| POLITICAL INDEX |
The ABC No Rio Blackroom Folio Project
Alexa Score = 1,774,346 Category = Community Contact = 212-254-3697
Location = ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street New York NY
ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism. We are known internationally as a venue for
oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social
engagement and we retain these values to the present. We seek to facilitate cross-pollination between
artists and activists. ABC No Rio is a place where people share resources and ideas to impact society,
culture, and community. We believe that art and activism should be for everyone, not just the
professionals, experts, and cognoscenti. Our dream is a cadres of actively aware artists and artfully
aware activists.
ABCRio
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Advancement Project
Alexa Score = 2,152,799 Category = Political - Democratic Contact = 202-728-9557
Location = 1220 L Street, NW, Suite 850 Washington, DC 20005
is a democracy and justice action group. We work with communities seeking to build a fair and just multi-
racial democracy in America. Using law, public policy and strategic communications, Advancement
Project acts in partnership with local communities to advance universal opportunity, equity and access
for those left behind in America. From our inception, we have sought to link communities with external
resources such as other local groups working on allied issues and causes, lawyers, journalists, policy
analysts, data and relevant research, technical and communications support. Our relationships are at
the core of our work. They define and shape our ability to activate successful reform efforts in
traditionally difficult arenas with strong coalitions of interested parties.
Advancement
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Artist Against The War
Alexa Score = not available Category = Political - Anti-War Contact = aawnyc@hotmail.com
Location = not available
We deplore the death, destruction and lawlessness that the "coalition of the willing" unleashed with its
invasion of Iraq. We are shamed by our government's contempt for other cultures and the silencing of
dissent in America. We remain deeply concerned about the threat to human life in the Middle East and
to the world's memory and history embedded in Iraq. We dramatize our outrage through ongoing visual
actions. Sometimes small movements, a ripple can express the collective indignation of a community.
AAW
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Africa Action
Alexa Score = 938,733 Category = Cultural African Contact = 202-546-7961
Location = 1634 Eye Street, NW, #810 Washington, DC 20006
is the oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs. We are a national organization based in
Washington, DC. Our work dates back to 1953, the year our oldest predecessor organization was
founded in New York. Today, in partnership with activists and civil society organizations throughout the
United States and in Africa, Africa Action is working to change U.S. foreign policy and the policies of
international institutions in order to support African struggles for peace and development. By changing
the policies of our own government, we have proven that we can make a real difference.
Africa Action
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The Alliance for Justice
Alexa Score = 938,733 Category = Cultural African Contact = 202-822-6070
Location = AFJ Washington DC HQ, 11 Dupont Circle NW 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20036
is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer
advocacy organizations. Since its inception in 1979, the Alliance has worked to advance the cause of
justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community's ability to influence public policy,
and foster the next generation of advocates.
Alliance for Justice
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Alternative Palestinian Agenda
Alexa Score = no data Category = Political Mideast Contact = fontenelles@mindspring.com
Location = 1134 E 34th St Brooklyn, NY 11210
Vision
Right for all Palestinians to live in historic Palestine
with freedom, equality, and dignity.
Mission
Achieve a fair, durable, and realizable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Guiding Principles
Acknowledgement that Palestinians and Israelis are integral components of historic Palestine
Affirmation that Palestinians decide their own destiny
Respect for individual and collective rights of Palestinians and Israelis and other communities
Mutual accommodation of Palestinian and Israeli concerns and aspirations
Recognition of the shortcomings of the two-state solution and the need for new viable alternatives
Declaration that a viable resolution must address all aspects of the conflict
Goals
End the Israeli occupation
Reorganize the Palestinian political system and civil society
Implement the Palestinian right of return
End discrimination, dispossession, and land expropriation against Palestinians in Israel
APA
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Amnesty International
Alexa Score = 46,300 Category = Ecological Contact = 212.807.8400
Location = 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001
vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision,
AI's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the
rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from
discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
Amensty
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The Annenberg Political Fact Check
Alexa Score = 57,784 Category = Political Progressive Contact = Editor@FactCheck.org
Location = 320 National Press Building Washington, D.C. 20045
We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of
deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S.
political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to
apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public
knowledge and understanding. The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public
Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and
philanthropist Walter Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the
University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state, and federal levels.
The APPC accepts NO funding from business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying
organizations or individuals. It is funded primarily by an endowment from the Annenberg Foundation
APFC
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Anti-Defamation League
Alexa Score = 79,627 Category = Community Contact = not available
Location = 823 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017
The mission of ADL today is, as it has been in the past, to expose and combat the purveyors of hatred in
our midst, responding to whatever new challenges may arise. Where once we protested admissions
quotas at leading graduate schools, today we expose Internet sites devoted to Holocaust denial and
white-supremacist propaganda. In the past, we challenged the anti-Semitic ranting of demagogues like
Father Coughlin; in the present, we are no less vocal in opposition to Louis Farrakhan.
Anti-Defamation League
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American Association for Affirmative Action
Alexa Score = 2,575,117 Category = Professional Contact = 800.252.8952
Location = 888 16th Street, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20006
Founded in 1974, the American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA) is dedicated to the
advancement of affirmative action, equal opportunity and the elimination of discrimination on the basis
of race, gender, ethnic background or any other criterion that deprives people of opportunities to live
and work. The organization's dedication is realized in its many activities designed to help Equal
Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) professionals be more successful and productive
in their careers.
American Association for Affirmative Action
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The American Friends Service Committee
Alexa Score = 480,681 Category = Community Contact = 212-598-0950
Location = Regional Office 15 Rutherford Place New York, NY 10003
carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by
Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims,
AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures.
AFSC's work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to
overcome violence and injustice. The organization's mission and achievements won worldwide
recognition in 1947 when it accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with the British Friends Service Council on
behalf of all Quakers.
AFSC
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Books Through Bars
Alexa Score = 10,957,136 Category = Community Contact = info@booksthroughbars.org
Location = 4722 Baltimore Ave Philadelphia, PA 19143
We believe a society of social and economic inequality leads to a cycle of crime and incarceration. We
work to reverse the dehumanizing effects excessive punishment inflicts upon individuals, families and
communities. Books Through Bars sends quality reading material to prisoners and encourages creative
dialogue on the criminal justice system, thereby educating those living inside and outside of prison
walls.
