SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DIRECTORY

MAKING EFFECTIVE CHANGE: SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZING AND ACTIVISM

FALL 2012, THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE, OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/SocialMovementsDirectory.pdf

CONTENTS organizations that have historically defended the social status quo (conservative, right-

wing, etc.). The organizations listed within 1 Project Description each social movement section are divided 2 Program Description into these two perspectives. In general, 3 Students and Faculty fewer groups were found in the second 4 Class / Economic Justice / Labor category, since the historical status quo 13 Racial/Ethnic/Immigration perspective tend to have adequate 22 Militarism / GIs / International Solidarity resources available from large institutions 32 Environmental Justice (government, military, corporations, etc.) 40 Indigenous Sovereignty

51 Gender / Feminism / LGBTQ The students used their research to familiarize themselves with the range of goals, strategies, tactics within the PROJECT DESCRIPTION movements, and internal debates, in preparation for Part II of the project (analysis of a single organization within the In Fall 2012, students at The Evergreen movement) and Part III (an interview with an State College studied social movements as individual within the organization). They part of the program “Making Effective listed the organization name, website, the Change: Social Movement Organizing and group-defined mission or goals, mailing Activism.” To prepare for their research address, phone, and email, in this format: project, students were organized into six thematic groups (two per seminar). The Name of organization seminar thematic groups were Class / Website Economic Justice / Labor, Racial / Ethnic / Mission or goals Immigration, Militarism / GI / International Mailing address Solidarity, Environmental Justice, Phone Indigenous Sovereignty, and Gender / Contact/Email Feminism / Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ). Students selected a diverse range of organizations that are currently active, on a As part of their three-part research project, local, regional, national or global level. the students gathered web-based The list is by no means comprehensive, information about organizations within a and can only offer examples of social social movement, which would be compiled movement organizations. The Directory as a class directory and released to the can only provide a starting point in campus community. They used the Internet researching these extensive social to find and research organizations that movements in the U.S. and abroad. challenge the existing society to change (progressive, left-wing, etc.), and

The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural in downtown Olympia represents social movement organizations (from around the city and the world) as “leaves” on a tree.

1 MAKING EFFECTIVE political spectrum, including lessons from how populist movements effectively reach CHANGE: SOCIAL and mobilize disillusioned people, including MOVEMENT ORGANIZING right-wing populist movements, such as the Tea Party, pro-life/anti-choice and anti-gay AND ACTIVISM movements, and anti-immigrant, anti- indigenous, and other white supremacist 2012-13 PROGRAM, groups.

THE EVERGREEN STATE During winter quarter, we’ll explore the COLLEGE, OLYMPIA WA ways that movements emerge and grow, focusing on themes that cut across Social movements don’t just happen. They organizations, and developing practical skills emerge in complex, often subtle ways out of centered on these themes. Our discussions shifting historic conditions, at first unnoticed will include how movements reflect and tell or underestimated. Social movements-- people’s stories (through interviews, theater, across the political spectrum--push us to etc.). Central to our work will be an examine a wide array of questions about examination of ways to communicate with ideas, communication and organization, and people from different walks of life, using how people are inspired and mobilized to accessible language and imagery (through create change. In this program, we will personal interaction, popular education, explore what individuals and communities alternative media, etc.). We’ll critically can do about whatever issues are of most examine how groups use mainstream concern to them. institutions to effect change (such as press releases, research centers, legislative This program will examine methods of tactics, etc.). We’ll examine and critique the community organizing that educate and use of the internet and social media in draw people into social movements, and networking people, and share innovative methods of activism that can turn their uses of culture (film, audio, art, music, etc.). interests and commitment into effective We’ll assess the effectiveness and creativity action. Key to this will be how movements of actions at different scales (rallies, direct construct and frame their strategies, using a actions, boycotts, etc.). Finally, we will look toolkit of tactics. Our foundation will be the at relationships between social movements contemporary U.S. scene, but we’ll draw on with different organizing styles, and how historical roots and lessons from the past, as they have built alliances, as well as the well as on models from other countries. It internal dynamics within organizations. will be crucial for us to look at the contexts of global, national and regional movements, Spring quarter will be a time for in-depth and how they shape (and are shaped by) work through different types of projects: events at the local scale. comparative critiques of movement strategies, critical social history of a In fall quarter we’ll undertake a movement, direct work with a local or comparative exploration of strategies and regional movement, critical exploration of tactics of various social movements in the movement literature, or development of U.S. and abroad, and critically analyze their media, including such possibilities as social effectiveness and applicability. We’ll explore media, short film pieces, photography, web movements based around class and pages, photovoice, and podcasting. economic equality (such as labor rank-and- Throughout the program, our work will be file, welfare rights and anti-foreclosure shaped by a range of community organizers, groups), as well as those based around activists, and scholars. Projects will use identities of race, nationality and gender community-based research and (such as civil rights, feminist, Native documentation, with a view toward the sovereignty, LGBTQ, and immigrant rights sharing and presenting of work, in groups). The program will also examine connection with partners and collaborators. movements that focus on life’s resources, from environmental justice to health, education and housing. Our examinations and explorations will take us across the

2 FACULTY Militarism / GIs / International Solidarity Lawrence Abrams

Jaime Alarcón Zoltán Grossman Charleen Bray Geography/Native Studies Randy Dunn [email protected] Cameron Faison

Zachary Fleig Lin Nelson McKenzie Gunns Sociology Sean Keegan [email protected] Estella Rogers

Allison Scott Anthony Zaragoza Pacheena Shuen-Mitchell Political Economy Chrystal Betleski [email protected]

Indigenous Sovereignty STUDENT RESEARCH GROUPS Matt Bambara Dolores Carney Class / Economic Justice / Labor Alison Rosa Clark Polly Bilchuk Natalie Giles Haley Bryant Caleb Hepker Kiara Eakers-Porter Jessi Howard Rocky Hollenbaugh Sara Kukkonen Katrina R. Jones Amanda Niles Ginger J. Krinsky Whitney Queral Alex Marroquin Johannah Tallon David Rosenthal Brittni Watts Alexander C. Steinfeld Benjamin J. Thale-Galat Environmental Justice Joe Briggs Race / Ethnicity / Immigration Hollis Clark Michael Abdon Jeff Cole Joseph Ademofe Jennifer Foster Kristina Amphy Kevin Gavalis Leah Aragon Cache Hunter Sabra Chandiwalla Wes Jones Jose Chavez Gavin Kerr Sarah Flatt Monica Morgan Max Hanckel Liz Quincy Allie Harders Brendan Rosgen Stefan A. Moye Gord Scott Rafael Ruiz Tyler Sison Reese A. Semanko Isabel Watts David P. Weatherspoon Gender / Feminism / LGBTQ Anders Blomberg Kaija D’Aigle Alex Dufurrenca Talitha Fanous Erin Griffin Angela Hannah Sheryl Hill Euri Lomax Dannie Parke Marc Taylor Michaela Wright

3 CLASS / ECONOMIC production, maintenance and sanitation workers in bakeries, as well as tobacco and JUSTICE / LABOR grain milling industries in Northern America. ORGANIZATIONS [email protected]

Campaign for America’s Future PRO- www.ourfuture.org Challenges the big money corporate agenda Abahlali baseMjondolo and advances a progressive economic http://abahlali.org agenda and a vision of the future that works The Abahlali baseMjondolo (South African for the many, not simply the few. Shackdwellers' Movement) seeks to achieve 1825 K Street NW Suite 400 Washington public expropriation of privately owned DC 20006 landholdings in the Durban area of South (202) 955-5665 Africa. They work to create better overall http://www.ourfuture.org/contact conditions for the poor and those in public housing. “Democratize South Africa from the Center for Economic and Social Justice bottom up.” CESJ is a non-profit educational center, Suite 416 Tower B., Salisbury Centre, think tank and social action catalyst. We are 347351 West Street, Durban, 4001, South dedicated to a free enterprise approach to Africa economic and social justice for all, through (+27 031) 304 6420 equal opportunities to capital ownership for http://www.abahlali.org/contact every person. P.O. Box 40711, Washington, D.C. 20016 American Federation of State, County, (703) 243-5155 and Municipal Employees [email protected] http://www.afscme.org/organize AFSCME claims to be “the largest and Center for Law and Social Policy fastest growing public services employees http://www.clasp.org union” with an estimate of 1.6 million active CLASP is a public interest law and policy and retired members. “AFSCME advocates organization which promotes policies to for fairness in the workplace, excellence in improve the economic security of low- public services and prosperity and income families and to secure access to our opportunity for all working families.” civil justice system for all low-income 1625 L Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 persons. (202)-429-1000 1200 18th St NW, Ste 200, Washington, DC http://action.afscme.org/c/51/p/salsa/web/co 20036 mmon/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=78 (202) 906-8000 0 http://www.clasp.org/about/contact

American Rights at Work Class Action http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/ http://www.classism.org Strives to improve the climate in which Class Action provides a dynamic framework workers can exercise their rights in the and analysis, as well as a safe space, for workplace. American Rights at Work people of all backgrounds to identify and educates the public about the barriers that address issues of class and classism. We workers face when they attempt to form do this through powerful interactive unions and engage in . trainings, workshops, presentations, (202) 822-2127 organizational consulting, and public [email protected] education. 30 Germania St., Bldg. L, Jamaica Plain, MA Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco workers, 02130 and Grain Millers International Union (617) 477-8635 http://bctgm.org/about-us/ [email protected] The BCTGM is “a modern union with old fashioned values.” The organization Coalition on Human Needs provides workers with a voice and vote http://chn.org/ inside its industry’s workplace. It represents CHN is an alliance of national civil rights,

4 religious, labor, and professional creating and supporting alternatives that organizations working together to promote embody social justice, sustainability, public policies which address the needs of diversity and grassroots democracy.” low-income and other vulnerable 606 Maynard Ave. S. #102, Seattle, WA populations — children, women, the elderly, 98104 and people with disabilities. (206) 405-4600 1120 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 312 [email protected] Washington, DC 20036 (202) 223-2532 Discount Foundation [email protected] www.discountfoundation.org Since its formation in 1977, Discount has Community Action Council of Lewis, supported community organizing groups Mason, and Thurston Counties working to empower low-income and poor http://www.caclmt.org/ urban residents to improve their The Community Action Council is a non- communities, living conditions and economic profit agency committed to improving the opportunities. In 2009, the Foundation quality of life for those in our community by modified its focus establishing its Organizing helping meet the basic needs of housing, for Worker Justice program.” heating, safety, mental health, food and 115 South Oxford Street, #569, Brooklyn, nutrition for families and individuals and to NY 11217 lessen the impact of poverty . While (646) 558-6020 providing services directly, and through http://www.discountfoundation.org/contact partnerships, we strive to empower and strengthen families and promote self- Fair Labor Association sufficiency. www.fairlabor.org 420 Golf Club Road SE Lacey, WA 98503 “FLA is a collaborative effort of universities, (360) 438-1100 civil society organizations and socially [email protected] responsible companies dedicated to protecting workers’ rights around the world.” Community Action Partnership FLA sets standards for fair labor practices, http://www.communityactionpartnership.com monitors companies by conducting external “A nonprofit, national membership assessments, and encourages responsible organization representing the interests of the behavior in companies. FLA is an 1,100 Community Action Agencies across international organization. the country that annually help 17 million low- 1111 19th St. NW, Suite 401, Washington, income Americans achieve economic DC 20036 security.” The organizations current goal is (202)-898-1000 “identifying, disseminating and implementing http://www.fairlabor.org/contact successful best practices for CAAs and related organizations.” Food Not Bombs 1140 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 1210, www.foodnotbombs.net Washington, DC 20036 “Food Not Bombs recovers and shares free (202) 265-7546 vegan or vegetarian food with the public http://www.communityactionpartnership.com without restriction in over 1,000 cities around /index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=82 the world to protest war, poverty and the destruction of the environment. Each group Community Alliance for Global Justice is independent and invites everyone to www.seattleglobaljustice.org participate in making decisions for their local “CAGJ educates and mobilizes with chapter using the consensus process. Food individuals and organizations to strengthen Not Bombs is dedicated to taking nonviolent local economies everywhere. CAGJ is direct action to change society so no one is grassroots, community-based and forced to stand in line to eat at a soup committed to anti-oppressive organizing as kitchen expressing a commitment to the fact we build solidarity across diverse that food is a right and not a privilege.” movements. CAGJ seeks to transform P.O. Box 424, Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 unjust trade and agricultural policies and (575) 770-3377 practices imposed by corporations, [email protected] governments and other institutions while

5 Global Justice Movement overall conditions for workers. The IWW http://www.globaljusticemovement.org/ continually and actively works with other The Global Justice Movement is an independent unions and groups in many international for the nations to counter corporate manipulation of promotion of fair trade and reformation of employees. “By organizing industrially we global economic institutions like the WTO. are forming the structure of the new society The GJM seeks accountability for any and within the shell of the old.” all public institutions providing health care PO Box 180195, Chicago, IL 60618 and education. Their mission is “to make the (773) 728-0996 world work for 100% of humanity in the [email protected] shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or Institute for Global Labor and Human the disadvantage of anyone.” Rights [email protected] http://www.globallabourrights.org/about A non-profit organization “dedicated to the Good Jobs First promotion and defense of internationally http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/ recognized worker rights in the global Provides timely, accurate information to the economy.” IGLHR’s mission is to promote as public, the media, public officials, and well as defend the rights of all people within economic development professionals on the global economy for women and men. best practices in state and local job 5 Gateway Center, 6th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA subsidies. 15222 1616 P Street NW, Suite 210, Washington, (412) 562-2406 DC 20036 [email protected] (202) 232-1616 [email protected] Interfaith Worker Justice http://www.iwj.org/ Grassroots Global Justice IWJ advances the rights of workers by http://ggjalliance.org/ engaging diverse faith communities into The GGJ is a national alliance of grassroots action, from grassroots organizing to organizations building a popular movement shaping policy at the local, state and for peace, democracy and a sustainable national levels. world. We support each other's local 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., Chicago, IL 60660 struggles and collaborate with international (773) 728-8400 allies who share our vision and commitment http://www.iwj.org/contact-us to building a transformative social justice movement beyond borders. International Forum PO Box 610663, North Miami FL 33261 http://www.laborrights.org (305) 735.3256 ILRF is an advocacy organization dedicated [email protected] to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide. HEIFER International 1634 I St NW, Ste 1001, Washington, DC https://secure1.heifer.org 20006 HEIFER International is a donation-run (202) 347-4100 organization whose work and main goal is to http://laborrights.org/contact eradicate hunger as well as poverty by working with communities while helping care International Labour Organization for/heal the planet. http://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm 1 World Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72202 The ILO is the international organization (800) 422-0474 responsible for drawing up and overseeing [email protected] international labour standards. It is the only Industrial Workers of the World 'tripartite' agency that brings http://www.iww.org/ together representatives of governments, Since 1905, the IWW has been an employers and workers to jointly shape international member-run union and policies and programmes promoting Decent organization open to workers from all fields Work for all. and industries. They are one of the oldest [email protected] and foremost groups to work for better

6 International Longshore and Warehouse The LCAP helps individuals and families Union who have been unfairly evicted and works to http://www.ilwu.org improve conditions in low-income housing ILWU members take action by mobilizing as properties. They work to find jobs for the well as educating other union members, homeless and help workers receive fair making them aware of threats to labor rights, benefits and treatment from their employers. and encouraging them to actively participate (+44 0207) 247-6101 in politics. [email protected] 1188 Franklin St, , CA 94109 (415) 775-0533 Lucy Parson's Workers' Center http://www.ilwu.org/?page_id=3717 http://lucycenter.org/ The LPWC offers training courses on worker Jobs with Justice mobilization and organization. It teaches http://www.jwj.org/ how to ”organize with co-workers to improve JwJ is a national network of local coalitions workplace conditions including better hours, that bring together labor unions, faith wages, safety, paid sick days, groups, community organizations, and maternity/paternity leave, paid days off, student activists to fight for working people. workplace dignity, and job security.” They Our members are in the streets in 46 cities help local workers and unions get justice in 24 states across the country. through picketing, organized marches etc. 1616 P St NW, Ste 150, Washington DC (312) 772-3794 20036 [email protected] (202) 393-1044 [email protected] Maquila Solidarity Network http://en.maquilasolidarity.org Labor Notes A women’s rights and labor organization http://labornotes.org/about supporting workers efforts in the worlds A media organization project meant to be supply chains. “MSN works with individual the voice of union activists and workers. companies and multi-stakeholder Labor Notes offers news, that mainstream groups…to identify and promote industry- media often does not bother printing, to wide solutions to systemic problems… to workers from the workers point of view. reverse the ‘race to the bottom.’” “Exploring the trends keeping workers on 606 Shaw St, Toronto ON M6G 3L6 Canada the defensive and analyze labors (416) 532-8584 responses.” http://en.maquilasolidarity.org/contact 7435 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48210 (313) 842-6262 May 15 Movement [email protected] democraciarealya.es As the most prominent Spanish Legacy of Equality, Leadership and revolutionary group to emerge from the EU's Organizing economic crisis, M-15 organizes day or even http://www.lelo.org/ week-long marches located in the heart of LELO is a racial and economic justice Spain's biggest cities. M-15 calls for an workers' rights 501c3 nonprofit organization. “ethical revolution” which would remove Led by ordinary workers, develop leadership Spain's current rightwing prime minister of those most marginalized in our society: Mariano Rajoy and reform of his economic people of color, working class women, policies. “The will and purpose of the current recent immigrants and LGBTQ workers. Our system is the accumulation of money, social change strategy is local organizing, without regard for efficiency or the welfare of with emphasis on political education and society. [This] is wasting resources, solidarity networks with workers across all destroying the planet, and creating borders. unemployment and unhappy consumers.” 3518 S. Edmunds St., Seattle, WA 98118 [email protected] (206) 860-1400 [email protected] MDRC http://www.mdrc.org/ London Coalition Against Poverty The Manpower Demonstration Research http://www.lcap.org.uk/ Corporation is best known for mounting

7 large-scale evaluations of real-world policies homelessness are met and their civil rights and programs targeted to low-income protected. people. 2201 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20037 16 East 34 St, New York, NY 10016-4326 (202) 462-4822 (212) 532-3200 [email protected] [email protected] National Employment Law Project Media Island International http://www.nelp.org/ www.mediaisland.org NELP advocates on behalf of low-wage Media Island International is a resource and workers, the poor, the unemployed, and networking center for individuals, other groups that face significant barriers to organizations, and movements working on employment and government systems of Social Justice, Economic Democracy, support. Ecological Sustainability, and Peace. We 75 Maiden Ln, Ste 601, New York NY 10038 gather, evaluate, and distribute (212) 285-3025 underpublished information on critical issues [email protected] at strategic times. 816 Adams Street SE, Olympia, WA 98501 National Jobs for All Coalition (360) 352-8526 http://www.njfac.org/ [email protected] NJFAC is a coalition of many groups working for full employment at livable Movement of Landless Workers wages. Also works to demonstrate the http://www.mstbrazil.org/ linkages between unemployment and other The Friends of the MST is a network of problems facing the nation, such as individuals and organizations that support women’s rights, the environment, and the Brazilian Movement of Landless economic justice. Workers (MST) in the struggle for social and P.O. Box 96, Lynbrook, NY 11563 economic justice while securing respect for (203) 856-3877 human rights. [email protected] P.O. Box 478487, Chicago, IL 60647 [email protected] National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty National Center for Children in Poverty http://www.nlchp.org/ http://www.nccp.org/ Works to prevent and end homelessness by NCCP is one of the nation’s leading public serving as the legal arm of the nationwide policy center dedicated to promoting the movement to end homelessness. economic security, health, and well-being of 1411 K Street NW, Suite 1400, Washington, America’s low-income families and children. DC 20005 NCCP uses research to inform policy and (202) 638-2535 practice with the goal of ensuring positive http://www.nlchp.org/email.cfm?sub=general outcomes for the next generation. We promote family-oriented solutions at the National Low Income Housing Coalition state and national levels www.NLIHC.org 215 W. 125th Street, New York, NY 10027 Founded in 1974, NLIHC educates, (646) 284-9600 organizes and advocates to ensure decent, [email protected] affordable housing within healthy neighborhoods for everyone. Our goals are National Coalition for the Homeless to preserve existing federally assisted http://www.nationalhomeless.org/ homes and housing resources, expand the A national network of people who are supply of low income housing, and establish currently experiencing or who have housing stability as the primary purpose of experienced homelessness, activists and federal low income housing policy. advocates, community-based and faith- 727 15th Street NW, 6th Floor, Washington based service providers, and others D.C. 20005 committed to a single mission: To prevent (202) 662-1530 and end homelessness while ensuring the [email protected] immediate needs of those experiencing

