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Long List of Various Activist Groups
by Ken Cheetham
Name: 180 Movement for Democracy and Education
Web: http://www.corporations.org/democracy/
Notes: Dedicated to helping build a campus-based movement for
political empowerment and participatory democracy. Through
education and organizing, hopes to encourage a radical political
presence in our schools to transform them and our communities into
truly democratic spaces. Opposes corporate control of the
university and society, inequitable and disempowering elementary
education, shrinking access to higher education, and the racism,
sexism, homophobia, and other forms of systemic oppression in our
world.
Keys: control; corporations; democracy; public education;
students
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Name: 50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Web: http://www.50years.org/
Notes: A coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policy,
women's, social- and economic-justice, youth, solidarity, labor,
and development organizations dedicated to the profound
tranformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
(IMF). Through education and action the Network is committed to
making international financial institutions democratic and
accountable to those who have to live with the effects of their
policies and practices.
Keys: coalitions; development; economic justice; finance;
policy; World Bank / IMF
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Name: 848 Community Space
Address: 848 Divisadero Street (near McAllister)
San Francisco, CA 94117-1506
Voice: (415) 922-2385 [3/00]
Fax: (415) 922-2385 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.848.com
Notes: An interactive live / work visual and performance gallery
where over 800 have shown work or performed or taught or rehearsed
or slept, to the delight and / or challenge of more than 10,000
citizens who have attended here. In the face of global spiritual
and economic re/de-pression, 848 reclaims public space for
imagination, experimentation, and community making.
Keys: art; community-building; music; sex; spaces for events;
spirituality
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Name: A First Amendment Center
Address: POBox 4851
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 287-9406 (24-hour voicemail) [10/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net/
Notes: A community resource table raising public awareness of
political and social issues by providing flyers on current issues
and events. Supports itself through donations for bumper stickers,
buttons, and T-shirts. Available on the sidewalk every day until
dusk at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Channing Way. Flyers to
be distributed can be mailed to this address.
Keys: anarchism; community-building; First Amendment; free
speech; networking; petitions; political prisoners; products;
publicity
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Name: Abacia.com
Voice: (510) 893-1106 [10/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.abacia.com/
Notes: A web site that provides non-profit groups, social
service agencies, and individual people in the community a place on
the Net to tell each other about what they are doing while serving
the community, who or what they represent and what they want or
need.
Keys: calendars; community-building; directories; networking
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Name: abagOnline
Web: http://www.abag.ca.gov
Notes: The web page of the Association of Bay Area Governments,
featuring numerous links to local, regional, and state government
Internet services.
Keys: government; Internet; services; state government
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Name: Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Address: 2940 16th Street #310 (at Capp)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-0592 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 558-8135
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.energy-net.org
Notes: A safe energy clearinghouse overseeing technical and
historical information on nuclear power, nuclear weapons
proliferation, safe and renewable energy, and conservation.
Current projects include organizing against low-level nuclear waste
disposal (sic) at Ward Valley in southeastern California, the
EnergyNet computer bulletin board system (BBS modem number (415)
861-2510), support for sustainable community development, and the
'Rad Bull' (Radiation Bulletin) electronic newsletter.
Keys: community-building; computer bulletin boards (BBSs);
computers; conservation; development; Earth Day; energy;
environmental justice; history; libraries; nuclear energy; racism;
sustainability; toxics
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Name: Abolition 2000
Web: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/
Notes: A global movement to eliminate nuclear weapons by the
year 2000, consisting of over 700 groups.
Keys: coalitions; global issues; nuclear weapons / testing
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Name: Abortion Clinics OnLine
Web: http://www.gynpages.com
Notes: A directory service comprised of providers of abortion
services and other reproductive health care. Includes private
physicians' offices, state licensed clinics, private clinics, and
hospital abortion services.
Keys: abortion rights; directories; health; healthcare access;
hospitals; reproductive rights; services
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Name: Abortion Rights Activist, The
Web: http://www.cais.com/agm/main/index.html
Notes: Includes basic information about abortion, a reference
library, and an archive of violent attacks on clinics.
Keys: abortion rights; archiving; reproductive rights; research
materials; violence
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Name: About Pirate / Free Radio
Web: http://pirateradio.about.com/entertainment/pirateradio/
Keys: microbroadcasting
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Name: About-Face
Address: POBox 77665
San Francisco, CA 94107
Voice: (415) 436-0212 [2/99]
Email: info@about-face.org
Web: http://www.about-face.org
Notes: Raises awareness about how women are depicted in the
media and links to self-esteem, body image and eating disorder
issues. Raises awareness and educates through use of humour,
research, and images. The website has won several awards.
Keys: health; humor; media criticism; psychology; research;
women
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Name: abrupt: Apocalyptic Optimism for the End of History
Web: http://www.abrupt.org/
Notes: Culture jamming and more.
Keys: culture jamming; history
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Name: Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Address: POBox 28386
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 763-6553 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 763-6588
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://ayf.nativeweb.org/
Notes: Fosters greater self-reliance by indigenous peoples
through support of struggles to protect homelands, natural
environment and human rights, to improve health care, to address
domestic legislation and international laws, to obtain access to
communications media, to improve the conditions and status of
women, to increase economic security, and to revitalize cultural
and spiritual traditions. Office is at 678 13th Street, Suite 100,
Oakland 94612.
Keys: autonomy; communications; development; health; human
rights; indigenous people; law; legislation; media; self-reliance;
spirituality; women; world government
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Name: Access Abilities
Address: POBox 458
Mill Valley, CA 94942
Voice: (415) 561-4888 [7/99]
Fax: (415) 561-4890
Web: http://www.thoreau.org/TENANTS/AA.html
Notes: Conducts research on transportation technologies for
people with disabilities. Housed at the Thoreau Center for
Sustainability in the San Francisco Presidio.
Keys: disabilities; Marin County; research; transportation
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Name: Accountable Public Broadcasting Committee
Address: POBox 425584
San Francisco, CA 94142-5584
Voice: (415) 641-4440 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 695-1369
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Opposes corporate control of public broadcasting, both
radio and television, on the local and national levels
Keys: control; control techniques; corporations; media
criticism; radio; television
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Name: ACT UP East Bay (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power)
Address: POBox 8074
Oakland, CA 94662
Voice: (510) 568-1680 [2/01]
Fax: (510) 568-1680 (same as voice)
Email: johnnyi@surfree.com
Web: http://www.actupny.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; coalitions; direct action; needle exchange;
sexual minorities
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Name: ACT UP Golden Gate (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power)
Address: 519 Castro Street #93
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 252-9200 [1/99]
Fax: (415) 252-9277
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.actupgg.org
Notes: A diverse coalition of individuals dedicated to fighting
AIDS and its opportunistic diseases, and social injustice
surrounding AIDS. Open meetings are held at the ACT UP office
every Tuesday 7:30 pm at 592 B Castro Street.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; coalitions; direct action; diversity
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Name: Action Alliance for Children
Address: The Hunt House
1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oakland, CA 94612-1217
Voice: (510) 444-7136 [8/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.4children.org
Notes: A nonprofit information agency committed to educating and
empowering people who work with and for children. The organization
serves as a resource for policy makers, children's service
providers and advocates, and the media. Publishes Children's
Advocate, a bimonthly newsmagazine, for $18 per year, first year
$12, sample $3.
Keys: children; family; issues; newspapers; policy
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Name: Action Coalition for Global Change (ACGC)
Address: 55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 224 (between Market and Mission)
San Francisco, CA 94105
Voice: (415) 896-2242 (896-ACGC) [7/00]
Fax: (415) 567-9522
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://acgc.org/
Notes: Gives priority to advancing human rights and democracy,
protecting the environment, eliminating hunger and poverty
worldwide, developing greater economic equity, stopping violence
and international aggression, and banning weapons of mass
destruction. Helps ensure implementation of sustainable
development programs, and works toward a democratic world
organization.
Keys: coalitions; democracy; development; global issues; human
rights; hunger; militarism; poverty; sustainability; violence;
world government
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Name: Action for Animals
Address: POBox 20184
Oakland, CA 94620
Voice: (510) 652-5603 [8/99]
Fax: (510) 652-5603 (same as voice; call first)
Notes: Publishes a monthly calendar of events for Bay Area
animal rights and environmental activists for $20 per year ($35 for
organizations). Does public speaking in schools. Has a major
focus on live animals in food markets and animals in entertainment:
rodeos, circuses, zoos, and maritime parks.
Keys: animal liberation; calendars; ecology; parks
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Name: Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development (A SEED)
Web: http://www.antenna.nl/aseed/
Notes: A global and diverse action network focusing on a broad
range of issues. Plays a critical role in involving young people
in the struggles against ecological destruction and social
injustice. Formed in 1991 during the process leading up to UNCED
(UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil), A SEED has grown into a global network linking youth and
student groups active in the field of environment, development and
human rights. Based in Amsterdam.
Keys: development; ecology; human rights; networking; students;
youth
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Name: Action Resource Center
Web: http://www.arcweb.org/
Notes: Spearheads and supports campaigns that protect the
environment, human rights and social justice. Provides resources,
training and coordination for organizations and activists working
on these issues. ARC?s campaign work includes protection of
old-growth forests; corporate withdrawal from Burma; support for
Forest Action Network and the Nuxalk First Nation in the coastal
temperate rainforests of British Columbia; and a campaign opposing
oil development on the traditional lands of Colombia?s U?wa people.
A new campaign has been initiated to empower 'at risk' inner-city
kids.
Keys: Burma; children; classes / courses; Colombia; corporate
globalization; corporations; deforestation; development; human
rights; indigenous people; oil; rainforests; urban life
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Name: active-sydney
Web: http://www.sydney.active.org.au/
Notes: An on-line interactive forum for information and
inspiration about social change in Sydney and other cities in
Australia. The website has information on events, groups, how to
be active, and alternative news. A clever electronic calendar
forms the central piece of the site, allowing anyone to add
upcoming events.
Keys: Australia; calendars; directories; news on-line
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Name: Activism Links of the Open Directory Project
Web: http://dmoz.org/Society/Activism/
Notes: The Open Directory Project's (dmoz) directory of
activism-related web links.
Keys: directories
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Name: Activist San Diego
Web: http://www.activistsandiego.org/
Notes: A coalition of San Diego-area activist organizations
dedicated to networking for progressive social change by
encouraging civic involvement, providing resources to activists and
linking to activist organizations. The web site includes calendars
of events and an organizational directory.
Keys: calendars; coalitions; directories; networking
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Name: Adbusters
Web: http://www.adbusters.org/
Notes: A magazine that takes on media culture and consumer
culture, presenting parodies of the most insidious ad campaigns of
our times.
Keys: advertising; consumer lifestyle; culture jamming;
magazines; media; media criticism
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Name: Address Directory For The Politicians Of The World
Web: http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen/
Notes: Herein you will find the mailing addresses for every
nation's leaders and provincial governors (almost). Phone, fax,
email and website addresses are being added where available.
Keys: directories; government; letter-writing
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Name: Aegean Friends
Address: POBox 14022
San Francisco, CA 94114-0022 [10/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://members.aol.com/aegfriends/
Notes: A social-cultural group of Greeks, Turks, Cypriots, and
other peoples of good will, coming together to celebrate their rich
heritage, explore common roots, and promote peace in the Aegean
region. Share music, food, and conversation! Dance! Create art!
Discover the generosity of the heart. The Friends have potlucks
in private homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Future
events include a discussion group, concerts, public seminars, and
film programs.
Keys: art; community-building; dance; film / video; food;
Greece; music; peace; Turkey
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Name: Africa Online
Web: http://www.africaonline.com/
Notes: News and information on Africa from the the premier
provider of Internet communications services throughout Africa.
Keys: Africa; news on-line; research materials
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Name: Agape Foundation
Address: 1095 Market Street, Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 701-8707 [8/99]
Fax: (415) 701-8706
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A public foundation that raises and distributes funds to
groups working for noviolent social change. The Board of Trustees
makes grants ($500 to $1500 per grant) twice a year in April and in
October to organizations that integrate peace and social justice
issues, that are five years old or younger, and have budgets under
$100,000.
Keys: grants / financial aid; issues; justice; nonviolence;
peace
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Name: Agua Para la Vida
Address: 823 Cornell Avenue (near Solano)
Albany, CA 94706
Voice: (510) 528-8318 [4/99]
Fax: (510) 528-8454
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A volunteer group providing safe drinking water in small
rural communities in Nicaragua, and a school to teach campesinos
the principles of small-scale drinking water project design. The
Albany-Berkeley group supports the Nicaraguan team which includes a
village organizer, two hygiene and health workers, a watershed
conservation specialist, a field director, a classroom teacher (the
only non-Nicaraguan), and a few students / technicians
Keys: development; health; Nicaragua; rural life; self-help;
volunteer matching; water
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Name: AIDS Emergency Fund
Address: 1540 Market Street, Suite 320 (at Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 558-6999 (client services)
(415) 558-6985 (volunteering)
(415) 558-6980 (donations) [8/00]
Web: http://www.AIDSEmergencyFund.org/
Notes: A volunteer-run, community-funded agency that provides
emergency financial aid to low-income persons with AIDS or
disabling HIV. Open Monday through Friday, 10:00 to 12:30 and 1:30
to 4:00.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; community-building; finance; grants /
financial aid; low-income; volunteer matching
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Name: AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP)
Address: 582 Market Street, Suite 912
San Francisco, CA 94104
Voice: (415) 291-5454 (main office)
(510) 451-5353 (East Bay outreach attorney) [7/99]
Fax: (415) 291-5833
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.alrp.org/
Notes: Assists persons with AIDS and HIV infection with a wide
range of legal problems, from creditor problems or housing
difficulties to wills and powers of attorney. Recruits attorneys
and others to provide free and low-cost legal services. Provides
staff and volunteer training to HIV service providers. Advocates
for the rights of people with HIV. Supported by individual
donations and volunteers.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; classes / courses; housing; law; lawyers;
legal services; services; volunteer matching
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Name: AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County (ARIS)
Address: 380 North 1st Street, Suite 200 ((near Bassett Street, one block north of Julian Street))
San Jose, CA 95112-4050
Voice: (408) 293-2747 [1/01]
Fax: (408) 293-0341
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.aris.org/
Notes: The largest AIDS/HIV education and service agency in
Santa Clara County. Provides one-to-one companionship and
emotional support, practical support services, group support
services, housing, food and basic necessities, social and
recreational events and retreats, and prevention education
presentations.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; county government; education; food; housing;
life necessities; prevention; Santa Clara County; services
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Name: Air Quality Management District, Bay Area
Address: 939 Ellis Street (near Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94109-7714
Voice: (415) 771-6000 [2/00]
Web: http://www.baaqmd.gov
Notes: The regional, government agency that regulates sources of
air pollution within the nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties.
Keys: air; municipal government; pollution
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Name: AK Press and Distribution
Address: POBox 40682
San Francisco, CA 94140-0682
Voice: (415) 864-0892 [8/00]
Fax: (415) 864-0893
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.akpress.org
Notes: Sells books and magazines by mail on radical politics
from publishers including Freedom, South End Press, Creation,
Verso, Pluto, Loompanics, New Beacon, Polygon, Maisonneuve, City
Lights, and Working Press.
Keys: books; magazines; mail-order
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Name: Alameda County Community Food Bank
Address: 10901 Russet Street
Oakland, CA 94603
Voice: (510) 568-3663 [1/99]
Fax: (510) 568-3895
Notes: A central clearinghouse for donated food. Nonprofit
organizations that distribute free food to low-income people in
Alameda County are eligible for membership
Keys: community-building; county government; food; hunger;
low-income; material aid; networking
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Name: Alameda County Waste Management Authority
Address: 777 Davis Street, Suite 100
San Leandro, CA 94577
Voice: (510) 614-1699 [7/99]
Fax: (510) 614-1698
Email: acwma@stopwaste.org
Web: http://www.stopwaste.org/
Notes: Provides waste reduction and recycling information for
Alameda County, California. Offers classes in composting.
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); classes / courses;
composting; county government; recycling
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Name: Albion Monitor
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.monitor.net/monitor
Notes: A biweekly on-line news publication of interest to
progressives in Sonoma County and surrounding areas. Available for
free to people who use monitor.net as their internet access
provider, or otherwise for $9.95 per year on the web.
Keys: calendars; news on-line; Sonoma County
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Name: Alliance for a Paving Moratorium
Address: c/o Fossil Fuels Policy Action Institute
POBox 4347
Arcata, CA 95518
Voice: (707) 826-7775 [3/00]
Fax: (707) 822-7007
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.lesscars.org
Notes: A diverse and rapidly growing movement of grassroots
community groups, individuals and businesses with the common goal
of halting the tremendous environmental, social and economic damage
caused by endless road building. Publishes the Auto-Free Times and
is a project of Fossil Fuels Policy Action Institute.
Keys: community-building; energy; policy; sustainability;
transportation
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Name: Alliance for Bio-Integrity
Web: http://www.bio-integrity.org/
Notes: A nonprofit, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the
advancement of human and environmental health through sustainable
and safe technologies. To this end, it aims (a) to inform the
public about technologies and practices that negatively impact on
health and the environment and (b) to inspire broad-based,
responsible action that helps correct the problems and uphold the
integrity of the natural order. In approaching these issues, it
integrates the perspectives of both science and religion and
coordinates the participation of both communities.
Keys: biotechnology; health; religion; science; sustainability;
technology
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Name: Alliance for Golden Gate Park
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.goldengatepark.org/
Notes: A group of environmental, recreational and neighborhood
organizations concerned with the preservation and enhancement of
Golden Gate Park. The park was created to provide a sylvan,
pastoral respite from the pressures of urban life. Many City
residents, who often can?t afford to travel to remote natural areas
or private resorts, depend on Golden Gate Park for family
recreation. Excessive automobile traffic diminishes the experience
of visiting Golden Gate Park.
Keys: coalitions; ecology; family; neighborhoods; parks;
transportation; urban life
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Name: Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War (APTSJW)
Address: POBox 2066
Cupertino, CA 95015-2066
Voice: (415) 398-7758 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sjwar.org/
Notes: Addresses the grave concern that the Japanese government
and Japan?s prominent political and business leaders continue to
distort the history of its brutal aggression against China and her
people during the Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945), and their blunt
refusal to accept Japan?s war responsibilities.
Keys: China; Japan; militarism; Santa Clara County
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Name: Alonzo Printing Co., Inc.
Address: 3266 Investment Blvd
Hayward, CA 94545
Voice: (510) 293-0522
(800) 359-0522 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 293-3958
Notes: Environmental printing specializing in print
communication management. Electronic file through distribution
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); printers; recycling
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Name: Alternative Family Project
Voice: (415) 436-9000 [2/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.queer.org/afp
Notes: A multi-service community-based agency for families with
lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender members
Keys: counseling; family; services; sexual minorities
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Name: Alternative Radio
Web: http://www.freespeech.org/alternativeradio/
Notes: A weekly one-hour public affairs program that is offered
free to public radio stations and is sustained solely by
individuals who buy transcripts and tapes of programs. AR provides
information, analyses and views that are ignored or distorted in
most media.
Keys: analysis; free speech; radio; speakers
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Name: Alternatives Center, The
Address: 1740 Walnut Street #20
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 540-5387 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 540-5387 (same as voice, daytime only)
Notes: Consultation and publications for organizations and
businesses that operate democratically and cooperatively.
Keys: books; business; consultants; cooperatives
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Name: Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP)
Address: PO Box 3014
Berkeley, CA 94703-0014
Voice: (510) 653-2320 (East Bay)
(415) 668-3077 (San Francisco)
(707) 874-2638 (Sonoma County)
(408) 464-2614 (Santa Cruz) [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.avpusa.org
Notes: A multicultural organization of volunteers that offers
experiential workshops that empower individuals to liberate
themselves and others from the burden of violence. Works both in
prisons and with community groups, building on a spiritual base of
respect and caring. The 2-day workshops facilitated by volunteers
cost $35 and include role-playing and other exercises to enhance
self-esteem, increase communication, a promote a sense of
commonality.
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); classes / courses;
community-building; conflict resolution; Contra Costa County;
diversity; facilitation; incarceration; multiculturalism;
nonviolence; prisons; spirituality; violence; volunteer matching
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Name: AlterNet (Alternative News Network)
Web: http://www.alternet.org
Notes: Features stories from alternative newsweeklies, magazines
and web publications from across the country, invaluble resources
and national employment listings. A project of the Independent
Media Institute.
Keys: employment; magazines; news on-line
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Name: Amazigh Cultural Association in America (ACAA)
Web: http://www.tamazgha.org/englishversion.htm
Notes: A non-profit organization operated exclusively for
cultural, educational, and scientific purposes to contribute to
saving, promoting, and enriching the Amazigh (Berber) language and
culture. The practice of Amazigh language and culture has been
seriously diminished by long periods of non-recognition in North
African countries, officially identified as Arab and where Arabic
is the only recognized and official language, and by immigration.
Keys: Africa; cultural survival; immigrants; indigenous people
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Name: Amazon Watch
Web: http://www.amazonwatch.org/
Notes: Works with indigenous and environmental organizations in
the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous
peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development
--- oil & gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other
mega-projects.
Keys: corporations; development; indigenous people; oil; South
America; transportation
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Name: American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC)
Address: 1663 Mission Street, Suite 460 (near 13th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 621-2488 (complaints hotline, 10 to 3 M-F) [7/00]
Fax: (415) 255-1478
Web: http://www.aclunc.org
Notes: Provides legal assistance to protect civil liberties and
constitutional rights. Provides impact litigation, counseling and
legal referral, assistance to attorneys and advocates for
constitutional rights, lobbying, and community organizing and
workshops.
Keys: civil liberties; counseling; email list servers; lawyers;
legal services; libraries; litigation; lobbying; privacy
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Name: American Community Gardening Association (ACGA)
Web: http://www.communitygarden.org/index.html
Notes: A national nonprofit membership organization of
professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in
urban and rural communities.
Keys: community-building; gardening; professionals
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Name: American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
Web: http://www.adapt.org/
Notes: We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in
the community with real supports instead of being locked away in
nursing homes and other institutions.
Keys: autonomy; community-building; disabilities
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Name: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Address: 65 Ninth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-1401
Voice: (415) 565-0201 [8/99]
Fax: (415) 565-0204
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.afsc.org/
Notes: An international Quaker-based organization promoting
peace and justice. This is the Pacific Mountain Regional Office,
whose programs address criminal justice alternatives, youth and
militarism, Middle East peace, American Indian concerns, farm labor
rights, homeless organizing and rural economic alternatives.
Keys: agriculture; Asian Americans; economic justice;
homelessness; immigrants; material aid; Middle East; militarism;
Pacific Islands; police accountability; volunteer matching; youth
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Name: American Friends Service Committee, East Bay Program (AFSC)
Address: 1515 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 238-8080 [2/00]
Fax: (510) 238-8088
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.afsc.org/
Keys: agriculture; draft / registration; homelessness;
immigrants; Middle East; militarism; youth
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Name: American Gulf War Veterans Association (AGWVA)
Web: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/
Notes: Goal is to obtain treatment for those service members and
their families who experience symptoms collectively known as the
'Gulf War Illness'. As this investigation into causation has now
progressed into the arena of possible exposure to chemical and/or
biological agents, radiation poisoning due to the use of depleted
uranium and most disturbingly, the use of our fighting men and
women as 'Guinea Pigs' in medical experimentation, the AGWVA has
now added a second goal: To obtain justice and compensation for
all those affected by these illnesses.
Keys: government; health; Iraq; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons
/ testing; veterans
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Name: American Hiking Society
Web: http://www.americanhiking.org/
Notes: The only national organization dedicated to serving
hikers and protecting the nation's hiking trails. From the halls
of Congress to the backcountry, AHS speaks up for America's hikers
and the trails they love.
Keys: conservation; land use; lobbying; outdoor activity
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Name: American Humanist Association
Web: http://www.humanist.net/
Notes: Represents both secular and religious naturalistic
humanism, and cooperates with other national and international
humanist organizations to advance the ideals of humanism. Humanism
is a rational philosophy informed by science, inspired by art, and
motivated by compassion. Affirming the dignity of each human being,
it supports the maximization of individual liberty and opportunity
consonant with social and planetary responsibility. Free of
supernaturalism, it recognizes human beings as a part of nature and
holds that values --- be they religious, ethical, social, or
political--have their source in human experience and culture.
Keys: art; humanism; religion; science
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Name: American Jewish Congress
Address: 703 Market Street, Suite 258
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 974-1287 [10/99]
Fax: (415) 974-1320
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ajcongress.org
Notes: Founded in 1918, the American Jewish Congress seeks to
protect democracy for all Americans, thereby ensuring religious and
civil liberties for individual Jewish Americans. The Northern
Pacific Region focuses its energies in four areas: civil rights,
religious liberty; violence prevention and poverty amelioration.
Keys: civil liberties; civil rights; Jewish Americans; poverty;
violence
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Name: American Lands Alliance
Web: http://www.americanlands.org/
Notes: America's wildlife and wildlands continue to be
threatened by logging, roadbuilding, grazing and mining. This
broad coalition of activists and organizations is dedicated to
protecting our forest heritage and restoring ecological integrity
to the landscape.
Keys: coalitions; conservation; deforestation; wilderness
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Name: American Library Association
Web: http://www.ala.org
Notes: The voice of America's libraries. Provides leadership
for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and
information services and the profession of librarianship in order
to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.
Tracks legislation that restricts public access to information.
Covers censorship and free speech topics in a newsletter.
Keys: censorship; free speech; freedom of information;
legislation; libraries
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Name: American Newspeak
Web: http://www.scn.org/news/newspeak/
Notes: A bi-weekly satirical e-zine celebrating cutting edge
advances in the Doublethink of the 90's, ever so carefully
scavenged from the back pages of our finer newspapers.
Keys: humor; magazines; media criticism; newspapers; propaganda
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Name: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Address: 522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 861-7444 [4/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.adc.org/
Notes: A civil rights organization committed to defending the
rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural
heritage.
Keys: Arab Americans; civil rights; discrimination
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Name: Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR)
Address: 2530 San Pablo, Suite J
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 841-3032 [8/00]
Fax: (510) 841-3060
Email: anr@no-smoke.org
Web: http://www.no-smoke.org
Notes: The only national lobbying organization dedicated to
nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of
government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and youth
from tobacco addiction. ANR pursues an action-oriented program of
policy and legislation.
Keys: air; health; legislation; lobbying; policy; tobacco; youth
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Name: Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Web: http://www.au.org
Notes: The only national organization that devotes 100% of its
time and resources to church-state separation. Through education
and advocacy, Americans United works to preserve religious liberty
and freedom of conscience as guaranteed by our Constitution.
Keys: civil liberties; free speech; religious right; separation
of church and state
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Name: Amnesty International (AI)
Address: 500 Sansome Street, Suite 615 (at Clay)
San Francisco, CA 94111
Voice: (415) 291-9233 (Western Region Office)
(415) 291-0601 (National Refugee Office) [2/99]
Fax: (415) 291-8722
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.amnesty.org/
Notes: An independent world-wide movement working impartially
for the release of all prisoners of conscience, for fair and prompt
trials for political prisoners, and for an end to torture and
executions
Keys: death penalty; human rights; political prisoners; torture
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Name: Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
Address: 127 Fourth Street
Petaluma, CA 94952-3005
Voice: (707) 769-7771 [8/00]
Fax: (707) 769-0785
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.aldf.org
Notes: The country's leading animal rights law organization
working nationally to defend animals from abuse and exploitation.
ALDF's network of over 750 attorneys is dedicated to protecting and
promoting animal rights. Over the past 20 years, ALDF has won
precedent-setting victories for animals on every front -- in
research laboratories, on farms, in the wild and for companion
animals.
Keys: animal liberation; lawyers; legal defense; litigation;
Marin County
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Name: Animal Rights Connection (ARC)
Address: POBox 460882
San Francisco, CA 94146-0882
Voice: (415) 751-3756 [10/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A local grassroots organization doing informational
leafletting and public education about animal abuse in all its
forms, including fur, rodeos, meat, zoos, and vivisection. Also
supports peace, environmental, and human rights causes as connected
issues, and advocates nonviolence.
Keys: animal liberation; direct action; leafleting; nonviolence
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Name: Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition - San Francisco (CAFT-SF)
Address: POBox 1521
Colma, CA 94014
Voice: (415) 251-1393 [11/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.hooked.net/~vegan
Notes: A coalition of grassroots activists working for the
liberation of all animals. The coalition attempts to move the
agenda for animals forward through leafleting, pickets, protests,
civil disobedience, and nonviolent direct action. Some of ARDAC's
most recent campaigns focus on the fur industry, vivisection,
McDonald's, and animal slaughterhouses. ARDAC recognizes the
relationship between all forms of oppression and views the struggle
for animal rights as just part of the larger political struggle to
end all forms of oppression.
Keys: animal liberation; civil disobedience; coalitions; direct
action; leafleting
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Name: Annual Reports Library
Address: POBox 2006
San Francisco, CA 94126
Voice: (415) 956-8665 [8/00]
Fax: (415) 393-8006
Web: http://www.zpub.com/sf/arl
Notes: Has built a collection of over 1.5 million original
reports (and proxies) from corporations, foundations, banks, mutual
funds and public institutions.
Keys: banks; corporations; grants / financial aid; investment;
libraries; research materials
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Name: Antenna Theater
Address: POBox 939
Sausalito, CA 94966-0939
Voice: (415) 332-8867 (administration)
(415) 332-9454 (box office) [8/00]
Fax: (415) 332-8648
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.antenna-theater.org
Notes: An experimental theater company that uses multimedia
technology and audience interaction. The country's largest
producer of interpretive audio for museums and natural parks.
Office Location / Deliveries: Building 1057, Fort Cronkhite,
Sausalito, CA 94965.
Keys: Marin County; theatre
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Name: Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Web: http://www.quebec2001.net/enintro.html
Notes: Basic information about organizing activites against the
upcoming Summit of the Americas gathering in Quebec City (April
2001). The Summit will bring together all the heads of state of
North, South and Central America and the Caribbean (except Cuba),
as well as an entourage of big business leaders, technocrats and
corporate media. Besides the usual talk about security and
terrorism, and empty rhetoric about democracy and human rights, the
main goal of the Summit will be to discuss and implement the Free
Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which is the extension of NAFTA
to the entire hemisphere by no later than 2005. The Summit will be
accompanied by the largest security and police operation in
Canadian history.
Keys: Canada; capitalism; Caribbean; Central America; corporate
globalization; demonstrations; direct action; human rights; NAFTA /
GATT; police accountability; trade; travel
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Name: Anti-Dairy Coalition
Web: http://www.antidairycoalition.com/ http://www.notmilk.com/
Notes: A public information association that has been formed to
let America know that cow's milk is not nature's perfect food for
people.
Keys: coalitions; food; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Anti-RacismNet
Web: http://www.anti-racism.net/
Notes: One of the computer networks of the Institute for Global
Communications. Mission is to provide information and technical
assistance while serving as an Internet portal on race and
diversity for anti-racism advocates.
Keys: diversity; racism; technical assistance
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Name: Anti-Racist Action Network (ARANET)
Web: http://www.aranet.org/
Notes: A coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to
halting the rise of the racist right.
Keys: coalitions; racism; right-wingers
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Name: antiwar.com
Web: http://www.antiwar.com/
Notes: Anti-war news, viewpoints, and activities. Sponsored by
the Committee Against U.S. Intervention.
Keys: Balkans; Iraq; militarism; news on-line
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Name: Applied Research Center (ARC)
Address: 3781 Broadway (McArthur)
Oakland, CA 94611
Voice: (510) 653-3415 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 653-3427
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.arc.org
Notes: A National public policy, educational, and research
institute emphasizing issues of race and social change. ARC
co-publishes ColorLines magazine with the Center for Third World
Organizing.
Keys: analysis; education; magazines; policy; racism; research
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Name: Arab Net
Web: http://www.arab.net/welcome.html
Notes: Aim is to provide the most comprehensive online resource
on the Arab world, primarily dealing with countries in the Middle
East and North Africa.
Keys: Africa; Arab Americans; Middle East; news on-line;
research materials
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Name: Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Address: POBox 9126
Berkeley, CA 94709-0126
Voice: (510) 273-2428 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 841-9060
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/
Notes: Educates design professionals and the public about
critical social and environmental issues. Though established with
a disarmament focus, ADPSR has expanded its concerns to include the
protection of the natural and built environment, and the promotion
of ecologically and socially responsible development.
Keys: development; ecology; militarism; professionals
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Name: Art and Education Media
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ClaireBurch.com/
Notes: A public educational non-profit making documentaries
about street survivors since 1979. The web site features the
Mysterious World Of Claire Burch, plus the James Baldwin Memorial
Site and Bay Area Resources for Street Survivors. Includes
catalogs of Ms. Burch's videos and books, an art gallery, and
homeless resources.
Keys: art; books; film / video; homelessness; products; services
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Name: Art Institute, San Francisco
Address: 800 Chestnut Street (at Jones)
San Francisco, CA 94133
Voice: (415) 771-7020
(415) 749-4588 (Communications Office) [8/99]
Fax: (415) 749-1951
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfai.edu/
Notes: The nation's only accredited college devoted solely to
the fine arts, offerring BFA and MFA programs in digital media,
filmaking, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, and
sculpture. Sponsors a range of public programs, including
exhibitions, lectures, symposia, and continuing education.
Keys: art; classes / courses
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Name: Artist Resource
Web: http://www.artistresource.org
Notes: A unique art organization that exists only online.
Instead of marketing art on the Web to make a profit, Artist
Resource offers career development, opportunities, tools and
techniques to artists and writers. Mission is to educate, connect,
nurture and promote Bay Area artists and writers.
Keys: art; directories; writers
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Name: Artists Against Racism
Web: http://www.ArtistsAgainstRacism.com/
Notes: A variety of well-known entertainers helping to teach
youth that regardless of one's religion, ethnicity, nationality or
skin colour, we are all ONE PEOPLE.
Keys: art; music; racism; youth
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Name: Artists' Television Access (ATA)
Address: 992 Valencia Street (near 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 824-3890 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 824-0526
Email: ata@atasite.org
Web: http://www.atasite.org
Notes: A nonprofit, artist-managed media arts center.
Recognizes the increasingly influential role of media in
contemporary society, and the need to broaden involvement with,
understanding of, and dialogue about film, video, and multi-media
as tools of communication and artistic expression
Keys: art; classes / courses; computers; film / video;
Internet; spaces for events; television
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Name: As You Sow
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.asyousow.org
Notes: Mission is to hold corporations accountable for complying
with consumer, workplace and environmental laws. Two current
programs address enforcement of the (California) Proposition 65
toxics labeling law and shareholder advocacy.
Keys: consumer protection; corporations; law; Proposition 65
(toxics labeling); shareholder advocacy; toxics
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Name: Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center (Ashkenaz)
Address: 1317 San Pablo Avenue (near Gilman)
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 525-5054 [7/00]
Fax: none
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ashkenaz.com/
Notes: A nonprofit multicultural music and dance studio and
nightclub.
Keys: benefits; multiculturalism; music; spaces for events
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Name: Asian AIDS Action
Address: 4546 El Camino Real, Suite B10-129
Los Altos, CA 94022
Voice: (650) 758-1322 [12/00]
Fax: (650) 756-7073
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Focuses on various aspects of the HIV AIDS pandemic
affecting the Asian American community. Does outreach to both the
queer and heterosexual AA communities, lobbies local, state and
federal organizations, engages major pharmaceutical companies in
expanding the scope of their clinical trials of AIDS drugs to the
AA community, works with AIDS service organizations across Asia,
and provides services in the Silicon Valley area. Services include
preventative education, support, outreach, and advocacy. All
services can be available in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese,
Tagalog, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, and Tamil. A program of
the Asian American Public Policy Institute.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; Asia; Asian Americans; drugs; lobbying;
policy; services; sexual minorities
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Name: Asian American Public Policy Institute (AAPPI)
Address: 4546 El Camino Real, Suite B10-129
Los Altos, CA 94022
Voice: (650) 758-1322 [12/00]
Fax: (650) 756-7073
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Notes: Works on a vast spectrum of issues, including public
policy as it impacts the Asian American communities across the US;
US foreign policy towards Asia; discrimination issues at the
workplace, in education and elsewhere; domestic violence;
identifying and assisting Asian American candidates for public
office; and Asian youth Gangs. One program is Asian AIDS Action.
Keys: Asia; Asian Americans; discrimination; domestic violence;
elections; foreign policy; policy; youth
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Name: Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Address: 2400 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 300
San Jose, CA 95128
Voice: (408) 975-2730 [12/00]
Fax: (408) 975-2745
Web: http://www.geocities.com/coin8002/aaci/
Notes: Committed to uniting diverse segments of the Asian
American community, promoting social justice through education and
participation in the democratic process, providing a community
voice for issues of concern to Asian Americans, providing effective
culturally and linguistically appropriate community services.
Keys: Asian Americans; community-building; Santa Clara County;
services
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Name: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)
Address: 310 Eighth Street #301 (near Harrison)
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 268-0192 [10/00]
Fax: (510) 268-0194
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Works primarily with low-income Asian immigrant women
employed as seamstresses, hotel room cleaners, nursing home aides,
and electronics assemblers in the Bay Area and Santa Clara county.
Seeks to empower women by helping them to exercise their rights and
develop the skills necessary to advocate for justice and dignity in
their lives and workplaces.
Keys: Asian Americans; hotels; immigrants; labor; textiles;
women
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Name: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, South Bay (AIWA)
Address: 1010 Ruff Drive #21
San Jose, CA 95110
Voice: (408) 289-8983 [10/00]
Fax: (408) 289-8883
Email: [email protected]
Keys: Asian Americans; computers; environmental justice;
immigrants; labor; Santa Clara County; women
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Name: Asian Law Caucus
Address: 720 Market Street, Suite 500 (between 3rd and 4th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 391-1655 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 391-0366
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.asianlawcaucus.org
Notes: The nation's oldest legal and civil rights organization
serving the low-income Asian Pacific American communities. Founded
in 1972, the Caucus has always strived to defend and empower the
Asian Pacific American community through a three-pronged strategy
of (1) community education and organizing, (2) provision of direct
legal services, and (3) strategic impact litigation.
Keys: Asian Americans; civil rights; immigrants; legal
services; low-income; Pacific Islands; refugees; seniors
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Name: Asian Neighborhood Design
Address: 1182 Market Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 593-0423 [3/00]
Fax: (415) 593-0424
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.andnet.org
Notes: Provides multicultural, low-income communities with
housing and employment services through housing development,
architecture, family support, job training, and furniture
manufacturing.
Keys: Asian Americans; employment; housing; low-income;
multiculturalism
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Name: Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment (API ForCE)
Address: 522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-1115
Voice: (415) 704-3476 [8/00]
Fax: (415) 704-3476
Email: info@apiforce.org
Web: http://www.apiforce.org
Notes: A community-based, volunteer Bay Area-wide political
organization dedicated to organizing the community to attain social
justice. Opposes sexism, homophobia, racism, classism, xenophobia,
and oppression in all its forms. Currently organizing around
economic justice in Oakland.
Keys: Asian Americans; economic justice; housing; immigrants;
legislation; living wage; Pacific Islands; welfare
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Name: Asian Women's Shelter
Address: 3543 18th Street, Box 19
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 751-7110 (Office)
(415) 751-0880 (Crisis) [9/99]
Fax: (415) 751-0806
Notes: A shelter program for abused Asian women and their
children. Provides safety, food, shelter, advocacy, and other
resources to assist women in rebuilding violence-free lives.
Services are culturally appropriate and language accessible. Has
an on-call pool of multilingual advocates to respond to the wide
range of Asian languages spoken in the Bay Area
Keys: Asian Americans; domestic violence; housing; services;
women
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Name: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Address: 3205 Farnam Avenue
Oakland, CA 94601
Voice: (510) 436-5690 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 436-6395
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.acorn.org/
Notes: Committed to organizing and winning power for low and
moderate-income people. The largest low and moderate-income
membership organization in the country.
Keys: coalitions; low-income
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Name: Association of Micro-Power Broadcasters
Address: PMB #22
2018 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 848-1455 [1/00]
Email: [email protected]
Keys: microbroadcasting
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Name: Association of World Citizens
Address: 55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 224 (between Market and Mission)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3421
Voice: (415) 541-9610 [8/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.worldcitizens.org/
Notes: Join with other registered world citizens in over 100
countries to help build a world community of lasting peace,
justice, and a safe environment. The 30-minute video 'Countdown to
2000 --- and Which New World Order?' is available, plus audio
cassettes, books, and brochures. Office is staffed part-time only.
Keys: audio recordings; books; global community
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Name: Atlantic Monthly
Web: http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/
Notes: A Magazine Devoted to Politics, Society, the Arts, and
Culture since 1857
Keys: magazines
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Name: ATTAC (Associations for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens)
Notes: An international effort to tax speculative currency
transactions in order to reduce the volatility of the currency
market, as proposed by Yale economist James Tobin.
Keys: finance; taxes
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Name: Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC)
Address: 2961 Ashby Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 595-5550 [11/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.noharmm.org/ARC.htm
Notes: An organization of attorneys and their supporters
advocating for the legal rights of children, specifically for
genital integrity and a halt to all forms of male and female
circumcision.
Keys: children; circumcision; human rights; law; lawyers
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Name: Automobile Moratorium
Address: POBox 9409
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 526-6072 [3/99]
Notes: A program to develop a car-free day in the city of
Berkeley and other communities, looking toward a national and
international car-free day in honor of environmental values
Keys: ecology; transportation
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Name: BADvertising Institute
Web: http://www.badvertising.org
Notes: Offers assistance to those who seek to diminish the
appalling effects of cigarette advertising on unsuspecting
children. Doctors tobacco advertisements to make them more honest
and less appealing.
Keys: advertising; children; culture jamming; tobacco; youth
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Name: Baiki: the North American Sami Journal (The Saami Baiki Foundation)
Address: 1714 Franklin Street, #100-311 (between 17th and 19th)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-0930 [1/00]
Fax: (510) 452-0405
Email: saamibaiki@sinewave.com
Notes: Promotes an awareness of the Indigenous Sami / Saami
('Lapp') culture of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola
Peninsula though educational exhibits and programs and genealogy
research. Areas of specialty are the arts, joik music, earth-based
spirituality and pan-Indigenous connections.
Keys: Europe; genocide; immigrants; indigenous people
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Name: Bank Information Center
Web: http://www.bicusa.org/
Notes: An independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization
that provides information and strategic support to NGOs and social
movements throughout the world on the projects, policies and
practices of the World Bank and other Multilateral Development
Banks (MDBs). BIC advocates for greater transparency,
accountability and citizen participation at the MDBs.
Keys: banks; policy; research materials; World Bank / IMF
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Name: Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Web: http://www.baobabcomputing.com/corporatepower/
Notes: A collection of web resources that explore, expose, and
critique the domination of global business, politics, and culture
by large corporations. There are multitudes of essays and even
full online books devoted to the destructive effects of
multi-national corporations and development banks, as well as
information about globalization, irresponsible companies, business
ethics, and the efforts of grass-roots organizations fighting for a
more humane, sustainable economy.
Keys: banks; books; corporations; development; corporate
globalization; research materials; sustainability
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Name: BARE-2-BREAKERS
Web: http://www.pacificnet.net/wanr/Bare2Breakers.html
Notes: An 'unofficial', uncostumed subgroup of the textiled Bay
to Breakers footrace. For 2000, the event is supported by the
independent BARE-2-BREAKERS' Boosters which has been established to
provide public service information about the event. The
BARE-2-BREAKERS run is a spontaneous event by individuals; the
BARE-2-BREAKERS' Boosters and the supportive Western Association
for Nude Recreation are solely information guides.
Keys: nudism; outdoor activity; sports
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Name: Basmati Action Group (BAG)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.eciad.bc.ca/~lolin/basmati/
Notes: Sponsoring a North American boycott of rice products from
Rice Tec, an American based transnational corporation, to oppose a
patent awarded the corporation on certain strains of Basmati rice
that are simple cross breeds of traditional Basmati strains that
were developed over a long period by farmers in the Punjab region
of India and Pakistan. Raises awarenes about bio-piracy, life
patents, and colonialism, emphasizing the feminist, classist, and
North - South nature of bio-piracy
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; boycotts; colonialism;
corporate globalization; corporations; development; feminism;
India; intellectual property
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Name: Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation (BAA-PCCF)
Address: 3921 East Bayshore Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4303
Voice: (650) 962-9876 [10/00]
Fax: (650) 962-8234
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.baaction.org http://www.pccf.org http://www.EcoCalendar.org/
Notes: A citizen education organization working in the SF Bay
Area to preserve and restore the environment. Dedicated to the
creation of an ecologically sound society grounded in justice,
equity and peace. Working on forest protection, stopping nuclear
testing, high school organizing, Native American issues, and
alternative energy.
Keys: calendars; deforestation; directories; energy; Native
Americans; nuclear weapons / testing; Santa Clara County; students
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Name: Bay Area Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu
Address: POBox 2853
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (510) 548-3048 [4/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu
Notes: Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician, is
serving an 18-year sentence in an Israeli prison for blowing the
whistle on his government's secret nuclear weapons program.
Captured by Israeli agents on September 30, 1986, he spent more
than 11 years in solitary confinement.
Keys: Israel; nuclear weapons / testing; political prisoners
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Name: Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Forest (BACH)
Address: 2530 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 835-6303 [11/99]
Fax: (510) 548-2240
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.HeadwatersForest.org
Keys: deforestation; direct action; endangered species / habitat
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Name: Bay Area Coalition for Urban Agriculture (BACUA)
Voice: (510) 496-6076 [8/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bacua.org/
Notes: A coalition of more than 30 non-profits and community
organizations in the Bay Area, BACUA proposes that the University
of California enter into a university / community partnership in
order to create the world's first university center on sustainable
urban agriculture and food systems. The purposes of the Center
would be to promote research, education, extension and outreach on
the various social, environmental, economic and ecological
dimensions of urban farming and sustainable food systems. The
expansion of urban agriculture and alternative food systems is a
worldwide phenomenon that has caught the attention of policy
makers, activists and funders as a new response to issues of food
security, economic development, poverty alleviation, urban blight,
waste recycling and environmental preservation.
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; coalitions;
community-building; food security; sustainability; urban life
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Name: Bay Area Committee on Safety and Health (BACOSH)
Address: c/o San Francisco Labor Council
1188 Franklin Street, Suite 203
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (510) 465-7728 (Fran) [3/00]
Fax: (510) 835-4913
Email: worksafe@worksafe.org
Web: http://www.worksafe.org
Notes: A California coalition for worker occupational safety and
health protection. Publishes the newsletter Worksafe!
Keys: coalitions; health; labor; newsletters
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Name: Bay Area Naturally
Address: 7282 Sir Francis Drake Blvd
POBox 267
Lagunitas, CA 94938
Voice: (800) 486-4794 [5/00]
Fax: (800) 211-6746
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A printed directory of community resources for natural
living, published by City Spirit Publications and distributed in
businesses for free. Includes holistic health professionals, green
products and services, schools and educational centers, a natural
food restaurant guide, and a calendar of events.
Keys: business; calendars; directories; health; Marin County;
products; professionals; services
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Name: Bay Area Organic Xpress (The BOX)
Address: POBox 460411
San Francisco, CA 94146-0411
Voice: (415) 695-9688 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 642-9685
Notes: Delivers boxes containing a variety of organically-grown
produce to your home or office for $25 or $35 each every one or two
weeks. Now serving the entire Bay Area.
Keys: food; organic agriculture; products; sustainability
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Name: Bay Area Reporter (BAR)
Address: 395 Ninth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-5019
(415) 861-7230 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ebar.com
Notes: A weekly newspaper of lesbian and gay news and activism,
distributed free every Thursday.
Keys: newspapers; sexual minorities
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Name: Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL)
Voice: (510) 595-1803 [1/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ecologycenter.org
Notes: Holds seed-saving workshops and offers a public library
(at the Ecology Center) of open-pollinated seeds, both cultivated
and wild.
Keys: biodiversity; classes / courses; libraries; seeds
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Name: Bay Area Social Investment Forum (BASIF)
Address: 1442-A Walnut Street #308
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 549-8780 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 649-1622
Email: [email protected]
Notes: The local chapter of a national trade association of
organizations that do socially responsible investment.
Keys: investment
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Name: Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
Address: 414 13th Street, 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 740-3150 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 740-3131
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.transcoalition.org/
Notes: A coalition of 60 organizations encouraging public
agencies, private developers, and groups of concerned citizens to
promote policies and take actions leading to a Bay Area with
intelligent, sustainable land use patterns and an efficient and
equitable transporatation system.
Keys: coalitions; development; land use; policy;
sustainability; transportation
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Name: Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
Address: 2727 Mariposa Street, Second Floor (at Bryant)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 861-3282 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 861-4316
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bavc.org
Notes: The nation's largest media arts center dedicated to
promoting the use of video and new technologies in the nonprofit
sector. Encourages hands-on technical learning on state-of-the-art
equipment and acts as a shared resource of equipment and
information for community-based organizations and artists.
Keys: art; coalitions; film / video; technical assistance
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Name: Bay Guardian, San Francisco
Address: 520 Hampshire
San Francisco, CA 94110-1417
Voice: (415) 255-3100 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 255-8762
Web: http://www.sfbg.com
Notes: An independent, progressive, locally owned and edited
weekly newspaper and entertainment guide, distributed free on the
street. Political events can be faxed to (415) 255-8762 or emailed
to [email protected] at least one week in advance.
Keys: calendars; directories; newspapers
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Name: Bay Institute, The
Address: 55 Shaver Street, Suite 330
San Rafael, CA 94901
Voice: (415) 721-7680 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 721-7497
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bay.org
Notes: Dedicated to the protection and restoration of the
ecosystems of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento - San Joaquin
Delta, and the rivers, streams, and watersheds tributary to the
estuary. Goals are to protect and restore fish and wildlife,
increase freshwater flows, reform water allocation policy, and
protect and improve water quality.
Keys: bay / delta environment; endangered species / habitat;
Marin County; water
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Name: Bay Leaf CoHousing Group
Address: POBox 40684
San Francisco, CA 94140-0684
Voice: (415) 487-6335 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: No longer holds regular meetings, but still maintains a
contact list of people interested in vegan-common-meal cohousing in
the Bay Area, perhaps by buying an apartment building together
Keys: cohousing; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Bay Times, San Francisco
Address: 3410 19th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-1727
Voice: (415) 626-0260 [7/00]
Fax: (415) 626-0987
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender newspaper &
calendar of events for the Bay Area. Offers free publication of
events. Published every two weeks; the deadline is the Friday
before each issue.
Keys: calendars; directories; newspapers; sexual minorities
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Name: bay_area_activist
Web: http://www.egroups.com/community/bay_area_activist
Notes: A progressive and leftist mailing list especially for
activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, but which may be of
interest to anyone who is concerned about human rights, the
environment, etc.
Keys: email mailing lists; news on-line
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Name: berberworld.com
Web: http://www.mondeberbere.com/
Notes: A web site covering the Berber (Amazigh) people and
culture. Berbers are the indigenous people of Northern Africa
(Tamazgha), and continue to comprise a substantial portion of the
population of Morocco and Algeria and elsewhere, yet their culture
and language (Tamazight) are being actively repressed.
Keys: Africa; cultural survival; indigenous people
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Name: Berkeley Citizens Action (BCA)
Address: POBox 9932
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 549-0816 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.jps.net/bca
Notes: Organizes for progressive politics locally and supports
peace and social justice movements around the world. Seeks out,
endorses and works to elect the most progressive candidates in
local, state and national elections; fights for progressive issues
and causes; maintains an open nomination and endorsement process;
advises candidates elected with their endorsement, and holds them
accountable in office.
Keys: community-building; elections; municipal government;
political parties
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Name: Berkeley Dispute Resolution Center
Address: 1769 Alcatraz Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94703
Voice: (510) 428-1811 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 428-1943
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.org/bdrs/
Notes: Almost 80% of the people and organizations who visit BDRS
resolve disputes successfully without consulting an attorney.
Keys: mediation
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Name: Berkeley Free Clinic
Address: 2339 Durant Avenue (near Dana)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 548-2570
(800) 6-CLINIC [2/01]
Fax: (510) 548-1730
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org
Notes: Offers peer counseling, information referral, primary
care medical and emergency dental service. Has an HIV / STD clinic
on Sunday nights. Services are free, but donations are accepted.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; counseling; health
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Name: Berkeley Information Network (BIN)
Address: c/o Berkeley Public Library
2090 Kittredge Street (at Shattuck)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 540-0666 (BIN line)
(510) 649-3947 (office voice mail)
(510) 845-0583 (computer modem access, no parity, 8 data
bits, full duplex) [7/99]
Fax: (510) 845-7598
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.infopeople.org/bpl/
Notes: A free community information and referral service at the
Berkeley Public Library connecting people with local information
sources including over 3000 agencies, organizations, and clubs.
Access is available by telephone or computer, or you can visit the
public files in all 5 Berkeley public libraries. Telephone hours
are Mon-Thu 10 to 9, Fri-Sat 10 to 6, and Sun 1 to 5. Also
available via telnet at library.ci.berkeley.ca.us
Keys: community-building; libraries; networking
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Name: Berkeley Liberation Radio
Address: POBox 5044
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 644-4237 [10/00]
Notes: The microwatt revolution returns with a new voice for the
community. Broadcasting at 104.1 FM, formerly used by Free Radio
Berkeley.
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Name: Berkeley Neighborhood Computers
Address: POBox 2435
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 845-5757 [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Recycles, repairs, and redistributes computers to
low-income families in West Berkeley. Works with families which
are educationally and technologically under-served and would not
otherwise have access to a home computer. Most of the families
served are either African American or Latino. Also provides
technical support, mentoring with individual families, and skills
in computer diagnosis and repair.
Keys: computers; family; Latinas / Latinos; low-income;
mentoring
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Name: Berkeley Partners for Parks (BFPF)
Address: POBox 13673
Berkeley, CA 94712
Voice: (510) 649-9874 (Zaza Swanson)
(510) 525-3005 (Gail Kelerman)
(510) 849-8405 (John Caner) [1/00]
Web: http://www.bpfp.org
Notes: Devoted to supporting parks and open spaces in Berkeley
through encouraging citizen involvement.
Keys: land use; parks
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Name: Berkeley Public Library
Web: http://www.infopeople.org/bpl
Keys: libraries
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Name: Berkeley Region Exchange And Development (BREAD)
Address: POBox 3973
Berkeley, CA 94703
Voice: (510) 704-5247 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.breadhours.org
Notes: Launching the newest of some 30 alternative currencies
that exist in the US today. Designed to keep local wealth
circulating in the community, augment incomes by expanding trade
opportunities, and raise awareness of the development power of
local spending. Each person's labor will be valued equally at $12
per hour.
Keys: autonomy; community-building; do-it-yourself; finance;
local currencies; trade
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Name: Berkeley Tenant Action Project (TAP)
Address: 2022 Blake Street, Room E (between Shattuck and Milvia)
Berkeley, CA 94704-2604
Voice: (510) 843-6601 [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A paralegal group that does tenant counseling and
emergency work. Hours are Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11 am
to 3 pm, and Tuesday at 7:30 pm for emergencies and those unable to
come during the day.
Keys: counseling; housing; legal services; tenant rights
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Name: Berkeley TRiP Commute Store
Address: 2033 Center Street (just below Shattuck)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 644-7665 (644-POOL) [2/99]
Fax: (510) 644-9938
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://public-safety.berkeley.edu/trip/index.html
Notes: Provides information about transportation alternatives,
including transit passes and route maps, resources and maps for
bicycle commuting, carpooling information, etc.