Books Through Bars
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The Brecht Forum
Alexa Score = 1,730,177 Category = Community Contact = brechtforum@brechtforum.org
Location = 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014
The BRECHT FORUM is a place for people who are working for social justice, equality and a new culture
that puts human needs first. Through its programs and events, the Brecht Forum brings people
together across social and cultural boundaries and artistic and academic disciplines to promote critical
analysis, creative thinking, collaborative projects and networking in an independent community-level
environment.
Throughout the year, the Brecht Forum offers a wide-ranging program of classes, public lectures and
seminars, art exhibitions, performances, popular education workshops, and language classes. These
activities are developed in collaboration with the many social movements and the diverse communities
of this most cosmopolitan of cities, and our programs bring together leading intellectuals, activists and
artists from New York, across the U.S., and internationally.
Brecht Forum
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Big Noise Tactical
Alexa Score = 4,784,605 Category = Professional Contact = rick@bignoisetactical.org
Location = 56 Walker St New York, NY 10013
is a not-for-profit, all-volunteer collective of media-makers around the world, dedicated to circulating
beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images. We are not filmmakers producing and distributing our work.
We are rebels, crystallizating radical community and weaving a network of skin and images, of dreams
and bone, of solidarity and connection against the isolation, alienation and cynicism of capitalist
decomposition.
Big Noise
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California Wilderness Coalition
Alexa Score = 2,795,766 Category = Ecological Contact = info@calwild.org
Location = 1212 Broadway, Suite 1700 Oakland, CA 94612
With towering redwood forests, pristine mountain peaks, and rugged desert landscapes, the wild lands
of California encompass some of the most beautiful and diverse places on earth. These are refuges
where eagles still soar across the horizon and salmon still swim from ocean to river–-lands where
nature thrives and the human spirit is free. California’s wild places offer a retreat from the frenetic pace
of everyday life, and are also critically important to the ecological health of our
egion. Wilderness provides homes to threatened wildlife, supplies clean drinking water to California’s
growing communities, and contributes to clean air in our skies. The California Wilderness Coalition is
the only organization dedicated to protecting California's wild places and native biodiversity on a
statewide level. Through advocacy and public education, CWC builds support for threatened wild
places, from oak woodlands to ancient forests and deserts. We coordinate our efforts with
community leaders, business people, local organizations and policy-makers.
CWC
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Catholic Worker Movement
Alexa Score = 2,493,408 Category = Religious Catholic Contact = jallaire@charter.net
Location = 251 E. Wabasha St Winona, MN 55987
founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity
of every human person. Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence,
voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic
Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and
violence of all forms.
Catholic Worker Movement
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Campaign for America's Future
Alexa Score = 190,699 Category = Political Progressive Contact = 202-955-5665
Location = 1825 K Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20006
Over 100 Prominent Americans — citizen activists and policy experts concerned about our country and
our planet — joined together to launch and build the Campaign for America's Future. We are challenging
the big money corporate agenda by encouraging Americans to speak up — to discuss and debate a new
vision of an economy and a future that works for all of us. America's Future insists that the question of
falling wages and rising insecurity be placed at the center of our national debate. We challenge those
who suggest that nothing can be done and expose the conservative agenda that has made things
worse. America's Future works to revitalize a progressive agenda, and fights to make this economy
work for working people once again. We engage citizens, activists and political leaders in a renewed
debate about the kind of country — and the kind of world — we want to build for the generations yet to
come.
CAF
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The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict
Alexa Score = 3,214,328 Category = Community Contact = marlaruzika@earthlink.net
Location = 1700 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20009
CIVIC is a small organization working to obtain U.S. Government assistance for communities and families
in need, while helping to shine a spotlight on the human costs of war.
The humanitarian situation in Iraq remains serious. CIVIC seeks to mitigate the impact of the conflict and
its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance is
provided to those in need. We have kept the stories of families harmed in both Iraq and Afghanistan on
the agenda both on the ground and in the halls of Congress. In the short time we have been operating,
we have succeeded in putting laws in place that will assist those we identified in our field
survey work. CIVIC also works to promote public understanding, engagement and support for the
human dimension in wars. Civilian casualties and injuries are the most unacceptable consequence of all
wars - threatening the survival and dignity of millions of ordinary men, women and children. We believe
it is a moral and humanitarian duty for each death and injury to be recorded, publicized, and given the
weight it deserves. We need your help! Please consider making a donation to allow us to continue our
work today. Thank you.
CIVIC
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Campus Activism
Alexa Score = 1,055,579 Category = Community Contact = esubsonly@oc-tech.org
Location = PO Box 400897 Cambridge, MA 02140
This website shall strengthen the progressive student and youth movement in the US and Canada
through the sharing of contacts, event information, ideas and resources. We want to help you win! The
CampusActivism team created this website to empower *YOU*. If *you* contribute, and use it to contact
fellow activists then this website will succeed. We're aiming at nothing less than to spark a powerful
student movement that will fight for justice everywhere.
Campus
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Campus Antiwar Network
Alexa Score = 5,179,995 Category = Political Progressive Contact = info@campusantiwar.net
Location = not available
We are an independent, democratic, grassroots network of campus-based anti-war committees
We stand opposed to all US wars of aggression.
We stand opposed to the occupation of Iraq under the auspicies of the United Nations or any other
foreign power.
We support the right of the Iraqi people to self-determination.
We demand the immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq.
We demand that the US government pay reparations to the Iraqi people.
We oppose the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and call for the immediate withdrawal of all US
troops.
We stand opposed to the oppression of the Palestinian people and the occupation of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
We stand opposed to racist scapegoating and all attacks on civil liberties.
We demand money for education, jobs and healthcare, not war and occupation!
CAN
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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Alexa Score = 11,621,979 Category = Honors Contact = info@carnegieendowment.org
Location = 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036-2103
is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting
active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910, its work is nonpartisan and
dedicated to achieving practical results. Through research, publishing, convening, and on occasion,
creating new institutions and international networks, Endowment associates shape fresh policy
approaches. Their interests span geographic regions and the relations among governments, business,
international organizations and civil society, focusing on the economic, political, and technological
forces driving global change.
