Open Directory - Society: Activism: Resources
See also: - Detailed information on rights of demonstrators and free speech participants. Most is specific to Victoria, Australia, but contains list of comparable international resources. - Web tools and services for activists to elicit action from others through weblog, forum post, e-mail, or web pages. - 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. - First aid training to handle typical needs at protests. Based in Portland, Oregon. - An extensive database of tools for student activists, groups, resources, and events. - Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other "social threats." - Facilitates research on issues including the war on terrorism, United States foreign policy, and corporate power. Includes timelines. - A training and resource center dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color. - 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. - Provides social justice advocates, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills to help conduct more effective campaigns. - 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. - Contains tools for personal growth, social change, and ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale. - Provides links to alternative news and media for stories not covered in the mainstream press. - Non profit organization assisting and encouraging grassroots anti-poverty initiatives. Includes program history, projects, and digital divide resources. - Provides information and materials to grassroots and underfunded liberty organizations. - Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US. - 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. - Offers training and consultancy for public-interest groups on how the media really work and how to maximise exposure in the media. - Contains ideas, stories, advice, and encouragement for ways to practice kindness. - 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. - Offers programs that bring innovators together from different fields, to undertake collaborative social innovation projects and initiatives around the world. - Community of public sector professionals dedicated to promoting good governance, civic virtue and deliberative democracy. - Offers training in Washington, DC, on topics such as organizing, fundraising, development, and use of technology. Provides course schedule, outlines, and information on trainers. - Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific/technical complex. - 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. - Global network of researchers and practitioners working to advance deliberative democracy. Includes blog, articles, FAQ, workshops and resources. - Opportunities and ideas related to the social sector in emerging economies. - Information on activist organizing and getting people motivated on any issue. - Short list of links. - 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. - Comprehensive list of advocacy groups and sites. - Links to interactive sites and petitions to sign. - Publishes international news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.
