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Alternative Information and Development Centre
http://aidc.org.za
The Alternative Information and Development Centre is a NGO working in the context of globalisation, together with popular organisations and social movements in South and Southern Africa, for economic justice and social transformation. Through its programmes, and by campaigning and coalition building, AIDC aims to contribute to the development of national, regional and international challenges to the currently dominant global economic system.Through the empowerment and mobilisation of progressive organisations and popular social movements, it further aims to contribute to the development of alternatives that ensure fundamental socio-economic transformation.
American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures.
Asian South Pacific Bureau for Adult Education
http://www.aspbae.org
The Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (ASPBAE) is a registered, non-profit, non-governmental organisation comprised of a diversity of groups and individuals committed to the promotion of adult learning. ASPBAE is involved with groups in both the formal and non- formal adult education sectors; and works with and through government agencies, universities, NGOs, community groups, trade unions, indigenous people, women’s organisations, the media and other institutions of civil society. Adult Education has been recognised as an important vehicle for strengthening people’s participation in the development of Asian-Pacific societies. As these societies have sought to transform old structures to meet new challenges, adult education has come to play a central role linking local, national, regional, and international learning initiatives of change, involving a variety of actors and institutions participating in the development processes of the region.
Beehive Collective
http://www.beehivecollective.org
To cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as effective educational and organizing tools for the public area. In the process of this effort we seek to take the “who made that!?” and “how much does it cost!?” out of our creative endeavors, by anonomously functioning as word-to-image translators of the information we convey. We build, and disseminate these visual tools with the hope that they will self-replicate, and take on life of their own.
Catalyst Centre
http://www.catalystcentre.ca
The Catalyst Centre celebrates and promotes innovative learning, popular education, research and community development to advance positive social change.
Center for Labor Research and Education, UC Berkeley
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/
The Labor Center is an outreach arm of the University of California at Berkeley. Founded in 1964, our mission is to improve the lives of working people by linking the University's vast resources to labor and community efforts for social and economic equity.
Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research
http://www.cpepr.net/
The Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research (CPEPR, prounounced "sea-pepper"), is a student-initiated center created in January 2000 in the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Education. CPEPR's mission is to promote and support popular education and participatory research in order to strengthen the participation of everyday people--especially the poor, youth, immigrants, and people of color--in efforts for social justice.
Check Your Head: The Youth Global Education Network
http://www.checkyourhead.org/workshops.html
Check Your Head (CYH) is a youth driven organization located in Vancouver. CYH educates young people on global issues, by looking at the connection between global events and issues and local realities. Check Your Head provides education, resources, training and support for youth, who then facilitate workshops, organize events and coordinate projects promoting education and action around issues of globalization and social justice.
Citizens Trade Campaign
http://www.citizenstrade.org/
The Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) is a national coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious, and other civil society groups founded in 1992 during the fight over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We are united in a common belief that international trade and investment are not ends unto themselves, but instead must be viewed as a means for achieving other societal goals such as economic justice, human rights, healthy communities, and a sound environment. The rules which govern the global economy must reflect the views and needs of the majority of the world's people on issues such as jobs, wages, the environment, human rights, food and consumer safety, access to essential services, and public health. CTC is a leading advocacy vehicle to fight for international trade policy that is not tilted in favor of the interests of multinational corporations and against the interests of the majority of the world's people. The website has materials and actions on CAFTA.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
http://www.ciw-online.org/
The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Our members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida.
Community Voices Heard
http://www.cvhaction.org/
Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a membership organization of low-income individuals and families based in New York City that organizes around welfare, jobs, housing, education, economic development, and other policy issues. CVH is currently on the Coordinating Committee of Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ), an alliance of grassroots organizations working to connect global and local struggles and change the face and perspective of the global justice movement.
Corpwatch
http://www.corpwatch.org
CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.
Development Education Association
http://www.dea.org.ok
Development education aims to raise awareness and understanding of how global issues affect the everyday lives of individuals, communities and societies and how all of us can and do influence the global. (Go to adult section, information about training, advocacy, and current projects).
Environmental Health Coalition
http://www.environmentalhealth.org/
One of the few grassroots binational organizations active today, Environmental Health Coalition has played a pivotal role in exposing the catastrophic impacts of globalization in the U.S./ Mexico border region. Founded in 1980 in San Diego, California,EHC has effectively teamed together organizers, researchers,and policy advocates to carry out community-driven environmental and social justice projects. In the early 1990s, EHC opened a second office in Tijuana,Baja California, and began to actively engage border pollution issues.