8 Oregon Action Queers for Economic Justice www.oregonaction.org www.q4ej.org Oregon Action’s mission is to involve people Our goal is to challenge and change the in our democracy who are traditionally on systems that create poverty and economic the downside of power—low income wage injustice in our communities, and to promote earners, women, people of color and an economic system that embraces sexual immigrants– and to strengthen individual and gender diversity. participation in decision-making processes 147 W. 24th St., 4th fl., New York, NY 10011 that affect our lives. We are dedicated to (212) 564-3608 advancing economic, political, social and [email protected]. racial justice. 6601 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Joseph Solidarity Network Portland, OR 97211 http://standupstjoe.wordpress.com/ (971) 634-0001 Using the model of the Seattle Solidarity http://oregonaction.org/contact-us/ Network, the St. Joseph Solidarity Network was recently formed and is just starting up in Parents Organizing for Welfare and its effort to help mistreated workers and and Economic Rights tenets in the Tacoma area get justice. They www.mamapower.org are a volunteer group working to “support “POWER is an organization of low-income our fellow neighbors and workers; strikes parents and allies advocating for a strong and struggles, build solidarity, and organize social safety net while working toward a to deal with specific job, housing, and other world where children and care giving are problems caused by the greed of the rich truly valued, and the devastation of poverty and powerful.” It is affiliated with the has been eradicated.” Industrial Workers of the World. 309 5th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA 98501 [email protected] (360) 352-9716 [email protected] Seattle Solidarity Network http://seasol.net/ Poor People’s Economic Human Rights A network of volunteers working in the Campaign Seattle area to advocate for people who http://economichumanrights.org/ have been exploited or unfairly treated by PPEHRC works to unite the poor across their employers, landlords or local color lines as the leadership base for a businesses. They frequently organize local broad movement to abolish poverty by picketing lines and surround offending advancing economic human rights as businesses or residencies. “Out goal is to named in the Universal Declaration of support our fellow workers' strikes and Human Rights such as the rights to food, struggles, build solidarity, and organize to housing, health, education, communication, deal with specific job, housing and other and a living wage job. problems caused by the greed of the rich (267) 439-8419 and powerful.” [email protected] (206) 350-8650 [email protected] People United for Economic Justice Building Leadership through Organizing STITCH-Women Organizing for Worker http://www.sbpueblo.org Justice PUEBLO is dedicated to developing http://www.stitchonline.org/ organizational leadership within the working STITCH supports women workers in Central community and educating the larger America and the in their community to the problems and needs of the efforts to plan and carry out organizing low-income families whose work supports campaigns, sustains new and existing the entire economy. unions. STITCH mobilizes support for the 500 S. Broadway #247, Santa Maria, CA organizing campaigns of Central American 93454 women workers and in response to (805) 922-4447 international trade and corporate policies. [email protected] 525 Newton Street, NW Washington, DC 20010 (202) 265-3790

9 [email protected] (617) 423-2148 [email protected] SweatFree Communities http://www.sweatfree.org/ United States Student Association A campaign of the International Labor Rights www.usstudents.org Forum, it assists sweatshop workers globally The United States Student Association, the in their struggles to improve working country’s oldest, largest, and most inclusive conditions and form strong, independent national student-led organization, develops unions. Enacted policies to ensure our state current and future leaders and amplifies the and local governments, using our tax student voice at the local, state, and national dollars, were not buying uniforms and other levels by mobilizing grassroots power to win clothing made in sweatshops. concrete victories on student issues. The 2 Conz St., Ste 2B Northampton MA 01060 United States Student Association (413) 586-0974 Foundation ensures the pipeline of effective [email protected] student leadership by facilitating education, training and other development opportunities Union Smart at national, state, and local levels in http://unions.org/ advocating for issues that affect students. We manage a database of over 15,000 1211 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 406, union organizations across the United Washington, DC 20036 States. In doing so, we serve as the perfect (202) 640-6570 advertising and communication platform for [email protected] unions, businesses looking to utilize the vast union member demographics, and the United Students Against Sweatshops political arena vying for the working peoples http://usas.org/ support. USAS is a grassroots organization run 555 S. 13th St., Ste J, Grover Beach, CA entirely by youth and students. We develop 93433 youth leadership and run strategic student- (800) 741-2049 labor solidarity campaigns with the goal of http://www.unions.org/contact.php building sustainable power for working people. We define “sweatshop” broadly and United Electrical, Radio and Machine consider all struggles against the daily Workers of America abuses of the global economic system to be http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/uewho.html a struggle against sweatshops. This “democratic national union” is (610) 308-7161 independent with liberal progressive [email protected] policies. UE represents give or take thirty five thousand workers in multiple work Washington Community Action Network environments within the unions “traditional http://washingtoncan.org/wordpress/ jurisdictions,” such as electric manufacturing Washington CAN! has a long history of and metalworking. achieving victories for low and moderate- One Gateway Center Suite 1400, income people in our state. Washington Pittsburgh, PA 15222 CAN! was born in the 1970′s out of the (412) 471-8919 Seattle/Tacoma Light Brigade, which fought [email protected] against shutting off electricity for low-income families and against the taxpayer United for a Fair Economy subsidization of nuclear power. www.ufenet.org 220 South River St. #11 Seattle, WA 98108 UFE’s “work is grounded in the belief that (206) 389-0050 our country would be a far more democratic, [email protected] prosperous, and caring community if we narrowed the vast gap between the very Washington State Budget and Policy wealthy and everyone else. Our Center constituency is broad and deep and includes http://budgetandpolicy.org/ both those directly hurt by economic “To use research and analysis to advance disparity and those who benefit from it.” the well-being of Washington communities, 37 Temple Place 2nd Floor, Boston, MA improve the economic security and social 02111 opportunity of all in the state, and support

10 the essential role of government in (202)-466-3800 promoting a just and prosperous society.” [email protected] 1402 3rd Ave, Ste 1215, Seattle, WA 98101 (206) 262-0973 Americans for Prosperity [email protected] http://americansforprosperity.org/ Founded in 2004, Americans for Prosperity Washington State Labor Council is one of several David Koch-funded political http://www.wslc.org/ advocacy groups that seeks less The WSLC, AFL-CIO is the largest labor government oversight of private companies organization in the Evergreen State. A state and corporations. They seek lower taxes federation of the AFL-CIO, the WSLC is a and government spending in order to “halt voluntary non-profit organization dedicated the encroachment of government in the to protecting and strengthening the rights economic lives of citizens...” in addition to and conditions of working people and their “removing unnecessary barriers to families. entrepreneurship and opportunity by 906 S. Columbia St., Suite 330 Olympia, WA sparking citizen involvement early in the 98501 regulatory process in order to reduce red (360) 943-0608 tape.” [email protected] 2111 Wilson Blvd, Ste. 350, Arlington, VA 22201 Working America (866) 730-0150 www.workingamerica.org [email protected] A community affiliate of the AFL-CIO that fights in communities, states, and nationally for good jobs, affordable health care, world- http://www.atr.org class education, secure retirements, and ATR opposes all tax increases as a matter real homeland security. of principle. We believe in a system in which 815 16th St. NW Washington, D.C. 20006 taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and www.workingamerica.org/about/contact lower than they are today. The government's power to control one's life derives from its Young Workers United power to tax. We believe that power should http://www.youngworkersunited.org/ be minimized. A “multi-racial and bilingual membership 722 12th St, NW, Washington, DC 20005 organization” that strives to create fair work (202) 785-0266 environments for young and immigrant [email protected] workers. Since 1992 they have fought to raise wages for service sector jobs in the Associated Builders and Contractors San Francisco area. They promote “worker http://www.abc.org/about_abc.aspx and student organizing, grassroots A national 74, chapter association, witch advocacy, leadership development, and represents twenty-two thousand public education.” construction firms. “ABC will continually P.O. Box 420963, San Francisco, CA 94142 strive to be the leading voice promoting free (415) 621-4155 enterprise within the construction industry. [email protected] ABC will promote and defend the merit shop philosophy. This philosophy encourages PRO-BUSINESS open competition and a free-enterprise approach to construction based solely on

merit, regardless of labor affiliation.” American Legislative Exchange Council 4250 N. Fairfax Drive, 9th Floor Arlington, http://www.alec.org/about-alec/ ALEC is a government organization working VA 22203-1607 to “advance the fundamental principles” of (703) 812-2000 the free-market enterprise. It accomplishes [email protected] this goal “through a nonpartisan public- private partnership of America’s state Cato Institute legislators, members of the private sector http://www.cato.org/ The libertarian Cato Institute has worked and the general public.” 1101 Vermont Ave. N.W., 11th fl., since 1974 to reduce government Washington, D.C. 20005

11 involvement in the management of private One South Wacker Drive #2740 Chicago, IL industries and their workforce. 60606 1000 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, (312) 377-4000 DC 20001-5403 [email protected] (202) 842-3490 [email protected] Heritage Foundation http://www.heritage.org/ Center for Union Facts Founded in 1973, http://unionfacts.com is a research and educational institution—a The Center for Union Facts has gathered a think tank—whose mission is to formulate wealth of information about the size, scope, and promote conservative public policies political activities, and criminal activity of the based on the principles of free enterprise, labor movement in the U.S. , individual freedom, 1090 Vermont Ave NW Suite 800, traditional American values, and a strong Washington, DC 20005 national defense. (202) 463-7106 214 Massachusetts Ave NE Washington DC http://unionfacts.com/contact-us/ 20002-4999 (202) 546-4400 http://www.heritage.org/press-media http://www.clubforgrowth.org/ Manhattan Institute Club for Growth is a network of economic http://www.manhattan-institute.org/ freedom promoters, which operates on a The mission of the Manhattan Institute is to national scale. CG works to encourage develop and disseminate new ideas that financial support from members for foster greater economic choice and Congressional candidates who promote pro- individual responsibility. (i.e. dismantle growth policies’ within Republican primaries. social programs and believe in the idea that 2001 L Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, low taxes encourage businesses) DC 20036 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 (202) 955-5500 (212) 599-7000 main [email protected] [email protected]

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12 [email protected] American Civil Liberties Union- Washington State Pacific Research Institute http://www.aclu-wa.org http://www.pacificresearch.org The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, The mission of the PRI is to champion working daily in courts, legislatures and freedom, opportunity, and personal communities to defend and preserve the responsibility for all individuals by advancing individual rights and liberties that the free-market policy solutions. Since its Constitution and laws of the United States founding in 1979, PRI has remained guarantee everyone in this country. steadfast to the vision of a free and civil 901 Fifth Avenue, #630, Seattle, WA 98164 society where individuals can achieve their (206) 624-2184 full potential. https://www.aclu.org/secure/contact-aclu- One Embarcadero Center, Suite 350, San washington Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 989-0833 American Immigration Council http://www.pacificresearch.org/contactus/def http://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/ ault.asp The mission of the American Immigration World Trade Organization Council (formerly the American Immigration http://www.wto.org/ Law Foundation) is to strengthen America The WTO provides a forum for negotiating by honoring our immigrant history and agreements aimed at reducing obstacles to shaping how Americans think and act international trade and ensuring a level towards immigration now and in the future. playing field for all, thus contributing to The AIC believes that the dignity of the economic growth and development. The individual knows no boundary. Our nation's WTO also provides a legal and institutional moral and ethical values must be reflected in framework for the implementation and the way we welcome immigrants. Our motto monitoring of these agreements, as well as is: Honoring our immigrant past; shaping our for settling disputes arising from their immigrant future. interpretation and application. 1331 G Street, NW, Suite 200 Washington, Centre William Rappard, Rue de Lausanne DC 20005-3141 154, CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland (202) 507-7500 +41 (0)22 739 51 11 americanimmigrationcouncil.org/contact [email protected] American Immigration Lawyers Association RACIAL / ETHNIC / http://www.aila.org/ The AILA is the national association of over IMMIGRANT 11,000 attorneys and law professors who ORGANIZATIONS practice and teach immigration law. AILA member attorneys represent U.S. families seeking permanent residence for close ANTI-RACIST family members, as well as U.S. businesses seeking talent from the global marketplace. 206 Zulu Nation AILA Members also represent foreign http://www.206zulu.com students, entertainers, athletes, and asylum Zulu Nation's purpose is to raise social seekers, often on a pro bono basis. awareness through forms of expression as a Suite 300, 1331 G Street, NW, Washington, positive outlet for underprivileged youth, DC 20005-3142 alternatively providing a forum for them to air (202) 507-7600 grievances and settle disputes in a non- [email protected] violent manner. The organization is fundamental to the establishment of Hip Hop Anti-Racist Alliance as a universal culture that transcends all the http://www.antiracistalliance.com/ boundaries of race, age, beliefs, sex, The ARA is a movement for racial equity. locality, social status, etc. We are an organizing collective of human 153 14th Ave, Seattle, WA 98108 service practitioners and educators whose (206) 322-1151 vision is to bring a clear and deliberate anti- [email protected] racist structural power analysis to social service education and practice.

13 http://books.dreambook.com/arasandy/main. Border Angels sign.html www.borderangels.org The organization consists of extraordinary Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance volunteers who want to stop unnecessary AFL-CIO deaths of individuals traveling through the http://www.apalanet.org Imperial Valley desert and the mountain Founded in 1992, APALA is the first and areas surrounding San Diego County, as only national organization of Asian Pacific well as the areas located around the United American union members to advance States and Mexican border. The high worker, immigrant and civil rights. APALA percentage of unnecessary deaths have has 13 chapters in 8 states serving as a been results of extreme heat and cold bridge connecting Asian Pacific Americans weather conditions, in addition some have with the broader labor movement. sadly been the results of hate crimes. 815 16th St NW, Washington DC, 20000 P.O.Box 86598, San Diego, CA 92138 (202) 508-3733 (619) 269-7865 [email protected] [email protected]

Asian American Justice Center Capital Area Immigrants Rights Coalition http://www.advancingequality.org/ http://caircoalition.org The AAJC is one of the nation's leading The CAIR Coalition brings together experts on issues of importance to the Asian community groups, pro bono attorneys, American community including: affirmative volunteers and immigrants from the District action, anti-Asian violence prevention/race of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland working relations, census, immigrant rights, to ensure that all immigrants are treated with immigration, language access, television fairness, dignity and respect for their human diversity and voting rights. Our expertise is and civil rights. widely acknowledged: in the media, by the 1612 K Street NW, Suite 204, Washington, public and lawmakers at the very highest DC 20006 tiers of government. (202) 331-3320 1140 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 1200, [email protected] Washington, DC 20036 (202) 296-2318 Center for Third World Organizing [email protected] http://www.ctwo.org/ The CTWO (pronounced "C-2") is a racial- Black Past justice organization dedicated to building a http://Blackpast.org social-justice movement led by people of This online reference center makes color. We were established in 1980 as a available a wealth of materials on African training and resource center that promotes American history in one central location on and sustains direct-action organizing in the Internet. These materials include an communities of color in the United States. online encyclopedia of nearly 3,000 entries, CTWO provides organizer training the complete transcript of nearly 300 programs, including the model Movement speeches by African Americans, other Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) people of African ancestry, and those and builds an active network of concerned about race, over 140 full text organizations and activists of color to primary documents, bibliographies, timelines achieve racial justice in its fullest and six gateway pages with links to digital dimensions. archive collections, African and African 1218 E. 21st Street, Oakland, CA 94606 American museums and research centers, (510) 533-7583 genealogical research websites, and more http://www.ctwo.org/index.php?s=24 than 200 other website resources on African American and global African history. Center for Ethical Living and Social 4616 25th Avenue NE, PMB 222, Justice Renewal Seattle, WA 98105 http://www.celsjr.org/ (206) 985-8553 The Center for Ethical Living and Social [email protected] Justice Renewal is a catalyst in the New Orleans and Gulf Coast region for nurturing a sustainable, equitable and inclusive

14 community by promoting social, racial and Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence economic justice. http://caaav.org/ 2903 Jefferson Ave, New Orleans, LA 70115 We engage in anti-police brutality (504) 866-4170 campaigns, participate in anti-war http://celsjr.org/index.php?option=com_rsfor demonstrations, and protest unfair working m&Itemid=55 conditions. And we develop community- based projects rooted in oppressed CIELO Project at Radio Ranch communities, which focus on building the www.cieloproject.org consciousness and leadership. Providing opportunities for people to acquire 46 Hester Street, New York, NY 10002 skills and resources to actively participate in (212) 473-6485 the wider community. A space that [email protected] welcomes the expression and celebration of cultures and traditions and builds a strong Community to Community multi-generational community with respect http://foodjustice.org and dignity. Strengthening and creating A place-based, women-led grassroots relationships between immigrants and their organization working for a just society and allies who are working together for social healthy communities. We are committed to justice. systemic change and to creating strategic 3102 8th Ave NE, Olympia WA 98506 alliances that strengthen local and global (360) 709-0931 movements towards social, economic and [email protected] environmental justice. Civil Rights Project 203 W. Holly, Ste 317, Bellingham WA civilrightsproject.ucla.edu 98225 The mission of the Civil Rights Project at (360) 738-0893 UCLA is to help renew the civil rights http://foodjustice.org/who/contact movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, to be a preeminent source of Congress of Racial Equality intellectual capital within that movement, www.core-online.org and to deepen the understanding of the CORE seeks to establish, in practice, the issues that must be resolved to achieve inalienable right for all people to determine racial and ethnic equity as society moves their own destiny--to decide for themselves through the great transformation of the 21st what social and political organizations can century. operate in their best interest and to do so UCLA 8370 Math Sciences, Box 951521, without gratuitous and inhibiting influence Los Angeles, CA 90095 from those whose interest is diametrically (310) 267-5562 opposed to theirs. CORE feels that the most [email protected] important fundamental freedom for all people is the right to govern themselves. Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition 817 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 http://www.coloradoimmigrant.org Phone A statewide, membership-based coalition of [email protected] immigrant, faith, labor, youth, community, business and ally organizations founded in Council on American-Islamic Relations- 2002 to improve the lives of immigrants and Washington refugees by making Colorado a more www.cairseattle.org welcoming, immigrant-friendly state. CIRC CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding achieves this mission through non-partisan of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil civic engagement, public education, and liberties, empower American Muslims, and advocating for workable, fair and humane build coalitions that promote justice and immigration policies. mutual understanding. 2525 W. Alameda Ave 300, Denver, CO 9594 1st Ave NE #272, Seattle WA 98115 80219 (206) 367-4081 (303) 922-3344 [email protected] http://www.coloradoimmigrant.org/contactus. php

15 Equality Now education, health, employment, civic http://www.equalitynow.org participation, race and intergroup relations, An organization that advocates for the and other concerns affecting immigrant human rights of women and girls around the children, youth, and families. Some of our world by raising international visibility of members have longstanding immigrant- individual cases of abuse, mobilizing public specific funding initiatives, while others support through our global membership, and incorporate immigrant and refugee issues wielding strategic political pressure to into their core grant making programs. ensure that governments enact or enforce P.O. Box 1100 Sebastopol, CA 95473-1100 laws and policies that uphold the rights of (707) 824-4374 women and girls. [email protected] PO Box 20646, Columbus Circle Station, New York, NY 10023 Homies Unidos (212) 586-0906 www.homiesunidos.org [email protected] Homies Unidos works to provide the inherent right of youth, families and their Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project communities to pursue their dreams and www.esperanza-la.org achieve their full potential in a just, safe and Esperanza's mission is to inspire hope and healthy society. Homies Unidos works to advancing social justice for Southern end violence and promote peace in our California's most vulnerable immigrant and communities through gang prevention, the refugee communities. promotion of human rights in immigrant P.O. Box 15095, Los Angeles, CA 90015 communities, and the empowerment of (213) 251-3505 youth through positive alternatives to gang http://www.esperanza-la.org/contact-us.html involvement and destructive behavior. (213) 383-7484 Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights [email protected] Project http://www.firrp.org Horn of Africa Community in North The Florence Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit America organization providing free legal services to www.hornafrica.org men, women, and unaccompanied children An organization representing and detained by Immigration and Customs advocating for the diverse needs of African Enforcement (ICE) in Arizona. refugees and immigrants in San Diego. We P.O. Box 654, Florence, AZ 85132 are the primary and preferred resource for (520) 868-0191 services to the African refugee community. [email protected] Horn of Africa will strive to involve the African refugee community in its work and to Friends of Youth advocate for more just and fair policies both http://www.friendsofyouth.org in the United States and in Africa to support A place where young people could find a social justice and the preservation of African sympathetic ear, grow personally and values and culture while assisting contribute positively to their communities. = newcomers to the US in becoming self- Friends of Youth has grown into a leader in sufficient and productive members of their developing, providing and advocating for new communities. services for children, youth and their 5296 University Ave., Ste. F, San Diego, CA families. 92105 16225 NE 87th St., Suite A-6, Redmond, http://www.hornafrica.org/contact.php WA 98052-3536 (425) 869-6490 Human Rights Project [email protected] www.hrpujc.org HRP is a domestic human rights Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants organization, one of only a handful of and Refugees organizations in the United States working to http://www.gcir.org/ apply globally accepted human rights GCIR is a growing network of foundations standards to domestic social policy. working on a wide range of immigration and 123 William Street, 16th Fl., New York, NY immigrant integration issues including

