting unsafe mining in Montana since 1973, MEIC has won landmark lawsuits on behalf of Montana's natural environment. Presently, MEIC as focused its efforts against one of the largest old mines in the world proposed at the headwaters of the Blackfoot River. |
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Multinational Monitor: Enron Page |
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National Education Association NEA is America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. NEA proudly claims over 2.3 million members who work at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliates in every state as well as in over 13,000 local communities across the United States. |
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National Forest Protection Alliance The NFPA was launched in 1999 by grassroots activists from every region of the United States dedicated to ending commercial logging on National Forests and all federal public lands. |
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National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting's Net Tour |
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National Labor Committee |
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National Museum of American History: American Sweatshops |
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National Security Archive A research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. It has become the world's largest non governmental library of declassified documents. |
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NativeWeb NativeWeb uses computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about Indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world; fosters communication between native and non-native peoples; and provides resources to facilitate Indigenous peoples' use of this technology. |
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Network of European World Shops and Fair Trade World Shops sell fairly traded products from small-scale producers in developing countries. |
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NGO Net |
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NGOs This website explains the environmental problems and offers solutions to fix them |
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Northern Land Council The Northern Land Council has been fighting strongly on behalf of Aboriginal people to stop any changes that would diminish Aboriginal land rights. |
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Occidental College Environmental Justice Research Project The Project is building a regional community-based voice for environmental health. |
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Oil Refinery Action Network |
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OilWatch -- Ecuador |
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Ontario Metis Aboriginal Association OMAA strives toward the political, social and economic well being of Metis, Non-status and off-reserve Status Aboriginal People in Ontario. |
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Open Secrets Rebuilding Iraq -- The Contractors |
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Organic Consumers Association and Biodemocracy |
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Our World is Not for Sale! This network is a loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting against the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading systems. |
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Oxfam International Oxfam International is a confederation of twelve NGOs working in more than 80 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. |
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PANOS Panos is an international non-profit institute providing information on global issues with a developing country perspective. |
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PBS On-Line NewsHour PBS is a private, non-profit media enterprise owned and operated by the nation's 349 public television stations. This section of their site offers a special report on Afghanistan, ways you can help, a photo essay on New York's recovery, resources for teachers as well as a full archive of PBS' September 11th coverage. |
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Peace Action |
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People's Weekly World Alternative news site |
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Pesticide Action Network: Methyl Bromide |
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Philip Morris |
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Polaris Institute Operation Water Rights Campaign |
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Polaris Institute Coca-Cola Corporate Profile |
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Polaris Institute: Guide to the Enron Collapse |
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PR Watch |
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Press for Change |
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Price's Direct Search |
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Price's List of Lists |
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Prison Activist Resource Center |
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Project Underground An environmental justice and human rights group that supports communities facing mining, oil and gas activities. Project Underground publishes the newsletter Drillbits & Tailings, a mining, oil and gas update published twice-monthly on-line. |
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Public Information Network |
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Rainforest Action Network RAN works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. |
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Rainforest Information Centre RIC was born out of the successful struggle to save the sub-tropical rainforests of New South Wales, Australia in the early 1980s. |
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Rainforest Web World rainforest information and resource portal. |
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Research & Reference Resources Events of September 11, 2001 |
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Resource Center of the Americas |
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Responsible Shopper Working Assets/ShopForChange's research tool to help make responsible purchasing decisions. |
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Rethinking Schools Founded in 1986 by activist teachers, Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, independent publisher of educational materials. We advocate the reform of elementary and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice. |
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Rigoberta Mench Tum Foundation (R.M.T.F.) This website is dedicated to Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Rigoberta Menchu, and contains her speeches and writings. |
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Robert F Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights |
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Rocky Mountain Institute Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to create a more secure, prosperous, and life-sustaining world. |
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Ruckus Society |
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Rural Advancement Foundation International |
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School Pouring Rights The Illegality of School Soda Contracts |
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SEEN: World Bank's Climate Crimes |
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Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition |
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South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice SAEPJ is a Boston-based NGO which focuses on the effects of toxics and the deteriorating environment on the health and daily lives of communities in South Africa, and aims to bridge communities in the US with their counterparts in South Africa around environmental justice. |
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South and Meso American Indian Rights Center SAIIC ensures that the struggles of Latin America's Indigenous peoples for self- determination and respect are heard in the US and internationally, and to support Indigenous peoples' organizing. |
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Stop FTAA |
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Stop Waste Managment (WMX) Boycott of and information on Waste Management Inc.'s corporate history. |
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Sweatshop Watch A coalition of organizations and individuals committed to eliminating the exploitation that occurs in sweatshops, with a focus on the garment industry. |
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Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations SCDO, an association of five NGOs, provides extensive information on many development-related topics including the WTO, debt relief and tax evasion. |
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The Bus Riders Union/Sindicato de Pasajeros of Los Angeles Fighting for a first-class, clean-fuel, bus-centered public transportation system in Los Angeles. |
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The Daily Enron Provides news, commentary and lively debate on the Enron scandal as it unfolds by identifying the core attitudes and policies that allowed Enron to manipulate and disrupt the US's energy markets. |
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The Great Boycott This is a brief expose of the recent history of eight environmentally toxic multinational chemical manufacturers. |
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Third World Network |
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Third World Network TWN is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues. |
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Third World Network: Climate |
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Tri-National Coalition in Defense of Public Education More than 60 participants from Mexico, Canada and the US took part in the Third Tri-National Conference in Defense of Public Education. The program consisted of presentations about the current situation of education in each of the three countries and discussions about common issues arising from NAFTA and other elements of globalization. |
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Trial Lawyers for Public Justice National, public interest law firm holding corporate and governmental wrongdoers accountable in court. |
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Tulane Environmental Law Clinic TELC is Tulane Law School's largest law clinic and is the largest, most active environmental law clinic in the country. |
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TURN, The Utility Reform Network This site empowers consumers to demand lower rates and quality services. California-based. |
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UC Berkeley: Internet Resources in Business & Economics |
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Union for Concerned Scientists UCS develops and promotes strategies to reduce the adverse impacts of the US transportation system. |
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Union of Concerned Scientists: Energy Page UCS analyzes and advocates energy solutions that are sustainable both environmentally and economically. |
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UNITE: Stop Sweatshops Campaign |
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United Farm Workers |
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United for a Fair Economy |
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United Students Against Sweatshops |
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Victoria International Development Education Association VIDEA is based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and has been operating as a non-profit development, education learning centre since 1977. We work to create awareness of how global development, particularly in the Third World, connects to our ability to create sustainable communities at home. We also take action through working in community and overseas partnerships. |
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War Resister's League WRL is committed not only to eliminating war, but the causes of war-causes intricately linked to the violence that pervades our society. Offering publications and other resources about non-violence. They also maintain a list of peace demonstrations with a form so that users can add their own. |
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Why Shop? Why Shop? informs consumers about how purchases affect women globally. |
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Women's Action for New Directions |
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Women's Environment & Development Organization |
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Worker Rights Consortium |
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World Advocacy This website, based in Canada, lists advocacy groups in many categories, and provides services for class action suits. |
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World Bank Bonds Boycott |
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World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers The fishing communities of the world are uniting in the World Forum of Fish-harvesters and Fishworkers to uphold their human rights, social justice and culture. |
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World Rainforest Movement An international network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests.Based in Uruguay. |
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World Resources Institute Earth Trends: The Environmental Information Portal |
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World Social Forum Here you will find information on the organizers of the World Social Forum, who supports them and how to contact them. You will also discover the origins of this initiative. |
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