Keys: cycling; transportation
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Name: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Address: 450 Sansome Street, Suite 1200
San Francisco, CA 94111-3320
Voice: (415) 288-0260 [6/99]
Fax: (415) 362-2512
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bkconnection.com
Notes: Publishes books, periodicals and other publications on
leading edge business practices.
Keys: books; business; magazines
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Name: Between The Lines
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wpkn.org/betweenthelines/
Notes: A weekly radio newsmagazine that offers timely, in-depth
interviews with progressive activists engaged in the fight for a
more just world. This four-time Associated Press award-winning
program covers political and economic topics, and provides
listeners with the information they need to know about today's
growing social justice movement.
Keys: economics; news; radio
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Name: BGH Bulletin
Web: http://www.foxbghsuit.com/
Notes: Here you will find behind-the-scenes details about how a
large share of America?s milk supply has quietly become adulterated
with the effects of a synthetic hormone secretly injected into
cows, and how pressure from the hormone maker Monsanto led Fox TV
to fire two of its award-winning reporters and sweep under the rug
much of what they discovered but were never allowed to broadcast.
Keys: biotechnology; censorship; corporations; food; media
criticism
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Name: Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition
Address: POBox 13357
Berkeley, CA 94712-4357
Voice: (510) 549-7433 (549-RIDE) [6/00]
Fax: (510) 540-1057
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bfbc.org/
Notes: Brings together cyclists, environmental groups,
merchants, and others concerned about the health and well being of
Berkeley.
Keys: business; coalitions; community-building; cycling
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Name: Bike the Bridge Coalition
Address: POBox 15071
Berkeley, CA 94712-6071
Voice: (510) 273-9288 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 486-1528
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bikethebridge.org
Notes: Advocates bicycle access to major Bay Area bridges.
Keys: coalitions; cycling; development; land use; transportation
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Name: Bike Traffic
Address: 1418 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Voice: (415) 776-2330 [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.biketraffic.com
Notes: A nonprofit bicycle mechanics training program serving
inner-city youth. Works to unite at-risk youth and
environmentalists in integrating extensive youth development
programs with bicycle services. Increases job and training
opportunities and the use of bicycles while improving the quality
of life for individuals and communities.
Keys: classes / courses; cycling; employment; urban life; youth
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Name: Bill Hicks Web Site
Web: http://www.billhicks.com/
Notes: A site covering the late pull-no-punches social satirist.
Keys: humor
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Name: Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
Web: http://billionairesforbushorgore.com/
Notes: A mass, participatory media stunt designed to focus
national attention on the big-money, corporate takeover of
electoral politics, and the ramifications of this takeover for the
poor and middle classes of America. Coming to the Republican
convention in Philadelphia on July 30/31, 2000 and to the
Democratic convention in Los Angeles on August 14, 2000. At both
of these conventions there will be a 'Million Bilionaires March and
Rally,' as well as numerous other actions/skits and stunts. Check
the website for details.
Keys: corporations; demonstrations; distribution of wealth;
economic justice; elections; humor; media criticism
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Name: Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center
Address: 938 The Alameda
San Jose, CA 95126
Voice: (408) 293-2429 [12/00]
Fax: (408) 298-8986
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.defrank.org
Notes: A multi-service agency that promotes human care,
education and social activities that further the well-being and
developent of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community of Santa
Clara County. Works to promote better understanding and unity
within the community and its friends. Ensures a 'safe environment'
free from verbal and physical harassment, and free from fear of
disclosure.
Keys: Santa Clara County; sexual minorities
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Name: BioDemocracy / Organic Consumers Association
Web: http://www.purefood.org
Notes: A public interest organization dedicated to building a
healthy, safe, and sustainable system of food production and
consumption. A global clearinghouse for information and grassroots
technical assistance. Formerly the Campaign for Food Safety.
Keys: biotechnology; food; health; organic agriculture;
research materials; sustainability; technical assistance
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Name: Bioengineering Action Network
Web: http://www.tao.ca/~ban/
Notes: Join the movement to protect the fabric of life.
Keys: biotechnology; corporations; networking
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Name: Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
Address: 3128 16th Street, Box 143
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 864-6671 [1/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A constantly evolving print magazine where feminists,
Internet gluttons, media addicts, and thoughtful folks in general
can talk about women, pop culture, advertising, and just about
anything else. The magazine is available for $12 for 4 issues or
$4.00 for a single copy --- send a check made out to Bitch to the
address shown here
Keys: advertising; feminism; magazines; women
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Name: Black Radical Congress
Web: http://www.blackradicalcongress.com/
Notes: A national gathering of activists that recognizes
contributions from diverse tendencies within Black Radicalism ---
including socialism, revolutionary nationalism and feminism --- and
is united in opposition to all forms of oppression, including class
exploitation, racism, patriarchy, homophobia, anti-immigration
prejudice and imperialism. The first Congress was held in 1998 in
Chicago and the next is planned for the spring and summer of 2000.
Keys: African Americans; class; feminism; nationalism; racism;
socialism
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Name: Black Scholar, The
Address: POBox 2869
Oakland, CA 94618
Voice: (510) 547-6633 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 547-6679
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A journal of black studies and research, including
essays, interviews, fiction, and poetry. Began in 1969 amidst the
mass struggles of Black America. Office hours are Monday through
Friday from 9 am to 3 pm.
Keys: African Americans; magazines / journals; research
materials
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Name: Black World Today, The (TBWT)
Web: http://www.tbwt.com/
Notes: A collective of journalists, writers, artists,
communicators and entrepreneurs who have banded together to use the
information revolution as one means towards the overall empowerment
of Black people in the United States and around the world. In the
process of building an online Black community utilizing the World
Wide Web as the main tool. Reports and interprets the news on the
daily social, political, cultural and economic realities of Black
communities and countries.
Keys: Africa; African Americans; collectives; news on-line
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Name: Bluewater Network
Address: c/o Earth Island Institute
300 Broadway, Suite 28 (near Sansome)
San Francisco, CA 94123
Voice: (415) 788-3666 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 788-7324
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bluewaternetwork.org
Notes: A national environmental organization aggressively
confronting the root causes of climate change and fighting
environmental damage from the shipping, oil, and motorized
recreation industries.
Keys: climate change; oil; pollution; sports; transportation;
water
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Name: Bolerium Books
Address: 2141 Mission Street, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th Streets, 3rd floor)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 863-6353
(800) 326-6353 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 255-6499
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bolerium.com
Notes: A bookstore with 25,000 used, rare, and out-of-print
books and pamphlets on American labor history, radicalism, social
movements, gay literature, African Americans, Asian Americans,
Hispanic Americans and the Spanish Civil War. Books are both
bought and sold.
Keys: African Americans; Asian Americans; books; history;
labor; Latinas / Latinos; sexual minorities
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Name: Bonobo Protection Fund (BPF)
Web: http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwbpf/bpf/
Notes: A group of international scientists and laypersons who
are concerned about the future of one of humankind's closest living
relatives, the bonobo. The BPF is a subcomponent of Georgia State
University's Foundation. BPF is supported entirely by outside
donations and grants.
Keys: animal liberation; endangered species / habitat; science
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Name: Borneo Project, The
Address: 1771 Alcatraz Avenue (near Adeline)
Berkeley, CA 94703
Voice: (510) 547-4258 [10/00]
Fax: (510) 547-4259
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.earthisland.org/borneo/
Notes: Promotes local initiatives for human rights and
environmental justice in Borneo. Has a sister city sister project
with the Kayan people of Uma Bawang in Sarawak, Malaysia (on the
island of Borneo), who are struggling to save their forest home. A
project of Earth Island Institute.
Keys: crafts; deforestation; development; environmental
justice; fair trade; indigenous people; micropower; Pacific
Islands; rainforests; sister communities
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Name: Bound Together Books ('The Anarchist Bookstore')
Address: 1369 Haight Street (at Masonic)
San Francisco, CA 94117
Voice: (415) 431-8355 [1/00]
Notes: A volunteer-run anarchist collective bookstore and
meeting place, open 7 days a week from 11:30 am to 7:30 pm.
Organizes the annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfare (in 2000 the fair
will be held April 15 from 10 AM to 6 PM at the Hall of Flowers in
Golden Gate Park; admission is free). Also serves as the mailing
address of the Prisoners' Literature Project.
Keys: anarchism; books; collectives; incarceration; spaces for
events
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Name: Boycott Home Depot
Web: http://www.homedepotsucks.com/
Notes: Home Depot is the largest retailer of old growth
rainforest wood in the US
Keys: boycotts; corporations; rainforests
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Name: Boycott San Francisco 4th Street Marriott
Address: 209 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 864-8770 x751 [2/01]
Web: http://www.sfmarriottboycott.org
Notes: A site is to inform potential customers that the San
Francisco Marriott Hotel is involved in a 5-year labor dispute and
that a boycott has been underway since September 2000. This fight,
and specifically the boycott, has been extremely disruptive for the
hotel's guests. A project of HERE Local 2.
Keys: boycotts; hotels; labor union locals
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Name: Boycott the Big Pesticide Corporations
Web: http://home.earthlink.net/~alto/boycott.html#intro
Notes: A call to boycott the eight largest pesticide
corporations, principally for their focus on genetically
engineering food crops to withstand higher levels of their
pesticides, in an effort to increase their control over the planet.
Keys: biotechnology; boycotts; corporations; pesticides
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Name: Boycott the GAP
Web: http://www.gapsucks.org/ http://members.xoom.com/AnarchoPoet/gapsucks.html
Notes: In July of 1998 The Fisher Family, owners of The GAP,
Inc., purchased ALL of Louisiana-Pacific Corporation's timber lands
in Mendocino County, California, some 220,000 acres. These include
the absolute LAST of the ancient redwood trees not in State Parks.
They are clearcutting these trees using methods which include
clearcutting, herbicides and overcutting timber lands of rare
fisheries and extreme steep slopes creating unmanageable mudslides
and deadly siltation in salmon streams.
Keys: boycotts; corporations; deforestation; Mendocino County;
pesticides
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Name: Bread & Roses
Voice: (415) 945-7120 [3/00]
Fax: (415) 945-7128
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.breadandroses.org/
Notes: Dedicated to uplifting the human spirit by providing
free, live, quality entertainment to people who live in
institutions or are otherwise isolated from society. In carrying
out this mission, Bread & Roses seeks to create a social awareness
of people who are isolated from society, and to encourage the
development of similar organizations in other communities.
Produces 40 shows a month for abused children, frail elders, and
adults and teens who are homeless, in rehabilitation, or suffering
from AIDS.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; children; homelessness; music; seniors
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Name: Bread for the World (BFW)
Web: http://www.bread.org/
Notes: A nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for
the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers.
Keys: hunger; lobbying; religion
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Name: Bright Path Video
Web: http://www.brightpathvideo.com/
Notes: A production company offering broadcast quality image
gathering and story creation. Services include: image aquisition,
location sound recording, event coverage, video cd-rom creation,
encoding for streaming media and archiving.
Keys: archiving; film / video; Internet
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Name: Broken Bud News
Address: 1765-D LeRoy Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709 [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: An occasional newsletter of the Center for Responsible
Tourism programs. Works to end tourism that trafficks in women,
especially tourism that involves child prostitution and pornography
Keys: children; newsletters; sex work; tourism; women
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Name: Brown University Biology and Community Health
Web: http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_Community_Health168C/index.html
Notes: One purpose of this site is to demostrate one method of
distributing vital information on community health to the general
public. This site publicizes corporate documents and medical
literature concerning the development of knowledge on asbestos,
breast implants, harmful plastics, tobacco and other hazardous
products.
Keys: corporations; products; public health; public relations;
research materials; tobacco
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Name: Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
Address: c/o Urban Habitat Program
POBox 29908, Presidio Station
San Francisco, CA 94129-9908
Voice: (415) 561-3336 [11/99]
Fax: (415) 561-3334
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.brownfieldsnet.org/moreuhp.htm http://www.brownfieldsnet.org/
Notes: Works to develop multicultural environmental leadership
in low-income communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Provides technical assistance and resources for community
residents, leaders, and community-based organizations in the SF Bay
Area to address brownfields redevelopment. Also provides research
capacity to address the regional nature of urban sprawl, inner city
disinvestment, and environmental injustice.
Keys: distribution of wealth; environmental justice;
low-income; multiculturalism; people of color; research; technical
assistance; urban life
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Name: Bruderhof Communities, The
Web: http://www.bruderhof.org/
Notes: A community movement of families and single men and
women. Their common basis is faith in Christ; all the same, they
acknowledge God's power to work among all people, regardless of
their background or creed.
Keys: death penalty; family; religion; spirituality
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Name: Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Address: POBox 4650
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 654-6169 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 655-1369
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bpf.org
Notes: Brings a Buddhist perspective to the peace movement, and
the peace movement to the Buddhist community. Explores personal
and group responses to political, social, and ecological suffering
in the world. A national network of local chapters and
individuals. Membership at $35 per year includes the quarterly
journal 'Turning Wheel'.
Keys: magazines; peace; religion
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Name: Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
Address: 2065 Kittredge Street, Suite E
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 843-3700 (services)
(510) 649-1930 (administration) [12/00]
Fax: (510) 649-0627
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.self-sufficiency.org
Notes: A nonprofit organization dedicated to ending poverty and
homelessness in our community. Provides comprehensive services to
3,500 people per year and also advocates to change the root causes
of poverty. Programs (located in Berkeley, Oakland, and Hayward)
include: shelter, transitional houses (including AIDS housing),
permanent housing assistance, job training, adult and children's
education, employment services, community building, leadership
development training, mental health/health care, substance abuse
services, drop-in center, youth housing and services, and extensive
information and referral.
Keys: children; community-building; disabilities; drugs;
employment; family; homelessness; housing; mental health; poverty;
self-reliance; services; youth
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Name: Bullfrog Films
Web: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/index.html
Notes: A leading source of videos about the environment,
ecology, sustainable development, indigenous people, cultural
diversity, and performing arts, music and dance.
Keys: dance; development; diversity; ecology; film / video;
indigenous people; music; products; sustainability
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Name: Bureau of Public Secrets
Address: POBox 1044
Berkeley, CA 94701 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.slip.net/~knabb
Notes: Sells publications by Ken Knabb, including an
appreciation and critique of Kenneth Rexroth ($5, 88 pages), and
'Situationist International Anthology' ($15, 406 pages). The web
site features extensive selections from the anthology (translations
from the notorious group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in
France) and from PUBLIC SECRETS, the recent collection of Knabb's
own writings.
Keys: anarchism; books; mail-order
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Name: Burning Issues
Web: http://www.webcom.com/~bi/
Notes: Provides public education about the health hazards of
exposure to wood smoke. Smoke from residential burning of wood,
wood burning restaurants and outdoor burning of wood, crops and
debris is permeating our neighborhoods, resulting in high ground
level concentrations of toxic air pollution.
Keys: air; energy; health; pollution
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Name: Burning Man Project
Address: POBox 420572
San Francisco, CA 94142-0572
Voice: (415) To-Flame [8/99]
Web: http://www.burningman.com
Notes: A great upwelling of creative energy that occurs in the
Nevada desert every year preceding Labor Day.
Keys: art; autonomy; creativity; desert; festivals; free
speech; outdoor activity; travel
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Name: Bus Riders Union, Los Angeles
Web: http://www.busridersunion.org/
Notes: A nonprofit membership organization that represents the
mass transit and public health needs of the transit dependent and
which seeks to promote environmentally sustainable public
transportation for the entire population of Los Angeles, on the
premise that affordable, efficient, and environmentally sound mass
transit is a human right.
Keys: public health; transportation
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Name: Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp (BACH)
Address: POBox 1716
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Voice: (510) 215-8326 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.chrisconrad.com
Notes: An international activist-oriented business association
promoting three goals: (1) full and unrestricted restoration of
hemp as a sustainable farm crop and industrial resource, (2) access
to cannabis medicines by prescription of licensed health care
professionals, and (3) use, production, and sales of cannabis drugs
in a regulated adult market. Does outreach into the
environmentalist and business communities as well as political
lobbying, community organizing, literature development, and
commercial research and development.
Keys: business; healthcare access; hemp; lobbying
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Name: CalCASA Rape Prevention Resource Center
Address: 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 1515
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 839-8825
(888) 9-CALCASA x305 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Keys: rape; violence; women
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Name: California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL)
Address: 32 Monterey Boulevard (near Diamond)
San Francisco, CA 94131
Voice: (415) 334-1502 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 334-6510
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.caral.org http://www.choice.org
Notes: The political and educational arm of the pro-choice
movement. Committed to ensuring that all women have access to the
full range of reproductive rights. Volunteers are a major
component to executing their grassroots efforts. Volunteer nights
are held at the office on the 1st and 2nd Wednesday of every month.
If you are interested in volunteering, internships, or getting
involved, call CARAL today!
Keys: elections; fundraising; health; lobbying; reproductive
rights
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Name: California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
Address: 1610 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 474-5171 [7/00]
Web: http://www.canhr.org/
Notes: A non-profit information and advocacy organization for
nursing home residents, their families and their friends. Services
include a consumer information service, a legal information
network, legal services support, a lawyer referral service,
legislative and administrative advocacy support, family council
organizing, and pension rights counseling.
Keys: consumer protection; counseling; healthcare access;
lawyers; legal services; seniors
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Name: California Association of Human Relations Organizations (CAHRO)
Address: 1426 Fillmore Street, Suite 216
San Francisco, CA 94115
Voice: (415) 775-2341 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 775-2342
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cahro.org
Notes: Provides resources for building the capacity of Human
Relations and Human Rights Organizations. Their website is
designed to increase the effectiveness of organizations working to
preserve and promote human and civil rights, more specifically, but
not limited to issues of intergroup conflict, hate crime and hate
violence, police-community relations and human relations
commissions.
Keys: civil rights; conflict resolution; crime; hate crimes;
human rights; police accountability; violence
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Name: California Association of Mental Health Patients' Rights Advocates (CAMHPRA)
Web: http://www.camhpra.org/
Notes: A membership organization working to promote public
policy furthering the rights and well-being of mental health
consumers.
Keys: consumer protection; healthcare access; mental health;
policy
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Name: California Biotech Action Council (CALBAC)
Voice: (415) 695-1591 (Michael Phillips) [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Keys: agriculture; consumer protection; evolution; technology
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Name: California Certified Organic Farmers
Address: 1115 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Voice: (831) 423-2263
(888) 423-CCOF (toll-free within California) [7/00]
Fax: (831) 423-4528
Web: http://www.ccof.org/
Notes: Certifies delicious organic food that people know they
can trust. Works hard to increase demand for certified organic
products and to expand public support for organic agriculture.
Actively works to influence governmental policies that protect and
encourage organic production.
Keys: organic agriculture; policy
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Name: California Coalition for Ethical Mental Health Care (CCEMHC)
Address: POBox 31968
San Francisco, CA 94131-0968
Voice: (415) 905-4543 [11/99]
Fax: (415) 826-6565
Web: http://www.ccemhc.org
Notes: An advocate of quality healthcare and a strong voice of
opposition to deteriorating mental health care services under
managed care. Exposes and confronts abuse and advocates for
non-managed mental health care alternatives. Consists of
professionals from each of the mental health disciplines in
California, clients and patients, and consumer advocates.
Keys: healthcare access; insurance; mental health; professionals
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Name: California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP)
Address: 100 McAllister Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102-4929
Voice: (415) 255-7036 x4 (Karen Shain) [11/99]
Fax: (415) 552-3150
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.prisonactivist.org/ccwp/
Notes: A statewide coalition which supports women prisoners in
their struggle for justice. Members include prisoners, former
prisoners, supporters and advocates. Concentration is on women's
medical issues, sexual assault by guards and battered women doing
time for defending themselves against their abusers. Fire Inside
publishes quarterly.
Keys: coalitions; health; incarceration; litigation; women
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Name: California Consumer Health Care Council (CCHCC)
Address: POBox 590307
San Francisco, CA 94159-0307
Voice: (888) CAL COUNcil (888-225-2686) [2/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cchcc.org/
Notes: A grassroots, volunteer-governed and operated
organization of individuals and groups concerned with protecting
the interests of health care consumers throughout California.
Committed to serve all population groups including the insured, the
uninsured, the under insured, and traditional under served groups.
Keys: consumer protection; healthcare access; insurance
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Name: California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC (SEE-fak))
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cfac.org/
Notes: An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose
purpose is to 'promote and defend the people's right to know' --
that is, your freedom of information (to find out) and freedom of
expression (to speak out) about matters of public interest.
Keys: coalitions; First Amendment; free speech; freedom of
information; right to know
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Name: California Global Warming Campaign
Address: c/o Next Generation
1904 Franklin Street #909
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-4710 [3/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nextgeneration.org/globalwarming/
Keys: global warming
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Name: California Housing Law Project
Web: http://www.housingadvocates.org
Notes: Provides governmental advocacy and information services
on state affordable housing legislation to California Rural Legal
Assistance Foundation, Western Center on Law and Poverty, local
legal services programs, local government housing agencies, rent
boards, nonprofit and private housing corporations, affordable
housing coalitions and tenant, senior and public interest
organizations. The Law Project's web site provides news and action
alerts related to affordable housing as well as statistics and
pending legislation in California.
Keys: housing; legislation; lobbying; low-income; news on-line;
seniors; tenant rights
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Name: California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
Address: 1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 575-6100 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 575-6124
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ciis.edu
Notes: An institution of higher learning and research that
strives to embody spirit, intellect and wisdom in service to
individuals, communities, and the Earth. Degree programs offered
include: East-West Psychology; Integral Counseling Psychology;
Drama Therapy; Expressive Arts; Somatics; Clinical Psychology;
Philosophy and Religion; Cultural Anthropology and Social
Transformation; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Transformative
Learning and Change.
Keys: classes / courses; counseling; philosophy; psychology;
religion; spirituality
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Name: California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
Address: 417 Montgomery Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94104
Voice: (415) 986-3585 [7/99]
Fax: (415) 392-8505
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.calaborfed.org
Keys: labor; labor councils
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Name: California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV)
Address: 1212 Broadway, Suite 630
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 271-0900 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 271-0901
Web: http://www.ecovote.org
Notes: The nation's largest and oldest state political action
organization for the environment. Founded in 1972, the League
mobilizes California voters to support environmentally responsible
candidates and issues, and serves as a watchdog to hold elected
officials accountable for their environmental votes. The League is
a non-partisan organization supported by 30,000 members, working in
coalition with a wide spectrum of environmental and community
groups.
Keys: conservation; ecology; elections; lobbying; research
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Name: California Legislative Information
Web: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/
Notes: A web site containing the complete texts of California
Codes, the California Constitution, and all statutes enacted on or
after 1 Jan 1993, plus information on pending legislation.
Keys: law; legislation; state government
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Name: California Newsreel
Address: 149 9th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 621-6196 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 621-6522
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.newsreel.org/
Notes: The site for educational videos on African American life
and history, race relations and diversity training, African cinema,
Media and Society, labor studies, campus life and much more.
Keys: Africa; African Americans; diversity; film / video;
history; labor; media criticism
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Name: California Nurses Association (CNA)
Address: 2000 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 273-2200 [2/00]
Web: http://www.califnurses.org/
Notes: The largest labor and professional organization for
nurses in California, representing more than 25,000 nurses at 90
facilities throughout the state.
Keys: health; hospitals; labor; professionals
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Name: California Physicians Alliance
Address: 560 20th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 832-7134 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 832-7110
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pnhp.org
Notes: A chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Keys: healthcare access; insurance; professionals; single payer
health care
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Name: California Prevention Education Project (CAL-PEP)
Address: 405 14th Street, Suite 162
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 874-7850 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 839-6775
Email: [email protected]
Keys: education; prevention
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Name: California Prison Focus (CPF)
Address: 2940 Sixteenth Street, Room 307 (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 252-9211 [11/99]
Fax: (415) 252-9311
Web: http://www.prisons.org
Notes: Investigates conditions in California's three control
unit prisons: Pelican Bay State Prison, Corcoran State Prison and
Valley State Prison for Women. With the addition of the HIV in
Prison Committee, CPF now also investigates the medical neglect and
abuse faced by prisoners with HIV / AIDS both in the general prison
population and in Security Housing Units.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; human rights; incarceration
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Name: California Professional Employees
Web: http://members.aol.com/CaUnion/index.html
Notes: Represents employees in nonprofit agencies, social
service agencies, city and school employees, as well as other
employees throughout the State of California.
Keys: labor union locals
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Name: California Public Health Association - North (CPHA)
Address: POBox 934
Berkeley, CA 94701
Voice: (415) 753-3898 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cphan.org
Notes: Provides leadership in the field of public health by
bringing together people whose goal is improving the health of
Californians. Welcomes health professionals, para-professionals,
lay persons, and organizations from a variety of disciplines
including nursing, education, laboratory, medicine, environmental
health, social work, administration, nutririon, pharmacy, and
community health.
Keys: networking; professionals; public health
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Name: California Right To Know / Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Initiative
Web: http://www.calrighttoknow.org/
Notes: This all-volunteer effort needs 413,000 valid signatures
of California voters by February 20, 2000 to make the ballot.
Petitions can be downloaded from the web site. The initiative does
not make a case for or against genetic engineering; it asserts, in
deliberately simple language, that the public has a right to know
whether the foods they purchase have been genetically engineered,
and requires that they be labeled as such.
Keys: biotechnology; food; initiatives; right to know
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Name: California Students Against Sweatshops
Web: http://www.calsas.org
Notes: Clothing Companies make large sums of money each year off
of apparel bearing university logos. Unfortunately, much of this
apparel is made in sweatshops ruthlessly exploiting people around
the world. California Students Against Sweatshops, a member of
United Students Against Sweatshops, is fighting to end the use of
sweatshop labor in solidarity with workers and students from around
the world.
Keys: solidarity; students; sweatshops
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Name: California Tomorrow
Address: 436 14th Street, Suite 820
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 496-0220 [1/99]
Fax: (510) 496-0225
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.californiatomorrow.org
Notes: Works to create a fair multi-racial and multicultural
society. Offers publications, conducts research, provides
technical assistance, and engages in advocacy
Keys: immigrants; multiculturalism; researchers; technical
assistance
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Name: California Voter Foundation
Web: http://www.calvoter.org/
Notes: Dedicated to shaping a more informed and engaged
electorate by emphasizing the use of new technologies.
Keys: appropriate technology; elections
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Name: Californians for Justice (CFJ)
Address: 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 206 (at 16th Street)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-2728 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 452-3552
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/cfj/
Notes: A statewide, grassroots organization dedicated to build
power in communities that have been pushed to the margins of the
political process. These groups -- communities of color, and young
and poor people of all colors -- represent a new emerging majority
in California
Keys: affirmative action; legislation; networking; petitions
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Name: Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR)
Address: 49 Powell Street, Suite 530
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 981-3939 [8/99]
Fax: (415) 981-2727
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.org/cpr/
Notes: A coalition of more than 120 public health, consumer,
environmental, sustainable agriculture, labor and rural assistance
public interest organizations. Goals are to expand the public's
right to know about pesticide use and abuse, reduce that use and
promote safer, ecologically sound agricultural and urban pest
management.
Keys: coalitions; consumer protection; labor; pesticides;
public health; right to know; sustainability
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Name: Campaign for Labor Rights
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.summersault.com/~agj/clr/
Keys: corporate globalization; labor
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Name: Campaign for United Nations Reform (CUNR)
Web: http://www.cunr.org/
Notes: Mission is to build political will within the United
States to promote a more democratic, accountable, and transparent
U.N. system; and to increase the resources and authority needed by
the U.N. system to achieve the goals set forth in its Charter.
Keys: democracy; United Nations
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Name: Campaign to Abolish Poverty / Full Employment Coalition
Address: 220 Golden Gate Avenue, Fourth Floor (near Leavenworth)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 928-1205 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 928-7252
Notes: Has a 10-point plan to eliminate poverty in the US, with
the first goal being full employment. Building a national
grassroots campaign. Does education, organizing, and lobbying
Keys: coalitions; employment; lobbying; policy; poverty
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Name: Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP)
Voice: (415) 789-8363 [6/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nodeathpenalty.org
Notes: A grassroots movement to abolish state murder, which
kills the poor, minorities, and the innocent. Publishes the New
Abolitionist newsletter.
Keys: death penalty; newsletters
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Name: Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods, The
Web: http://www.thecampaign.org/
Notes: Mission is to create a national grassroots consumer
campaign for the purpose of lobbying Congress and the President to
pass legislation that will require the labeling of genetically
engineered foods in the United States.
Keys: biotechnology; consumer protection; food; legislation;
lobbying
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Name: Campus California TG (CCTG)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cctg.org/
Notes: An International Campus for the Humanization of Mankind
and the Care of Our Planet. A center for a variety of activities
where you, as a participant, volunteer or student, get the
opportunity to educate yourself about phenomena of the modern world
and to contribute to Development for Mankind and for the Earth.
The abbreviation TG is the initials for the Teacher Group, the
group of people constituting the back bone of CCTG.
Keys: ecology; humanism; students
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Name: Cannabis Action Network West (CAN)
Address: 2560 Bancroft Way #46
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 486-8083 [9/99]
Fax: (510) 486-8090
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cannabisaction.net/
Notes: A nationwide team of individuals and organizations
working to make cannabis legally available for medicinal,
industrial, and personal uses. This network unites over 250
groups, from 50 states and around the world, in a powerful
grassroots coalition.
Keys: books; clothing; hemp; lobbying; networking; products
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Name: Cascadia Planet
Web: http://www.tnews.com/
Notes: An eco-information weaver based in Portland, Oregon at
the heart of the Cascadia Bioregion near the confluence of the
Columbia and the Willamette rivers. An ecological information
service providing news and views about creating sustainability from
the whole systems perspective.
Keys: bioregionalism; deforestation; ecology; news on-line;
sustainability
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Name: Catholic Charities of San Jose (CCSJ)
Address: 2625 Zanker Road, Suite 200 (at Trimble)
San Jose, CA 95134-2107
Voice: (408) 468-0100 [12/00]
Fax: (408) 944-0275
Web: http://ccsj.org
Notes: Serves and advocates for families and individuals in
need, especially those living in poverty. Rooted in gospel values,
CCSJ works to create a more just and compassionate community in
which people of all cultures and beliefs can participate.
Keys: policy; poverty; religion; Santa Clara County
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Name: Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Address: 433 Jefferson Street
Oakland, CA 94607-3592
Voice: (510) 768-3100 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 451-6998
Notes: Provides services and advocacy for poor, disenfranchised,
and oppressed people. Services include clinical counseling,
housing assistance, employment and training services, and refugee
and immigrant services. See also AIDS / HIV in Prison Project.
Keys: counseling; employment; housing; immigrants; poverty;
refugees; religion; services
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Name: Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC)
Web: http://www.seechange.org/
Notes: Conducts the 'See Change' campaign to change the status
of the Holy See at the United Nations from that of a country to
that of a non-governmental organization (NGO) since it is in fact a
religion (an organization of the Roman Catholic Church) and not a
country. Recognition as a country allows the Church to unduly
influence U.N. policy on religious freedom, women's reproductive
rights, and education on condom use for prevention of HIV / AIDS.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; policy; religion; reproductive rights; United
Nations; women
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Name: Cell
Address: 2050 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 648-7562 [2/00]
Email: paul@cellspace.org
Web: http://www.cellspace.org/
Notes: A collective that provides a non-competitive, encouraging
environment for the exploration of intergenerational and
interdisciplinary learning. Through cooperative relationships and
collaboration, strives to provide an open forum for the exchange of
knowledge, the creation of ideas, and the celebration of community
work. Offers classes and workshops in the following areas of the
space: Metal Shop, Wood Shop, Sewing Lab, Crafts Lab, Dance Floor,
Sound Coop, Theatre Lab, Studios, Gallery, Community Kitchen.
Keys: art; classes / courses; collectives; community-building;
crafts; dance; do-it-yourself; education; music; spaces for events;
textiles; theatre
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Name: Center for African and African American Art and Culture (CAAAC)
Address: 762 Fulton Street (between Webster and Laguna)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 928-8546 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 928-8549 or (415) 928-0466
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.caaac.org
Notes: A three-floor art-deco style complex housing the Buriel
Clay Theater, the Sargent Johnson Gallery, several workshops and
classrooms, and visual arts studios. The center's programs reflect
diversity and highlight African American art in its traditional and
contemporary forms.
Keys: African Americans; art; diversity
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Name: Center for AIDS Services, The
Address: 5720 Shattuck Avenue (near 57th Street)
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (510) 655-3435 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 655-2543
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV diseases and to
enhancing the quality of life for those affected with the disease.
Pursues this mission through HIV prevention education, volunteer
programs and direct services to people with HIV and their loved
ones, including case management and practical, emotional, and
spiritual support.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; services; spirituality; support groups
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Name: Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Address: POBox 40090
Berkeley, CA 94704-4090
Voice: (510) 841-0812 [3/01]
Fax: (510) 841-0187
Web: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org
Notes: A non-profit environmental organization dedicated to
protecting endangered species and wild places of western North
America and the Pacific through science, policy, education, and
environmental law.
Keys: biodiversity; bioregionalism; coastal environment;
conservation; coral reefs; creek restoration; dams; deforestation;
desert; endangered species / habitat; land use; wilderness
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Name: Center for Campus Organizing (CCO)
Web: http://www.cco.org/
Notes: A national organization that supports progressive and
social justice activism and investigative journalism on campuses
nationwide. The Campus Organizing Program provides materials,
trainings, research, information for and amongst progressive
student organizations. The Campus Alternative Journalism Project
builds the alternative student press by providing them with
information, training, organizing support, staying power, and
visibility. The web site includes a calendar of student activist
events nationwide.
Keys: calendars; journalism; networking; research; students
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Name: Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI)
Address: Presidio of San Francisco, Building 1008, General Kennedy Avenue
POBox 29912
San Francisco, CA 94129-0912
Voice: (415) 561-7777 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 561-7778
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ccisf.org/
Notes: Runs ambitious professional development exchange programs
for citizens of the former Soviet Union. Takes pride in citizen
activism through localized grassroots efforts. Consists of five
programs: Economic Development Program, Productivity Enhancement
Program, Agricultural Initiative, Nonprofit Management Training
Program, and Russian Initiative for Self Employment.
Keys: agriculture; Asia; development; Europe; global issues;
sustainability
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Name: Center for Commercial-Free Public Education (UNPLUG)
Address: 1714 Franklin Street, Suite 100-306
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 268-1100 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 268-1277
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.commercialfree.org/
Notes: A national non-profit organization that addresses the
issue of commercialism in our public schools. The Center provides
support to students, parents, teachers and other concerned citizens
organizing across the U.S. to keep their schools commercial-free
and community-controlled. By providing our constituents with the
information and the skills that they need to have a voice in the
running of their schools, the Center facilitates leadership
development and democratic participation at the local level.
Keys: advertising; corporations; privatization; public education
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Name: Center for Defense Information
Web: http://www.cdi.org/
Notes: A private, nongovernmental, research organization that
serves as an independent monitor of the military. Believes that
strong social, economic, political, and military components and a
healthy environment contribute equally to the nation's security.
Keys: militarism
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Name: Center for Democracy and Technology
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cdt.org/
Notes: Works to promote democratic values and constitutional
liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology,
and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free
expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT
is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in
the future of the Internet and other new communications media.
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; communications; computers;
free speech; Internet; technology
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Name: Center for Ecoliteracy, The
Address: 2522 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 845-4595 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 845-1439
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/
Notes: A public foundation dedicated to fostering a profound
understanding of the natural world, grounded in direct experience,
that leads to sustainable patterns of living. CEL awards grants to
educational communities in Northern California engaged in food and
water projects based in the geography of the school campus and
surrounding landscapes. Visit the Center's web site to learn more
about their organization, publications, educator networks, or
sponsored projects.
Keys: community-building; ecology; food; grants / financial
aid; public education; sustainability; water
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Name: Center for Economic and Policy Research
Web: http://www.cepr.net
Notes: Conducts both professional research and public education.
The professional research is oriented towards filling important
gaps in the understanding of particular economic and social
problems, or the impact of specific policies. The public education
portion of CEPR?s mission is to present the findings of
professional research, both by CEPR and others, in a manner that
allows broad segments of the public to know exactly what is at
stake in major policy debates.
Keys: economics; policy; research materials; researchers
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Name: Center for Economic Conversion
Address: 222 View Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: (415) 968-8798 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 968-1126
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.conversion.org/
Notes: A research, education, and advocacy organization
dedicated to building a sustainable, peace-oriented economy. Deals
with defense conversion, environmental industries, and sustainable
economic development.
Keys: ecology; economic conversion; Santa Clara County;
sustainability
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Name: Center for Electronic Art (CEA)
Voice: (415) 512-9300 [3/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www2.cea.edu/
Notes: A non-profit school offering ttraining and certificate
programs in electronic arts (web and print design and production,
computer animation, HTML, JavaScript). Offers services to other
non-profits by pairing them with students in an alliance that
benefits both parties. Of particular note is CEA's participation in
the 'Digital Bridge' Scholarship Program --- working with local
employment agencies to put under- and unemployed individuals back
in the workplace, the program focuses on training individuals in
practical and marketable computer applications that can be used to
find work.
Keys: art; classes / courses; computers; employment; Internet;
media; printers; volunteer matching
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Name: Center for Environmental Citizenship
Web: http://www.envirocitizen.org/
Notes: Dedicated to educating, training, and organizing a
diverse, national network of young leaders to protect the
environment. Programs include Campus Green Vote, National
Environmental Wire for Students, and EarthNet
Keys: classes / courses; ecology; elections; students
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Name: Center for Environmental Health (CEH)
Address: 528 61st Street, Suite A
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (510) 594-9864 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 594-9863
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cehca.org
Notes: Works to protect the public from environmental and
consumer health hazards. Committed to environmental justice,
reducing the use of toxic chemicals, supporting communities in
their quest for a safer environment, and corporate accountability.
Changes corporate behavior directly through education, litigation
and advocacy.
Keys: appropriate technology; corporations; environmental
justice; litigation; public health
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Name: Center for Ethics and Economic Policy
Address: 2512 9th Street, Suite 3
Berkeley, CA 94710-2542
Voice: (510) 549-9931 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 549-9995
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ceep.com/
Notes: Provides values-based economic literacy training and
leadership development to organizations who use this information to
further their own goals of social change. The Center also provides
technical assistance to groups who want to put economic context
into their work. 'The Center's training series made economics fun.
People still talk about the skits they participated in, and how
they now understand many of the larger economic forces that affect
our neighborhoods.' --- Oakland Community Building Team.
Keys: classes / courses; economics; policy; technical assistance
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Name: Center for Food Safety (CFS)
Web: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/
Notes: A public interest and environmental advocacy organization
which works to address the impacts of our food production system on
human health, animal welfare and the environment. CFS works to
achieve its goals through grassroots campaigns, public education,
media outreach, and litigation.
Keys: animal liberation; ecology; food; health; litigation;
media
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Name: Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
Web: http://www.chej.org/
Notes: Founded in 1981 as the Citizens Clearinghouse for
Hazardous Waste by Lois Gibbs, community leader at Love Canal.
Believes in environmental justice, the principle that people have
the right to a clean and healthy environment regardless of their
race or economic standing. Believes the most effective way to win
environmental justice is from the bottom up through community
organizing and empowerment.
Keys: community-building; environmental justice; toxics
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Name: Center for Independent Living (Berkeley)
Address: 2539 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 841-4776 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 841-6168
Web: http://www.cilberkeley.org/
Notes: Provides services for people who are disabled, including
independent living skills training, job development, referrals for
attendant care and housing, and youth, deaf, and blind services;
also has a program for homeless people with emotional and mental
health issues. Specific programs include Financial Benefits
counseling; Client Assistance Project (CAP); Client Enhancement and
Empowerment Project (Client Choice); Asian and Latino Outreach; and
Peer Support Services.
Keys: autonomy; disabilities; employment; homelessness;
housing; mental health
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Name: Center for Independent Living (Oakland)
Address: 436 14th Street, Suite 218
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 763-9999 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 763-4910
Web: http://www.cilberkeley.org/
Keys: autonomy; disabilities; employment; homelessness;
housing; mental health
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Name: Center for Insurance Research
Notes: Provides an independent voice for reform in debates about
insurance, banks, financial services companies and related public
policy issues around the nation. Focuses on national and state
issues of insurance and financial services regulation in a range of
areas including: mutual conversions, health care, illegal
discrimination, accessibility, quality assurance, disclosure,
corporate and regulatory accountability. Presents testimony before
federal and state legislatures and agencies, conducts studies and
initiates litigation on behalf of the public interest, sponsors
public forums, and publishes a periodic newsletter.
Keys: banks; corporations; deregulation; finance; healthcare
access; insurance; litigation; newsletters; policy; researchers
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Name: Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Web: http://www.ciel.org/
Notes: A public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm
founded in 1989 to strengthen international and comparative
environmental law and policy around the world. CIEL provides a
full range of environmental legal services in both international
and comparative national law, including: policy research and
publication, advice and advocacy, education and training, and
institution building.
Keys: classes / courses; ecology; education; global community;
law; legal services; policy; research
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Name: Center for Investigative Reporting
Address: 500 Howard Street, Suite 206 (at First Street)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3000
Voice: (415) 543-1200 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 543-8311
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A base for journalists in pursuit of hidden stories about
the individuals and institutions that shape our lives. A source of
information for news operations, community and public-interest
groups, freelancers, journalism students and concerned public and
private officials
Keys: investigative journalism; media criticism; news; research
materials
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Name: Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)
Address: 2334 Bowditch #2312
University of California, Berkeley (between Durant and Haste)
Berkeley, CA 94720-2312
Voice: (510) 642-2088 [2/00]
Fax: (510) 642-3260
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.clas.berkeley.edu/clas
Notes: Recognized by the US Department of Education as a
National Resource Center for Latin American Studies. Beyond the
Center's teaching and research mission, it carries out an important
function of liaison in Latin America and Latino-related issues with
the extended educational community. Offers outreach programs to
high schools in 14 school districts in the Bay Area, with an
average of 65 teachers participating in training programs each year.
Keys: Latin America; public education; researchers
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Name: Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender Art and Culture (QCC)
Web: http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/
Notes: A multidisciplinary arts presenting organization that
conducts artistic and interpretive programs exploring queer
identity issues. Programs promote the careers of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender artists, foster the growth of queer arts
organizations and serve queer and non-queer audiences alike.
Keys: art; sexual minorities
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Name: Center for Living Democracy
Web: http://www.livingdemocracy.org/
Notes: Inspires and prepares people to make democracy a
rewarding, practical, everyday approach to solving society's
problems.
Keys: democracy; do-it-yourself
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Name: Center for Marine Conservation, Pacific Regional Office, The
Address: 580 Market Street, Suite 550 (near New Montgomery Street)
San Francisco, CA 94104
Voice: (415) 391-6204 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 956-7441
Notes: Employs science and advocacy to protect the diversity and
integrity of life in the world's oceans, and ensure their
sustainable use and enjoyment
Keys: conservation; diversity; sustainability; water
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Name: Center for Media & Democracy
Web: http://www.prwatch.org/
Notes: A nonprofit, public interest organization funded by
individuals and nonprofit foundations and dedicated to
investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The
Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to
recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices.
Keys: democracy; journalism; media criticism; public relations;
researchers
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Name: Center for Popular Economics
Web: http://www.ctrpopec.org/
Notes: A nonprofit collective of political economists who
demystify economics and give social change activists a framework
for understanding the economy. Provides alternatives to mainstream
analyses and helps people understand and counteract the economic
'facts' used against them on the job, in the media, and by the
government. CPE's programs emphasize the centrality of class, race
and gender in analyzing how the economy works.
Keys: analysis; class; collectives; economics; media criticism
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Name: Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO)
Address: 425 Market Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Voice: (415) 904-7751 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 904-7765
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cpeo.org
Notes: Promotes and facilitates public participation in the
oversight of environmental activities, including but not limited to
the remediation of federal facilities, private 'Superfund' sites,
and Brownfields. It was formed in 1992 as CAREER / PRO (the
California Economic Recovery and Environmental Restoration Project)
by the San Francisco Urban Institute, in response to the large
number of military base closures in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Keys: economic conversion; militarism; national government;
toxics
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Name: Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP)
Web: http://www.crlp.org/
Notes: A non-profit legal and policy advocacy organization
dedicated to promoting women's reproductive rights. CRLP's domestic
and international programs engage in litigation, policy analysis,
legal research, and public education seeking to achieve women's
equality in society and ensure that all women have access to
appropriate and freely chosen reproductive health services.
Keys: analysis; law; litigation; policy; reproductive rights;
researchers
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Name: Center for Responsive Politics, The
Web: http://www.crp.org/
Notes: A non-partisan, non-profit research group based in
Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics and its effect on
elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based
research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics,
activists, and the public at large. The Center?s work is aimed at
creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more
responsive government.
Keys: computers; elections; finance; issues; media; national
government; news; Political Action Committees (PACs); research
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Name: Center for Socialist History
Address: P.O. Box 626
Alameda, CA 94501
Voice: (510) 601-6460 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.gn.apc.org/csh
Notes: Promotes research, education, and publication in the
field of socialist history.
Keys: history; socialism
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Name: Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO)
Address: 1218 East 21st Street (near 12th Avenue)
Oakland, CA 94606-3132
Voice: (510) 533-7583 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 533-0923
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ctwo.org
Notes: A Gateway to the Movement --- a central hub that links
communities of color with organizing skills, political education,
and visions of a just society. CTWO seeks to galvanize public
support for policies that both advance racial justice and promote
equity in the arenas of gender, economics, and sexuality. Since
1980 the Center has provided training and resources to promote and
sustain political analysis, policy development, and collective
action in communities of color across the U.S.
Keys: grants / financial aid; low-income; people of color;
religion
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Name: Center for Young Women's Development (Street Survival Project)
Address: 965 Mission Street, Suite 450
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 977-1980 [8/99]
Fax: (415) 977-1983
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Self Determination for Young Women Working in the Street
Economy.
Keys: self-determination; sex work; urban life; women; youth
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Name: Central City Hospitality House (CCHH)
Address: 290 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 749-2100 [6/99]
Fax: (415) 749-2136
Notes: Assists homeless and low-income adults and homeless and
runaway youth by offering basic survival assistance, as well as
more intensive services such as shelter, case management, and
substance abuse counseling. Has a group home for youth ages 15 to
18 and a shelter for adult males. Also provides free art
materials, instruction, studio space, and opportunities for
exhibition through a Community Arts Program and economic
opportunities through an art business (ArtStart)
Keys: art; counseling; drugs; homelessness; low-income; youth
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Name: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)
Address: 630 20th Street (at Mason & Taylor)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 465-1617 [4/99]
Fax: (510) 465-2459
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.objector.org
Notes: Promotes GI rights and alternatives to the military and
war. Services include GI counseling (an 800 number for GIs to call
about their rights, legal referrals, and military regulations),
draft counseling (info on draft registration and conscientious
objection), counter-military recruiting (educational materials on
alternatives to military service and on nonviolent conflict
resolution), and activist training (counselor training for local
activists nationwide). Counseling and literature are free, with a
small charge for some books, videos, and a requested sliding scale
fee for activist trainings
Keys: conscientious objectors; counseling; draft /
registration; magazines; youth
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Name: Central EcoPrint
Address: 2127 Franklin (near Broadway, between 21st and 22nd Streets)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 893-7191 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 465-1632
Notes: 'An Environmentally Sound Printer'. Offers
environmentally sound printing using several varieties of recycled
paper and soybean inks. One- and two-color forms, newsletters,
business cards, letterhead, envelopes of all types, rubber stamps,
and more.
Keys: printers; recycling; sustainability
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Name: Central Labor Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO
Address: 7992 Capwell Drive
Oakland, CA 94621
Voice: (510) 632-4242 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 632-3993
Keys: labor councils
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Name: Challenging White Supremacy Workshop (CWS)
Address: 2440 Sixteenth Street #275
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 647-0921 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Workshops designed by white anti-racist organizer Sharon
Martinas. Many of the issues raised are of particular concern to
white activists committed to creating anti-racist political
practice in white-dominated progressive grassroots movements, and
are also pertinent to activists of color working within these
movements.
Keys: classes / courses; multiculturalism; racism
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Name: Change-Links
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://labridge.com/change-links/
Notes: Published monthly as a print newspaper in the Los Angeles
area and now on the Web with a calendar of progressive events.
Keys: calendars; newspapers
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Name: Chaplaincy to the Homeless
Address: 2345 Channing Way (on Dana between Durant and Channing)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 548-0551 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 548-0562
Notes: Homeless and non-homeless people working together to
reverse the downward spiral of psychological and spiritual
deterioration that homelessness brings. Coordinates a homeless
greeting card co-op, street counseling, community organizing, a
clothing ministry, spiritual services, a drop-in center and shelter
seving homeless runaway youth, and a community arts program.
Keys: clothing; cooperatives; counseling; homelessness; mental
health; religion; services; spirituality; youth
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Name: Cheetham, Ken
Address: POBox 11232
Berkeley, CA 94712-2232
Voice: (510) 848-9862 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 843-9521
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.emf.net/~cheetham/ken.html
Notes: An animal residing on a tiny planet hurtling through
space. Has existed for the last 42 of the universe's several
billion years. Current goals are to work to increase corporate
profits for a few more decades, see the important movies on the
weekends, and then be dead forever.
Keys: individuals; networking
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Name: Chiapas Media Project
Web: http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org
Notes: A bi-national partnership that provides tools and
training so that marginalized indigenous communities can establish
their own information outlets. The project provides video cameras,
editing equipment, computers and appropriate training so that
communities in Chiapas can tell their own stories in their own
words.
Keys: classes / courses; computers; film / video; indigenous
people; Mexico; technical assistance
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Name: Chiapas Support Committee
Address: POBox 3421
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (510) 654-9587 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.chiapas-support.org
Notes: A nonprofit organization composed entirely of volunteers
concerned about the victims of low-intensity warfare in Chiapas,
Mexico. The three projects assisted financially are: 1) economic
cooperatives operated by indigenous women in the canadas (canyons)
of Ocosingo; 2) autonomous health clinics; and, 3) human rights
representation of peasants unjustly jailed during land disputes and
political conflict. In Mexico, CSC works with K?inal Antzetik, the
Human Rights Coalition for the Ethnicities of Chiapas and Enlace
Civil. Publishes Chiapas Update, maintains an email information
and emergency response list, sponsors educational forums and
sponsors Mujer A Mujer, an annual women?s conference in Chiapas.
Keys: indigenous people; material aid; Mayans; Mexico;
political prisoners; Zapatistas
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Name: Childfree
Web: http://web.missouri.edu/~c489011/
Notes: A source of information and support for people who have
chosen or are considering a childfree life.
Keys: population control; relationships
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Name: Children and Armed Conflict Unit, The
Web: http://www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/
Notes: A project at the University of Essex addressing the
impact of armed conflict on children.
Keys: children; militarism; research materials
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Name: Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)
Address: 3543 18th ST #17
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 861-5437 (861-KIDS) [2/00]
Fax: (415) 255-8345
Email: colage@colage.org
Web: http://www.colage.org
Notes: Supports and advocates for daughters and sons of lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgendered parents and their families.
Keys: family; sexual minorities; youth
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Name: Chinatown Youth Center
Address: 1693 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 775-2636 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 775-1345
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cycsf.org
Notes: A multi-service organization serving Chinese / Asian
at-risk youths and their families in individual / group / family
counseling, prevention of juvenile delinquency, drug education,
parent education, career counseling, job placement and referral,
labor market orientation, internship, volunteer recruitment, gang
prevention, street outreach, after-school tutoring, and recreation.
Keys: Asian Americans; counseling; drugs; employment; family;
immigrants; prevention; youth
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Name: Chinese for Affirmative Action
Address: 17 Walter U Lum Place (near Portsmouth Square Park)
San Francisco, CA 94108
Voice: (415) 274-6750 [2/00]
Fax: (415) 397-8770
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.caasf.org
Notes: A civil rights group addressing immigrant rights,
bilingual access, voting rights, education, census count,
telecommunications access, media, and the glass ceiling. Services
include counseling, referrals, and placements for SF residents
interested in construction, blue collar, and public safety
occupations; support for victims of racial discrimination and
harassment; career fairs; and mass-targeted recruitments during the
year.
Keys: affirmative action; Asian Americans; civil rights;
employment; immigrants
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Name: Chopped Liver Productions (Janice Leber)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.org/liver/
Notes: Musical / topical satire for the betterment of humanity.
Sells hour-long tapes for $10, new titles available irregularly.
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); audio recordings; humor;
music
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Name: Cicala Filmworks, Inc.
Web: http://www.cicalafilmworks.com/
Notes: Meeting the new-media needs of nonprofits and NGOs.
Keys: film / video; media; technical assistance
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Name: Cine Accion
Address: 346 Ninth Street, 2nd floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 553-8140 [4/99]
Fax: (415) 553-8137
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cineaccion.com
Notes: The Bay Area's media arts center for independent Latina /
Latino film and video. Membership services to media makers include
a quarterly newsletter (plus monthly supplement), a clearinghouse
service for referring finished works, publicity consultation, and
fundraising and production support. Curates programs for
festivals, and presents selected works.
Keys: film / video; fundraising; Latinas / Latinos; publicity
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Name: Circle of Life Foundation
Address: POBox 388
Garberville, CA 95542
Voice: (707) 923-9522
(415) 337-4302 (hotline) [12/99]
Fax: (707) 923-9532
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org http://www.lunatree.org
Notes: Conceived and created by Julia 'Butterfly' Hill, who
ended a two-year tree-sit in December 1999 when Pacific Lumber /
Maxxam finally agreed to protect the ancient tree as well as a
buffer around it to end the public relations 'nightmare' that
Hill's action achieved.
Keys: corporations; deforestation; direct action; public
relations
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Name: Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
Web: http://www.cipbonline.org/
Notes: A national membership organization dedicated to putting
the public back into public broadcasting so that we can all join in
the debate about our nation's future. At the national level, CIPB
has developed a detailed proposal for a Public Broadcasting Trust
(PBT) that is independently funded, publicly accountable, and true
to the service's founding mission. At the community level, CIPB
builds chapters, and is working with national partner organizations
to democratize community public broadcasting service. Toward these
goals CIPB offers a training manual, video and a national
clearinghouse for organizing.
Keys: media criticism; policy; privatization; radio; research
materials; television
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Name: Citizens for Peace
Address: c/o Rob Jackson
173 Julian Street #2
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 430-2160 [1/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://home.earthlink.net/~anamonkey
Notes: A grassroots organization dedicated to informing decision
makers to identify, reduce and prevent violence. A broad based
community that cooperates to reach common goals. Produces mixed
media, fine art, pubications, videos, educational workshops and
more.
Keys: art; classes / courses; film / video; media; peace;
violence
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Name: Citizens for Tax Justice
Web: http://www.ctj.org/
Notes: A nonpartisan, nonprofit research and advocacy
organization dedicated to fair taxation at the federal, state, and
local levels. CTJ fights for fair taxes for middle and low-income
families, requiring the wealthy to pay their fair share, closing
corporate tax loopholes, adequately funding important government
services, reducing the federal debt, and taxation that minimizes
distortion of economic markets.
Keys: corporations; distribution of wealth; researchers; taxes
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Name: Citizens for the Eastshore State Park
Address: POBox 6087
Albany, CA 94706
Voice: (510) 526-2629
(510) 339-9028 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 526-2629 (same as voice)
Notes: Works to establish a state park along the 17-mile
shoreline of Emeryville, Berkeley, and Albany. Funding has already
been approved by voters
Keys: conservation; parks; sports
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Name: Citizens? Council on Corporate Issues (CCCI)
Web: http://www.corporateissues.org/
Notes: An organization concerned about the growth of corporate
power in Canadian society. The corporation has attained vast power
in modern society. This power is undermining our democratic
institutions and the rights of citizens in a democratic society.