16 10038 government accountability in communities (646) 602-5600 with large immigrant populations. http://www.hrpujc.org/contact.html (212) 481-5005 x536 [email protected] Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org Institute for Research and Education on Mission: to protect human rights all over the Human Rights world, challenging governments to end http://www.irehr.org/ abusive practices. Sometimes they work on Our long-held dreams for social and campaigns linking human rights, community economic justice have become imbued with rights and environmental justice. new hope in the future. More, the drive 350 5th Ave., 34th fl, NY NY 10118-3299 towards a truly multi-racial, multicultural (212) 290-4700 democracy and individual human rights have http://www.hrw.org/contact-us gained new and powerful adherents. P.O. Box 33344 Seattle WA 98133 USA Immigrant and Refugee Community (206) 331-2978 Organization of Portland http://irehr.org/contact/10-irehr-contact/4- www.irco.org irehr-seattle-office The mission of IRCO is to promote the integration of refugees, immigrants, and the International Organization for Migration community at large into a self-sufficient, http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/lang/en/pid/1 healthy, and inclusive multi-ethnic society in IOM is committed to the principle that Oregon and Southwest Washington. humane and orderly migration benefits 10301 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97220 migrants and society. As the leading (503) 234-1541 international organization for migration, IOM [email protected] acts with its partners in the international community to assist in meeting the growing Immigration Center for Women and operational challenges of migration Immigration center for Women and management, advance understanding of Children migration issues, encourage social and economic development through migration, http://icwclaw.org/ ICWC is a non-profit legal organization and uphold the human dignity and well- providing affordable immigration services to being of migrants. underrepresented women and children in 17, Route des Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva California. ICWC strives to provide security 19, Switzerland and stability for children who are abused, (41.22) 717.9111 abandoned or neglected and for women and [email protected] children who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and other violent MAViN crimes. www.mavinfoundation.org 634 South Spring Street, Suite 727, Los MAVIN is committed to creating a society Angeles, CA 90014 that recognizes the complexity of race, (213) 614-1165 racism and identity. We support the right to http://icwclaw.org/contact-us/ self-identify, and think it’s important for mixed heritage people to strengthen their Immigrant Voting Project involvement in existing ethnic and affinity http://www.immigrantvoting.org/ivp/ communities. Although we reject exclusive The IVP is a resource network dedicated to and outdated notions of race, we see our promoting discussion about the practice of work as part of a larger movement to end allowing immigrants to vote in local discrimination and inequality on individual elections—often referred to as "resident and systemic levels. Ultimately, we see our voting"—as an innovative way to promote work with mixed heritage issues as an civic participation and responsibility among important way to create supportive and incipient Americans and better educate and inclusive communities for all people. prepare them for eventual citizenship; to 511 16th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98144 give voice to one of the last disenfranchised [email protected] segments of the population; and to increase Migrant Rights International

17 http://www.migrantwatch.org/ concentrates on advocacy activities at state MRI's mission is to advocate for the respect, and local levels through its state and local protection and fulfillment of the full range of advocacy Initiatives. In addition, NCLR human rights of migrants around the world strengthens Latino participation in the and to foster unity and the inclusion of political process. migrant voices at all levels of policy-making. 1126 16th Street, NW, Suite 600 C.P.147, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland Washington, DC 20036-4845 (+41) 22-5349313 [email protected] [email protected] National Immigration Forum NAACP Legal Defense Fund http://www.immigrationforum.org/ http://www.naacpldf.org The NIF advocates for the value of The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational immigrants and immigration to our nation. In Fund, Inc. is America's premier legal service to this mission, the Forum promotes organization fighting for racial justice. responsible federal immigration policies, Through litigation, advocacy, and public addressing today’s economic and national education, LDF seeks structural changes to security needs while honoring the ideals of expand democracy, eliminate disparities, our Founding Fathers, who created America and achieve racial justice in a society that as a land of opportunity. For 30 years, the fulfills the promise of equality for all Forum has worked to advance sound federal Americans. LDF also defends the gains and immigration solutions through its policy protections won over the past 70 years of expertise, communications outreach and civil rights struggle and works to improve the coalition building work, which forges quality and diversity of judicial and executive powerful alliances of diverse constituencies appointments. across the country to build consensus on the 99 Hudson, Ste 1600, New York NY 10013 important role of immigrants in America. (212) 965-2200 50 F Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC [email protected] 20001 (202) 347-0040 National Association for Ethnic Studies [email protected] http://ethnicstudies.org/ Building Communities, Challenging Racism, National Immigration Law Center Sexism and Heteronormativities in the 21st http://nilc.org/ Century The NILC serves low-income immigrants Colorado State University, 1790 Campus and their families through impact litigation, Delivery Fort Collins, CO 80523-1790 advocacy, technical assistance, coalition (970) 491-3927 building, and community support. We [email protected] envision a U.S. society in which all people — regardless of their race, gender, National Council of Jewish Women immigration or economic status — are http://www.ncjw.org treated equally, fairly, and humanely, have The NCJW is a grassroots organization of equal access to justice, education, volunteers and advocates who turn government resources and economic progressive ideals into action. Inspired by opportunities, and are able to achieve their Jewish values, NCJW strives for social full potential as human beings. justice by improving the quality of life for 3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2850, Los women, children, and families and by Angeles, CA 90010 safeguarding individual rights and freedoms. (213) 639-3900 475 Riverside Dr, Ste 1901, New York, NY, 10115 National Immigration Project (212) 645-4048 http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/ [email protected] A national non-profit that provides legal and technical support to immigrant communities, National Council of La Raza legal practitioners, and all advocates www.nclr.org seeking to advance the rights of noncitizens. The NCLR's mission is to improve For over forty years, it has been promoting opportunities and open doors for Hispanic justice and equality of treatment in all areas Americans. Thus, the organization of immigration law, the criminal justice

18 system, and social policies related to and immigrant workers in the Northwest, immigration. We are especially committed to and especially in metropolitan Portland. working together with people who are 917 SW Oak St. Suite 412 , Portland, OR marginalized to protect rights and to 97205 promote fairness, including battered women, (503) 525-8454 people with HIV/AIDS, children, and [email protected] noncitizen criminal offenders. National Lawyers Guild, 14 Beacon Street, One America Suite 602, Boston, MA 02108 http://www.weareoneamerica.org/ (617) 227-9727 One America advances the fundamental http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/ principles of democracy and justice at the local, state and national levels by building National Network for Immigrant and power within immigrant communities in Refugee Rights collaboration with key allies. www.nnirr.org 1225 S. Weller St, Ste 430, Seattle, WA The NNIRR is a national organization 98144 composed of local coalitions and immigrant, (206) 723-2203 refugee, community, religious, civil rights [email protected] and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and Professional Women of Color Network analysis, to educate communities and the http://www.pwocn.org/ general public, and to develop and The mission of the Professional Women of coordinate plans of action on important Color Network is to connect Women of Color immigrant and refugee issues. seeking to successfully build their careers 310 8th Street, Suite 303, Oakland, CA and businesses by serving as a platform for 94607 networking, professional development and (510) 465-1984 strategic connections. [email protected] (206) 659-6356 [email protected] National Urban League-Tacoma http://nul.iamempowered.com/ Public Interest Projects The National Urban League works to http://www.publicinterestprojects.org/ provide economic empowerment, Public Interest Projects, Inc. brings together educational opportunities and the guarantee and strengthens the work of philanthropic of civil rights for the underserved in America. institutions, nonprofit groups and other 2550 South Yakima St, Tacoma WA 98405 public interest organizations sharing a vision (253) 383-2007 of a society that ensures justice, dignity and Email opportunity for all people. 45 W 36th St, 6th Floor, New York, NY Northwest Immigration Rights Project 10018 http://www.nwirp.org/ (212) 378-2800 NWIRP promotes justice for low-income http://www.publicinterestprojects.org/about- immigrants by pursuing and defending their pip/contact-us/ legal status. We focus on providing direct legal services, supported by our education Rainbow PUSH Coalition and public policy work. Founded in 1984, http://rainbowpush.org/ NWIRP's roots were in addressing the legal Our mission is to protect, defend, and gain needs of Central American refugees and civil rights by leveling the economic and others who were able to legalize their status educational playing fields, and to promote under Amnesty programs. peace and justice around the world. (206) 587.4009 (773) 373-3366 http://nul.iamempowered.com/contact-us [email protected]

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Rights of Ethnic and Racial Minorities U.S. Committee for Refugees and www.hrea.org Immigrants One of the fundamental bedrocks of human www.refugees.org rights is the principle that all human beings To protect the rights and address the needs are born free and equal in dignity and rights. of persons in forced or voluntary migration Discrimination and persecution on the worldwide by advancing fair and humane grounds of race and ethnicity are clear public policy, facilitating and providing direct violations of this principle. professional services, and promoting the full 689 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA participation of migrants in community life. 02139 2231 Crystal Drive, Suite 350 (617) 301-4379 Arlington, VA 22202-3711 (703) 310-1130 Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History [email protected] Project http://depts.washington.edu/civilr Based at the University of Washington, the Project represents a unique collaboration RACIST, REDUCTIONIST, involving community groups, UW faculty, and both undergraduate and graduate OR ANTI-IMMIGRANT students. ORGANIZATIONS c/o James Gregory, UW History Department, Seattle, WA 98195 American Conservative Union (206) 543-9451 www.conservative.org [email protected] ACU's purpose is to effectively communicate and advance the goals and principles of Student Immigration Movement conservativism through one multi-issue, simforus.com umbrella organization. SIM is an organization that helps keep 1331 H St NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC immigrant students here in the U.S. One 20005 way they do this is by helping students fill (202) 347-9388 out the Deferred Action application. There all for education, not deportation of immigrant Americans for Legal Immigration students. http://www.alipac.us/content/ 9 Hamilton Pl, Ste 201, Boston, MA 02108 We are one of America's top immigration [email protected] enforcement and border security advocacy organizations. We represent Americans of Tacoma Community House every race, political party, and walk of life http://www.tacomacommunityhouse.org working together to support the enforcement Strengthened by our history of service to of our existing immigration and border laws immigrant communities, Tacoma Community instead of any form of Amnesty for illegal House empowers people to improve the aliens. quality of their lives and become fully PO Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966 contributing members of society. (919) 787-6009 P.O. Box 5107, Tacoma, WA 98405 (253) 383-3951 American Immigration Control [email protected] http://www.americanimmigrationcontrol.com/ AIC is an American non-partisan grassroots UMOJA activist organization with more than a www.umojacompany.org quarter of a million members - citizens of all In 1998, UMOJA, which means UNITY in the races, creeds, and colors. Swahili language of Africa, re-dedicated PO Box 738, Monterey, VA 24465 itself as non-profit arts organization to better (540) 468-2023

20 [email protected] generations of Americans - of all races, creeds, and colors. California Coalition for Immigration P.O. Box 151270, Lakewood, CO 80215 Reform http://www.cairco.org/cairco/send-contact- www.ccir.net email CCIR is political advocacy group devoted to immigration reduction. Its objectives are to Council of Conservative Citizens "promote and expand citizen and legal http://cofcc.org/ resident awareness by a practical, effective The American men and women who make communication network" and to "mobilize up the CofCC believe in, commit themselves citizens and legal residents to support to, and pledge to work for and support these elected representatives and legislation" who fundamental principles of American favor immigration reduction. civilization, liberty, justice, and national 5942 Edinger Avenue, Suite 113-117 safety. Huntington Beach, CA 92649 P.O. Box 221683, St. Louis, MO 63122 (714) 846-9682 (636) 940-8474 [email protected] http://cofcc.org/contact-the-cofcc/

Center For Equal Opportunity Federation for American Immigration http://www.ceousa.org/ Reform The CEO is the nation’s only conservative www.fairus.org think tank devoted to issues of race and FAIR is a national, nonprofit organization of ethnicity. Our fundamental vision is concerned citizens who share a common straightforward: America always has been a belief that our nation's immigration policies multiethnic and multiracial nation, and is must be reformed to serve the national becoming even more so; this makes it interest. FAIR seeks to improve border imperative that our national policies not security, to stop illegal immigration. divide our people according to skin color and 25 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 330 national origin; but rather, these policies Washington DC, 20001 should emphasize and nurture the principles http://www.fairus.org/contact that unify us. 7700 Leesburg Pike, Suite 231, Falls Minutemen Project Church, VA 22043 www.minutemanproject.com (703) 442-0066 The Minuteman Project is an [email protected] activist organization in the United States to monitor the border's flow of illegal Center for Immigration Studies immigrants. The name derives from http://www.cis.org/ the Minutemen militiamen who fought in the The CIS is an independent, non-partisan, American Revolution. The Minuteman non-profit research organization founded in Project describes itself as "a 1985. It is the nation's only think tank citizens' Neighborhood Watch on our devoted exclusively to research and policy border", and has attracted media attention to analysis of the economic, social, illegal immigration. demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of PO Box 3944, Laguna Hills, California immigration on the United States. 92654 1629 K Street N.W., Suite 600, Washington, (949) 587-5199 DC 20006 [email protected] (202) 466-8185 http://www.cis.org/contact National Association for the Advancement of White People Colorado Alliance for Immigration http://www.naawp.org/ Reform The white majority must have a national http://www.cairco.org/ organization that defends its rights, values, We work toward a complete halt to illegal and heritage. immigration and a reduction of legal [email protected] immigration to sustainable numbers. We are concerned about the impact of immigration- driven population growth on future

21 MILITARY / GI / (612) 379-3899 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY Buddhist Peace Fellowship http://www.bpf.org ORGANIZATIONS A community of primarily dharma practitioners established to support socially ANTI-MILITARIST engaged efforts of visionaries of compassionate social justice and dharma- based organizations for social change. American Friends Service Committee PO Box 3470, Berkeley, CA 94703 http://www.afsc.org/ (510) 239-3764 AFSC is a Quaker organization that includes [email protected] people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian Campaign Against Sanctions and Military service. Our work is based on the principles Intervention in Iran of the Religious Society of Friends, the belief http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ in the worth of every person, and faith in the CASMII is an independent campaign power of love to overcome violence and organization with the purpose of opposing injustice. sanctions, foreign state interference and 2101 Front Street #111, Cuyahoga Falls, military intervention in Iran. OH 44221 [email protected] (330) 928-2301 [email protected] Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament www.cnduk.org ANSWER Coalition Seattle CND campaigns non-violently to achieve http://www.answerseattle.org/ British nuclear disarmament – for scrapping The Coalition has since worked to build an the Trident nuclear weapons system and anti-racist, peace and social justice preventing its replacement. But we movement. The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition recognise that Britain’s nuclear weapons are initiated the current mass anti-war only a small part of the problem, so we also movement in the United States, having work to secure an international Nuclear organized the majority of the large, national Weapons Convention which will ban nuclear anti-war demonstrations since 9/11. A weapons globally, as chemical and central characteristic of the A.N.S.W.E.R. biological weapons have been banned. Coalition's organizing strategy has been to 162 Holloway Road, London N7 8DQ work in partnership with the Arab American (020) 7700 2393 and Muslim community and other sectors in [email protected] U.S society who have been traditionally ignored. This has helped to create a truly Canadian Peace Alliance multi-national anti-war movement. http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/about.html 1122 E. Pike, #1211, Seattle, WA 98122 The CPA is Canada's largest umbrella (206) 568-1661 peace organization. Since its foundation in [email protected] 1985 the organization has been helping member groups to act as a broad network, Anti-War Committee in order to provide a strong, coordinated http://antiwarcommittee.org/ voice for peace issues at the national level. We organize vigils, rallies, marches, 427 Bloor Street West, Box 13 Toronto, ON, educational forums, street theater, and civil M5S 1X7 Canada disobedience actions to challenge the (416) 588-5555 injustices of U.S. foreign policy. We believe [email protected] in peace through justice, and we stand in solidarity with oppressed people here and Center on Conscience & War abroad. As the U.S. war in Iraq continues, http://www.centeronconscience.org our most urgent campaign is to end the For more than 70 years, have worked to occupation and bring U.S. troops home now. defend and extend the rights of 4200 Cedar Ave. S., #4 Minneapolis, MN conscientious objectors. Supports all those 55407 who question participation in war, whether

22 they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, (202) 521-2510 documented or undocumented immigrants-- [email protected] or citizens in other countries. 1830 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington Committee to Stop FBI Repression D.C. 20009 www.stopfbi.net (800) 379-2679 Came together in response to the FBI raids [email protected] on seven homes and an anti-war office on Friday, September 24, 2010. The FBI also Central Committee for Conscientious handed subpoenas to testify before a federal Objectors grand jury to 14 activists that came together http://objector.org/ to organize the 2008 anti-war marches CCCO supports conscientious objectors and during the Republican National Convention promotes individual and collective resistance in St. Paul. The Committee seeks to stop the to war and preparations for war. We seek to repression of anti-war and international provide full and accurate information about solidarity activists, immediately return all military life and war to individuals affected by confiscated materials, and end the grand military service, conscription, and jury proceedings against anti-war activists. recruitment. PO Box 14183, Minneapolis, MN 55414 405 14th Street #205 (612) 379-3585 Oakland, CA 94612 [email protected] [email protected] Committee in Solidarity of the People of Citizen Soldier El Salvador-Seattle http://www.citizen-soldier.org/ www.seattlecispes.org Defending GIs who stand against illegal We fight against trade deals such as the policies. Through advocacy and public Central American Agreement education we can reduce the role of (CAFTA) and against the privatization of militarism in our society. essential services, including health care and 267 Fifth Ave., #901, New York N Y 10016 water. We work for the rights of immigrants (212) 679-2250 in the United States. We believe in democracy and the self-determination of all Code Pink peoples. Therefore, we oppose U.S. http://www.codepink4peace.org/ political, economic and military intervention “CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots in El Salvador and throughout Latin peace and social justice movement working America. to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to 606 Maynard Ave S, #252, Seattle, WA challenge militarism globally, and to redirect 98104 our resources into health care, education, (206) 325–5494 green jobs and other life-affirming activities.” [email protected] The group was created out of a desire to stop the US invasion of Iraq. Committee Opposed to Militarism & the 2010 Linden Ave, Venice, CA 90291 Draft (310) 827-4320 http://www.comdsd.org/ [email protected] COMD is an anti-militarism organization that also challenges the institution of the military, Committee In Solidarity with the People its effect on society, its budget, its role of El Salvador abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism http://www.cispes.org/ and homophobia that are inherent in the CISPES is a grassroots organization armed forces and Selective Service System. dedicated to supporting the Salvadoran COMD activities include community people's struggle for self-determination and education, direct action and youth outreach. social and economic justice. CISPES is P.O. Box 15195, San Diego, CA 92175 committed to working for a world without (760) 753-7518 oppression. We recognize that the roots of [email protected] oppression run deep in our society and in ourselves, and that all freedom struggles. 1525 Newton St. NW, Washington DC, 20010