Carnegie Endowment
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Casa Atabex Ache Collective
Alexa Score = 21,710,209 Category = Feminist Contact = casaatabexache@aol.com
Location = 471 East 140th Street Bronx, New York 10454
In the 1960's young people began to seriously organize their communities in response to the
oppressive conditions in education, housing, health and the general deterioration of our communities
nationwide. In New York, the Young Lords party and the Black Panther Party started attacking the
problem by organizing garbage protests, freedom schools, and health care actions. As a coalition they
began Health Revolutionary Action Movement (HRAM), which organized against lead poisoning, took
over Lincoln Hospital and the Department of Health Immunization Van to do community TB testing and
began to develop grassroots community health care programs and models. Among the participants was
Walter Basque, Mutulu Shakur and Urayoana Trinidad who founded the Lincoln Detox Acupuncture
Clinic.
CAAC
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The Center for American Progress
Alexa Score = 50,151 Category = Political Democratic Contact = progress@americanprogress.org
Location = 1333 H Street NW 10th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005
is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free
America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe Americans are bound together by a common
commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure our national policies reflect these values. Our
policy and communications efforts are organized around four major objectives:
• developing a long term vision of a progressive America,
• providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals,
• responding effectively and rapidly to conservative proposals and rhetoric with a thoughtful critique
and clear alternatives, and
• communicating progressive messages to the American public.
CAP
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The Center for Constitutional Rights
Alexa Score = not available Category = Political Democratic Contact = rbest@ccr-ny.org
Location = 666 Broadway 7th floor New York, NY 10012
(CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the
rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities
and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access
to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to
strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights.
CCR
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Center for Digital Democracy
Alexa Score = 851,862 Category = Community Contact = jeff@democraticmedia.org
Location = 1718 Connecticut Ave, Ste 200 Washington, DC 20005
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet
in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the
development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming. To these ends, CDD
has four broad goals: -To enhance public understanding of the changing dimensions of the US digital
media system, by explaining the communications options and the public-interest resources that citizens
should have at their disposal. -To foster the development of a new generation of activists to work on
digital media policy issues, and to make the media industry more accountable to the public. -To promote
the development of a new online "commons," a consolidated and more visible space in which the public
will have access to a variety of noncommercial sources of information and service. -To stimulate
nonprofit organizations (especially progressive, public-interest groups) to become active producers of
next-generation broadband media content.
CDD
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The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Alexa Score = 1,654,325 Category = Professional Contact = gstevens@clw.org
Location = 322 4th St., NE Washington, D.C. 20002
The Center is a Washington, D.C. based 501(c)3 non-profit policy organization that seeks the reduction
and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons as a significant tool of U.S. national security policy. The
Center covers numerous peace and security issues affected by proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction including U.S. nonproliferation programs, national missile defense, failed and post-conflict
states and irresponsible defense spending.
Center for Arms Control
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The Center for Health and Gender Equity
Alexa Score = 3,404,248 Category = Feminist Contact = change@genderhealth.org
Location = 1317 F St. NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20004 USA
(CHANGE) is a U.S.-based non-governmental organization focused on the effects of U.S. international
policies on the health and rights of women, girls, and other vulnerable populations in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America. We believe that every individual has the right to the basic information, technologies, and
services needed to enjoy a healthy and safe sexual and reproductive life free from coercion and
preventable illness.
CHANGE
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The Center for Justice & Democracy
Alexa Score = 823,189 Category =Political Democratic Contact = centerjd@centerjd.org
Location = 90 Broad Street, Suite 401 New York, NY 10004
is a tax-exempt non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization that works to educate the public
about the importance of the civil justice system and the dangers of so-called "tort reforms."
CJ&D fights to protect the right to trial by jury and an independent judiciary for all Americans. CJ&D,
which isfunded by subscriptions, memberships, donations and foundation grants, is not connected to
any business ortrial lawyer organization.
CJ&D
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The Center for an Urban Future
Alexa Score = 2,548,022 Category = Community Contact = not available
Location = 120 Wall Street, 20th Floor, NY, NY 10005
is a New York City-based think tank that fuses journalistic reporting techniques with traditional policy
analysis to produce in-depth reports and workable policy solutions on the critical issues facing our
cities.
The Center
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Citizens For Global Solutions
Alexa Score = 1,242,576 Category = Professional Contact = info@globalsolutions.org
Location = 418 7th Street SE, Washington, DC 20003
Grassroots membership organization that inspires America to engage the world. It campaigns for
promoting the International Criminal Court and reforming the United Nations and it encourages the
United States to adopt a multilateral foreign policy that emphasizes cooperation with international
institutions.
CGS
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Codepink
Alexa Score = 750,711 Category = Political Progressive Contact = codepinknyc@gmail.com
Location = 630 9th Ave, Suite 216 NY, NY 10036
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in
Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming
activities. We reject the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead calls
for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law
CodePink
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Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence
Alexa Score = 4,401,949 Category = Cultural Asian Contact = stuy@caaav.org
Location = 2473 Valentine Ave Bronx, NY 10458
was founded by Asian women in 1986 as one of the first organizations in the United States to mobilize
Asian communities to counter anti-Asian violence. CAAAV focuses on institutional violence that affects
immigrant, poor and working-class communities such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban
poverty, police brutality, Immigration Naturalization Service detention and deportation, and
criminalization of youth and workers.
CAAAV
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The Community Emergency Response Team
Alexa Score = 196,697 Category = Community Contact = cert@dhs.gov
Location = not available
Following the tragic events that occurred on September 11, 2001, state and local government officials
have increased opportunities for citizens to become an integral part of protecting the homeland and
supporting the local first responders. Officials agree that the formula for ensuring a more secure and
safer homeland consists of preparedness, training, and citizen involvement in supporting first
responders.
CERT
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The Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations
Alexa Score = not available Category = Cultural Hispanic Contact = cuslar@cornell.edu
Location = 316 Anabel Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14850
(CUSLAR) is a network of volunteers promoting awareness of the culture and politics of Latin American
nations and their relationships with the United States. We support a coordinator and an office in Anabel
Taylor Hall at Cornell University, as a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy (CRESP).
CUSLAR
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Community Investing
Alexa Score = 4,764,432 Category = Community Contact = technology@coopamerica.org
Location = 1612 K St NW, Ste 600 Washington, DC 20006
Across America and around the world, many communities lack affordable housing, childcare, healthcare
and jobs that pay a living wage. Community investing is financing that creates resources and
opportunities for economically disadvantaged people in the U.S. and overseas who are underserved by
traditional financial institutions. You can put your money to work re-building these communities that
have been left behind. From opening a checking account at a community bank to investing in a mutual
fund that puts assets into communities, there's a whole range of options at Community Investing
Institutions available in our resource section. When you open an account with a Community Investing
Institution, your money goes towards strengthening community development. Community Investing
Institutions use your deposits and investments to provide financing to communities that are overlooked
by traditional lenders, creating resources and opportunities for people who need them most.