Today, corporations and corporate executives are deciding the
future of our families, communities and the environment with
minimal accountability to civil society. We are supposed to be in
charge of the decisions facing our country, not fictitious
institutions and unelected corporate executives.
Keys: Canada; corporations
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Name: City CarShare
Address: POBox 420442
San Francisco, CA 94142
Voice: (415) 255-2530 [6/00]
Email: elizabeth@sfcarshare.org
Web: http://www.sfcarshare.org
Notes: An innovative mobility service that makes vehicles
available to people on a per-use basis. Think of it as
neighborhood-based, time-share car rental that allows people to
use vehicles when needed, and pay based on how much they drive.
Car-sharing provides a way to dramatically reduce the number of
cars in an urban area and supports a practical shift away from
over-dependency on automobiles. Successes in Europe (30,000 members
in Switzerland!) show as much as a 1/3 reduction in individual car
use after joining car-sharing with no reported reduction in
members' sense of personal mobility. Now organizing as a 501©3
and will open its doors for service by the end of 2000.
Keys: noncorporate economy; transportation; urban life
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Name: City Lights Bookstore
Address: 261 Columbus Avenue (near Broadway)
San Francisco, CA 94133
Voice: (415) 362-8193 (booksellers)
(415) 362-1901 (publishers) [1/00]
Fax: (415) 362-4921
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.citylights.com
Notes: A general bookstore specializing in eclectic literary
taste, people's history, translated literature, poetry, and
consignments. Open 7 days a week from 10 am to midnight.
Keys: books; history; poetry
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Name: City of Refuge Community Church
Address: 1025 Howard Street (at Post)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-6130 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 861-6103
Email: ark@sfrefuge.org
Web: http://www.sfrefuge.org
Notes: A congregation of the United Church of Christ that
combines social justice ministry, Gospel music, and spiritual
healing.
Keys: religion
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Name: Civil Liberties Monitoring Project
Address: POBox 544
Redway, CA 95560
Voice: (707) 923-4646 [2/00]
Fax: (707) 923-4646 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.civilliberties.org
Notes: Monitors police and governmental agencies for abuse of
civil rights, and damage to the environment. Urges correction of
abusive situations when found, going to court when necessary. Two
recent big suits are NORML v Mullen and DPF v McCaffrey.
Keys: civil liberties; civil rights; ecology; Humboldt County;
litigation; police accountability
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Name: Clean Water Action
Address: 23 Grant Avenue, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Voice: (415) 362-3040 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 362-3188
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cleanwateraction.org
Notes: Does research, reporting, and policy development on the
national, state and local levels to ensure safe drinking water,
control toxics, protect coastal environments, monitor enforcement
of environmental laws, promote sensible solid waste solutions, and
protect our natural resources
Keys: coastal environment; policy; recycling; toxics; water
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Name: Clearinghouse on Environmental Research and Advocacy (CLEAR)
Web: http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/clear.html
Notes: An archive or reports on the anti-environmental 'wise
use' movement from the 1990's..
Keys: conservation; land use; right-wingers
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Name: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
Web: http://www.cauce.org/
Notes: An ad hoc, all volunteer organization, created by
Netizens to advocate for a legislative solution to the problem of
UCE (commonly referred to as 'spam').
Keys: advertising; coalitions; consumer protection;
legislation; lobbying; privacy
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Name: Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cfdp.org/ http://www.savepacifica.net
Notes: The coalition's web site contains lots of background info
and media articles on the current crisis at KPFA.
Keys: control techniques; free speech; radio
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Name: Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform
Address: 459 Vienna Street (at 22nd Street)
San Francisco, CA 94112
Voice: (415) 239-0161 [9/99]
Fax: (415) 239-0584
Email: [email protected]
Keys: coalitions; government; low-income; welfare
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Name: Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing (CJAH)
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 1128
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 291-8604 [11/99]
Fax: (415) 982-5821
Web: http://www.cjah.org/
Notes: A community based association of artists, businesses and
residents who are working to protect industry, business, artists
and low and moderate income residents from the threat of
displacement by luxury condos disguised as artists' live / work
lofts. Supports responsible development that provides housing and
protects jobs, small business and industry. Supports housing that
works for all San Franciscans: renters, low-to-moderate income
people, families, group houses, seniors, the disabled.
Keys: art; business; coalitions; community-building;
development; disabilities; employment; family; housing; land use;
low-income; seniors
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Name: Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
Address: 661 27th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 893-8766 (Kerry Newkirk) [1/00]
Fax: (510) 893-0934
Notes: Provides organizing, counseling, and advocacy to promote
the welfare of working women through union involvement,
representing union women within the labor movement. Promotes
affirmative action in the workforce and the end of sexual
harassment. Also provides strike support and organizing assistance.
Keys: affirmative action; coalitions; counseling; labor; sexual
harassment; women
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Name: Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
Address: 468 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 346-3740 [8/00]
Fax: (415) 775-5639
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfo.com/~coh
Notes: Works with and on behalf of people on the streets and in
shelters to bring about effective changes in policies and practices
that affect homeless people. Publishes Street Sheet, a newspaper
sold on the street by homeless persons for $1.
Keys: coalitions; homelessness; newspapers
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Name: Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL)
Web: http://www.coejl.org/home.shtml
Notes: Promotes environmental education, scholarship, advocacy,
and action in the American Jewish community. COEJL is sponsored by
a broad coalition of Jewish organizations and is a member of the
National Religious Partnership for the Environment. COEJL is
dedicated to ensuring that the American Jewish community integrates
environmental study and action into the mainstream of Jewish life.
Keys: coalitions; ecology; Jewish Americans
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Name: Coalition To Abolish the Fur Trade - San Francisco (CAFT-SF)
Address: POBox 1521
Colma, CA 94014
Voice: (415) 251-1393 [11/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.neimans.org
Notes: A diverse collective of individuals dedicated to fighting
the bloody fur trade. Currently has a campaign against Neiman
Marcus, and demonstrates every Sunday from 2 to 4 PM outside
Neiman's Union Square store. Meets on the third Sunday of every
month from 12 to 2 at 1884 Market Street (at Laguna) in San
Francisco.
Keys: animal liberation; coalitions; direct action; products
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Name: Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
Address: ASUC Box 155
Berkeley, CA 94720-4510
Voice: (510) 895-3068 [5/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bamn.com
Keys: affirmative action; students
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Name: Cocaine Import Agency
Web: http://speech.csun.edu/ben/news/cia/index.html
Notes: Contains links to information relating to the 'Dark
Alliance' series by Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News as well
as other documentation of CIA ties to drug trafficking and the
'drug war' in general.
Keys: CIA / FBI / NSA; covert operations; drugs; research
materials
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Name: CoHousing Company, The
Address: 1250 Addison Street #113 (at Bonar)
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 549-9980 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Provides architectural and consultant services and a
resource center for groups and individuals interested in creating
cohousing communities. A cohousing book and other resources are
available
Keys: cohousing; consultants
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Name: Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
Address: 459 Vienna Street (at 22nd Street)
San Francisco, CA 94112
Voice: (415) 239-0161 [1/00]
Fax: (415) 239-0584
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.colemanadvocates.org/
Notes: Serves as the voice for children in San Francisco. Works
independently to change city policies and programs through
advocacy, research, public education, and development of creative,
cost-effective proposals on issues such as child welfare, health,
juvenile justice, and recreation. Sponsors 'The Kids Network', a
new citizen watchdog group with a free newsletter for activists.
Keys: children; municipal government; newsletters; welfare;
youth
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Name: Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club
Address: 333 Valencia Street, Suite 410 (btwn 16th and 17th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-8232 (Administration)
(415) 861-5346 (Program) [7/99]
Fax: (415) 861-7723
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.kidsclub.org
Notes: A multicultural youth development agency working with
children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, helping
them to meet their potential and develop the qualities necessary to
become responsible citizens and leaders. Sponsors many job-skill
and entrepreneurship programs such as the Sunrise Sidewalk Cleaners
in the Mission District
Keys: business; children; employment; multiculturalism; youth
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Name: Commercial Alert
Web: http://www.essential.org/alert/
Notes: Opposes the excesses of commercialism, advertising and
marketing.
Keys: advertising; commodification; consumer lifestyle; control
techniques
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Name: Committee for Green Foothills
Address: 3921 East Bayshore Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Voice: (650) 968-7243 [12/00]
Fax: (650) 962-8234
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.greenfoothills.org
Notes: Mission is to protect and preserve the hills, forests,
creeks, wetlands, and coastal lands of the San Francisco Peninsula
through grass-roots education, planning, and legislative advocacy.
CGF works to preserve our local environment and wildlife habitat
for enjoyment today and for future generations.
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; land use; San
Mateo County; Santa Clara County; wetlands
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Name: Committee for Health Rights in the Americas (CHRIA)
Address: 474 Valencia Street, Suite 120 (near 16th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103-3415
Voice: (415) 431-7760 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 431-7768
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Health care workers and others in the Bay Area providing
medical aid and raising awareness of the effects of US intervention
on health care.
Keys: Central America; healthcare access; intervention;
material aid; refugees
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Name: Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. (CNR)
Address: POBox 421993
San Francisco, CA 94142-1993
Voice: (415) 776-8299 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 776-8299 (same as voice)
Web: http://www.ratical.com/radiation/CNR
Notes: Works to prevent deception in nuclear radiation research,
while also contributing new insights about radiation injury.
Keys: nuclear energy; public health
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Name: Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Bay Area (CISPES)
Address: 3382 26th Street (off Mission)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 648-8222 [7/00]
Fax: (415) 648-6529
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cispes.org
Notes: Supports grassroots labor and womens organizing and
combats neoliberalism in El Salvador and in the US through petions,
media attention, speaking tours, demonstrations and street theatre.
Also works with immigrants rights groups and sends people on
solidarity delegations to El Salvador. There is a human rights
network to combat attacks on workers and immigrants.
Keys: corporate globalization; El Salvador; human rights;
immigrants; neoliberalism; solidarity
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Name: Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
Address: 2288 Fulton Street, Suite 312
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 848-6554 [6/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.tibet.org/Tibet100
Notes: A collective of prominent world citizens --- including
many Nobel laureates, politicians and artists --- supporting the
Tibetan people in their nonviolent struggle for independence. The
committee's role is to inform the public about the unique national,
cultural and religious identity of the Tibetan people, to work to
preserve that identity and to assure the survival and human rights
of the Tibetan people. One project is Tibet Online, a job training
and computer resource center for the Tibetan people.
Keys: collectives; cultural survival; employment; human rights;
Internet; nonviolence; refugees; self-determination; Tibet
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Name: Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru
Address: PO Box 1246
Berkeley, CA 94701
Voice: (415) 252-5786 [12/99]
Fax: (415) 252-7414
Web: http://www.csrp.org
Notes: Supports the armed struggle in Peru as led by the
Communist Party of Peru (generally known as Sendero Luminoso or
Shining Path).
Keys: communism; Peru
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Name: Committees of Correspondence, Northern California (CofC)
Address: 522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 863-6637 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 863-5543
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cofc.org
Notes: A national organization of 1800 committed activists
dedicated to the radical democratization of our economic and
political system. Main goal is to promote a dialogue about the
questions we confront and bring together a broader, more united
left movement.
Keys: democracy; networking; socialism; unity
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Name: Common Agenda Network
Address: c/o Betty Brown
44 Beverly Road
Kensington, CA 94707
Voice: (510) 524-6071 [1/00]
Notes: A local network affiliated with the National Priorities
Project of Massachusetts, working for significant cuts in military
spending and redirecting the money to community and environmental
needs.
Keys: economic conversion; militarism; networking
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Name: Common Cause
Web: http://www.commoncause.org
Notes: A nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization
promoting open, honest and accountable government. Supported by
the dues and contributions of over 250,000 members in every state
across the nation, Common Cause represents the unified voice of the
people against corruption in government and big money special
interests.
Keys: corporations; distribution of wealth; lobbying; national
government; taxes; welfare
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Name: Common Courage Press
Web: http://www.commoncouragepress.com/
Notes: Publishes books for social justice on race, gender,
feminism, economics, ecology, labor and US domestic and foreign
policy. The Press seeks to provide an analysis of problems from a
range of perspectives, and to aid activists and others in
developing strategies for action. Receive discounts by ordering
direct from their web site.
Keys: analysis; books; democracy; mail-order
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Name: Common Dreams News Center
Web: http://www.commondreams.org/
Notes: Breaking news & views for progressive-thinking Americans.
Keys: news on-line
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Name: Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
Address: 2225 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1541
Voice: (650) 328-6752 [11/00]
Web: http://www.growbiointensive.org/
Notes: An organic garden supply store with organic vegetable and
herb starts. Annuals and perennials, open-pollinated seeds in
bulk, good quality tools, and books. Saturday gardening classes on
the Biointensive methods, and other gardening classes by experts in
their fields.
Keys: biodiversity; books; classes / courses; gardening;
organic agriculture; products; Santa Clara County; seeds
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Name: Communication Works
Address: Pier 9 Embarcadero, Suite 116
San Francisco, CA 94111
Voice: (415) 255-1946 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 255-1947
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.communicationworks.org
Notes: Offers a range of public relations and consulting
services that raise awareness and shape opinion. The coverage
Communication Works generates helps organizations attract new
members, build new alliances, and raise money.
Keys: consultants; fundraising; media; public relations;
publicity
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Name: Communist Party USA
Address: 3940 High Street #B (near Hyacinth)
Oakland, CA 94619-2212
Voice: (510) 336-0617 [8/00]
Fax: (510) 531-1729
Notes: This is the Northern California District.
Keys: communism; political parties
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Name: Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
Address: 500 Howard Street, Suite 506
San Francisco, CA 94105-3000
Voice: (415) 243-8373 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/cbe/cbe.html
Notes: A non-profit, statewide, multiracial, urban environmental
health and justice organization that works with urban communities
and grassroots organizations --- using science based research,
legal tactics, and organizing strategies to prevent air and water
pollution, eliminate toxic hazards, and improve public health.
CBE's long-term goals are to develop an environmentally sustainable
manufacturing base, minimize the use of toxins, expand pollution
prevention strategies, and involve those people most at risk by
industrial pollution in decisions that impact their lives and their
communities.
Keys: corporations; environmental justice; litigation; public
health; science; toxics; urban life
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Name: Community Access Teknowledgy (cat@lyst)
Web: http://www.cat.org.au/
Notes: An anarchist collective of volunteers in Australia
providing access to the internet for community activists, including
activist web sites, radical online discussion groups, desktop
publishing and web production gear, training, publicity, mobile
webcasts and benefit gigs, recycling computer gear to activists in
need, and networking with similar efforts elsewhere.
Keys: anarchism; Australia; collectives; Internet; networking;
publicity; recycling; technical assistance
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Name: Community Action Board of Santa Cruz
Address: 501 Soquel Avenue, Suite E
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Voice: (831) 457-1741 [12/00]
Fax: (831) 457-0617
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cruzers.com/~cab/
Notes: Provides direct anti-poverty services to Santa Cruz
County low-income residents, including homeless, immigration, and
energy services, food distribution, and job placement. Performs
social and economic justice advocacy.
Keys: economic justice; employment; homelessness; immigrants;
poverty; Santa Cruz County; services
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Name: Community Action Publications
Address: 108 Petaluma Avenue, Suite 111-W
Sebastopol, CA 95472 [11/99]
Email: PDines@compuserve.com
Web: http://www.monitor.net/~cap/
Notes: A volunteer, community-supported organization that
provides information on toxics and their alternatives to support
everyone in helping to create a healthier, less-toxic world.
Offers 'The Organic Traveler's Guide to the Wine Country' which
makes it easy to find organic food, wine, and more in Sonoma, Napa,
and Mendocino Counties - thus encouraging healthy fun that supports
local less-toxic agriculture and a healthier, happier world.
Keys: directories; food; Mendocino County; Napa County; organic
agriculture; products; public health; sustainability; toxics; travel
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Name: Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF)
Web: http://www.caff.org/
Notes: A nonprofit member-activist organization involved in the
growing sustainable agriculture movement in California, including
Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs). CAFF political and
educational campaigns are building a movement of rural and urban
people who foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land,
sustains local economies, and promotes social justice. Members are
urbanites, farmers, environmentalists, rural activists, students,
and anyone concerned with the social and environmental dimensions
of agriculture.
Keys: agriculture; Community Supported Agriculture;
decentralization; noncorporate economy; policy; rural life;
sustainability
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Name: Community Awareness and Treatment Services, Inc. (CATS)
Address: 1446 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 241-1199 [11/98]
Fax: (415) 553-3939
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.catsinc.org
Notes: Offers a system of compassionate care through outreach,
transportaion, support services, rehabilitation and housing for
individuals and families affected by substance abuse, HIV / AIDS,
mental disabilities, poverty, and / or homelessness.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; disabilities; homelessness; mental health;
poverty; services
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Name: Community Boards of San Francisco
Address: 1540 Market Street, Suite 490
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 552-1250 [4/99]
Fax: (415) 626-0595
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.mediate.com/cbp
Notes: A nonprofit dispute resolution organization that provides
services in San Francisco as well as across the nation and in other
countries. In San Francisco, offers no-cost community mediation
services to City residents regarding all types of disputes
including those involving money, property, noise, parking, pets,
threats, harassment, communication breakdown, interpersonal
relations, and more. Also provides resources to schools,
communities, jails, and organizations, and offers curricula,
training manuals, and training for educators and others
Keys: classes / courses; educational curriculum; housing;
mediation; neighborhoods; prevention; services
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Name: Community Currencies
Web: http://www.communitycurrency.org/
Keys: community-building; local currencies
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Name: Community Food Security Coalition
Web: http://www.foodsecurity.org/
Notes: Food security can be defined as the state in which all
persons obtain a nutritionally adequate, culturally acceptable diet
at all times through local non-emergency sources. Food security
broadens the traditional conception of hunger, embracing a systemic
view of the causes of hunger and poor nutrition within a community
while identifying the changes necessary to prevent their
occurrence. Food security programs confront hunger and poverty.
Keys: coalitions; community-building; control techniques;
decentralization; food; food security; hunger
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Name: Community of Mindful Living
Address: POBox 7355
Berkeley, CA 94707
Voice: (510) 527-3751 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 525-7129
Email: CML@iamhome.org
Web: http://www.iamhome.org
Notes: Promotes the teachings of Vietnamese Zen Master,
peacemaker, poet, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh and
his colleague Sister Chan Khong. One project, 'Working Together
for Rejuvenation in Vietnam', provides direct monetary and material
aid to the people of Vietnam to support day-care centers,
education, medical treatment, emergency aid, and prisoners of
conscience.
Keys: material aid; peace; spirituality; Vietnam
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Name: Community Peacemakers
Address: 2908 Madeline Street, Suite 100
Oakland, CA 94602-3337
Voice: (510) 530-1319 (9 AM to 9 PM) [2/00]
Fax: (510) 530-1527 (8 AM to 10 PM)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.compeace.org
Notes: Organized to partner with schools, religious
organizations and civic groups in the pursuit and nurturing of
common dreams --- a world of peace, without violence and with equal
and social justice. Strives to offer the tools, skills and
resources to make a real difference in how we see, deal and work
with the issues, causes and solutions surrounding Social Conflict
by the way of Education, Activism and Rebuilding Community.
Programs and events are custom tailored including Walkabouts for
Peace, Stand Up for Peace Discussion Groups and Peace Power
Jamborees for Kids, Teens and Youth.
Keys: community-building; conflict resolution; domestic
violence; nonviolence; peace; violence
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Name: Community Resources for Independent Living (CRIL)
Address: 439 A Street (near Myrtle and Alice)
Hayward, CA 94541
Voice: (510) 881-5743
(510) 881-0218 (TTD) [12/98]
Fax: (510) 881-1593
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Provides tools of empowerment to people with disabilities
in Southern Alameda County and advocates for improved systems to
increase independence. Offers attendant referral, housing referral,
benefits advocacy, and peer counseling.
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); disabilities; support
groups
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Name: Community Technology Alliance
Address: 115 East Gish Road, Suite 222
San Jose, CA 95112
Voice: (408) 437-8800 [1/01]
Fax: (408) 437-9169
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ctagroup.org http://www.helpSCC.org
Notes: Provides technology tools that link and network agencies
in the region to more effectively deliver services to the homeless
and at-risk populations. Community VoiceMail helps the homeless
and at-risk populations find housing, employment and stay in touch.
Provided in partnership with the Housing Authority of Santa Clara
County, the Housing Listing lists rental units available to Section
8 participants. The Shelter Bed Hotline (1-800-7SHELTER) gives
information on shelter availability throughout the nine county San
Francisco Bay Area. http://www.helpSCC.org offers online
information on all health and human service providers in Santa
Clara County.
Keys: coalitions; employment; healthcare access; homelessness;
housing; networking; Santa Clara County; services; technical
assistance
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Name: Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ctcnet.org/
Notes: A network of more than 450 community technology centers
where people get access to computers and computer-related
technology, such as the Internet.
Keys: computers; Internet; technology
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Name: Community United Against Violence (CUAV)
Address: 973 Market Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94103-1717
Voice: (415) 777-5500
(415) 333-4357 (333-HELP, a 24-hour crisis line) [1/01]
Fax: (415) 777-5565
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cuav.org
Notes: Seeks to address and prevent domestic violence and hate
violence directed at lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender
individuals and to provide empowering services to survivors of hate
violence. Offers crisis intervention, short-term counseling,
advocacy with the criminal justice system, support groups, speakers
for schools and community groups, and safety monitoring for
community events.
Keys: counseling; domestic violence; prevention; sexual
minorities; speakers; support groups; violence
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Name: Compassionate Transformation: A Buddhist Way to Heal Racism
Address: c/o Vanissar Tarakali
469 49th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (510) 594-6812 [1/01]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A course and personal growth process for white people
interested in exploring a Buddhist way to unlearn racism. This 12
week, 54 hour program emphasizes: Community, Compassion, Education,
and Spiritual Practice, and incorporates Buddhist antidotes for
guilt, denial and isolation. Sliding scale $200-$400. Shorter
workshops available.
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; racism;
spirituality
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Name: CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Address: 706 Mission Street, Fifth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103-3113
Voice: (415) 541-9000 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 541-7708
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.compasspoint.org
Notes: With offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley,
CompassPoint provides professional development as well as
comprehensive consulting services to Northern California
nonprofits. This site is also the home to 'Food for Thought' and
'Board Cafe' email newsletters, and the comic strip 'Planet 501c3:
Tales from the Nonprofit Galaxy.' Hosts the 'Nonprofit GENIE' and
'Nonprofit Consultants ONTAP' web sites.
Keys: classes / courses; communications; consultants;
fundraising; software
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Name: CompuMentor
Address: 89 Stillman Street
San Francisco, CA 94107-1309
Voice: (415) 512-7784
(800) 659-3579 [1/99]
Fax: (415) 512-9629
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.compumentor.org
Notes: Links nonprofits and schools with 'mentors' --- computer
expert volunteers who assist clients with technology projects such
as web design, computer networking and training. Also offers
dramatically discounted software to nonprofits and schools as well
as staff-based consulting for larger scale projects
Keys: computers; consultants; mentoring; networking; software;
technical assistance; volunteer matching
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Name: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
Address: POBox 717
Palo Alto, CA 94302
Voice: (650) 322-3778 [12/00]
Fax: (650) 322-4748
Web: http://www.cpsr.org
Notes: A public-interest alliance of computer scientists and
others concerned about the impact of computer technology on
society. Works to influence decisions regarding the development
and use of computers because those decisions have far-reaching
consequences and reflect our basic values and priorities. As
technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policymakers
with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations
of computer technology. As concerned citizens, CPSR directs public
attention to critical choices concerning the applications of
computing and how those choices affect society.
Keys: computers; Internet; professionals; Santa Clara County
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Name: Computer Recycling Center
Web: http://www.crc.org/
Notes: Accepts ALL computer hardware of any age, working or not
and packaged/sealed software from individuals and companies
Primary goal is to keep electronic items out of the landfill, reuse
the best, and recycle the rest.
Keys: computers; recycling; reuse
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Name: Conciliation Forums of Oakland, Inc. (CFO)
Address: 1222 Preservation Park Way
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 763-2117 [11/00]
Fax: (510) 763-7098
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Are you being annoyed by a neighbor? Having trouble with
your landlord? Having difficulty with a co-worker? You don't have
to go to court or call the police to solve many disputes.
Conciliation Forums of Oakland offers skilled, volunteer mediators
who can help you create solutions that work for all parties
involved. It's fast, fair, convenient, and confidential. Located
in Preservation Park.
Keys: mediation; noncorporate economy
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Name: Consortium For Independent Journalism
Web: http://www.consortiumnews.com/
Notes: Tackles tough, important stories that the mainstream
media either ignored or failed to cover accurately. A bi-weekly
on-line 'zine and newsletter that comes from editor / publisher
Robert Parry, who broke many of the stories now known as the
Iran-contra scandal, including the first stories on contra cocaine
smuggling.
Keys: drugs; journalism; media criticism; news; Nicaragua
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Name: Consultants ONTAP
Web: http://www.ontap.org/
Notes: A free searchable database of nonprofit consultants in
Northern California who work on issues such as strategic planning,
board development, technology, and fundraising. More than just a
list of names, ONTAP can help you find consultants with the
specific expertise you need.
Keys: consultants; fundraising; technology
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Name: Consumer Action (CA)
Address: 717 Market Street #310
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 777-9635 (consumer complaint hotline)
(415) 777-9456 (TDD) [7/00]
Fax: (415) 777-5267
Web: http://www.consumer-action.org
Notes: A consumer education and advocacy organization that
publishes consumer information on telephone, banking, and lead
poisoning issues in several languages. Makes referrals to
complaint-handling agencies and gives advice on how to resolve
problems. Conducts comparative surveys of banking services, long
distance telephone companies, and credit cards. Call the hotline
to request free publications, or for complaint information and
referral (leave a message and your call will be returned).
Keys: banks; consumer protection; corporations; lead poisoning;
telephone service
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Name: Consumers Digest
Web: http://www.consumersdigest.com
Notes: A magazine committed to helping consumers spend wisely
and maximize their value by providing practical advice,
comprehensive product evaluations, and specific recommendations.
Keys: consumer protection; magazines; products
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Name: Consumers International
Web: http://www.consumersinternational.org/
Notes: A worldwide non-profit federation of consumer
organisations, dedicated to the protection and promotion of
consumer interests. Strives to promote a fairer society through
defending the rights of all consumers, including poor, marginalized
and disadvantaged people, by supporting and strengthening member
organisations and the consumer movement in general, and by
campaigning at the international level for policies which respect
consumer concerns.
Keys: coalitions; consumer protection; policy
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Name: Consumers Union
Web: http://www.consumersunion.org/
Notes: The nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.
The web site provides informative and educational materials
developed by Consumers Union's advocacy offices on a variety of
consumer issues, including health care, financial services, food
safety, product safety, and more.
Keys: consumer protection; finance; food; healthcare access;
magazines; products
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Name: Continuum
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.continuumhiv.org/
Notes: Serves low-income and homeless HIV/AIDS-infected in
individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin district at the Ayse
Manyas Kenmore Center, five days a week. Mission is to enhance the
quality of life for persons living HIV/AIDS by providing
professional health, social, and spiritual support programs in a
safe community setting.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; homelessness; low-income; services;
spirituality
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Name: Contra Costa County Earth Day Festival
Address: POBox 4686
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Voice: (925) 274-3669 [12/00]
Fax: (925) 736-5983
Web: http://www.ccearthday.org/
Notes: An all-volunteer organization that produces one of
Northern California's largest Earth Day Festivals with crowds of
25,000+. Held at the Concord Pavilion, the Festival includes
day-long entertainment, eco-friendly veggie food, and education on
living lightly on our Earth. Also publishes a vegan Community
Cookbook to share eco-friendly seasonal recipes Please call or
write if you would like to participate in the Festival as an
exhibitor, vendor, volunteer, or sponsor.
Keys: Contra Costa County; Earth Day; festivals
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Name: Copwatch
Address: 2022 Blake Street (near Shattuck)
Berkeley, CA 94704-2604
Voice: (510) 548-0425 [3/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org
Notes: A community based volunteer organization which monitors
police activity in the Southside neighborhood of Berkeley and
elsewhere in an effort to defend the the rights of all citizens,
including those who live on the street, to fair treatment under the
law. Copwatch also carries out campaigns and distributes
educational material geared at ending institutionalized injustice
and police misconduct in our communities. Call for office hours.
Keys: homelessness; police accountability; violence
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Name: Coral Reef Alliance, The (CORAL)
Address: 2014 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 848-0110 [4/00]
Fax: (510) 848-3720
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.coral.org
Notes: A member-supported non-profit organization dedicated to
keeping coral reefs alive around the world. Works to protect coral
reefs (creating coral reef parks and protected areas), educating
people, and building active partnerships with divers, snorkelers,
the dive tourism industry, scientists, and others.
Keys: climate change; coastal environment; conservation; coral
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Name: Corporate Accountability Project
Web: http://www.corporations.org/
Notes: A web site that includes archives and guidelines for
researching particular corporations, and other information on
corporate power.
Keys: archiving; corporations; do-it-yourself; research
materials
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Name: Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Web: http://home.earthlink.net/~avkrebs/CARP/
Notes: Seeks to provide a central, accurate and in-depth source
of information on corporate agriculture's economic, social and
environmental impacts on family farmers, rural communities,
ecosystems and consumers. Goal is to increase public understanding
of corporate agribusiness through awareness, education, and action
in addition to the importance of building alternative,
democratically controlled food systems.
Keys: agriculture; consumer protection; corporations; food;
research materials; rural life
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Name: Corporate Predators
Web: http://www.corporatepredators.org/
Notes: A book by Mokhiber and Weissman on how corporations are
tightening their grip on the global political economy. It can be
ordered directly from this web site.
Keys: books; corporate globalization; corporations
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Name: Corporate Watch
Web: http://www.corpwatch.org
Notes: Provides news, analysis, research tools and action
resources to respond to corporate activity around the globe. Also
talks with people who are directly affected by corporate abuses as
well as with others fighting for corporate accountability, human
rights, social and environmental justice. As part of the
independent media, Corporate Watch is free of corporate
sponsorship. Parent organization is the Transnational Resource and
Action Center (TRAC), based in San Francisco.
Keys: analysis; corporate globalization; corporations;
environmental justice; human rights; news on-line; research
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Name: Council for Responsible Genetics
Web: http://www.gene-watch.org/
Notes: A non-profit / non-governmental organization devoted to
fostering public debate about the social, ethical, and
environmental implications of the new genetic technologies.
Keys: biotechnology
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Name: Council for Responsible Genetics
Web: http://www.essential.org/crg/
Notes: A national organization of scientists, public health
advocates, and others which promotes a comprehensive public
interest agenda for biotechnology. Advocacy and coalition building
form the core of CRG's work in program areas of genetic
discrimination, patenting of life forms, and food safety and
environmental quality.
Keys: biotechnology; civil liberties; food; intellectual
property; public health; science
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Name: Council of Churches of Santa Clara County
Address: 1710 Moor Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128-2724
Voice: (408) 297-2660 [4/99]
Fax: (408) 297-2661
Notes: Serves as a catalyst for its members as they act locally
to strengthen their ministries, support each other, and provide
moral leadership for meaningful social change. Publishes the
newsletter 'Ecumemo' six times yearly
Keys: coalitions; religion; Santa Clara County
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Name: CounterPunch
Web: http://www.counterpunch.org/
Notes: The bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander
Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Twice a month it brings its
readers the stories that the corporate press never prints.
Muckraking with a radical attitude.
Keys: investigative journalism; newsletters
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Name: craigslist
Address: 1010 Cole Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Voice: (415) 835-3134 [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.craigslist.org/
Notes: A San Francisco Bay Area community of people helping each
other out with everyday, real world stuff, via the Internet. The
intent is to be inclusive, to better humanize and democratize the
Internet. A community bulletin board covering finding a job, a
sofa, a place to live, or a roommate and so on.
Keys: community-building; employment; housing; Internet;
noncorporate economy; products; recycling; urban life
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Name: Creative Investment Research
Web: http://www.creativeinvest.com/
Notes: An investment research and management company. Does
research and creates socially responsible investments. Also
provides information on minority and women-owned brokerage firms,
banks & thrifts. A minority-owned firm.
Keys: banks; investment; multiculturalism; women
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Name: Creative Xpressions Publishing and Consulting
Address: POBox 1716
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Voice: (510) 215-8326 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.chrisconrad.com
Notes: Publishes 'Hemp, Lifeline to the Future' ($15 + $3.95
s&h) and distributes 'Hemp for Health' ($15 + $3 s&h). Offers
seminars on medical marijuana and / or industrial hemp. Produces
educational displays and audio tapes. Has several other print and
audio projects in development, and schedules appearances by and
interviews with author Chris Conrad, founder of BACH and the FCDA
and expert on hemp, marijuana, and drug policy. Also offers
'Shattered Lives: Portraits from America's Drug War' ($19.95 +
$3.95 s&h) and Human Rights and the US Drug War ($5.95 + $3.95 s&h).
Keys: books; drugs; hemp; speakers
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Name: Creativity Explored of San Francisco (Creativity Explored)
Address: 3245 16th Street (between Dolores and Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 863-2108 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 863-1655
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.creativityexplored.org
Notes: The only full-time visual arts center for developmentally
disabled adults in San Francisco. Operates two multi-media open
art studios and offers adults with disabilities the opportunity to
express themselves through the creation of art. Also provides
educational programs and assists member artists to exhibit and
market their art work.
Keys: art; disabilities; mental health
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Name: Criminal Justice Consortium
Address: 1515 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 836-6065 [7/99]
Fax: (510) 238-8088
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://idiom.com/~cjc/
Notes: A coalition of criminal justice agencies and individuals
whose mission is to change public policies that result in an
over-reliance on incarceration, and to promote the least
restrictive and cost effective alternatives to imprisonment.
Keys: coalitions; crime; incarceration; policy
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Name: Critical Mass
Web: http://cycling.org/lists/sf-critical-mass/ http://guest.xinet.com/bike/couch/
Notes: A fun, radical, spontaneous, and spirited demonstration
of bicyclists uniting to challenge the autocentric world by riding
together one afternoon each month. The San Francisco ride begins
at 5:30 pm on the last Friday of the month at the Embarcadero BART
station at the foot of Market Street, and features several hundred
riders. The Berkeley ride begins at 5:30 pm on the second Friday
of the month at the (downtown) Berkeley BART station at Shattuck
and Center Streets. To join the email forum for the SF ride, send
a message to [email protected] with the body 'subscribe
sf-critical-mass'.
Keys: autonomy; community-building; cycling; demonstrations;
email list servers; sustainability; transportation
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Name: Critical Resistance Youth Force (Youth Force)
Address: 1212 Broadway Street, Suite 1400 (near 12th Street)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-0484 [3/00]
Fax: (510) 444-2177
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.criticalresistance.org http://www.YouthEC.org
Notes: A Bay Area Coalition of 35 multiracial youth groups
working to educate their peers and the public about Proposition 21
on the March 2000 California ballot. The ballot initiative would
push more children into adult courts where they would be sentenced
to adult prisons, create new gang crimes, and vastly expand new
gang penalties including a new death penalty. Faced with this
prospect, young people are organizing to rebuild their communities
with groups like Critical Resistance Youth Force.
Keys: coalitions; death penalty; initiatives; judiciation;
prisons; youth
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Name: CropChoice.com
Web: http://www.cropchoice.com/
Notes: An information source for American farmers about
genetically modified crops, alternatives, management options, and
profitability. Cropchoice has news that big companies may not want
farmers to hear. Cropchoice provides balance, complementing other
news sources and helping American producers make the best planting
and management decisions.
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; corporations; news on-line
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Name: Crosspoint, The
Web: http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/
Notes: A large collection of links in the fields of of Human
Rights, Anti-Racism, Refugees, Women's rights, Antifascism, Shoah,
etc. Also lists links to Jewish organizations, migrant
organizations, and others.
Keys: directories; human rights; immigrants; Jewish Americans;
racism; women
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Name: CrossRoads Magazine
Notes: See Institute for Social and Economic Studies.
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Name: Cuba Poster Project (CPP)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~lcush/CPP.htm
Notes: Dedicated to documenting and disseminating the poster art
of postrevolutionary Cuba. Is also researching background
information and cataloging the materials. An electronic archive is
in progress. The CPP fought for, and won, the right to a specific
license from the US Treasury Department for travel to Cuba for the
purpose of pursuing this work. The project can be reached in care
of Inkworks Press (see also).
Keys: archiving; art; Cuba
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Name: Culture and Animals Foundation (CAF)
Web: http://www.cultureandanimals.org/
Notes: A nonprofit, cultural organization committed to fostering
the growth of intellectual and artistic endeavors united by a
postive concern for animals. Explores our relationship with
animals through cultural studies, history, and philosophy, and
celebrates our unity through poetry, dance, fiction, painting,
theater, sculpture, and music.
Keys: animal liberation; art; dance; history; music;
philosophy; poetry; theatre
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Name: Cyber Cyclery
Web: http://cycling.org/
Notes: An Internet cycling hub. Thousands of bicycle
enthusiasts around the world use Cyber Cyclery every day to find a
wide variety of biking related information, resources and services.
Keys: cycling
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Name: DataCenter
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 900
Oakland, CA 94612-2912
Voice: (510) 835-4692
(800) 735-3741 [11/99]
Fax: (510) 835-3017
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/datacenter http://www.igc.org/culturewatch/
Notes: Provides on-call research and analysis, training,
referral and consultation to justice organizations. Produces
CultureWatch, a monthly annotated bibliographic newsletter helpful
to those fighting the Religious Right's 'culture wars'.
Information Services Latin America is a professional news and
reference service that provides a comprehensive overview of US
media coverage on Latin America as it happens. See also Worldviews.
Keys: analysis; consultants; Latin America; media criticism;
newsletters; religious right; research; services
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Name: Death Penalty Focus
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 859
SF, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 243-0143 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 243-0994
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.deathpenalty.org/
Notes: A state-wide organization committed to abolishing the
death penalty in California using public education. Publishes the
quarterly newspaper 'The Sentry'.
Keys: death penalty; law; newspapers
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Name: Death with Dignity Alliance (DWDA)
Address: 520 South El Camino Real, Suite 710
San Mateo, CA 94402-1720
Voice: (650) 344-1120 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Works to legalize an individual's right to seek physician
assistance as a humane and compassionate end to the dying process.
Keys: civil liberties; healthcare access; lobbying;
physician-assisted suicide
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Name: Dedicated Urban Bikeways Project
Voice: (415) 487-6335 (Billy Boyd) [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Cars, bicycles, and walking --- three distinct modes of
transport, each needing its own traffic corridor. Pedestrians are
provided a safe dedicated corridor --- a sidewalk. Bicyclists
deserve no less. Dedicated Urban Bikeways (DUBs) are the crown
jewels of the Dutch urban infrastructure, but in the US dedicated
bikeways are built only in the countryside. DUBs are not bike
lanes, but bike roads separated from car traffic with a curb or
median, with intersection slow-down designed in. Call or write for
more info, to help promote DUBs, or to arrange a slide presentation
Keys: cycling; speakers; transportation; urban life
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Name: Defenders of Wildlife
Web: http://www.defenders.org/
Notes: Dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals
and plants in their natural communities. Focuses its programs on
what scientists consider to be two of the most serious
environmental threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of
extinction of species and the associated loss of biological
diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction.
Keys: diversity; endangered species / habitat; wilderness
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Name: Democracy Center, The
Address: POBox 22157
San Francisco, CA 94122
Voice: (415) 564-4767 [2/00]
Fax: (978) 383-1269
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.democracyctr.org/
Notes: Founded to strengthen the advocacy work of nonprofit and
community groups in California as well as NGOs in a variety of
countries around the world. Since then the Center has provided
advocacy training, counseling, strategy planning and other
assistance to hundreds of groups and thousands of people working on
social and economic justice issues on three continets.
Keys: classes / courses; counseling; democracy; economic
justice; technical assistance
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Name: Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (DUHC)
Web: http://www.monitor.net/democracyunlimited/
Notes: A grassroots effort to reclaim citizens' historic
authority to define and govern the formation and operation of the
corporation. Leads 'First Steps Toward Dismantling Corporate Rule'
workshops and discussions, publishes a newsletter, and just plain
educates, organizes, activates and strategizes! Launched a sister
organization (Citizens Concerned About Corporations) which runs
ballot initiatives that challenge corporate rule.
Keys: classes / courses; corporations; democracy; Humboldt
County; initiatives; newsletters
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Name: Democratic Activists for Women Now (DAWN)
Address: POBox 6614
San Jose, CA 95150
Voice: (408) 738-4807
(408) 297-0124 [4/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Helps elect progressive women to office. Membership is
$30 per individual ($10 for seniors, students and unemployed).
Keys: calendars; elections; political parties; Santa Clara
County; women
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Name: Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Web: http://www.dsausa.org
Notes: The largest socialist organization on the American left.
Supports the individual rights of democracy as well as the
collective responsibility of socialism.
Keys: democracy; socialism
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Name: Depleted Uranium Weapons
Web: http://antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dedg.html
Notes: A document on the use and effects of depleted uranium
(DU) weapons, as used by the US in Iraq and Yugoslavia.
Keys: Balkans; Iraq; militarism; nuclear energy; nuclear
weapons / testing; toxics
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Name: Desert Survivors
Address: POBox 20991
Oakland, CA 94620-0991
Voice: (510) 769-1706 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.desert-survivors.org/oasis
Notes: A group of people who like to explore the American desert
wilderness and are committed to its study and protection.
Recognizes that this wilderness will not survive unless those who
appreciate it are vigilant and act to preserve it. Leads hiking
and backpacking trips. Membership is $20
Keys: conservation; desert; travel; wilderness
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Name: DestroyIMF
Web: http://www.destroyimf.org/
Notes: A web resource for all those mobilizing to end the
poverty and injustice inflicted by global capitalism.
Keys: capitalism; corporate globalization; poverty; World Bank
/ IMF
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Name: Development Group for Alternative Policies, The
Web: http://www.igc.org/dgap/
Notes: Works to ensure that the knowledge, priorities and
efforts of the women and men of the South inform decisions made in
the North about their economies and the environments in which they
live. Collaborates with citizens' organizations overseas to
demonstrate practical alternatives to prevailing policies and
programs.
Keys: development; distribution of wealth; policy
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Name: Dharma Publishing
Address: 2910 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 548-5407
(800) 873-4276 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 548-2230
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nyingma.org/dp/dp.html
Notes: Publishes books and art reproductions for adults and
children that promote meaningful and compassionate action and
support multicultural diversity. Has a special focus on using work
as a source of fulfillment.
Keys: art; books; labor; multiculturalism; volunteer matching
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Name: DIANA International Human Rights Database
Web: http://www.law.uc.edu/Diana/
Keys: human rights; research materials
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Name: Digital Future Coalition
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ari.net/dfc/
Notes: Committed to striking an appropriate balance in law and
public policy between protecting intellectual property and
affording public access to it. The DFC is the result of a unique
collaboration of many of the nation's leading non-profit
educational, scholarly, library, and consumer groups, together with
major commercial trade associations representing leaders in the
consumer electronics, telecommunications, computer, and network
access industries.
Keys: coalitions; consumer protection; copyright; intellectual
property; Internet; policy
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Name: Direct Action Media Network (DAMN!)
Web: http://damn.tao.ca/
Notes: A multi-media news service that covers direct actions
that progressive organizations and individuals take to attain a
peaceful, open and enlightened society. Places its coverage of
social justice actions into both historical and contemporary
context so that any audience will find the events and issues
covered accessible.
Keys: calendars; direct action; history; news on-line
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Name: Direct Action Network
Web: http://www.directactionnetwork.org
Notes: A network of local grassroots organizations and street
theater groups across the Western United States and Canada who are
mobilizing our communities to creatively resist the World Trade
Organization (WTO) and corporate globalization.
Keys: Canada; corporate globalization; direct action; street
theater; World Trade Organization
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Name: Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
Address: 2212 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Voice: (510) 644-2555
(800) 466-4232 (Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Technical Assistance Hotline) [1/99]
Fax: (510) 841-8645
Notes: Does advocacy at local, state, and national levels
through policy reform, legal representation, and education
Keys: disabilities; legal defense; policy
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Name: District 6 Sentinel, The
Voice: (415) 771-2128 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 931-4465
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.district6sentinel.org/
Notes: Published weekly on the web, on the candidates and issues
of importance to San Francisco District 6 voters, with a special
focus on empowerment of the underclass.
Keys: class; elections; municipal government; news on-line
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Name: Diversions
Web: http://www.workingassets.com/diversions
Notes: A free weekly guide to interesting progressive events
around the San Francisco Bay, brought to you by Working Assets.
Sign up at the web site for calendars by email.
Keys: calendars
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Name: DiversityWorks
Address: 800 Heinz Avenue, Suite 14
Berkeley, CA 94710
Voice: (510) 540-7008 [1/00]
Fax: (510) 540-6976
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Strengthens cross-community interaction, fostering mutual
respect and understanding to positively impact society. Challenges
young people to share knowledge and embrace diversity through
education and leadership development.
Keys: community-building; diversity; education; youth
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Name: Doctors Without Borders / M?decins Sans Fronti?res
Web: http://www.dwb.org
Notes: The world's largest independent international medical
relief agency aiding victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and
natural and man-made disasters, and others who lack health care due
to geographic remoteness or ethnic marginalization.
Keys: healthcare access; material aid; professionals; services
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Name: Dollars and Sense
Web: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/
Notes: The only progressive economics magazine in the country
written for a popular audience.
Keys: economics; magazines
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Name: Dorothy Day House (Catholic Worker of Berkeley)
Address: POBox 12701
Berkeley, CA 94712
Voice: (510) 466-5553 [12/00]
Web: http://www.ccseb.com/ddh/
Notes: A Catholic Worker community in Berkeley, California, USA.
Seven mornings a week, they serve breakfast in the men's shelter at
the Berkeley Veterans Building, and six mornings a week at
University Lutheran Chapel, near the University of California at
Berkeley, to the poor and homeless members of our community.
Keys: homelessness; hunger; religion
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Name: Downwinders
Web: http://www.downwinders.org/
Notes: A research and educational foundation established in 1978
in Salt Lake City, Utah. Downwinders takes its name from the
residents living in the prevailing wind pattern surrounding the
Nevada Test Site, and who have been constantly exposed to
radioactive fallout from America's nuclear testing activities
conducted there. Downwinders was founded with two primary goals:
(1) To expose the plight of downwind residents whose fallout
exposures have caused cancers, leukemia, and other illnesses, and
to obtain justice for their injuries. (2) To fight for an immediate
end to all nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere.
Keys: environmental justice; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons /
testing; research; toxics
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Name: Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
Address: 6363 Christie Avenue, Suite 626
Emeryville, CA 94608
Voice: (510) 986-0660 [8/00]
Fax: (510) 986-1169
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.blackpanther.org
Notes: This non-profit organization was founded in 1993 by David
Hilliard and Fredrika Newton, and is administered by David
Hilliard. The overall aim of the Foundation is to use the
documents and things left behind by Huey P. Newton, killed in 1989,
not only to preserve the significant lessons and history of the
Black Panther Party but to maintain a contemporary program of
education and study that will enlighten and inform, and thereby
recall the spirit of the Panther.
Keys: African Americans; archiving; history
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Name: Dreamworld
Web: http://www.dreamworld.org/
Notes: An Internet domain run by Alfredo Jacobo Perez Gomez that
provides free web space, mailing list hosting, and other Internet
services to individuals or groups with altruistic intentions and to
non-commercial communities that need an online home.
Keys: email mailing lists; Internet; noncorporate economy;
services
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Name: Drug Reform Coalition Network (DRCNet)
Web: http://www.drcnet.org/
Notes: A national network of more than 10,000 activists and
concerned citizens working for drug policy reform from a variety of
perspectives, including harm reduction, reform of sentencing and
forfeiture laws, medicalization of currently Schedule I drugs, and
promotion of an open debate on drug prohibition. Opposes the
prison-building frenzy and supports rational policies.
Keys: coalitions; drugs; health; incarceration; law; policy
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Name: E. F. Schumacher Society
Web: http://www.schumachersociety.org/
Notes: An educational non-profit organization whose programs
demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can
be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and
respect for the natural environment to economic issues. Building
on a rich tradition often known as decentralism, the Society
initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization
and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically
sustainable society.
Keys: community-building; decentralization; ecology; local
currencies; sustainability
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Name: eActivist.org
Web: http://www.eactivist.org/
Notes: Works to encourage electronic activism and civic
participation by providing a comprehensive, issue-based collection
of progressive electronic actions and tools for the electronic
activist. Partners with highly respected organizations from around
the globe to deliver the best of electronic activism in a simple,
fast, and effective format. eActivist.org is a timely, useful
resource to activate social change and unite the global community.
Keys: global community; Internet
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Name: Earth First!
Address: POBox 83
Canyon, CA 94516
Voice: (510) 848-8724 (Bay Area hotline)
(408) 425-3205 (Santa Cruz hotline) [7/00]
Notes: A loose-knit network of direct action oriented
environmental activists, focused primarily on wilderness, land use,
and species issues. Local meetings are held the first Sunday of
each month at 6 pm at the Grassroots House, 2022 Blake Street (btwn
Shattuck & Milvia) in Berkeley.
Keys: civil disobedience; deforestation; direct action;
endangered species / habitat; land use
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Name: Earth First!, North Coast
Address: POBox 28
Arcata, CA 95518
Voice: (707) 825-6598 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.humboldt1.com/~ncef http://www.HeadwatersForest.org/ef
Keys: deforestation; direct action; endangered species /
habitat; Humboldt County; land use
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Name: Earth First!, Sonoma County
Address: POBox 7544
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Voice: (707) 523-1229 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Meets the first and third Mondays of the month at 7 pm at
the Sonoma County Center for Peace and Justice, located at 540
Pacific Avenue in Santa Rosa.
Keys: civil disobedience; deforestation; ecology; Sonoma County
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Name: Earth Island Institute
Address: 300 Broadway, Suite 28
San Francisco, CA 94133-3312
Voice: (415) 788-3666 [3/00]
Fax: (415) 788-7324
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.earthisland.org
Notes: An environmental organization that develops a wide
variety of innovative projects for the conservation, preservation,
and restoration of the earth. Quartlerly publication 'Earth Island
Journal' available with $25 membership ($15 low-income). See also
their Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Keys: conservation; ecology; endangered species / habitat;
magazines
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Name: Earth Neighborhood
Address: 1684 Decoto Rd. #154
Union City, CA 94587-3544
Voice: (510) 477-9120 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.earthneighborhood.com/
Notes: This humorous site takes a light look at creating a
sustainable environment and socially just change, in ways that both
entertain and inform. It is for average citizens who want to know
how 'business as usual' can operate in a just and sustainable
world. The site describes many groups and programs already in
operation around the world, with direct links so visitors can find
out more and give support locally, regionally and worldwide.
Includes environmenal news, an events calendar, book reviews, and
products for on-line order.
Keys: books; calendars; directories; ecology; global community;
humor; news on-line; products; sustainability
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Name: Earth Regeneration Society
Address: 1442-A Walnut Street #57
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 849-4155 [9/98]
Fax: (510) 849-0183
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Does research and education on climate change, ozone, and
pollution, and calls for full employment and full social support
based on survival programs and national and international
networking.
Keys: climate change; economic conversion; networking; ozone;
researchers
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Name: Earth Share of California
Address: 49 Powell Street #510
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 981-1999
(800) 368-1819 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 981-3773
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.earthshareca.org
Notes: Coordinates workplace fundraising campaigns across the
State of California. Raised nearly $2 million in 1999 to help
restore habitat, preserve wilderness areas and open space, protect
our drinking water, and educate children about the magic of their
environment.
Keys: coalitions; ecology; fundraising
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Name: EarthFirstBiotech
Web: http://www.egroups.com/group/earthfirstbiotech
Notes: A discussion list providing news and research reports of
interest to activists opposed to genetic engineering and related
issues. Press releases and action alerts are posted as well.
Keys: biotechnology; news on-line
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Name: Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
Address: 180 Montgomery Street, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA 94104-4209
Voice: (415) 627-6700 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 627-6740
Email: eajus@earthjustice.org
Web: http://www.earthjustice.org
Notes: Earthjustice, formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense
Fund, is the non-profit law firm for the environment. For more
than a quarter century, Earthjustice has represented hundreds of
environmental clients, large and small, without charge.
Keys: ecology; lawyers; legal defense
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Name: EarthLight: The Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology
Address: 111 Fairmount Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611
Voice: (510) 451-4926 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 451-3505
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.earthlight.org
Notes: A journal of sacred ecology addressing the spiritual,
psychological, and cultural dimensions of the environmental crisis.
This quarterly magazine explores the relationship of nature and
religion, science and the sacred, cosmology and community,
inspiring and empowering its readers to spirit-led activism for
Earth.
Keys: ecology; magazines; psychology; religion; science;
spirituality
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Name: EarthRights International (ERI)
Web: http://www.earthrights.org/
Notes: Combines the power of law and the power of people in
defense of human rights and the environment, our Earth rights.
Earth rights are those rights that demonstrate the connection
between human well-being and a sound environment, and include the
right to a healthy environment, the right to speak out and act to
protect the environment, and the right to participate in
development decisions. ERI's mission is to protect humans and
their natural environment from abuses occurring in the name of
development.
Keys: development; ecology; health; human rights; law
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Name: EarthSave Foundation
Address: 1509 Seabright Avenue, Suite B1
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Voice: (831) 423-0293
(800) 362-3648 [12/00]
Fax: (831) 423-1313
Email: Information@EarthSave.org
Web: http://www.earthsave.org
Notes: Educates on the powerful effects our food choices have on
the environment, our health, and all life on Earth, and supports
people in moving toward a plant-based diet. Founded by John
Robbins, author of Diet for a New America.
Keys: animal liberation; ecology; health; Santa Cruz County;
veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
Address: 548 20th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 893-7106 [2/00]
Fax: (510) 893-5362
Keys: coalitions; economics; sustainability
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Name: East Bay Bicycle Coalition (EBBC)
Address: POBox 1736
Oakland, CA 94604
Voice: (510) 433-7433 (433-RIDE) [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ebbc.org/
Notes: Promotes bicycling as an everyday means of transportation
and recreation. Deals with Alameda and Contra Costa counties and
all of the government transportation and transit agencies therein.
Provides valet bicycle parking at large public events. Publishes
the monthly newsletter RideOn.
Keys: coalitions; county government; cycling; newsletters;
transportation
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Name: East Bay Business and Professional Alliance (EBBPA)
Address: POBox 20980
Oakland, CA 94620-0980
Voice: (510) 287-2571 (voicemail) [3/01]
Web: http://lavenderchamber.org/
Notes: An organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
business owners, professionals and community leaders. Promotes and
serves its members and acts as a community building, networking,
and business development resource to the GLBT East Bay community.
Keys: business; professionals; sexual minorities
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Name: East Bay Buying Club
Address: POBox 89
Berkeley, CA 94701
Voice: (510) 548-5294 [7/00]
Notes: Goal is to offer its members environmentally-sensitive
alternatives to all common products used in the home. Monthly
purchases currently include organic bulk and packaged foods,
recycled paper products, and biodegradeable cleaning supplies.