23 Costs Of War http://forusa.org/contact#contactform http://costsofwar.org Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March GI Rights Hotline 2003, National Priorities Project has tracked http://girightshotline.org/en/ the costs of the wars in Iraq and Since 1994, the Hotline been providing free, Afghanistan. The 2011 Costs of War report confidential, and accurate information on US was compiled by more than 20 economists, military regulations and practices to service anthropologists, lawyers, humanitarian members, veterans, potential recruits, and personnel, and political scientists as the first their families. A consortium of nearly twenty comprehensive analysis of a decade of wars non-governmental, non-profit organizations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. located in eleven states and in Germany. [email protected] Some of our counselors are veterans, some are lawyers and some have decades of Countdown to Drawdown military counseling experience. We are in http://countdowntodrawdown.org constant contact with each other to stay up- Countdown to Drawdown is a campaign of to-date on the latest military regulations and Just Foreign Policy to end the endless practices. We provide resources and Afghanistan War by tracking the progress of counseling options. the withdrawal, by raising awareness of the (877) 447-4487 lack of an end date, by educating Americans [email protected] about the costs of continuing the war past 2014, and by promoting concrete actions GI Voice/Coffee Strong aimed at ending the war. The goal is to http://www.coffeestrong.org place sufficient pressure on the President Veterans provide a safe place for soldiers to and Congress so that they establish a public share the effects of disastrous wars, within timetable for full withdrawal. 300 meters of the gates at Ft Lewis. The [email protected] unique coffeehouse welcomes soldiers with a free cup of coffee. There is access to the Courage to Resist Internet, an informative library, and many http://couragetoresist.org referrals are available to community A group of concerned community members, resources, including GI Rights counseling veterans and military families that supports and Veterans Benefits. Free legal and military objectors to illegal war and educational resources are available. occupation and the policies of empire. Our 15109 Union Ave. Ste. B, Lakewood, WA People Power strategy weakens the pillars 98498 that maintain war and occupation in Iraq, (253) 581-1565 Afghanistan and elsewhere by supporting GI [email protected] resistance, counter-recruitment and draft resistance, which cuts off the supply of Global Exchange troops. We are autonomous from and http://www.globalexchange.org/ independent of any political organization, Global Exchange has numerous programs party or group. and campaigns that work toward policy 484 Lake Park Ave # 41, Oakland CA 94610 changes and corporate accountability (510) 488-3559 through grassroots education and action. http://couragetoresist.org/contact.html Their program “Stop Funding War” focuses on educating people about the costs of war Fellowship of Reconciliation locally and abroad, expanding networks, http://forusa.org/about/sop understanding, and tolerance, and is FOR works with a majority of people of faith working to provide peaceful alternatives. and seeks to abolish war. FOR seeks 2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor San nonviolent conflict resolution and Francisco, CA 94110 CA 94110 reconciliation through compassionate action. (415) 255-7296 They advocate for reconciliation between [email protected] offenders and society, acknowledging that it can be healing to both victims and Hands Off the People of Iran offenders. http://hopoi.org/ P.O. Box 271 Nyack, NY 10960 HOPI is a campaign established around the (845) 358-4601 central slogans ‘No to imperialist war! No to

24 the theocratic regime!’ As well as British Moellwaldplatz 5/2, A - 1040 Vienna Austria activists, the organisation centrally involves ( +43 1) 504 64 37 a large number of Iranian exile organisations [email protected] and individuals who have been forced into exile to avoid arrest and imprisonment. International Peace Bureau PO Box 54631, London N16 8YE UK http://www.ipb.org/web (07950) 416 922 The IPB is an international non- [email protected] governmental peace organization. IPB exists to serve the cause of peace by iCasualties.org the promotion of disarmament, the non- http://icasualties.org/OEF/Index.aspx violent prevention and resolution of conflicts An independent website created in May and international cooperation. 2003 to track casualties in the Afghanistan 41 rue de Zurich, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland War and Iraq War. (+41 22) 731 64 29 [email protected] Institute for Policy Studies http://www.ips-dc.org/ International Solidarity Movement IPS is a community of public scholars and http://palsolidarity.org/about/ organizers linking peace, justice, and the ISM is a Palestinian-led movement environment in the U.S. and globally. We committed to resisting the Israeli apartheid work with social movements to promote true in Palestine by using nonviolent, direct- democracy and challenge concentrated action methods and principles. Founded by wealth, corporate influence, and military a small group of primarily Palestinian and power. As Washington’s first progressive Israeli activists in 2001, ISM aims to support multi-issue think tank, the Institute for Policy and strengthen the Palestinian popular Studies (IPS) has served as a policy and resistance by providing the Palestinian research resource for visionary social justice people with two resources, international movements for over four decades — from solidarity and an international voice with the anti-war and civil rights movements in which to nonviolently resist an overwhelming the 1960s to the peace and global justice military occupation force. movements of the last decade. http://palsolidarity.org/contact/ 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600, Washington DC 20036 Iraq Veterans Against the War (202) 234-9382 http://www.ivaw.org/ [email protected] IVAW’s mission is to work with the military community to immediately withdraw its International Action Center support and occupying forces for the wars in http://www.iacenter.org/ Iraq and Afghanistan. They have a goal of IAC builds broad-based grassroots achieving reparations for the suffering and coalitions to oppose to U.S. wars abroad structural damages sustained in Iraq and while fighting against racism and economic Afghanistan. They also seek to attain full exploitation of workers here at home. IAC benefits including mental and physical works towards the liberation and freedom of health care, and other support, for returning all peoples living in the U.S. and around the veterans and military personnel. world. P.O. Box 3565 New York, NY 10008-3565 55 W. 17th St., Suite 5C, New York, NY (646) 723-0989 10011 http://www.ivaw.org/contact-us (212) 633-6646 [email protected] Just Foreign Policy http://www.justforeignpolicy.org International Institute for Peace An independent and non-partisan http://www.iip.at/ membership organization dedicated to The IIP pursues the objective of contributing reforming U.S. foreign policy by mobilizing to the maintenance and strengthening of and organizing the broad majority of peace through its research activities and Americans who want a foreign policy based ensures that the results of these activities on diplomacy, law and cooperation. are available to the international academic 4410 Massachusetts Ave. NW, #290 community, politicians and decision makers. Washington, DC 20016

25 (202) 448-2898 beginning military law attorneys in all [email protected] aspects of military law through training materials and direct communication. It March Forward updates changes in military law and policy. http://www.answercoalition.org/march- 730 N. 1st St., San Jose, CA. 95112 forward/ (619) 463-2369 In 2008, veterans and active-duty service http://nlgmltf.org/contact members who had been seasoned activists and leaders in the movement against the National Network Opposing the Iraq war joined together to form March Militarization of Youth Forward! Our aim is to unite all those who http://www.nnomy.org/ have served and who currently serve in the NNOMY is a national networking body that U.S. military, and who want to stand up for brings together national, regional and local our rights and for that which is right. organizations to oppose the growing (213) 251-1025 intrusion of the military in young people's [email protected] lives. P.O. Box 3012, South Pasadena, CA 91031 Middle East Children's Alliance http://nnomy.org/index.php?option=com_alfc http://www.mecaforpeace.org ontact&Itemid=146&lang=en MECA is a non-profit organization working for the rights of children in the Middle East National Peace Action by sending humanitarian aid, supporting http://www.peace-action.org/ projects for children and educating North National Peace Action has worked for over American and international communities 50 years to create a world free from violence about the effects of the US foreign policy on and war and is the largest grassroots peace children in the region. network in the U.S. It places pressure on th 1101 8 St., Ste 100, Berkeley, CA 94710 Congress and the Administration through (510) 548-0542 write-in campaigns, Internet actions, citizen [email protected] lobbying and direct action.” NPA works to achieve new foreign policy, an elimination of Military Families Speak Out the threat of nuclear weapons, and for http://www.militaryfamiliesspeakout.com complete removal of American troops from An organization of people opposed to the Iraq and Afghanistan. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have Montgomery Center, 8630 Fenton St, Ste relatives or loved ones currently in the 524, Silver Spring, MD 20910 military, or who have served in the military (301) 565-4050 since the fall of 2002. Formed by two http://www.peace-action.org/about- families in November of 2002, we have us/contact contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around National Peace Foundation the world. Our membership currently http://www.nationalpeace.org/ includes close to 4,000 military families, with NPF is committed to solving problems and new families joining weekly. preventing conflict through community 525 South 4th St, Ste 477, Philadelphia, PA peacebuilding and citizen empowerment. 19147 We work where the institutions of civil (267) 324-3042 society (such as health, justice, education, [email protected] safety) have failed or are no longer effective, NPF empowers local citizens to improve Military Law Task Force their situation and reduce conflict. Drawing http://nlgmltf.org on a legacy of work that stretches back over The MLTF includes attorneys, legal workers, twenty-five years, today our projects law students and “Barracks lawyers” produce tangible results around the world. interested in draft, military and veterans P.O. Box 232, Brevard, NC 28712 issues. It is an standing project of the (888) 616-1186 National Lawyers Guild. It assists those [email protected] working on military law issues as well as military law counselors working directly with GIs. It trains and mentors counselors and

26 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows means for people to discover their own http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/ power through the peaceful resolution of Peaceful Tomorrows is an organization conflicts, the creation of democratic founded by family members of those killed structures, and the realization of justice - not on September 11th who have united to turn mere victory. our grief into action for peace. By developing and advocating nonviolent options and Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project actions in the pursuit of justice, we hope to www.olympiarafahmural.org/ break the cycles of violence engendered by ORSMP is located in Olympia, the war and terrorism. Acknowledging our hometown of Rachel Corrie, who was common experience with all people affected crushed to death at age 23 by an Israeli by violence throughout the world, we work to driven, US built bulldozer while defending create a safer and more peaceful world for the home of a Palestinian family in the town everyone. of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. ORSMP tells the PO Box 1818, Peter Stuyvesant Station, tale of these two cities, Olympia and Rafah, New York, NY 10009 linked through tragedy and resilience. It is (212) 598-0970 the tale of people coming together across [email protected] borders, using technology to bridge physical and financial distances, including the Okinawa Women Act Against Military artwork of Palestinians, who are forbidden to Violence travel. http://www.genuinesecurity.org/partners/okin 119-1/2 Capitol Way N, Olympia, WA 98501 awa.html (415) 271-0576 Formed in 1995, following the rape of a 12- http://olympiarafahmural.org/contact-us/ year-old girl by three US servicemen, this group has held demonstrations and protests, Physicians for Human Rights organized letter writing campaigns, and http://physiciansforhumanrights.org brought their creativity and passion to PHR is an independent organization that protests and campaigns against the US uses medicine and science to stop mass military presence in Okinawa, which dates atrocities and severe human rights violations back to 1945 and the end of World War II. against individuals. We use our Provides a strong feminist voice linking investigations and expertise to advocate for violence against women with military the prevention of individual or small scale violence. acts of violence from becoming mass 3-29-41-402 Kumoji, Naha-shi, Okinawa, atrocities. 900-0015 Japan. 2 Arrow St. Ste. 301, Cambridge, MA 02138 (81-98) 864-1539 (617) 301-4200 [email protected] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/about/co ntact/ Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace http://www.omjp.net Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and A broad coalition of educators, students, Justice activists, and community members http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ coalesced to oppose war, as well as the The foundation encourages and supports existing and morally indefensible social, grassroots efforts in pursuit of human rights political, and economic structures and and social, economic, and environmental inequities that breed terrorist ideologies, and justice, which we view as pre-requisites for are destructive toward peoples and the world peace. Continuing the work begun and environment. envisioned by our daughter, Rachel Corrie, [email protected] our initial emphasis has been on Israel/ Palestine. Olympia Port Militarization Resistance 203 E. 4th Ave, Ste 402, Olympia WA 98501 http://olypmr.blogspot.com/ (360) 754-3998 OlyPMR is organized to end our http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/contact community's participation in the illegal occupation of Iraq by stopping the U.S. Military's use of the Port of Olympia. We believe that non-violent social change is a

27 School of the Americas Watch war and oppression by coordinating list http://soaw.org/ serves, web resources, and information on a SOA Watch is an independent organization wide array of issues that emphasizes the that seeks to close the US Army School of interconnectedness of different issues. the Americas, under whatever name it is UFPJ also promotes the campaigns and called, through vigils and fasts, actions of member groups and hosts demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as educational conferences for activists. well as media and legislative work. P.O. Box 607 New York, NY 10108 SOAW goal is to change U.S. foreign policy (212) 868-5545 in Latin America by educating the public, lobbying Congress and participating in United National Antiwar Coalition creative, nonviolent resistance. https://nationalpeaceconference.org/Home_ PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017 Page.html (202) 234 3440 UNAC is a growing national coalition of [email protected] organizations founded on: 1) unity in the movement, 2) independence from political Students for Justice in Palestine-USC parties, 3) democratic-decision-making, 4) http://uscsjp.wordpress.com/ U.S. Out Now from Iraq, Afghanistan, Part of the larger student movement Pakistan (and now Libya), and 5) a sweeping university campuses across the commitment to mass action as the major United States, SJP is a diverse group of strategy for building a powerful and inclusive students, faculty, staff, and community movement. members centered at the University of P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054 Southern California, and organized in (518) 227-6947 accordance with democratic principles to [email protected] promote justice, human rights, and self- determination for the Palestinian people. Veterans for Peace 900 W 34th Street Los Angeles, CA 90089 http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ (213) 740-2804 We, having dutifully served our nation, do [email protected] hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end Under The Hood Cafe we will work, with others to increase public http://www.underthehoodcafe.org awareness of the costs of war, restrain our A place outside Fort Hood, Texas, where government from intervening, overtly and soldiers, families, friends and community covertly, in the internal affairs of other members can get information on service nations, end the arms race and to reduce members’ and veterans rights, get referrals and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, for legal and wellness services and seek justice for veterans and victims of war, participate in creative workshops. Provides and abolish war as an instrument of national confidential GI Rights Counseling to soldiers policy. dealing with issues related to their command 216 South Meramec Ave., St. Louis MO including discharges, Article 15, and other 63105 disciplinary infractions, peer support and a (314) 725-6005 space to talk freely about issues within the [email protected] military, and referrals to legal and behavioral health counselors. Vietnam Veterans Against the War 17 College St. Killeen, TX 76541 http://www.vvaw.org (254) 449-8811 VVAW is a national veterans' organization http://www.underthehoodcafe.org/contact- founded in 1967 to voice the growing us/ opposition among returning servicemen and women to the still-raging war in Indochina, United For Peace and Justice and grew rapidly to a membership of over http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ 30,000 throughout the United States as well UFPJ is a coalition in which many peace as active duty GIs stationed in Vietnam. It is and justice organizations have gathered to still organizing for veterans’ rights, benefits, end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. and Agent Orange compensation. Hundreds of organizations utilize this organization as a place to network to end

28 P.O. Box 355, Champaign, IL 61824 peace, justice and sustainable economies in (773) 569-3520 the Americas by changing U.S. policies and [email protected] corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and Voices for Creative Non-Violence the Caribbean. http://vcnv.org/ 3628 12th Street NE. 1st Fl., Washington, VCN has deep, long-standing roots in active DC 20017 nonviolent resistance to U.S. war-making. (202) 547-6112 Begun in 2005, Voices draws from the [email protected] experiences of those who challenged the brutal economic sanctions imposed by the Women Against War U.S. and U.N. against the Iraqi people http://www.womenagainstwar.org/index.htm between 1990 and 2003. Women Against War is based on the belief 1249 W Argyle St. #2, Chicago, IL 60640 that war is not the answer to conflict and that (773) 878-3815 women can lead the way to developing [email protected] alternatives to violence. They seek to bring the voices of women, their collective energy, War Resisters League and their unique skills to bear on peace and http://www.warresisters.org/ social justice issues. WRL is the United States’ oldest secular Women Against War pacifist organization, and has been resisting PO Box 505, Delmar, New York 12054 war at home and war abroad since 1923. [email protected] Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and has been shaped by Women for Genuine Security the new visions and strategies of each http://www.genuinesecurity.org/ generation’s peacemakers. Women for Genuine Security is a U.S. 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 based organization that promotes a world of (212) 228-0450 genuine security based on justice and [email protected] respect for others across national boundaries, a world free of militarism, West Virginia Patriots for Peace violence and all forms of sexual exploitation. http://www.wvpatriotsforpeace.org Through educational programs and A grass-roots organization formed in 2002, resources, WGS promotes critical analysis, including include Democrats and activist partnerships and greater Republicans and Independents; members of accountability of the U.S. government for the all aspects of the faith community; political violence, environmental devastation, and activists, people of conscience and pacifists; sexual abuse caused by the U.S. military in veterans, housewives and students; union countries that host U.S. forces and bases. members, the unemployed and the retired. [email protected] P. O. Box 3482, Charleston WV 25334 (304) 345-0427 Women in Black [email protected] http://www.womeninblack.org/en/vigil A world-wide network of women committed WikiLeaks to peace with justice and actively opposed to http://www.wikileaks.org injustice, war, militarism and other forms of An international, online, self-described not- violence. As women experiencing these for-profit organisation publishing things in different ways in different regions of submissions of secret information, news the world, we support each other's leaks, and classified media from anonymous movements. An important focus is news sources and whistleblowers. challenging the militarist policies of our own http://cablegatesearch.net governments. We are not an organization, but a means of communicating and a Witness for Peace formula for action. www.witnessforpeace.org http://www.womeninblack.org/en/contact A politically independent, nationwide grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. WFP’s mission is to support

29 Women in Black Olympia our Arab neighbors as crucial to the future of http://www.wib-oly.org/ our country and to maintaining our security Women in Black is a network of women that and the nature of the State of Israel. stand in silent vigils advocating for non- Lloyd George St. 6, P.O.Box 8159, violence, and peaceful and just conflict Jerusalem 91081 Israel resolution around the world. The Olympia (972-2) 566-0648 chapter organizes a silent vigil [email protected] demonstration every Friday (5-6 pm) by Percival Landing (Fountain on 4th). [email protected] PRO-MILITARY Women’s International League for Peace and Justice American Legion http://www.wilpf.org/ www.legion.org Jane Adams, who was the first woman to The nation’s largest war veterans service win the Nobel Peace Prize and who also organization, committed to mentoring youth founded Hull House, was the first president and sponsorship of wholesome programs in of WILPF in 1915. The league works for our communities, advocating patriotism and disarmament, women’s rights, and grounds honor, promoting strong national security, their work for peace in the philosophy that it and continued devotion to our fellow must be “planted in the soil of justice, servicemembers and veterans. freedom, non-violence, opportunity and 1608 K St. N.W. Washington, DC 20006 equality for all.” (202) 861-2700 11 Arlington Street, Boston MA 02116 http://www.legion.org/contact/website (617) 266-0999 [email protected] Americans for Victory Over Terrorism http://www.claremont.org/projects/projectid.3 World Peace Council 5/project_detail.asp http://www.wpc-in.org/ AVOT is dedicated to victory in the War on WPC is an anti-imperialist, democratic, Terrorism. Through the shaping of public independent and non-aligned international opinion, the encouragement of a foreign movement of mass action. It is an integral policy based on the founding principles of part of the world peace movement and acts America, increased research about Islam in cooperation with other international and and Islamism, and a steadfast commitment national movements. The WPC is the largest to attacking those who would blame America International Peace structure, based in more first, AVOT will work toward victory in this than 100 countries. first great war of the 21st century. 10,Othonos St. 10557 Athens, Greece 937 West Foothill Boulevard, Suite E, (+30210) 3316326 Claremont, CA 91711 [email protected] (909) 626-8724 [email protected] Historians Against The War http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/ Appeal for Courage As historically minded activists, scholars, http://www.appealforcourage.org/ students, and teachers, we stand opposed As an American currently serving my nation to wars of aggression, military occupations in uniform, I respectfully urge my political of foreign lands, and imperial efforts by the leaders in Congress to fully support our United States and other powerful nations to mission in Iraq and halt any calls for retreat. dominate the internal life of other countries. I also respectfully urge my political leaders PO Box 442154, Somerville, MA 02144 to actively oppose media efforts which (617) 625-7649 embolden my enemy while demoralizing [email protected] American support at home. PO Box 7015, Bloomington, IN 47407 Peace Now [email protected] www.Peacenow.org Peace Now is a movement of Israeli citizens that view peace, compromise, and appeasement with the Palestinians and with

30 Center for a New American Security defense.” They work to provide information http://www.cnas.org/ on key policy issues and are the most CNAS works to develop effective and broadly supported think tank in America. principled national security and defense 214 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington, policies. They work with the public, DC 20002-4999 policymakers, experts and their staff and (202) 546-4400 advisors to “shape and elevate the national security debate.” There are several different Military Families United leadership programs CNAS offers, such as http://militaryfamiliesunited.org/ the Next Generation National Security We are a national coalition of Gold Star and Leaders Program and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Blue Star families, veterans, and patriotic National Security Internship and Mentoring Americans who share a deep appreciation Program. for our men and women in uniform and 1301 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Ste. 403, support them in their mission to keep Washington, D.C. 20004 America safe. Founded in 2005 to provide (202) 457-9401 an avenue for military families to remind the [email protected] nation of the importance of supporting our military and the mission they had been given Foundation for Defense of Democracies to accomplish, we expanded to provide http://www.defenddemocracy.org charitable programs that offer families direct FDD is a non-partisan institution focusing on support. national security and foreign policy. FDD PO Box 20426, New York, NY 10021 was founded by a group of former U.S. (646) 450-3233 officials and visionary philanthropists shortly [email protected] after the attacks of September 11, 2001 to help free nations defend themselves. Move America Forward P.O. Box 33249, Washington D.C. 20033 http://www.moveamericaforward.org (202) 207-0190 Move America Forward is a non-partisan, [email protected] not-for-profit charitable organization committed to supporting America's efforts to Freedom Watch defeat terrorism and supporting the brave www.freedomwatchusa.org men and women of our Armed Forces. We are dedicated to not only preserving 8795 Folsom Blvd., Suite #103, freedom, but redefining its meaning, from Sacramento, CA 95826 protecting our rights to privacy, civil liberties, (916) 441-6197 and freedom from foreign oil and crooked [email protected] business, labor and government officials, to protecting our national sovereignty against Project for Century the incompetent, terrorist state-controlled http://www.newamericancentury.org/ United Nations, and reestablishing the rule PNAC is a non-profit that focuses on of law in what has become a very corrupt education that promotes values of American American legal system, where justice is only global leadership, including advocacy for as good as your lawyer and judge—most of increased military strength and a defense whom are compromised ethically and budget in interest of maintaining American otherwise. security and American interests. The 2020 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 345, organization holds that American should Washington, DC 20006 increase defense spending in the name of (202) 286-3261 carrying out our global duties and to help [email protected] prepare us in challenging regimes that threaten American interests and values. Heritage Foundation [email protected] http://www.heritage.org/ The Heritage Foundation is a think tank Special Operations Speak “whose mission is to formulate and promote http://specialoperationsspeaks.com/index conservative public polices based on the We, as veterans, legatees, and supporters principles of free enterprise, limited of the Special Operations communities of all government, individual freedom, traditional the Armed Forces, have noted with dismay American values, and a strong national and deep alarm the recent stream of highly