Focus on the Global South
http://www.focusweb.org/main/html/
Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. Focus engages in research, analysis, advocacy and grassroots capacity building on critical issues. It was founded in 1995 and is currently attached to the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI) in Bangkok, Thailand. Focus was founded, the same year the World Trade Organization came into existence. Focus’s program and structure reflected the priorities of a people’s movement that was facing a steep uphill struggle as it grappled with the impact of globalisation on the daily lives and struggles of the poor and marginalized people in the South. Today, corporate-driven globalisation is suffering a deep crisis of legitimacy globally and is on the ideological defensive, even as its poverty-creating, inequality-increasing, and ecologically destructive structure and dynamics continue to grind on.
Food First
http://www.foodfirst.org/
The Institute for Food and Development Policy better known as Food First --is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Our work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.
Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/
Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice. Since our founding in 1988, we have increased the US public's global awareness while building partnerships worldwide. Global Exchange has a fair trade store.
Global Living Wages
http://www.populareconomics.org
The idea of a global living wage is simple – to raise the return to labor to a level at which a household's basic social and economic needs can be met. However, the practical task of accomplishing this goal is much more formidable. For example, under some conditions, raising wages in formal sector jobs could prompt businesses to use less labor, reducing employment opportunities. Moreover, informal sector activities, by definition, are not subject to regulation. Improving the return to informal labor, therefore, requires a different set of strategies. Nevertheless, the idea of improving global living standards by raising the returns to work, both paid and informal, contains much unexplored potential.
Highlander Center
http://www.highlandercenter.org/
Since 1932, Highlander has gathered workers, grassroots leaders, community organizers, educators, and researchers to address the most pressing social, environmental and economic problems facing the people of the South. Highlander sponsors educational programs and research into community problems, as well as a residential Workshop Center for social change organizations and workers active in the South and internationally. Generations of activists have come to Highlander to learn, teach, and prepare to participate in struggles for justice.
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
http://www.ipcb.org/
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. The IPCB provides educational and technical support to indigenous peoples in the protection of their biological resources, cultural integrity, knowledge and collective rights.
Institute for People’s Education and Action
http://www.peopleseducation.org
The mission of the Institute for People’s Education and Action is to identify, support, and facilitate community-based, learner-led education as a strategic tool for community organizing. Good resource center.
International Council for Adult Education:
http://www.icae.org.uy/
Established in 1973, the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) is a global partnership of adult learners and adult educators and their organizations, and others who promote the use of adult learning as a tool for informed participation of people and sustainable development. In the emergence of knowledge-society the ICAE promotes lifelong learning as a necessary component for people to contribute creatively to their communities and live in independent and democratic societies. Adult and lifelong learning are deeply linked to social, economic and political justice; equality of gender relations; the universal right to learn; living in harmony with the environment; respect for human rights and recognition of cultural diversity, peace and the active involvement of women and men in decisions affecting their lives.
Lelo
http://www.lelo.org/
The Northwest Labor & Employment Law Office
Maquila Solidarity Network
http://www.maquilasolidarity.org
The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage. In a global economy it is essential that groups in the North and South work together for employment with dignity, fair wages and working conditions, and healthy workplaces and communities. The Maquila Solidarity Network Builds Solidarity Through: Solidarity, Campaign, Government Lobbying, Popular Education, International Links.
Mexico Solidarity Network
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/
The Mexico Solidarity Network struggles for democracy, economic justice and human rights on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Civil society must take the leading role in fomenting social change by developing democratic spaces and empowered communities that are outside of party/establishment structures, but always interacting with those structures. The Mexico Solidarity Network is a grassroots-based organization dedicated to profound social change that challenges existing power relationships and builds alternatives.
Miami Worker's Center
http://www.miamiworkerscenter.org/
The Miami Workers Center (MWC) is a strategy and organizing center for low-income and low-wage workers that has been developing a broad-based social justice movement in the South Florida region for nearly five years.The organization uses a unique blend of popular and political education methodologies as a part of its leadership development efforts.These initiatives are central to the Miami Workers Center's organizing strategy, which emphasizes developing grassroots leadership from within the communities.As the Executive Director of the organization, Gihan Perera, notes, "Leadership development is not part of our organizing model, it is our organizing model.
Nashville Peace and Justice Center
http://www.nashvillepeacejustice.org/
The Nashville Peace and Justice Center (NPJC) is a coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to creating a peaceful and just society. All Center activities are constructed with the goal to expand, deepen and diversify the base of activists and organizers in Middle Tennessee. For more details about programming please follow the links in the web site to learn about what NPJC offers the local community in localizing efforts for global justice.