Keys: consumer protection; food; organic agriculture; products;
recycling
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Name: East Bay Community Law Center
Address: 3130 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705-1823
Voice: (510) 548-4040 [6/99]
Fax: (510) 548-2566
Notes: Defends low-income people in cases involving eviction,
government benefits, and AIDS law
Keys: AIDS / HIV; housing; legal services; low-income; welfare
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Name: East Bay Conservation Corps (EBCC)
Address: 1021 Third Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 992-7800 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 992-7951
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ebcc-school.org
Notes: Dedicated to promoting youth development through
environmental stewardship and community service and furthers
education reform and social change. The EBCC encompasses several
interrelated programs and a charter school based on service
learning. Through service learning, the EBCC engages young people
from all walks of life in their education and development while
addressing environmental and social issues. The EBCC?s
comprehensive program model enhances participants? academic,
leadership, employment and life skills, self-esteem, civic
responsibility and environmental awareness.
Keys: conservation; education; employment; youth
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Name: East Bay Express
Address: POBox 3198
Berkeley, CA 94703-0198
Voice: (510) 540-7400 [1/99]
Fax: (510) 540-7700
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A progressive weekly newspaper and entertainment guide,
distributed free on the street
Keys: newspapers
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Name: East Bay Men's Chorus
Address: 2700 Hearst Avenue, #3a10
Berkeley, CA 94720
Voice: (510) 664-0260 [2/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.eastbaymenschorus.20m.com/
Notes: A small- to medium-sized male vocal ensemble whose
mission is to promote understanding and a positive image of the
Queer community through artistic excellence. The group will
perform music of varying genres --- from Baroque to pop, Jazz to
contemporary artsong, traditional ethnic folksongs to Gregorian
chant. The group will offer its members a safe and inclusive place
for artistic expression, and will expand its audiences' musical
horizons.
Keys: men; music; sexual minorities
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Name: East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC)
Address: 2362 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 540-5296 [5/99]
Fax: (510) 540-5907
Notes: A group of religious congregations aiding Salvadoran and
Guatemalan refugees, responding to human rights violations in
Central America, educating the public about refugees, and
advocating change in US policy.
Keys: El Salvador; Guatemala; human rights; policy; refugees;
religion
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Name: East Bay Skeptics Society
Address: 70 Yosemite Avenue #309
Oakland, CA 94611
Voice: (510) 420-0202 [1/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.eb-skeptics.org
Notes: A local non-profit, member-governed organization
dedicated to the advancement of reason, science and intellectual
integrity, and to the exposure of superstition, fraud and
pseudoscience.
Keys: analysis; science; skepticism
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Name: East Bay Urban Gardeners (EBUG)
Address: 1801 Adeline Street #208
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 834-5342 [6/99]
Fax: (510) 834-7677
Notes: Develops and cultivates urban community gardens,
emphasizing the development of community as well as the gardens
themselves. Works with schools, neighbors, and merchants to grow
food and beautiful, safe places for people to gather.
Keys: community-building; employment; gardening
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Name: East Timor Action Network / San Francisco (ETAN / SF)
Address: POBox 420832
San Francisco, CA 94142-0832
Voice: (415) 626-9906 [5/00]
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.etan.org
Notes: In the aftermath of East Timor's August 30, 1999 vote for
independence from Indonesia, ETAN supports a democratic and
peaceful transition to an independent East Timor.
Keys: East Timor; Indonesia; militarism; networking;
self-determination
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Name: East Timor Religious Outreach
Address: 1600 Clay Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 474-6219 [11/98]
Fax: (415) 474-6219 (same as voice)
Notes: Amnesty International estimates that over 200,000 people
in East Timor (one third of the population) have been killed since
Indonesia began their occupation in 1975.
Keys: East Timor; human rights; militarism; religion
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Name: Echelonwatch
Web: http://echelonwatch.org/ http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html
Notes: ECHELON is a code word for an automated global
interception and relay system operated by the intelligence agencies
in five nations: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada,
Australia and New Zealand. This site is designed to encourage
public discussion of this potential threat to civil liberties, and
to urge the governments of the world to protect our rights.
Keys: Australia; CIA / FBI / NSA; civil liberties; control
techniques; government
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Name: Eco Echo
Web: http://www.ecoecho.org/
Notes: A directory of the forest activist community of Eugene,
Oregon.
Keys: deforestation; direct action; directories
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Name: Eco-Compass
Web: http://www.islandpress.com/
Notes: An Internet guide to environmental information.
Keys: ecology; research materials
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Name: EcoCalendar
Web: http://www.ecocalendar.org
Notes: An online calendar of environmental events for the San
Francisco Bay Area, plus a directory of Bay Area environmental
organizations.
Keys: calendars; directories; ecology
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Name: Ecocity Builders
Address: 1678 Shattuck Avenue #66
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 649-1817 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 649-1817 (same as voice)
Notes: Builds model projects that shift development from sprawl
to compact pedestrian centers while withdrawing from car-dependent
areas. Plants urban street orchards, restores creeks, and is
working on redesigning downtown Berkeley to bring back Strawberry
Creek, create a plaza and pedestrian street and terraced housing
with solar greenhouses in the Center Street / Shattuck area.
Recently published Village Wisdom / Future Cities, a book about
the Third International Ecocity Conference held in Senegal, Africa.
Recently helped organize the Fourth International Ecocity
Conference in Brazil. Speakers are available on ecological city
planning, design, and activism.
Keys: development; ecology; gardening; housing; land use;
speakers; transportation; urban life
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Name: Ecological Building Network
Address: 209 Caledonia Street
Sausalito, CA 94965-1926
Voice: (415) 331-7630 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 332-4072
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/
Notes: A growing and international association of builders,
engineers, architects, academics and developers committed to
promoting intelligent building methods and materials for a
sustainable future. Projects include the publication of
inexpensive guides clarifying key topics such as fly ash concrete,
and earthen and straw-bale construction; sponsoring conferences and
seminars for the exchange of ideas; influencing building codes and
standards; and providing technical assistance to non-profits and
NGO's working in the developing world.
Keys: development; housing; policy; professionals;
sustainability; technical assistance; toxics
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Name: Ecological Villager's Alliance
Address: 662 7th Street, Suite 1
Oakland, CA 94607-3609
Voice: (510) 834-2630 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 834-2630 (same as voice)
Web: http://www4.sirius.com/~marcello/
Notes: A resource for eco-villagers, permaculturists,
intentional community members, co-housing residents, neighborhood
organizers, sustainable developers, organic farmers, and others
organizing to change the world by creating a human culture that
works with nature.
Keys: cohousing; development; ecology; intentional communities;
organic agriculture; sustainability
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Name: Ecology Action
Address: 5798 Ridgewood Road
Willits, CA 95490
Voice: (707) 459-0150 [10/00]
Fax: (707) 459-5409
Web: http://www.growbiointensive.org/
Notes: For the past 28 years, Ecology Action has been
researching, developing and sharing millenia-old techniques for
growing more food in a small area, using simple tools and seeds,
while maintaining or increasing the health and productivity of the
soil. Growing fertile soil, healthy food and beautiful gardens is
what the work of Ecology Action is all about.
Keys: do-it-yourself; gardening; history; organic agriculture;
researchers; seeds
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Name: Ecology Center
Address: 2530 San Pablo Avenue (at Blake)
Berkeley, CA 94702-2000
Voice: (510) 548-2220
(510) 548-3402 (bookstore)
(510) 527-5555 (recycling hotline)
(510) 548-3333 (farmers markets) [12/00]
Fax: (510) 548-2240
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ecologycenter.org
Notes: A bookstore, ecological living / gardening supply store,
and library open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 5. Publishes
the monthly magazine Terrain (with an events calendar), available
with a $25 membership or in bookstores for $3 per issue. Runs a
curbside recycling program and the three Berkeley Farmers' Markets.
Call for the 'Eastbay Recycling Guide'.
Keys: calendars; ecology; farmers markets; libraries;
magazines; recycling
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Name: EcoMall
Web: http://www.ecomall.com/
Notes: Lots of links for renewable energy, activism, products,
news, and more.
Keys: ecology; energy; news; products
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Name: EcoNet
Web: http://www.igc.org/igc/en/
Notes: One of the computer networks of the Institute for Global
Communications. Working to support ecological sustainability and
environmental justice.
Keys: ecology; environmental justice; sustainability
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Name: Economic Justice Now
Address: c/o Food First
398 60th Street
Oakland, CA 94618
Voice: (510) 464-5921 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 654-4551
Email: info@economicjustice.org
Web: http://www.economicjustice.org
Notes: A grassroots organization focused on issues of economic
justice and globalization. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area,
Economic Justice Now promotes economic policies and systems which
foster social equity and ecological sustainability. Seeks to
educate the public and to advocate before policy makers and opinion
shapers regarding the inequities created through structural
adjustment programs and other neoliberal economic policies, and to
promote egalitarian, sustainable alternatives.
Keys: Africa; coalitions; corporate globalization; debt
cancellation; development; economic justice; history; labor;
Mexico; neoliberalism; noncorporate economy; policy;
self-determination; self-reliance; trade; World Bank / IMF
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Name: Economic Policy Institute
Web: http://www.epinet.org/
Notes: A nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public
debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.
Keys: analysis; distribution of wealth; economics; policy
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Name: Economics Working Group (EWC)
Web: http://www.greenecon.org/
Notes: Bring together professionals and advocates to examine
underlying economic issues related to environmental sustainability
and to promote public education on these issues. As a result of
this dialogue, the EWG developed a General Agreement on a New
Economy, GANE, which suggests a structure that would allow
communities to move toward sustainability, equity and full
employment.
Keys: ecology; economics; employment; professionals;
sustainability
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Name: EcoVegEvents.com
Web: http://EcoVegEvents.com
Notes: An on-line calendar of environmental, animal protection,
and vegetarian events. You can submit your own events on-line.
Keys: animal liberation; calendars; ecology; veganism /
vegetarianism
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Name: eGroups Activism Directory
Web: http://www.egroups.com/dir/Society/Activism
Notes: A web directory of the activism-related email groups on
eGroups, a free email group service that allows you to easily
create and join email groups.
Keys: directories; email mailing lists
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Name: Elders for Survival
Address: POBox 9721
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 525-0112
(415) 586-3185 [4/99]
Notes: A solidarity organization principally concerned with
Nicaragua, doing political work and providing material aid. Meets
monthly on alternate sides of the bay. Anyone is welcome to join
(not just elders)
Keys: material aid; Nicaragua; seniors; solidarity
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Name: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Address: 454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 436-9333 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 436-9993
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.eff.org/
Notes: Mission includes preserving free expression (upholding
rights to digital free expression from political, legal and
technical threats), defining digital privacy (empowering people to
maintain their privacy and control their digital identity), and
building people in (ensuring systems are designed to respect
people's rights, such as free speech, privacy and fair use).
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; free speech; Internet; law;
privacy
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Name: Electronic Policy Network
Web: http://epn.org/
Notes: The front door to progressive policy on the Web. A
network of top policy and research institutions, EPN provides
timely information and leading ideas about the policies and
politics that shape our world. Goal is to provide trenchant policy
analysis to the general public, so that citizens, students,
legislators, advocacy groups, educators, and researchers may easily
keep pace with the issues that matter. The web site includes
up-to-the-minute information on new releases from member
organizations.
Keys: analysis; coalitions; news on-line; policy; researchers
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Name: Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Web: http://www.epic.org
Notes: A public interest research center in Washington, DC. It
was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil
liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and
constitutional values.
Keys: civil liberties; freedom of information; Internet;
privacy; telephone service
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Name: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Address: 1230 Market Street #409
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 951-4844 [9/98]
Fax: (415) 951-4813
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Provides free legal representation to victims of
discrimination or racism and first-rate legal assistance to
individuals and community organizations. Sponsors Bay Area
PoliceWatch.
Keys: civil rights; human rights; lawyers; legal services;
police accountability; racism
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Name: Emma Goldman Papers, The
Web: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
Keys: anarchism; history; women
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Name: Emperors-Clothes.com
Web: http://www.emperors-clothes.com/
Notes: Aims to combat media misinformation about NATO/U.S.
foreign policy. Contends that NATO, led by the U.S. and Germany,
is engaged in an aggressive drive to the East, and that
humanitarian rhetoric is used to justify military and economic
attacks on weaker nations.
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Name: End the Sanctions on Iraq
Web: http://www.endthesanctions.org
Notes: A web page sponsored by a coalition of organizations,
including the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the
American Friends Service Committee, and the International Action
Center.
Keys: coalitions; economic sanctions; Iraq
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Name: Ending Corporate Governance
Web: http://www.ratical.com/corporations/
Notes: Working to put an end to plutocracy
Keys: corporations; corporate globalization; populism
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Name: Engaged Buddhist Dharma Page
Web: http://www.engagedpage.com/
Keys: religion
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Name: EnviroLink Network
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.envirolink.org/
Notes: A comprehensive resource for individuals, organizations
and businesses working for social and environmental change.
Includes news and feature articles.
Keys: ecology; news on-line
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Name: Environment News Service
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ens-news.com
Notes: The original daily international wire service of the
environment. Exists to present late-breaking environmental news in
a fair and balanced manner.
Keys: ecology; news on-line
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Name: Environmental Center of Sonoma County
Address: POBox 4346
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Voice: (707) 578-0595 [7/99]
Web: http://www.monitor.net/~ec/
Notes: A 501©3 charitable nonprofit and a project of the
Sonoma County Conservation Council, operated by volunteers.
Supports the work of member organizations, serves as an information
and referral service, and provides opportunity for ad hoc groupings
to work on specific issues. Located at 632 Fifth Street.
Keys: ecology; Sonoma County
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Name: Environmental Defense
Address: Rockridge Market Hall
5655 College Avenue, Suite 304
Oakland, CA 94618
Voice: (510) 658-8008 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 658-0630
Notes: A national organization (based in NY) that links science,
economics, and law to create innovative, economically viable
solutions to today's environmental problems. Includes more than 50
full-time scientists, engineers, lawyers, and economists supported
by a membership of over 200,000.
Keys: ecology; economics; law; professionals; science
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Name: Environmental Justice Resource Center
Web: http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/
Notes: A center at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia.
Keys: environmental justice
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Name: Environmental Law Foundation (ELF)
Address: 1736 Franklin Street, 9th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 208-4555 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 208-4562
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.envirolaw.org
Notes: Provides legal and technical assistance to communities
and individuals at risk of or impacted by toxic exposures. Not
affiliated with any industry, company, or product.
Keys: lead poisoning; legal services; Proposition 65 (toxics
labeling); technical assistance; toxics
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Name: Environmental News Network
Web: http://www.enn.com/
Notes: A web site that features daily news updates and in-depth
coverage of important environmental issues.
Keys: ecology; news on-line
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Name: Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC)
Address: POBox 397
Garberville, CA 95542
Voice: (707) 923-2931 [1/00]
Fax: (707) 923-4210
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wildcalifornia.org
Notes: Strives to preserve one of the world's most productive
and endangered ecosystems, the coastal low elevation ancient
forests of northern California, through public education, citizen
advocacy, and litigation. Focuses on protecting the redwood
wilderness of Headwaters Forest from Maxxam Corporation's Pacific
Lumber.
Keys: corporations; deforestation; endangered species /
habitat; Humboldt County; litigation
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Name: Environmental Research Foundation (ERF)
Web: http://www.rachel.org/
Notes: 'News and resources for environmental justice.'
Providing understandable scientific information about human health
and the environment. Publishes Rachel's Environment & Health
Weekly.
Keys: ecology; environmental justice; health; news on-line;
research materials; science
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Name: Environmental Working Group (EWG)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ewg.org
Notes: A leading content provider for public interest groups and
concerned citizens who are campaigning to protect the environment.
Through reports, articles, technical assistance and the development
of computer databases and Internet resources, EWG's staff of 18
researchers, computer experts and writers produce hundreds of
headline-making reports each year, drawing on original EWG analyses
of government and other data. EWG is based in Washington, D.C.,
with an office in San Francisco.
Keys: analysis; ecology; Internet; research materials;
researchers; technical assistance; writers
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Name: EnviroVideo
Web: http://home.earthlink.net/~envirovideo/
Notes: Produces environmental and social justice programs for
television, including interview and news shows, specials, and
documentaries
Keys: ecology; film / video; news; television
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Name: EnviroWatch
Web: http://www.envirowatch.org/
Notes: Conveys information regarding environmental issues and
passes on articles and pages that may be of interest to those
concerned about protecting our resources. Mission is to assist you
in putting an end to environmental injustice by way of
investigating and exposing environmental degradation, habitat
destruction, poaching, clear cutting, pollution, animal cruelty,
and government waste and abuse.
Keys: conservation; ecology; endangered species / habitat;
pollution
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Name: Equal Rights Advocates (ERA)
Address: 1663 Mission Street, Suite 550 (near Duboce)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 621-0672 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 621-6744
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.equalrights.org/
Notes: Works to achieve women's equality and economic security
through litigation, education, legislative advocacy and practical
advice and counseling. Focuses on assuring equal opportunity,
advancing workplace rights, preventing sexual harassment in the
workplace and schools and reforming welfare-to-work.
Keys: counseling; education; litigation; sexual harassment;
welfare; women
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Name: eRideShare.com
Web: http://www.erideshare.com/
Notes: A free service for connecting carpoolers commuting
locally as well as longer-distance travelers going the same way. A
good way to travel inexpensively, and maybe even make a few friends.
Keys: transportation; travel
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Name: Everything Black
Web: http://www.everythingblack.com
Notes: The place to find anything and everything BLACK on the
Net!
Keys: African Americans; directories
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Name: Eviction Defense Center, A Non-Profit Law Corporation
Address: 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 726 (near 16th Street)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-4541 [8/00]
Fax: (510) 452-4875
Notes: Provides legal services to prevent evictions.
Keys: housing; legal services
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Name: Exotic Dancers Alliance
Web: http://www.eda-sf.org/
Notes: A collective group of self-identified female exotic
dancers collaborating together to obtain adequate working
conditions and civil rights within the sex industry.
Keys: labor; sex work
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Name: FactoryFarming.com
Web: http://www.factoryfarming.com/index.htm
Notes: Factory farming is an attitude which regards animals and
the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit.
In animal agriculture, this attitude has lead to institutionalized
animal cruelty, massive environmental destruction and resource
depletion, and animal and human health risks.
Keys: agriculture; animal liberation; commodification; health;
technology
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Name: Fair Trade Federation (FTF)
Notes: An association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and
producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and
good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged
artisans and farmers worldwide. Directly links low-income
producers with consumer markets and educates consumers about the
importance of purchasing fairly traded products which support
living wages and safe and healthy conditions for workers in the
Third World. Also acts as a clearinghouse for information on fair
trade and provides resources and networking opportunities for its
members.
Keys: agriculture; consumer lifestyle; fair trade; living wage;
research materials
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Name: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Web: http://www.igc.org/fair
Notes: A national media watch group based in New York City
offering well-documented criticism in an effort to correct media
bias and imbalance. Focusses public awareness on the narrow
corporate ownership of the press, the media's allegiance to
official agendas, and their insensitivity to women, labor,
minorities, and other public interest constituencies. Seeks to
invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater media
pluralism and the inclusion of public interest voices in national
debates. Note: 'Economics Reporting Review', an analysis of
economics reporting in the 'newspapers of record', can now be found
at TomPaine.com.
Keys: analysis; corporations; economics; First Amendment; media
criticism
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Name: Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)
Web: http://www.famm.org/
Notes: A national organization of citizens working to repeal
federal and state mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial
discretion. To ensure equity and fairness at all stages of the
sentencing process, FAMM also works to improve sentencing
guidelines. Formed in 1991, FAMM has 17,000 members and 25
volunteer-run chapters across the country.
Keys: drugs; family; incarceration; law; policy
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Name: Families to Amend California's Three Strikes
Web: http://www.facts1.com/
Notes: A state-wide California organization with the purpose of
amending the California 'Three Strikes' law to target violent
felonies only
Keys: incarceration; Proposition 184 (Three Strikes)
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Name: Family Council on Drug Awareness (FCDA)
Address: POBox 1716
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Voice: (510) 215-8326 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.fcda.org
Notes: Concerned with the effects of drug use and prohibition on
the family and individual members of society. Promotes legal
reforms that respect human rights, encourage responsible behavior,
separate cannabis from hard drugs, and protect children from the
unregulated criminal market of illegal drugs. Supports age of
consent at 18 years. Main focus is on producing accurate
educational materials and sponsoring special projects.
Keys: drugs; family; hemp; law; legislation
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Name: Farm, The
Web: http://www.thefarm.org/
Notes: Located on 3 square miles in south central Tennessee, The
Farm is home to approximately 200 persons today. Founded in 1971
with a spiritual commitment to simple living and self-reliance,
The Farm has pioneered a wide range of social and physical
technologies appropriate to low-cost, high satisfaction community
living. The community offers examples of solar building design,
micro-enterprise, mushroom cultivation, large scale composting and
food production, and regenerative hardwood forest management.
Keys: agriculture; composting; rural life; self-reliance
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Name: Farm Sanctuary
Web: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/
Notes: Since incorporating in 1986, Farm Sanctuary has
established America's premier farm animal shelters and waged
effective campaigns to stop farm animal cruelty. In addition to
its No Downers, Boycott Veal and Farm Animal Defense campaigns,
Farm Sanctuary promotes a vegan lifestyle.
Keys: agriculture; animal liberation; boycotts; veganism /
vegetarianism
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Name: Farmworker Support Committee
Address: POBox 10782
Oakland, CA 94610
Voice: (510) 832-2372 [7/99]
Fax: (510) 482-9241
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ufw.org
Notes: Community residents showing support for the farm workers
in the fields, who continue to work under poor conditions and the
threat of cancer-causing pesticides.
Keys: agriculture; Chicanas / Chicanos; labor
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Name: Farmworkers Website, The
Web: http://www.farmworkers.org/
Notes: An initiative of Sin Fronteras Organizing Project. The
website is dedicated to publicize their work and to educate the
public about the plight of the agricultural workers. More
importantly, the website is to recognize the dignity of the
contributions made by the men, women and children who work very
hard to feed us.
Keys: agriculture; labor
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Name: Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
Web: http://www.forusa.org/
Notes: A national, interfaith, pacifist organization that
promotes nonviolent tactics for change among grassroots activists
and organizers and sponsors ongoing delegations and exchange
residency programs in Latin America.
Keys: Latin America; nonviolence; religion
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Name: Feminist Majority Foundation
Web: http://www.feminist.org/
Notes: Committed to empowering women and winning equality
through research, the sharing of information of value to feminists
everywhere, and effective action. Supported by the generosity of
tens of thousands of caring feminists -- women and men -- all
across the USA and around the world. The web site includes news,
and events calendar, and research information.
Keys: calendars; feminism; news on-line; research materials
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Name: Filipino Civil Rights Advocates (FilCRA)
Address: c/o FAA
310 Eighth Street, Suite 306
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 465-9876 x370 [12/99]
Fax: (510) 465-7548
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.filcra.org
Notes: Dedicated to education and organizing around key civil
rights issues in coalition with other organizations and information
clearinghouses for Filipino causes.
Keys: civil rights; Philippines / Filipinos
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Name: Filipinos for Affirmative Action (San Pablo Office)
Address: 750 El Portal Shopping Center
San Pablo, CA 94806
Voice: (510) 237-5294 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 237-4246
Keys: affirmative action; Philippines / Filipinos
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Name: Filipinos for Affirmative Action (Union City Office)
Address: 31080 Union City Blvd, Suite 109
Union City, CA 94587
Voice: (510) 487-8552 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 487-3930
Web: http://www.filipinos4action.org
Keys: affirmative action; Philippines / Filipinos
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Name: FireWorx
Address: POBox 14422
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 431-3594 [12/98]
Fax: (415) 431-3594
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.fireworx.org
Notes: A radical, multi-issue activist organization.
Keys: immigrants; intervention; political prisoners; Puerto
Rico; racism; sexual minorities; women
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Name: First Amendment Project
Address: 1736 Franklin, 8th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 208-7744 [11/98]
Fax: (510) 465-6248
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://well.com/user/fap
Notes: A public-interest law firm protecting the right to
participate in government and to speak freely on public issues.
Offers low-cost to no-cost advice and legal services to
journalists, public-interest organizations, and private citizens.
Provides advice on public records and Freedom of
Information-related issues. Distributes three free basic guides to
California's open-meetings law, the Public Records Act, and access
to courts and court records.
Keys: First Amendment; freedom of information; government;
journalism; lawyers; legal services
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Name: First Congregational Church of San Francisco
Address: 432 Mason Street (near Post Street)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 392-7461 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.SanFranciscoUCC.org
Notes: A member church of the United Church of Christ, the
largest denomination to affirm lesbians and gays. Embraces a
liberal theology and commitment to social justice.
Keys: justice; religion; sexual minorities
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Name: First Run Features
Web: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/
Notes: Founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers to advance the
distribution of independent film. Under the leadership of the late
independent film pioneer, Fran Spielman, First Run Features quickly
gained a reputation for its controversial catalog of daring
independent fiction and non-fiction films. First Run Features
remains one of the largest independent theatrical and home video
distributors in the United States, releasing 12 to 15 films a year
in theatres nationwide and 40 to 50 videos and DVDs annually.
Keys: film / video; products
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Name: Flag Burning Page
Web: http://www.esquilax.com/flag/
Keys: free speech; law; legislation
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Name: FOCUS on the Global South (FOCUS)
Web: http://www.focusweb.org
Notes: A program of progressive development policy research and
practice, dedicated to regional and global policy analysis,
micro-macro linking and advocacy work. FOCUS works with NGOs and
people's organizations in Asia Pacific and other regions. Based in
Bangkok, Thailand.
Keys: analysis; Asia; development; distribution of wealth;
policy; research
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Name: Folk This! - Traditional Music with Attitude
Voice: (415) 431-8485 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 431-8485 (call first)
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Vocal quartet that sings music linking the struggles of
the present with our rich history of resistance. Repetoire
includes tunes from the 1870's to the 1990's. Performs at
concerts, rallies, marches and picket lines. Available for
fundraising events.
Keys: history; music
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Name: Food Chain
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.food-chain.net/
Notes: Delivers organic vegan meals for two by bicycle in time
for lunch in several San Francisco neighborhoods.
Keys: cycling; food; organic agriculture; veganism /
vegetarianism
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Name: Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Address: 398 60th Street
Oakland, CA 94618-1212
Voice: (510) 654-4400 [3/01]
Fax: (510) 654-4551
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.foodfirst.org
Notes: Empowers citizens to address the root causes of hunger,
poverty, and environmental decline. Food First's research and
educational materials reveal how anti-democratic institutions and
belief systems promote hunger and environmental decline. Food
First promotes the economic human right to food for all people and
works to reshape the global food system by challenging industrial
agriculture and promoting alternative food systems.
Keys: agriculture; democracy; development; distribution of
wealth; ecology; food; hunger; policy
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Name: Food Not Bombs, East Bay (FNB)
Address: c/o The Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 644-4187 [11/00]
Fax: (510) 649-7751
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ebfnb.org/
Notes: Prepares and serves free, hot, vegetarian food five days
a week to hungry people at People's Park in Berkeley (weekdays
around 2:30 pm) and weekly at the Sutter Hotel in downtown Oakland
(at 14th & Jefferson). FNB is part of the community they serve.
They survive on direct food donations from local bakeries, produce
outlets, and restaurants, without government or charity money.
Always seeking new volunteers to help cook, clean, serve, and be a
part of the community. Meetings are Wednesday nights at the Long
Haul at 8:30 pm.
Keys: direct action; homelessness; hunger; services
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Name: Food Not Bombs, San Francisco (FNB)
Address: POBox 40485
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 675-9928 (voicemail) [8/00]
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.webcom.com/~peace/PEACTREE/stuff/stuff/HOMEPAGE.html http://www.webcom.com/~peace/PEACTREE/stuff/stuff/locals/sanfran.html http://www.tao.ca/~fnbtor/fnb-l/ http://www.foodnotbombs.org/
Notes: A consensus-run group feeding hungry people every day,
providing health and social justice information with hot vegetarian
meals. Needs new members, kitchens for cooking, drivers, cooks,
and servers.
Keys: direct action; homelessness; hunger; services
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Name: Foreign Policy In Focus
Web: http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/
Notes: An Internet gateway to foreign policy. A joint project
of the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for
Policy Studies.
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Name: Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Web: http://www.forests.org/
Notes: A web site with vast rainforest, forest and biodiversity
conservation news & information. Mission is to contribute to the
conservation of forests, biodiversity and indigenous cultures
through targeted informational networking.
Keys: archiving; biodiversity; conservation; deforestation;
indigenous people; networking; news on-line; rainforests; research
materials
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Name: Forest Guardians
Web: http://www.fguardians.org/
Notes: Mission is to protect and restore the native biological
diversity and watersheds of the American Southwest and Northern
Mexico; educate and enlist citizens to support protection of the
forests, rivers, deserts and grasslands of this arid region;
advocate for the principles of conservation biology in plans to
restore degraded ecosystems and watersheds; enforce and strengthen
environmental laws; support communities in efforts to protect their
land and to practice and promote sustainable use of natural
resources.
Keys: biodiversity; conservation; deforestation; desert; law;
Mexico
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Name: Forests Forever (FoFo)
Address: 973 Market Street #450 (between 5th and 6th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 974-3636 (974-FOFO) [6/00]
Fax: (415) 974-3664
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.forestsforever.org
Notes: Works on a state-wide level to protect and restore
California's endangered forests, watersheds and wildlife habitats
through educational, legislative, and electoral activities.
Coordinates with grassroots environmentalists across the state.
Current priority is Assembly Bill (A.B.) 717, the 'Closing the
Logging Loopholes' bill. Also working on campaigns concerning the
Sierra Nevada, national forests, and Humboldt and Mendocino
counties. Membership is $20 per year.
Keys: deforestation; elections; endangered species / habitat;
legislation; networking; petitions; wilderness
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Name: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (FEAR)
Web: http://www.fear.org
Notes: Works for changes in laws that currently give government
agencies a direct financial interest in seizing the assets of drug
suspects: (1) forfeiture assets should go to a general fund and
not to agencies that seize them, (2) civil forfeiture cases should
regard the suspect as innocent until proven guilty, and (3)
penalties should be commensurate with the crime.
Keys: civil liberties; drugs; finance; law
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Name: Foundation Center, The
Web: http://fdncenter.org/
Notes: Your gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web.
Mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field
by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information
on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. Audiences
include grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the
media, and the general public.
Keys: grants / financial aid
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Name: Foundation for Global Community
Address: 222 High Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301-1040
Voice: (650) 328-7756 [11/98]
Fax: (650) 328-7785
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.globalcommunity.org
Notes: An educational movement whose mission is to discover,
live and communicate what is needed to build a world that functions
for the benefit of all. Grew out of the Beyond War movement.
Conducting a variety of projects related to sustainability,
spirituality, education, ending militarism, etc.
Keys: global community; militarism; Santa Clara County;
spirituality; sustainability
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Name: Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA)
Web: http://www.villagebanking.org/
Notes: Serves 121,120 borrowers through approximately 6,092
Village Banking groups. Mission is to support the economic and
human development of families trapped in severe poverty. To do
this, creates 'village banks': peer groups of 10 to 50 members,
predominantly women.
Keys: family; microenterprise; poverty; women
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Name: Foundation on Economic Trends
Web: http://www.biotechcentury.org/
Notes: Mission is to examine emerging trends in science and
technology and their impacts on the environment, the economy,
culture and society. President is author Jeremy Rifkin. Recent
books cover the growth of the Internet, the need for fewer workers,
and the problems with biotechnology.
Keys: analysis; biotechnology; books; economics; Internet;
labor; science; technology
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Name: Frank Little Club
Voice: (925) 798-3698
(510) 655-5764 [5/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A revolutionary socialist caucus inside the Peace and
Freedom Party. Their namesake, Frank Little, was a revolutionary
miners' leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He
was this radical union's most outspoken anti-imperialist and led
many Free Speech Fights and massive workers' struggles. He was
lynched by thugs hired by the copper bosses in Butte, Montana in
1917.
Keys: free speech; history; imperialism; labor; political
parties; socialism
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Name: Free Burma
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/index.html
Notes: A collection of software, hardware, documentation, and
volunteers, all doing what they're best at to hasten the
replacement of the current military government who tortures its
citizens with one chosen by the people who live there.
Keys: Burma; government; militarism; torture
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Name: Free Howard Mechanic
Web: http://www.howardmechanic.org/
Notes: Howard Mechanic has been in prison since February 10,
2000 for his part in a 1970 Anti-Vietnam War Demonstration.
Keys: political prisoners; Vietnam
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Name: Free Lori!
Web: http://www.freelori.org/
Notes: Lori Berenson has been convicted and sentenced to life in
prison without parole by the Peruvian government, who claim that
she plotted terrorist activities with Tupac Amaru rebels. She had
been working as an accredited journalist for Third World Viewpoint,
a New York magazine, investigating human rights abuses in Peru.
Keys: human rights; journalism; Peru; political prisoners
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Name: Free Radicals, The
Address: c/o Janice Flux
POBox 16651
San Francisco, CA 94116-0651
Voice: (415) 789-8000 x1180 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.jesusshaves.com/freeradical
Notes: Mission is to provide a safe space for people of San
Francisco to communicate, teach, learn, and grow. The space will
act as a convergence point in the vast web of progressive
institutions and community organizations in the area. Resources
such as computers, a fax machine, a copier, etc. will be provided
for free or for a small donation. Space will be allotted for
workshops, classes, and other events.
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; computers;
networking; noncorporate economy; spaces for events
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Name: Free Radio Berkeley (FRB)
Address: PMB406
1442-A Walnut Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 549-0732 [2/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.freeradio.org
Notes: Liberation radio offering music and information with an
anarchist perspective that you won't hear elsewhere, broadcast as a
20 to 40-watt signal in Berkeley at 104.1 FM. Shut down by the
federal government in 1998, the frequency is now being used by
Berkeley Liberation Radio.
Keys: anarchism; First Amendment; free speech; microbroadcasting
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Name: Free Speech TV
Web: http://www.freespeech.org/
Notes: A cable TV programming service dedicated to providing
television viewers with the best of activist, community-based, and
alternative media.
Keys: free speech; television
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Name: Freedom Archives, The
Web: http://www.freedomarchives.org/
Notes: Contains over 5000 hours of tapes including original
source materials, live reports, interviews and produced radio
programs. These materials date from the late 60s and chronicle the
progressive history of the Bay Area and the US. A diverse core of
the original Pacifica radio producers have organized a working
group to restore and catalog these historical tapes, saving them
from further deterioration and loss.
Keys: archiving; history; radio
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Name: Freedom Forum
Web: http://www.freedomforum.org/
Notes: A nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free
press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation
pursues its priorities through conferences, educational activities,
publishing, broadcasting, online services, fellowships,
partnerships, training, research and other programs.
Keys: First Amendment; free speech; grants / financial aid;
journalism
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Name: Freedom of Information Center
Web: http://www.missouri.edu/~foiwww/
Notes: A reference and research library in the University of
Missouri School of Journalism. Serves the general public and the
media on questions about access to government documents and
information.
Keys: freedom of information; research materials
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Name: Freedom Socialist Party (FSP)
Address: 1908 Mission Street (near 15th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 864-1278 [10/00]
Fax: (415) 864-0778
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.socialism.com/
Notes: A revolutionary, socialist feminist organization
dedicated to the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine
workers' democracy that will guarantee full economic, social,
political, and legal equality to women, people of color, sexual
minorities, and all who are exploited, oppressed, and repelled by
the profit system and its offshoot --- imperialism. Shares
resources with Radical Women.
Keys: democracy; feminism; racism; sexual minorities; socialism
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Name: Freedom Song Network (FSN)
Address: POBox 401072
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 753-0245 [12/98]
Notes: Affirms through songs and music the right of all peoples,
at home and abroad, to establish more free, just, and equal
societies and live in peace. A multiracial, multicultural,
intergenerational group of all sexual orientations that will sing
anywhere, from picket lines and demonstrations to songswaps and
concert stages. Hosts a songswap on the second Saturday (usually)
of each month at 8 pm at 885 Clayton (between Carl and Parnassus)
in San Francisco and on the third Saturday (usually) at 8 pm at
2187 38th Avenue (at Fruitvale BART) in Oakland.
Keys: labor; multiculturalism; music; networking; sexual
minorities
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Name: FreePacifica
Web: http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica
Notes: A web site created by a group of people across the United
States and beyond who are alarmed at what has been occurring at
Pacifica, which created community radio nearly 50 years ago.
Believes in fearless free speech and wants it back on the air at
Pacifica Radio. Believes the decisions about our stations should
be made by the representatives of all the communities which have a
stake in Pacifica Radio and should occur in an open, accountable,
community-oriented process....something now lacking at Pacifica.
Keys: control techniques; free speech; radio; unity
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Name: Friends of Black Bart
Address: POBox 3305
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (415) 267-3925 [1/99]
Notes: Criticizes fair hikes by the Bay Area Rapid Transit
system (BART) and encourages direct resistance that links BART
riders and workers
Keys: direct action; distribution of wealth; municipal
government; transportation
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Name: Friends of California Libraries
Web: http://www.friendcalib.org/
Keys: libraries
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Name: Friends of Sausal Creek
Web: http://www.aoinstitute.org/sausal/
Notes: Sausal Creek begins in the hills of Oakland, CA and runs
through Oakland to San Francisco Bay. The Friends are a group of
residents, teachers, students, merchants, and elected officials
working together with the City of Oakland and County of Alameda to
improve the Sausal Creek watershed.
Keys: community-building; conservation; creek restoration;
municipal government; water
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Name: Friends of the Biotic Baking Brigade
Address: 3288 21Street #92
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 267-5976 [12/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.asis.com/~bbb/
Keys: direct action; food
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Name: Friends of the Earth
Web: http://www.foe.org/
Notes: A national enviromental organization dedicated to
preserving the health and diversity of the planet for future
generations. As the largest international environmental network in
the world with affiliates in 63 countries, Friends of the Earth
empowers citizens to have an influential voice in decisions
affecting their environment.
Keys: diversity; ecology
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Name: Friends of the People's Weekly World
Address: 3940 High Street #B (near Hyacinth)
Oakland, CA 94619-2212
Voice: (510) 531-1729 [8/00]
Fax: (510) 531-1729 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Keys: newspapers
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Name: Friends of the River
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.friendsoftheriver.org/
Notes: California's leading river conservation organization.
Preserves, protects and restores rivers, streams, and their
watersheds through public education, citizen activist training and
organizing, and expert advocacy to influence public policy.
Keys: conservation; policy; water
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Name: Friends of the River Narmada
Web: http://www.narmada.org/
Notes: Covers grassroots opposition to the construction of large
dams on the River Narmada in central India.
Keys: dams; energy; India; water
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Name: Friends of the Urban Forest
Address: Presidio of San Francisco, Building 1007
POBox 29456
San Francisco, CA 94129-0456
Voice: (415) 543-5000 [1/00]
Fax: (415) 561-6899
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.fuf.net/
Notes: San Francisco's citizen urban forestry organization.
Committed to the belief that trees are a critical element of a
livable urban environment. Offers financial, technical, and
practical assistance to individuals and neighborhood groups who
want to plant and care for trees. In its first 16 years, FUF
planted over 22,000 trees on the San Francisco streets -- over 25%
of the city's total street trees. A non-profit, tax-exempt
organization supported by donations from individuals, corporations
and foundations and funding from government grants.
Keys: community-building; grants / financial aid;
neighborhoods; parks; technical assistance; trees; urban life
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Name: Fund For Animals
Address: Building C, Room 262
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA 94123
Voice: (415) 474-4020
(415) 474-4202 (Animal Rights Legislative Hotline) [7/00]
Fax: (415) 474-5323
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.fund.org/
Notes: A national animal rights organization. The local group
focuses on California state legislation affecting animals and the
environment.
Keys: animal liberation; lobbying
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Name: FurKills.org
Web: http://www.FurKills.org/
Keys: animal liberation
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Name: Galeria de la Raza / Studio 24
Address: 2857 24th Street (near Bryant Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 826-8009 [1/01]
Fax: (415) 826-6235
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A community-based organization that presents visual arts
exhibitions, multimedia presentations, and educational programs
that promote public awareness and appreciation of Chicano / Latino
art, its artists, and the indigenous cultures from which it arises.
Keys: art; Chicanas / Chicanos; indigenous people; Latinas /
Latinos
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Name: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Address: 1360 Mission Street, Suite 200 (between Ninth and Tenth Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-2244
(415) 861-4588 (hotline) [5/99]
Fax: (415) 861-4893
Web: http://www.glaad.org
Notes: Strives for fair and diverse media coverage of gays and
lesbians. Combats anti-gay defamation, stereotypic portrayal and
homophobic omission to ensure the dignity of lesbian and gay
people. Fights back with letter writing, phone trees,
demonstrations, panel discussions, and meetings with journalists,
editors and corporate executives.
Keys: corporations; letter-writing; media criticism; sexual
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Name: Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California (GLHS Archives)
Address: POBox 424280
San Francisco, CA 94142
Voice: (415) 777-5455 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.glhs.org
Notes: Fosters the recovery, preservation, and understanding of
the history of lesbians and gay men. The office at 973 Market
Street (between 5th and 6th Streets) is open for research on
Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5 pm. The Archives, Oral
History, and Program Committees are always looking for more
volunteers; leave a message for Everett if interested.
Keys: archiving; history; research materials; sexual minorities
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Name: Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
Address: 459 Fulton Street, Suite 107
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 255-4547 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 255-4784
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.glma.org
Notes: The US and Candian Lesbian and Gay Physicians'
organization. Programs include the Medical Expertise Retention
Program (a national program for HIV-positive health care workers)
and the Lesbian Health Fund. Provides physician referrals to the
public, and has a list of publications, including the Journal of
the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; health; human rights; magazines;
professionals; sexual minorities
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Name: Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
Address: POBox 421884
San Francisco, CA 94142-1884
Voice: (415) 282-4272 (282-GAPA) [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.slip.net/~gapa/
Notes: Dedicated to furthering the interests of gay and bisexual
Asian / Pacific Islanders by creating awareness, by developing a
positive collective identity, and by establishing a supportive
community. Formed from the need for an organization to address,
through a democratic process, social, cultural, and political
issues affecting the gay and bisexual Asian / Pacific Islander
community
Keys: Asian Americans; Pacific Islands; sexual minorities
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Name: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network / San Francisco - East Bay (GLSEN / SF-EB (Formerly BANGLE))
Address: POBox 70554
Point Richmond, CA 94807-0554
Voice: (510) 338-0880 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.glsen-sfeb.org
Notes: Strives to assure that each member of every school
community is valued and respected, regardless of sexual orientation
or gender identity. All orientations and occupations are welcome.
Keys: networking; public education; sexual minorities
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Name: Gaylesta, Inc.
Address: 5337 College Avenue, Suite 713
Oakland, CA 94618
Voice: (510) 433-9939
(888) 869-4993 (referral service) [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.gaylesta.org
Notes: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender
Psychotherapist Association of the Bay Area.
Keys: mental health; professionals; psychology; sexual
minorities
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Name: General Assistance Advocacy Project (GAAP)
Address: 276 Golden Gate Avenue (near Hyde)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 928-8191 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 928-1410
Notes: Utilizes the skills of law student advocates to address
the overwhelming needs of San Francisco's Tenderloin population.
Provides free assistance, representation, and referrals for all
County Adult Assistance Programs, food stamps, and SSI matters.
Also works with other community advocates on policy advocacy with
the San Francisco Department of Human Services. Operates as a mail
and message center for homeless individuals.
Keys: homelessness; lawyers; legal services; policy; services;
welfare
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Name: Genetic Engineering Network (Genetix)
Web: http://www.dmac.co.uk/gen.html
Keys: biotechnology; food
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Name: Genetically Engineered Food Alert
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.gefoodalert.org
Notes: A coalition of seven organizations united in their
commitment to testing and labeling genetically engineered food.
The web site provides an easy way to send a message on GE food to
the FDA and selected corporations, to tell your friends how to do
the same, and more.
Keys: biotechnology; coalitions; corporations; food; right to
know
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Name: genetiX action!
Address: 1334 42nd Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
Voice: (415) 789-8454 [10/99]
Email: gsnowball@angelfire.com
Web: http://www.artactivist.com/geneact/
Notes: An Amerikan group that is committed to resisting genetic
engineering and supporting international efforts taken by genetiX
activists and farmers. Believes that direct action is one of the
best tactics to engage multinational corporations and educate
people about the horrors of genetic engineering. A part of the
Bioengineering Action Network (BAN).
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; corporations; direct action;
corporate globalization; food
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Name: GI Rights Hotline
Web: http://www.girights.org/
Notes: A network of nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations who
provide information to servicemembers about military discharges,
grievance and complaint procedures, and other civil rights.
Keys: civil rights; conscientious objectors; draft /
registration; militarism
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Name: Glen Canyon Action Network (GCAN)
Web: http://www.drainit.org/
Notes: Works to prevent further damage to the ecosystems of the
Colorado River watershed and surrounding areas, reverse the damage
that has already occurred, and enhance public awareness regarding
river and wildlands protection and restoration.
Keys: dams; water
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Name: Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Address: 330 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 771-6300 [11/99]
Email: info@glide.org
Web: http://www.glide.org/
Notes: Located at Ellis and Taylor in the Tenderloin, one of San
Francisco's harshest urban environments, Glide Church is an oasis
that has served the poor and disenfrachised for over 30 years.
Glide serves over one million free meals a year, as well as AIDS
testing, health care, women's programs, crisis intervention, basic
services, literacy and computer training, jobs training and
placement, and children, youth, and family educational programs.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; children; classes / courses; computers;
employment; family; healthcare access; hunger; religion; services;
urban life; women; youth
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Name: Global Exchange (GX)
Address: 2017 Mission Street, Suite 303
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 255-7296 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 255-7498
Email: info@globalexchange.org
Web: http://www.globalexchange.org
Notes: A research, education, and action center building bridges
between grassroots movements in the US and the Third World. In the
Third World, GX sponsors Reality Tours, supports human rights
activists, provides material assistance. In the US, GX provides a
speakers bureau & educational resources, and has Fair Trade Stores
in Berkeley and San Francisco.
Keys: corporate globalization; Cuba; fair trade; Haiti;
internationalism; material aid; products; speakers; travel; World
Trade Organization
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Name: Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center, Berkeley
Address: 2840 College Avenue (at Russell)
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 548-0370 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 548-0371
Email: berkeleystore@globalexchange.org
Web: http://www.globalexchange.org
Notes: Promotes economic justice by marketing handmade crafts
from small producer cooperatives in developing countries, and by
providing an alternative economic model to global trade.
Keys: fair trade; products
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Name: Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center, San Francisco
Address: 4014 24th Street (near Noe)
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 648-8068 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 648-8098
Email: sfstore@globalexchange.org
Web: http://www.globalexchange.org
Notes: Promotes economic justice by marketing handmade crafts
from small producer cooperatives in developing countries, and by
providing an alternative economic model to global trade.
Keys: cooperatives; crafts; economic justice; fair trade;
products
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Name: Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center --- ONLINE
Address: 2017 Mission Street, Suite 303 (near Noe)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (800) 497-1994 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 255-7296
Email: storemaster@globalexchange.org
Web: http://store.globalexchange.org
Notes: Promotes economic justice by marketing handmade crafts
from small producer cooperatives in developing countries, and by
providing an alternative economic model to global trade.
Keys: cooperatives; crafts; economic justice; fair trade;
products
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Name: Global Fund for Women, The
Address: 1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 202-7640 [3/01]
Fax: (415) 202-8604
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org
Notes: An international grantmaking organization that provides
funds to seed, strengthen, and link groups that are committed to
women's well-being and that work for their full participation in
society. The grants are made to support programs overseas.
Keys: grants / financial aid; women
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Name: Global Options
Address: POBox 40601
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 550-1703 [3/01]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Holds seminars on issues of international and domestic
concern, focusing on Central America and Eastern Europe. Publishes
the quarterly journal 'Social Justice: A Journal of Crime,
Conflict, and World Order.
Keys: Central America; crime; environmental justice; Europe;
global issues; multiculturalism; welfare
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Name: Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
Web: http://www.plattsburgh.edu/robbinrh/legacy/
Notes: A web site addressing the consequences of the global
expansion of capitalism. The site is associated with the book by
the same name by Richard H. Robbins and with anthropology courses
at SUNY
Keys: books; capitalism; classes / courses; corporate
globalization
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Name: Global Trade Watch
Web: http://www.tradewatch.org/
Notes: The Public Citizen division that fights for international
trade and investment policies promoting government and corporate
accountability, consumer health and safety, and environmental
protection through research, lobbying, public education and the
media.
Keys: consumer protection; corporations; corporate
globalization; government; health; investment; lobbying; research;
trade
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Name: Global Village or Global Pillage Grassroots Education Project
Web: http://www.villageorpillage.org/
Notes: Producers of a new 27-minute video documentary exploring
what the global economy means for ordinary people --- and what they
are doing about it ($25; can be ordered directly from the web
site). A companion book will also be available. Encourages
grassroots actions and transnational linking to reverse the race
the bottom.
Keys: books; corporate globalization; film / video; networking
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Name: Goforth Progressive Law Student Web Site
Web: http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/2915
Keys: law; students
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Name: Golden Gate National Parks Association
Address: Building 201
Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123 [5/00]
Web: http://www.ggnpa.org
Notes: Works hand-in-hand with the National Park Service to
protect the national parks at the Golden Gate, including the
Presidio, Muir Woods, Crissy Field, the Marin Headlands, Alcatraz,
and the Point Bonita Lighthouse.
Keys: conservation; national government; parks
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Name: Golf War
Address: Anthill Productions
71 Sharon Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 626-5510 [2/00]
Fax: (413) 208-1835
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.golfwar.org/
Notes: A film on land, golf, and revolution in the Philippines,
premiering in the Bay Area in February 2000. The documentary tells
the story of Filipino peasants being violently and illegally kicked
off their ancestral land to make way for one of Asia's largest golf
resorts. Filmmakers interviewed developers and politicians, as
well as armed guerrillas and peasants fighting the development.
They even caught Tiger Woods promoting golf in the Philippines.
Keys: development; film / video; land use; Philippines /
Filipinos; sports
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Name: Google.com
Web: http://www.google.com
Notes: One of the two best web search engines according to PC
Magazine, 5 December 2000.
Keys: Internet; research
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Name: Graduate Minority Students Project
Address: Anthony Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Voice: (510) 642-2175 (Hatem Bazian at UC Berkeley) [12/98]
Email: [email protected]
Keys: affirmative action; multiculturalism; students
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Name: Grandmothers for Peace International
Web: http://www.netcom.com/~lorjacy/gfp
Keys: peace; seniors; women
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Name: Graphic Artists Guild of Northern California
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://norcal.gag.org/index.html
Notes: Promotes and protects the economic interests of member
artists. It is committed to improving conditions for all creators
of graphic art and raising standards for the entire industry. The
Guild is a national union that embraces creators at all levels of
skill and expertise who produce graphic art intended for
presentation as originals or reproductions. Accomplishes its
mission by: leading the legislative effort to change sales tax law
as currently applied to graphic artists in California, educating
artists about 'all-rights' contracts and getting companies to
change unfair contracts with the Contract Monitor, publishing the
Pricing and Ethical Guidelines book, offering opportunities for
member artists to share information in a non-competitive
environment, and meeting with the Federal Copyright Office to
protect the rights of individual creators.
Keys: art; books; copyright; labor union locals; lobbying; taxes
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Name: Grassroots Fundraising Journal
Address: 3781 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94611
Voice: (510) 596-8160 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 596-8822
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.chardonpress.com
Notes: A bimonthly magazine that helps grassroots
community-based organizations raise money from their community.
Hands-on practical articles tell how to find individual donors, run
effective special events, develop direct mail campaigns, and get
your board involved in fundraising. A subscription is $32 per year.
Keys: fundraising; magazines
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Name: GrauSpace
Address: 915 Cole Street, Box 307
San Francisco, CA 94117 [3/99]
Email: anarchy@grauspace.com
Web: http://www.grauspace.com
Notes: Offers anarchist related T-shirts and other merchandise;
Essays; Improv experimental music; Anarchist editorial page at
website. Links to other anarchist organizations and web sites.
Keys: anarchism; music; products; textiles
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Name: Gray Panthers, Berkeley
Address: 1403 Addison (near Sacramento; entrance is in the parking lot behind Andronico's)
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 548-9696 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 548-9697
Email: [email protected]
Notes: 'Age and youth in action' working on issues including
universal health care, low-income and shared housing, and peace.
Office hours are 10 AM to 3 PM Monday through Thursday.
Keys: healthcare access; housing; low-income; peace; seniors
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Name: Gray Panthers, San Francisco
Address: 1182 Market Street, Room 203
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 552-8800 [3/00]
Notes: Meets at the Unitarian Church at Franklin and Geary.
Keys: healthcare access; seniors
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Name: Green City Project (GCP)
Address: POBox 31251
San Francisco, CA 94131
Voice: (415) 285-6556 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 285-6563
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.green-city.org
Notes: Works to make cities compatible with their local natural
environment. Achieves this mission by operating programs that
encourage grassroots participation in community-based ecological
activities. The Volunteer Network links over 450 Bay Area
environmental groups and provides a point of entry for
individuals, schools, businesses and organizations to become active
with these groups. The bi-monthly Green City Calendar lists
hands-on environmental volunteer opportunities, events, seminars
and more, and includes articles on issues related to urban
sustainability. Education + Action helps Bay Area K-12 teachers
enhance curriculum through presentations and hands-on projects.
Workshop/Workdays are collaborative projects that help communities
accomplish needed environmental work and/or bring people together
for educational activities. Green City works to link the Bay Area
environmental community and encourage individual activism around
urban sustainability.
Keys: calendars; ecology; educational curriculum; land use;
networking; sustainability; urban life; volunteer matching
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Name: Green Earth Organics
Web: http://www.greenearthorganics.com/
Notes: A home and business organic food delivery service in the
Vancouver area. The website has a weekly updated newsletter with
archived recipes, poems, and organic news.
Keys: archiving; business; food; newsletters; organic
agriculture; sustainability
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Name: Green Pages Store
Web: http://www.greenpagesstore.com/
Notes: Shop on-line from environmentally and socially
responsible businesses. A service of Co-op America.
Keys: business; products
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Name: Green Party, Contra Costa County
Address: 1211 Orange Street
Concord, CA 94518
Voice: (925) 695-3112 [11/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.greens.org/cal/contracosta
Notes: The alternative to the Republicrats! Meets on the third
Wednesday of each month from 7:00 to 7:30 (County Council) and 7:30
to 9:00 (General Meeting), usually at 1211 Orange Street in Concord
(call to confirm).
Keys: Contra Costa County; greens; political parties
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Name: Green Party, Marin County
Address: POBox 150105
San Rafael, CA 94915
Voice: (415) 389-9739 [12/98]
Web: http://www.greens.org/california/
Keys: greens; Marin County; political parties
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Name: Green Party, San Francisco
Address: 1910 Mission Street (at 15th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103-3405
Voice: (415) 701-7090 [10/99]
Fax: (415) 701-7092
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfgreenparty.org
Notes: The SF local of the Green Party of California, the
state's newest political party. Working at the local level for
social and environmental justice, peace, and grassroots democracy.
Currently registering voters, campaigning for ballot initiatives,
educating the public about green values, monitoring and lobbying
the government, and preparing future green candidates.
Keys: greens; political parties; voter registration
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Name: Green Party of Alameda County
Address: POBox 20999
Oakland, CA 94620
Voice: (510) 644-2293 [11/98]
Web: http://www.greens.org/california/
Notes: Office is located at the Grassroots House, 2022 Blake
Street, Room A, Berkeley 94704 (1/2 block to the west of Shattuck,
one block south of Dwight).
