Links to other progressive initiatives:
Religious Left:
Addiction Resource - “Addiction Resource was founded in 2005 to provide a community for those recovering from addiction and to help patients find the highest quality care for a successful recovery.”
American Society of Addictive Medicine
Center For The Advancement of The Steady State Economy - CASSE
Industrial Workers of the World
Occupy Wall Street Live Stream
Coalition To Protest At The DNC
NAF: Violence Statistics Aimed At Family Planning Clinics
Organization For A Free Society
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City - “...no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.”
Physicians for a National Health Program
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Glenn Greenwald - Absolute, hands-down best blogger on the net.
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund - Helping to defend community rights against corporate takeover of services and infrastructure
8 Great Eco-Charities That Don’t Suck Up to Large Corporate Donors - Super-cheap way to support the environment on Earth Day or any other day.
Stop FBI - For some reason, Obama has empowered the FBI to crack down on legal and peaceful anti-war demonstrators. Patrick Fitzgerald, the guy who got the Bush Admin off the hook in the Plame affair, put pressure on both juries that went after Blago boy after he threatened to quit doing business with BoA is leading the way. This initiative flies in the face of everything we thought Obama stood for and also by the way the Constitution’s First Amendment. Stop FBI fights Obama’s aggressive anti-American initiative. Click on their ‘About’ link for a quick synopsis of their reason for coming into being.
AP: Seafood From Slavery - Democracy-NOW Report
Products of Slavery - Easy to access facts about what products and countries are involved in the use of slave and child-slave labor. Slavery in third world countries is rampant and a large share of it is child-slavery. And though you may find the idea abhorrent, we all buy into it every day
National Labor Committee - Exposing slavery and child labor throughout the world. If you are against slavery, check here for how you might unwittingly be supporting it right now.
Safe Horizon - Fighting domestic violence and human trafficking
ATEST - Alliance To End Slavery and Trafficking
International Labor Rights Forum
Social Accountability International
Prosecute George Bush for Murder
The Irrawaddy - Burmese exile/resistance website. Best source for finding out what’s really going on there.
After-Shock: New book from Robert Reich outlines how disparity in incomes by 2007 had raised the portion going to the richest 1% to the same level that existed just before the 1929 meltdown. The rest of us were denied the income necessary to purchase the goods that we produced. Worker productivity had been increasing for almost 100 years, but worker take home pay has remained stagnant at 1970 levels. That’s always a recipe for economic decline. One of the Reich’s recommendations: improved Medicare for all - Single Payer.
Move To Amend - Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United vs. FEC
Mobilization for Health Care for All
Citizens United Against Citizens United