One World Research and Education Network
http://www.owren.org
The purpose of One World Research and Education is: to collect organize and distribute current and reliable information dealing with the interconnectedness of peace, justice, militarism and the environment and to educate and animate people to work locally and globally, for social justice. Includes some activity plans and workshops.
Our World is Not For Sale
http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.org/
"Our World is Not For Sale" (OWINFS) network is a loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting against the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading systems. OWINFS is committed to a sustainable, socially just, democratic and accountable multilateral trading system.
Participatory Action Research Network
http://www.parnet.org
PARnet aims to create a self-monitored, community-managed knowledge base and gateway to action research resources, connecting practitioners and scholars with each other, the literature, and other educational opportunities. It seeks to reflect the broad spectrum of approaches that characterize the international action research community. PARnet recognizes that the term action research represents a dynamic, ever-evolving range of practices and applications that are, nevertheless, characterized by a common philosophical foundation. It turns to the community itself to define and shape the concept of action research, first and foremost, through the simple act of contribution.
Participatory Research in Asia
http://www.pria.org
PRIA is a civil society organisation, undertaking development initiatives to positively impact the lives of poor, weak, marginalised and excluded sections of the society, by encouraging and enabling their participation in the processes of their governance. It strives for achievement of equity and justice, through a people centered approach, focusing on ‘Citizens’- ‘their participation and inclusion’, ‘awareness and empowerment’ and ‘their democratic rights’. It engages itself in strengthening of panchayati - raj institutions and municipalities, promoting environmental and occupational health, facilitating a network of strong civil society organizations, promoting citizen leadership, monitoring policies and programmes of bilateral, multilateral and government agencies, to achieve an agenda of ‘Governance where People Matter.
People's Consultation of the FTAA
http://peoplesconsultation.org
The People's Consultation is the U.S. component of a hemisphere-wide campaign against the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The campaign includes workshops, public hearings, resolutions, and a national survey. We are part of an inclusive movement for global justice and equality, addressing the increasing marginalization of people throughout the hemisphere, especially immigrants, the poor, women and people of color. (Go to Activist Center, then Workshops).
PEPE
http://www.pepe.org
Popular Education for People's Empowerment, Inc. or PEPE is a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) based in the Philippines. It was formed in 1986 by several development-oriented NGOs to serve as a center for their various popular education -- "pop-ed" as we call it -- activities. PEPE is dedicated to the promotion of "pop-ed" theories and practices as tools towards people's empowerment. As part of its commitment to human development, PEPE provides "pop-ed" services to a diverse set of people: urban poor, peasants, fisherfolk, professionals, women, indigenous peoples, etc. Its services are focused on enhancing these sectors' capacities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes as community educators. This key function has brought PEPE in close contact with numerous developmental organizations, in the process strengthening its advocacy and networking efforts at the community, national and global level.
Polaris Institute
http://www.polarisinstitute.org
Polaris Institute is designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization. The Institute works with citizen movements in developing the kinds of strategies and tactics required to unmask and challenge the corporate power that is the driving force behind governments concerning public policy making on economic, social and environmental issues. In so doing, the Institute serves as a catalyst with constituency-based social movements, increasing their capacity to do their own strategic campaign planning on issues of vital concern to their members and allies. The work of Polaris with social movements is also carried out on both a national and an international basis. (description from organization!)
Polaris Institute
http://www.polarisinstitute.org
Polaris is designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization. Essentially, the Institute works with citizen movements in developing the kinds of strategies and tactics required to unmask and challenge the corporate power that is the driving force behind governments concerning public policy making on economic, social and environmental issues
POWER
http://www.fairwork.org/
POWER holds a unique place within the rich history of the struggle to end poverty and oppression in San Francisco. POWER was initiated as a welfare rights project of the Coalition on Homelessness, and went by the name of the General Assistance Recipients Union (GARU). However, with the intensification of the attacks on all no- and low-wage workers (the unemployed, welfare recipients, low-wage workers and the working class in general) under welfare deform in 1996, the need for a broad organization of no- and low-wage fighting to end all exploitation and oppression became even more clear.
Project South
http://www.projectsouth.org/
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide is a broad-based community-driven membership organization that develops and conducts popular political and economic education and action research for organizing and liberation. We develop indigenous popular educators and movement leaders from grassroots and scholar-activist backgrounds, bringing them together on the basis of equality to engage in building a bottom-up movement for social and economic justice.