Keys: greens; political parties
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Name: Green Party of San Mateo County
Address: PO Box 6886
San Carlos, CA 94070-6886
Voice: (650) 366-6603 [3/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.envirolink.org/greens/california/sanmateo
Keys: greens; political parties; San Mateo County
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Name: Green Party of Santa Clara County
Address: POBox 390372
Mountain View, CA 94039
Voice: (408) 223-2784 [3/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.greens.org/cal/sclara
Keys: greens; political parties; Santa Clara County
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Name: Green Resource Center
Address: 2000 Center Street, Suite 120 (between Shattuck and Milvia)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 845-0472 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 845-9503
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.greenresourcecenter.org
Notes: Berkeley's central location for information, guidance,
and consulting services on ecological design, appropriate building
technologies, green materials, sustainable community and
development. Open to the public on Monday, Friday and Saturday.
The book and periodical collection covers alternative and natural
construction, healthy home environments, solar technologies, waste
minimization practices, intentional communities, permaculture and
many more. The Center also houses a growing building materials
sample library.
Keys: appropriate technology; consultants; development;
ecology; energy; health; housing; intentional communities;
libraries; permaculture; sustainability
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Name: Green Tortoise Adventure Travel
Web: http://www.greentortoise.com/
Notes: Cooperative, reasonably priced, non-pampered bus trips
geared toward outdoor adventures, riding in buses that allow
horizontal sleeping.
Keys: outdoor activity; travel
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Name: Green World Center
Web: http://www.greenworldcenter.org/
Notes: Research, education, film, and multimedia production on
environmental civics and in the public interest.
Keys: ecology; film / video; researchers
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Name: Greenaction
Address: 1540 Market Street, Suite 325
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 252-0822 [4/99]
Fax: (415) 252-0823
Web: http://www.greenaction.org
Notes: A grassroots organization working for health and
environmental justice.
Keys: environmental justice; public health
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Name: Greenbelt Alliance
Address: 530 Bush Street, Suite 303
San Francisco, CA 94108
Voice: (415) 398-3730 [2/00]
Fax: (415) 398-6530
Web: http://www.greenbelt.org/
Notes: The leading land conservation and urban planning
organization in the nine county San Francisco Bay Area. Mission is
to promote more livable communities and protect the 3.8 million
acre Greenbelt of farmlands, watersheds, parks and other productive
open space through citizen action, research and education, and
advocacy.
Keys: agriculture; conservation; land use; parks; research;
urban life; wetlands
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Name: GreenMarketplace.com
Web: http://www.greenmarketplace.com
Notes: Takes e-commerce to a higher level by only offering
products that meet the highest environmental, social and
animal-friendly standards. Aims to be a model of environmental and
social responsibility -- demonstrating that commerce can be green
AND successful
Keys: ecology; products
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Name: GreenMoney On-Line Guide, The
Web: http://www.greenmoney.com/
Notes: Promote the awareness of socially and environmentally
responsible business, investing, and consumer resources. Goal is
to educate and empower individuals and businesses to make informed
financial decisions through aligning their corporate and financial
principles.
Keys: business; consumer protection; investment
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Name: Greyhound Protection League
Address: POBox 669
Penn Valley, CA 95946
Voice: (800) 446-8637 [7/00]
Web: http://www.greyhounds.org
Notes: A national organization dedicated to ending the suffering
of racing greyhounds. In conjunction with local animal care
providers, GPL is offering assistance in dealing with the
perplexing problems created by the mass production and subsequent
destruction of racing greyhounds.
Keys: animal liberation; gambling; sports
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Name: GroundWork Magazine
Address: POBox 14141
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 255-7623 [1/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.groundworking.org
Notes: A photo-journalistic magazine providing national coverage
of grassroots community organizing and direct action, produced by
the GroundWork collective. Call for sample copy
Keys: collectives; community-building; direct action; ecology;
magazines
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Name: Growth House
Voice: (415) 255-9045 [2/00]
Email: info@growthhouse.org
Web: http://www.growthhouse.org
Notes: Provides information and referral services for agencies
working with death and dying issues. Their web site is an
international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and
end of life care. Primary mission is to improve the quality of
compassionate care for people who are dying through public
education and global professional collaboration.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; professionals; services; support groups
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Name: Guatemala News and Information Bureau (GNIB)
Address: 3181 Mission Street, Box 12
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 826-3593 [2/00]
Fax: (415) 826-3593 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nisgua.org
Notes: A solidarity group that supports and raises material aid
for the popular movement in Guatemala. Publishes the quarterly
journal 'Report on Guatemala'.
Keys: Guatemala; libraries; material aid; solidarity
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Name: Guilford Publications
Web: http://www.guilford.com/
Notes: A publisher of books, periodicals, software, and
audiovisual programs in a wide range of mental health and social
science disciplines.
Keys: books; mental health; socioeconomic models; software
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Name: Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
Web: http://www.gulfweb.org/
Notes: The first site on the Internet to offer comprehensive
information in support of Persian Gulf War Veterans. The site
features a comprehensive searchable document library covering all
aspects of the war. The site is made up of information submitted
by numerous Member Organizations who have united to support Gulf
War Vets.
Keys: health; Iraq; militarism; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons
/ testing; research materials; veterans
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Name: GWBush.com
Web: http://www.GWbush.com/
Notes: A satirical site with many links to other sites that are
critical of George W. Bush, who many regard to be the President of
the USA. Bumper stickers for sale include 'Don't blame me, I voted
with the majority' and 'One Person One Vote (may not apply in some
states)'. One group of links covers the war on some people's drugs.
Keys: drugs; elections; humor; national government; products;
right-wingers
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Name: Habitat for Humanity, East Bay
Address: 2619 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 251-6304 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 251-6309
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.designjk.com/habitat
Notes: An ecumenical, grass-roots Christian ministry providing
simple, decent, affordable housing to low- and very low-income
people. A sweat-equity program, where low and very low income
families work with volunteers to build homes which are then
financed to the families at zero interest. Working on projects in
Oakland, Alameda, Fremont, and Crockett.
Keys: grants / financial aid; housing; low-income; religion
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Name: Habitat for Humanity San Francisco
Address: 78 Ocean Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
Voice: (415) 406-1555 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 406-1551
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.habitatsf.org
Notes: Builds community through constructing or renovating
ownership housing in partnership with people in need. The
organization is driven by over 95% volunteer labor.
Keys: community-building; grants / financial aid; homelessness;
housing; low-income; poverty
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Name: Haight Ashbury Free Clinics (HAFCI)
Web: http://www.hafci.org/
Notes: A community-based health care agency dealing with many of
society's most difficult problems, including primary health care,
chemical dependency, AIDS prevention and treatment, women's health
issues, and the uninsured & underinsured.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; drugs; healthcare access; prevention
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Name: Harm Reduction Coalition
Address: 3223 Lakeshore Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
Voice: (510) 444-6969 [12/99]
Fax: (510) 444-6977
Web: http://www.harmreduction.org
Notes: A diversity of individuals and agencies concerned with
the lack of effective and respectful services for active drug
users, particularly those underserved by traditional social and
medical services --- youth, women, people of color, and people
living in poverty. 'Harm reduction' is anything that reduces
drug-related harm without creating further harm to active users,
their families, and communities affect by drug use. Drug-related
harm includes HIV / AIDS and other infectious diseases, overdose,
illness, death, dysfunction, violence, and community disintegration.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; coalitions; drugs; needle exchange; services
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Name: Harvey Milk Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club
Address: POBox 14368
San Francisco, CA 94114-0368
Voice: (415) 431-0801 [11/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.milkclub.org/
Notes: The Club?s preamble states, in part, 'We shall
participate in organizing San Francisco?s large
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender community to a powerful political
voice, which will demand nothing less of candidates than full
public support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender rights.
We shall expect politicians to take progressive stands on economic
issues, on the rights of women, workers and minorities, on
protection of the environment, and on international affairs.
Keys: elections; government; sexual minorities
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Name: Harvey Milk Institute
Address: 584 Castro Street, PMB 451 (at 19th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 552-7200 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 552-0179
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.harveymilk.org
Notes: The goal of the Institute is to offer educational
opportunities to students in the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, transsexual, and / or queer communities and our
friends. The curriculum is wide-ranging and diverse, encompassing
both practical and intellectual aspects of queer studies. The
instructors are also diverse in their backgrounds and talents. All
courses are non-credit and are not graded; they are designed purely
for the love of learning. Classes range in topics from art,
automotive, body-mind-spirit, career & finance, cooking, dance,
film / video, gardening, gender, history, language, literature &
writing, music, performance, photography, relationships & sex, and
courses just for youth.
Keys: classes / courses; sexual minorities
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Name: Hawai'i Independent & Sovereign
Web: http://www.hawaii-nation.org/
Keys: autonomy; cultural survival; Hawai'i; indigenous people;
self-determination
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Name: Hawaiian Nation Information Group of Northern California
Address: 1939 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 843-3699 (Paul Kealoha Blake) [12/98]
Fax: (510) 843-3379
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Organizes speaking tours for Hawaiian leaders to educate
California Hawaiians and their supporters about initiatives for
Hawaiian sovereignty and self-determintaion and the lack of media
coverage thereof. Works as a resource and information exchange on
issues such as models of Hawaiian Nationhood, US militarism on the
islands, health and social conditions of Native Hawaiians, and the
tourism industry. Call for dates and subjects for future public
forums.
Keys: Hawai'i; media criticism; militarism; self-determination;
speakers; tourism
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Name: Hazel Henderson
Web: http://www.hazelhenderson.com/
Notes: The web site of this well-known author, futurist,
syndicated columnist, advocate for and consultant on equitable
ecologically sustainable human development and socially responsible
business and investment.
Keys: books; business; consultants; development; investment;
journalism; sustainability
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Name: Headwaters Action Video Collective
Address: POBox 2198
Redway, CA 95560
Voice: (415) 820-1635 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.havc.org/
Notes: A small group of film makers / activists who have been
extensively documenting the struggle to save Headwaters Forest, and
related issues in Northern California. HAVC documents the
destruction of the forest, and the activists struggling to stop it,
then helps to bring this evidence to the media, courts, government,
and the world. HAVC has captured vital video evidence for many of
the lawsuits involving endangered species, wrongful death (Gypsy),
constitutional violations, human rights violations, and forest
practice violations. Offers video documentaries by mail order and
online.
Keys: collectives; deforestation; endangered species / habitat;
film / video; litigation; mail-order
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Name: Health & Harmony Music & Arts Festival
Address: POBox 7040
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Voice: (707) 575-9355 (575-WELL) [2/99]
Fax: (707) 542-3845
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wishwell.com
Notes: Produces the annual Health & Harmony Music & Arts
Festival taking place the second weekend of June each year at the
Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa. The fair is Northern
California's largest outdoor multicultural music festival with a
crafts fair and an environmental and health exposition featuring
over 500 exhibits
Keys: ecology; multiculturalism; music; Sonoma County
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Name: Health Access Foundation
Address: 942 Market Street, Suite 402
San Francisco, CA 94102 [12/99]
Web: http://www.health-access.org
Notes: A statewide coalition of over 200 member organizations
dedicated to affordable quality health care for all Californians.
Members represent communities of color, low-income people, seniors,
people with AIDS / HIV, consumers, labor unions, grassroots
organizations, health care providers, and more.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; coalitions; healthcare access; low-income;
seniors
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Name: Health Care for All --- California (HCA-CA)
Address: POBox 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146-0622
Voice: (415) 695-7891 [3/99]
Web: http://www.healthcareforall.org
Notes: A statewide organization formed in November 1995 to
continue the effort to bring single payer, universal health
insurance to California.
Keys: healthcare access; insurance; single payer health care
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Name: Health Global Access Project Coalition (Health GAP Coalition)
Web: http://aids.org/healthgap/
Notes: Bridging the Gap in Access to Medicines. Today most of
the world's people are denied access to lifesaving medications due
to abuse of drug patent protection, high prices, and unfair
government policies. About 90% of people with HIV live in
developing countries, and have no access to any scientifically
proven treatment for the infection. Patients with drug-resistant
tuberculosis, certain cancers, and other deadly diseases also need
medications that they cannot possibly obtain because of price.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; coalitions; distribution of wealth; drugs;
healthcare access; patents; policy
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Name: Health Initiatives for Youth (HIFY)
Address: 1242 Market Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 487-5777 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 487-5771
Notes: San Francisco's Ryan White Title IV Program. The
program's lead agency, Health Initiatives for Youth (hi-fy),
collaborates with other youth-serving agencies to coordinate a
comprehensive, community-based system of care for HIV-positive and
high-risk youth. Services supported by HIFY include primary
medical care and mental health services, case management, linages
to clinical trials and behavioral research, street outreach, youth
empowerment activities, and peer-based support groups.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; healthcare access; services; youth
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Name: Heat is Online, The
Web: http://www.heatisonline.org
Notes: A web site based on the book 'The Heat Is On' by Ross
Gelbspan (Perseus Books, 1997). Documents the evidence for global
warming and the pervasive debunking campaign of the fossil fuel
industry.
Keys: books; energy; global warming; oil; propaganda; public
relations
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Name: Heirloom Gardening
Web: http://www.heirloomgardening.com/
Notes: A newsletter about heirloom (open-pollinated) seeds,
organic gardening, and backyard ecology, with book, catalog, and
website reviews.
Keys: biodiversity; books; directories; gardening; newsletters;
organic agriculture; seeds
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Name: Helplink Information and Referral
Address: 50 California Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94111-4696
Voice: (415) 772-4357 (772-HELP)
(800) 273-6222 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 391-8302
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.helplink-sf.org
Notes: An information and referral telephone line for Bay Area
individuals, agencies, and businesses. Maintains information on
nonprofit, public self-help and support groups and social and
health services. Phone lines are available Monday through Friday
from 8 to 6. A program of the Northern California Council for the
Community. Spanish, Cantonese, and Mandarin are spoken
Keys: directories; healthcare access; immigrants; services;
support groups
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Name: Hemlock Society USA, The
Web: http://www.hemlock.org
Notes: Helping to make sure all Americans have the right to
peacefully end their own suffering with a doctor's assistance.
Keys: healthcare access; physician-assisted suicide
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Name: Hesperian Foundation
Address: 1919 Addison Street, Suite 304
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 845-1447 [3/01]
Fax: (510) 845-0539
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.hesperian.org
Notes: Promotes health and self-determination in poor
communities throughout the world by making health information
accessible. Produces books and other educational resources for
community-based health care. Titles produced both in English and
Spanish include Where There Is No Doctor, Where There Is No
Dentist, Helping Health Workers Learn, A Book for Midwives,
Disabled Village Children, and Where Women Have No Doctor.
Keys: books; educational curriculum; healthcare access;
poverty; self-determination; self-help
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Name: Hightower, Jim
Web: http://www.jimhightower.com/
Notes: The web site of the irreverent Texan populist writer and
radio commentator.
Keys: books; humor; populism; radio
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Name: Holocene Design
Voice: (510) 527-5887 [3/99]
Email: email@holocene.net
Web: http://www.holocene.net/
Notes: Helps you and your organization understand sustainable
development and learn skills to design innovative solutions.
Offers visioning and training services and training products. Aims
to enhance sustainability through increasing participation and
creativity in designing solutions. Integrates Permaculture and The
Natural Step into their services.
Keys: classes / courses; creativity; development; permaculture;
products; services; sustainability
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Name: Holt Labor Library
Address: c/o New College
50 Fell Street, Fourth Floor (between Van Ness and Market)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 241-1370 [12/99]
Fax: (415) 431-1316
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/
Notes: A library of labor history and the left, open to the
public. Offers the following services for your radical research
needs: Online searches, use of computers and printers, a labor
video collection, over 100 current subscriptions, access to
Labornet, Peacenet, and Econet, labor history and socialist
history, and thousands of books and pamphlets.
Keys: computers; history; labor; libraries
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Name: Home Care Companions
Address: 1320 Divisadero Street (between Ellis and O'Farrell)
San Francisco, CA 94115
Voice: (415) 824-3269 [7/00]
Fax: (415) 563-9288
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.homecarecompanions.org
Notes: Enables persons with life-threatening, serious illness
(such as AIDS or cancer) to receive sufficient, appropriate and
affordable health care in their own homes by training friends and
family members in basic home care skills.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; do-it-yourself; family; healthcare access
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Name: HomeBase / Center for Common Concerns
Address: 870 Market Street #1228
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 788-7961 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 788-7965
Notes: Legal and technical services supporting shared
prosperity. Research and education on homelessness, housing, and
poverty. Publishes studies on homelessness in the eleven Bay Area
counties. Has a library on homelessness, open by appointment only.
Keys: homelessness; housing; legal services; libraries;
poverty; researchers; technical assistance
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Name: Homeless Action Center
Address: 2500 MLKing Way, Suite 1 (at Dwight Way)
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 540-0878 [9/99]
Fax: (510) 540-0403
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.geocities.com/homeless_action_center/
Notes: A volunteer-based agency that provides free legal
services to Alameda County's mentally disabled homeless and
indigent residents. The focus is on benefits advocacy, primarily
in the area of Supplemental Security income (SSI). HAC also staffs
several legal clinics.
Keys: homelessness; legal services; mental health; welfare
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Name: Homeless People's Network Discussion List
Web: http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/
Notes: If you've ever been homeless --- or are now --- here's a
new list just for you. It spans three continents and a range of
worldviews and backgrounds. While some posts are personal, most
focus on news, views and solutions to homelessness. Join the email
list and/or read the archives.
Keys: archiving; email mailing lists; homelessness; networking
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Name: Homes Not Jails
Address: 558 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 282-5525 [6/99]
Fax: (415) 282-6622
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sftu.org
Notes: Takes over vacant urban buildings to provide shelter for
homeless persons and to protest the lack of affordable housing even
as much potential housing sits vacant. Believes that human rights
(specifically the right to housing) far outweigh property rights.
Some takeovers are done openly to educate the public about vacant
potential housing. Researches and drafts legislation. Is working
with non-profit housing developers to implement a model
sweat-equity project. Meets on the second Wednesday of every month
at 7:30 PM at the San Francisco Tenants Union, 558 Capp Street (at
21st Street).
Keys: direct action; homelessness; housing; land use;
squatting; tenant rights
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Name: Horizons Foundation
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 728 (near Powell)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 398-2333 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 398-4733
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.horizonsfoundation.org
Notes: Raises funds to support progressive causes affecting
lesbian and gay youth and adults in the Bay Area.
Keys: fundraising; sexual minorities; youth
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Name: Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 2 (HERE Local 2)
Address: 209 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 864-8770 [7/00]
Fax: (415) 864-4158
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Name: Housing America
Address: 126 Hyde Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 771-9850 [3/00]
Fax: (415) 771-1287
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.housingamerica.net
Notes: A national grassroots field campaign to increase federal
funding for affordable housing. Works with local groups around
the country to put pressure on Congress to make housing a
priority. Also recently released 'There's No Place Like Home: How
America's Housing Crisis Threatens Our Children,' a report
coauthored with the Doc4Kids Project that illustrates the link
between access to affordable housing and child health, nutrition,
and education.
Keys: children; housing; lobbying; low-income
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Name: Housing California
Web: http://www.housingca.com/
Notes: A statewide coalition of over 1000 affordable housing and
homeless organizations. Builds support for policies and programs
that expand the availability of affordable housing, health care,
education, and community economic development opportunities.
Committed to promoting justice for immigrants, people with
disabilities and people of color, and providing a safety net for
those in need. Organizes the nation's largest conference on
housing and homelessness.
Keys: coalitions; development; disabilities; healthcare access;
homelessness; housing; immigrants; people of color
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Name: Housing Project
Web: http://www.media-alliance.org/housing/
Notes: Stories and media resources to help break the corporate
media framing of the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A project of Media Alliance.
Keys: housing; media criticism
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Name: How to Find US Company Information
Web: http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/company/companyinfo.html
Notes: A guide to doing basic research on United States
companies, provided by the New York Public Library.
Keys: corporations; research materials
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Name: Human Relations Commission, Contra Costa County
Address: 2020 North Broadway, Suite 203-A
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Voice: (925) 646-6160 [1/01]
Fax: (925) 646-5767
Notes: Works to prevent and respond to violence motivated by
prejudice and bigotry. Promotes cultural and ethnic pluralism and
understanding. Conducts inquiries into incidents of
discrimination, harassment, or hate violence. Does advocacy for
human relations issues.
Keys: Contra Costa County; county government; discrimination;
prevention; violence
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Name: Human Rights and the Drug War
Web: http://www.hr95.org/
Notes: A professionally mounted photo exhibit that is designed
to be installed at a variety of sites and settings. Dedicated to
the prisoners of the Drug War and their families, and to those who
are working to regain their freedom and restore respect for all
human rights.
Keys: drugs; human rights; incarceration
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Name: Human Rights Center
Address: University of California
460 Stephens Hall #2300
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 642-0965 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 643-3830
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Engages faculty, students and activists in
interdisciplinary research and advocacy to protect and promote
international human rights and humanitarian law. Activities
include: support for graduate research on human rights and
humanitarian law; formation of research groups to study the
health, social, and cultural consequences of gross violations of
human rights and the rules of war; research fellowships; summer
fellowships for students; participation in investigations of
violations of human rights; and courses on human rights, health,
and humanitarian law.
Keys: classes / courses; health; human rights; law; research;
students
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Name: Human Rights Watch, California Committee North
Address: 312 Sutter Street, Suite 407
San Francisco, CA 94108
Voice: (415) 362-3250 [3/01]
Fax: (415) 362-3255
Web: http://www.hrw.org/
Notes: Stands with victims and activists to prevent
discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from
inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.
Investigates and exposes human rights violations and holds abusers
accountable. Challenges governments and those who hold power to
end abusive practices and respect international human rights law.
Enlists the public and the international community to support the
cause of human rights for all.
Keys: discrimination; government; human rights; law; news
on-line
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Name: Humane Farming Association, The (HFA)
Address: 1550 California Street, Suite #6
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 771-2253 (771-CALF) [3/99]
Fax: (415) 485-0106
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.hfa.org
Notes: Leads a national campaign to stop factory farms from
misusing chemicals, abusing farm animals, and misleading the
American public. Runs the nation's largest farm animal refuge,
Suwanna Ranch.
Keys: agriculture; animal liberation; health
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Name: IBON Foundation, Inc.
Web: http://www.ibon.org
Notes: Studies socioeconomic issues that confront Philippine
society today and seeks to bring this knowledge and information to
the greatest number of people to enable them to effectively
participate in building a self-reliant and progressive Philippines,
a nation that is sovereign and democratic.
Keys: democracy; Philippines / Filipinos; self-reliance
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Name: Immigrant HIV Assistance Project (IHAP)
Address: 465 California Street, Suite 1100
San Francisco, CA 94104
Voice: (415) 782-8995 (client intake line) [5/00]
Notes: Assists people who are HIV+ with their immigration
problems including obtaining legal permanent residence (green
card), HIV waivers, political asylum, adjustment of status,
cancellation of removal and naturalization. Matches volunteer
attorneys with clients on a pro bono basis. The client intake
phone line is open Monday through Thursday from 1:30 to 4:00 pm
(except holidays).
Keys: AIDS / HIV; immigrants; low-income; refugees; services
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Name: Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI)
Address: 3311 Mission Street, Suite 135
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 452-9992 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Dedicated to organizing the Latino and Immigrant
communities to fight for their full rights. Community organizing,
union activism, and political action. Also known as the Movimiento
por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes.
Keys: community-building; immigrants; labor; Latinas / Latinos
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Name: Immunet
Web: http://www.immunet.org/
Notes: Electronically publishes HIV & AIDS information on the
web, organizes team-based workgroups, and helps AIDS organizations
operate efficiently with internal technology consulting. Also
develops web sites for accredited continuing medical education
(CME) and is the electronic home of John James' AIDS Treatment News
and Direct AIDS Alternative Information Resources (DAAIR).
Keys: AIDS / HIV; consultants; research materials; technical
assistance
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Name: Impact Fund, The
Address: 1604 Solano Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94707
Voice: (510) 528-7344 [2/00]
Fax: (510) 528-0083
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.impactfund.org
Notes: The only foundation dedicated to providing funding and
technical assistance for complex public interest litigation in the
areas of civil and human rights, environmental justice and poverty
law, provides grants of up to $25,000 to pay for out-of-pocket
costs and expenses of substantial class action and impact cases.
Keys: civil rights; environmental justice; grants / financial
aid; litigation; poverty; technical assistance
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Name: Impact Online
Address: 325-B Forest Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Voice: (650) 327-1389 [12/99]
Fax: (650) 327-1395
Email: respond@impactonline.org
Web: http://www.impactonline.org/
Notes: Using the Internet to help people get involved with
nonprofits nationwide. The Community Center lists volunteer
opportunities including virtual volunteer opportunites for those
who want to make a difference while being online.
Keys: Internet; Santa Clara County; volunteer matching
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Name: In Defense of Animals (IDA)
Address: 131 Camino Alto, Suite E
Mill Valley, CA 94941-2254
Voice: (415) 388-9641 [3/01]
Fax: (415) 388-0388
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.idausa.org
Notes: A national animal rights and advocacy organization with
65,000 members. IDA is dedicated to ending the exploitation and
abuse of animals by raising the status of animals beyond that of
mere property, and by defending their rights, welfare and habitat.
Programs cover a broad spectrum of issues, from defending marine
mammals and other wildlife, to protecting domestic animals such as
pets, to promoting alternatives to animal research and fighting
wasteful and cruel animal experiments such as those conducted by
the US military.
Keys: animal liberation; Marin County
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Name: In Defense of Animals, South Bay
Address: 500 West Middlefield Road #178
Mountain View, CA 94043
Voice: (650) 965-8705 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sbidausa.org
Notes: Dedicated to ending the exploitation and abuse of animals
by defending their rights, welfare and habitat.
Keys: animal liberation; endangered species / habitat; Santa
Clara County
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Name: In Motion Magazine
Web: http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/
Notes: A multicultural, online US publication that promotes
grassroots organizing and art for social change among communities
of color and working people
Keys: affirmative action; magazines; people of color
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Name: InBerkeley
Web: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us
Notes: A World-Wide Web page for the city of Berkeley, including
the email addresses of city officials and departments, plus
pointers to other state and local government information.
Keys: municipal government
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Name: Independent Media Center
Web: http://www.indymedia.org/
Notes: A network of collectively run media outlets for the
creation of radical, objective, and passionate tellings of the
truth. Works out of a love and inspiration for people to who
continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's
distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
Keys: corporations; media; media criticism; networking; news
on-line
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Name: Independent Media Institute (IMI)
Address: 77 Federal Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107
Voice: (415) 284-1420 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 284-1414
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.alternet.org
Notes: A nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and
supporting independent and alternative journalism, and to improving
the public's access to independent information sources. Believes
that democracy is enhanced, and public debate broadened, as more
voices are heard and points of view made available. See also
Alternet.
Keys: free speech; journalism; media
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Name: Independent Press Association
Address: 2390 Mission Street #201
San Francisco, CA 94110-1836
Voice: (415) 643-4401 [7/99]
Fax: (415) 643-4402
Web: http://www.indypress.org
Notes: Works to promote and support independent publications
committed to social justice and a free press. In pursuit of this
goal, the IPA provides technical assistance to its member
publications and is a vigorous public advocate of the independent
press. The 500-page directory 'Annotations -- a guide to the
independent critical press' is available for $28 ($24.95 plus $3.05
s&h; make checks payable to IPA Books).
Keys: free speech; journalism; media; technical assistance
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Name: Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Web: http://www.itvs.org/
Notes: Unique in American public television, ITVS was
established by Congress to fund and present programming that
'involves creative risks and addresses the needs of underserved
audiences, especially children and minorities,' while granting
artistic control to independent producers. ITVS has funded more
than 375 programs for public television since its inception in 1991.
Keys: children; grants / financial aid; multiculturalism;
television
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Name: Index on Censorship
Web: http://www.oneworld.org/index_oc/
Notes: A bi-monthly magazine for free speech that widens the
debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best
writers. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature and
polemic, the Index shows how free speech affects the political
issues of the moment.
Keys: censorship; free speech; magazines
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Name: Indigenous Environmental Network
Web: http://oraibi.alphacdc.com/ien/
Notes: An alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose
mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from
contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and
respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws.
Keys: coalitions; ecology; indigenous people
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Name: Indigenous Nations: Child & Family Agency (INCFA)
Address: 440 Santa Clara Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
Voice: (510) 645-1430 [11/00]
Fax: (510) 645-1434
Notes: An Indian-managed, Oakland-based non-profit organization,
incorporated as the Bay Area Indian Council. Mission is to provide
comprehensive services, resources and advocacy which strengthen and
unify Native American families and children. INCFA has five main
programs designed to promote family stability and wellness: child
abuse treatment, education, child welfare advocacy pursuant to the
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), licensed child foster care, and
domestic/family violence prevention, education and counseling.
Keys: children; counseling; domestic violence; family; Native
Americans; services
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Name: Indigenous Peoples Committee
Address: POBox 40244
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 615-0603 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.jps.net/redcoral/Pow.html
Notes: Works for social justice and human rights for Native
Peoples. Promotes the necessity of Indigenous wisdom for human
survival in balance with the environment. Organizes educational
and cultural events publicizing Native struggles, including the
Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow and Indian Market annually on the
Saturday nearest October 12th.
Keys: indigenous people
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Name: Industrial Workers of the World, East Bay (IWW / The Wobblies)
Address: POBox 11412
Berkeley, CA 94712
Voice: (510) 845-0540 [12/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.iww.org/
Keys: democracy; labor
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Name: Industrial Workers of the World, San Francisco (IWW / The Wobblies)
Address: POBox 40485
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 863-9627 [12/99]
Fax: (415) 626-2685
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.iww.org/
Notes: A fighting union run by the members themselves. Features
no bureaucrats, real rank and file democracy, and extremely low
dues. Publishes the monthly newsletter 'Wildcat'.
Keys: democracy; labor
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Name: indybay media
Voice: (510) 549-0732 [7/00]
Web: http://www.indybay.org/
Notes: An independent alternative news and content service
provider, modeled on independent media centers set up to cover
protests in Seattle and Washington DC.
Keys: news on-line
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Name: INFACT
Web: http://www.infact.org/
Notes: A national grassroots corporate watchdog organization.
Founded in 1977, INFACT is best known for its successful Nestle and
GE Boycott Campaigns, and its Academy Award winning documentary
Deadly Deception. INFACT is now organizing the Tobacco Industry
Campaign and the Hall of Shame Campaign.
Keys: boycotts; corporations; film / video; nuclear energy;
tobacco
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Name: Informed Democracy
Address: POBox 67
Santa Cruz, CA 95063
Voice: (831) 426-3921 [12/98]
Fax: (831) 426-2312
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sadako.com
Notes: A media organization providing schools and communities
with teaching resources on nuclear issues. Produced and
distributes the award-winning video 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper
Cranes' as well as the 30-minute video 'How to Fold a Paper Crane'.
Write for a free set of instructions on crane-folding and a
catalogue of resources.
Keys: democracy; educational curriculum; film / video; global
issues; peace; Santa Cruz County; students
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Name: Inkworks Press
Address: 2827 Seventh Street (2.5 blocks north of Ashby)
Berkeley, CA 94710
Voice: (510) 845-7111 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 845-6753
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.org/inkworks/
Notes: A collectively-owned and operated printshop that
specializes in printing for the progressive movement using recycled
paper
Keys: collectives; printers
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Name: InnVision
Address: 974 Willow Street
San Jose, CA 95125
Voice: (408) 292-4286 [12/99]
Fax: (408) 271-0826
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.innvision.sj.ca.us
Notes: Dedicated to helping individuals and families break the
cycle of poverty and homelessness. Care includes short-term
housing, long-term housing, and comprehensive support services all
focused on an outcome of self sufficiency.
Keys: homelessness; Santa Clara County; services
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Name: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Web: http://www.iatp.org
Notes: Promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and
ecosystems around the world through research and education, science
and technology, and advocacy. Sponsors the Campaign to Ban the
Patenting of Life.
Keys: agriculture; patents; policy; research; rural life;
science; sustainability; technology; trade
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Name: Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA)
Web: http://www.appliedautonomy.com/
Notes: A technological research and development organization
concerned with individual and collective self-determination.
Mission is to study the forces and structures which effect
self-determination; to create cultural artifacts which address
these forces; and to develop technologies which serve social and
human needs. Projects include the development of robots that can
leaflet or draw graffiti. Advanced solutions for emerging markets.
Keys: appropriate technology; autonomy; leafleting;
researchers; self-determination
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Name: Institute for Deep Ecology
Address: POBox 1050
Occidental, CA 95465
Voice: (707) 874-2347 [2/99]
Fax: (707) 874-2367
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A non-profit corporation that promotes ecological values
and actions through workshops, publications, and support networks
Keys: classes / courses; ecology; Sonoma County
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Name: Institute for First Amendment Studies
Web: http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/
Notes: A national clearinghouse for information on theocratic
movements in America. With monitors in almost every state, and a
small staff of researchers, writers, and computer specialists, the
Institute gathers data and prepares newsletters and reports about
groups and individuals who pose a threat to First Amendment
freedoms. The Institute's library collects and catalogues hundreds
of Religious Right publications.
Keys: First Amendment; libraries; newsletters; religious right;
researchers; separation of church and state
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Name: Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
Address: POBox 29904
San Francisco, CA 94126-0904
Voice: (415) 561-6100 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 561-6101
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/
Notes: The US member of the Association for Progressive
Communications, a global partnership of computer networks that link
activists around the world. Provides the PeaceNet, EcoNet,
WomensNet, and Anti-RacismNet computer networks. Offices are
located in the Presidio of San Francisco, part of the Golden Gate
National Recreation Area.
Keys: directories; Internet; networking; research materials
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Name: Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Web: http://www.ilsr.org/
Notes: A research and educational organization that provides
technical assistance and information on environmentally sound
economic development strategies.
Keys: decentralization; development; self-reliance; technical
assistance
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Name: Institute for MultiRacial Justice
Address: 522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 701-9502 [2/01]
Fax: (415) 701-9462
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.multiracialjustice.org
Notes: Founded in the Bay Area in 1997, the Institute for
MultiRacial Justice is a resource center that aims to help build
alliances among people of color against White Supremacy and for
Social Justice. Programs include: forums about common problems,
setting up task forces to address conflicts among ourselves and
form bonds of trust, educational events and materials such videos,
films and exhibits.
Keys: classes / courses; conflict resolution; film / video;
people of color; racism
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Name: Institute for Nonprofit Enterprise
Web: http://www.ine.org/
Notes: A national research and resource center dedicated to
helping nonprofit organizations develop and strengthen their
business activities. Provides specialized information,
publications, technical support, workshops and consulting to
nonprofit organizations. Also maintains the Nonprofit Enterprise
Network, a national database and network of organizations and
individuals involved in the field of nonprofit enterprise.
Keys: business; consultants; directories; networking; technical
assistance
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Name: Institute for Public Accuracy
Web: http://www.accuracy.org/
Notes: As a nationwide consortium of policy researchers, the
Institute seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access
for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out by
corporate-backed think tanks and other influential institutions.
Keys: analysis; media criticism; policy; researchers
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Name: Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Web: http://www.itdp.org
Notes: An advocacy, research, and project-implementing agency
which seeks to promote the use of non-motorized vehicles (NMVs) and
the broader implementation of sustainable transportation policies
worldwide.
Keys: cycling; development; policy; research; sustainability;
transportation
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Name: Institute of Science in Society (ISIS)
Web: http://www.i-sis.org/
Notes: Holds that science must be responsible to civil society,
and hence independent of commercial interests or government
control. Calling for a moratorium on genetically modified crops
and a ban on patents on plants and animals.
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; research materials; science
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Name: Instituto Laboral de La Raza
Address: 2947 16th Street (near Capp, between Mission and South Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 431-7522 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 431-4846
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://ilaboral.citysearch.com
Notes: A multi-service resource center for low-income,
disadvantaged workers, providing leadership training, workers'
rights, education, and legal services to increase esteem and
develop self-sufficiency.
Keys: Chicanas / Chicanos; labor; Latinas / Latinos; legal
services; low-income; services
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Name: Integrated Arts
Address: 933 Parker Street, Suite 45
Berkeley, CA 94710 [1/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.integratedarts.org
Notes: People with and without disabilities uniting to create
and enjoy art. When people of many abilities, ages, ethnicities
and experiences gather to work on art they get a chance to enjoy
their creativity, something not always considered vital when the
daily necessities of life --- especially life with a disability ---
can be so demanding. They also get a chance to trade stories.
Keys: art; classes / courses; creativity; disabilities;
diversity
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Name: Intentional Communities Web Page
Web: http://www.ic.org/
Keys: cohousing; cooperative living; directories; intentional
communities
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Name: Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC)
Address: 600 Townsend St., Suite 550
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 241-8000 [10/00]
Fax: (415) 241-8010
Email: scourtney@interactioninstitute.org
Web: http://www.interactioninstitute.org
Notes: A nonprofit training and consulting firm that: designs
and facilitates collaborative change initiatives; enhances
individual and organizational capacity by transferring process
skills; and builds sustainable partnerships between corporations
and community-based organizations. IISC works with the change
agents of the world --- both individuals and organizations --- who
embrace the principles of social justice and civic responsibility.
Brings tools, skills and hope to leaders around the world who are
working to heal shattered communities through grassroots
collaborative problem solving and 'bridge building.'
Keys: community-building; consultants; corporations;
facilitation; low-income; networking
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Name: Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (ICIR)
Address: 965 Mission Street, Suite 514 (between 5th and 6th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 227-0388 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 543-0442
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.org/icir
Notes: Responding to the anti-immigrant sentiment in California,
members of immigrant and religious communities founded the
Interfaith Coaliton for Immigrant Rights (ICIR) in the Spring of
1994. Since the passage of Proposition 187, ICIR has grown into a
network of 1000-plus congregations, denominations, organizations,
lay and religious leaders throughout the state. ICIR continues
challenging policies, legislation, and attitudes that attack
newcomers by giving life to our shared faith traditions and
promoting hospitality to the 'stranger in our midst.'
Keys: coalitions; immigrants; legislation; Proposition 187
(Save Our State); religion
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Name: Interhemispheric Resource Center
Web: http://www.zianet.com/irc1/
Notes: A research and analysis policy institute that produces
books, policy reports, and periodicals on US foreign policy, global
affairs, and US-Mexico borderlands issues. Dedicated to education
and advocacy that bridges the gaps between academics, the policy
community, and social activists. Promoting a new internationalism
to meet the challenges of the new global context.
Keys: analysis; books; internationalism; Mexico; policy;
research
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Name: International Action Center (IAC)
Address: 2489 Mission Street #28 (at 21st Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 821-6545 [3/01]
Fax: (415) 821-5782
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.actionsf.org http://www.iacenter.org
Notes: Incorporates the demands to end racism, sexism and
poverty in the US with opposition to US militarism and exploitative
domination around the world. Believes in education and activism.
The IAC has organized mass meetings, demonstrations, forums,
sit-ins, teach-ins against US military intervention, racism,
lesbian and gay oppression and for jobs, housing, health care,
immigrant rights, and education. The San Francisco Chapter of the
IAC, along with its sister organization The National Peoples
Campaign is a major organizing center of the Bay Area.
Keys: demonstrations; immigrants; intervention; Iraq;
militarism; poverty; racism; sexism; sexual minorities
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Name: International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Web: http://www.teamster.org/
Notes: Organizes the unorganized, makes workers' voices heard in
the corridors of power, negotiates contracts that make the American
dream a reality for millions, protects workers' health and safety,
and fights to keep jobs in North America.
Keys: labor
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Name: International Campaign for Tibet
Web: http://www.savetibet.org/
Notes: Works to promote human rights and self-determination for
Tibetans and to protect their culture and environment.
Keys: cultural survival; human rights; self-determination; Tibet
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Name: International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Web: http://www.icbl.org/
Notes: Cals for an international ban on the use, production,
stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel
landmines.
Keys: human rights; militarism
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Name: International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Web: http://www.icrw.org/
Notes: Promotes social and economic development with women's
full participation. Generates quality, empirical information and
technical assistance on women's productive and reproductive roles,
their status in the family, their leadership in society, and their
management of environmental resources. Advocates with governments
and multilateral agencies, convenes experts in formal and informal
forums, and engages in an active publications and information
program to advance women's rights and opportunities.
Keys: development; researchers; technical assistance; women
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Name: International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet (ICLT)
Address: 2288 Fulton Street, Suite 312
Berkeley, CA 94704-1449
Voice: (510) 486-0588
(510) 433-7324 (voicemail) [12/98]
Fax: (510) 548-3785
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Provides legal expertise and resources for Tibetans,
Tibet support groups and non-governmental organizations in order to
address human rights abuses and effect positive change in Tibet.
Advocates self-determination for the Tibetan people, environmental
protection, and peaceful resolution of the situation in Tibet.
Keys: human rights; lawyers; legal services;
self-determination; Tibet
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Name: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
Web: http://www.icftu.org/
Notes: Created in 1949, the ICFTU has 215 affiliated
organisations in 145 countries and territories on all five
continents, with a membership of 125 million of whom 43 million are
women. It has three major regional organisations, APRO for Asia
and the Pacific, AFRO for Africa, and ORIT for the Americas. It
also maintains close links with the European Trade Union
Confederation (ETUC) and International Trade Secretariats, which
link together national unions from a particular trade or industry
at international level.
Keys: coalitions; labor
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Name: International Development Exchange (IDEX)
Address: 827 Valencia Street, Suite 101 (between 19th and 20th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94110-1736
Voice: (415) 824-8384 [7/00]
Fax: (415) 824-8387
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.idex.org
Notes: A social change organization challenging social and
economic forces that marginalize people worldwide. Builds mutually
empowering alliances with partner organizations that share a common
vision to confront global systems of inequality, through channeling
funds, mutual learning, networking, capacity building, and outreach.
Keys: Africa; agriculture; Asia; Central America;
community-building; corporate globalization; development; direct
action; distribution of wealth; diversity; economic conversion;
educational curriculum; fair trade; global issues; grants /
financial aid; Guatemala; India; indigenous people;
internationalism; land use; Latin America; living wage; Mexico;
Nicaragua; Philippines / Filipinos; poverty; self-determination;
sustainability; women; World Bank / IMF
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Name: International ECA Reform Campaign
Notes: Citizens worldwide are increasingly aware of global
institutions (like the WTO and the World Bank) and their impacts on
the environment and human rights. But other secretive government
bodies such as export credit agencies have as big, if not bigger,
impacts on the process of globalization. Export Credit Agencies
and Investment Insurance Agencies, commonly known as ECAs, are
public agencies that provide government-backed loans, guarantees
and insurance to corporations from their home country that seek to
do business overseas in developing countries and emerging markets.
Most industrialized nations have at least one ECA, which is usually
an official or quasi-official branch of their government.
Keys: corporate globalization; development; export credit
agenices; government; insurance
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Name: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Web: http://www.ifpri.org/
Notes: Mission is to identify and analyze policies for
sustainably meeting the food needs of the developing world.
Research at IFPRI concentrates on economic growth and poverty
alleviation in low-income countries, improvement of the well-being
of poor people, and sound management of the natural resource base
that supports agriculture. IFPRI seeks to make its research results
available to all those in a position to use them and to strengthen
institutions in developing countries that conduct research relevant
to its mandate.
Keys: agriculture; analysis; development; hunger; low-income;
policy; poverty; researchers; sustainability
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Name: International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
Address: Building 1062, Fort Cronkite
Sausalito, CA 94965
Voice: (415) 229-9350 [3/00]
Fax: (415) 229-9340
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ifg.org
Notes: An alliance of leading activists, economists,
researchers, and writers representing many countries. Responds to
the threats of economic globalization to democracy, communities,
human welfare, and the natural environment. Believes that the
world's corporate and political leadership is undertaking a
restructuring of global politics and economics that may prove as
historically significant as any event since the industrial
revolution. Sponsors public teach-ins, provides publications, and
offers public memberships.
Keys: coalitions; corporate globalization; corporations;
national government; research; writers
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Name: International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
Address: 1360 Mission Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 255-8680 [9/99]
Fax: (415) 255-8662
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.iglhrc.org
Notes: Works to protect and advance the human rights of all
people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the
basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; global issues; human rights; sexual minorities
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Name: International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
Address: 2390 Mission Street. Suite 301
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 641-4482 [2/01]
Fax: (415) 641-1298
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.treatycouncil.org/
Notes: An organization of Indigenous Peoples from North,
Central, South America and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty
and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition
and protection of Indigenous Rights, Traditional Cultures and
Sacred Lands. Seeks, promotes and builds official participation of
Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations and its specialized
agencies, as well as other international forums.
Keys: economic justice; human rights; indigenous people; Native
Americans; self-determination; United Nations
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Name: International Institute for Ecological Agriculture
Address: 834 West California Way
Woodside, CA 94062
Voice: (650) 365-2993 [12/99]
Fax: (650) 366-2241
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.permaculture-institute.org
Notes: Dedicated to healing the planet while providing for the
human community by research, education, and implementation of
socially just, ecological, resource conserving forms of
agriculture; the basis of all sustainable societies. See also Our
Farm.
Keys: agriculture; permaculture; sustainability
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Name: International Institute for Ecological Design
Notes: See Our Farm
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Name: International Jewish Peace Union
Address: POBox 5672
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 527-5003 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Keys: Jewish Americans; peace
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Name: International Labor Organization
Web: http://www.ilo.org/
Keys: labor
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Name: International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF)
Web: http://www.laborrights.org/
Notes: A nonprofit action and advocacy organization that uses
new and creative means to encourage enforcement of international
labor rights. Pursues legal and administrative actions on behalf
of working people, creates innovative programs and enforcement
mechanisms to protect workers' rights, and advocates for better
protections for workers through publications, testimony before
national and international hearings, and speeches to academic,
religious, and human rights groups.
Keys: labor; solidarity
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Name: International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6 (ILWU Local 6)
Address: 255 Ninth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3899
Voice: (415) 621-7326 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 621-2762
Keys: labor union locals; trade; water
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Name: International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths
Address: 7627 Leviston Avenue
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Voice: (510) 525-7530 [12/99]
Fax: (510) 525-4446
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ipsep.org/
Notes: A haven for cutting-edge research on energy and
development policies that reduce carbon emissions while saving
money, boosting jobs, and improving economic output.
Keys: climate change; development; employment; energy;
researchers; sustainability
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Name: International Rivers Network (IRN)
Address: 1847 Berkeley Way (at Martin Luther King Jr. Way)
Berkeley, CA 94703
Voice: (510) 848-1155 [3/01]
Fax: (510) 848-1008
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.irn.org/
Notes: Supports and promotes the work of local organizations
around the world striving for the wise use of the planet's rivers
and fresh water. Through research into alternative energy
generation, irrigation, and flood management schemes, pressure for
policy reform at international finance institutions such as the
World Bank, and active media and educational campaigns directed at
projects around the world, IRN discourages investment in
destructive large scale river development while encouraging
strategies that are more environmentally, socially, and
economically sound.
Keys: banks; dams; development; networking; policy; water;
World Bank / IMF
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Name: International Socialist Organization (ISO)
Voice: (415) 553-8956 (north San Francisco)
(415) 522-1895 (south San Francisco)
(510) 594-4081 (Oakland) [4/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.internationalsocialist.org
Notes: Activists dedicated to rebuilding the socialist movement.
Keys: socialism
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Name: International Society for Ecology & Culture (ISEC)
Address: POBox 9475
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 548-4915 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 548-4916
Notes: Engaged in uncovering the root causes of today's
eco-social crises --- from environmental pollution and climate
change to crime, unemployment, and ethnic conflict --- while
promoting grassroots and policy-level strategies for ecological and
community renewal.
Keys: climate change; community-building; crime; employment;
pollution
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Name: International Volunteer Program
Address: 210 Post #502
San Francisco, CA 94108 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ivpsf.com/
Notes: A unique project that aims at promoting volunteerism in
Europe and the United States. For six weeks, through daily
cooperation with the staffs of overseas organizations, volunteers
learn how others live and view the world. In Europe and in the
United States, the Program has facilitated this first-hand cultural
understanding for hundreds of volunteers and provided volunteer
staffing for more than 100 non-for-profit organizations.
Keys: Europe; multiculturalism; travel; volunteer matching
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Name: International Wages for Housework Campaign
Address: POBox 14512
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 626-4114 [4/99]
Fax: (415) 626-4114 (same as voice)
Notes: A network of women in countries of both South and North
that presses for the unwaged work that women do to be recognized as
work in official government statistics, and for this work to be
paid. The money must come first of all from military spending.
Keys: labor; militarism; women
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Name: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)
Web: http://www.ifconews.org/
Notes: An ecumenical agency whose mission is to help forward the
struggles of oppressed people for justice and self-determination.
See also Pastors for Peace.
Keys: religion; self-determination
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Name: Intersection for the Arts
Address: 446 Valencia Street (between 15th and 16th)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 626-2787
(415) 626-3311 (box office) [2/99]
Fax: (415) 626-1636
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wenet.net/~intrsect
Notes: San Francisco's oldest alternative art space. Presents
challenging new works in literature, theater, visual and
interdisciplinary arts. Provides the community with a place where
provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can
intersect with one another. Offers a space to perform and exhibit,
programs of technical and financial assistance, and a point of view
that encourages vision, risk-taking and discovery. An art space
where experimentation and risk are still possible, where debate and
critical inquiry are embraced, and where community is essential.
Keys: art; community-building; diversity; theatre
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Name: Intertribal Friendship House
Address: 333 Valencia Street, #400
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 431-6323 [2/01]
Keys: Native Americans
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Name: Intertribal Friendship House
Address: 523 East 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94605
Voice: (510) 452-1235 [2/01]
Keys: Native Americans
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Name: InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
Address: 1190 North State Street #333
Ukiah, CA 95482
Voice: (707) 463-6745 [1/99]
Notes: Works to protect, preserve, and restore the ancestral
Sinkyone homelands under local, traditional Indian tribal management
Keys: conservation; deforestation; land use; Native Americans
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Name: Invest in Kids
Address: c/o Ellen Schwartz
1300 Civic Drive, Suite 3
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Voice: (925) 932-6943 [5/00]
Fax: (925) 932-1465
Notes: Connects low-income at-risk youth with mentors and
promises them a $5000 scholardhip for staying in school and out of
trouble.
Keys: grants / financial aid; low-income; mentoring; youth
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Name: Investor Responsibility Research Center
Web: http://www.irrc.org/
Notes: Mission is to provide the highest quality impartial
research on companies and shareholders worldwide. Provides
research, software products and consulting services to nearly 500
subscribers and clients representing institutional investors,
corporations, law firms and other organizations. Has more than 70
professional staff members working toward fulfilling its mission.
Offers guidance and advice on proxy voting, enabling clients to
make informed, considered decisions that reflect their investment
philosophies. Offers company profile information for portfolio
screening and other purposes.
Keys: consultants; corporations; divestiture; investment;
professionals; research; services; shareholder advocacy; software
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Name: Iraq Action Coalition
Web: http://iraqaction.org/
Notes: An independent grassroots coalition dedicated to ending
the war on the people of Iraq. Provides information and analysis
on the devastating effects of the continuing war (sanctions).
Keys: analysis; coalitions; economic sanctions; Iraq
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Name: Iraqi National Congress
Web: http://www.inc.org.uk/
Keys: Iraq
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Name: Irish People, The
Web: http://inac.org/IrishPeople/
Notes: The Voice of Irish Republicanism in America. A
sixteen-page weekly political newspaper. Provides up-to date,
uncensored information pertaining to the war in northeast Ireland.
Also keeps its readers abreast of events here in the United States
aimed at combating the injustices carried out by the British forces
of occupation.
Keys: Ireland; newspapers
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Name: Irish Political Prisoner Information
Web: http://larkspirit.com/ipow/
Keys: Ireland; political prisoners
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Name: Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America (IRSC)
Address: 2057 15th Street, Suite B (near Market & Church Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 861-1355 [8/00]
Fax: (415) 861-1355 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://irsm.org/irscna/ http://irsm.org/irsp/
Notes: Representatives of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
in Canada and the United States. The purpose of the IRSCNA is to
build awareness of, and support for, the Irish Republican Socialist
Party as the primary force struggling for national liberation and
socialism in Ireland today. The IRSCNA is also the sole
organisation undertaking fund raising in support of the Republican
Socialist Prisoners of War, affiliated to the Irish National
Liberation Army in North America. As part of its educational
mission, the IRSCNA distributes literature on the struggle in
Ireland, including periodicals and pamphlets published by the IRSP
and the IRSCNA itself.
Keys: Ireland; socialism
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Name: ISART
Web: http://www.isart.com/
Notes: A collaborative instersection of activists and artists of
all genres using their voices to build better communities.
Keys: art; coalitions; community-building
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Name: Iskra (Frequent Flyers)
Address: POBox 451
Oakland, CA 94604
Voice: (510) 595-3229 [6/00]
Notes: Iskra is a Marxist biweekly, circulated on newsracks in
the East Bay. Frequent Flyers are weekly flyers on various
political topics, also circulated on the newsracks.
Keys: newspapers; propaganda; socialism
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Name: Jail Hurwitz Campaign
Web: http://www.jailhurwitz.com/
Notes: Offerring a $50,000 reward for information leading to the
arrest, conviction, and jailing of corporate raider Charles
Hurwitz, head of Maxxam Corporation which 'owns' the ancient
Headwaters Forest. Based in Redway, California.
Keys: corporations; deforestation; finance; Humboldt County
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Name: Japan Pacific Resource Network (JPRN)
Address: 310 Eighth Street, Suite 305-B (near Harrison Street)
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 891-9045 [3/01]
Fax: (510) 891-9047
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.jprn.org
Notes: A public interest and educational organization that works
in pursuit of a more just society, promoting civil rights,
corporate social responsibility, and community empowerment in the
context of US-Japan relations. Carries out this mission through
research / educational projects, bilingual technical assistance,
and cross-cultural networking. Programs emphasize leadership
development, volunteerism, internships, and coalition building.
Keys: Japan
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Name: JerryWatch Coalition
Web: http://www.jerrywatch.org/
Notes: A progressive group of community and labor organizations
based in Oakland dedicated to winning racial and economic justice
in a rapidly changing city. Through public education, policy
development and community action, JerryWatch seeks to ensure that
Oakland?s resources and growth are accessible to all of its
residents. Monitors and challenges those initiatives of Mayor
Jerry Brown that will widen the racial and economic inequities that
currently exist in Oakland.
Keys: coalitions; development; distribution of wealth; economic
justice; racism
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Name: Jewish Youth for Community Action (JYCA)
Address: Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay
2484 Shattuck Avenue, Sutie 210
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 704-7475 x500 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: An innovative program dedicated to empowering Jewish
youth. Goal is to develop Jewish youth leadership through
community building, activism, and education. Facilitates a
specially selected group of Jewish teenagers through an intensive,
five month program comprised of a Leadership Training Series,
Internship Placements, Weekend Retreats, and a Culmination Project
to increase community service experience, leadership skills, and
knowledge of contemporary social issues.
Keys: community-building; Jewish Americans; youth
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Name: JG Press Inc.
Web: http://www.jgpress.com/
Notes: Publishes the magazine 'in business' (the magazine for
sustainable communities and enterprises), and magazines and books
on composting and organic recycling.
Keys: business; composting; magazines; recycling; sustainability
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Name: John F. Kennedy University
Address: 12 Altarinda Road
Orinda, CA 94563-2603
Voice: (925) 254-0200 [5/00]
Web: http://www.jfku.edu
Notes: An adult education university (the average student age is
37) combining rigorous academic programs with an atmosphere of
caring, encouragement, and growth in preparation for lifelong
community participation. Offers degree programs in holistic
studies, psychology, law, liberal arts, museum studies, education,
and management. Classes meet late afternoon, evenings and
weekends. Free brochure available; general catalog is $8.