Community
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Community Voices Heard
Alexa Score = 15,003,079 Category = Community Contact = 212-860-6001
Location = 115 E 106 St., 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10029
Community Voices Heard (CVH) is an organization of low-income people, predominantly women on
welfare, working together to make improvements in our community, and advance the political, economic
and social rights of low-income people on welfare and other low-wage workers.
CMV
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Alexa Score = 1,614,976 Category = Cultural Native American Contact = workers@ciw-online.org
Location = 215 F W Main St, Immokalee, FL 34143
A community-based worker organization. Its members are largely Hispanic, Haitian, and Mayan Indian
immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the Southwest Florida region.
CIW
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Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Alexa Score = 14,265,700 Category = Political Democratic Socialism Contact = national@cc-ds.org
Location = Democracy and Socialism 545 Eight Avenue, Room #1215 New York, NY 10018
People of all races and national backgrounds who are committed to the struggle for democracy and
socialism. The CoC split from the Communist Party, USA after the fall of the Berlin Wall in favor of an
orientation closer to democratic socialism.
CCDS
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CorpWatch
Alexa Score = 147,188 Category = Professional Contact = 510-271-8080
Location = 2958 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110
CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud
and corruption around the world. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and
democratic control over corporations. Click here for our Vision and Guiding Principles Click here for
our latest Annual Report Click here for our 2005 Annual report.
CorpWatch
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Critical Resistance
Alexa Score = 3,099,900 Category = Community Contact = crne@criticalresistance.org
Location = 976 Longwood Ave. Bronx, NY 10459
seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief
that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food,
shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global
struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect
communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work
that extends its life or scope.
Critical Resistance
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Doctors Without Borders
Alexa Score = 231,343 Category = Professional Contact = 212-679-6800
Location = 333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001
Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to
victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health
care due to social or geographical isolation. MSF was founded in 1971 by a small group of French
doctors who believed that all people have the right to medical care regardless of race,religion, creed or
political affiliation, and that the needs of these people supersede respect for national borders. It was
the first non-governmental organization to both provideemergency medical assistance and publicly
bear witness to the plight of the populations they served.
MSF
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Domestic Workers United
Alexa Score = 12,231,519 Category = Professional Contact = domesticworkersunited@gmail.com
Location = 1201 Broadway Suite 907 New York, NY 10001
(DWU) is a city-wide, industry-wide alliance of domestic workers and domestic worker organizations that
have come together to gain respect and recognition for domestic workers, and establish fair labor
standards in an industry where abuse and exploitation are the norm. Founded in 2000 by members of
CAAAV and Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers (an organization of South Asian exploited and low-
wage workers based in Jackson Heights, Queens), DWU has launched a campaign called "Dignity for
Domestic Workers", which seeks to promote a standard contract for all
domestic work, including basic workers rights to sick days and vacation, and protection from
discrimination and unjust firings. DWU currently also includes Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and
is led by a multi-racial steering committee of domestic workers.
DWU
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Donors Choose
Alexa Score = 73,349 Category = Professional Contact = mitsu@donorschoose.org
Location = 347 W. 36th St, Ste 503 New York, NY 10018
Donors Choose is a program allowing teachers to propose any project that would delight and benefit
students. Viewers can read proposals and decide if they want to fund a project. History of the project,
how to submit or fund a proposal, and news.
Donors Choose
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DRUM
Alexa Score = 25,884,182 Category = Cultural Desis Contact = info@drumnyc.org
Location = 72-18 Roosevelt Avenue Jackson Heights, NY 11372
(Desis Rising Up and Moving) is a community-based social justice organization of working class and
poor South Asian immigrants and immigrant detainees and their families in New York City. Desi is a
common term used by people of South Asian descent to identify as people from Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Guyana, and Trinidad. Our mission is to organize
low-income immigrant detainees and South Asian immigrant communities for racial justice, immigrant
rights, and an end to detentions & deportations. DRUM’s organizing campaigns are accountable directly
to low-income South Asian youth, undocumented families, and
imprisoned immigrants. We are committed to building unity through joint work with progressive forces
in other people of color and oppressed communities. The long-term vision of DRUM is to build a social
justice movement amongst South Asian immigrants in the United States that is led by poor and working
class South Asians,progressive and people of color identified, and rooted in global justice.
DRUM
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The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Alexa Score = Not Available Category = Professional Contact = tk2326@columbia.edu
Location = 2910 Broadway, MC 3277 Hogan Hall, Level A New York, NY 10025
brings together talent from throughout the University to address complex issues facing the planet and
its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor. The
Earth Institute is motivated by the belief that science and technological tools already exist, and could be
expanded, to greatly improve conditions for the world's poor while preserving the natural systems that
support life on Earth.
Earth
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Earth Island Institute
Alexa Score = 399,388 Category = Professional Contact = alehmer@earthisland.org
Location = 300 Broadway, Ste 28 San Francisco, CA 94133
is an international environmental organization - providing organizational support to grassroot projects
concerning social/ecological issues - founded by David Brower in 1982. The 'Journal' is a quarterly
magazine, featuring “Local News from Around the World”. We publish original reports by
correspondents located all over the globe, translations from foreign languages and reprints from other
interesting publications that deserve a wider audience. Our circulation is 33,000 and growing - 3,000
copies are distributed to newsstands and bookstores throughout the country.
EII
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Alexa Score = 34,165 Category = Professional Contact = information@eff.org
Location = 1875 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 650 Washington, DC 20009
Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect
fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public
about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.
EFF
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The End of Occupation
Alexa Score = 1,133,653 Category = Political Contact = web@freedomrising.org
Location = PO Box 7471 New York, NY 10150
The US Campaign is a diverse coalition working for freedom from occupation and equal rights for all by
challenging US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Campaign is based on human rights
and international law, providing a non-sectarian framework for everyone who supports its Call to Action.
Its strategy is to inform, educate, and mobilize the public so as to change the US role in the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict to support peace, justice, human rights, and international law. The Campaign's three
organizing conferences in Washington, DC (June 2004, July 2003) and in Chicago (June 2002) brought
together several hundred groups and individuals from all over the US. As of July 2004, 140
organizations have signed on to the Campaign.
