Youth Activism: click book cover image to access the site for our book Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century - Stories from a New Generation of Activists: dedicated to the intelligence, energy, and passion of young women and men around the world who are taking action to demand a better, more just and democratic world. Click here to access their "links that rock" page. It does rock and it is very helpfully annotated! Lots of activist links and research information.

General:
Anti-oppression principles and practice

Universal Living Wage

Fast Facts on your tax dollars at work from the Federation of American Scientists

What is white privilege?

Are you an anarchist? From the NYC Anti-Capitalist Convergence

Anarchy Archives: An online research center on the history and theory of anarchism

On Conflict and Consensus: Food Not Bombs Publishing

Democratic Socialists of America - The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal US affiliate of the Socialist International. DSA's members are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly socialist presence in American communities and politics.

Radical Philosophy Association - Founded in 1982, RPA members struggle against capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, disability discrimination, environmental ruin, and all other forms of domination. Our efforts are guided by the vision of a society founded on cooperation instead of competition, in which all areas of society are, as far as possible, governed by democratic decision-making. We believe that fundamental change requires broad social upheavals but also opposition to intellectual support for exploitative and dehumanizing social structures.

Institute for Global Communication - IGC was officially formed to manage PeaceNet and EcoNet . The latter was the world's first computer network dedicated to environmental preservation and sustainability. A gateway for people who want quick access to alternative news and political analysis, or an easy way to search for information and web sites of progressive organizations.

Women's Issues in Third World Countries - a set of links to lots of information about global issues and struggles.

Activist Sites:
General activist links - from my home page

Colours of Resistance: Grassroots network of people who actively work to develop multiracial, anti-racist politics in the movement against global capitalism. We are committed to helping build an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, multiracial, feminist, queer liberationist, and anti-authoritarian movement against global capitalism. N.B. Please read some of the articles at this site!

Other anti-racism links (from my Race and Racism class)

Solidarity: a revolutionary, socialist, democratic, feminist, anti-racist organization.

Selected web pages that focus primarily on women's-issues activism:

Global Trade Watch leads the way in educating the American public about the enormous impact of international trade and economic globalization on our jobs, the environment, public health and safety, and democratic accountability.

Global Exchange: a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. Since our founding in 1988, we have been striving to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world.

Peoples´ Global Action: a worldwide co-ordination of resistance against the global market, a new alliance of struggle and mutual support against "Free" Trade and the World Trade Organisation (PGA).

Jobs with Justice: Founded in 1987, JwJ’s mission is to improve working people’s standard of living, fight for job security, and protect workers’ right to organize. JwJ’s core belief is that in order to be successful, workers’ rights struggles have to be part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice. To that end, JwJ has created a network of local coalitions that connect labor, faith-based, community, and student organizations to work together on workplace and community social justice campaigns.

Center for Campus Organizing - CCO is a national organization dedicated to building progressive movements on college campuses. We believe that progressive campus movements in this country can and should contribute more effectively to larger struggles for social justice and our programs function to bolster, aid, and instigate these contributions.

New York Public Interest Research Group - The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), a not-for-profit student-directed organization, is New York State's largest environmental and consumer advocacy organization. NYPIRG works to empower students by teaching them to organize on important issues facing society today.

News:
Democracy Now!: Hosted by Amy Goodman, features the ideas and voices of some of the best minds of this generation (and previous ones), including activists, muckrakers, visionaries, artists, risk-takers, academics and "just folks" who share a commitment to truth, democracy, justice, diversity, equality and peace.

Independent Media Center: Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

Common Dreams News Center: Breaking news and views for the progressive community. Great links to other news sources too.

AlterNet.org: Online magazine and information resource where pressing issues are subject to examination and debate.

The Nation: The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred. -- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865

Capitalist sites:

• World Trade Organization
  
• International Monetary Fund
• World Bank
  • WB Daily Webzine of News and Events
  • WB Core Principles
• World Economic Forum