31 damaging leaks of information about various ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE aspects of America’s shadow war in the overall War on Terror. Our principles are the same as when we were in active service — PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL Duty, Honor, Country. (202) 558.6640 Advocates for Environmental Human [email protected] Rights www.ehumanrights.org Tea Party Vets A public interest law firm providing legal http://teapartyvets.org/ services, community-organizing support, Objective is to bring a touch of home to the education and campaigns focused on troops with necessary items that are defending and advancing the right to a provided at no cost to the troops stationed healthy environment. Focus on advocating abroad. The Tea Party Vets Network of for the human rights of internally displaced organizations supplies U.S. Troops with Gulf Coast hurricane survivors. personal resources so they too can achieve 650 Poydras St., Ste. 2523, New Orleans LA their objects and accomplish their mission. 70130 Stronger Military Is Essential, Common (504) 799-3060 Sense Constitutional Conservative Self- [email protected] Governance is mode of operation. 24338 El Toro Rd, Suite E-108, Alternatives for Community and Laguna Woods, CA 92637 Environment [email protected] www.ace-ej.org ACE builds the power of communities of Veterans of Foreign Wars color and low-income communities in http://www.vfw.org Massachusetts, with the focus on To foster camaraderie among United States eradicating environmental racism and veterans of overseas conflicts. To serve our classism. Goal of healthy, sustainable veterans, the military, and our communities. communities for all. To advocate on behalf of all veterans. 2181 Washington St., Ste. 301, Boston MA 406 West 34th St., Kansas City, MO 64111 02199 (816) 756-3390 (617) 442-3343 http://www.vfw.org/ContactUsForm [email protected]

Vets for Freedom Appalachia Rising http://www.vetsforfreedom.org http://appalachiarising.org To educate the American public about the Appalachia Rising began as a mass importance of achieving success in these mobilization in DC in September 2010, conflicts by applying our first-hand calling for a stop to mountaintop removal. knowledge to issues of American strategy This involves a massive acceleration of the and tactics in Iraq and Afghanistan. We national movement against surface mining support policymakers from both sides of the and a foundation for prosperity and justice in aisle who have stood behind our great Appalachia. generation of American warriors on the battlefield, and who have put long-term Appalachian Coal Country Team national security before short-term partisan www.coalcountryteam.org political gain. “The mission of the ACCT is to assist rural P.O. Box 314, Woodstock, VA 22664 communities impoverished by environmental [email protected] degradation by making their home-place- watersheds healthier places to live and work.” Builds local capacity, environmental stewardship, offers outreach and education, and helps with economic development. 2795 Robert C Byrd Dr., Beckley WV 24801 (304) 252-4848 [email protected]

32 Appalachian Voices Training, coalition-building, technical and http://appvoices.org organizational assistance; special projects Appalachian Voices is an award-winning focusing on big challenges, ex. green environmental organization committed to schools, BE SAFE campaign, Poison Plastic protecting the land, air and water of the campaign. central and southern Appalachian region, PO Box 6806, Falls Church VA 22040 focusing on reducing coal’s impact on the (703) 237-2249 region and advancing a vision for a cleaner [email protected] energy future. 171 Grand Ave., Boone NC 28607 Center on Race, Poverty and the (877) app-voice Environment [email protected] http://www.crpe-ej.org The Center on Race, Poverty and the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Environment is a national environmental Association justice organization, guided by the principle http://www.biodynamics.com that all people to deserve to live, work and The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening play in a safe, clean environment. The Association is an organization of individuals Center, connected to a national and and organizations in North America international network of community and committed to the transformation of the whole movement organizations, seeks EJ and food system, from farm to table. healthy, sustainability through collective PO Box 944, East Troy, WI 53210 action and legal strategies. (262) 649-9212 1012 Jefferson St, Delano CA 93215 [email protected] (661) 720-9140 [email protected] Boots to Roots http://www.veteranstransitioncorps.org/boots Citizens for A Clean Harbor -to-roots www.cleanharbor.org Boots to Roots is a collaboration with the Launched in 2011, “we are against the coal Veterans Transition Corps and the Oregon export terminal that is planned for Grays University System, aimed at providing Harbor. The issue for us is the stockpiling, veterans with agricultural-based education, the 125-long cars, the loss of product about employment and therapy. Boots to Roots 47 lbs. per mile travelled.” empowers veterans to reforge their sense of PO Box 35, Hoquiam WA 98550 identity, while experiencing a [email protected] comprehensive range of sustainable agricultural production and distribution Coal River Mountain Watch practices. http://crmw.net (360) 388-1242 Mission: to stop the destruction of [email protected] communities and the environment by mountain top removal mining, to improve the Center for Community Action & quality of life in West Virginia and to help Environmental Justice rebuild sustainable communities. http://www.ccaej.org PO Box 303, Naoma WV 25140 “Dedicated to improving both our social (304) 854-2182 conditions and natural environment, so that [email protected] everyone has a safe, healthy, toxic free place to live, work, learn and play.” Communities for a Better Environment 7701 Mission Blvd., Jurupa Valley CA 92509 http://www.cbecal.org (951) 360-8451 Mission – to build people power in [email protected] California’s communities of color and low- income communities to achieve Center for Health, Environment & Justice environmental health and justice, by http://chej.org preventing and reducing pollution, and “CHEJ mentors a movement, empowering building green, healthy and sustainable people to build healthy communities and communities. Serves people in blighted, preventing harm to human health caused by polluted communities. Provides organizing exposure to environmental threats.”

33 skills, leadership training, scientific/technical 2601 Gentilly Blvd., Duicef Room 227, New assistance. Orleans LA 70122 6325 Pacific Blvd., Suite 300, Huntingdon (504) 816-4005 Park CA 90255 (323) 826-9771 Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition www.duwamishcleanup.org Community Coalition for Environmental DRCC is involved in all aspects of the Justice cleanup and stewardship of the Duwamish www.ccej.org watershed and is working to ensure that CCEJ’s mission focuses on environmental community standards are met. Outreach, and economic justice for low-income and education, community-based science. communities of color. Focal areas: air quality 1620 18th Ave. #10, Seattle WA 98122 in South Seattle; low-income housing; youth (206) 954-0218 of color leadership; community outreach. [email protected] Works to ensure low-income people and communities of color have equal access to Ella Baker Center for Human Rights environmental quality and services – from http://www.ellabakercenter.org land use to community development. Through organizing, leadership development 1620 18th Ave., Suite 10, Seattle WA 98122 and advocacy, the Center unlocks the power (206) 720-0285 of low-income people, people of color and [email protected] their allies to transform California and beyond. Four key campaigns: Books Not Community Environmental Legal Defense Bars, Heal the Streets, Soul of the City and Fund Green Collar Jobs (building a thriving green www.celdf.org economy). “We believe that sustainability will never be 1970 Broadway, Ste 450, Oakland CA achieved by leaving those decisions in the 94612 hands of a few – both because of their belief (510) 428-3838 in limitless economic production and because their decisions are made at a Earthcorps distance from the communities experiencing http://www.earthcorps.org the impact of those decisions.” Earthcorps seeks to build global community PO Box 360, Mercersburg PA 17236 through local environmental service. Based (717) 498-9954 in Seattle, its work consists of volunteer- [email protected] based and contracted restoration projects on public lands in the Puget Sound and Deep Green Resistance Cascade Mountains. http://deepgreenresistance.org 6310 NE 74th St, Ste. 201E, Seattle WA “The Goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of 98115 their ability to steal from the poor and the [email protected] powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. This will require defending and rebuilding Earthjustice just and sustainable human communities http://earthjustice.org nestled inside repaired and restored Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law landbases.” firm dedicated to protecting natural [email protected] resources & wildlife and protecting the right of all people to a healthy environment. Deep South Center for Environmental Earthjustice works internationally, hosts EJ Justice and social justice visitors and allies from www.dscej.org other countries and takes the lead on Founded in 1992, in connection to selected EJ cases. community environmental groups and 50 California St, Suite 500, San Francisco universities. Under auspices of Dillard Univ. CA 94111 of New Orleans, provides opportunities for (415) 217-2000 community groups, scientists and decision [email protected] makers to work together on projects, at the intersection of health, jobs, shelter, education & quality of life.

34 Environmental Health Coalition agencies, academic institutions and private www.environmentalhealth.org organizations. The Environmental Health Coalition is Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public dedicated to achieving environmental and Health, 615 North Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD social justice. “We believe that justice is 21205 accomplished by empowered communities (410) 502-5651 acting together to make social change. We [email protected] organize and advocate to protect public health and the environment threatened by Environmental Justice Resource Center toxic pollution.” www.ejrc.cau.edu 2727 Hoover Ave., Suite 202, National City The Center’s goal is to assist, support, train CA 91950 and educate people of color – students, (619) 474-0220 professionals, grassroots community leaders [email protected] to impact mainstream decision-making. The Center is a bridge between the sciences, Environmental Health News law, and community advocacy. Excellent www.environmentalhealthnews.org networking and technical resources, with Daily news service, especially good on extensive profiles of advocates, strategic diverse communities, environmental justice, materials and thorough and informative environmental racism, eco-inequality, links. international news, and state-by-state news Clark Atlanta University, 223 James P. and resources. Brawley Dr., Atlanta GA 30314 421 Park St., Ste. 4, Charlottesville VA [email protected] 22902 [email protected] Environmental Working Group www.ewg.org Environmental Justice and Climate EWG uses the power of public information to Change Initiative protect public health and the environment. http://www.ejcc.org Founded in 1993, EWG focuses on Mission: “to educate and to activate the providing useful resources to consumers people of North America towards the and pushing for national policy change. creation and implementation of just climate 1436 U St NW, Suite 100, Washington DC policies in both domestic and international 20009 contexts.” Diverse, consensus-based group (202) 667-6982 of US environmental justice, climate justice, [email protected] religious, policy & advocacy groups. (240) 621-0742 Ethical Oil [email protected] www.ethicaloil.org Encourages the purchase and use of Environmental Justice Coalition for “ethical oil” as opposed to “conflict oil.” Water Critiques politically oppressive and www.ejcw.org environmentally reckless regimes; promotes Focusing on California, the focus is on “fair trade” oil. access to safe and affordable water, clean PO Box 1047, 31 Adelaide St E, Toronto ON rivers, streams and bays for personal, M5C 2K4, Canada cultural, ceremonial and recreational uses. [email protected] PO Box 70531,Oakland CA 94612 (51) 907-1922 Filipino American Coalition for [email protected] Environmental Solidarity www.facessolidarity.org Environmental Justice Partnership An intergenerational organization working www.environmentaljusticepartnership.org for EJ within communities in the US and the The EJP Community Board addresses Philippines. Building partnerships through public health problems impacting East advocacy, education, service & organizing. Baltimore residents with community PO Box 566, Berkeley CA 94701 partnerships that educate residents, (415) 496-6561 advocate for EJ and represent the [email protected] community’s interests to government

35 Food First www.foodfirst.org Green America “Our mission is to end the injustices that www.greenamerica.org cause hunger, poverty and environmental “Economic Action for a Just Planet” is the degradation throughout the world. We slogan of this green organization seeking to believe a world free of hunger is possible if empower consumers and harness collective farmers and communities take back control consumer power for sustainability for future of the food systems presently dominated by generations. They emphasize economic transnational agri-food industries.” initiatives and actions over more traditional 398 60th St., Oakland CA 94618 environmental actions. Focus on green (510) 654-4400 business, social justice and environmental [email protected] responsibility. 1612 K St NW, Suite 600, Washington DC Fox River Watch 20006 www.foxriverwatch.com (800) 584-7336 Project of the Clean Water Action Council, focusing on PCB pollution of the Fox River, GreenAction for Health & Environmental Green Bay, and Lake Michigan; research, Justice education, health effects, toxicity, sediment http://greenaction.org remediation, cleanup and politics. Greenaction for Health & EJ is a multiracial 270 Main St., Ste 120, Green Bay WI 54302 grassroots organization that works with low- [email protected] income and working class urban, rural and indigenous communities to fight Friends of the Earth environmental racism and build a clean, http://www.foe.org healthy and just future for all. FOE strives for a more healthy, just world. 703 Market St., Suite 501, San Francisco Some of its projects, nationally and CA 94103 internationally, are very strong on EJ (415) 284-5600 approaches. [email protected] 1100 15th St NW, 11th fl, Washington DC 20005 Green Corps (202) 783-7400 www.greencorps.org http://www.foe.org/about-us/contact Mission is to train organizers, provide field support for critical environmental Garden Raised Bounty campaigns, and graduate activists with the http://goodgrub.org skills, temperament and commitment to fight GruB inspires positive and personal & win the key environmental battles. community change by bringing people 369 Broadway, Suite 200, San Francisco CA together around food and agriculture. They 94133 partner with youth and people with low- (415) 622-0033 incomes to create both individual and [email protected] community food solutions. Offering tools & trainings to build a just & sustainable food Greenpeace system. http://www.greenpeace.org 2016 Elliot Ave. NW, Olympia WA 98502 “We bear witness to environmental (360) 753-5522 destruction in a peaceful, nonviolent [email protected] manner… By going to the scene of environmental destruction, we do not only Global Frack Down register our opposition, we show the world www.globalfrackdown.org what’s going on.” “We’ve only got one planet. Let’s not frack it 702 H St. NW, Suite 300, Washington DC up. Join the global movement to ban 20001 fracking. Get down with the Global (800) 722-6995 Frackdown.” “Don’t be a Mother Fracker.” [email protected] “It’s Time to Mother Earth” Partners with the Ella Baker Center, CHEJ and other environmental justice organizations. http://www.globalfrackdown.org/contact-us/

36 Highlander Center for Education and Research Mountain Justice www.hrec.org http://www.mountainjustice.org Catalyst for grassroots organizing and Mountain Justice seeks to add to the movement-building, especially in Appalachia growing anti-MTR (Mountain Top Removal) & the South, with some international citizens movement. MJ works to protect the coalition building. Popular education, cultural and natural heritage of Appalachia participatory research, cultural work around coal fields. They work to contribute with environmental justice, labor, movement grassroots organizing, public education, diversity and civil rights. nonviolent civil disobedience and other 1959 Highlander Way, New Market TN forms of action. 37820 PO Box 86, Naoma WV 25140 (865) 933-3443 http://www.mountainjustice.org/contact.php [email protected] New York City Environmental Justice International District Housing Alliance Alliance The mission is to create a healthy www.nyceja.org community through engaged philanthropy, Co-powers member organizations to fight community knowledge and leadership. environmental injustice through city-wide 601 South King St., Suite 305, Seattle WA campaigns and well developed coalition 98104 efforts among low-income communities of (206) 623-5132 color. Assists with coordination, contacts, technical support. Member organizations Little Village Environmental Justice have representation on the NYCEJA board. Organization 115 W 30th St., Ste 1110B, New York, NY http://lvejo.org 10001 “Working with families, coworkers and [email protected] neighbors to improve our environment and our lives in Little Village and throughout North Cascades Institute Chicago through democracy in action…To www.ncascades.org make our air healthy, our water safe to drink The North Cascades Institute is dedicated to and to free our earth from poisons to grown inspiring closer relationships with nature healthy foods.” through direct experiences with the natural 2856 S Millard Ave., Chicago IL 60623 world. Their mission is to conserve and (773) 762-6991 restore NW environments through [email protected] education. Since 1986, NCI has helped connect people, nature and community. Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper 810 State Route 20, Sedro Woolley WA www.lmrk.org 98284 The mission is to protect, preserve and (360) 854-2599 restore the ecological integrity of the Mississippi River Basin for current users and PCC Farmland Trust future generations through advocacy and www.pccfarmlandtrust.org citizen action, especially in Louisiana. PCC Farmland Trust purchases organic PO Box 66323, Baton Rouge LA 70896 conservation easements to save more (225) 928-1315 farmland in Washington. Events, farm tours, [email protected] networking, rescuing of property, actively producing food for the local economy. Madison Environmental Justice 1917 First Ave., Level A – Ste 100, Seattle Organization WA 98101 http://www.mejo.us (206) 547-9855 The Madison EJ Organization educates on [email protected] EJ issues, facilitates the community’s ability to address these issues and supports EJ for People United for a Better Life in Oakland the benefit of the general public. www.peopleunited.org 1311 Lake View Ave., Madison WI 53704 Advocating for the needs of Oakland’s low- (608) 240-1485 income residents, most of them people of [email protected] color, through grassroots organizing,

37 leadership training, policy reform around [email protected] public health, education, EJ and youth development. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition 3528 Foothill Blvd., Oakland CA 94601 http://svtc.org [email protected] SVTC is a diverse organization involved in research, advocacy and grassroots Rising Tide North America organizing to promote human health and EJ www.risingtidenorthamerica.org in response to the rapid growing high-tech “Rising Tide is an international, all-volunteer, industry. grassroots network of groups and individuals PO Box 27669, San Francisco CA 94127 who organize locally, promote community- (408) 287-6707 based solutions to the climate crisis and [email protected] take direct action to confront the root causes of climate change.” Southwest Network for Environmental (415) 235-0596 and Economic Justice [email protected] www.sneej.org A coalition of people of color, Root Force native/indigenous, intergenerational people www.rootforce.org and organizations, working on issues that “Root Force is a strategic campaign include multi-use, regional and binational designed to exploit weak points in the global features. SNEEJ involves 60+ community- economy and hasten the system’s collapse.” based organizations in southwest and PO Box 1302, Tucson AZ 85702 western US and northern Mexico. [email protected] 804 Park Ave. SW, Albuquerque NM 87102 (505) 242-0416 Seattle Young People’s Project [email protected] http://sypp.org Helps youth in low-income communities stay Story of Stuff Project in school and out of prison. Campaigns www.storyofstuff.org against racism and for social justice. The Story of Stuff educates about the 2820 E Cherry St., Seattle WA 98122 externalized costs of our everyday products. (206) 860-9606 Through short, shareable online movies, [email protected] The Story of Stuff teaches about what we use and how they can be made in a more Sierra Club environmental sound way. There are over www.sierraclub.org 350,000 members of the Story of Stuff Sierra Club has over 1.3 million members community. and supporters and is one of the oldest and 1442 A Walnut St., #272 Berkeley CA 94709 most influential environmental organizations. (510) 883-1055 Its focus on EJ approaches is strongest [email protected] around toxics and community exposures. 85 Second St., 2nd fl, San Francisco CA 350.org 94105 www.350.org (415) 977-5500 A grassroots movement dedicated to solving http://www.sierraclub.org/contact/ the climate crisis: online campaigns, grassroots organizing, mass public actions; Sightline Institute with volunteers in over 188 countries. www.sightline.org 155 Water St., 6th fl, Brooklyn NY 11201 Focus is moving the Pacific Northwest to be (518) 635-0350 environmentally sound, economically vibrant http://www.350.org/en/social-networks and socially just. “We believe that if northwesterners succeed at reconciling Water Keeper Alliance themselves with the natural heritage of this http://waterkeeper.org place – the greenest part of history’s richest “ Waterkeeper Alliance provides a way for civilization – we can set an example for the communities to stand up for their right to world.” clean water, both locally and globally. The 1402 Third Ave, Ste 500, Seattle WA 98101 vision is for fishable, swimmable and (206) 447-1880

38 drinkable waterways worldwide, through industry as a source of pollution. ACSH grassroots advocacy.” would challenge the distinctive claims of the 17 Battery Place, Suite 1329, New York, NY EJ movement. 10004 1995 Broadway, Suite 202, New York, NY (212) 747-0622 10023-5882 [email protected] (212) 362-7044