End Occupation
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Alexa Score = 1,774,346 Category = Community Contact = 212-254-3697
Location = ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street New York NY
ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism. We are known internationally as a venue for
oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social
engagement and we retain these values to the present. We seek to facilitate cross-pollination between
artists and activists. ABC No Rio is a place where people share resources and ideas to impact society,
culture, and community. We believe that art and activism should be for everyone, not just the
professionals, experts, and cognoscenti. Our dream is a cadres of actively aware artists and artfully
aware activists.
ABCRio
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Advancement Project
Alexa Score = 2,152,799 Category = Political - Democratic Contact = 202-728-9557
Location = 1220 L Street, NW, Suite 850 Washington, DC 20005
is a democracy and justice action group. We work with communities seeking to build a fair and just multi-
racial democracy in America. Using law, public policy and strategic communications, Advancement
Project acts in partnership with local communities to advance universal opportunity, equity and access
for those left behind in America. From our inception, we have sought to link communities with external
resources such as other local groups working on allied issues and causes, lawyers, journalists, policy
analysts, data and relevant research, technical and communications support. Our relationships are at
the core of our work. They define and shape our ability to activate successful reform efforts in
traditionally difficult arenas with strong coalitions of interested parties.
Advancement
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Artist Against The War
Alexa Score = not available Category = Political - Anti-War Contact = aawnyc@hotmail.com
Location = not available
We deplore the death, destruction and lawlessness that the "coalition of the willing" unleashed with its
invasion of Iraq. We are shamed by our government's contempt for other cultures and the silencing of
dissent in America. We remain deeply concerned about the threat to human life in the Middle East and
to the world's memory and history embedded in Iraq. We dramatize our outrage through ongoing visual
actions. Sometimes small movements, a ripple can express the collective indignation of a community.
AAW
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Africa Action
Alexa Score = 938,733 Category = Cultural African Contact = 202-546-7961
Location = 1634 Eye Street, NW, #810 Washington, DC 20006
is the oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs. We are a national organization based in
Washington, DC. Our work dates back to 1953, the year our oldest predecessor organization was
founded in New York. Today, in partnership with activists and civil society organizations throughout the
United States and in Africa, Africa Action is working to change U.S. foreign policy and the policies of
international institutions in order to support African struggles for peace and development. By changing
the policies of our own government, we have proven that we can make a real difference.
Africa Action
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The Alliance for Justice
Alexa Score = 938,733 Category = Cultural African Contact = 202-822-6070
Location = AFJ Washington DC HQ, 11 Dupont Circle NW 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20036
is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer
advocacy organizations. Since its inception in 1979, the Alliance has worked to advance the cause of
justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community's ability to influence public policy,
and foster the next generation of advocates.
Alliance for Justice
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Alternative Palestinian Agenda
Alexa Score = no data Category = Political Mideast Contact = fontenelles@mindspring.com
Location = 1134 E 34th St Brooklyn, NY 11210
Vision
Right for all Palestinians to live in historic Palestine
with freedom, equality, and dignity.
Mission
Achieve a fair, durable, and realizable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Guiding Principles
Acknowledgement that Palestinians and Israelis are integral components of historic Palestine
Affirmation that Palestinians decide their own destiny
Respect for individual and collective rights of Palestinians and Israelis and other communities
Mutual accommodation of Palestinian and Israeli concerns and aspirations
Recognition of the shortcomings of the two-state solution and the need for new viable alternatives
Declaration that a viable resolution must address all aspects of the conflict
Goals
End the Israeli occupation
Reorganize the Palestinian political system and civil society
Implement the Palestinian right of return
End discrimination, dispossession, and land expropriation against Palestinians in Israel
APA
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Amnesty International
Alexa Score = 46,300 Category = Ecological Contact = 212.807.8400
Location = 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001
vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision,
AI's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the
rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from
discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
Amensty
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The Annenberg Political Fact Check
Alexa Score = 57,784 Category = Political Progressive Contact = Editor@FactCheck.org
Location = 320 National Press Building Washington, D.C. 20045
We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of
deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S.
political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to
apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public
knowledge and understanding. The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public
Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and
philanthropist Walter Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the
University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state, and federal levels.
The APPC accepts NO funding from business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying
organizations or individuals. It is funded primarily by an endowment from the Annenberg Foundation
APFC
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Anti-Defamation League
Alexa Score = 79,627 Category = Community Contact = not available
Location = 823 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017
The mission of ADL today is, as it has been in the past, to expose and combat the purveyors of hatred in
our midst, responding to whatever new challenges may arise. Where once we protested admissions
quotas at leading graduate schools, today we expose Internet sites devoted to Holocaust denial and
white-supremacist propaganda. In the past, we challenged the anti-Semitic ranting of demagogues like
Father Coughlin; in the present, we are no less vocal in opposition to Louis Farrakhan.
Anti-Defamation League
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American Association for Affirmative Action
Alexa Score = 2,575,117 Category = Professional Contact = 800.252.8952
Location = 888 16th Street, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20006
Founded in 1974, the American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA) is dedicated to the
advancement of affirmative action, equal opportunity and the elimination of discrimination on the basis
of race, gender, ethnic background or any other criterion that deprives people of opportunities to live
and work. The organization's dedication is realized in its many activities designed to help Equal
Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) professionals be more successful and productive
in their careers.
American Association for Affirmative Action
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The American Friends Service Committee
Alexa Score = 480,681 Category = Community Contact = 212-598-0950
Location = Regional Office 15 Rutherford Place New York, NY 10003
carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by
Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims,
AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures.
AFSC's work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to
overcome violence and injustice. The organization's mission and achievements won worldwide
recognition in 1947 when it accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with the British Friends Service Council on
behalf of all Quakers.
AFSC
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Books Through Bars
Alexa Score = 10,957,136 Category = Community Contact = info@booksthroughbars.org
Location = 4722 Baltimore Ave Philadelphia, PA 19143
We believe a society of social and economic inequality leads to a cycle of crime and incarceration. We
work to reverse the dehumanizing effects excessive punishment inflicts upon individuals, families and
communities. Books Through Bars sends quality reading material to prisoners and encourages creative
dialogue on the criminal justice system, thereby educating those living inside and outside of prison
walls.
