Globalizing Civil Society Participants and their Organizations

Director Andrew Friedman and Co-Director Oona Chatterjee

Make the Road by Walking fights for justice and opportunity through community organizing on issues of concern to our multi-generational membership. We promote economic justice and participatory democracy by increasing residents power to achieve self-determination through collective action.

Mark Winston Griffith

Central Brooklyn Partnership

The Central Brooklyn Partnership is an on-going, inter-generational, community-based campaign to build the capacity of low-income people to become financially independent and change the balance of economic power in Central Brooklyn. Over the last twelve years the Partnership has pursued this mission through a variety of strategies that have integrated leadership development, financial literacy and business training, economic justice organizing and community reinvestment advocacy with access to low-cost financial services.

Connie Garcia, Associate of the Border Environmental Justice Campaign

Environmental Health Coalition is one of the oldest and most effective grassroots organizations in the United States, using social change strategies to achieve environmental justice.

Debra Harry, Executive Director

The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology.

Tony La Vina

World Resources Institute explores issues at the intersection of environmental protection and economic development. Work focuses on protecting Earth's living systems, increasing access to information, reversing global warming, and creating sustainable enterprise and opportunity. The scale of WRI's activity ranges from local studies to national, regional, and global assessments, and specific topics are grouped in the categories at the left.

Jessica Marques

The Mexico Solidarity Network is a coalition of over 80 organizations struggling for human rights, economic justice, and democracy in the United States and Mexico.

Nancy Price

The Alliance is a new progressive populist movement---not a political party---setting forth to end corporate domination, to establish true political democracy, and to build a society with a sustainable, equitable economy.

Mike Prokosch

United for a Fair Economy, is a national, independent, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality.

Michael Sayer

Southern Echo is a leadership education, training and development organization founded in 1989 and based in Jackson, Mississippi. Echo is committed to building new, accountable grassroots leadership and organization, based on an inter-generational model, through training, technical and legal assistance. Echo staff works with and in support of African-American and working class community leadership and organizations throughout rural Mississippi, and organizations in 11 other Southern states.

Amy Shannon

Enlaces Amιrica facilitates the empowerment of transnational communities in their commitment to building an equitable, sustainable, and dignified way of life for peoples in the Americas.

Kent Wong, Director

As part of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR) and the Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE), the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education plays a unique role as a bridge between the University and the Labor community in Southern California.

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