Keys: classes / courses; education; health; interconnectedness;
law; psychology
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Name: Jubilee 2000
Web: http://www.j2000usa.org http://www.jubilee2000uk.org/main.html
Notes: An international campaign calling for the cancellation of
the unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries by the year
2000 under a fair and transparent process
Keys: finance; neoliberalism; poverty
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Name: Judi Bari Home Page
Web: http://judibari.org
Notes: A web site dedicated to Judi Bari, environmental and
social justice organizer who fought against the liquidation logging
of California redwood forests by big timber corporations. She died
March 2, 1997 of breast cancer. Judi barely survived a
still-unsolved murder attempt when a motion-triggered pipe bomb
hidden under the driver's seat of her car exploded in Oakland,
California, on May 24, 1990.
Keys: CIA / FBI / NSA; corporations; deforestation; police
accountability
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Name: Just Cause Oakland
Voice: (510) 704-5276 (general inquiries)
(510) 839-7033 (media inquiries) [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.justcauseoakland.org/
Notes: A grassroots coalition of volunteers seeking justice for
the stable communities who are making forced marches out of Oakland
by landlords evicting tenants for no reason. Circulating a
petition to put on the ballot an initiative that would require
landlords have a good cause for evicting tenants instead of the
current 30-days-and-you're-outta-here-for-no-reason. Artists,
seniors, people of color, long-time residents and anyone who rents
in Oakland are targeted by landlords seeking to capitalize on the
good economy.
Keys: art; coalitions; consumer protection; direct action;
economic justice; housing; initiatives; municipal government;
people of color; petitions; seniors; tenant rights
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Name: JustAct - Youth ACTion for Global JUSTice
Address: 333 Valencia Street, Suite 101 (near 14th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 431-4204 [10/00]
Fax: (415) 431-5953
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.justact.org
Notes: Formerly known as the Overseas Development Network,
JustAct promotes youth leadership and action for global justice by
providing a network linking students and young people to
educational opportunities and to grassroots movements working for
equitable, sustainable and self-reliant communities locally and
globally.
Keys: cycling; global community; self-reliance; students;
sustainability; youth
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Name: Justice for Silvia!
Web: http://www.justice-for-silvia.org/silvia.html
Notes: A site to make people aware of the on-going injustice
committed against political activist Silvia Baraldini by the US
government.
Keys: political prisoners
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Name: KALW
Address: San Francisco Unified School District
135 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 841-4121 (business hours)
(415) 841-4134 (other times) [1/99]
Web: http://www.kalw.org
Notes: A pioneer educational radio station licensed to the SF
Unified School District and broadcasting at 91.7 FM. Programming
includes National Public Radio, Canadian and British broadcasting,
as well as local productions. Slogan is Information Radio. KALW
is the homebase for Westcoast Live, which is broadcast on Saturday
mornings. Office is located at 500 Mansell Street, San Francisco
94134
Keys: education; radio
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Name: KALX
Address: 26 Barrows Hall #5650
Berkeley, CA 94720-5650
Voice: (510) 642-1111 (office)
(510) 642-KALX (on-air DJ)
(510) 642-0993 (news) [7/00]
Web: http://kalx.berkeley.edu
Notes: The UC Berkeley radio station, broadcasting at 90.7 FM
and offering a free-form mixture of rock, rap, pop, reggae,
international music, etc.
Keys: radio; students
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Name: Kids First Coalition
Address: 1625 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-2043 [3/01]
Fax: (510) 452-2075
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A multi-racial citywide partnership of youth and adults
dedicated to the development of sustainable youth leadership
actively engaged in building a safe, healthy, and just community.
Keys: coalitions; community-building; youth
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Name: Kids' Headquarters, Inc.
Address: 220 Redwood Highway
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Voice: (415) 331-8373 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 331-8275
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.kidsheadquarters.org/
Notes: In their interest-based kids' activity center, Kids'
Headquarters develops real child-advocacy. Honoring kids' natural
wisdom should guide social progress, producing self-fulfilled
adults, essential to lasting progress. Kids' Headquarters demands
real forums for child-advocacy.
Keys: children; Palestinians; pornography
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Name: Kilroy's Directory of San Francisco's Politically Active Groups
Address: 473 11th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118-2901
Voice: (415) 267-6942 (voicemail) [6/00]
Fax: (415) 788-1000
Notes: Lists more than 900 politically active organizations in
San Francisco. Groups are rated by their level of political
activity and category of interest. Updated annually. Price is $16
for the directory, $80 for mailing labels, and $125 for the
database on disk (in Access 2000).
Keys: directories; neighborhoods
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Name: KKUP
Address: POBox 820
Cupertino, CA 95015
Voice: (408) 260-2999
(408) 260-2997 (voicemail) [3/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.kkup.com/
Notes: An all-volunteer, completely listener-sponsored,
non-commercial, alternative community radio station broadcasting at
91.5 FM. The studio is at 1241 Franklin Mall in Santa Clara.
Keys: radio; Santa Clara County
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Name: KPFA
Address: 1929 MLKing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704-1067
Voice: (510) 848-6767
(510) 848-4425 (studio) [1/99]
Fax: (510) 848-3812
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.kpfa.org/
Notes: Founded in 1949, KPFA is the first public broadcasting,
listener-sponsored radio stations in the world. A progressive
station offering a spectrum of arts, culture, news, and
information, KPFA can be heard at 94.1 fm and locall to the
Berkeley Hills at 89.3 fm as KPFB. KPFA's signal reaches a third
of California, from Sacramento to Monterey. For groups working on
the current crisis involving the curious and heavy-handed behavior
of certain Pacifica Foundation individuals, see FreePacifica and
the Coalition for a democratic Pacifica.
Keys: calendars; news; radio
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Name: KQED
Address: 2601 Mariposa Street (at 18th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110-1400
Voice: (415) 864-2000
(415) 553-2100 (comments line) [3/01]
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.kqed.org/
Notes: A public television station on Channel 9 and a public
radio station (featuring National Public Radio) at 88.5 FM.
Keys: radio; television
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Name: Kurdish Information Network
Web: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/kurdish/htdocs/
Keys: Kurds
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Name: KUSF
Address: 2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Voice: (415) 386-5873 (386-KUSF) [1/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.kusf.org
Notes: The University of San Francisco radio station,
broadcasting at 90.3 FM and featuring alternative, cultural, and
multicultural music.
Keys: multiculturalism; radio; students
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Name: KZSU
Address: POBox 20190
Stanford, CA 94309
Voice: (650) 725-4868 (voice)
(650) 723-9010 (requests)
(650) 725-4867 (engineering)
(650) 723-4839 (music department) [7/00]
Fax: (650) 725-5865
Email: [email protected] (NO press releases) [email protected] (press releases)
Web: http://www-kzsu.stanford.edu
Notes: Stanford's all-volunteer, student-run radio station,
broadcasting at 90.1 FM. Features an eclectic variety of music --
mostly unavailable elsewhere on the dial -- as well as news,
sports, and public affairs programming. Located on Memorial Way at
Galvez.
Keys: radio; Santa Clara County
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Name: La Pena Cultural Center (La Pena)
Address: 3105 Shattuck (near Woolsey, 2 blocks from Ashby BART)
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 849-2568 [8/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.lapena.org
Notes: A bilingual multicultural center featuring progressive
music, films, art work, classes, educational forums, and grassroots
fundraising events.
Keys: art; film / video; Latinas / Latinos; multiculturalism;
music; spaces for events
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Name: La Pena del Sur
Address: 2870-A 22nd Street (between Alabama & Harrison)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 550-1101 [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A Latin American cultural and political center.
Keys: community-building; Latin America
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Name: La Raza Centro Legal
Address: 474 Valencia Street, Suite 295 (near 16th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 575-3500 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 255-7593
Notes: Provides free legal services pertaining to immigration,
housing, employment, and senior and youth law, and specifically
targets low-income Spanish-speaking communities. Has both an
employment and immigration clinic open to the public, with lawyers
present. Educates on the rights of Latina/o employees and the
responsibilities of employers under the Immigration and Refugee
Control Act (IRCA).
Keys: employment; housing; immigrants; Latinas / Latinos; legal
services; low-income; seniors; youth
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Name: Labor / Community Strategy Center
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/lctr/
Notes: A multiracial anticorporate 'think tank / act tank' and
National School for Strategic Organizing, committed to building
democratic internationalist social movements. The Center's work
encompasses all aspects of urban life: It emphasizes rebuilding
the labor movement, fighting for environmental justice, true mass
transit for the masses, and immigrant rights, as well as actively
opposing the growing criminalization, racialization, and
feminization of poverty.
Keys: corporations; environmental justice; immigrants;
internationalism; labor; poverty; transportation; urban life
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Name: Labor Archives and Research Center
Address: San Francisco State University
480 Winston Drive
San Francisco, CA 94132
Voice: (415) 564-4010 [10/99]
Fax: (415) 564-3606
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.library.sfsu.edu/special/holdings.html
Notes: A non-circulating reference library that collects,
organizes, preserves, and makes accessible the documents, files,
photographs, and ephemera of the Northern California labor
movement. Free and open to the public Monday through Friday 1 to 5
and by appointment. Brief phone inquiries are welcome also.
Keys: archiving; history; labor; libraries
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Name: Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Address: Fox Plaza
1390 Market Street, Suite 1118
San Francisco, CA 94102-5305
Voice: (415) 575-1740 x135 (voicemail)
(415) 807-1347 (beeper) [3/01]
Fax: (415) 431-6241
Email: poderpopular/[email protected]
Keys: labor councils; Latin America
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Name: Labor Notes
Address: 6417 Hillegass Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
Voice: (510) 658-1147 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 658-1147 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.labornotes.org
Notes: The voice of union activists who want to 'put the
movement back in the labor movement' through rank and file
democracy. Works to bring activists together by publishing a
monthly magazine, books, and pamphlets as well as holding schools
and conferences.
Keys: books; democracy; labor; magazines
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Name: Labor Party, East Bay Chapter
Address: POBox 8266
Berkeley, CA 94707
Voice: (510) 525-5812 [7/99]
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/lpa/
Notes: A new national political party formed in 1996 to focus on
issues of concern to working people. Endorsed by nine
international labor unions and hundreds of union locals.
Keys: labor; political parties
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Name: Labor Video Project (LVP)
Address: POBox 425584
San Francisco, CA 94142
Voice: (415) 255-8689 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 695-1369
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/lvpsf/
Notes: A labor video and communications organization. Produces
a bi-weekly labor show on cable in San Francisco and a weekly show
in Philadephia. Also produces labor video documentaries on working
people. A part of LaborNet and LaborTech, two labor communication
groups. Supports the use of labor computer networks and helps
distribute labor videos from around the world
Keys: communications; film / video; labor
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Name: LaborNet (LaborNet)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.labornet.org
Notes: A computer network that supports human rights and
economic justice for workers by providing labor news and
information, comprehensive Internet services, training and website
design for union and labor organizations.
Keys: economic justice; labor; news on-line; technical
assistance
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Name: LaFetra Operating Foundation
Address: 1221 Preservation Park Way #100
Oakland, CA 94612-1216
Voice: (510) 763-9206 [10/00]
Fax: (510) 763-9290
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.lafetra.org
Notes: Promotes international voluntary service and exchange.
Established in 1997, the foundation supports individuals from the
US seeking service learning experiences with community
organizations in the Global South. The foundation also encourages
direct collaboration and reciprocal exchanges between organizations
in the US and abroad. Programs reflect a commitment to diversity,
accessibility, accountability, and responsibility in the field of
international exchange.
Keys: diversity; travel; volunteer matching
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Name: Latin America Working Group (LAWG)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.lawg.org
Notes: A coalition of over sixty religious, human rights,
policy, grassroots and development organizations striving for US
policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in
the region.
Keys: coalitions; development; human rights; Latin America;
sustainability
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Name: Latino Civil Rights Network
Address: 1212 Broadway, Suite 1400
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 663-2020 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 663-2028
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A statewide network of Latino service agencies,
individuals, neighborhood associations, professional, religious,
and labor organizations. Serves as a statewide clearinghouse for
information gathering and dissemination, research, advocacy, policy
development, and as a resource center for local organizations or
individuals who want to promote issues of civil and human rights
for Latinos.
Keys: civil rights; Latinas / Latinos; networking
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Name: Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
Address: 1535 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 431-7430 [2/00]
Fax: (415) 431-1048
Web: http://www.LCHC.org
Notes: A community-based coalition that addresses and responds
to health policy issues affecting the Latino population.
Keys: coalitions; health; Latinas / Latinos; policy
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Name: Latino Issues Forum
Address: 785 Market Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103-2003
Voice: (415) 284-7220 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 284-7210
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.lif.org
Notes: Advances public policy solutions for a better, more
equitable, and prosperous society. Focuses on access to higher
education, economic development, health, regional development, and
telecommunication issues. Serves as a clearinghouse to provide the
news media with information and sources in the Latino community for
effective and fair coverage of issues.
Keys: communications; health; Latinas / Latinos; media; policy;
public education
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Name: Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC)
Address: 127 Collingwood Street (near 18th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 703-6150 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 703-6153
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.lyric.org
Notes: Brings lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
questioning youth togther to build a peer-based community that
empowers them to end isoation; create a progressive queer youth
voice; increase well-beng and self-esteem; and change the
communities in which they live. LYRIC accomplishes this by
offering peer-based education, advocacy, recreation, information,
and leadership opportunities.
Keys: sexual minorities; support groups; youth
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Name: LawCrawler
Web: http://www.findlaw.com/
Notes: An intelligent agent-based system for searching legal
sites throughout the Internet. Allows visitors to search only
sites that contain legal information, leading to better search
results and time saved for legal researchers.
Keys: law; research materials
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Name: League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Web: http://www.lrna.org/league.html
Notes: An organization of revolutionaries that takes as its
mission the political awakening of the American people.
Keys: corporate globalization
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Name: Left Bank Books Collective
Web: http://www.leftbankbooks.com/
Notes: An anarchist, collectively owned and operated
not-for-profit project that serves as an umbrella organization for
a few semi-independent projects. As of January 2001, the
collective has decided to cease its wholesale distribution of books
to bookstores and its tabling projects, but will continue doing
mail order distribution of books to individuals.
Keys: anarchism; books; collectives; magazines; mail-order
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Name: Left Business Observer
Web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html
Notes: An 8-page more-or-less monthly newsletter on economics
and politics in the US and the world at large. A list of recent
back issues is on the web site. Editor Doug Henwood is also a
contributing editor of The Nation and does a weekly program on WBAI
radio (New York), and is author of the books The State of the USA
Atlas and Wall Street.
Keys: business; economics; newsletters
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Name: LeftBooks.com
Web: http://www.leftbooks.com/
Notes: Wants you to get involved, get political and help spread
progressive and alternative materials to your friends and family.
Many of the products available here are excellent organizing tools
and can be the center of meetings and forums on a variety of
different subjects.
Keys: books; products
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Name: Legal Services for Children, Inc.
Address: 1254 Market Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 863-3762 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 863-7708
Notes: A free and comprehensive law office for children and
youth (0 to 17) providing legal and social services in a wide
variety of cases including emancipation, guardianship, mental
health, child abuse, school discipline, special education,
delinquency, and more. Mainly in San Francisco only, with advice
and referral throughout California. Special AIDS project for
families infected with HIV.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; children; legal services; mental health;
runaways; youth
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Name: Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC)
Web: http://www.freepeltier.org/
Notes: Peltier is a Native American serving two consecutive life
sentences in a federal penitentiary, even though there is no
credible evidence that he is guilty of anything.
Keys: Native Americans; political prisoners
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Name: Lesbian Avengers
Voice: (415) 820-3200 x235 [11/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A direct action group of lesbian, bisexual, and
transgendered women focused on issues vital to survival and
visibility.
Keys: direct action; Lesbians; sexual minorities
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Name: Lesbian.org
Web: http://www.lesbian.org/
Notes: The oldest and largest collection of lesbian-specific
information on the internet
Keys: Lesbians
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Name: LessCars.net
Web: http://www.lesscars.net
Keys: cycling; transportation
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Name: LifeLong Medical Care
Address: POBox 11247
Berkeley, CA 94712-2247
Voice: (510) 704-6010 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 883-1667
Notes: The largest provider of quality medical care to the
low-income underinsured in Northern Alameda Country.
Keys: healthcare access; low-income
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Name: Lindesmith Center - West
Address: 2233 Lombard Street (at Steiner)
San Francisco, CA 94123
Voice: (415) 921-4987 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 921-1912
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.lindesmith.org
Notes: A policy and research institute dedicated to broadening
debate on drug policy and related issues. Focuses on issues and
strategies that have been overlooked or ignored in public
discussions and government-funded research on drug policy.
Sponsors a monthly seminar series.
Keys: drugs; policy; researchers
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Name: Livermore Conversion Project (LCP)
Address: POBox 31835
Oakland, CA 94604
Voice: (510) 663-8065 [7/00]
Notes: An association of peace, environmental, and religious
organizations building a grassroots movement to convert the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from classified nuclear
research to peaceful civilian activity, including environmental
clean-up of the nuclear weapons complex. Uses dialog, negotiation,
letter-writing, petitions, public witness, and, when led by
conscience and rooted in informed conviction, nonviolent civil
disobedience.
Keys: civil disobedience; economic conversion; letter-writing;
nuclear weapons / testing; petitions
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Name: Livermore CopWatch
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.execpc.com/~copwatch/
Keys: police accountability; violence
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Name: Liverpool Dockworkers Strike Web Page
Web: http://www.labournet.net/docks2/other/dockhome.htm
Notes: This website traces the Liverpool dispute and the growth
of an international dockers movement, as they unfold.
Keys: Europe; labor; strikes
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Name: Long Haul Infoshop
Address: 3124 Shattuck Avenue (near Woolsey; 2 blocks from Ashby BART)
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 540-0751 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 649-7751
Email: [email protected]
Notes: An activist center and reading room in South Berkeley.
Provides zines, books, leaflets, stickers, T-shirts, and other
resources for sale or free, plus a library and archive with reading
room. Networks with activist groups and movement centers around
the Bay Area and the world. Open Tuesday and Wednesday from 6 to 9
pm, Thursday and Sunday from 3 to 9 pm, plus a women's-only space
Mondays from 6 to 9 pm. Cafe Night (an inexpensive vegetarian meal
and get-together) is Sundays at 7:30 pm
Keys: anarchism; archiving; community-building; networking;
products; research materials; spaces for events
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Name: Loompanics Unlimited
Web: http://www.loompanics.com/
Notes: Publisher of the world's most controversial and unusual
books: non-fiction and how-to for anarchists, survivalists,
iconoclasts, mercenaries, investigators, drop-outs, researchers,
and just about anyone interested in the strange, the useful, the
arcane, the oddball, the unusual, the unique and the diabolical.
Keys: anarchism; books; censorship; do-it-yourself;
noncorporate economy
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Name: Love Underground Vision Radio (LUVeR)
Web: http://www.luver.com http://www.luver.org
Notes: LUVeR.com is and will remain a non-corporate, DIY,
totally uncensored, noncommercial, nonprofit internet-only radio
station with 24-hour 'live' programming (by amazing people) with
'no-limits' content. In short, LUVeR is what THEY told us three
years ago how the internet would be. LUVeR.org is a separate LUVeR
Alternative News site that covers the social, cultural, political,
and personal [r]evolution that the corporate media actively
supresses --- a muckracking indiemedia channel for radical change!
See also Frank Moore.
Keys: free speech; Internet; news on-line; noncorporate
economy; radio
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Name: Macrocosm USA
Address: POBox 185
Cambria, CA 93428-0185
Voice: (805) 927-2515 [12/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.macronet.org/
Notes: A non-profit educational clearinghouse emphasizing
environmental, justice, peace, health issues and solutions for
progressives.
Keys: directories; ecology; health; peace
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Name: Maganda Magazine
Address: 201 Heller Lounge
Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union
Berkeley, CA 94720
Voice: (415) 393-3476 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A student-run art & literary publication for, by, and
about Filipinos and Filipino-Americans.
Keys: art; magazines; Philippines / Filipinos; poetry;
students; university publications
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Name: Magic, Inc.
Address: POBox 5894
Stanford, CA 94309
Voice: (650) 323-7333 [1/99]
Fax: (650) 323-4232
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ecomagic.org
Notes: Demonstrates how the methods and principles of ecology
may be applied to discover and further common human purposes.
Activities include life-planning workshops, seminars in ecological
economics, swim and hatha yoga instruction, youth mentoring,
mediation, community organizing, planting and caring for trees,
habitat stewardship, water and land resource planning, neighborhood
design, and publishing. Located at 381 Oxford Avenue, Palo Alto
94306
Keys: community-building; ecology; economics; mediation; Santa
Clara County; trees
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Name: Making Contact
Notes: See National Radio Project
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Name: MAMAROOTS: Ajama-Jebi
Address: 6025 Shattuck Avenue
Oakland, CA 94609-1436
Voice: (510) 658-7123 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.mamarootsweb.com
Notes: An Afrikan Goddess Centered Spiritual and Educational
Organization for Wimmin. A health and wellness organization for
wimmin, specializing in prevention of social dis-eases and maladies
in wimmin and girls, including but not limited to substance abuse,
teen pregnancy, delinquency, economic disenfranchisement,
homophobia, racism, ageism. MAMAROOTS is lesbian / bisexual
affirmative and not heterosexist. Offers Afrikan Womin Centered
certified substance abuse counseling, alternative nutritional
counseling and wellness treatments, community building and social
renewal services.
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Name: Management Center, The (OpportunityNocs)
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94102-2903
Voice: (415) 362-9735 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 362-4603
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.tmcenter.org
Notes: Provides management assistance to more than 750 Northern
California nonprofit organizations annually. Publishes a
newsletter of classified advertisements for nonprofits called
OpportunityNocs.
Keys: consultants
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Name: Marcus, Neil
Address: 2550 Dana Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 843-5425 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.usa-network.com/functions/justone/marcus.html
Notes: A disabled actor / playwright / journalist / artist /
disabled culturist and media persona who has been on tour with
Access Theater for 6 years with the hit play 'Storm Reading'.
Publishes the one-page xeroxed newsletter 'Special Effects'.
Keys: disabilities; individuals; journalism; theatre
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Name: Marcus Bookstores (Oakland)
Address: 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (between Post & Sutter)
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (510) 652-2344
(510) 652-2345 (printing department) [5/00]
Notes: One of the largest sources in the world of books by and
about black people. Established 1960.
Keys: Africa; African Americans; books
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Name: Marcus Bookstores (San Francisco)
Address: 1712 Fillmore Street (between Post & Sutter)
San Francisco, CA 94115
Voice: (415) 346-4222 [5/00]
Notes: One of the largest sources in the world of books by and
about black people. Established 1960.
Keys: Africa; African Americans; books
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Name: Margit Stange Support Committee
Web: http://www.stange-support.org/
Notes: Addresses feminist literary scholar Margit Stange's
gender bias tenure denial lawsuit against the University of
California, Davis, Department of English.
Keys: distribution of wealth; educators; feminism; litigation;
sexism; women
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Name: Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Address: POBox 2481
Mill Valley, CA 94942
Voice: (415) 924-3227 [7/00]
Fax: (415) 924-3227 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Sponsors small-scale humanitarian aid projects in
Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Publishes a
quarterly newsletter called Central America Report, sponsors
events, and does legislative work.
Keys: Caribbean; Central America; El Salvador; Guatemala; Marin
County; material aid; Mexico; newsletters; religion
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Name: Marin Peace News
Address: POBox 1008
Fairfax, CA 94978 [2/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: An independent bimonthly newsletter covering events and
developments in peace and justice of interest to Marin County
readers. A subscription is $10 per year (six issues) by
first-class mail. Editor is Sandy Shartzer
Keys: Marin County; militarism; newsletters; peace
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Name: Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI)
Web: http://www.mcbi.org/
Notes: Dedicated to safeguarding life in the sea by advancing
the multidisciplinary science of marine conservation biology.
Helps scientists generate information that arms people with
knowledge crucial for informed decision making, gets this
information to other scientists, decision makers and the public,
and works to build new alliances to protect, restore and
sustainably use marine biological diversity.
Keys: biodiversity; conservation; science; water
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Name: Marine Mammal Center, The
Voice: (415) 289-7325 (289-SEAL) [5/99]
Web: http://www.tmmc.org
Notes: Rescues, rehabilitates, and releases marine mammals whose
existence and habitat are threatened. Researches new treatments
for diseases that afflict marine mammals. Fights to reduce human
interference in marine mammal habitat.
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; health; Marin
County; water
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Name: Marxist Worker?s Group
Address: POBox 14145
San Francisco, CA 94114-0145
Voice: (415) 430-2163 x1359 (voicemail) [8/00]
Web: http://www.marxistworker.org
Notes: The US Section of the International Workers? Committee,
an international democratic-centralist organization fighting for
the rebuilding of a mass, international Marxist party of the
proletariat. Stands in the tradition of, and bases its method on,
Bolshevism, the early Communist International and the early
international movement of Bolshevik-Leninists, grouped around Leon
Trotsky. Intervenes in the class struggle, struggling alongside
our class against capitalism, imperialism and oppression.
Publishes 'The Worker'.
Keys: capitalism; class; communism; imperialism; labor;
socialism
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Name: McSpotlight
Web: http://www.mcspotlight.org
Notes: A web site providing the lowdown on McDonald's.
Keys: corporations; food; health
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Name: Media Access Project
Web: http://www.mediaaccess.org
Notes: A public interest telecommunications law firm that
promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard
via the electronic media of today and tomorrow.
Keys: communications; First Amendment; lawyers
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Name: Media Alliance
Address: 814 Mission Street, Suite 205 (between 4th & 5th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 546-6334
(415) 546-6491 (class registration line) [3/01]
Fax: (415) 546-6218
Email: info@media-alliance.org
Web: http://www.media-alliance.org
Notes: Formed by a group of media workers to unite the
professional media community with the public interest communities
of the Bay Area. Founded with the belief that in order to ensure
the free and unfettered flow of information and ideas necessary to
maintain a truly democratic society, media must be accessible,
accountable, decentralized, representative of society's diversity,
free from covert or overt government control and from excessive
corporate influence. Dedicates itself to fostering genuine
diversity of media voices and perspectives, holding the media
accountable for their impact on society, and protecting freedom of
speech. Today MA has the support of over 3500 individual members
and 200 group affiliates. See also The Housing Project.
Keys: decentralization; free speech; media; media criticism
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Name: Media Watch
Address: POBox 618
Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0618
Voice: (831) 423-6355 [4/99]
Fax: (831) 423-6355 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.mediawatch.com
Notes: Publishes a national quarterly newsletter for $20 per
year ($10 low income). Distributes the video 'Warning: The Media
May Be Hazardous to Your Health' on the dangers of media images
that glamorize violence, fear, and hatred between the sexes (VHS
$150, U-Matic $200, Rental $40 per week, plus $5 s&h). Also
distributes 'Don't Be a TV: Television Victim' for elementary
through middle school, on media literacy ($75 for institutions, $40
plus $5 s&h for individuals). Both videos come with 20-page
teachers' guides.
Keys: film / video; media criticism; newsletters; sexism;
television; violence
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Name: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI)
Address: POBox 673
Berkeley, CA 94701-0673
Voice: (510) 848-0599 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 848-6008
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfsu.edu/~mclicfc
Notes: Advocates for human rights and peace law by using
existing laws of the United States and the United Nations and by
reporting on violations. Trains interns; publishes and distributes
the Human Rights & Peace Law Docket, the Human Rights Organizations
and Periodicals Directory, Peace Law Packets, numerous Human Rights
Law publications and a Newsletter.
Keys: civil liberties; directories; human rights; law;
newsletters; peace; United Nations
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Name: Men Overcoming Violence (MOVE)
Address: 1385 Mission Street #300
SF, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 626-6683 [7/99]
Fax: (415) 626-6704
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.menovercomingviolence.org
Notes: Committed to ending men's violence in their
relationships. Provides counseling for batterers and prevention
education on domestic violence, men & masculinity, and sexism. Has
a group for gay men and also a youth program, working with young
men in schools and providing counseling.
Keys: counseling; domestic violence; men; prevention; sexism;
sexual minorities; youth
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Name: Men's Associated Exchange (MAX)
Address: 2107 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 250
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 359-9200 [1/00]
Web: http://www.maxonline.org
Notes: The largest gay men's social and philanthropic
organization in the U.S. with 15 social and fund-raising events
each month supporting the SF Bay Area gay community.
Keys: community-building; fundraising; Gays; men
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Name: Men's Issues Page, The
Web: http://www.vix.com/pub/men/
Notes: Mission is to cover the several men's movements
encyclopediacally. Goals are to maintain reference lists of mens
movement organizations, books, periodicals, web links and other
resources; to serve as an online reference source for statistics,
studies and bibliographies of interest to the mens movements. And
particularly, to address topics of special need in the areas of
fathering and fatherlessness, false accusations, single dads
(child-support, custody, visitation), and battered men.
Keys: directories; family; men; research materials
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Name: Mendocino Softworks
Address: POBox 304
Willits, CA 95490
Voice: (707) 459-1207 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.tshirtsforall.com
Notes: Sells hand-dyed and hand-printed T-shirts made of
organically-grown cotton.
Keys: crafts; Mendocino County; organic agriculture; products;
textiles
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Name: Mercy Charities Housing California
Address: 609 Pacific Avenue, Suite 101
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Voice: (831) 471-1914 [4/99]
Fax: (831) 471-1917
Notes: Works to create and strengthen healthy communities
through the provision of quality, affordable, service-enriched
housing for individuals and families who are economically poor.
Keys: development; housing; low-income; Santa Cruz County;
services
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Name: Metaphor Project, The
Address: POBox 892
Orinda, CA 94563
Voice: (925) 254-7198 [1/01]
Fax: (925) 254-3304
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.metaphorproject.org
Notes: Teaches and promotes new ways to create fresh language
for communicating sustainable goals and actions to mainstream
Americans. Through dialogue, workshops, and research, The Metaphor
Project collects, helps generate, and analyzes examples of
contemporary catch phrases, slogans, or images altered to convey
positive messages about sustainability to mainstream audiences.
The best of these creations are then passed on in articles, on-line
posts, or other modes of spreading the word through key contacts.
Keys: analysis; classes / courses; culture jamming; propaganda;
researchers; sustainability
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Name: MetroVox.org
Web: http://www.listfoundation.org/
Notes: A web site containing Bay Area events, job listings,
apartment rentals, and other announcements. Not to be confused
with craigslist or the Albert List Foundation.
Keys: calendars; employment; housing
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Name: Mexico Solidarity Network
Web: http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/
Notes: A coalition of over 80 organizations struggling for human
rights, economic justice and democracy in the United States and
Mexico.
Keys: coalitions; democracy; economic justice; human rights;
Mexico; solidarity
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Name: MHONA International
Address: POBox 22162
San Francisco, CA 94122
Voice: (415) 665-1178 (call between 9 am and 1 pm) [5/00]
Fax: (415) 759-0958
Email: [email protected]
Notes: An advocacy group for and by victims and survivors of
violent trauma, including those with family members who have been
murdered, with added issues of disabling. Holds an annual human
rights event in Golden Gate Park each September.
Keys: disabilities; human rights; support groups; violence
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Name: Michael Parenti Political Archive
Web: http://www.michaelparenti.org/
Notes: The official repository for information about Dr.
Parenti's books, pre-recorded audio and video tapes, Real Audio
versions of the programs from the radio series entitled People's
Radio, plus a schedule of upcoming speaking engagements.
Keys: analysis; archiving; books; products
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Name: Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA)
Address: 905 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Voice: (510) 548-0542 [10/99]
Fax: (510) 548-0543
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.mecaforpeace.org
Notes: A non-governmental organization working for peace and
justice in the Middle East, focusing on Palestine, Israel, Lebanon
and Iraq. Programs emphasize the need to educate North Americans
about the Middle East and US foreign policy, and to support
projects that aid and empower communities. Believes in insuring
the human rights of all people in the region, especially focusing
on the rights of children. See also Alliance Graphics.
Keys: children; human rights; Iraq; Israel; material aid;
Middle East; Palestinians; policy; travel
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Name: Midway Residents for Environmental Justice
Address: 33 Cypress Lane ((near Geneva Avenue))
Daly City, CA 94014 [1/01]
Email: [email protected]
Keys: environmental justice; San Mateo County
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Name: Milarepa Fund
Address: 1230 Market Street #11
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 553-8533
(888) MILAREPA [8/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.milarepa.org/
Notes: Actively supports the social change that the Tibetan
struggle embodies, and supports the youth of the world who
represent a powerful vehicle to achieve that change. Today, the
people of Tibet are faced with the total destruction of their
culture, religion and environment as the Chinese government
continues to illegally occupy their high plateau country in Central
Asia.
Keys: China; cultural survival; grants / financial aid; Tibet;
youth
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Name: Militia Watchdog
Web: http://www.militia-watchdog.org/
Notes: Devoted to monitoring far-right extremism in the United
States.
Keys: directories; militias; right-wingers
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Name: Milk Sucks.com
Web: http://www.milksucks.com
Notes: The real story on dairy products from PETA.
Keys: animal liberation; health; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Millennia Educators, Inc.
Address: 4001 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94609-2514
Voice: (510) 547-4118 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 547-4218
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.aiuf.org
Notes: An Oakland-based (501)(C)(3) corporation serving the
people of the world by carrying out in the US and elsewhere in the
world the charitable education purposes of Able World Foundation,
Inc. (AWOFI), another (501)(C)(3) corporation. Specifically, MEI
wants to gather and manage resources for the establishment and
maintenance of UNIQUE educational institutions in Oakland,
California, including a travel program to West Africa for
educators, parents, students, and others, and an after-school
program offering assistance to families in reading, writing, math,
science, computer technology, and African culture and history.
Will be opening a charter middle school in September 2000.
Keys: Africa; African Americans; computers; education;
educators; history; science; students; travel
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Name: Mime Troupe, San Francisco (SFMT)
Address: 855 Treat Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110-2723
Voice: (415) 285-1717 (office & show information) [3/99]
Fax: (415) 285-1290
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfmt.org
Notes: America's Tony Award-winning, political, musical, comedy
theatre. Performs free musical comedies in Bay Area parks each
summer and tours widely
Keys: collectives; humor; multiculturalism; music; parks;
theatre
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Name: Mindfield Magazine
Address: POBox 14114
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 433-7945 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.dnai.com/~mindfld
Notes: Combines social satire with short stories, poetry, and
political analysis.
Keys: analysis; humor; immigrants; labor; Latinas / Latinos;
magazines; writing
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Name: Minkler, Doug
Address: 1715 Ward Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
Voice: (510) 548-7119 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Specializes in the conceptualization, design, and
production of poster art for labor, environmentalism, and social
activism.
Keys: art; environmental justice; labor
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Name: Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
Web: http://www.infoshop.org/myep.html
Notes: A grassroots movement in San Francisco working to raise
awareness about gentrification issues. When working families,
artists, and lifelong residents of San Francisco neighborhoods are
being evicted from their home so some dot-commer can have some
rustic digs, it's time for people to band together and take direct
action.
Keys: art; direct action; gentrification; housing; music;
neighborhoods
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Name: Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Address: 3425 Cesar Chavez Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 821-0459 [4/99]
Fax: (415) 821-0166
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.freemumia.org
Keys: African Americans; journalism; Mumia Abu-Jamal; political
prisoners
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Name: Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Political Prisoners, South Bay
Address: POBox 5095
San Jose, CA 95150-5095
Voice: (408) 257-9424
(408) 562-2556
(408) 294-5779 [11/99]
Fax: (954) 337-5748
Email: [email protected]
Keys: Mumia Abu-Jamal; political prisoners; Santa Clara County
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Name: Mobilization to Protest the Democratic National Convention 2000 (D2KLA)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.d2kla.org/
Notes: Join thousands of concerned people in Philadelphia and
Los Angeles to let both the Republican and Democratic Parties know
that business cannot continue as usual. We will come from every
corner of the world united in our demand for a total change of
priorities from the production of things to the caring for people
and the environment. Join us in a series of marches, nonviolent
direct actions and events leading up to and during the Republican
National Convention in Philadelphia, July 31 through August 3, 2000
and the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, August 14
through 17, 2000.
Keys: demonstrations; direct action; elections; government
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Name: Modern Times Bookstore
Address: 888 Valencia Street (near 20th)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 282-9246 [5/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.mtbs.com
Notes: An independent, progressive, literary bookstore
specializing in multicultural literature, social issues, cultural
theory, sexual politics, and books in Spanish.
Keys: books; Latinas / Latinos; multiculturalism; sexual
minorities
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Name: Monsanto Monitor
Web: http://www.antenna.nl/aseed/monsanto/monitor.html
Notes: An information and strategic resource for organisations
and individuals campaigning against Monsanto and its products.
Each issue offers feature analyses of various sectors or
operational aspects of Monsanto and other corporate GE
practitioners. It also profiles various institutional promoters of
the genetic engineering industry. The primary but not exclusive
analytical focus is Monsanto & Company in Europe.
Keys: agriculture; analysis; biotechnology; boycotts;
corporations; Europe; food
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Name: Monthly Review
Web: http://www.monthlyreview.org
Notes: A magazine with a unique blend of scholarship and
activism, critical understanding and accessibility. MR speaks to
workers and labor organizers no less than to academics, and against
class exploitation, no less than against racial and sexual
oppression. A guide to current realities, their historical roots
and the prospects for change.
Keys: class; history; labor; magazines; racism; sexism
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Name: Moore, Frank
Web: http://www.eroplay.com
Notes: A performer, director, writer, and teacher of shamanistic
art. Conducts performance rituals throughout the year. Books,
cassettes, and videotapes are available. Publishes 'The Cherotic
rEvolutionary', a zine about 'the edge'. His work has been the
subject of attack by Jesse Helms. See also Love Underground Vision
Radio.
Keys: art; censorship; individuals; theatre
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Name: Moore, Michael
Web: http://www.michaelmoore.com
Keys: film / video; humor; television
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Name: Mother Jones (MoJo)
Address: 731 Market Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 665-6637 [12/98]
Fax: (415) 665-6696
Web: http://www.mojones.com/
Notes: A national magazine for progressive-minded people.
Investigative reporting, national and international news, politics,
culture, current controversies, civil liberties, media censorship,
peace and disarmament, and the environment. Published bi-monthly
for $18 a year
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; ecology; magazines;
militarism
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Name: Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet
Web: http://www.mothers.org http://www.momsonline.com
Notes: A national nonprofit education organization, works to
promote consumer choices which are safe and ecologically
sustainable for this generation and the next. By providing
strategies that can reduce individual and community consumption of
natural resources, and by mobilizing consumers to seek sustainable
choices, aims to effect lasting protection of public health and the
environment. Publishes a monthly newsletter on environmental
action for a mere $10 annual membership fee.
Keys: consumer protection; ecology; newsletters
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Name: Mount Diablo Peace Center (MDPC)
Address: 65 Eckley Lane
Walnut Creek, CA 94596-6798
Voice: (510) 933-7850 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wenet.net/~mdpc
Notes: A non-denominational committee of the Mt. Diablo
Unitarian Universalist Church for Peace Education and Action.
Works to build a more just and peaceful world through personal
citizen involvement. Strives to end violence by nurturing peace on
all levels, between nations, communities, individuals, and within
ourselves.
Keys: Contra Costa County; draft / registration; peace centers;
speakers
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Name: Movimiento por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes
Notes: See Immigrant Rights Movement
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Name: Moving On Center - School of Participatory Arts & Research
Address: 1428 Alice Street #201
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 834-0284 [1/00]
Fax: (510) 834-1469
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Mission is to develop community leaders and artists who
integrate their ideas and practice to promote social change.
Encouraging cooperative learning and an interdisciplinary focus,
the curriculum draws on dance, theater, voice and a wide variety of
somatic research to activate creativity and health in both the
individual and the community.
Keys: art; classes / courses; creativity; dance; health; theatre
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Name: Multi-Cultural Development Association, Inc. (MCDA, Inc.)
Address: POBox 8213
Pittsburg, CA 94565
Voice: (510) 753-1830 (24 hours) [12/98]
Fax: (510) 753-1830 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A Contra Costa community-based social advocacy agency
that advocates on behalf of family, children, poverty and minority
issues. The Reverend Curtis A. Timmons, BA., TH.D., Executive
Director. Located at 301 West Tenth Street, Suite Six (at the
corner of D Street), Antioch CA 94509.
Keys: children; Contra Costa County; family; multiculturalism;
poverty
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Name: Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture (MESA)
Address: 5337 College Avenue, Suite 508
Oakland, CA 94618
Voice: (510) 654-8858 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 843-6280
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wenet.net/~mesa/
Notes: Facilitates US organic on-the-farm training programs for
international farmer interns.
Keys: classes / courses; organic agriculture; sustainability
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Name: Multinational Monitor
Web: http://www.essential.org/monitor/monitor.html
Notes: A monthly magazine that tracks corporate activity,
especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous
substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the
environment.
Keys: corporate globalization; ecology; health; labor;
magazines; news on-line; toxics
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Name: Multinationals Resource Center
Web: http://www.essential.org/mdc/
Notes: Southern countries increasingly find themselves exploited
by the worst abuses of multinational corporations --- rampant
pollution, oppressive labor practices, exploitative trading
arrangements, and more. Yet Southern residents often have limited
access to even basic information on the factory owners and the laws
that affect them. The MRC helps redress this situation by
providing valuable information, free of charge, to Southern
activists, environmental and consumer groups and journalists.
Keys: corporate globalization; research materials
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Name: Mumia Abu Jamal Web Page
Web: http://www.mumia.org
Keys: Mumia Abu-Jamal; political prisoners
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Name: Mumia2000.org
Web: http://www.mumia2000.org/
Notes: A web site covering death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Keys: death penalty; Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Name: Musicians for Medical Marijuana
Address: 1678 Shattuck Ave. #124
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 869-5391 [10/00]
Fax: (510) 486-8090
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.m4mmj.org/
Notes: Music industry professionals have joined medical cannabis
advocates to establish Musicians for Medical Marijuana. Goal is to
raise public awareness about the ongoing challenges facing medical
cannabis patients, their caregivers, and loved ones. Despite
overwhelming public support for California Proposition 215, medical
cannabis patients continue to struggle for safe access to
affordable medication. Pressure from federal authorities and a lack
of state leadership have curtailed the number of medical cannabis
provider?s associations operating in California. Cannabis patients
and caregivers continue to face legal risks and social stigma.
Musicians for Medical Marijuana hopes to educate the public about
these issues and facilitate a national dialog.
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Name: Najda: Women Concerned About the Middle East
Address: POBox 7152
Berkeley, CA 94707-1052
Voice: (408) 732-5484 [7/99]
Notes: Provides aid to needy individuals and communities in the
Arab world, particularly Palestinian women and children.
Keys: children; material aid; Middle East; Palestinians; women
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Name: Names Project Foundation
Address: 310 Townsend Street, Suite 310 (near 4th)
San Francisco, CA 94107
Voice: (415) 882-5500 [12/98]
Fax: (415) 882-6200
Web: http://www.aidsquilt.org/
Notes: The sponsors of the International AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Has a workshop at 2362-A Market Street (near Noe)
Keys: AIDS / HIV; textiles
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Name: Naropa Institute (Oakland Campus)
Address: 2141 Broadway (between 21st Street and Grand Avenue)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 835-4827 [6/99]
Fax: (510) 835-0564
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.creationspirituality.com/
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Name: Nation Newsweekly Online, The
Web: http://www.thenation.com/
Keys: news on-line
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Name: National Abortion Federaion
Web: http://www.prochoice.org/
Notes: The professional association of abortion providers,
working to preserve and enhance the quality and accessibility of
abortion services in the US and Canada
Keys: professionals; reproductive rights
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Name: National AIDS Memorial Grove (AMG)
Address: 856 Stanyan Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Voice: (415) 750-8340 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 750-0214
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.aidsmemorial.org
Notes: Dedicated to the creation and long-term maintenance of
the first living memorial to those lost to AIDS and in support of
those living with HIV. A project of the Tides Center
Keys: AIDS / HIV; parks
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Name: National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons (NCSCUP West)
Address: 2940 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 252-9211 [12/98]
Notes: A network of individuals and organizations, inside and
outside prison walls, working to end the human rights abuses
occurring daily in control unit prisons in the US. Control units
are designed to cause spiritual, psychological, and physical
breakdown of prisoners. NCSCUP is engaged in data collection,
education, and action aimed at shutting down all control unit
torture chambers. A part of California Prison Focus
Keys: human rights; incarceration; torture
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Name: National Center for Employee Ownership
Address: 1736 Franklin Street, 8th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 272-9461 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 272-9510
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nceo.org/
Notes: A nonprofit membership, information, and research
corporation established to provide reliable, objective, and
comprehensive information about employee ownership and
participation. Free brochure available.
Keys: employee ownership
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Name: National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 570
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 392-6257 (392-NCLR) [1/00]
Fax: (415) 392-8442
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nclrights.org
Notes: A lesbian, feminist, multicultural legal services center.
Fights to end discrimination against lesbians through litigation,
education, policy advocacy, and technical assistance. Strives to
understand the connections between sexual orientation
discrimination and other forms of oppression.
Keys: legal services; Lesbians; litigation; policy; technical
assistance; women
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Name: National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape (Women's History Library)
Address: 2325 Oak Street
Berkeley, CA 94708-1697
Voice: (510) 524-1582 [2/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://members.aol.com/ncmdr/index.html
Notes: An organization of consultants, researchers, speakers,
and resources for legal and medical advocates, writers, the media,
students, and concerned campus and community people. Offers
fee-based telephone consultations, priced at $30 per year for
organizations and $15 per year for individuals, plus $7.50 per 15
minutes. State law charts are $3 (with info packet $10).
Volunteer internships year round
Keys: domestic violence; law; rape; research materials;
speakers; women
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Name: National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ncac.org
Notes: An alliance of over 40 national non-profit organizations,
including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional,
labor, and civil liberties groups. United by a conviction that
freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression must be defended.
Educates about the dangers of censorship and how to oppose it.
Strives to create a climate of opinion hospitable to First
Amendment freedoms in the broader community.
Keys: art; censorship; civil liberties; coalitions; First
Amendment
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Name: National Coalition for the Homeless
Web: http://nch.ari.net/
Notes: A national advocacy network of homeless persons,
activists, service providers, and others committed to ending
homelessness through public education, policy advocacy, grassroots
organizing, and technical assistance.
Keys: coalitions; homelessness; policy; technical assistance
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Name: National Coalition of Free Men, Northern California Chapter
Address: POBox 640053
San Francisco, CA 94164
Voice: (888) 223-1280 [7/00]
Web: http://www.ncfm.org
Notes: A non-profit educational organization that examines the
way sex discrimination affects men. It also tries to raise public
consciousness about little known, but important, topics dealing
with the male experience. Sponsors a variety of projects, provides
speakers, and publishes 'Transitions: Journal of Men's
Perspectives', six times a year.
Keys: coalitions; discrimination; men; sexism; speakers
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Name: National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
Web: http://www.igc.org/ncdm/
Notes: A national network of local committees in the United
States committed to working to support the Zapatistas in the
front-line struggle against neoliberalism and for humanity. It is
the structure recognized by the Ej?rcito Zapatista de Liberaci?n
Nacional (EZLN) for coordinating support for their cause in the
United States
Keys: democracy; Mexico; neoliberalism; Zapatistas
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Name: National Emergency Coalition to Stop the War Against Iraq (Emergency Committee)
Address: c/o International Action Center
2489 Mission Street #28 (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 821-6545 [12/98]
Web: http://www.iacenter.org
Notes: Opposing the continued war against Iraq in the form of
economic sanctions that have killed over 1.5 million people through
the 1990s according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization, in addition to periodic terrorist military actions
Keys: economic sanctions; Iraq; militarism; self-determination
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Name: National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nffc.net/
Notes: A national link for grassroots organizations working on
family farm issues, currently consisting of 33 grassroots farm,
resource conservation, and rural advocacy groups from 33 states.
Keys: agriculture; coalitions; conservation; family;
noncorporate economy; rural life
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Name: National Farm Worker Ministry
Address: c/o John A. Nasstrom
2039 Clemens Road
Oakland, CA 94602
Voice: (510) 531-0326 [1/99]
Keys: agriculture; labor; religion
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Name: National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
Web: http://www.natfed.org/
Notes: Community development credit unions are established by
people in low-income areas as a way to pool their savings and make
loans to each other. Economic self-help and community reinvestment
are the heart of the CDCU mission: to help low-income families and
communities control their own financial destinies.
Keys: banks; community-building; finance; low-income; self-help
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Name: National Labor Committee
Web: http://www.nlcnet.org/
Notes: A human rights advocacy group whose unique focus is the
promotion and defense of worker rights. Through establishing long
standing working relationships with non-governmental, human rights,
labor, and religious organizations, primarily in Latin America, the
NLC puts a human face on the global economy. The NLC educates and
actively involves the public in actions aimed at ending labor
abuses, improving living conditions for workers and their families
and promoting the concept of a living wage.
Keys: Central America; corporate globalization; human rights;
labor; living wage
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Name: National Latina Health Organization (NLHO)
Address: POBox 7567
Oakland, CA 94601
Voice: (510) 534-1362 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 534-1364
Notes: Promotes self-help methods and empowerment processes as a
vehicle for taking better control of health practices and styles.
Works for bilingual access to quality health care and self
empowerment of Latinas through education programs, health advocacy,
outreach, research, and public policy.
Keys: health; Latinas / Latinos; self-help
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Name: National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (NLG)
Address: 558 Capp Street (between 20th and 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 285-5067 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 285-5066
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nlg.org
Notes: The local chapter of a national bar association group of
progressive lawyers. Has committees on topics such as economic
justice, corporate responsibility, Central America, lesbian / gay
rights, and demonstrators' rights. See also the National Lawyers
Guild Committee on Democratic Communications as well as the Law
Offices at 368 Hayes Street
Keys: Central America; corporations; demonstrations; economic
justice; lawyers; legal defense; sexual minorities
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Name: National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
Address: 436 14th Street, Suite 1020
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-2051 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 444-1593
Web: http://www.nnaapc.org
Notes: Works to stop the spread of HIV and related diseases,
including sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis, among
American Indians and Alaska Natives by improving their health
status through empowerment and self determination.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; health; Native Americans; prevention;
self-determination
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Name: National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
Address: 310 Eighth Street, Suite 307
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 465-1984 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 465-1885
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nnirr.org
Notes: A national organization composed of local coalitions and
immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights, and labor
organizations and activists. Serves as a public forum to share
information and analysis, to educate communities and the general
public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important
immigrant and refugee issues
Keys: analysis; civil rights; coalitions; immigrants; labor;
networking; refugees
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Name: National Organic Program
Web: http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop
Notes: A program of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Mission is to develop and implement national standards that govern
the marketing of agricultural products as organically produced, to
facilitate commerce in fresh and processed food that is organically
produced, and ensure consumers that such products meet consistent
standards.
Keys: national government; organic agriculture
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Name: National Organization for Restoring Men (NORM)
Address: 3205 Northwood Drive, Suite 209 (near Olivera)
Concord, CA 94520-4506
Voice: (510) 827-4077 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 827-4119
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.norm.org
Notes: Educates on foreskin restoration for circumcised men.
Keys: circumcision; Contra Costa County; health
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Name: National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, California Chapter (California NORML)
Address: 2215-R Market Street #278
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 563-5858 [1/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.norml.org/canormal
Notes: Does lobbying and education for marijuana law reform.
Membership in California is $25 (low-income $10). Publishes a
newsletter
Keys: education; hemp; lobbying; newsletters
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Name: National Organization for Women, San Francisco (SF NOW)
Address: 3543 18th Street, Box 27 (near Valencia)
San Francisco, CA 94110-1687
Voice: (415) 861-8880 [2/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sirius.com/~sfnow/now.html http://now.org/now/
Notes: Feminists organizing for equality and justice for all
women. Volunteers are needed; please call to get involved
Keys: feminism; women
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Name: National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC)
Address: POBox 2512
San Anselmo, CA 94979-2512
Voice: (415) 488-9883 [4/99]
Fax: (415) 488-9660
Web: http://www.nocirc.org
Keys: circumcision; Marin County
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Name: National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM)
Address: POBox 460795
San Francisco, CA 94146-0795
Voice: (415) 826-9351 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 642-3700
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.noharmm.org
Notes: Addresses the legal, moral, ethical, and human rights
dimensions of infant circumcision, asserting that the amputation of
normal, healthy, functioning body structures from a patient who can
neither understand, consent, or refuse the surgery is medically
unethical. The current US rate for this this needless social
custom is still 60%. Holds monthly support meetings.
Keys: circumcision
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Name: National People's Campaign (NPC)
Address: 2489 Mission Street #28 (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 821-6545 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 821-5782
Web: http://www.peoplescampaign.org
Notes: Working to stop racism and police brutality, stop attacks
on immigrants, and to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and other political
prisoners. Organizes large public demonstrations
Keys: demonstrations; direct action; immigrants; Mumia
Abu-Jamal; police accountability; political prisoners; prisons;
racism
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Name: National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement
Address: 7911 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94605
Voice: (510) 569-9620 [4/99]
Keys: African Americans
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Name: National Radio Project
Address: 1714 Franklin #100-251
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 251-1332 [6/99]
Fax: (510) 251-1342
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.radioproject.org/
Notes: Produces the nationaly-aired weekly radio program Making
Contact, featuring Normon Solomon, David Barsamian, Janice Leber of
Chopped Liver Productions, and others. A progressive half hour
program that highlights the people, voices, and issues not normally
covered in mainstream media. The web site features Real Audio so
that visitors can hear recent programs.
Keys: media criticism; radio
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Name: National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Web: http://www.nrpe.org/
Notes: A federation of major American faith communities: the US
Catholic Conference, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish
Life, the National Council of Churches of Christ, and the
Evangelical Environmental Network. With a commitment 'to be
ourselves, together,' each of the faith groups is implementing
distinctive programs on behalf of a common mission: To act in
faith to cherish and protect God's creation. The goal is to
integrate commitment to global sustainability and environmental
justice permanently into all aspects of religious life.
Keys: coalitions; ecology; environmental justice; religion;
sustainability
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Name: National Station Car Association, The
Web: http://www.stncar.com/
Notes: Promotes the shared use of small battery-powered electric
cars primarily between home and a mass transit station or between a
mass transit station and work. Over 100 cars are currently being
used in field tests in several cities, including at four BART
stations.
Keys: oil; transportation
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Name: National Women's Mailing List (NWML)
Address: POBox 68
Jenner, CA 95450
Voice: (707) 632-5763 [1/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.electrapages.com/
Notes: Maintains a list of 70,000 individual feminists. All
have indicated which women's interest areas they want to receive
direct mail in, so that progressive / feminist groups can obtain
well-targeted mailing lists. The ElectraPages is a searchable
database of over 9000 women's organizations available over the
World Wide Web
Keys: directories; feminism; mail-order; women
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Name: National Women's Political Caucus, Alameda North (NWPC)
Address: 484 Lake Park Avenue #305
Oakland, CA 94610
Voice: (800) 235-0009 [8/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nwpcan.org
Notes: A multipartisan, grassroots organization that recruits,
trains, and supports women for elected and appointed public office
--- pro-choice women who support and promote issues of concern to
all women and their families. Supports candidates financially
through NWPC PAC.
Keys: government; Political Action Committees (PACs);
reproductive rights; women
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Name: National Writers Union (Local 3)
Address: 337 17th Street, Suite 101 (near Webster)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 839-1248 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 839-6097
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nwu.org
Notes: A labor union dedicated to improving the economic lives
and working conditions of freelance writers working in US markets.
