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Activist Rights
Detailed information on rights of demonstrators and free speech participants. Most is specific to Victoria, Australia, but contains list of comparable international resources.
http://www.activistrights.org.au/
Affero Service
mail, or web pages.
http://www.affero.net/
Avaaz
Organizing citizens of all nations to address global, regional and national issues to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.
http://avaaz.org/
Black Cross Health Collective
First aid training to handle typical needs at protests. Based in Portland, Oregon.
http://www.blackcrosscollective.org/
Campus Activism
An extensive database of tools for student activists, groups, resources, and events.
http://www.campusactivism.org/
Center For Creative Learning
Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other "social threats."
http://www.cclearn.com/
Center for Cooperative Research
Facilitates research on issues including the war on terrorism, United States foreign policy, and corporate power. Includes timelines.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/
Center for Third World Organizing
A training and resource center dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color.
http://www.ctwo.org/
Community Empowerment
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.
http://www.scn.org/cmp/
Data Center
Provides social justice advocates, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills to help conduct more effective campaigns.
http://www.datacenter.org/
Democracy Center
to resources.
http://www.democracyctr.org/
Empowerment Resources
Contains tools for personal growth, social change, and ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale.
http://www.empowermentresources.com/
Flying Fish
Provides links to alternative news and media for stories not covered in the mainstream press.
http://www.flyingfish.org.uk/links/
Human Rights Tech
poverty initiatives. Includes program history, projects, and digital divide resources.
http://www.humanrightstech.org/
National People's Action
Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US.
http://www.npa-us.org/
Organizers' Collaborative
based, social change organizing.
http://organizerscollaborative.org/
Partners In Kindness
Contains ideas, stories, advice, and encouragement for ways to practice kindness.
http://www.partnersinkindness.com/
Peace and Environment Resource Centre
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.
http://www.perc.ca/
PopTech
Offers programs that bring innovators together from different fields, to undertake collaborative social innovation projects and initiatives around the world.
http://www.poptech.org/
Res Publica
Community of public sector professionals dedicated to promoting good governance, civic virtue and deliberative democracy.
http://www.therespublica.org/
Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA)
Offers training in Washington, DC, on topics such as organizing, fundraising, development, and use of technology. Provides course schedule, outlines, and information on trainers.
http://www.hotsalsa.org/
Social Criticism Review
Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific/technical complex.
http://www.socialcritic.org/
The Change Agency
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.
http://www.thechangeagency.org/
The Deliberative Democracy Consortium
Global network of researchers and practitioners working to advance deliberative democracy. Includes blog, articles, FAQ, workshops and resources.
http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/
The Social Innovation Blog
Opportunities and ideas related to the social sector in emerging economies.
http://yatinsethi.blogspot.com/
Tools for Organizers, Activists, Educators, and Other Hell-Raisers
Information on activist organizing and getting people motivated on any issue.
http://www.casagordita.com/tools.htm
TwistMagick's Activist Resources
Short list of links.
http://www.angelfire.com/md/tortugadelsol/activism.html
Vernal Education Project
making, democratic engagement, and nonviolent action.
http://www.vernalproject.org/
World Advocacy
Comprehensive list of advocacy groups and sites.
http://www.worldadvocacy.com/
You Can Make a Difference
Links to interactive sites and petitions to sign.
http://www.angelfire.com/ne/1canmakeadifference/
openDemocracy
Publishes international news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/