Books Through Bars
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The Brecht Forum
Alexa Score = 1,730,177 Category = Community Contact = brechtforum@brechtforum.org
Location = 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014
The BRECHT FORUM is a place for people who are working for social justice, equality and a new culture
that puts human needs first. Through its programs and events, the Brecht Forum brings people
together across social and cultural boundaries and artistic and academic disciplines to promote critical
analysis, creative thinking, collaborative projects and networking in an independent community-level
environment.
Throughout the year, the Brecht Forum offers a wide-ranging program of classes, public lectures and
seminars, art exhibitions, performances, popular education workshops, and language classes. These
activities are developed in collaboration with the many social movements and the diverse communities
of this most cosmopolitan of cities, and our programs bring together leading intellectuals, activists and
artists from New York, across the U.S., and internationally.
Brecht Forum
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Big Noise Tactical
Alexa Score = 4,784,605 Category = Professional Contact = rick@bignoisetactical.org
Location = 56 Walker St New York, NY 10013
is a not-for-profit, all-volunteer collective of media-makers around the world, dedicated to circulating
beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images. We are not filmmakers producing and distributing our work.
We are rebels, crystallizating radical community and weaving a network of skin and images, of dreams
and bone, of solidarity and connection against the isolation, alienation and cynicism of capitalist
decomposition.
Big Noise
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California Wilderness Coalition
Alexa Score = 2,795,766 Category = Ecological Contact = info@calwild.org
Location = 1212 Broadway, Suite 1700 Oakland, CA 94612
With towering redwood forests, pristine mountain peaks, and rugged desert landscapes, the wild lands
of California encompass some of the most beautiful and diverse places on earth. These are refuges
where eagles still soar across the horizon and salmon still swim from ocean to river–-lands where
nature thrives and the human spirit is free. California’s wild places offer a retreat from the frenetic pace
of everyday life, and are also critically important to the ecological health of our
egion. Wilderness provides homes to threatened wildlife, supplies clean drinking water to California’s
growing communities, and contributes to clean air in our skies. The California Wilderness Coalition is
the only organization dedicated to protecting California's wild places and native biodiversity on a
statewide level. Through advocacy and public education, CWC builds support for threatened wild
places, from oak woodlands to ancient forests and deserts. We coordinate our efforts with
community leaders, business people, local organizations and policy-makers.
CWC
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Catholic Worker Movement
Alexa Score = 2,493,408 Category = Religious Catholic Contact = jallaire@charter.net
Location = 251 E. Wabasha St Winona, MN 55987
founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity
of every human person. Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence,
voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic
Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and
violence of all forms.
Catholic Worker Movement
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Campaign for America's Future
Alexa Score = 190,699 Category = Political Progressive Contact = 202-955-5665
Location = 1825 K Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20006
Over 100 Prominent Americans — citizen activists and policy experts concerned about our country and
our planet — joined together to launch and build the Campaign for America's Future. We are challenging
the big money corporate agenda by encouraging Americans to speak up — to discuss and debate a new
vision of an economy and a future that works for all of us. America's Future insists that the question of
falling wages and rising insecurity be placed at the center of our national debate. We challenge those
who suggest that nothing can be done and expose the conservative agenda that has made things
worse. America's Future works to revitalize a progressive agenda, and fights to make this economy
work for working people once again. We engage citizens, activists and political leaders in a renewed
debate about the kind of country — and the kind of world — we want to build for the generations yet to
come.
CAF
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The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict
Alexa Score = 3,214,328 Category = Community Contact = marlaruzika@earthlink.net
Location = 1700 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20009
CIVIC is a small organization working to obtain U.S. Government assistance for communities and families
in need, while helping to shine a spotlight on the human costs of war.
The humanitarian situation in Iraq remains serious. CIVIC seeks to mitigate the impact of the conflict and
its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance is
provided to those in need. We have kept the stories of families harmed in both Iraq and Afghanistan on
the agenda both on the ground and in the halls of Congress. In the short time we have been operating,
we have succeeded in putting laws in place that will assist those we identified in our field
survey work. CIVIC also works to promote public understanding, engagement and support for the
human dimension in wars. Civilian casualties and injuries are the most unacceptable consequence of all
wars - threatening the survival and dignity of millions of ordinary men, women and children. We believe
it is a moral and humanitarian duty for each death and injury to be recorded, publicized, and given the
weight it deserves. We need your help! Please consider making a donation to allow us to continue our
work today. Thank you.
CIVIC
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Campus Activism
Alexa Score = 1,055,579 Category = Community Contact = esubsonly@oc-tech.org
Location = PO Box 400897 Cambridge, MA 02140
This website shall strengthen the progressive student and youth movement in the US and Canada
through the sharing of contacts, event information, ideas and resources. We want to help you win! The
CampusActivism team created this website to empower *YOU*. If *you* contribute, and use it to contact
fellow activists then this website will succeed. We're aiming at nothing less than to spark a powerful
student movement that will fight for justice everywhere.
Campus
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Campus Antiwar Network
Alexa Score = 5,179,995 Category = Political Progressive Contact = info@campusantiwar.net
Location = not available
We are an independent, democratic, grassroots network of campus-based anti-war committees
We stand opposed to all US wars of aggression.
We stand opposed to the occupation of Iraq under the auspicies of the United Nations or any other
foreign power.
We support the right of the Iraqi people to self-determination.
We demand the immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq.
We demand that the US government pay reparations to the Iraqi people.
We oppose the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and call for the immediate withdrawal of all US
troops.
We stand opposed to the oppression of the Palestinian people and the occupation of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
We stand opposed to racist scapegoating and all attacks on civil liberties.
We demand money for education, jobs and healthcare, not war and occupation!
CAN
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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Alexa Score = 11,621,979 Category = Honors Contact = info@carnegieendowment.org
Location = 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036-2103
is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting
active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910, its work is nonpartisan and
dedicated to achieving practical results. Through research, publishing, convening, and on occasion,
creating new institutions and international networks, Endowment associates shape fresh policy
approaches. Their interests span geographic regions and the relations among governments, business,
international organizations and civil society, focusing on the economic, political, and technological
forces driving global change.