Keys: labor union locals; writers
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Name: Native American Health Center (Oakland)
Address: 3124 East 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94601
Voice: (510) 261-0524 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 261-0646
Notes: An out-patient health clinic for Native Americans in the
Bay Area. Provides programs for medical and dental services, WIC,
mental health counseling, homelessness, AIDS, drug and alcohol
prevention, and youth empowerment. Office hours are 9 am to 5 pm
Monday through Friday.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; drugs; health; homelessness; mental health;
Native Americans
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Name: Native American Health Center (San Francisco)
Address: 56 Julian Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 621-8051 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 621-3985
Keys: AIDS / HIV; drugs; health; homelessness; mental health;
Native Americans
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Name: Native Forest Council
Web: http://www.forestcouncil.org
Notes: For the short term, proposes an immediate moratorium on
the cutting of all native and old-growth trees on our public lands,
a cessation of clearcutting and road construction, and a halt to
the export of unrefined and barely processed logs. This can be
accomplished by means of public pressure applied to Congress. In
the long term, proposes a new system of National Forest Preserves
that would protect all remaining public native forest lands and the
long-range ecological, scientific and economic benefits that these
forests provide.
Keys: conservation; deforestation; legislation; lobbying
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Name: Native Seeds / SEARCH (NS/S)
Web: http://www.nativeseeds.org/
Notes: A nonprofit organization based in Tucson, Arizona that
works to conserve the traditional crops, seeds, and farming methods
that have sustained native peoples throughout the southwestern U.S.
and northern Mexico. Promotes the use of these ancient crops and
their wild relatives by gathering, safeguarding, and distributing
their seeds, while sharing benefits with traditional communities.
Also works to preserve knowledge about their uses. Through
research, training, and community education, NS/S works to protect
biodiversity and to celebrate cultural diversity.
Keys: agriculture; biodiversity; classes / courses;
conservation; diversity; indigenous people; Mexico; researchers;
seeds
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Name: nativehawaiians.com
Web: http://www.nativehawaiians.com/
Notes: Native Hawaiians are an aboriginal people seeking to
protect their unique status as the indigenous people of Hawaii.
Keys: Hawai'i; indigenous people
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Name: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Address: 71 Stevenson Street #1825
San Francisco, CA 94105
Voice: (415) 777-0220 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nrdc.org
Notes: A regional office of this national environmental
organization with 400,000 members. Staff includes attorneys,
scientists, analysts, and educators who are working together to
achieve positive environmental change through advocacy and
education. Membership, which includes a subscription to the
quarterly Nature's Voice or Amicus Journal, is $10 per year.
Keys: conservation; ecology; energy; nuclear weapons / testing;
pesticides; toxics; water
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Name: Naturist Society
Web: http://www.naturist.com/
Keys: nudism
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Name: Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
Address: 125 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710-1616
Voice: (510) 204-9296 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 204-9298
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nautilus.org
Notes: A policy-oriented research and consulting organization
addressing global issues of security, particularly nuclear arms
reduction, and sustainability, with an emphasis on the
Asian-Pacific region.
Keys: Asia; consultants; energy; global issues; researchers;
sustainability
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Name: Neighbor To Neighbor, San Francisco (SF N2N)
Address: The Women's Building
3543 18th Street, Box 34 (near Valencia)
San Francisco, CA 94110-9909
Voice: (415) 431-0070 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 431-0018
Notes: Monthly meetings are fourth Thursdays s at 6:30 pm at the
Women's Building.
Keys: single payer health care; solidarity
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Name: Neighborhood Parks Council
Address: 783 Buena Vista West
San Francisco, CA 94117
Voice: (415) 621-3260 [3/00]
Fax: (415) 431-9030
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfneighborhoodparks.org
Notes: A coalition of community-based park groups which are
actively involved in improving and restoring neighborhood parks in
San Francisco. The Council provides a forum for sharing
information and experience among the groups, arranges educational
presentations and workshops for building group effectiveness and
seeks to increase public and private support and commitment to the
restoration and improved maintenance of our neighborhood parks,
playgrounds and recreation facilities.
Keys: children; coalitions; community-building; neighborhoods;
parks
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Name: Neighbors for Responsible Logging
Address: 21951 Bear Creek Way
Los Gatos, CA 95033
Voice: (408) 354-2496 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.responsible-neighbors.org/
Notes: A Santa Cruz watchdog group which monitors timber logging
activity in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Keys: deforestation; Santa Cruz County
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Name: NetAction
Address: 601 Van Ness Avenue #631
San Francisco, CA 94102 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.netaction.org
Notes: Educates the public, policy makers, and the media about
technology-based social and political issues, and promotes access
to and use of information technology as a tool for community
organizing, outreach, and advocacy. Current programs include the
Consumer Choice Campaign (an Internet-based grassroots consumer
education project which aims to educate the growing population of
Internet users about Microsoft Corporation's anti-competitive
business practices), the Virtual Activist Workshop (a training
program to promote effective use of technology by grassroots
organizations), and NetAction Notes (a free electronic newsletter
published twice each month)
Keys: appropriate technology; classes / courses; consumer
protection; corporations; Internet; newsletters; policy
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Name: Nevada Desert Experience
Address: POBox 46645
Las Vegas, NV 89114-6645
Voice: (702) 646-4814 (Las Vegas)
(510) 849-1540 (Northern California office) [10/00]
Fax: (702) 631-5538
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A faith-based organization proclaiming the immorality of
weapons of mass destruction and working to end nuclear weapons
testing through a campaign of prayer, dialogue, and nonviolent
direct action. Inspired by Franciscan spirituality and Scriptural
values. Sponsors demonstrations at the Nevada Test Site each year
in March (during Lent) and in August. Publishes the quarterly
newsletter 'Desert Voices'. Contact: Sally Light, Executive
Director.
Keys: demonstrations; desert; nonviolence; nuclear weapons /
testing; religion
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Name: New College of California
Address: 50 Fell Street (near Van Ness and Market)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 437-3460 [11/99]
Fax: (415) 626-5171
Web: http://www.newcollege.edu
Notes: An accredited college offering humanities, law and other
programs encouraging social responsibility and respect for diverse
cultures. Has a Masters program in Interdisciplinary Arts and
Social Change. Offers meeting space for public events, mostly at
777 Valencia Street (near 19th Street).
Keys: art; classes / courses; law; multiculturalism; spaces for
events
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Name: New Earth Press
Address: 1921 Ashby Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94703
Voice: (510) 549-0176 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 549-1514
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A worker owned and controlled union shop using recycled
and tree-free papers and vegetable-based inks, founded on a
commitment to ecologically responsible printing. DIscounts for
community and nonprofit groups
Keys: collectives; printers; recycling
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Name: New Langton Arts
Address: 1246 Folsom Street (between 8th & 9th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
Voice: (415) 626-5416 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 255-1453
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A center for experimental arts, presenting visual arts
exhibitions, performance, literary events, experimental music,
media arts, and inter-disciplinary projects
Keys: art; media; music; writing
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Name: New Leaf Paper
Address: 215 Leidesdorff Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
Voice: (888) 989-LEAF [9/99]
Web: http://www.newleafpaper.com/
Notes: A national paper manufacturer and distributor dedicated
to environmental responsibility.
Keys: deforestation; products; recycling
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Name: New Mission News
Address: 3288 21st Street #202
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 695-8702 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 695-2838
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://sfmission.com
Notes: A monthly newspaper serving the Mission neighborhood of
San Francisco. Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the
comfortable since 1980. Includes a calendar of events. The web
site includes a guide to the area.
Keys: calendars; directories; Latinas / Latinos; neighborhoods;
newspapers
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Name: New Party
Voice: (800) 200-1294 [3/99]
Web: http://www.newparty.org/
Notes: A progressive political organization taking root around
the U.S. By starting small and thinking long-term, the New Party is
building a multi-racial, lively and creative political organization
that can, over time, break the stranglehold that corporate money
and corporate media have over our political process. Currently
focusing on local elections. Has won over 200 of its first 300
races.
Keys: corporations; diversity; media criticism; political
parties; populism
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Name: New Society Publishers (NSP)
Web: http://www.newsociety.com/
Notes: Mission is to publish books that contribute in
fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just
society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the
environment, in a manner that models this vision. Dedicated to
social change through nonviolent action.
Keys: books; Marin County; nonviolence; sustainability
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Name: News from Native California
Address: POBox 9145
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 549-3564 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 549-1889
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A quarterly magazine written and produced by California
Indians and those close to the Indian community, providing an
inside view of California Indian history and culture. 4 issues (a
one year subscription) are $19
Keys: history; magazines; Native Americans
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Name: News On Earth
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.news-on-earth.com/
Notes: A monthly newsletter on the environment that packs sound
science and vital news --- from the planetary to the personal ---
into a concise and readable format. Available by mail for $15 a
year.
Keys: ecology; news; newsletters; science
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Name: Newslink
Web: http://www.newslink.org/
Notes: Perhaps the most complete listing of newspapers,
magazines, and other news organizations on the web
Keys: news
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Name: Nexteviction.com (Jerry Watch)
Web: http://www.nexteviction.com/
Notes: A resource for information and inside commentary
regarding the issue of artists' evictions, particularly in Oakland.
Keys: art; housing
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Name: Nicaragua Center for Community Action (NICCA)
Address: 2140 Shattuck, Box 2063
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 525-5497 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A democratically-organized grassroots community-based
volunteer organization doing solidarity work in support of the
Nicaraguan people's struggle to build an independent and just
Nicaragua. Raises material aid, provides information and
referrals, and sponsors work brigades to Nicaragua. A sponsored
project of Global Exchange.
Keys: material aid; Nicaragua; solidarity; travel
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Name: Niebyl-Proctor Library
Address: 6501 Telegraph Avenue (near Delaware)
Oakland, CA 94609-1113
Voice: (510) 595-7417 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 595-7748
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A reference and research library focusing on political
history, with holdings going back to the 1920's and 30's. Has over
25,000 pamphlets classified by subject. Periodicals include The
African Communist, Freedomways, Labour Today, The Communist, and
New Masses. Thousands of books on many subjects. Open Tuesday
through Friday from 10 to 4 and by appointment. Copier on premises
Keys: communism; history; libraries; socialism
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Name: Niko Radio
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A microradio station broadcasting at 87.9 FM in Oakland,
California. Heard throughout Oakland as well as in parts of San
Francisco, Alameda, San Leandro, and Hayward
Keys: microbroadcasting
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Name: No On Knight (Proposition 22) Campaign
Address: 505 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94015
Voice: (415) 227-1020 [1/00]
Fax: (415) 227-1029
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.NoOnKnight.org
Notes: The anti-gay Knight Initiative has qualified for the
March 7, 2000 ballot in California. The initiative sounds
straightforward: 'Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid
or recognized in California'. But anti-gay extremists in other
states have used similar marriage laws to challenge or deny all
equal rights and protections for gay and lesbian people, like
hospital visitation rights, domestic partnership laws and even
local nondiscrimination laws.
Keys: civil rights; initiatives; sexual minorities
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Name: Noam Chomsky Archive
Web: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cfm
Notes: Noam Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political
dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has
authored over 30 political books dissecting such issues as U.S.
interventionism in the developing world, the political economy of
human rights and the propaganda role of corporate media.
Keys: analysis; intervention; media criticism; militarism;
propaganda
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Name: NoFluoride.com
Voice: (650) 968-1424 [2/00]
Email: feedback@nofluoride.com
Web: http://www.nofluoride.com/
Notes: Presents the case against fluoridation of drinking water.
Keys: health; municipal government; pesticides; toxics; water
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Name: Nolo.com
Address: 950 Parker Street (at Ninth Street)
Berkeley, CA 94710
Voice: (510) 549-1976
(800) 992-6656 (outside the 510 area code) [5/00]
Fax: (800) 645-0895
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nolo.com
Notes: The pioneer publisher of self-help legal books and
software, available in stores and by mail. Nolo News, published
twice a year (no charge for a year's subscription), contains
practical legal information, law updates, a catalog, and humor.
Web site features a weekly column and online downloads of Nolo
software.
Keys: books; law; mail-order; self-help; software
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Name: Nonprofit GENIE
Web: http://www.genie.org
Notes: This web site produced by the California Management
Assistance Partnership contains over 100 free articles and FAQs on
subjects ranging from Board Development to Fundraising to Strategic
Planning to Technology to Volunteer Management. It also lists
nonprofit management support organizations across California.
Keys: fundraising; technology; volunteer matching
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Name: Nonprofit GENIE
Web: http://www.genie.org
Notes: A storehouse of free, easily accessed information and
advice on a wide range of nonprofit management topics, including
fundraising, financial management, strategic planning, computer
topics, and more. The site is updated weekly and features a
collection of over 100 FAQs, numerous links, a monthly newsletter
for nonprofit boards of directors, and opinion articles.
Keys: computers; finance; fundraising; newsletters
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Name: Nonprofit Ventures, Inc.
Web: http://www.diversitynetwork.com/
Notes: Sponsors the DiversityNetwork, through which schools,
universities and nonprofit organizations enhance their cultural and
ethnic diversity. A virtual private network to allow individuals
committed to supporting diversity to build upon each others
experiences, thereby processing, analyzing and utilizing resources
and information in more effective ways.
Keys: corporations; diversity; multiculturalism; students
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Name: Nonviolence International
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/nonviolence
Notes: Assists individuals, organizations, and governments
striving to utilize nonviolent methods to bring about changes
reflecting the values of justice and human development on personal,
social, economic, and political levels.
Keys: nonviolence
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Name: Nonviolence Web, The
Email: nvweb@nonviolence.org
Web: http://www.nonviolence.org/
Notes: A Philadelphia collective of three professional editors
and typesetters who provide free typesetting and display on the
World-Wide Web of newsletters, brochures, and think-pieces of
regional, national, and international groups working for social
change through nonviolent action. The news and opinion magazine
'Nonviolence Web Upfront' is updated twice monthly
Keys: directories; networking; news on-line; nonviolence;
peace; printers
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Name: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nacla.org/
Notes: An independent non-profit organization that provides
policy makers, analysts, academics, organizers, journalists and
religious and community groups with information on major trends in
Latin America and its relations with the United States. The core
of NACLA's work is its bimonthly magazine NACLA Report on the
Americas, the most widely read English language publication on
Latin America
Keys: analysis; Latin America; magazines; policy
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Name: North Coast Xpress
Address: POBox 1226
Occidental, CA 95465
Voice: (707) 874-1453
(707) 874-3104 [4/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.north-coast-xpress.com/~doretk/
Notes: A quarterly newsprint magazine that supports grassroots
movements for change. Regularly focuses on the criminal justice
system because it reveals the major dislocations and injustices in
America; on threats to the environment because our lives and our
planet are at stake; on corporate control of politics and the
economy because that control makes true democracy impossible
Keys: corporations; ecology; corporate globalization;
incarceration; magazines; Sonoma County
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Name: Northern California Citizens for Proportional Representation (CPR)
Address: POBox 128
Sacramento, CA 95812
Voice: (510) 527-8025 [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://fairvotencal.org
Notes: A nonpartisan civic group. Working for more fair, fuller
representation for voters at all levels of government by gaining
the adoption of the world-wide popular proportional representation
and instant runoff electoral systems. Seeks all political
perspectives as members, which include Democrats, Republicans,
Greens, Libertarians, Peace & Freedom, American Independents, and
independents. Currently most projects are local PR campaigns.
Speakers or info on request.
Keys: democracy; elections; proportional representation;
speakers
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Name: Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NCCIR)
Address: 995 Market Street, 11th Floor (near Sixth Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 243-8215
(415) 543-6767 (immigrant assistance line for Spanish and
English)
(415) 543-6769 (assistance line for Mandarin and
Contonese) [6/00]
Fax: (415) 243-8628
Web: http://www.nccir.org
Notes: Mission is to achieve full human rights and dignity for
immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.
Focusing on building cross-ethnic, immigrant-led collaborations
with strategic links to other groups working for social change.
Strives to strengthen immigrants' knowledge, capacity and
leadership; create positive changes in immigration policy in order
to benefit the immigrant community and our society as a whole; and
educate the general public about immigrant issues.
Keys: civil rights; coalitions; immigrants; policy; refugees
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Name: Northern California Land Trust (NCLT)
Address: 3126 Shattuck Avenue (near Woolsey)
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 548-7878 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 548-7562
Notes: Povides affordable housing for low-to-moderate income
families. Also provides office space and workshops on sustainable
living, and promotes neighborhood stability and community-based
development in Northern California.
Keys: classes / courses; development; housing; land use;
neighborhoods; sustainability
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Name: Northern California Pilipino American Student Organization (NCPASO)
Address: c/o Michelle Watts-Remoreras
POBox 6050
Stanford, CA 94309
Voice: (650) 523-2521 [7/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.csuchico.edu/ncpaso
Notes: A coalition of Northern California Pilipino American
collegiate organizations.
Keys: coalitions; Philippines / Filipinos; students
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Name: Northern Sun Merchandising
Web: http://www.northernsun.com/
Notes: Sells progressive and humorously subversive T-shirts,
posters, bumperstickers, buttons, and so on.
Keys: humor; mail-order; products; textiles
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Name: Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP)
Web: http://www.pesticide.org/default.htm
Notes: A five-state, grassroots membership organization that
promotes sustainable resource management, prevention of pest
problems, use of alternatives to pesticides, and the right to be
free from pesticide exposure. NCAP strives to substantially reduce
or eliminate the use of pesticides as a preferred method of pest
control in the Northwest and elsewhere.
Keys: coalitions; pesticides; sustainability
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Name: Northwest Environment Watch (NEW)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.northwestwatch.org
Notes: A non-profit organization that aims to foster a
sustainable economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest, a
bioregion defined by the watersheds of rivers flowing through North
America's temperate rainforest zone. Supported by memberships and
private contributions, NEW publishes books designed to inform
Northwesterners --- and others --- with important decisions to make.
Keys: bioregionalism; books; economics; researchers;
sustainability
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Name: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Web: http://www.wagingpeace.org http://www.NuclearFiles.org
Notes: An international education and advocacy organization
focusing on issues of international peace and security. Produces
the The 'Nuclear Files' web site, which attempts to become your
ultimate research and reference site on nuclear matters (Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, etc.). Currently provides 1,400+ pages, 600+ graphics,
audio and video files, nuclear bookstore ... and more.
Keys: nuclear weapons / testing; peace; research materials
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Name: Nuclear Free Berkeley
Address: POBox 851
Berkeley, CA 94701
Voice: (510) 594-4088 [4/00]
Email: freezone@nuclearfree.org
Web: http://www.nuclearfree.org
Keys: boycotts; municipal government; nuclear weapons / testing
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Name: Nuclear Guardianship Project
Address: 1439 Santa Fe Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 559-8910 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 559-8916
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nonukes.org/ngl.htm
Notes: Offers a working ethic for responsible care of nuclear
materials, calling for the rejection of radioactivity as a resource
and a commitment to enduring protection of the biosphere from these
toxic materials we have already created
Keys: nuclear energy; toxics
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Name: Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nirs.org
Notes: The information and networking center for citizens and
environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power,
radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.
Keys: networking; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons / testing;
research materials; sustainability
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Name: Oakland Asian Students Educational Services (OASES)
Address: POBox 31624
Oakland, CA 94604-7624
Voice: (510) 891-9928 [3/00]
Fax: (510) 891-9418
Web: http://www.oases.org
Notes: A youth services agency in Oakland Chinatown with
volunteers that provide educational and enrichment programs for
youth in the Asian Pacific American and culturally diverse
community of Oakland. Located in OASES Center at 196 10th Street
in Oakland Chinatown.
Keys: Asian Americans; immigrants; services; youth
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Name: Oakland Billboard Coalition
Web: http://www.targetmarket.org
Notes: Goal is the elimination of advertising billboards from
Oakland.
Keys: advertising; coalitions
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Name: Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal (OCCUR)
Address: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1030
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 839-2440 [12/98]
Notes: Works to improve the quality of life in Oakland's low and
moderate income areas. Provides technical assistance to the seven
Community Development Districts though a contract with Oakland's
Office of Housing and Neighborhood Development (OHND)
Keys: development; housing; technical assistance
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Name: Oakland Museum of California
Address: 1000 Oak Street (at Tenth Street, two blocks from Lake Merritt BART)
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 238-2200 [5/99]
Web: http://www.museumca.org/
Notes: One of the largest regional museums in the world, devoted
exclusively to the environment, history, and art of California.
Keys: art; ecology; history; museums
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Name: Oakland Public Library
Web: http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/
Keys: libraries
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Name: Oakland Recycling Association
Address: POBox 11492
Oakland, CA 94611-0492
Voice: (510) 444-8633 [12/98]
Notes: A nonprofit corporation dedicated to just and sustainable
use of natural resources. Educates the public, local government,
and private business on recycling and other environmental issues;
conducts research on sustainable manufacturing processes and
recycling; and makes alliances with the private sector to encourage
resource efficiency
Keys: recycling; sustainability
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Name: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC)
Address: 15290 Coleman Valley Road
Occidental, CA 95465
Voice: (707) 874-1557 [1/01]
Fax: (707) 874-1558
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.oaec.org
Notes: An intentional community, workshop, and retreat center
located 65 miles north of San Francisco, and a site of extensive
and diverse organic gardens and orchards. Formerly known as the
Farallones Institute Rural Center, OAEC is continuing the 27 year
tradition at the site of organic gardening, seed saving, and
experiments in permaculture, and sustainable living practices.
Offers intensive residential programs in the arts and environmental
and social activism.
Keys: art; gardening; intentional communities; organic
agriculture; permaculture; seeds; Sonoma County; spaces for events;
sustainability
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Name: October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality
Voice: (510) 464-4563 [6/00]
Email: oct22sf@energy_net.org
Web: http://www.unstoppable.com/22
Notes: A diverse coalition of organizations and individuals that
came together out of concern that the peoples' resistance to police
brutality needed to be taken to a higher level nationwide.
Organizes a national day of protest held every October 22nd.
Keys: coalitions; police accountability; violence
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Name: Older Women's League (OWL)
Address: 870 Market Street #905
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 989-4422 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 989-4050
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Does research, education, and advocacy to forcefully
provide mutual support for its members, to achieve economic,
social, and political equity, and to improve the image and status
of midlife and older women. Office hours are MWF 10 to 2. Meets
on the fourth Saturday of each month at 870 Market Street, Room
1213 from 10 am to 12:30 pm.
Keys: seniors; support groups; women
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Name: On Conflict and Consensus
Web: http://www.tiac.net/users/amyr/OCAC.html
Notes: An on-line handbook on Formal Consensus decisionmaking.
Keys: conflict resolution; facilitation; logistics
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Name: OneWorld
Web: http://www.oneworld.org/
Notes: An Internet community of over 350 leading global justice
organizations under one roof. Dedicated to promoting human rights
and sustainable development by harnessing the democratic potential
of the Internet. Features daily news reporting.
Keys: development; directories; human rights; news on-line;
sustainability
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Name: Open Directory Project (dmoz.org)
Web: http://www.dmoz.org
Notes: Goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of
the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors. A
self-regulating republic where experts can collect their
recommendations, without including noise and misinformation. More
volunteers are needed for editing various areas of expertise.
Keys: directories; networking; volunteer matching
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Name: Open Forum
Address: POBox 40637
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 552-2993 [3/99]
Notes: A democratically-run independent school offering
collective discussion groups on a wide range of contemporary
political, economic, and cultural issues. May be changing
direction currently (February 1999) due to reduced involvement by
the current volunteers)
Keys: classes / courses; collectives; education; noncorporate
economy
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Name: Organic Farming Research Foundation
Address: POBox 440
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
Voice: (831) 426-6606 [1/01]
Fax: (831) 426-6670
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ofrf.org/
Notes: A nonprofit foundation directed by certified organic
farmers. Mission is to sponsor research related to organic farming
practices, to disseminate research results to organic farmers and
to growers interested in adopting organic production systems, to
educate the public and decision-makers about organic farming issues.
Keys: organic agriculture; research; research materials
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Name: Organic Kitchen
Web: http://www.organickitchen.com/
Notes: Your gateway to a world of information about organic
foods. Includes links to companies that ship organic food to your
door.
Keys: directories; food; mail-order; organic agriculture
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Name: Organize Training Center (OTC)
Address: 442-A Vicksburg
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 821-6180 [12/98]
Fax: (415) 821-1631
Notes: Offers consulting on grassroots organizing skills to
religious, labor, coalition, neighborhood, and other organizations.
Provides introductory workshops and in-depth trainings for
organizers. Publications include 'The Organizer Mailing', a
quarterly compilation of articles and reprints on the activities of
labor and community groups ($45 per year, or $55 for organizations)
Keys: classes / courses; consultants; labor; neighborhoods;
religion
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Name: Organizer Newspaper, The
Address: POBox 40009
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 626-1175 [10/00]
Fax: (415) 626-1217
Email: [email protected]
Notes: An organization actively building a fighting labor party
and a Workers International.
Keys: newspapers; political parties; socialism
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Name: Our Family, The Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Family Group
Address: POBox 13505
Berkeley, CA 94712-4505
Voice: (510) 540-7774 [9/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ourfamily.org
Notes: The largest family social organization in northern
California. Each month Our Family presents events throughout the
Bay Area for more than 275 member families. Also presents
workshops on many issues of interest to the family community.
Encourages prospective parents to network and find support with our
members who have created family in many ways. The new
Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles Program seeks to foster extended
families throughout the community. Members support and network
with each other through an e-mail list, website and bi-monthly
newsletter. Membership is $25 per year.
Keys: family; newsletters; sexual minorities; support groups
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Name: Our Farm
Address: 834 West California Way
Woodside, CA 94062
Voice: (650) 365-2993 [12/99]
Fax: (650) 366-2241
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.permaculture-institute.org/
Notes: A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project, serving
San Francisco, Berkeley, and the Peninsula. Subscribers pick up a
box of produce each Thursday. A share at 'Our Farm' costs $925 for
a full three-season share, April 1 through December 19. A limited
number of Single Season (Spring, Summer, or Fall) shares are
available. Sharers will usually receive 7 to 10 different
vegetable, fruits, mushrooms and herbs each week. There is room
for 120 subscribers. Our Farm has an intern program that
coordinates volunteers and teens from the Foundry School. Call
Dave Blume at this number for a brochure. See also CSA West and
the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture.
Keys: agriculture; Community Supported Agriculture;
community-building; food; noncorporate economy; San Mateo County
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Name: Our Stolen Future
Web: http://www.ourstolenfuture.org
Notes: Covers new advances in toxicology that challenge basic
assumptions about which chemicals are safe and what exposures are
tolerable. Associated with the book of the same name, which covers
the health and environmental threats created by man-made chemical
contaminants that intefere with hormones in humans and wildlife.
Keys: books; health; science; toxics
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Name: Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners
Address: 3543 18th Street, Box 30
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 522-2937 (latest info hotline) [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Publishes the newspaper Out of Time, which is inserted
into the newspaper UltraViolet published by Lesbian and Gay
Insurrection (and is also available by itself)
Keys: incarceration; political prisoners; sexual minorities;
women
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Name: Out on the Island
Address: POBox 4014-593
Alameda, CA 94501
Voice: (510) 337-1300 [7/98]
Fax: (510) 337-0391
Email: [email protected]
Notes: An organization for and about gay, lesbian, and bisexual
Alamedans and their supporters. Members are dedicated to
supporting each other and their neighbors, educating the general
community, mobilizing for community action, and creating a visible,
active, and nurturing gay, lesbian, and bisexual community for the
betterment of the entire city of Alameda.
Keys: community-building; sexual minorities
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Name: Overcoming Consumerism
Web: http://www.hooked.net/users/verdant/index.htm
Keys: consumer lifestyle
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Name: Oxfam America
Web: http://www.oxfamamerica.org
Notes: An international agency that funds self-help development
and disaster relief in poor countries (with a special emphasis on
the empowerment of women and indigenous peoples), and educates in
the US on hunger, poverty, development, and related public policies.
Keys: Africa; Asia; Central America; development; grants /
financial aid; hunger; indigenous people; self-help; South America
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Name: Oyate
Address: 2702 Mathews Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 848-6700 [9/00]
Fax: (510) 848-4815
Email: oyate@oyate.org
Web: http://www.oyate.org
Notes: A Native organization working to see that our lives and
histories are portrayed honestly and so that all people will know
our stories belong to us. Offers consulting, workshops, books and
curriculum materials, a resource center, and a library.
Keys: consultants; educational curriculum; history; libraries;
Native Americans
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Name: OZGURLUK
Web: http://www.ozgurluk.org
Notes: Information regarding the people's liberation struggle in
Turkey and Kurdistan, plus lots of links to interesting sites
world-wide.
Keys: Europe; Kurds; Turkey
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Name: Ozone Action
Email: ozone_action@ozone.org
Web: http://www.ozone.org/
Notes: A Washington, DC based public interest organization
focused exclusively on two atmospheric threats: global climate
change and stratospheric ozone depletion.
Keys: climate change; global warming; ozone
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Name: Pacific Center for Human Growth (Pacific Center)
Address: 2712 Telegraph Avenue (at Derby)
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 548-8283 (office, information / referral)
(510) 548-2192 (counseling requests) [2/99]
Fax: (510) 548-2938
Notes: A volunteer-based community center serving the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning communities. Provides
peer support groups, individual and couples counseling, HIV/AIDS
services, educational outreach, information / referral, volunteer
opportunities, and youth services. Also includes a safe, community
space with bulletin boards of information, housing / job binders,
the latest LGBT magazines, and a resource library. Provides
trained educators to speak with school classes and community groups
about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender sensitivity issues.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; community-building; counseling; sexual
minorities; speakers; support groups; volunteer matching; youth
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Name: Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pcvp.org/
Notes: Works to prevent youth violence in California. Located
at San Francisco General Hospital, the Center serves as the policy
headquarters for the Violence Prevention Initiative sponsored by
The California Wellness Foundation. A project of the Trauma
Foundation.
Keys: hospitals; violence; youth
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Name: Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC)
Address: 1440 Broadway Suite 306
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 251-8800 [9/00]
Fax: (510) 251-8838
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pacenv.org/
Notes: Protects endangered ecosystems around the Pacific Rim
through grassroots advocacy, environmental education, and law and
policy analysis.
Keys: Asia; conservation; deforestation; law; policy
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Name: Pacific Friends
Address: POBox 641008
San Francisco, CA 94164-1008
Voice: (415) 221-7642 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A social group for gay Asians and anyone interested in
gay Asian people and culture. Friendship and cross-cultural
understanding are established through various year-round events
that can be educational, cultural, or just for fun. Activities
include potlucks, picnics, sports, pool parties, ethnic dinners,
movie nights and travels.
Keys: Asian Americans; Gays
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Name: Pacific News Service
Address: 660 Market Street, Room 210
San Francisco, CA 94104
Voice: (415) 438-4755 [2/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pacificnews.org
Notes: An international association of writers, scholars,
journalists and young people who bring new voices and perspectives
to newspapers and publications through a daily newspaper syndicate;
through magazine articles, essays for TV (in particular the 'News
Hour with Jim Lehrer' on PBS) and radio ('All Things Considered'
and KQED); through PNS forums and speeches; and through our youth
publication called YO! (Youth Outlook).
Keys: journalism; news; writers; youth
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Name: Pangea Vegan Products ('The Vegan Store')
Web: http://www.veganstuff.com/
Notes: Your One-Stop Source for Cruelty-Free, Vegan Products.
Keys: products; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Paper Tiger TV West / Deep Dish Satelite Network (PTTV)
Address: POBox 411271
San Francisco, CA 94141-1271
Voice: (415) 695-0931 [10/98]
Fax: (415) 695-0916
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.papertiger.org/
Notes: Paper Tiger is a national collective of videomakers
dedicated to smashing the myths of the information industry by
creating and distributing alternative television and video; Deep
Dish is the first national satellite network linking
community-based producers, programmers, activists, and people who
support the movement for a progressive television network;
assembles material from around the country and the world and
transmits it to community television stations and home dish owners
nationwide
Keys: film / video; networking; television
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Name: Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical, and Energy Workers International Union (PACE International Union)
Web: http://www.paceunion.org/
Notes: Represents over 320,000 working men and women in the
United States and Canada, including most of the people who make
paper and refine oil in the US. Purpose is to organize workers to
stand up for their rights, both in the workplace and in the
political arena. Works to help its members raise their wages,
improve their working conditions and protect their rights by
negotiating and enforcing fair collective bargaining agreements.
Keys: labor; oil
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Name: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Address: POBox 640223
San Francisco, CA 94164
Voice: (415) 921-8850 [6/99]
Web: http://www.backdoor.com/pflagsf/welcome.html http://www.pflag.org
Notes: Committed to help change negative attitudes and to create
an environment of understanding so that all gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgender people can live with dignity and respect. Meets on
the second Sunday of each month from 2 to 4 pm at Saint Francis
Lutheran Church (152 Church Street in SF).
Keys: family; sexual minorities
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Name: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Fremont / East Bay (P-FLAG)
Address: POBox 754
Fremont, CA 94537-0754
Voice: (510) 226-6816 [3/99]
Web: http://www.pflag.org
Notes: A volunteer organization of parents, relatives, and
friends who are committed to understanding and loving relationships
within their families.
Keys: family; sexual minorities
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Name: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Oakland / East Bay (P-FLAG)
Address: POBox 21195
Oakland, CA 94620
Voice: (510) 562-7692 (help line) [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.dynapolis.com/PFLAG
Keys: family; sexual minorities
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Name: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, San Jose/Peninsula (P-FLAG)
Address: POBox 2718
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Voice: (650) 857-1058
(408) 270-8182 [12/99]
Email: pflag-info@pflagsanjose.org
Web: http://www.pflagsanjose.org/
Notes: Promoting the health and well-being of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered persons and their families and friends
through support, education, and advocacy.
Keys: family; health; sexual minorities
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Name: Parnassus Investments
Voice: (800) 999-3505 [5/99]
Web: http://www.parnassus.com/
Notes: Serves the growing community of investors who believe
their assets should be chosen with a conscience as well as
financial savvy.
Keys: investment
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Name: Partisan Defense Committee (PDC)
Address: POBox 77462
San Francisco, CA 94107
Voice: (510) 839-0852 (San Francisco)
(212) 406-4252 (New York) [12/98]
Fax: (510) 839-1981
Notes: A class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense
organization that champions cases and causes in the interests of
the whole of the working people. This purpose is in accordance
with the political views of the Spartacist League. Works to free
class-war prisoners in the US
Keys: class; legal defense; Mumia Abu-Jamal; political prisoners
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Name: Partners in Responsible Tourism (PIRT)
Address: POBox 237
San Francisco, CA 94104-0237
Voice: (415) 675-0420 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pirt.org
Notes: A network of individuals and representatives of tourism
companies who are concerned about the impact of tourism and tourism
development on local environments and cultures, particularly those
of indigenous peoples. Believes that responsible tourism promotes
positive cultural and environmental ethics and practices. Promotes
travel which supports these goals.
Keys: development; ecology; indigenous people; networking;
tourism
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Name: Pastors for Peace
Web: http://www.ifconews.org/p4p.html
Notes: A special ministry of the Interreligious Foundation for
Community Organization (IFCO), created in 1988 to pioneer the
delivery of humanitarian aid to Latin America and the Carribean.
During the past 10 years , thousands of people have participated in
25 caravans to Mexico and Central America, and 8 to Cuba
Keys: Caribbean; Central America; Cuba; material aid; Mexico;
religion
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Name: Pathways to Peace
Address: POBox 1057
Larkspur, CA 94977
Voice: (415) 461-0500 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 924-0330
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://pathwaystopeace.org
Notes: Promotes the International Day of Peace on the third
Tuesday of each September, as proclaimed in a unanimous resolution
in 1981 by the United Nations, and as part of the 'We the Peoples'
initiative to create cooperative activities throughout the world
that contribute to making peace a practical reality.
Keys: global community; Marin County; peace; United Nations
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Name: Pax Christi, Bay Area
Address: PO Box 10226
Oakland, CA 94610
Voice: (510) 832-3776 [7/98]
Notes: A region of Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace
movement. Write or call to receive the Bay Area Pax Christi
Newsletter 'Gospel Peacemaking'. National headquarters are at
(814) 453-4955; 348 East 10th Street, Erie, PA 16503. A quarterly
publication is available for $20 per year from the national address.
Keys: militarism; peace; religion
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Name: Peace Action, East Bay
Address: POBox 6574
Albany, CA 94706
Voice: (510) 524-6071 [3/99]
Keys: militarism; peace
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Name: Peace Action, San Mateo County
Address: POBox 425
San Mateo, CA 94401
Voice: (650) 343-9382 [12/99]
Email: [email protected]
Keys: peace; San Mateo County
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Name: Peace and Conflict Studies Department, UC Berkeley (PACS)
Address: 101 Stephens Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Voice: (510) 642-4466 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 642-9850
Email: [email protected]
Notes: An undergraduate program in peace and social justice
issues.
Keys: classes / courses; conflict resolution; peace; students
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Name: Peace and Freedom Party, Alameda County
Address: POBox 24764
Oakland, CA 94623
Voice: (510) 465-9414 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.peaceandfreedom.org
Notes: An independent political party committed to socialism,
democracy, ecology, feminism, and racial equality. Meets on the
third Sunday of each month (except July and December) at 6:00 pm at
La Pena Cultural Center, Shattuck near Woolsey in Berkeley.
Keys: feminism; political parties; socialism
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Name: Peace and Freedom Party, San Francisco
Address: 20 Samoset Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 437-5501 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.peaceandfreedom.org
Notes: A socialist political party which competes in local and
state-wide elections for public office.
Keys: political parties; socialism
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Name: Peace Brigades International (PBI)
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite #505
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 663-2362 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 663-2364
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/pbi/usa.html
Notes: A unique human rights organization providing unarmed
protective accompaniment to activists threatened with political
violence. Also offers workshops on nonviolence, conflict
resolution, and human rights, as well as delegations to countries
where we currently work. Maintains teams of international
volunteers in Guatemala, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Haiti, and several
Native American communities in North America.
Keys: Central America; conflict resolution; human rights;
Native Americans; nonviolence; travel; violence
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Name: PeaceNet
Web: http://www.igc.org/igc/pn/
Notes: One of the computer networks of the Institute for Global
Communications. Through PeaceNet, take action for positive social
change in the areas of peace, social and economic justice, human
rights and the struggle against racism.
Keys: economic justice; human rights; peace; racism
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Name: PeaceTree
Web: http://www.webcom.com/peace/
Notes: A world-wide web page for various progressive groups.
Send email if you wish to have a group represented, especially an
Alternatives to Violence or Food Not Bombs chapter.
Keys: computers; networking
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Name: Pedal Express (formerly PedEx)
Address: POBox 10141
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 843-7339 (843-PEDX) [6/00]
Notes: The Bay Area's first and only non-motorized cargo courier
relying exclusively on innovative human-powered machines. Uses
conventional bicycles for envelopes and smaller items, unique 7.5
foot workbikes with lockable waterproof containers for packages up
to 200 pounds, and a unique bicycle trailer with 275-pound capacity
for odd-shaped or high-volume loads. Capable of operating rain or
shine, hills or flats, and through all kinds of traffic snarls. A
zero-pollution delivery solution.
Keys: couriers; cycling
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Name: PediatriCare, a program of East Bay Agency for Children (PediatriCare)
Address: 2540 Charelston Street
Oakland, CA 94602
Voice: (510) 531-7551 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 531-0691
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ebac.org/
Notes: Provides comprehenisve support services to families and
children dealing with illness, loss and trauma. Services include:
support groups for families living with illness or dealing with
loss, support group for teens with a parent who is living with
HIV/AIDs and support group for teens with a parent who has cancer.
Also provides home and school based counseling for children and
teens. PediatriCare is a non-profit and fees are on a sliding
scale. No one is turned away because of an inablity to pay for
services.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; counseling; family; services; support groups
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Name: PEN Oakland
Address: POBox 70531, Station D
Oakland, CA 94612-0531
Voice: (510) 548-3306 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.jps.net/penoak
Notes: A Bay Area chapter of the International Organization of
Poets, Essayists, and Novelists. Founded to address multicultural
issues, and to educate the public on the nature of multicultural
work.
Keys: multiculturalism; poetry; writers
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Name: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (PPJC)
Address: 457 Kingsley Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Voice: (650) 326-8837
(650) 321-4464 (24-hour hotline) [5/00]
Fax: (650) 321-4464
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.peacecenter.com
Notes: A coalition of organizations and individual activists
dedicated to education and action on a wide variety of issues.
Sponsors lectures, demonstrations, and so on. Meets regularly with
local congressional representatives. Publishes the semi-monthly
journal PeaceWORKS. Produces a monthly cable access TV program
called 'Other Voices' (shown on third Wednesdays at 7:00 pm).
Keys: coalitions; corporate globalization; death penalty; Iraq;
Mumia Abu-Jamal; nuclear weapons / testing; peace centers; Santa
Clara County; television
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Name: People Against Racist Terror (PART)
Web: http://people.we.mediaone.net/part2001/index.html
Notes: Opposes racism, sexism, colonialism, and all forms of
oppression. Fights for international solidarity, human liberation,
and for the protection of the environment. Publishes the quarterly
journal 'Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Activism,
Research & Education'.
Keys: colonialism; racism; sexism; solidarity
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Name: People for Bread, Work, and Justice
Address: c/o BOSS
2065 Kittredge Street, Suite E
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 649-8173 [11/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Opposes the welfare 'reform' that took effect in November
1996 and which limits unemployed workers without children to three
months of Food Stamps in any three year period unless they are
working at least 20 hours per week or in an approved job program.
Realistically, we all know there aren't enough jobs in our
community for those of us who will lose Food Stamps --- The
Federal Reserve Board admittedly controls interest rates so as to
maintain a significant unemployment level so that wages stay low
and profits remain high due to increased competition for existing
low-paid jobs.
Keys: control techniques; distribution of wealth; employment;
national government; welfare
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Name: People for the American Way (PFAW)
Web: http://www.pfaw.org
Notes: Organizes and mobilizes Americans to fight for fairness,
justice, civil rights and the freedoms guaranteed by the
Constitution. PFAW lobbies for progressive legislation and helps to
build communities of activists. Conducts research, legal and
education work, as well as monitors and researches the Religious
Right movement and its political allies.
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; religious right
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Name: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Web: http://www.peta-online.org
Notes: Dedicated to saving animal lives and opposing and
exposing animal cruelty through education, investigation, and
grassroots organizing.
Keys: animal liberation; Contra Costa County
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Name: People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER)
Address: 474 Valencia Street, Suite 155
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 431-4210 [5/99]
Fax: (415) 431-8525
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A multicultural membership-based group organizing
residents of the Mission district of San Francisco to work on
solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities
of color. Confronting the San Francisco Mission district's toxic
hot spots.
Keys: environmental justice; Latinas / Latinos; low-income;
multiculturalism; people of color; toxics
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Name: People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
Address: 32 Seventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 864-8372 [10/00]
Fax: (415) 864-8373
Email: [email protected]
Keys: employment
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Name: People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO)
Address: 132 East 12st Street
Oakland, CA 94606
Voice: (510) 452-2010 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 452-2017
Notes: Organizes communities around environmental justice, youth
rights, education, and police accountability. See also the Center
for Third World Organizing (CTWO).
Keys: environmental justice; police accountability; public
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Name: People's Convention, The
Web: http://www.peoplesconvention.com/
Notes: A convention to be held in Los Angeles on August 10
through 13, 2000 by a broad range of independent left and
progressive political organizations, to provide an alternative
vision to the capitalist agenda of the Democratic and Republican
parties.
Keys: do-it-yourself; elections; political parties
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Name: People's Education Network
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.dnai.com/~hi_there/people's_park.html
Notes: An educational network that collects and distributes
little-known or rarely consolidated information on domestic and
global inequities, including those in education, ecology, health, a
of user-development. The 'bulldoz' page features regular park
updates. Read about university plans for the Park, send e-mail to
Berkeley City Council members, submit a pledge to help buy the Park
from the University, browse the names of all the local merchants
who have signed a petition asking the city to 'expedite purchase of
People's Park from the University', or download a copy of the
famous 1969 leaflet, 'Who Owns the Park'.
Keys: autonomy; gardening; homelessness; land use; parks;
petitions
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Name: Peoples Video Network
Web: http://www.peoplesvideo.org/
Notes: A group of media activists with more than 50 public
access shows across the country and hundreds of videos documenting
the struggle. Has sent correspondents to the Lacondon Jungle,
Russia, Cuba, Korea, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Iraq. Produces
and edit videos about issues the corporate media will not touch.
Goal is to break the information blockade of big business media.
Keys: Cuba; film / video; free speech; Iraq; mail-order; media
criticism; Puerto Rico; Russia; South Africa; television
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Name: Peoples' Global Action against 'Free' Trade and the World Trade Organisation (PGA)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.agp.org
Notes: From the 23rd to the 25th of February 1998, peoples'
movements from all continents met in Geneva and launched a
worldwide coordination of resistance against the global market, a
new alliance of struggle and mutual support called the Peoples'
Global Action against 'Free' Trade and the World Trade Organisation
(PGA). This new platform will serve as a global instrument for
communication and co-ordination for all those fighting against the
destruction of humanity and the planet by the global market,
building up local alternatives and peoples' power.
Keys: coalitions; corporate globalization; World Trade
Organization
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Name: pepsibloodbath.com
Web: http://www.pepsibloodbath.com/
Notes: Opposes Pepsi's advertising in arenas that host cruel
bullfights.
Keys: advertising; animal liberation; boycotts
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Name: Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
Address: 49 Powell Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 981-1771 [2/00]
Fax: (415) 981-1991
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.panna.org/
Notes: Advocates adoption of ecologically sound practices in
place of pesticide use. Believes that citizen action is essential
to challenge global proliferation of pesticides, to defend basic
rights to health and environmental quality, and to insure the
transition to a just and viable society. PANNA's activities
combine information services, networking and direct action on
issues related to pesticides and agriculture, as well as
development policy, environment, biotechnology, trade, health,
consumer protection and community organizing. Has a library
covering pesticide related information, sustainable agriculture,
and biotechnology. Global Pesticide Campaigner (a journal
published 3 times a year) is $25 for individuals and non-profits,
$15 for low income individuals, $50 for small businesses,
government, and public libraries, $100 for corporations.
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; consumer protection;
environmental justice; libraries; networking; pesticides
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Name: Pesticide Watch
Address: 450 Geary Street, suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 292-1486 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 292-1497
Email: [email protected]
Keys: pesticides
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Name: Petaluma Community Access
Address: 925 Lakeville Street #125
Petaluma, CA 94952
Voice: (707) 773-3190 [9/99]
Fax: (707) 773-3190 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Assists in the production of local community-based cable
television programs. Provides free classes, hands-on instruction,
and equipment. You provide the message. Call for information and
class schedule.
Keys: community-building; do-it-yourself; Marin County;
technical assistance; television
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Name: Petaluma Progressives
Voice: (707) 763-8134 [7/00]
Fax: (707) 763-2038
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A grass-roots political action and education group.
Sponsors demonstrations against the US abuse of power as well as a
monthly progressive film series at City Hall and a monthly free
radical economics class with Doug Dowd. The main organizers of the
annual Progressive Festival held in Petaluma. Meetings are the 2nd
Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at Copperfields Books in Petaluma.
Keys: classes / courses; demonstrations; economics; festivals;
film / video; Marin County
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Name: Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS)
Address: 3248 Sixteenth Street (between Dolores and Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 241-1460 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 252-9471
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pawssf.org/
Notes: A volunteer, nonprofit group that helps improve the
quality of life for persons with HIV disease, by offering them
emotional and practical support in keeping the love and
companionship of their pets, and by providing information on the
benefits and risk of animal companionship.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; support groups
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Name: Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Web: http://www.pewclimate.org/
Notes: A non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization
dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers and
innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change.
Keys: climate change; research materials
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Name: Philippine Information Network Services (PINS)
Address: POBox 55666
Hayward, CA 94545
Voice: (510) 785-9966 [1/99]
Fax: (510) 785-9966 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Does networking and dissemination of information about
the liberation movement in the Philippines
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); networking; Philippines /
Filipinos
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Name: Phoenix Data Center
Address: POBox 1713
Los Gatos, CA 95031 [11/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.phoenixdatacenter.org/
Notes: A not-for-profit organization that maintains an index of
all free and low income services offered throughout Santa Clara
County. Goal is to connect those in need with those who can help.
Keys: directories; food; healthcare access; housing; legal
services; low-income; Santa Clara County; services
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Name: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
Web: http://www.pcrm.org
Notes: Promotes preventive medicine through innovative programs,
encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in
research, and advocates broader access to medical services.
Keys: animal liberation; health; healthcare access; veganism /
vegetarianism
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Name: Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
Web: http://www.psr.org
Notes: Educates physicians and the population at large on the
public health consequences of: weapons of mass destruction;
environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources;
the militarization of society, societal violence, and the
degradation of human resources.
Keys: conservation; libraries; militarism; nuclear weapons /
testing; professionals; public health; speakers; violence
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Name: Pilgrim Press, The
Web: http://www.pilgrimpress.com/
Notes: A book publisher that addresses difficult and complex
social issues in the context of faith. It stands devoted to giving
the voiceless a voice, opposing injustice, and providing ethical
insights to an increasingly fragile planet. Especially interested
in academic and trade books on social and religious issues in the
areas of ethics, public policy, gender and sexuality, racial and
ethnic issues, and science and technology.
Keys: books; policy; products; racism; religion; science;
sexual minorities; technology; trade
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Name: Planet Ark
Web: http://www.planetark.org
Notes: Home of the Reuters Daily World Environment News. Aim is
to show people and business the many ways that they can reduce
their day to day impact on the environment. Includes a searchable
archive.
Keys: business; ecology; news on-line; research materials
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Name: Planet Drum Foundation
Address: POBox 31251
San Francisco, CA 94131
Voice: (415) 285-6556 [12/98]
Fax: (415) 285-6563
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.planetdrum.org
Notes: Promotes sustainable living founded on an understanding
of bioregions: distinct geographic regions with a continuity of
watersheds, rivers, landforms, climate, native plants and animals,
and cultural values that human residents have developed about
living in harmony with these natural systems. Provides bioregional
education resources and gives talks and mapping workshops.
Sponsors annual Bioregional Gatherings and helped form the
Bioregional Association for North America. Publishes a
bioregional directory and a workbook. See also Green City Project
Keys: bioregionalism; directories; endangered species /
habitat; sustainability
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Name: PlaNetweavers Treasure Store
Address: 1573 Haight Street (between Ashbury and Clayton)
San Francisco, CA 94117
Voice: (415) 864-4415 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 864-7103
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.citysearch.com/sfo/planetweavers
Notes: Offers environmentally and socially conscious products
from around the world to support a global community, including
Native Peoples' crafts and clothing, masks and drums, world music,
natural body products, books, recycled cards and paper, educational
toys, fountains, candles, incense, and jewelry. One of two stores
in San Francisco.
Keys: children; clothing; ecology; global community; products
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Name: PlaNetweavers Treasure Store
Address: 518-A Castro Street (between 18th and 19th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 575-0240 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 575-0246
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.citysearch.com/sfo/planetweavers
Notes: Offers environmentally and socially conscious products
from around the world to support a global community, including
Native Peoples' crafts and clothing, masks and drums, world music,
natural body products, books, recycled cards and paper, educational
toys, fountains, candles, incense, and jewelry. One of two stores
in San Francisco.
Keys: children; clothing; ecology; global community; products
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Name: Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
Address: 815 Eddy Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 441-7858 [3/01]
Fax: (415) 776-1449
Web: http://www.ppgg.org
Notes: Provides quality reproductive and primary health care
services and protects freedom of choice. Medical clinics are
located throughout Alameda, Marin, Mendocino, San Mateo, San
Francisco, and Sonoma Counties.
Keys: family; healthcare access; reproductive rights; San Mateo
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Name: Planning and Conservation League
Web: http://www.pcl.org/
Notes: Working to maintain and strengthen environmental laws in
California. Web site covers voting recommendations, land use,
wildlife, endangered species, California legislation, and
electronic activism
Keys: conservation; elections; endangered species / habitat;
land use; legislation; wilderness
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Name: Ploughshares Fund
Web: http://www.ploughshares.org/
Notes: Supports efforts to build global security in the nuclear
age. Works to ban land mines, prevent armed conflict, restrain the
weapons trade, cut Pentagon waste, clean up our radioactive
environment, and fight nuclear terrorism and proliferation.
Keys: fundraising; militarism; nuclear weapons / testing; peace
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Name: Plugged In
Address: 1923 University Avenue
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Voice: (650) 322-1134 [1/99]
Fax: (650) 322-6147
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pluggedin.org/
Notes: Dedicated to bringing the tremendous technological
resources available in Silicon Valley to low-income youth and
families in East Palo Alto, California, nearby communities and,
using the Internet, low-income communities across the country.
Develops collaborative projects that use sophisticated
communications technology in creative ways to provide broad and
exciting learning experiences to a community that has traditionally
been denied access to computer technology
Keys: computers; Internet; low-income; Santa Clara County; youth
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Name: Plutonium Free Future (INOCHI)
Address: POBox 2589
Berkeley, CA 94702 [8/00]
Fax: (510) 849-2549
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nonukes.org
Notes: A Japanese and US citizens' network that opposes Japan's
transportion of plutonium by ship and new nuclear developments
around the world. The pamphlet 'Japan's Plutonium: A Major Threat
to the Planet' is available for $2 postpaid and the Safe Energy
Handbook if available for $4.00 postpaid. See also Rainbow Serpent
International.
Keys: energy; Japan; nuclear energy; sustainability
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Name: Policy.com
Web: http://www.policy.com
Notes: Contains current policy papers from leading think tanks,
advocacy groups, and government officials
Keys: policy; research materials
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Name: Political Ecology Group (PEG)
Address: 965 Mission Street, Suite 218 (near Fifth Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 777-3488 (77-PEG-88) [1/01]
Fax: (415) 777-3443
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.org/peg
Notes: A grassroots, multi-racial and multi-issue organization
working for environmental justice locally, nationally, and
internationally. Works toward a future in which our environment,
healthy communities, and human rights come first. PEG's campaigns
build alliances to confront racism, corporate power, and
environmental destruction. PEG brings people together for
participatory education, leadership development, to reframe public
debate and to take collective action.
Keys: direct action; environmental justice; militarism; study
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Name: Political Research Associates
Web: http://www.publiceye.org
Notes: Collects and disseminates information on a wide range of
authoritarian, racist, and anti-democratic right-wing political
groups and trends. PRA is also a small publisher, and a resource
and teaching center.
Keys: books; directories; racism; religious right; research;
right-wingers
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Name: Poor Magazine Online
Web: http://www.poormagazine.com/
Notes: POOR magazine is a literary, visual arts based community
organization founded by a previously homeless, currently at-risk,
mother daughter team. POOR provides vocational training, creative
arts and literacy education, new and multi-media access to very low
and no income adults and children in the Bay Area, with the goal of
deconstructing the margins of class and race oppression.
Keys: children; class; classes / courses; creativity;
homelessness; low-income; magazines
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Name: Positive Resource Center
Address: 973 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 777-0333 [9/99]
Fax: (415) 777-1770
Email: info@positiveresource.org
Web: http://www.positiveresource.org
Notes: Provides benefits counseling and employment services for
people living with HIV / AIDS.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; benefits; counseling; employment; services
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Name: PosterNation
Web: http://www.posternation.org/
Notes: A program of grassroots action based on the concept of
'Nationwide Saturation Postering.' On selected action days,
PosterNation forces across the US simultaneously engage in acts of
guerilla street-postering. This year's campaign is Billionaires
for Bush (or Gore).
