Knowledge: resources
See Also:
- society → activism → internet
- society → issues
- society → organizations → nonprofit resources
- society → organizations → nonprofit resources → fundraising
- society → politics
Links
- Flying Fish
http://www.flyingfish.org.uk/links/ - Provides links to alternative news and media for stories not covered in the mainstream press.
- National People's Action
http://www.npa-us.org - Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US.
- Social Criticism Review
http://www.socialcritic.org - Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific/technical complex.
- TwistMagick's Activist Resources
http://www.angelfire.com/md/tortugadelsol/activism.html - Short list of links.
- International Website Against Fascism and Racism
http://www.antifa.net/ - Portal and news site for antifascist and antiracist people and groups. Also a free hosting service for such groups.
- Empowerment Resources
http://www.empowermentresources.com/ - Contains tools for personal growth, social change, and ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale.
- You Can Make a Difference
http://www.angelfire.com/ne/1canmakeadifference/ - Links to interactive sites and petitions to sign.
- Tools for Organizers, Activists, Educators, and Other Hell-Raisers
http://www.casagordita.com/tools.htm - Information on activist organizing and getting people motivated on any issue.
- PR Media Consultants
http://www.prmediaconsultants.com - Offers training and consultancy for public-interest groups on how the media really work and how to maximise exposure in the media.
- The Earthwatcher's Cryptodesk
http://www.cryptodesk.com/ - Links to tools and resources for news gathering, research, homework, activism and the alternative cyber-underground.
- Public Info Research Namebase
http://www.namebase.org/ - A database of articles on various political and paranormal subjects with information about their authors.
- Center For Creative Learning
http://www.cclearn.com/ - Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other "social threats."
- The World Revolution
http://www.worldrevolution.org/ - An idea for a new, global grassroots social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a definitive and comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era.
- Peace and Environment Resource Centre
http://perc.ca/ - Educates and empowers the public on peace, environment and social justice issues; supports groups, online library search of books and magazines, lots of links, discussion forum, some publications.
- Information Leaflets for Activists
http://www.united.non-profit.nl/pages/onderleaf.htm - A coalition of 500 European organizations working against racism has put together a series of short practical tip-sheets on Fundraising, Electronic Action (using email and the internet), Communication and Networking, and other issues of interest to grassroots organizations everywhere. Use the tip sheets online, or print out as handouts.
- Collective Book on Collective Process
http://www.geocities.com/collectivebook/ - Handbook built on collective process for activist groups to recognize and resolve common abuses and negative group dynamics.
- Center for Third World Organizing
http://www.ctwo.org/ - A training and resource center dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color.
- Partners In Kindness
http://www.partnersinkindness.com/ - Contains ideas, stories, advice, and encouragement for ways to practice kindness.
- Affero Service
http://www.affero.net/ - Web tools and services for activists to elicit action from others through weblog, forum post, e-mail, or web pages.
- Campus Activism
http://www.campusactivism.org - An extensive database of tools for student activists, groups, resources, and events.
- Center for Cooperative Research
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/ - Facilitates research on issues including the war on terrorism, United States foreign policy, and corporate power. Includes timelines.
- Liberty Activist
http://www.libertyactivist.org - Provides information and materials to grassroots and underfunded liberty organizations.
- Data Center
http://www.datacenter.org/ - Provides social justice advocates, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills to help conduct more effective campaigns.
- NPOBLOGS
http://npoblogs.net/ - NpoBlogs aggregates socially progressive RSS and xml feeds into one portal site.
- Black Cross Health Collective
http://www.blackcrosscollective.org/ - First aid training to handle typical needs at protests. Based in Portland, Oregon.
- World Advocacy
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/advocacy/ - Comprehensive list of advocacy groups and sites.
- Human Rights Tech
http://www.humanrightstech.org - Non profit organization assisting and encouraging grassroots anti-poverty initiatives. Includes program history, projects, and digital divide resources.
- Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA)
http://www.hotsalsa.org - Offers training in Washington, DC, on topics such as organizing, fundraising, development, and use of technology. Provides course schedule, outlines, and information on trainers.
- Vernal Education Project
http://www.vernalproject.org/ - An effort to create an education network that can bolster and sustain grassroots progressive social change movements in the US. Provides writings on cooperative decision-making, democratic engagement, and nonviolent action.
- Citizen Science Toolbox
http://www.coastal.crc.org.au/toolbox/ - Australia's Coastal Cooperative Research Centre provides case studies, techniques, and bibliography of strategies to enhance meaningful stakeholder involvement in decision-making.
- The Change Agency
http://www.thechangeagency.org/ - Two Brisbane-based activists offer workshops, curriculum development and campaign consulting services. Their site provides extensive resources, including activism training organizations around the world, academic research, and case studies.
- Democracy Center
http://www.democracyctr.org - The Center combines investigation, reporting, training in public advocacy, and international campaigns to help build a global citizenry that understands the public issues before it and is able to take effective public action. They provide a range of how-to resources.
- Community Empowerment
http://www.scn.org/cmp/ - These collections of practical training materials for community workers mobilizing people to overcome poverty are organized by topic (such as microenterprise, evaluation, and brainstorming), and include reproducible illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography.
- Activist Rights
http://www.activistrights.org.au - Detailed information on rights of demonstrators and free speech participants. Most is specific to Victoria, Australia, but contains list of comparable international resources.
- Organizers' Collaborative
http://organizerscollaborative.org - A nonprofit group harnessing the collaborative potential of the Internet and working to making computers accessible as a tool in support of community-based, social change organizing.
- Trade Observatory
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/ - The global information center on the WTO, trade, and sustainable development.
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