Resources

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.
http://www.activistrights.org.au

Affero Service
Web tools and services for activists to elicit action from others through weblog, forum post, e-mail, or web pages.
http://www.affero.net/

Black Cross Health Collective
First aid training to handle typical needs at protests. Based in Portland, Oregon.
http://www.blackcrosscollective.org/

Campus Activism
An extensive database of tools for student activists, groups, resources, and events.
http://www.campusactivism.org

Center for Cooperative Research
Facilitates research on issues including the war on terrorism, United States foreign policy, and corporate power. Includes timelines.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/

Center For Creative Learning
Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other "social threats."
http://www.cclearn.com/

Center for Third World Organizing
A training and resource center dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color.
http://www.ctwo.org/

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.
http://www.thechangeagency.org/

Collective Book on Collective Process
Handbook built on collective process for activist groups to recognize and resolve common abuses and negative group dynamics.
http://www.geocities.com/collectivebook/

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.
http://www.scn.org/cmp/

Data Center
Provides social justice advocates, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills to help conduct more effective campaigns.
http://www.datacenter.org/

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.
http://www.democracyctr.org

The Earthwatcher's Cryptodesk
Links to tools and resources for news gathering, research, homework, activism and the alternative cyber-underground.
http://www.cryptodesk.com/

Empowerment Resources
Contains tools for personal growth, social change, and ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale.
http://www.empowermentresources.com/

Flying Fish
Provides links to alternative news and media for stories not covered in the mainstream press.
http://www.flyingfish.org.uk/links/

Human Rights Tech
Non profit organization assisting and encouraging grassroots anti-poverty initiatives. Includes program history, projects, and digital divide resources.
http://www.humanrightstech.org

Liberty Activist
Provides information and materials to grassroots and underfunded liberty organizations.
http://www.libertyactivist.org

National People's Action
Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US.
http://www.npa-us.org

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.
http://organizerscollaborative.org

Partners In Kindness
Contains ideas, stories, advice, and encouragement for ways to practice kindness.
http://www.partnersinkindness.com/

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.
http://perc.ca/

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.
http://www.prmediaconsultants.com

Public Info Research Namebase
A database of articles on various political and paranormal subjects with information about their authors.
http://www.namebase.org/

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.
http://www.hotsalsa.org

Social Criticism Review
Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific/technical complex.
http://www.socialcritic.org

Tools for Organizers, Activists, Educators, and Other Hell-Raisers
Information on activist organizing and getting people motivated on any issue.
http://www.casagordita.com/tools.htm

Trade Observatory
The global information center on the WTO, trade, and sustainable development.
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/

TwistMagick's Activist Resources
Short list of links.
http://www.angelfire.com/md/tortugadelsol/activism.html

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.
http://www.vernalproject.org/

World Advocacy
Comprehensive list of advocacy groups and sites.
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/advocacy/

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.
http://www.worldrevolution.org/

You Can Make a Difference
Links to interactive sites and petitions to sign.
http://www.angelfire.com/ne/1canmakeadifference/