WE ACT For Environmental Justice American Legislative Exchange Council www.weact.org www.alec.org “WE ACT works to inform, educate, train A network of state legislators and private and mobilize the predominantly African- sector leaders who are vigorously pro- American and Latino residents of Northern market, anti-environment and challenging of Manhattan on issues like air, water, indoor virtually all social justice movements for pollution, toxins, land use and open space, change. Free market, limited government waterfront development and usage, and constitutional division between federal- sanitation, transportation, historic state governments are the guiding values. preservation, regulatory enforcement, and 1101 Vermont Ave NW, 11th fl, Washington citizen participation in public policy making.” DC 20005 1854 Amsterdam Ave., 2nd fl, New York, NY (202) 446-3800 10031 [email protected] (212) 961-1000 [email protected] Boise Cascade http://www.bc.com Youth United for Community Action Boise Cascade manufactures wood www.youthunited.net products and particleboard, distributes a Youth United for Community Action was broad line of materials. It is privately owned created and is led by young people of color, and based in Boise ID. It has a long history mostly from low-income communities. It of conflicts with environmentalists. provides a safe place for young people to be 111 W Jefferson St, Suite 300, Boise ID empowered and to work on issues of 83702-5389 environmental and social justice through (208) 384-6161 grassroots organizing. [email protected] 2135 Clarke Ave., East Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 322-9165 British Petroleum [email protected] http://www.bp.com BP is one of the world’s leading oil and gas ORGANIZATIONS CHALLENGING companies, providing fuel for transport, energy for heat and light and retail ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION petrochemical products. BP is notable for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the Alpha long, legal battles with a range of grievants http://www.alphanr.com and plaintiffs – workers and wounded Alpha is the nation’s largest supplier of communities. metallurgical coal used in the steel-making 501 Westlake Park Blvd, Houston TX 77079 process and is a major supplier of coal to (281) 366-2000 utilities and manufacturing. It challenges http://www.bp.com/multipleimagesection.do? those who challenge Big Coal. categoryId=9009861&contentId=7018696 One Alpha Place, PO Box 16429, Bristol VA 24209 Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (279) 619-4410 www.cdfe.org Founded by Alan Gottlieb and directed by American Council on Science and Health Ron Arnold (author, Trashing the Economy: www.acsh.org How Runaway Environmentalism is Taking up the mantle of speaking for Wrecking America) the Center promotes legitimate science, ACSH has condemned free-market dominance against virtually all environmental health science as “junk environmental and environmental justice science” – condemning public health practices. research and mocking those who identify

39 Citizens for a Sound Economy / clean air. But when it comes to Freedomworks environmental regulation, we’ve catapulted www..org past common sense.” Focus is on economic liberty and the free [email protected] market, with challenges to any movements that would encumber the market. Works with Hanford Nuclear Power Plant legislative leaders “who possess both the www.hanford.gov procedural and tactical skills necessary to The Hanford site sits on 586-square-miles in control the debate and affect policy the desert of southeast WA. Decades of outcomes.” plutonium production, nuclear processing 400 N Capitol St NW, Suite 765, and waste have threatened the lives and Washington DC 20001 environment in the area; the tribal (888) 564-6273 communities are particularly vulnerable, as well as regional farming communities and Clean and Safe Energy Coalition the workers at the site. http://casenergy.org (509) 376-7411 National “grassroots organization” promoting http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/ContactUs nuclear energy to ensure “affordable, environmentally clean, reliable and safe Monsanto supply of electricity.” Industry-based, http://www.monsanto.com informing the public, touting the benefits of Monsanto is a chemical/agricultural nuclear energy. company, very invested in promoting (202) 338-2273 modern industrial farming. It pressure http://casenergy.org/our-coalition/contact- farmers with the promise of high-yield, casenergy/ sustaining, profitable agriculture. It makes it difficult for activists who challenge it on CoalPac / National Mining Association pesticide use, worker health and www.nma.org neighbor/community impacts. Mission: to sustain broad support for the 800 N Lindberg Blvd., St Louis MO 63167 mining industry, by getting the nation to https://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/Page realize the importance of domestic mining s/contact-us.aspx for economic and military security; to impact public policy regarding the industry’s Shell Global capacity to locate, permit, mine, process, www.shell.us transport and utilize national coal and Key corporate presence, known for mineral resources. extensive environmental degradation and 101 Constitution Ave NW, Suite 500 East, violation of human rights and community Washington DC 20001 sustainability, despite its self profile: “At our (202) 463-2600 operations we aim to address social [email protected] concerns and work to benefit local communities, protecting our reputation as ConservAmerica we do business.” http://conservamerica.org PO Box 2463, Houston TX 77252 ConservAmerica is a group comprised of (713) 241-6161 conservative Republicans who have http://www.shell.us/home/content/usa/footer/ environmental concerns and argue to a contact_us/ market based approach to a sound economy, removed from EJ perspectives. 971 S Centerville Rd, PMB 139, Sturgis MI 49091 INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY (703) 785-9570 djenkins@.org PRO-SOVEREIGNTY: Free Market America www.freemarketamerica.org Aboriginal Healing Foundation “Our mission is to defend economic freedom http://www.ahf.ca against environmental extremism… It’s a no- AHF’s mission is to provide resources which brainer that everyone wants clean water and will promote reconciliation and encourage and support Aboriginal people and their

40 communities in building and reinforcing The Akha Heritage Foundation seeks to sustainable healing processes that address defend the human rights and culture of the the legacy of physical, sexual, mental, Akha indigenous people in Mongolia, and cultural, and spiritual abuses in the promote self-determination for the Akha residential school system, including while assisting with nutrition, medical and intergenerational impacts. educational needs. We believe that the 75 Albert St, Suite 801 Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7 security and wellbeing of Akha communities (613) 237-4441 must take priority over "development" by http://www.ahf.ca/contact-us outside interests. PO Box 6073, Salem, OR 97304 Aboriginal Tent Embassy 971-388-7185 http://www.aboriginaltentembassy.net/ [email protected] Supports the Australian Aboriginal rights movement, in that they believe Aboriginal Alaska Federation of Natives people’s oppressive living conditions will not http://www.nativefederation.org/ change until ‘unfinished business’ is The mission of AFN is to enhance and addressed based on ‘just terms,’ with promote the cultural, economic and political acknowledgment of Aboriginal sovereign voice of the entire Alaska Native community. rights. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy resists They promote and advocate for Alaska the colonial encroachment until Aboriginal Native people, encourage preservation of Sovereignty is satisfactorily addressed. their culture, and protect their Native owned The Lawns – Old Parliament House lands. King George Terrace, Parkes, Canberra 1577 C Street, Suite 300 2600, Australia Anchorage, AK 99501 [email protected] (907) 274-3611 [email protected] Action for Aboriginal Rights http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aar/ Alaska Native Women’s Coalition Action for Aboriginal Rights has given www.aknativewomen.com financial and moral support to many A trained staff helps women in crisis of Aboriginal groups throughout Australia. They domestic violence, sexual assault, court help political campaigns of Aboriginal visits, or police interviews. They strive to candidates, support Aboriginal Rights and promote positive social change through the protests, encouraged Aboriginal Studies exploration of the history of Alaska Native courses and sought to make information on cultures and the historical impact of Aboriginal affairs more widely available by colonization. publishing newsletters, leaflets, etc. (907) 590-9323 PO Box 300, Malvern Victoria 3144 Australia PO Box 73505, Fairbanks, AK 99701 [email protected] [email protected]

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Amazon Conservation Team http://www.atnitribes.org/ The mission of the Amazon Conservation “ATNI has taken as its purpose to: provide a Team is to work in partnership with forum for sharing information on matters of indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, interest to its member Tribes, develop improve human health, and strengthen consensus on matters of mutual importance, traditional culture in greater Amazonia. assist member Tribes in their governmental 4211 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203 and programmatic development consistent (703) 522-4684 with their goals for self-determination and [email protected] self-sufficiency and provide for effective public relations and education program with Amazon Watch the non-Indian communities.” http://amazonwatch.org/ 6636 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR 97213 Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization (503) 249-5770 founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and [email protected] advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Akha Heritage Foundation indigenous and environmental organizations http://www.akha.org/ in campaigns for human rights, corporate

41 accountability and the preservation of the individuals. AIRRO will also work to assist Amazon's ecological systems. individuals in order to protect, promote, and 221 Pine St., Suite 400, San Francisco, CA preserve their basic human rights and civil 94104 liberties and to effect change which will (415) 487-9600 ensure equal rights and equal protections for [email protected] all. 41801 Corte Valentine. Temecula CA 92592 American Indian Heritage Foundation (951) 694-6264 www.indians.org [email protected] “The hallmark of the American Indian Heritage Foundation is it's continuing Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact dedication to encourage Indian people to http://www.aippnet.org aspire to excellence in their own lives and to To serve as a forum for sharing aspirations, provide relief services to Indian people ideas and experiences, consolidating nationwide, while building bridges of cooperation and solidarity and coordination understanding and friendship. The and organizing campaigns on issues multifaceted programs of the Foundation affecting indigenous peoples in Asia. At have helped American Indian people present, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact achieve greater fulfillment and a deeper (AIPP) has 39 members, including 11 pride in our heritage.” candidate members from 13 countries in http://indians.org/contact.html Asia. 108, Moo 5, T. Sanpranate, A. Sansai, American Indian Movement Chiang Mai 50210 Thailand http://www.aimovement.org/ +66 (0)53 380 168 [email protected] AIM was founded to turn the attention of Indian people toward a renewal of spirituality Black Mesa Indigenous Support which would impart the strength of resolve http://blackmesais.org/ needed to reverse the ruinous policies of the Black Mesa Indigenous Support is a United States, Canada, and other colonialist volunteer collective that supports the governments of Central and South America. indigenous people of Black Mesa in their P.O. Box 13521, Minneapolis, MN 55414. struggle against the government to protect [email protected] their land from coal mining and the relocation policies that accompany it. They American Indian Policy Center believe indigenous people on occupied US http://www.americanindianpolicycenter.org land have the right to self-determination, but “The American Indian Policy Center (AIPC) do not claim to speak for indigenous people. was founded in 1992, as a non-profit serving P.O. Box 23501, Flagstaff, AZ 86002 the Midwest Indian community. It was born (928) 773-8086 out of a decade's worth of discussions [email protected] among the founding group of American Indian professionals. What was needed, in Borneo Project the view of the founders, was a forum for http://www.borneoproject.org American Indians and the wider community “The Borneo Project brings international to discuss the challenges of contemporary attention and support to community-led Indian life--a place for diverse and divergent efforts to defend forests, sustainable voices and perspectives” livelihoods, and human rights.” 1463 Hewitt Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55104 c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, (651) 644-1728 Suite 460, Berkeley, CA 94704 [email protected] (415) 341-7051 [email protected] American Indian Rights and Resources Organization Centre for Indigenous Environmental http://www.airro.org Resources AIRRO will serve as a resource for those http://www.cier.ca/Default.aspx seeking information or assistance regarding CIER is a national, First Nation-directed the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 and other environmental non-profit organization that is laws which impact the human rights and civil based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. liberties of Indians and non-Indian CIER develops and implements sustainable

42 solutions to proactively address international commissions and courts, to environmental issues affecting First Nations help protect their Indigenous culture, lands lands and resources. Their approach and human rights, including the right to self- combines multiple perspectives and fosters determination. collaborative relationships. 215 Prospect Street 3rd Floor, 245 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, Cambridge, MA, 02139 Manitoba R3B 0S6 617.441.5400 (204) 956-0660 [email protected] http://www.cier.ca/about-us/contact- us.aspx?id=1736 Dakota-Nakota-Lakota Human Rights Advocacy Coalition Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish http://www.dlncoalition.org/home.htm Commission The Dakota/Lakota/Nakota Human Rights http://www.critfc.org Advocacy Coalition (DLN) is a traditional "The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish grassroots Oyate movement for the Commission's mission is to ensure a unified protection of our Red Nations' treaties and voice in the overall management of the human rights. We stand with the Traditional fishery resources, and as managers, to Treaty Councils and Elders on our inherent protect reserved treaty rights through the rights as indigenous peoples. exercise of the inherent sovereign powers of P. O. Box 634, St. Francis, SD 57572 the tribes." [email protected] 729 NE Oregon St., Ste. 200, Portland, OR u 97232 (503) 238-0667 Defenders of the Land [email protected] www.defendersoftheland.org Defenders of the Land is a network of Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Indigenous Communities united in defense http://www.abo-peoples.org/contact-us/ of our lands, Indigenous rights and Mother The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples is a Earth. nationally incorporated umbrella 575 Palmerston Ave., Toronto, ON organization that represents the interests, M6G 2P6 Canada nationally, of its provincial and territorial [email protected] affiliate organizations across Canada. 867, boul. St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa, ON First Nations Community Healthsource K1K 3B1 Canada http://www.fnch.org/index.html (613) 747-6022 First Nations Community HealthSource is [email protected] committed to providing a culturally competent, comprehensive health service Coordination of the Indigenous delivery system integrating traditional values coiab.com.br to enhance the physical, spiritual, emotional COIAB is a Brazilian indigenous and mental well being of American organization composed by several Indian/Alaska Native families and other indigenous rights organizations of the underserved populations residing in Brazilian Amazon Basin. They struggle for Albuquerque and surrounding areas. basic rights of land, health, education and 5608 Zuni Road SE Albuquerque, NM inter-culturality. 87108 Av. Ayrão, 235, Presidente Vargas - (505) 262-2481 Manaus/AM. Brazil http://www.fnch.org/rfi.html + 55 (92) 3621-7501 [email protected] Frontiers Foundation http://frontiersfoundation.ca/ Cultural Survival Frontiers Foundation is an aboriginal non- http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ profit organization that promotes the For several decades now, Cultural Survival advancement of economically and socially has fought for the rights of Indigenous disadvantaged communities… With the people on an international scale. They support of government and charitable partner with communities, providing donations, both from the private sector and advocacy support and bringing cases to

43 individuals, they operate within Canadian The world’s most comprehensive and borders, and overseas. innovative online Native news and 419 Coxwell Avenue Toronto, ON M4L 3B9 entertainment site, serving Native and Canada American Indian tribes nationwide. It (416) 690-3930 features Native American Journalism http://frontiersfoundation.ca/contact Association award-winning writers and reporters, and a team of columnists Hawaiian Independence composed of tribal leaders, members of http://www.hawaii-nation.org Congress, and the foremost Native thinkers, Education in the true history and current writers, and artists in Indian Country. status of the Hawaiian people in their 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 independence and sovereignty. (646) 459-2326 41-1300 Waikupanaha St, Waimanalo, [email protected] O’ahu HI 96795 (808) 259-6309 Indigenous Environmental Network [email protected] http://www.ienearth.org/about.html The Indigenous Environmental Network is Hawaiian Kingdom Government an alliance of grassroots Indigenous http://www.hawaiiankingdom.org Peoples whose mission is to protect the The Hawaiian Kingdom Government sacredness of Mother Earth from currently runs under the illegal occupation of contamination and exploitation by the United States. They are currently fighting strengthening, maintaining, and respecting for recognition and the benefits that come traditional teachings and natural laws. The with it through legal means, as the network provides support on occupation is illegal under international law. environmentally related issues for all tribes Most recently, they have filed a Protest and large and small, as well as Alaskan villages. Demand with the United Nations General PO Box 485 Bemidji, MN 56619 Assembly. (218) 751-4967 Acting Council of Regency, P.O. Box 2194 [email protected] Honolulu, HI 96805-2194 [email protected] Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism Honor Our Neighbors, Origins, & Rights http://www.ipcb.org http://www.honoradvocacy.org/ The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous HONOR is an organization devoted to peoples in the protection of their genetic protecting the rights of American Indians resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and Alaska Natives by monitoring legislation and human rights from the negative effects and educating the general public about of biotechnology. issues involving Indian people. P.O. Box 72, Nixon, NV 89424 http://www.serversound.com/dcontact.php?d (775) 574-0248 omain=www.honoradvocacy.org [email protected]

Huna Heritage Foundation Indigenous Ways of Knowing http://www.hunaheritage.org/index.html http://graduate.lclark.edu/programs/indigeno In 1981, Huna Heritage Foundation was us_ways_of_knowing/ established as the cultural and educational “To empower Tribal communities by non-profit arm of the Huna Totem providing educational experiences through Corporation and acts on their behalf in a multicontextual process rooted matters of cultural significance. Five trustees in Indigenous Worldviews.” serve 3-year terms in support of cultural 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 93, programs and education goals for 1300 Portland, OR 97219 Huna Totem shareholders. (503) 768-6155 9301 Glacier Highway #210 Juneau, AK [email protected] 99801 (907) 523-3682 Indigenous Women's Network http://indigenouswomen.org/ Indian Country Today Media Network IWN was established in as a grass roots http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ initiative at a gathering of over 200

44 Indigenous women at Yelm, Washington in KLC’s organisational goals are to assist 1985. The (Founding Mothers ) were and Kimberley Aboriginal people in getting continue to be strong, committed Indigenous country back, caring for country, and women activists who dedicate themselves to securing the future. generating a global movement that achieves PO Box 2145, Broome WA 6725 Australia sustainable change for our communities. (08) 9194 0100 13621 FM 2769, Austin TX 78726 [email protected] (512) 258-3880 http://indigenouswomen.org/index.php?optio Mapuche International Link n=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=24&I www.mapuche-nation.org temid=96 An international organisation whose purpose is to promote the interests of indigenous Institute for the Advancement of peoples and nations of Chile and Argentina. Aboriginal Women 6 Lodge Street, Bristol BS1 5LR UK http://www.iaaw.ca/ (+ 44-117)-9279391 IAAW supports capacity building of [email protected] Aboriginal Women to address their own needs through training and community Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni based research and dissemination of People reports. Through educational programs they http://www.mosop.org/ raise awareness of social justice issues. MOSOP is an Ogoni-based non- They develop support services to families governmental, non-political apex and communities. organisation of the Ogoni ethnic minority #201, 10812 – 178 Street, Edmonton, AB people of South-Eastern Nigeria. T5S 1J3 Canada Ogoni Peace and Freedom Centre, (780) 479-8195 Opposite Khana HQ, Nigeria [email protected] +234 (0)84 233 907 [email protected] International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers National Congress of American Indians www.grandmotherscouncil.org http://www.ncai.org We represent a global alliance of prayer, “NCAI was established in 1944 in response education and healing for her Mother Earth, to the termination and assimilation policies all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the US government forced upon tribal the next seven generations to come. governments in contradiction of their treaty P.O. Box 745, Sonora, CA 95370 rights and status as sovereign nations. To (212) 535-7578 this day, protecting these inherent and legal [email protected] rights remains the primary focus of NCAI.” Embassy of Tribal Nations, 1516 P Street International Indian Treaty Council NW, Washington, DC 20005 http://www.treatycouncil.org (202) 466-7767 The International Indian Treaty Council http://www.ncai.org/feedback-form/form (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, National Council of Ayllus & Markas Of the Caribbean and the Pacific working for Qullasuyu the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of http://www.conamaq.org Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and “CONAMAQ was founded with the purpose protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, of restoring the self-governance of "original Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands. nations" including "collective rights to land Redstone Building, 2940 16th Street, Suite and natural resources, re-definition of 305 San Francisco, CA. 94103-3664 administrative units and self-determination (415) 641-4482 exercised through indigenous autonomies [email protected] and direct representation in state institutions” in Bolivia/ Qullasuyu. Kimberley Land Council Calle Luis Uría de la Oliva, No. 2883 Zona www.klc.org.au Sopocachi, La Paz, Bolivia The KLC represents Traditional Owners in (+591-2) 291 0863 the Kimberley region of Western Australia. [email protected]

45 515 Lame Deer Ave. PO Box 99 Lame Deer, National Environmental Coalition of MT 59043 Native Americans (406) 477-3896 http://necona.indigenousnative.org http://www.niwrc.org/about-us/contact-us To educate Indians and non-Indians about the dangers of radioactivity and the National Native American Law transportation of nuclear waste on America’s Enforcement Association rails and roads. To network with http://www.nnalea.org/ environmentalists to develop a grassroots The NNALEA is a nonprofit organization opposition to the well-funded nuclear founded in 1993 in Washington, D.C. and industry. To declare Tribal nuclear-free incorporated under the state of Delaware. zones across the nation. The mission of the NNALEA is to promote Claremore Veterans Ctr, PO Box 988, and foster mutual cooperation between Claremore OK 74018 American Indian Law Enforcement Officers/Agents/Personnel, their agencies, National Indian Child Welfare Association tribes, private industry and public. http://www.nicwa.org P.O. Box 171 Washington, DC 20044 “The National Indian Child Welfare (202) 204-3065 Association (NICWA) works to address the [email protected] issues of child abuse and neglect through training, research, public policy, and Native American Advocacy Program grassroots community development. NICWA http://nativeamericanadvocacy.org/ also works to support compliance with Aims to assist Native Americans with the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 disabilities and Native American Youth by (ICWA), which seeks to keep American promoting a healthy lifestyle, providing Indian children with American Indian prevention, education, training, advocacy, families.” support, independent living skills and 5100 SW Macadam Avenue, Suite 300, referrals. Portland, OR 97239 PO Box 527, Winner, SD 57580-0527 (503) 222-4044 (605) 842-3977 [email protected] [email protected]

