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» Activist Rights - Detailed information on rights of demonstrators and free speech participants. Most is specific to Victoria, Australia, but contains list of comparable international resources.




» Affero Service - Web tools and services for activists to elicit action from others through weblog, forum post, e-mail, or web pages.




» Black Cross Health Collective - First aid training to handle typical needs at protests. Based in Portland, Oregon.




» Campus Activism - An extensive database of tools for student activists, groups, resources, and events.




» Center for Cooperative Research - Facilitates research on issues including the war on terrorism, United States foreign policy, and corporate power. Includes timelines.




» Center For Creative Learning - Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other "social threats."




» Center for Third World Organizing - A training and resource center dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color.




» The Change Agency - Two Brisbane-based activists offer workshops, curriculum development and campaign consulting services. Their site provides extensive resources, including activism training organizations around the world, academic research, and case studies.




» Collective Book on Collective Process - Handbook built on collective process for activist groups to recognize and resolve common abuses and negative group dynamics.




» Community Empowerment - These collections of practical training materials for community workers mobilizing people to overcome poverty are organized by topic (such as microenterprise, evaluation, and brainstorming), and include reproducible illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography.




» Data Center - Provides social justice advocates, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills to help conduct more effective campaigns.




» Democracy Center - The Center combines investigation, reporting, training in public advocacy, and international campaigns to help build a global citizenry that understands the public issues before it and is able to take effective public action. They provide a range of how-to resources.




» The Earthwatcher's Cryptodesk - Links to tools and resources for news gathering, research, homework, activism and the alternative cyber-underground.




» Empowerment Resources - Contains tools for personal growth, social change, and ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale.




» Flying Fish - Provides links to alternative news and media for stories not covered in the mainstream press.




» Human Rights Tech - Non profit organization assisting and encouraging grassroots anti-poverty initiatives. Includes program history, projects, and digital divide resources.




» Liberty Activist - Provides information and materials to grassroots and underfunded liberty organizations.




» National People's Action - Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US.




» Organizers' Collaborative - A nonprofit group harnessing the collaborative potential of the Internet and working to making computers accessible as a tool in support of community-based, social change organizing.




» Partners In Kindness - Contains ideas, stories, advice, and encouragement for ways to practice kindness.




» Peace and Environment Resource Centre - Educates and empowers the public on peace, environment and social justice issues; supports groups, online library search of books and magazines, lots of links, discussion forum, some publications.




» PR Media Consultants - Offers training and consultancy for public-interest groups on how the media really work and how to maximise exposure in the media.




» Public Info Research Namebase - A database of articles on various political and paranormal subjects with information about their authors.




» Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) - Offers training in Washington, DC, on topics such as organizing, fundraising, development, and use of technology. Provides course schedule, outlines, and information on trainers.




» Social Criticism Review - Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific/technical complex.




» Tools for Organizers, Activists, Educators, and Other Hell-Raisers - Information on activist organizing and getting people motivated on any issue.




» Trade Observatory - The global information center on the WTO, trade, and sustainable development.




» TwistMagick's Activist Resources - Short list of links.




» Vernal Education Project - An effort to create an education network that can bolster and sustain grassroots progressive social change movements in the US. Provides writings on cooperative decision-making, democratic engagement, and nonviolent action.




» World Advocacy - Comprehensive list of advocacy groups and sites.




» The World Revolution - An idea for a new, global grassroots social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a definitive and comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era.




» You Can Make a Difference - Links to interactive sites and petitions to sign.