Carnegie Endowment
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Casa Atabex Ache Collective
Alexa Score = 21,710,209 Category = Feminist Contact = casaatabexache@aol.com
Location = 471 East 140th Street Bronx, New York 10454
In the 1960's young people began to seriously organize their communities in response to the
oppressive conditions in education, housing, health and the general deterioration of our communities
nationwide. In New York, the Young Lords party and the Black Panther Party started attacking the
problem by organizing garbage protests, freedom schools, and health care actions. As a coalition they
began Health Revolutionary Action Movement (HRAM), which organized against lead poisoning, took
over Lincoln Hospital and the Department of Health Immunization Van to do community TB testing and
began to develop grassroots community health care programs and models. Among the participants was
Walter Basque, Mutulu Shakur and Urayoana Trinidad who founded the Lincoln Detox Acupuncture
Clinic.
CAAC
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The Center for American Progress
Alexa Score = 50,151 Category = Political Democratic Contact = progress@americanprogress.org
Location = 1333 H Street NW 10th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005
is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free
America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe Americans are bound together by a common
commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure our national policies reflect these values. Our
policy and communications efforts are organized around four major objectives:
• developing a long term vision of a progressive America,
• providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals,
• responding effectively and rapidly to conservative proposals and rhetoric with a thoughtful critique
and clear alternatives, and
• communicating progressive messages to the American public.
CAP
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The Center for Constitutional Rights
Alexa Score = not available Category = Political Democratic Contact = rbest@ccr-ny.org
Location = 666 Broadway 7th floor New York, NY 10012
(CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the
rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities
and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access
to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to
strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights.
CCR
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Center for Digital Democracy
Alexa Score = 851,862 Category = Community Contact = jeff@democraticmedia.org
Location = 1718 Connecticut Ave, Ste 200 Washington, DC 20005
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet
in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the
development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming. To these ends, CDD
has four broad goals: -To enhance public understanding of the changing dimensions of the US digital
media system, by explaining the communications options and the public-interest resources that citizens
should have at their disposal. -To foster the development of a new generation of activists to work on
digital media policy issues, and to make the media industry more accountable to the public. -To promote
the development of a new online "commons," a consolidated and more visible space in which the public
will have access to a variety of noncommercial sources of information and service. -To stimulate
nonprofit organizations (especially progressive, public-interest groups) to become active producers of
next-generation broadband media content.
CDD
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The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Alexa Score = 1,654,325 Category = Professional Contact = gstevens@clw.org
Location = 322 4th St., NE Washington, D.C. 20002
The Center is a Washington, D.C. based 501(c)3 non-profit policy organization that seeks the reduction
and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons as a significant tool of U.S. national security policy. The
Center covers numerous peace and security issues affected by proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction including U.S. nonproliferation programs, national missile defense, failed and post-conflict
states and irresponsible defense spending.
Center for Arms Control
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The Center for Health and Gender Equity
Alexa Score = 3,404,248 Category = Feminist Contact = change@genderhealth.org
Location = 1317 F St. NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20004 USA
(CHANGE) is a U.S.-based non-governmental organization focused on the effects of U.S. international
policies on the health and rights of women, girls, and other vulnerable populations in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America. We believe that every individual has the right to the basic information, technologies, and
services needed to enjoy a healthy and safe sexual and reproductive life free from coercion and
preventable illness.
CHANGE
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The Center for Justice & Democracy
Alexa Score = 823,189 Category =Political Democratic Contact = centerjd@centerjd.org
Location = 90 Broad Street, Suite 401 New York, NY 10004
is a tax-exempt non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization that works to educate the public
about the importance of the civil justice system and the dangers of so-called "tort reforms."
CJ&D fights to protect the right to trial by jury and an independent judiciary for all Americans. CJ&D,
which isfunded by subscriptions, memberships, donations and foundation grants, is not connected to
any business ortrial lawyer organization.
CJ&D
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The Center for an Urban Future
Alexa Score = 2,548,022 Category = Community Contact = not available
Location = 120 Wall Street, 20th Floor, NY, NY 10005
is a New York City-based think tank that fuses journalistic reporting techniques with traditional policy
analysis to produce in-depth reports and workable policy solutions on the critical issues facing our
cities.
The Center
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Citizens For Global Solutions
Alexa Score = 1,242,576 Category = Professional Contact = info@globalsolutions.org
Location = 418 7th Street SE, Washington, DC 20003
Grassroots membership organization that inspires America to engage the world. It campaigns for
promoting the International Criminal Court and reforming the United Nations and it encourages the
United States to adopt a multilateral foreign policy that emphasizes cooperation with international
institutions.
CGS
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Codepink
Alexa Score = 750,711 Category = Political Progressive Contact = codepinknyc@gmail.com
Location = 630 9th Ave, Suite 216 NY, NY 10036
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in
Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming
activities. We reject the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead calls
for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law
CodePink
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Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence
Alexa Score = 4,401,949 Category = Cultural Asian Contact = stuy@caaav.org
Location = 2473 Valentine Ave Bronx, NY 10458
was founded by Asian women in 1986 as one of the first organizations in the United States to mobilize
Asian communities to counter anti-Asian violence. CAAAV focuses on institutional violence that affects
immigrant, poor and working-class communities such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban
poverty, police brutality, Immigration Naturalization Service detention and deportation, and
criminalization of youth and workers.
CAAAV
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The Community Emergency Response Team
Alexa Score = 196,697 Category = Community Contact = cert@dhs.gov
Location = not available
Following the tragic events that occurred on September 11, 2001, state and local government officials
have increased opportunities for citizens to become an integral part of protecting the homeland and
supporting the local first responders. Officials agree that the formula for ensuring a more secure and
safer homeland consists of preparedness, training, and citizen involvement in supporting first
responders.
CERT
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The Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations
Alexa Score = not available Category = Cultural Hispanic Contact = cuslar@cornell.edu
Location = 316 Anabel Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14850
(CUSLAR) is a network of volunteers promoting awareness of the culture and politics of Latin American
nations and their relationships with the United States. We support a coordinator and an office in Anabel
Taylor Hall at Cornell University, as a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy (CRESP).
CUSLAR
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Community Investing
Alexa Score = 4,764,432 Category = Community Contact = technology@coopamerica.org
Location = 1612 K St NW, Ste 600 Washington, DC 20006
Across America and around the world, many communities lack affordable housing, childcare, healthcare
and jobs that pay a living wage. Community investing is financing that creates resources and
opportunities for economically disadvantaged people in the U.S. and overseas who are underserved by
traditional financial institutions. You can put your money to work re-building these communities that
have been left behind. From opening a checking account at a community bank to investing in a mutual
fund that puts assets into communities, there's a whole range of options at Community Investing
Institutions available in our resource section. When you open an account with a Community Investing
Institution, your money goes towards strengthening community development. Community Investing
Institutions use your deposits and investments to provide financing to communities that are overlooked
by traditional lenders, creating resources and opportunities for people who need them most.