National Indian Gaming Association Native American Rights Fund http://www.indiangaming.org/ http://www.narf.org The mission of NIGA is to protect and The Native American Rights Fund is the preserve the general welfare of tribes oldest and largest nonprofit law firm striving for self-sufficiency through gaming dedicated to asserting and defending the enterprises in Indian Country. To fulfill its rights of Indian tribes, organizations and mission, NIGA works with the Federal individuals nationwide. NARF's practice is government and Congress to develop sound concentrated in five key areas: the policies and practices and to provide preservation of tribal existence; the technical assistance and advocacy on protection of tribal natural resources; the gaming-related issues. In addition, NIGA promotion of Native American human rights; seeks to maintain and protect Indian the accountability of governments to Native sovereign governmental authority in Indian Americans; and the development of Indian Country. law and educating the public about Indian 224 2nd Street SE, Washington DC 20003 rights, laws, and issues. (202) 546-1755 1506 Broadway Boulder, CO 80302-6296 [email protected] (303) 447-8760 http://www.narf.org/contact/contact_us.html National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Native American Youth and Family www.niwrc.org Center NIWRC is dedicated to restoring safety to http://www.nayapdx.org/ Indian and Alaska Native tribes. Through “The Native American Youth and Family research, policy developing, and training Center in Portland, Oregon, works to enrich trained native women address issues of the lives of our Native youth and families domestic violence. through education, community involvement,

46 and culturally specific programming. We Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission have provided educational services, cultural http://nwifc.org/ arts programming, and direct support to NWIFC is a support service organization for reduce poverty to the Portland metropolitan 20 treaty Indian tribes in western area's American Indian and Alaska Native Washington. The role of the NWIFC is to community for over 30 years.” assist member tribes in their role as natural 5135 NE Columbia Blvd. Portland, OR resources co-managers. The commission 97218 provides direct services to tribes in areas (503) 288-8177 such as biometrics, fish health and salmon http://www.nayapdx.org/about/contact.php management to achieve an economy of scale that makes more efficient use of Native Planet limited federal funding. http://www.nativeplanet.org/ 6730 Martin Way E, Olympia, WA 98516 Native Planet is a non-governmental (360) 438-1180 organization (NGO) dedicated to the self- http://nwifc.org/contact/ empowerment of indigenous peoples and the preservation of world ethnic Nunamta Aulukestai cultures. Traditional groups are not only http://www.nunamta.org/about-us.html global role models for successful Nunamta Aulukestai, “Caretakers of Our conservation and sustainable consumption Lands” is a non-profit corporation consisting of natural resources; they are also the of nine Alaska Native Village Corporations, guardians of our planet's remaining located in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska. wilderness and biological diversity. They represent the indigenous people who http://www.nativeplanet.org/contact/contact. are most resistant to and affected by the php infamous Pebble Mine. PO Box 735, Dillingham, AK 99576 Native Women's Association of Canada ( 907) 842-4404 http://www.nwac.ca/ [email protected] The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) is founded on the collective goal to Ontario Native Women's Association enhance, promote, and foster the social, www.onwa-tbay.ca economic, cultural and political well-being of Provides a space for the voice of aboriginal First Nations and Métis women within First women in Ontario to be heard. Through Nation, Métis and Canadian societies. It is cultural restoration they will become unified the national voice representing aboriginal with a voice for equality. They will provide women in Canada. It was formed by programs to assist with social and economic aboriginal women to preserve culture, distress. achieve equal opportunity, and have a say in 380 Ray Blvd.,Thunder Bay ON P7B 4E6 changing the legislature. Canada 1 Nicholas Street, 9th Floor, Ottawa (807) 623-3442 ON K1N 7B7 Canada [email protected] (613) 722-3033 http://www.nwac.ca/contact-nwac Original Sovereign Tribal Federation ostf.weebly.com Native Women’s Collective “The Original Sovereign Tribal Federation is www.nativewomenscollective.org poised on an intercultural boundary, rich in NWC supports the continued growth of possibility for the development of modern Native American arts and culture through Original culture as an integral part of a public education, workshops, exhibits, holistic vision for all Australians.” research, cultural preservation projects, [email protected] programs and technical assistance. It connects native artists with other native Pachamama Alliance artists to exchange work and ideas. www.pachamama.org P.O. Box 929, Arcata, CA 95518 To empower indigenous people of the (707) 840-4654 Amazon rainforest to preserve land and [email protected] culture. They educate people all around the world about indigenous needs and culture. They try to promote sustainable

47 development of the rainforest. Red Power United P.O. Box 29191, San Francisco, CA 94129 http://www.redpowerunited.com/ (415) 561-4522 Red Power United was formed by a group of http://www.pachamama.org/about/contact activists who felt the need for an Urban Native Rights grassroots movement based Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada on traditional values and that is completely http://www.pauktuutit.ca/ free of government or corporate funding. Pauktuutit is the national non-profit [email protected] organization representing all Inuit women in Canada. Its mandate is to foster a greater Seventh Generation Fund awareness of the needs of Inuit women, and http://www.7genfund.org/ to encourage their participation in The Seventh Generation Fund is an community, regional and national concerns Indigenous non-profit organization dedicated in relation to social, cultural and economic to promoting and maintaining the development. uniqueness of Native peoples throughout 520 – 1 Nicholas St. Ottawa, Ontario K1N the Americas. 7B7 Canada P.O. Box 4569, Arcata, CA 95518 (613) 238-3977 (707) 825-7640 [email protected] SHAWL Society People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty http://shawlsociety.blogspot.com/ www.foodsov.org The Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water, and PCFS is a network of peasant farmers Land Society (SHAWL) Society develops working towards food sovereignty and community education and strategies to raise against neoliberal policies. Organizes global awareness and address the impacts of activities to share mobilize farmers as well radiation exposure from uranium mining and as share knowledge. Promotes global milling on the Spokane Indian Reservation in binding through international meetings on Eastern Washington. food sovereignty. P.O. Box 61, Wellpinit, WA 99040 114 Timog Avenue. Quezon City, 1103 (509) 747-3115 Philippines http://[email protected] 63 (02) 927-7060 http://www.foodsov.org/index.php/contact-us Society for Threatened Peoples http://www.gfbv.de/ Protect Sacred Sites An active human rights organization “not http://www.protectsacredsites.org turning a blind eye” to issues surrounding “A grassroots organization that focuses on threatened peoples. protecting sacred lands, stopping PO Box 2024, D-37010 Gottingen, Germany desecration of our burial grounds and the +49-551-49906-0 illegal sale and trade of ancient artifacts and [email protected] burial items.” [email protected] South & Meso-American Indian Rights Center REDOIL http://www.saiic.nativeweb.org/ http://www.ienearth.org/redoil.html The South and Meso American Indian Resisting Environmental Destruction on Rights Center (SAIIC) exists to ensure that Indigenous Lands (REDOIL) is dedicated to the struggles of Latin America's Indigenous protecting indigenous land and searching for peoples for self- determination and respect sustainable solutions to environmental are heard in the US and internationally, and problems that affect Indigenous people to support Indigenous peoples' organizing. disproportionately. They reject the Alaska P.O. Box 7829 Oakland, CA 94601 Native Claims Settlement Act as an (510) 534-4882 illegitimate breach of their sovereignty. [email protected] P.O. Box 74667, Fairbanks, AK 99701 (907) 456-2181 Spirit of Sovereignty Foundation [email protected] http://www.spiritofsovereignty.org/ The Spirit of Sovereignty Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization founded

48 by its parent entity, the National Indian experience a desired quality of life and a Gaming Association (NIGA), to reward the hope-filled future through authentic educational goals of exceptional Native- relationships and culturally supportive American students. programs.” c/o National Indian Gaming Association PO Box 5246, Vancouver, WA 98668 224 Second Street, SE, Washington DC (360) 546-1867 20003 [email protected] (202) 546-7711 [email protected] White Earth Land Recovery Project http://nativeharvest.com/ Survival International We work to continue, revive, and protect our http://www.survivalinternational.org/ native seeds, heritage crops, naturally Our vision is for a world where tribal peoples grown fruits, animals, wild plants, traditions are recognized and respected; an end to the and knowledge of our indigenous and land- unjust treatment tribal peoples are subjected based communities; for the purpose of to; and a world where tribal peoples are free maintaining and continuing our culture and to live on their own lands, safe from resisting the global, industrialized food violence, oppression and exploitation. system that can corrupt our health, freedom, 2325 3rd Street, Suite 401, San Francisco and culture through inappropriate food CA 94107 production and genetic engineering. (415) 503-1254 607 Main Avenue, Callaway, MN 56521 [email protected] (888) 274-8318 http://nativeharvest.com/contact Transform Columbus Day http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/ Working Group on Indigenous Food Challenging, protesting, and rejecting the Sovereignty celebration of Columbus Day due to the http://www.indigenousfoodsystems.org/ numerous misconceptions regarding the The purpose of WGIFS is to increase legacy of Christopher Columbus. awareness of the underlying issues, [email protected] concerns and strategies impacting food security, land culture, health, and Treaty Republic sustainability in indigenous communities. http://www.treatyrepublic.net/ The Indigenous Food Systems Network Aboriginal Australians asserting sovereignty. website was created to give individuals and Treaty Republic is directed by Robbie groups involved with Indigenous food related Thorpe, an Aboriginal activist working to action, research, and policy to reform to stop genocide, recognize sovereignty and network and share relevant resources and draft a treaty. information. http://www.treatyrepublic.net/contact Box 956, Chase, BC VOE 1MO Canada Unsettling Minnesota http://www.indigenousfoodsystems.org/cont http://unsettlingminnesota.org/ act-us Founded in 2009, Unsettling Minnesota is a collective of non-Dakota people working not ANTI-NATIVE SOVEREIGNTY: only to decolonize the Dakota homeland and revitalize Dakota sovereignty, but is also All Citizens Equal dedicated to unlearning the colonizing http://www.ronan.net mindset. ACE’s primary objective, according to its [email protected] website, is to "[a]aggressively pursue local, state and national legislation and judicial Wiconi International decisions to affirm that private and state www.wiconi.com lands and public natural resources remain “Our aim is to provide education, under county, state and federal jurisdiction." encouragement and offer practical support Box 673, Polson, MT 59860 to Native American families and [email protected] communities in creating a preferred future...Wiconi’s primary mission is to empower and serve Native people to

49 Aloha For All and that Tribal Sovereignty threatens voting http://aloha4all.org/wordpress/ rights. Their goal is to change the restrictive Aloha for All’s mission is to ensure that all Federal Indian policies that threaten citizens of Hawaii are treated equally under individual rights. the law. They are specifically in opposition to P.O. Box 0379, Gresham, WI 54128 School that denies admission to non- [email protected] Hawaiians, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA): a State government office that Federation for Individual Rights and expends state tax funds to benefit Equality Hawaiians, as well as the Hawaiian Homes http://www.citizensalliance.org/organizations Commission: a State office that provides /Canada.htm housing benefits to Hawaiians. FIRE chapters actively oppose the Native P.O. Box 61866, Honolulu, HI 96839 sovereigntist movement, and call for the [email protected] application of colonial Canadian law to all people living in areas claimed as part of Association of Property Owners and "Canada" - including areas that are unceded Residents of the Port Madison Area lands legally held by sovereign native http://www.aporpma.com nations. F.I.R.E. believes current Founded in 1977, APORPMA is devoted to government policies discriminate in favor of protecting the property rights of its 150 indigenous peoples, and that the only level members who are opposed to Native of self-government indigenous peoples can Americans purchasing non-reservation land argue for is a municipal level. for low income housing. # 281, 113-437 Martin St. Penticton, B.C. P.O. Box 926 , Suquamish, WA 98392 V2A 5L1 Canada (360) 598-4454 (250) 493-9292 [email protected] One Nation United B.C. Real Estate Association http://www.onenationunited.org http://www.bcrea.bc.ca/ One Nation and United property owners The Association believes treaty negotiations combined to form One United Nation, a should only happen if "all British Columbians nonprofit dedicated to reforming what they are afforded equal rights, responsibilities consider to be flawed Federal Indian and opportunities under the laws of Canada Policies for the advantage of “Indians and and the Province,” and “favors the creation on-Indians alike.” of municipal-style models of self-government PO Box 3336, Redmond, WA 98073 for Aboriginal groups. BCREA does not (206) 660-3085 favor the creation of independent nations." [email protected] 309 - 1155 West Pender St. Vancouver BC V6E 2P4 Canada Ontario Federation of Anglers and (604) 683-7702 Hunters [email protected] http://www.ofah.org/ OFAH is the oldest and largest nonprofit, Citizens Against Casino Gambling in Erie nongovernment fish and wildlife County conservation organization in Canada. It has http://www.nocasinoerie.org/ strongly opposed First Nations fishing and Opposes casinos and gambling in Erie hunting rights in the province. County NY, and against native people PO Box 2800, Peterborough, ON having the ability to independently open and K9J 8L5 Canada run their own businesses on their land. (705) 748-6324 (716) 440-8126 [email protected] http://www.nocasinoerie.org/feedback.htm Proper Economic Resource Management Citizen’s Equal Rights Alliance http://www.perm.org http://www.citizensalliance.org/ PERM believes that all claims Native CERA is a non-profit working against Tribal Americans could have are invalid, as they Sovereignty on the grounds that all people have already been settled by the Indians within the geographical boundaries of the Claim Commission Act of 1946 are formally United States are to be treated as equals

50 opposed to judges granting any more PO Box 2616, Friday Harbor WA 98250 settlements. (360) 370-5650 657 Main St, Ste 102, Elk River, MN 55330 [email protected] (763) 441-6869 [email protected] Upstate Citizens for Equality http://www.upstate-citizens.org Reform Party of Canada Formed in 1997 by New York landowners http://www.reform.ca/ facing an Oneida Land Claim, UCE is a The Reform Party of Canada believes that nonprofit corporation challenging the indigenous nations should be treated as Department of Interiors decision to accept municipalities within Canada, and that all 1,300 acres of land into trust for the Oneida indigenous peoples should be subject to Indian Nation. It is strongly against the colonial provincial and federal laws. They establishment of sovereign Indian nations as believe that any laws enacted by Indian a threat to freedom. governments must conform to the laws of [email protected] Canada. 833 - 4th Avenue S.W. #600, Calgary, AB T2P 0K5 Canada GENDER / FEMINISM / (403) 269-1990 [email protected] LGBTQ ORGANIZATIONS

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51 Communities Against Rape and Abuse Advocates for Youth http://www.cara-seattle.org www.advocatesforyouth.org CARA promotes a broad agenda for Advocates for Youth has worked since 1980 liberation and social justice while prioritizing to increase the opportunities of youth to anti-rape work. The organization uses make healthy decisions about sexuality. community organizing, critical dialogue and AFY provides information, education and collective action as tools to build safe, advocacy to youth-serving organizations. peaceful and sustainable communities. 1025 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 200, (206) 322-4856 Washington DC 20005 [email protected] (202) 347-5700 [email protected] Diversity ACT Community Services http://www.diversityact.org Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons Diversity ACT aims to create and nurture a Supportive community that shares the supportive place for all Canberrans of spiritual heritage of the Church of Jesus diverse genders, sexes and sexualities, their Christ Latter-day Saints and who affirms that families and friends, and to act as a beacon sexual orientation, identity and expression of strength and acceptance to help all are God-given gifts. Canberrans achieve their full potential. Free (503) 575-5817 & confidential counseling services, safe place for queer youth, recreational hub. Allyship PO Box 101, Erindale Ctr., Wanniassa 2903, http://LGBTQAllyship.org Australia Allyship is a social and economic LGBTQ 61-2-62313126 organization that advocates for LGBTQ [email protected] homeless youth and around issues of health care disparities and economic justice. Empowerment Program 1618 S Lane St., #202, Seattle WA 98144 http://www.empowermentprogram.org (206) 324-5850 x.19 The mission of the Empowerment Program [email protected] is to provide education, employment assistance, health, housing referrals and American Civil Liberties Union/ support services to women who are in LGBT Project disadvantaged positions due to http://www.aclu.org/lgbt incarceration, poverty, homelessness, The LGBT Project fights discrimination and HIV/AIDS infection or involvement in the moves public opinion on LGBT rights, criminal justice system. Our goal is to through the courts, legislatures and public decrease rates of recidivism by providing education related to relationships, schools care management, support services, basic and youth, parenting, discrimination and skills education, housing and resource transgender issues. coordination that can offer viable 125 Broad St., 18th fl, New York, NY 10004 alternatives to habits and choices that may http://www.aclu.org/contact-us lead to criminal behavior. 1600 York St., Denver, CO 80206 Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (800) 659-2656 http://www.astraeafoundation.org The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Equal Rights Washington works for social, racial and economic justice www.equalrightswashington.org in the US and internationally by funding An advocacy organization for the LGBT LBGTQI organizations and engaging in community of WA State. Advocated for anti- philanthropic advocacy. Astraea’s work discrimination laws, domestic partner helps lesbians and allied communities registries, expansion of domestic challenge oppression and claim their human partnership protections, the passage of the rights. Healthy Youth Act and marriage equality. 116 E 16th St., 7th fl, New York, NY 10003 PO Box 2388, Seattle WA 98111 (212) 529-8021 (206) 324-2570 Info @astraeafoundation.org [email protected]

52 Equality Forum focused on the empowerment of women in http://www.equalityforum.com law, business, medicine, academia, sports Equality Forum coordinates LGBT History and the Internet. Month, provides documentary films, 1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 801 Arlington, VA undertakes high impact initiatives and 22209 present the largest annual national and (703) 522-2214 international LGBT civil rights summit. [email protected] 1420 Locust St., Suite 300, Philadelphia PA 19102-4202 Feminist Majority/ Campus Choice (215) 732-3378 Leadership Program [email protected] www.feministcampus.org 400 East University Way, Ellensburg WA Equality Now 98926-7455 www.equalitynow.org (509) 963-2127 Equality Now works for the protection and [email protected] promotion of the human rights of women and girls around the world. Working with Fight Out Loud grassroots women’s and human rights http://www.fightoutloud.org organizations and individual activists since The mission of Fight Out Loud is to 1992, Equality Now documents violence and empower everyday people to stand up for discrimination against women and mobilizes themselves in the fight for their rights. We international action to support efforts to stop seek to provide immediate resources, these abuses. support, education, and assistance for GLBT PO Box 20646, Columbus Circle Station, individuals who are with discrimination and New York, NY 10023 hate. (212) 586-0906 [email protected] [email protected] Freedom to Marry Equality Matters http://www.freedomtomarry.org http://equalitymatters.org Freedom to Marry is the campaign to win Equality Matters is a new media and marriage nationwide. We are pursing our communications initiative in support of gay Roadmap to Victory by working to win the equality. Through strategic communications, freedom to marry in more states, grow the research, training and media monitoring we national majority for marriage, and end strengthen efforts for full LGBT rights and federal marriage discrimination. correct anti-gay misinformation. Our goal is 155 W 19th St., 2nd fl, New York, NY 10011 to enhance advocacy and activism across all (212) 851-8418 platforms and to leverage our expertise in http://www.freedomtomarry.org/page/s/conta support of others who are working to make ctus full equality a national imperative. PO Box 52155, Washington DC 20091 Futures Without Violence (202) 756-4100 http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org http://equalitymatters.org/p/contact_us Everyone has the rights to live free of violence. Futures Without Violence, formerly Feminist Majority Foundation Family Violence Prevention Fund, works to www.feminist.org prevent and end violence against women The Feminist Majority Foundation was and children around the world. created to develop bold, new strategies and 100 Montgomery St., The Presidio, San programs to advance women’s equality, Francisco, CA 94129 non-violence, economic development, and, (800) 595-4889 most importantly, empowerment of women http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/sectio and girls in all sectors of society. All n/aboutus/contact programs of the FMF endeavor to include a global perspective and activities to promote Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance leadership development, especially among www.glaa.org young women. Along with reproductive An all-volunteer, non-partisan organization rights and access to reproductive defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual technology, the FMF’s programs have