Public Citizen
http://www.publiccitizen.org/
Public Citizen fights for openness and democratic accountability in government, for the right of consumers to seek redress in the courts; for clean, safe and sustainable energy sources; for social and economic justice in trade policies; for strong health, safety and environmental protections; and for safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs and health care. The Global Trade Watch division oversees free trade policies.
Resource Center of the Americas
http://www.americas.org
The Resource Center is devoted to the notion that every person in this world is entitled to the same fundamental human rights, and to the principle that education goes hand-in-hand with action. Go to Search, then to Site Map, then to Popular Education/Community Organizing Resource Collection.
Rethinking Schools
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World is a curriculum guide and contains articles on globalization. This comprehensive book from Rethinking Schools helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.
Silicon Valley Debug
http://www.siliconvalleydebug.com/
Silicon Valley Debug is an organization that strives to provide a voice for youth and marginalized people. Member’s voices can be heard in their magazine, website, radio show, and television program. De-bug allows members to connect with people in similar situations, and to not feel alone in a sometimes isolating global system.
SOUL
http://www.youthec.org/soul/index.htm
SOUL is a political education resource for youth organizations in the Bay Area and nationally.
SOUL
http://www.youthec.org/soul/index.htm
SOUL's mission is to serve as a training center to develop a new multi-racial generation of young organizers - especially young women, young people of color, queer youth and low-income youth - who will have the skills and the vision they need to struggle for the liberation of all oppressed people.
STITCH
http://www.stitchonline.org/
STITCH is a network of US women unionists, organizers, and activists that seeks to build connections between Central American and US women organizing for economic justice. As unionists, leaders, and women, what we have in common is much greater than our differences. We bring women union leaders together from North and Central America to share organizing strategies and build leadership.
Sweatshop Watch
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org
Founded in 1995, Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of over 30 labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious and student organizations, and many individuals, committed to eliminating the exploitation that occurs in sweatshops. Sweatshop Watch serves low-wage workers nationally and globally, with a focus on garment workers in California. We believe that workers should earn a living wage in a safe, decent work environment, and that those responsible for the exploitation of sweatshop workers must be held accountable. The workers who labor in sweatshops are our driving force. Our decisions, projects, and organizing efforts are informed by their voices, their needs, and their life experiences.
Tennesse Economic Renewal Network
http://www.tern-net.org/
The Tennessee Economic Renewal Network's mission is to secure economic justice for working people in Tennessee. We carry out our mission through the organizing, consolidation and utilization of the labor, community and religious organizations that comprise our coalition
The Freechild Project
http://www.freechild.org
Freechild provides support to organizations and individuals who connect young people with, through, and to social change. We do this by advocating, educating, networking, and researching with many interconnected realms of youth action worldwide.
The Grail in the USA
http://www.grail-us.org
The Grail is an international women's movement. Workshops on issues of income and wealth disparity and the global economy. Provided by members of the Philadelphia Grail working with United for a Fair Economy (UFE). As Grail women, we blend our diverse talents and life choices into a network that extends our ability to work with those suffering from injustice.
The International Forum on Globalization
http://www.ifg.org/
The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
The Social Justice Committee
http://www.s-j-c.net
The mission of the Social Justice Committee is to: Analyze the underlying structural and global causes of poverty, human rights violations and other social injustices ; Contribute to informed popular participation in eliminating these injustices ; Work in solidarity to transform our world into a just society. Focus: Global economic justice, especially canceling "Third World" debt - unjust foreign debt carried by so many impoverished countries ; Human rights abuse, especially in Central America and Mexico, in solidarity with people who are striving to build democratic, just, and environmentally healthy societies. Popular education and advocacy programs.
Third World Majority
http://www.cultureisaweapon.org
Third World Majority (TWM) is a new media training and production resource center run by a collective of young women of color and our allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots political organizing. Our principal organizing focus is the community digital storytelling workshop. This three-day workshop is a unique training approach that integrates aspects of popular education, creative writing, oral history, facilitative filmmaking, and digital media manipulation to assist people in telling their stories as three-to-five minute digital videos based on the found materials in their lives (like photographs, personal drawings and letters, newspaper clippings, etc.).
Third World Network
http://www.twnside.org.sg/
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and processes
United for a Fair Economy
http://www.faireconomy.org/
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.
Women of Color Resource Center
http://www.coloredgirls.org/
Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age.
Workers' Educational Association
http://www.swales.wea.org.uk
The WEA is Britain's largest voluntary provider of education for adults. With branches in 54 countries, we aim to support social justice, labour rights and equal opportunities. WEA is developing a range of materials for those interested in the global and environmental dimensions of their subject