Community
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Community Voices Heard
Alexa Score = 15,003,079 Category = Community Contact = 212-860-6001
Location = 115 E 106 St., 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10029
Community Voices Heard (CVH) is an organization of low-income people, predominantly women on
welfare, working together to make improvements in our community, and advance the political, economic
and social rights of low-income people on welfare and other low-wage workers.
CMV
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Alexa Score = 1,614,976 Category = Cultural Native American Contact = workers@ciw-online.org
Location = 215 F W Main St, Immokalee, FL 34143
A community-based worker organization. Its members are largely Hispanic, Haitian, and Mayan Indian
immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the Southwest Florida region.
CIW
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Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Alexa Score = 14,265,700 Category = Political Democratic Socialism Contact = national@cc-ds.org
Location = Democracy and Socialism 545 Eight Avenue, Room #1215 New York, NY 10018
People of all races and national backgrounds who are committed to the struggle for democracy and
socialism. The CoC split from the Communist Party, USA after the fall of the Berlin Wall in favor of an
orientation closer to democratic socialism.
CCDS
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CorpWatch
Alexa Score = 147,188 Category = Professional Contact = 510-271-8080
Location = 2958 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110
CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud
and corruption around the world. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and
democratic control over corporations. Click here for our Vision and Guiding Principles Click here for
our latest Annual Report Click here for our 2005 Annual report.
CorpWatch
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Critical Resistance
Alexa Score = 3,099,900 Category = Community Contact = crne@criticalresistance.org
Location = 976 Longwood Ave. Bronx, NY 10459
seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief
that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food,
shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global
struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect
communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work
that extends its life or scope.
Critical Resistance
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Doctors Without Borders
Alexa Score = 231,343 Category = Professional Contact = 212-679-6800
Location = 333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001
Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to
victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health
care due to social or geographical isolation. MSF was founded in 1971 by a small group of French
doctors who believed that all people have the right to medical care regardless of race,religion, creed or
political affiliation, and that the needs of these people supersede respect for national borders. It was
the first non-governmental organization to both provideemergency medical assistance and publicly
bear witness to the plight of the populations they served.
MSF
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Domestic Workers United
Alexa Score = 12,231,519 Category = Professional Contact = domesticworkersunited@gmail.com
Location = 1201 Broadway Suite 907 New York, NY 10001
(DWU) is a city-wide, industry-wide alliance of domestic workers and domestic worker organizations that
have come together to gain respect and recognition for domestic workers, and establish fair labor
standards in an industry where abuse and exploitation are the norm. Founded in 2000 by members of
CAAAV and Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers (an organization of South Asian exploited and low-
wage workers based in Jackson Heights, Queens), DWU has launched a campaign called "Dignity for
Domestic Workers", which seeks to promote a standard contract for all
domestic work, including basic workers rights to sick days and vacation, and protection from
discrimination and unjust firings. DWU currently also includes Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and
is led by a multi-racial steering committee of domestic workers.
DWU
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Donors Choose
Alexa Score = 73,349 Category = Professional Contact = mitsu@donorschoose.org
Location = 347 W. 36th St, Ste 503 New York, NY 10018
Donors Choose is a program allowing teachers to propose any project that would delight and benefit
students. Viewers can read proposals and decide if they want to fund a project. History of the project,
how to submit or fund a proposal, and news.
Donors Choose
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DRUM
Alexa Score = 25,884,182 Category = Cultural Desis Contact = info@drumnyc.org
Location = 72-18 Roosevelt Avenue Jackson Heights, NY 11372
(Desis Rising Up and Moving) is a community-based social justice organization of working class and
poor South Asian immigrants and immigrant detainees and their families in New York City. Desi is a
common term used by people of South Asian descent to identify as people from Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Guyana, and Trinidad. Our mission is to organize
low-income immigrant detainees and South Asian immigrant communities for racial justice, immigrant
rights, and an end to detentions & deportations. DRUM’s organizing campaigns are accountable directly
to low-income South Asian youth, undocumented families, and
imprisoned immigrants. We are committed to building unity through joint work with progressive forces
in other people of color and oppressed communities. The long-term vision of DRUM is to build a social
justice movement amongst South Asian immigrants in the United States that is led by poor and working
class South Asians,progressive and people of color identified, and rooted in global justice.
DRUM
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The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Alexa Score = Not Available Category = Professional Contact = tk2326@columbia.edu
Location = 2910 Broadway, MC 3277 Hogan Hall, Level A New York, NY 10025
brings together talent from throughout the University to address complex issues facing the planet and
its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor. The
Earth Institute is motivated by the belief that science and technological tools already exist, and could be
expanded, to greatly improve conditions for the world's poor while preserving the natural systems that
support life on Earth.
Earth
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Earth Island Institute
Alexa Score = 399,388 Category = Professional Contact = alehmer@earthisland.org
Location = 300 Broadway, Ste 28 San Francisco, CA 94133
is an international environmental organization - providing organizational support to grassroot projects
concerning social/ecological issues - founded by David Brower in 1982. The 'Journal' is a quarterly
magazine, featuring “Local News from Around the World”. We publish original reports by
correspondents located all over the globe, translations from foreign languages and reprints from other
interesting publications that deserve a wider audience. Our circulation is 33,000 and growing - 3,000
copies are distributed to newsstands and bookstores throughout the country.
EII
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Alexa Score = 34,165 Category = Professional Contact = information@eff.org
Location = 1875 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 650 Washington, DC 20009
Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect
fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public
about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.
EFF
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The End of Occupation
Alexa Score = 1,133,653 Category = Political Contact = web@freedomrising.org
Location = PO Box 7471 New York, NY 10150
The US Campaign is a diverse coalition working for freedom from occupation and equal rights for all by
challenging US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Campaign is based on human rights
and international law, providing a non-sectarian framework for everyone who supports its Call to Action.
Its strategy is to inform, educate, and mobilize the public so as to change the US role in the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict to support peace, justice, human rights, and international law. The Campaign's three
organizing conferences in Washington, DC (June 2004, July 2003) and in Chicago (June 2002) brought
together several hundred groups and individuals from all over the US. As of July 2004, 140
organizations have signed on to the Campaign.
End Occupation
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