53 and transgender people in the Nation’s (212) 727-0135 Capitol. PO Box 75265, Washington DC 20013 Gender Education and Advocacy (202) 667-5139 http://gender.org An organization “which provides information Gay and Lesbian Advocates and about transsexual and transgender issues. Defenders We are committed to the civil rights, health http://www.glad.org and well-being of all members of our diverse We are New England’s leading legal rights community. We dedicate ourselves to organization dedicated to ending providing an array of information services, discrimination based on sexual orientation, educational materials, advocacy training and HIV status and gender identity and technical assistance of the highest quality.” expression. 30 Winter St., Suite 800, Boston, MA 02108 GenderHopes 617-426-1350 www.genderhopes.org [email protected] GenderHopes is a Monaco-based non-profit organization, registered in 2011. It aims to Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against combat gender-based violence by raising Defamation awareness, informing policy-makers and the http://www.glaad.org general public and by highlighting negative For over 25 years, GLAAD has worked with stereotypes that promote gender-based news, entertainment and social media to violence. bring culture-changing stories of LGBT +33 6 80 86 1235 people into millions of homes and [email protected] workplaces every day. Why? Because words and images matter. What people see Georgia Equality in the media has a huge impact and GLAAD http://www.georgiaequality.org ensures images of LGBT people and allies Georgia Equality undertakes political action grow acceptance, understanding and build to build a fair majority in Georgian. We are support for equality. currently implementing the Campaign for a 5455 Wilshire Blvd., #1500, Los Angeles, Fair Majority – our strategic plan for LGBT CA 90036 equality in Georgia. Year-round lobbying (323) 933-2240 and strategic involvement in state and local [email protected] elections are working to build a bi-partisan fair majority in the state legislature and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender among local elected officials across the National Hotline state. http://www.GLBTNationalHelpCenter.org 1530 DeKalb Ave, Suite A, Atlanta GA Dedicated to meeting the needs of the gay, 30307 lesbian, bisexual and transgender (404) 523-3070 community, and those questioning their [email protected] sexual orientation or identity. Peer counseling on a variety of issues. Global Fund for Women 2261 Market St., PMB #296, San Francisco http://globalfundforwomen.org CA 94114 The Global Fund for Women plays a leading (888) 843-4564 role in advancing women’s rights by making [email protected] grants that support and strengthen women’s groups around the world. We mobilize and Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educators redistribute resources that enable women to Network develop creative solutions to local, regional http://www.glsen.org and transnational challenges. We bring Established in 1990, this organization is grantees and donors together in an dedicated to ensuring a safe learning international network that promotes environment for students who are LGBTQ women’s actions for social change, equality, and also for teachers. GLSEN strives to peace and justice worldwide. make these people valued by their 222 Sutter St., Ste 500, San Francisco, CA community and school. 94108 90 Broad St., 2nd fl., New York, NY (415) 248-4800

54 http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/contact (800) 777-4723 http://www.hrc.org/the-hrc-story/contact-us Harvey Milk Institute www.harveymilk.org Independent Gay Forum Dedicated to promoting queer culture in the www.indegayforum.org San Francisco Bay area and beyond. Works to provide an outlet for gay thinkers Named after the most notable gay politician to voice their opinions. Stresses that queer in SF history, the institute works to influence people need to find a place in society rather the broad culture and make it more open to than deconstructing or isolating themselves queer artists. from it. 1800 Market St., Suite Q-31, San Francisco 1000 Venetian Way, Suite 902, Miami FL CA 94102 33139 (415) 865-5633 (305) 374-8841 [email protected] Identity Inc – Gay and Lesbian Heritage of Pride Community Center of Anchorage www.nycpride.org http://www.identityinc.org Commemorates the history of the pride Identity provides programs supporting movement in the US, with emphasis on the equality for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and 1969 Stonewall riots. Organizes annual transgender community and its allies. Our pride marches and events in NYC. goal is to strengthen and affirm our Encourages and empowers the gay community. community. PO Box 200070, Anchorage AK 99520 154 Christopher St., 1-D, New York NY (907) 929-4528 10014 [email protected] (212) 80-PRIDE [email protected] It Gets Better Project http://www.itgetsbetter.org Herland Sister Resources The It Gets Better Project was created to www.herlandsisters.org show young LGBT people the levels of A retreat center for women, straight and gay. happiness, potential, and positivity their lives Cultural programs, semi-annual retreats, will reach – if they can just get through their meeting space, bookstore, coffeeshop, teen years. The It Gets Better Project wants library and newsletter. to remind teenagers in the LGBT community 231 NW 39th St., Oklahoma City OK 73112 that they are not alone – and it WILL get (405) 521-9696 better. [email protected] 8023 Beverly Blvd., #191, Los Angeles, CA 90048 HiTOPS [email protected] www.hitops.org HiTOPS offers low-cost, quality sexual Knights Out reproductive healthcare and counseling for http://www.knightsout.org adolescents. Outreach and education to Knights Out is an organization of West Point promote better sexual decision-making and Alumni, Staff and Faculty who are united in respect. supporting the rights of Lesbian, Gay, 21 Wiggins St., Princeton NJ 08540 Bisexual and Transgender solutions to (609) 683-5369 openly serve their country. [email protected] 1106 Euclid St. NW, Washington DC 20009 [email protected] Human Rights Campaign www.hrc.org Lambert House Advocates on behalf of LGBT Americans, http://www.lamberthouse.org grassroots campaigns in diverse Began in the late 1980s to create ways for communities, invests strategically to elect sexual minority students to meet. fair-minded individuals and educate the Association of Gay & Lesbian Youth public. Advocates leased an old house in Seattle’s 1640 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington Capitol Hill, becoming an independent DC 20036-3278 organization in 1993. Today, Lambert House

55 has a national reputation as a leading National Center for Transgender Equality organization in the NW for queer youth. www.transequality.org PO Box 23111, Seattle WA 98102-0411 Dedicated to advancing the equality of (206) 322-2515 transgender people through advocacy, [email protected] collaboration and empowerment. Working for a consistent voice for transgender Moms Rising people. http://www.momsrising.org 1325 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 700, “A transformative online and on-the-ground Washington DC 20005 multicultural organization of more than a (202) 903-0112 million members and over a hundred aligned [email protected] organizations working to increase family security, end discrimination against women National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and mothers, and to build a nation where www.ngltf.org both businesses and families can thrive.” “We bolster the strength of local LGBT (202) 371-1999 activism in rural enclaves, small towns and http://www.momsrising.org/contactus cities nationwide. We build grassroots political muscle at every level by training Mujadarra Grrrls / Bint El Nas activists, strengthening the infrastructure of www.bintelnas.org local and state allies and organizing broad- Seeks to provide a resource for lesbian, based campaigns. bisexual and trans women in the Arab world. 1325 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 600, Website, information, support. Washington DC 20005 2261 Market St., #86, San Francisco CA (202) 393-5177 94114 [email protected] (510) 495-6000 x146 [email protected] National Organization for Women http://www.now.org NARAL Pro-Choice America Since its founding in 1966, NOW’s goal has http://www.naral.org been to take action to bring about equality National Abortion Rights Action League/Pro- for all women. NOW works to eliminate Choice America is made up of pro-choice discrimination and harassment in the women and men across the US. Together, workplace, schools, the justice system, and we protect a woman’s right to choose. We all other sectors of society; secure abortion, organize women and men to make sure that birth control and reproductive rights for all lawmakers hear from the pro-choice people women; end all forms of violence against they represent. women; eradicate racism, sexism and 1156 15th St. NW, Suite 700, Washington homophobia; and promote equality and DC 20005 justice in our society. (202) 973-3000 1100 H St. NW, Ste 300, Washington DC [email protected] 20005 (202) 628-8669 National Center for Lesbian Rights [email protected] The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a national legal organization committed to National Women’s Health Network advancing the civil and human rights of www.nwhn.org lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender For almost 40 years, NWHN has been people and their families through litigation, advocating for women’s health, providing public policy advocacy, and public research, critical analysis, national and education. community advocacy and political 870 Market St., Suite 370, San Francisco mobilization. “The Network aspires to a CA 94102 health care system that is guided by social (415) 392-6257 justice and reflects the needs of diverse [email protected] women.” Publishes the “Women’s Health Activist.” 1413 K St NW, 4th fl., Washington DC 20005 (202) 682-2640 [email protected]

56 Arabic, Bengali and Nepali. OBO works in National Transgender Advocacy collaboration with women around the Coalition country and the world to educate and http://www.ntac.org advocate for women’s health. Provides information on the laws and 5 Upland Rd., #3, Cambridge MA 02140 resources for Transgender Advocacy. (617) 245-0200 http://www.ntac.org/contact [email protected]

National Women’s History Project Out and Equal Workplace Advocates http://www.nwhp.org http://www.outandequal.org NWHP has developed a national Out and Equal Workplace Advocates is constituency of teachers, students, parents, committed to ending employment public employees and others to link discrimination for lesbian, gay, bisexual and historical women and making a positive transgender employees. People should be difference today. judged by the work they do, not by their 730 2nd St., #469, PO Box 469, Santa Rosa sexual orientation or gender identity. CA 95402 155 Sansome St., Suite 450, San Francisco (707) 636-2888 CA 94104 [email protected] (415) 694-6500 [email protected] 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians http://www.9to5.org and Gays, Olympia Launched in 1973 by a small group of http://pflag-olympia.org working class women, the organizations has Opportunity for dialogue about sexual worked on sexual harassment and lack of orientation and gender identity and acts to benefits in the workplace. “Today, 9 to 5 create a society that is healthy and claims partial responsibility for the rise in respectful of human diversity. attention paid and advances made towards PO Box 12732, Olympia WA 98508-2732 improving work conditions for women.” (360) 402-1526 231 W Wisconsin Ave, Suite 900, Milwaukee [email protected] WI 53203-2308 (414) 274-0933 Plan International [email protected] http://www.planusa.org/becauseiamagirl A global initiative of Plan International, Northwest Women of Color and Allies Because I Am A Girl creates sustainable http://nowseattle.org/northwest-women-of- projects in developing countries to give girls color-and-allies-nwwoca/ access to the most basic of human rights: The mission of NW Women of Color and clean water, food, healthcare, education, Allies is to take action to bring women into financial security, and protection from full participation in society by sharing equal violence and exploitation. rights, responsibilities and opportunities with 155 Plan Way, Warwick RI 02886 men, while living free of discrimination. (800) 556-7918 Goals include reproductive justice, diversity [email protected] and the end of racism. 3720 Airport Way S, Seattle WA 98134- Planned Parenthood 2217 www.plannedparenthood.org (206) 632-8547 Not only a service provider, Planned [email protected] Parenthood also offers education and is a passionate advocate for women’s Our Bodies Ourselves reproductive rights, taking on national and www.ourbodiesourselves.org legislative battles to defend reproductive The Boston Women’s Health Book health. rd Collective published its first women’s health 434 W 33 St., New York, NY 10001 booklet in 1970; it just published its 40th year (215) 541-7800 anniversary edition of the OBO book, which http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about- includes a number of different us/contact-us.htm language/cultural adaptations – including

57 QMUNITY Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, http://www.qmunity.ca Bisexual and Transgender Elders of QMUNITY is BC’s leading queer resource Olympia center. It is a hub for the LGTBQ http://www.sageolympia.org community. SAGE Olympia operates under the Rainbow 1170 Bute St., Vancouver BC V6E 1Z6, Community Center in Olympia, dedicating to Canada providing community-building activities for (604) 684-5307 the GLBT communities. [email protected] PO Box 7221, Olympia WA 98507-7221 http://www.sageolympia.org/forms/contactus Radical Women .html http://www.radicalwomen.org Radical Women is a socialist feminist, Sister Song – Women of Color grassroots activist organization that provides Reproductive Justice Collective a radical voice within the feminist www.sistersong.net movement, a feminist voice within the Left, Sister Song “amplifies and strengthens the and trains women to be leaders in the collective voices of indigenous women and movements for social and economic justice. women of color to ensure reproductive New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S, justice through ensuring human rights.” Seattle WA 98118 Sister Song includes 80 local, regional and (206) 722-6057 national organizations. Native [email protected] American/indigenous, Black/African American, Latina/Puerto Rican, Arab Radical Women (Olympia Peninsula) American/Middle Eastern and Asian/Pacific http://www.radicalwomen.org Islander are joined together and supported Mission to fight against the oppression of by white allies and men. Education, women, fight for reproductive justice and advocacy, support and networking. quality health care. (404) 756-2680 1621 South F St., Port Angeles WA 98363 [email protected] (360) 452-7534 [email protected] Stonewall Youth http://stonewallyouth.org Rainbow Center Tacoma Began in 1991 as a series of community www.rainbowcntr.org meetings to discuss the needs of LGBTQ Mission is to eliminate discrimination based youth; this grew into a consistent weekly on sexual orientation and gender identity by support group that continues to meet today, providing education, resources, information with anywhere from 5 to 30 people present. and opportunities for empowerment to Other outreach and support services, individuals and organizations in the South networking. Puget Sound PO Box 7383, Olympia WA 98507 741 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma WA 98402 (360) 705-2738 (253) 383-2978 [email protected] [email protected] Transgender Law and Policy Institute Safeplace http://transgenderlaw.org http://www.safeplaceolympia.org The Institute is dedicated to engaging in Based in Olympia WA, Safeplace’s vision is effective advocacy for transgender people. It “a community free of physical, sexual and brings experts and advocates together to psychological violence and oppression. We work on law and policy initiatives designed strive to put an end to sexual and domestic to advance transgender equality. violence and advocate for personal and [email protected] societal change through crisis intervention and education. Trevor Project (360) 786-8754 http://www.thetrevorproject.org [email protected] Determined to end suicide among LGBTQ youth by providing life-saving and life- affirming resources – 24/7 crisis intervention

58 lifeline, digital community and organization merged with the National advocacy/educational programs. Network to End Domestic Violence. 8704 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200, West http://www.womenslaw.org/simple.php?site Hollywood CA 90069 map_id=111 (301) 271-8845 http://www.thetrevorproject.org/contactus Young Feminist Wire http://yfa.awid.org Triangle Community Center Promoting multigenerational models on http://www.ctgay.org women’s rights, to ensure young women’s The Triangle Community Center is a non- participation and perspectives. Producing profit Connecticut organization providing tools for multigenerational organizing and services to help strengthen the LGBT inter-generational relationships in women’s community’s sense of identity, pride and organizing. visibility. Base: Fairfield County. http://yfa.awid.org/about-us/contact-us/ PO Box 4062, Norwalk CT 06852-4062 (203) 853-0600 [email protected] ORGANIZATIONS CHALLENGING OR OPPOSING GENDER JUSTICE UN Women www.unwomen.org American Family Association UN Women focuses on promoting Gender http://www.afa.net Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The American Family Association believes nd 405 E 42 St., NY, NY 10017 that God has communicated absolute truths (646) 781-4400 to mankind, and that all people are subject http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/contact- to the authority of God’s Words at all times. us/ Therefore AFA believes that a culture based on biblical truth best serves the well-being of Washington Women in Need our nation and our families, in accordance http://www.wwin.org with the vision of our founding documents; WWIN is a community supported and that personal transformation through the organization that provides funding for Gospel of Jesus Christ is the greatest agent education and health care for women in of biblical change in any culture. need in WA State. PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo MS 38803 th 700 – 108 Ave. NE, Suite 207, Bellevue (662) 844-5036 WA 98004 (425) 451-8838 [email protected] http://www.all.org American Life League is an organization co- Women’s Club of Olympia founded in 1979 by Judie Brown and nine http://womansclubofolympia.org other dedicated pro-life Americans. It is the Key issues being worked on: equal rights for largest grassroots Catholic pro-life women, safe working conditions for women educational organization in the US. ALL is and children, , committed to the protection of all innocent alcohol/drug abuse education for women, human beings from the moment of creation youth suicide prevention. to natural death. 1002 Washington St SE, Olympia WA 98501 PO Box 1350, Stafford VA 22555 (360) 753-9921 (540) 659-4171 [email protected] http://www.all.org/contact

Woman’s Law Americans for Truth About http://www.womanslaw.org/index.php Homosexuality Founded in 2000, the organization focuses http://americansfortruth.org on providing state-specific legal information AFTAH seeks to apply the same single- and resources for survivors of domestic minded determination to opposing the violence. In 2002, the organization added a radical homosexual agenda and standing for confidential Legal Hotline to offer direct God-ordained sexuality and the natural support; in 2008, the Latina Outreach family as countless homosexual groups do Project was created. In 2010, the in promoting their harmful agenda.

59 PO Box 5522, Naperville IL 60567 pastors, we equip churches to transform the (630) 546-4439 culture.” [email protected] 801 G St NW, Washington DC 20001 (202) 393-2100 Boy Scouts of America http://www.scouting.org Feminist Case Against Abortion The Boy Scouts of America profiles itself as http://www.feministsforlife.org one of the most prominent values-based Reports its inspiration is from Susan B youth organizations, “helping youth is a key Anthony’s desire to improve the quality of to building a more conscientious, life for women and children. responsible and productive society.” But the PO Box 320667, Alexandria VA 22320 BSA has demonstrated exclusionary http://www.feministsforlife.org/contact/index. behavior toward gay youth. htm http://www.scouting.org/ContactUs.aspx Christian Anti-Defamation Commission www.focusonthefamily.com http://www.defendchristians.org Provides families with biblically based CADC is focused on the “evils of parenting advice and help from hurting homosexuality.” It opposes allowing gays to marriages. serve openly in the military, hate crimes (800) 232-6459 legislation, and same-sex marriages. http://family.custhelp.com/app/answers/detai PO Box 1115, Vista CA 92085 l/a_id/14190 (866) 508-2232 [email protected] Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment Christian Coalition http://www.home60515.com http://www.cc.org HOME was founded by writer and political The CC is a political coalition, made up of activist Wayne Lela to “use science, logic “pro-family Americans who care deeply and to expose all the flaws in the about ensuring that government serves to arguments homosexuals and bisexuals use strengthen and preserve, rather than to try to justify homosexual activity.” threaten, our families and our values.” PO Box 711, Downers Grove, IL 60515 PO Box 37030, Washington DC 20013 [email protected] (202) 479-6900 Ladies Against Feminism Eagle Forum http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com http://www.eagleforum.org “Ladies Against Feminism was founded to The Eagle Forum is a conservative Christian publish thoughtful, biblical responses to think-tank based in Washington D.C. Its feminism and to encourage other women in volunteers and employees work with their God-given roles. … We are for conservative policymakers and local maidenhood, modesty, virtue, intelligence, churches to promote a number issues on the womanly arts and femininity. rightwing agenda. It was founded by anti- feminist figure , who has led National Association for Research and “the pro-family movement since 1972.” Therapy on Homosexuality 316 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 203, http://narth.com Washington, D.C. 20003 Founded on the principle that homosexuality (202) 544-0353 often stems from disturbances in early http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/info.shtml childhood and that while it may have biological influences it is a developmental disorder. “NARTH is a scientific organization http://www.frc.org which exists to provide therapeutic treatment The Family Research Council advances to those who wish to revert from homo- to faith, family and freedom in public policy and hetero-sexuality.” the culture, from a Christian worldview. FRC (888) 364-4744 works through policy research, education, [email protected] media work, grassroots mobilization, and an online presence. “Through our outreach to

60 National Organization for Anti-Feminism Traditional Values Coalition http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Anti- http://www.traditionalvalues.org Feminism The TVC is a leading voice for bible-based Based on a Judeo-Christian worldview, traditional values re: religious liberty, promotes an anti-abortion, ant-gay/lesbian protecting traditional marriage and the family stance. “Our hope that the movement will as society’s cornerstone, securing the grow into state and local chapters to reverse Constitution against the threat of Islam, and or at least counter the progress made by defending human life from its earliest feminists in the last 30 years.” moments. [email protected] http://www.traditionalvalues.org/content/Con tact%20us National Organization for Marriage http://www.nationformarriage.org The National Organization for Marriage is a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it. Founded in 2007 in response to the growing need for an organized opposition to same-sex marriage in state legislatures, NOM serves as a national resource for marriage-related initiatives at the state and local level. 2029 K St NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 2006 (888) 894-3604 [email protected]

One Million Moms http://onemillionmoms.org OneMillionMoms.com was begun to give moms an impact with the decision-makers and let them know we are upset with the messages they are sending our children and the values (or lack of them) they are pushing. PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, MS 38803 (622) 844-5036

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays www.pfox.org “PFOX supports an inclusive environment for the ex-gay community, and works to eliminate negative perceptions and discrimination against former homosexuals… Please join us for a journey for truth, tolerance and understanding.” PO Box 510, Reederville VA 22539 (804) 453-4737 [email protected]

Pro-Life America http://prolifeamerica.com A collective hub of organizations and sites in the pro-life movement. 204 Cardinal Drive, Denton TX 76209 (940) 380-8800

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