Keys: art; direct action; outdoor activity
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Name: Power to the People (The California Public Power Campaign)
Web: http://www.powertothepeople.org/
Notes: A coalition of groups working for public power in
California.
Keys: coalitions; energy; privatization; utilities
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Name: Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center
Address: 348 Precita Avenue (near Folsom)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 285-2287 [2/99]
Web: http://www.precitaeyes.org
Notes: A community-based mural center that offers mural
workshops, life drawing, painting, and children's and youth arts
classes. Many of the 200 murals in the Mission District of San
Francisco have been created and supported by members of Precita
Eyes, which is dedicated to enhancing the neighborhood with murals,
as well as educating and involving the Bay Area community in mural
arts and other community projects.
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; murals;
neighborhoods
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Name: Pride At Work
Web: http://www.prideatwork.org
Notes: Affiliated as the newest constituency group of the
AFL-CIO. Purpose is to mobilize mutual support between the
organized Labor Movement and the LGBT Community around organizing
for social and economic justice.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; healthcare access; insurance; labor; sexual
minorities
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Name: Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC)
Address: POBox 339
Berkeley, CA 94701
Voice: (510) 893-4648 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 893-4607
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.prisonactivist.org
Notes: Provides support for educators, activists, prisoners, and
prisoners' families. This work includes building networks for
action and producing materials that expose human rights violations,
while fundamentally challenging the rapid expansion of the prison
industrial complex.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; crime; death penalty; incarceration; Mumia
Abu-Jamal; political prisoners; prisons; Proposition 184 (Three
Strikes)
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Name: Prison Law Project
Address: National Lawyers Guild
558 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 285-1055 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 285-5066
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.surf.com/~graham/
Notes: Supports and works with Jailhouse Lawyers inside this
country's prisons. (A jailhouse lawyer is someone who is
incarcerated and is regularly engaged in providing legal services
to other prisoners.) One of about thirty national committees of
the National Lawyers Guild.
Keys: incarceration; lawyers
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Name: Prison Legal News
Web: http://www.prisonlegalnews.org
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Name: Prison Radio
Address: POBox 411074
San Francisco, CA 94141
Voice: (415) 648-4505 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 647-5949
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.prisonradio.org
Notes: Combats mass incarceration and racism by airing the
voices of men and women in prison.
Keys: censorship; death penalty; incarceration; racism; radio
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Name: Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Web: http://www.protectchoice.org/
Notes: The first collaborative effort of its kind in the
pro-choice community. Committed to conducting research on a
diverse population of pro-choice supporters. Through focus groups
and a national poll, PEP's research on young women ages 16-25 is
the most extensive ever conducted at one time on young women's
attitudes toward choice.
Keys: abortion rights; coalitions; public education;
researchers; youth
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Name: Pro-Choice Resource Center (PCRC)
Web: http://www.prochoiceresource.org/
Notes: Helps grassroots organizations in their fight for
reproductive freedom in America. Provides pro-choice activists
with on-site trainings, on-the-spot technical assistance, cutting
edge publications, links to local and national pro-choice
activities, and other critical resources.
Keys: classes / courses; reproductive rights; technical
assistance
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Name: Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at Columbia University
Web: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/gender/
Notes: Aims to provide a supportive intellectual location to
further the sometimes separate conversations and advances that have
occurred within studies of sexuality, gender, health, and human
rights.
Keys: health; human rights; sex
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Name: Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD)
Web: http://www.poclad.org/
Notes: Eleven activists who have spent the last several years
researching corporate, labor and legal histories, rethinking our
past organizing strategies and talking with people about democracy
movements. Works in the tradition of people's struggles to replace
illegitimate and tyrannical institutions with democratic ones that
disperse, rather than concentrate, wealth and power.
Keys: corporations; decentralization; democracy; corporate
globalization; history; labor; law; researchers
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Name: Progressive and Left News Sources on dmoz
Web: http://www.dmoz.org/News/Alternative_Media/Progressive_and_Left/
Notes: The Open Media Project's (dmoz) list of progressive and
left news links.
Keys: news on-line
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Name: Progressive Asset Management, Inc.
Address: 1814 Franklin Street, Suite 710
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 834-3722
(800) 786-2998 [10/98]
Fax: (510) 836-1621
Web: http://www.progressive-asset.com
Notes: A full service socially responsible investment firm and
securities broker. Presents introductory seminars on topics such
as environmental investing, low-income housing and women's
investment issues. Free literature is available
Keys: ecology; housing; investment; low-income; women
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Name: Progressive Populist, The
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.eden.com/~reporter/
Notes: A newspaper that believes people are more important than
corporations. Reports from the heartland of America as well as
from Washington DC on issues of interest to workers, small business
owners and family farmers and ranchers. Jim Hightower, Molly
Ivins, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, and many more contributors.
Keys: newspapers; populism
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Name: Progressive Review
Web: http://www.princeton.edu/~progrev/
Notes: A magazine dedicated to social justice, based at
Princeton University.
Keys: magazines; university publications
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Name: Progressive Review On-Line Report, The
Web: http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/
Notes: Free Range Journalism for over 35 Years From Washington's
Most Unofficial Source. Edited by Sam Smith.
Keys: greens; news on-line; populism
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Name: Progressive Science Institute
Address: Box 5335
Berkeley, CA 94705-0335
Voice: (510) 654-1619 [3/01]
Fax: (815) 327-5331
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.scientificphilosophy.com
Notes: Concerned with the development of a non-fatalistic /
non-solipsistic scientific philosophy. Does research into new
approaches to scientific thought and philosophy. Contact: Glenn
Borchardt (Director), author of the book The Scientific Worldview.
Keys: books; philosophy; researchers; science
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Name: Project Censored
Address: Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Voice: (707) 664-2500 [9/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.projectcensored.org
Notes: An annual nationwide media research project that explores
and publicizes the extent of censorship in our society by locating
stories about significant issues of which the public should be
aware, but is not, for one reason or another. Recently published
'Censored 99: The News that Didn't Make the News' by Peter Philips
and Project Censored.'
Keys: censorship; media criticism; Sonoma County
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Name: Project Gutenberg
Web: http://promo.net/pg/
Notes: Archives public domain literature as easily-searchable
plain text, available on the web.
Keys: archiving; books
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Name: Project HIRED
Address: 1270 Franklin Mall
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Voice: (408) 557-4313 [7/98]
Fax: (408) 557-0710
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.projecthired.org
Notes: Assists individuals with disabilities to secure jobs
appropriate to their qualifications and career goals. Through
reciprocal relationships with industry, develops and maintains a
range of services for the community which includes outreach,
employment training, job placement, education of employers, and
advocacy.
Keys: disabilities; employment; Santa Clara County
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Name: Project Inform
Address: 205 Thirteenth Street, #2001
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 558-8669 (office)
(415) 558-9051 (local hotline)
(800) 822-7422 (national hotline) [12/98]
Fax: (415) 558-0684
Web: http://www.projinf.org/
Notes: Educates on HIV/AIDS testing, monitoring, early
intervention, and most promising treatments, influences public
policy on treatment research and availability, and initiates
research
Keys: AIDS / HIV; policy; research
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Name: Project Open Hand
Address: 4700 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, ca 94609
Voice: (510) 596-8205 [9/99]
Fax: (510) 447-2490
Web: http://www.openhand.org
Notes: Provides meals with love to people with AIDS and Seniors.
Always needs volunteers. Hours are 9:30 to 4:00 Monday through
Friday.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; food; seniors; services
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Name: Project Open Hand
Address: 730 Polk Street (near Ellis)
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (800) 551-6325 (551-MEAL) (meal delivery and food bank) [3/00]
Fax: (415) 447-2492
Web: http://www.openhand.org
Notes: Provides nutrition services to people living with
symptomatic HIV and AIDS, seniors 60 years and older, and homebound
people living with serious illness.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; food; seniors; services
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Name: project underground
Address: 1916-A MLKing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 705-8981 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 705-8983
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.moles.org
Notes: A vehicle for the environmental, human rights and
indigenous rights movements to carry out focused campaigns against
abusive extractive resource activity. Seeks to systematically deal
with the problems created by the mining and oil industries by
exposing environmental and human rights abuses by the corporations
involved in these sectors and by building capacity amongst
communities facing mineral and energy development to achieve
economic and environmental justice.
Keys: corporations; environmental justice; human rights;
indigenous people; land use; oil
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Name: Propaganda Analysis Home Page
Web: http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/home.htm
Keys: analysis; propaganda
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Name: Prostitutes' Education Network
Address: POBox 210256
San Francisco, CA 94121 [12/98]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://bayswan.org/penet.html
Notes: An information service about legislative and cultural
issues as they effect prostitutes and other sex workers. Comprised
of information for sex workers and activists / educators who study
issues of decriminalization, human rights in the context of
prostitution, violence against prostitutes and women, sex workers
and pornography, as well as current trends in legislation and
social policy in the US and internationally
Keys: human rights; labor; legislation; sex; violence
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Name: Protest.Net
Web: http://www.protest.net/
Notes: A calendar of activist events world-wide that allows
users to enter their own events. Also provides activist news and
links to other more local calendars.
Keys: calendars; networking; news on-line
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Name: Public Advocates, Inc.
Address: 1535 Mission Street (at 11th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103-2500
Voice: (415) 431-7430 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 431-1048
Notes: A class-action law office dealing in impact litigation,
predominantly on discrimination, education, health, and consumer
issues.
Keys: consumer protection; discrimination; health; litigation;
public education
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Name: Public Campaign
Web: http://www.publicampaign.org/
Notes: Works on campaign finance reform
Keys: finance; government
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Name: Public Citizen
Web: http://www.citizen.org/
Notes: The consumer's eyes and ears in Washington. Fights for
safer drugs and medical devices, cleaner and safer energy sources,
a cleaner environment, and a more open and democratic government.
Keys: consumer protection; ecology; lobbying; open government;
public health
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Name: Public Domain
Web: http://www.public-domain.org/
Notes: Mission is to protect and enhance the public domain in
matters concerning intellectual property. Addresses proposals for
laws restricting free access to information on the Internet and to
the use of database information that is currently in the public
domain.
Keys: copyright; intellectual property; Internet; law; right to
know
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Name: Public Education Network
Web: http://www.penpress.org/
Notes: A clearinghouse of information on domestic and global
inequities, including those in education, ecology, health,
employment, criminal justice, and national defense. PEN is a
collective project joined by people who gather and distribute
little-known information to their communities.
Keys: crime; ecology; employment; health; public education;
research materials
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Name: Public Good
Web: http://nwcitizen.com/publicgood/
Notes: A research and education project on issues where the good
of the public is opposed by private interests: human rights, land
use policy, tax equity, and economic development.
Keys: development; human rights; land use; militias; taxes
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Name: Public Information Network
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.endgame.org/
Notes: Provides research and information support to citizens who
are working for corporate and governmental accountability and
building socially just and ecologically sustainable societies.
Provides information and training on issues related to
international trade and multinational corporations.
Keys: classes / courses; corporations; corporate globalization;
government; research; sustainability; trade
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Name: Public Interest Research Group, Berkeley Chapter, California (CALPIRG)
Address: 2034 Blake Street #9 (near Shattuck)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 644-3454 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 644-0132
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pirg.org/calpirg/
Keys: consumer protection; ecology; government; students
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Name: Q San Francisco
Web: http://www.qsanfrancisco.com/
Notes: The gay and lesbian resource for San Francisco, the Bay
Area and beyond.
Keys: directories; sexual minorities
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Name: Queer Notions
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.graphicgirlz.com/QNII.htm
Notes: A collection of writings published by a group of
revolutionary queers and supporters working out of the Women's
Liberation Committee of the Bay Area chapter of the News & Letters
Committee, a Marxist-Humanist organization.
Keys: humanism; news; sexual minorities; socialism; women;
writing
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Name: Queer Resource Center & Queer Alliance
Address: 305 Eshleman Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Voice: (510) 643-UGAY [11/98]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://queer.berkeley.edu/
Keys: sexual minorities; students
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Name: Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
Web: http://www.rachel.org
Notes: News and resources for environmental justice. Provides
understandable scientific information about human health and the
environment.
Keys: directories; environmental justice; health; news on-line;
research materials
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Name: Radical Women
Address: 1908 Mission Street (near 15th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 864-1278 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 864-0778
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A multiracial socialist feminist organization dedicated
to achieving full equality for women, people of color, lesbians,
gays, and working people. Shares resources with the Freedom
Socialist Party.
Keys: feminism; racism; sexual minorities; socialism
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Name: Radio 4 All
Web: http://www.radio4all.org/
Notes: A web site connecting you to the movement to reclaim the
airwaves
Keys: microbroadcasting
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Name: Radio Television B92 (Free B92)
Web: http://www.b92.net/
Notes: The independent Yugoslav radio and television station.
Keys: radio; television; Yugoslavia
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Name: Rainbow Family
Web: http://welcomehome.org/rainbow.html http://members.xoom.com/ravingjoy/rainbow.html
Keys: autonomy; community-building; ecology; outdoor activity;
travel
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Name: Rainbow Grocery
Address: 1745 Folsom Street (at 13th Street)
San Francisco, CA
Voice: (415) 863-0620 [7/99]
Web: http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/
Notes: A worker-owned cooperative, dedicated to earth-friendly
food products, an organic future, and a good time getting there.
Open till 9 pm every day.
Keys: cooperatives; food; organic agriculture; products
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Name: Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Address: 221 Pine Street, Suite 500 (between Sansome and Battery)
San Francisco, CA 94104
Voice: (415) 398-4404 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 398-2732
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ran.org/ran/
Notes: Works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the
rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots
organizing, and nonviolent direct action. Major programs include:
Amazonia Program, including a Boycott-Texaco Campaign and
Protect-an-Acre Program; Boycott-Mitsubishi Campaign; Wood Use
Reduction Campaign; Rainforest Action Groups; International
Information Clearinghouse; Youth Outreach Program; World Rainforest
Week. Has 30,000 members.
Keys: boycotts; consumer protection; direct action; indigenous
people; networking; rainforests
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Name: Ralph Nader for President
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.votenader.com/
Notes: Campaign headquarters for the 2000 presidential campaign
of Ralph Nader.
Keys: corporate globalization; elections; greens; national
government
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Name: Rape Trauma Services
Address: 1860 El Camino Real, Suite 301
Burlingame, CA 94010
Voice: (650) 652-0598 [8/99]
Keys: rape; San Mateo County; services
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Name: Raphael House
Address: 1065 Sutter Street (between Hyde and Larkin)
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 474-3245 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 771-4251
Email: info@raphaelhouse.org
Web: http://www.raphaelhouse.org/raphael/
Notes: Offers comprehensive services that have the ultimate goal
of helping homeless, formerly homeless and at-risk families achieve
stable housing and financial independence, while strengthening
family bonds. Originally an emergency shelter, Raphael House is
now composed of four distinct but interconnected elements: Family
Shelter; Case Work, Counseling and Education; Children's Program;
AfterCare Program.
Keys: children; counseling; family; homelessness; housing;
services
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Name: Rational Drug Policy Reform
Web: http://www.usperspectives.org/
Keys: drugs; policy
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Name: Real Goods Renewables
Web: http://www.realgoods.com
Notes: Sells solar energy equipment and other environmentally
friendly products.
Keys: appropriate technology; energy; products; sustainability
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Name: Rebecca Riots
Address: POBox 3536
Berkeley, CA 94703
Voice: (415) 377-8588 [2/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.rebeccariots.com/
Notes: An acoustic folk trio from Berkeley, CA, that embodies a
gentle yet powerful energy and presence that has carried these
three women from their former lives as teachers into the adventure
of life on the road, and now a record deal with Appleseed
Recordings. Their music reflects the intensity and compassion that
exist in the meeting of the personal and political and has been
called 'fresh radical folk' by those familiar with the excellent
harmonies, articulate guitar work, intelligent lyrics and clear
social / political content of the group's songs.
Keys: music; products
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Name: RecallBrown.com
Address: POBox 420534
San Francisco, CA 94142-0534
Voice: (415) 661-3600 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.recallbrown.com/
Notes: Mission is to recall San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown
from office for abuse of power and his failure to address the
housing crisis, and to find a qualified San Franciscan to replace
him in the November 6, 2001 Recall Election. Petitions are
downloadable from the web site.
Keys: elections; housing; municipal government; petitions
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Name: Reclaim Democracy!
Web: http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org
Notes: A non-partisan grassroots organization that welcomes all
who share the goal of regaining democratic authority over
corporations. Goal is to address our root problems and inspire
people to consciously choose what role corporations should play in
society.
Keys: corporations; democracy
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Name: Reclaim the Streets!
Voice: (510) 594-4002 [12/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.greennet.org.uk/rts/
Notes: A London-based direct action network committed to ending
the rule of the car.
Keys: cycling; direct action; transportation
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Name: Reclaim the Streets!, San Francisco Bay Area
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://guest.xinet.com/rts/
Notes: Prison industry rolling over community. Car culture
rolling over community. Dance spaces under attack. As the big
protest spectacles subside for now --- time to take the struggle
against globalization home; time to ... Reclaim the Streets!
Keys: cycling; direct action; transportation
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Name: Recovering Racists Network
Address: 2455 Marcia Drive
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Voice: (925) 682-4959 [5/00]
Fax: (925) 687-4437
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.jmckenzie.com/rrn
Notes: A project founded by John McKenzie as a step to help in
ending racism. Among its aims are to give support to people who
believe and are ready to admit that by growing up in a racist
culture, there is no way they could have avoided becoming racists
themselves.
Keys: racism; support groups
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Name: Red Cloud Thunder at Fall Creek
Web: http://www.efn.org/~redcloud/
Notes: A group of treesitters using direct action and education
to oppose the Clark timber sale, which is comprised of 96 acres of
ancient (500 to 700 year old) trees in the Willamette National
Forest, public forest, YOUR FOREST, 45 miles outside Eugene, Oregon.
Keys: deforestation; direct action; trees
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Name: Red Vic Movie House / Film Collective (Red Vic)
Address: 1727 Haight Street (between Cole & Shraeder)
San Francisco, CA 94117
Voice: (415) 668-3994 (recording) [5/00]
Fax: (415) 668-7913
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com
Notes: A worker owned and operated movie theater featuring cozy
couches and organic treats for your viewing pleasure. Your
neighborhood cinema for rep, cult, and premiere independent films.
Keys: collectives; film / video; organic agriculture
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Name: Redefining Progress
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Sixth Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-3041 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 444-3191
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.rprogress.org/
Notes: Performs original research and public education to
promote new approaches to public economic policy that advance the
principles of enterprise, responsibility, and stewardship, build
local autonomy and broaden opportunity, and enrich civic society.
Promotes the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which broadens the
accounting framework of the widely-used Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) to include a wide range of social and environmental factors.
Keys: analysis; autonomy; economics; policy
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Name: Redwood Action Team at Stanford (RATS)
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.stanford.edu/group/rats/
Notes: Through direct action, campus activism and education,
RATS strives to protect California's redwood ecosystem from
destructive logging, especially Headwaters Forest, with the
underlying goal of promoting the global importance of conservation.
Keys: conservation; deforestation; direct action; Santa Clara
County; students
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Name: Redwood Community Radio, Inc. (KMUD 91.1 FM)
Address: POBox 135
1144 Redway Drive
Redway, CA 95560-0135
Voice: (707) 923-2513
(707) 923-3911 (talk / request line) [6/00]
Fax: (707) 923-2501
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.kmud.org
Notes: An independent, progressive community radio station in
rural Northwestern California (Humboldt County), featuring all
kinds of music, public affairs, talk shows, Pacifica news, and
local news. Over 90% of programming is of local origin. Office &
studio is located at 1144 Redway Drive, Redway CA 95560. KMUD is
heard in Northern Mendocino county at 88.9 FM, and in the Arcata /
Eureka area at 88.3 FM and in Southern Humboldt County at 91.1 FM.
Keys: Humboldt County; Mendocino County; radio
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Name: Reef Check
Web: http://www.ReefCheck.org/
Notes: The largest international coral reef monitoring program
involving recreational divers and marine scientists. In 1997, Reef
Check teams completed the first global survey of coral reefs, and
is now repeating the survey each year.
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; water
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Name: Reef Relief
Web: http://www.blacktop.com/coralforest/
Notes: Founded to broaden and strengthen the international reef
preservation movement through education, communication, action, and
interaction with indigenous peoples.
Keys: conservation; indigenous people; water
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Name: Refuse and Resist!
Address: PMB
2525 Alcatraz Avenue #258-A
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 704-5293 [7/00]
Web: http://www.walrus.com/~resist
Notes: It's all one attack! The current war on women,
concentration camps for immigrants, censorship of the arts,
resurgent racism, police state measures, gay bashing, and
compulsory patriotism, Refuse & Resist! says NO to the whole
package.
Keys: censorship; immigrants; police accountability; racism;
sexual minorities; women
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Name: Regional Bicycle Advisory Committee (REBAC)
Address: POBox 10205
Oakland, CA 94610
Voice: (510) 452-1221 [2/99]
Notes: Works with government agencies to improve access &
conditions for bicyclists in the Bay Area
Keys: cycling; government
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Name: Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Web: http://www.rcrc.org
Notes: The only national coalition dedicated solely to defending
the freedom to choose on the basis of faith. 'Keeping the Faith
for Choice.'
Keys: coalitions; religion; reproductive rights
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Name: Religious Witness with Homeless People
Address: POBox 420486
San Francisco, CA 94142-0486
Voice: (415) 929-0781
(415) 929-0785 (24-hour hotline) [2/00]
Fax: (415) 929-0783
Email: [email protected]
Keys: homelessness; religion
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Name: RENEGADE news_service
Web: http://fornits.com/renegade/
Notes: A searchable archive of activist news articles, managed
by Strider.
Keys: archiving; ecology; human rights; news on-line; research
materials
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Name: Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press
Web: http://www.rcfp.org/
Notes: A Virginia-based organization that supplies a wealth of
publications on public access and other First Amendment topics
Keys: First Amendment; freedom of information; journalism;
professionals
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Name: Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology
Web: http://www.vshiva.org/
Notes: Founded in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1982 by Dr.
Vandana Shiva. It works on biodiversity conservation and
protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and
environment by centralized systems of monoculture in forestry,
agriculture and fisheries.
Keys: agriculture; biodiversity; biotechnology;
decentralization; India; research
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Name: Resist
Web: http://www.resistinc.org/
Notes: An activist foundation that funds small organizations
that work within movements for social change. Also a resource
center, providing grassroots organizations with technical
assistance and information about other funding sources. Seeks out
groups that withstand reactionary government policies, corporate
arrogance, and right-wing fanaticism through organizing, education
and action.
Keys: grants / financial aid; technical assistance
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Name: Resource Center for Nonviolence
Address: 515 Broadway
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Voice: (408) 423-1626 [4/99]
Fax: (408) 423-8716
Notes: Offers a wide-ranging educational program in the history,
theory, methodology, and current practice of nonviolence as a force
for personal and social change. Middle East projects include a
subscription-based urgent action network, and delegations to Israel
and occupied Palestine. Has a lending library and the New Society
Bookstore
Keys: classes / courses; history; libraries; Middle East;
networking; nonviolence; Santa Cruz County; travel
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Name: Resourceful Women
Address: Presidio Building 1016
POBox 29423
San Francisco, CA 94129-0423
Voice: (415) 561-6520 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 561-6462
Notes: Promotes positive social change through educating and
empowering women to make informed choices about investing,
spending, and contributing their money
Keys: finance; investment; women
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Name: Resources for Independent Thinking (RIT)
Address: 484 Lake Park Avenue #24
Oakland, CA 94610-2730
Voice: (925) 228-0565 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.rit.org/
Notes: Provides educational tools that help people think for
themselves and increase their critical thinking skills, including
how to avoid being taken in by clever propaganda or deceptive
advertising, how to reach conclusions based on solid evidence
rather than emotion, how to detect bias and distortions in the
media, how to become skilled at standing up for your beliefs while
tolerating those of others, and how to apply critical thinking to
daily life.
Keys: advertising; analysis; media criticism; propaganda;
research materials; skepticism
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Name: RESULTS, Marin
Address: c/o Anna Haight
6034 Shelter Bay Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Voice: (415) 383-6706 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://results.action.org/sf/
Notes: For description, refer to Oakland RESULTS.
Keys: democracy; development; hunger; letter-writing; lobbying;
microenterprise
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Name: RESULTS, Martinez
Address: c/o Tari Nicholson
729 Sterling Drive
Martinez, CA 94556
Voice: (925) 229-1778 [12/00]
Web: http://results.action.org/sf/
Notes: For description, refer to Oakland RESULTS.
Keys: Contra Costa County; democracy; development; hunger;
letter-writing; lobbying; microenterprise
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Name: RESULTS, Oakland
Address: c/o Sue Oehser
1845 Manzanita Drive
Oakland, CA 94611-1132
Voice: (510) 339-0243 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://results.action.org/sf/
Notes: Conducts monthly workshops and letterwriting meetings in
support of ending hunger, building democracy, and promoting
sustainable development around the world and in the US. Generates
media, meets with legislators, speaks with groups, and does
whatever will generate the political will to end hunger. The
foremost lobby for microenterprise (small loans to poor persons to
help them start or develop small businesses).
Keys: democracy; development; hunger; letter-writing; lobbying;
microenterprise; speakers; sustainability
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Name: RESULTS, San Francisco
Address: c/o Joel Rubinstein
2023 28th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94116
Voice: (415) 759-5075 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://results.action.org/sf/
Notes: For description, refer to Oakland RESULTS.
Keys: democracy; development; hunger; letter-writing; lobbying;
microenterprise; speakers
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Name: RESULTS, San Jose
Address: c/o Peter Fiekowsky
952 South Springer Road
Los Altos, CA 94024
Voice: (650) 941-6871 [12/00]
Fax: (650) 941-4821
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://results.action.org/sf/
Notes: For description, refer to Oakland RESULTS.
Keys: democracy; development; hunger; letter-writing; lobbying;
microenterprise; Santa Clara County; speakers
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Name: ReThinkPaper
Address: The Flood Building
870 Market Street, Suite 1011
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 398-2433 [9/99]
Web: http://www.rethinkpaper.com/
Notes: A web guide to the recycled paper industry. Includes a
searchable eco-paper database, a guide to paper marketing symbols
and terms, a company guide with purchasing information, the latest
industry news, and more.
Keys: deforestation; directories; recycling
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Name: Reverend Billy's Home Page
Web: http://www.revbilly.com/
Notes: The minister of the Church of Stop Shopping in NYC is a
tongue-in-cheek charismatic evangelist that has invaded the Disney
store in Times Square with his flock to protest creeping
consumerism, child labor, and manipulaive adverstising, and to wage
a holy battle to save Manhatten from becoming a theme park parody
of itself.
Keys: consumer lifestyle; control techniques; corporations;
direct action; humor; land use; religion; street theater
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Name: Revolution Books
Address: 2425-C Channing Way (1/2 block west of Telegraph)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 848-1196 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 848-7467
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Sells books, videos, CD's, posters, and periodicals,
including some of the classics of Marxism, Lenism, and Maoism as
well as materials from the current international Maoist trend,
including the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, the Communist
Party of Peru (also known as 'Shining Path'), and the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement. Also fiction, history, Black, Chicano,
and Asian American studies, women's liberation, hip hop, and more.
Keys: books; communism; film / video; socialism
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Name: Revolutionary Worker Online
Web: http://www.mcs.net/~rwor/
Keys: communism
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Name: Richmond Neighbors
Address: 4724 Castilla Avenue
Richmond, CA 94804
Voice: (510) 235-1184 [7/00]
Notes: An organization dedicated to open, populist government.
Keys: Contra Costa County; government; populism
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Name: RIDES for Bay Area Commuters, Inc. (RIDES)
Address: 1333 Broadway, Suite 601
San Francisco, CA 94612-9913
Voice: (800) 755-POOL
(510) 893-7665 [10/98]
Fax: (510) 622-0201
Web: http://www.rides.org
Notes: Serves the ten-county Bay Area by providing free carpool
and vanpool ridematching services, and by promoting transit and
other alternatives to driving alone
Keys: sustainability; transportation
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Name: Right Of Way
Web: http://www.panix.com/~jlefevre/cars-suck/
Notes: A group of activists dedicated to asserting the rights of
car-free street users --- including pedestrians, cyclists, and
skaters --- and fighting back against car violence.
Keys: cycling; land use; transportation; urban life; violence
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Name: Right Of Way
Web: http://www.panix.com/~jlefevre/cars-suck/
Notes: A group of activists dedicated to asserting the rights of
car-free street users -- including pedestrians, cyclists, and
skaters -- and fighting back against car violence.
Keys: cycling; land use; transportation; violence
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Name: Rocky Mountain Media Watch
Web: http://www.bigmedia.org
Notes: Challenges citizens to resist and change the manipulative
and toxic formulas of Big Media?s news products.
Keys: media criticism; news
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Name: Roisin McAliskey Justice Campaign
Voice: (415) 522-8725 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.larkspirit.com/roisin/
Notes: The 26 year old daughter of Irish activist Bernadette
Devlin McAliskey, R?is?n was accused of attempted murder, stemming
from an IRA mortar attack on a British army barracks. Despite
overwhelming evidence placing her at home in Ireland during the
period in question, and despite being pregnant, she was arrested,
subjected to heavy interrogation, and then forced to suffer
deplorable conditions in prison in England.
Keys: Ireland; political prisoners
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Name: Ronin Books for Independent Minds
Address: POBox 522
Berkeley, CA 94701
Voice: (510) 548-2124
(800) 858-2665 (orders) [1/99]
Web: http://www.roninpub.com
Notes: Supplies off-beat, underground, and controversial books
to free thinking spirits throughout the world. Subjects include
cyberpunk, health, psychedelic drugs, and visionary literature.
Books are for sale to adults only, to provide educational
information in accordance with the First Amendment.
Keys: books; censorship; drugs; First Amendment; health;
mail-order
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Name: Rosenberg Fund for Children
Web: http://www.rfc.org/
Notes: Established to provide for the educational and emotional
needs of children whose parents have been harassed, injured, lost
jobs, or died in the course of their progressive activities and
who, therefore, are no longer able to fully provide for their
children. Professionals and institutions will be awarded grants to
provide the children with services at no or reduced cost.
Keys: children; control techniques; grants / financial aid;
professionals; services
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Name: Roxie Cinema
Address: 3117 16th Street (at Valencia)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 863-1087 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.roxie.com
Keys: film / video
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Name: Ruckus Society, The
Address: 2054 University Avenue #204
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 848-9565 [5/99]
Fax: (510) 848-9541
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ruckus.org/
Notes: Trains activists in the use of non-violent civil
disobedience. The main forum for the trainings is week-long Action
Camps, where workshops concentrate on teaching action planning,
mass media techniques, climbing, artwork, electronic technologies,
and so on.
Keys: art; camps; civil disobedience; classes / courses; media;
nonviolence
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Name: Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)
Web: http://www.rafi.org/
Notes: Dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement
of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible
development of technologies useful to rural societies. RAFI is
concerned about the loss of genetic diversity --- especially in
agriculture --- and about the impact of intellectual property
rights on agriculture and world food security. Their web site
addresses such developments as patents on plants and 'Terminator'
seeds that produce infertile crops, creating a dependency on the
large seed corporations.
Keys: agriculture; biodiversity; biotechnology; conservation;
control techniques; corporations; food security; intellectual
property; rural life; seeds; sustainability; technology
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Name: S.E.E. Green Directory
Address: POBox 307
Sebastopol, CA 95473 [11/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.seegreenweb.com/
Notes: A directory providing a listing of businesses which are
promoting Social, Environmental, and Economic values into their
business practices. Helps businesses become 'Greener' by use of
the SEE Green Principles. Assists consumers in 'conscious buying'.
The SEE Green Library contains articles on sustainability,
shopping, responsible business practices, etc.
Keys: business; consumer protection; directories; ecology;
libraries; products; Sonoma County; sustainability
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Name: Samefolknet
Web: http://www.samefolket.se/index.htm
Notes: A magazine published mostly in Sweden that covers
political and cultural issues of the Sami, the indigenous people of
what is now areas of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
Keys: Europe; indigenous people; magazines
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Name: San Bruno Mountain Watch
Address: POBox 53
Brisbane, CA 94005
Voice: (415) 467-6631 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 843-3661
Web: http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/canopy/4417
Notes: Working for the conservation of natural habitat on San
Bruno Mountain (just south of San Francisco), the largest urban
open space in the US. Leads hikes on the mountain, and can arrange
a time for you or your group. Monitors work on rare and endangered
species, and does restoration work. Gives talks and slide shows at
schools and elsewhere. Fighting the US 'Habitat Conservation Plan'
which would dismantle protection of rare and endangered species.
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; land use; San
Mateo County
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Name: San Carlos Foundation
Address: 1065 Creston Road
Berkeley, CA 94708
Voice: (510) 525-3787 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 525-3278
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Provides health and educational assistance to refugees
and other people living in extreme poverty in the Third World,
particularly Central America.
Keys: Central America; grants / financial aid; healthcare
access; material aid; poverty; refugees
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Name: San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Address: PO Box 426182
San Francisco, CA 94142-6182
Voice: (415) 487-3061 [8/98]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Provides a variety of services for persons with HIV /
AIDS, including financial benefits, counseling, referrals,
advocacy, programs for women and people of color, and emergency
housing. Street address is One Sixth Street, San Francisco, CA
94103.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; counseling; food; housing
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Name: San Francisco AIDS Foundation HIV Prevention Project
Address: POBox 429018
San Francisco, CA 94142
Voice: (415) 241-5100 [4/99]
Fax: (415) 241-5109
Notes: A needle exchange program
Keys: needle exchange; prevention
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Name: San Francisco Bay Area Friendshipment
Address: POBox 2218
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 869-2577 [1/00]
Fax: (415) 821-5782
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Challenges the US economic blocade of Cuba with caravans
to Cuba carrying food, medical supplies, and other material aid.
Affiliated with Pastors for Peace. Additional more recent caravans
have destinations in Honduras and Nicaragua (after hurricane
Mitch) and Chiapas, Mexico.
Keys: Cuba; direct action; material aid; travel
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Name: San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO)
Address: 1290 Hope Street
POBox 247
Alviso, CA 95002-0247
Voice: (408) 946-6548 [2/01]
Fax: (408) 946-9279
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfbbo.org/
Notes: A not-for-profit research organization dedicated to the
conservation of birds and their habitats through original research,
monitoring, and educational activities. Results of their
scientific investigations are provided to governmental agencies,
industry, and the public to support informed natural resource
management decisions for the San Francisco Bay area. A grassroots
scientific institution.
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; policy;
researchers; science
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Name: San Francisco Bay View
Address: 4908 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94124
Voice: (415) 671-0449 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 822-8971
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfbayview.com
Notes: A free weekly newspaper dedicated to the enlightenment
and empowerment of African American community. Twenty thousand
copies of each edition are delivered door to door in African
American neighborhoods and to shops, churches, colleges and
community centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Covers
everything from from business and politics to arts and
entertainment.
Keys: African Americans; neighborhoods; newspapers
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Name: San Francisco BayKeeper
Address: Presidio Bldg 1004
POBox 29921
San Francisco, CA 94129-0921
Voice: (415) 561-2299
(800) KEEP-BAY (to report evidence of violations) [5/00]
Fax: (415) 561-2290
Web: http://www.sfbaykeeper.org
Notes: Purpose is to protect, preserve, and enhance the
resources and health of the ecosystems and communities in the Bay
Delta region. Implements this mission through a high-visibility,
on-the-water, grassroots enforcement program that seeks to detect,
investigate, and deter violations of environmental laws that
protect water quality.
Keys: bay / delta environment; water
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Name: San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC)
Address: 1095 Market Street, Suite 215
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 431-2453 (431-BIKE) [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfbike.org
Notes: A membership-based advocacy organization working to
transfrom San Francisco streets and neighborhoods into safer and
more livable places by promoting the bicycle for everyday
transportation, and by improving the conditions for walking and
transit. Four main goals are the completion of the urban bicycle
pathway network, a long-term comprehensive traffic-calming policy
for San Francisco, educating all road users about bicyclists'
rights and responsibilities, and shifting travel modes from
automobiles to bicycles and other alternatives.
Keys: cycling; transportation; urban life
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Name: San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
Address: 2660 Newhall Street, Room 116
San Francisco, CA 94124-2527
Voice: (415) 467-3330 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 467-5791
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/sfbctc
Keys: development; labor councils
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Name: San Francisco Cacophony Society
Address: POBox 424969
San Francisco, CA 94142-4969
Voice: (415) 665-0351 [2/99]
Web: http://www.cacophony.org
Notes: A randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the
pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society.
Includes a wide variety of individuals all marching to the beat of
a different din; the merry pranksters of a new decade.
Nonpolitical, nonprophet and often nonsensical.
Keys: anarchism; art; culture jamming; street theater
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Name: San Francisco Coalition for Lower Utility Bills (SFCLUB)
Address: POBox 2273
San Francisco, CA 94126
Voice: (415) 364-1522 [5/00]
Web: http://www.sfmud.com
Notes: Favors the creation of a municipal utility district (MUD)
in San Francisco.
Keys: coalitions; consumer protection; energy; municipal
government; utilities
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Name: San Francisco Conservation Corps
Address: Upper Fort Mason, Building 102
San Francisco, CA 94123
Voice: (415) 928-SFCC (-7322) [2/00]
Fax: (415) 928-7330
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfcclc.org
Notes: A job and academic training organization serving young
people ages 12 to 24. Corpsmembers develop their job and academic
skills, leadership abilities and environmental awareness by
completing outreach, conservation and community service projects
throughout the city. Simultaneously, they participate in
educational programs such as high school diploma and GED
preparation, study halls, environmental and habitat restoration
classes, personal and professional development coaching and
computer literacy training.
Keys: community-building; conservation; employment; youth
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Name: San Francisco Estuary Project
Address: 1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 622-2465 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 622-2501
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/sfep/sfep.html
Notes: A cooperative state-federal program dedicated to
protecting and restoring the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary's
water quality and natural resources.
Keys: bay / delta environment; conservation
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Name: San Francisco HomeShare Program
Voice: (415) 759-3760 [2/01]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A senior oriented community service from the
not-for-profit Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services.
SF HomeShare helps match people who are seeking a more affordable
housing situation with people who have an extra room in their home
or apartment. The purpose of SF HomeShare is to help older adults
maintain independent living and to provide people of any age with
an affordable housing option. There is a sliding scale fee for
program application.
Keys: housing; seniors; services
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Name: San Francisco Labor Council
Address: 1188 Franklin Street, Suite 203 (near Geary)
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 641-8616 [8/99]
Fax: (415) 440-9297
Keys: labor councils
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Name: San Francisco Late Night Coalition (SFLNC)
Address: 268 Bush Street, #2931
San Francisco, CA 94104-3503 [10/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sflnc.org/
Notes: A broad-based group composed of club owners, promoters,
activists, dj's, musicians, artists and community members. Goal is
to protect, preserve and promote San Francisco's late-night
culture. Works to encourage understanding and awareness of the
regulations and issues surrounding after-hours entertainment in San
Francisco, and to provide a voice for the rights and the passions
of this diverse community.
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Name: San Francisco League of Conservation Voters (SFLCV)
Address: 225-A Dolores Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 [12/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sflcv.org/
Keys: conservation; elections
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Name: San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG)
Address: 2088 Oakdale Avenue (off Industrial)
San Francisco, CA 94124
Voice: (415) 285-7584 (285-SLUG)
(415) 285-7585 (Rotline) [9/98]
Fax: (415) 285-7586
Notes: A grassroots organization that empowers communities and
individuals with education and employment. Gardening and greening
projects sow the seeds of social justice, community, economic
development, and ecological sustainability. Goal is to improve the
quality of life through community gardens, horticultural education,
landscape construction, open space maintenance, job training, youth
programs, and membership services.
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; development;
employment; gardening; sustainability; urban life; youth
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Name: San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Committee
Address: 1390 Market Street #1225
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 864-3733 (864-FREE) [1/99]
Fax: (415) 864-5889
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.SF-Pride.org/home.html
Keys: demonstrations; festivals; human rights; sexual minorities
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Name: San Francisco Liberation Radio (SFLR)
Address: 750 LaPlaya, Box 852
San Francisco, CA 94121
Voice: (415) 386-3135 [10/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.slip.net/~dove/
Notes: A micropower radio station broadcasting at 93.7 FM.
SFLR's signal can be heard mainly on the west side of San
Francisco, from the beach to Masonic, seven days a week from 4 pm
to 10 pm.
Keys: microbroadcasting
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Name: San Francisco Online Voter Guide
Web: http://www.webcom.com/cvf/ http://www.election.digital.com/
Notes: A web site sponsored by the California Voter Foundation
that features original material provided directly by the
candidates, such as biographies, endorsement lists, platform
papers, news articles and photographs. Plus information from the
SF Ballot Pamphlet, the League of Women Voters, and the Voice of
the Voter civic journalism project. Also includes an
unprecendented online database of campaign contributions and
expenditures that voters can search prior to casting their ballots
Keys: elections; finance
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Name: San Francisco Public Library
Voice: (415) 557-4374 [1/99]
Web: http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/
Keys: libraries
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Name: San Francisco Recycling Program
Web: http://www.sfrecycle.org
Notes: Offers a number of free services to San Francisco
residents, including low cost compost bins (they sell a $100
compost bin for $24.50), free publications, and information.
Keys: composting; products
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Name: San Francisco Tenants Union
Address: 558 Capp Street (near Mission and 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 282-6622 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sftu.org
Notes: Fighting since 1971 for the rights of tenants and for the
preservation of affordable housing in San Francisco. From the
struggle for rent control in the 1970s to 1998's Proposition G (to
end the abuses of OMI evictions), the Tenants Union has been the
city's leading advocate for tenants. The SFTU is 100% membership
supported and this enables their advocacy to be uncompromising and
immune to pressures from government or other funders. Publishes
the quarterly newspaper 'Tenant Times'. See also Homes Not Jails.
Keys: housing; newspapers; tenant rights
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Name: San Francisco Tree Council (SFTC)
Address: c/o Carolyn Blair
2310 Powell Street #305
San Francisco, CA 94133
Voice: (415) 982-8793 [1/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sftreecouncil.org
Notes: A nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation
and protection of existing mature trees in our parks, civic centers
and on our neighborhood streets. Also supports other Bay Area
cities trying to save their trees from being cut down for various
reasons.
Keys: neighborhoods; parks; trees
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Name: San Francisco Vegetarian Society (SFVS)
Address: POBox 2510
San Francisco, CA 94126-2510
Voice: (415) 273-5481 [8/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfvs.org
Notes: Promotes vegetarianism as a healthful and humane way of
life. Disseminates information on the economic, ecological,
philosophical, ethical, religious, and spiritual validity of
vegetarian ideals.
Keys: animal liberation; health; spirituality; veganism /
vegetarianism
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Name: San Jose Peace Center
Address: 48 South 7th Street
San Jose, CA 95112
Voice: (408) 297-2299 [2/00]
Email: sjpc@sjpeace.org
Web: http://www.sjpeace.org/sjpc
Notes: A 38 year old Peace Center, affiliated with the
Fellowship of Reconciliation. Currently working on the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty. Runs an annual Peace Essay Challenge for Bay Area high
school students. Produces a monthly newsletter, the Peace Times,
and is working on social justice programs including homelessness
and the Stop Hate campaign, as well as the Campaign to Save a
Generation (to end economic sanctions against Iraq).
Keys: economic sanctions; hate crimes; homelessness; Iraq;
newsletters; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons / testing; peace
centers; Santa Clara County
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Name: San Mateo Cooperative
Voice: (650) 574-7155 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wordrunner.com/sanda/smcc.htm
Notes: Forming a small urban intentional community 20 miles
south of San Francisco.
Keys: cohousing; intentional communities; San Mateo County
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Name: Santa Cruz Action Network
Address: POBox 8160
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Voice: (408) 458-9425 [1/99]
Fax: (408) 425-1257
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cruzio.com/~scan
Notes: A progressive political membership organization. SCAN's
mission is to sustain effective local leadership for democratic
political action. SCAN especially supports action that protects
the natural environment, meets human needs, and promotes
participatory government and politics
Keys: democracy; ecology; government; Santa Cruz County
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Name: Santa Cruz Coalition to Stop the Bombing of Yugoslavia
Voice: (831) 423-1448 [4/99]
Keys: Balkans; coalitions; Europe; militarism; Santa Cruz County
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Name: Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center (LGBTCC)
Address: POBox 8280
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Voice: (831) 425-5422 [2/99]
Fax: (831) 425-0743
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.scruz.net/~fez/sclgbtcc/
Notes: Offers a resource directory, lending library, news rack,
and social and support groups. Street address is 1328 Commerce
Lane, near Church Street
Keys: community-building; directories; libraries; Santa Cruz
County; sexual minorities; support groups
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Name: Save America's Forests
Web: http://www.saveamericasforests.org/
Notes: A nationwide campaign to end clearcutting and protect and
restore our nation's wild and natural forests. A coalition of
groups throughout America working together to protect each other's
local forests, and to protect our nation's forests and forests
throughout the world. A network of individual citizens from the
country, the cities and the suburbs who love forests and want to
save them.
Keys: coalitions; deforestation
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Name: Save Local Music Coalition
Web: http://www.savelocalmusic.org
Notes: Formed to raise awareness of and provide solutions for
the crisis in rehearsal and performance space in San Francisco.
The group will support public policy that will help create an
economic environment in which arts space and arts groups can
thrive. Believes that the arts community can't be secure in an
environment marked by skyrocketing rents and development until it
can secure a financial stake in its own space.
Keys: coalitions; community-building; gentrification; housing;
music; policy
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Name: Save Mount Diablo
Address: POBox 5376
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Voice: (925) 947-3535 [5/99]
Web: http://www.savemountdiablo.org
Notes: Dedicated to saving as much of the natural environment of
Mount Diablo as possible. Buys land when it can and adds it to
public parklands. Works with developers and local government to
include open space in every development project proposed on the
mountain's slopes. Provides a strong voice in Sacramento to make
sure that Mount Diablo State Park will always be open to the public.
Keys: conservation; Contra Costa County; development; land use;
lobbying; parks
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Name: Save Our Environment Action Center
Web: http://www.saveourenvironment.org/
Notes: A collaborative effort of the nation's most influential
environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of the
internet to increase public awareness and activism on today's most
important issues. The web site allows users to send email messages
and faxes to government officials on particular environmental
topics.
Keys: coalitions; ecology; letter-writing
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Name: Save Our Shores (SOS)
Address: 2222 East Cliff Drive #5A (near 7th Avenue)
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Voice: (831) 462-5660 [6/00]
Fax: (831) 462-6070
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.saveourshores.org
Notes: Mission is to preverve the environmental integrity of the
central California coast through education, policy and information
research, and citizen action. Pursues this mission by training
volunteers to do community outreach, networking with other
environmental groups, and by providing a hotline for people to
report sightings of suspected threats to the coastal environment.
Keys: coastal environment; conservation; policy
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Name: Save Our Station (SOS)
Web: http://www.wbai.net http://www.wbaifree.org/
Notes: A coalition of concerned listeners and producers of radio
station WBAI in New York City. SOS was formed in August 1996, in
response to the dictatorial measures taken by the holders of WBAI's
license --- The Pacifica Foundation --- that threatened the
direction of programming and working conditions of the station.
Keys: control techniques; radio
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Name: Save the Bay (Save San Francisco Bay Association)
Address: 1600 Broadway, Suite 300 (between 17th and 19th)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-9261 [8/99]
Fax: (510) 452-9266
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.savesfbay.org
Notes: Works to protect and restore the San Francisco Bay and
Sacramento / San Joaquin River Delta estuary as a healthy and
biologically diverse ecosystem essential to the well being of the
human and natural communities it sustains. Call to receive Bay
protection action alerts. Publishes quarterly newsletter Watershed.
Keys: bay / delta environment; diversity; educational
curriculum; litigation; newsletters; outdoor activity; water
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Name: Save the Redwoods --- Boycott the GAP
Address: Greenwood Watershed Association
POBox 90
Elk, CA 95432
Voice: (707) 877-3405 [10/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.elksoft.com/gwa/
Notes: The Greenwood Watershed Association (a community
environmental group) created this boycott to highlight the
involvement of the Fisher family of the Gap clothing store empire
(including Banana Republic and Old Navy stores) in the clearcutting
of old-growth redwood forests, and to convince the Fishers to place
all of their damaged forests into a conservation land trust.
Keys: boycotts; clothing; deforestation
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Name: Scavenger Online, The
Web: http://www.pinchingpennies.com/
Notes: On frugality, tightwadding, self-sufficiency, voluntary
simplicity, and more
Keys: self-reliance; simple living
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Name: School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch)
Web: http://www.soaw.org/
Notes: Seeks to close the US government's School of the Americas
('School of Assassins') in Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains
Latin American soldiers in combat, counter-insurgency, and
counter-narcotics. Graduates of the School of Assassins have been
responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin
America.
Keys: drugs; Latin America; legislation; militarism; petitions;
School of the Americas
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Name: Schools for Chiapas
Email: schoolsforchiapas@mexicopeace.org
Web: http://www.mexicopeace.org/
Notes: Cooperating with the Maya peoples' efforts to build
dignified schools while promoting social justice in Mexico.
Keys: Mayans; Mexico; public education; solidarity
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Name: Sea Shepherd International
Web: http://www.seashepherd.org/
Notes: A non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) involved
with the investigation and documentation of violations of
international laws, regulations and treaties protecting marine
wildlife species. The Society is also involved with the enforcement
of international laws, regulations and treaties when there is no
enforcement by national governments or international regulatory
organizations due to absence of jurisdiction or lack of political
will.
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; law; water
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Name: Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Address: POBox 400
Forest Knolls, CA 94933
Voice: (415) 488-0370 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 488-0372
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.earthisland.org/strp/strpindx.html
Keys: endangered species / habitat; water
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Name: Seattle Peace and Justice Events Calendar
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.scn.org/activism/calendar http://www.scn.org/activism/PJ-cal.txt
Notes: Compiled by Jean Buskin. The second web site here is a
plain text version (rather than HTML).
Keys: calendars; networking
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Name: seattlewto.net
Web: http://www.seattlewto.com/
Notes: Covers the planned activist responses to the Third
Ministerial Summit meeting of the World Trade Organization (the
highest legislative and judicial body in the world) in Seattle from
November 29 through December 3, 1999. Find out how to join the
large and diverse 'Mobilization Against Corporate Globalization' in
Seattle!
Keys: control techniques; corporate globalization; direct
action; World Trade Organization
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Name: Seeds of Change
Web: http://www.seedsofchange.com
Notes: A network of small organic farmers growing all of their
own seeds, bulbs, and plants ... unlike other seed companies who
purchase their seeds and bulbs on the vast international commodity
markets. The first and only national company to exclusively offer
100% Certified Organic Seeds. Sells only open-pollinated
varieties, and no genetically engineered varieties. Also produces
organic food products.
Keys: commodification; food; gardening; noncorporate economy;
organic agriculture; products; seeds; sustainability
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Name: Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine
Web: http://www.cmhc.com/selfhelp/
Notes: A starting point for exploring real-life support groups
and networks that are available throughout the world and in your
community. Sponsored by Mental Health Net.
Keys: directories; mental health; self-help; support groups
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Name: Sempervirens Fund
Address: Drawer BE
Los Altos, CA 94023
Voice: (650) 968-4509 [5/00]
Web: http://www.sempervirens.org
Notes: Purchases and preserves redwood forests in the Santa Cruz
Mountains. Restores areas suffering from extensive logging and
overuse, removing non-native exotic plants that damage native plant
life.
Keys: conservation; deforestation; Santa Clara County
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Name: Senior Action Network (SAN)
Address: 1370 Mission Street, Third Floor (at Tenth Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 863-2033 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 703-0186
Notes: A senior advocacy group that focuses on transportation,
crime prevention, and health care.
Keys: crime; healthcare access; networking; seniors;
transportation
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Name: Sentient Experientials
Address: c/o Dahlia Miller, Liaison
POBox 1004
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Voice: (510) 235-4313 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 215-9840
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.experientials.org
Notes: 'Nature as Teacher, Indigenous Wisdom and Rainforest
Conservation Strategies' is an opportunity for the conscious
traveler to experience the beauty of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Rainforest and meet some of her people. This journey / seminar is
designed for those who are genuinely concerned about the well-being
of all species, care for human communities, healing, and personal
growth.
Keys: Ecuador; indigenous people; rainforests; travel
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Name: Sentinel Fair Housing
Address: 510 16th Street, Suite 560
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 836-2687 [10/00]
Fax: (510) 836-0461
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Provides unbiased advice and mediation services to
tenants and landlords on their rights and responsibilities.
Available by telephone Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 12 pm
and from 1 to 4 pm.
Keys: housing; mediation; services; tenant rights
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Name: Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists
Address: 3311 Mission Street #176
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 597-3545 [12/98]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Funds Bay Area women artists of color, disabled women and
women from poverty and working class backgrounds. Has two grant
cycles each year and allocates approximately $30,000 a year
Keys: art; disabilities; grants / financial aid; poverty; women
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Name: Service Employees International Union Local 1877 (SEIU Local 1877)
Address: 3166 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland, CA 94602
Voice: (510) 261-6600 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 261-1972
Keys: janitorial work; labor union locals
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Name: Service Employees International Union Local 1877 (SEIU Local 1877)
Address: 1010 Ruff Drive
San Jose, CA 95110
Voice: (408) 280-7770 [6/00]
Fax: (408) 280-7804
Notes: Represents 5000 janitors in four counties: Alameda,
Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. The janitors clean
three-fourths of the office buildings and high tech work sites in
those counties.
Keys: janitorial work; labor union locals; Santa Clara County
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Name: Service Employees International Union Local 250 (SEIU Local 250)
Address: 560 20th Street (between Telegraph and San Pablo)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 763-2680
(800) 585-4250 [1/99]
Fax: (510) 763-2680 (same as voice)
Web: http://www.seiu250.org
Notes: The largest union local in California and the second
largest healthcare workers union in the United States, with 40,000
members throughout Northern California. This is the headquarters.
Keys: health; labor union locals
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Name: Service Employees International Union Local 250, San Francisco Office (SEUI Local 250)
Address: 973 Market Street, Seventh Floor (between Fifth and Sixth Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 441-2500 [1/99]
Fax: (415) 563-9914
Web: http://www.seiu250.org
Keys: health; labor union locals
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Name: Service Employees International Union Local 250, San Jose Office (SEIU Local 250)
Address: 2995 Moorpark
San Jose, CA 95128
Voice: (408) 557-3030
(800) 224-0250 [1/99]
Fax: (408) 298-6513
Web: http://www.seiu250.org
Keys: health; labor union locals; Santa Clara County
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Name: Seva Foundation
Address: 1786 Fifth Street (between Hearst and Virginia; enter in alley between 4th & 5th)
Berkeley, CA 94710
Voice: (510) 845-7382 (845-SEVA) [11/99]
Fax: (510) 845-7410
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.seva.org/
Notes: An international organization working to alleviate
suffering and generate hope through compassionate action. Serves
through partnerships and projects that promote health, nutrition,
education, economic sustainability, environmental protection,
cultural survival, human dignity, and social and economic justice.
Work includes primary health care with Native Americans, blindness
prevention and treatment in Nepal and India, and community
development with indigenous Guatemalans.
Keys: cultural survival; economic justice; Guatemala; health;
India; indigenous people; prevention; sustainability
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Name: SF Bay Revolution
Address: 1213 York Street
San Francisco, CA 94110 [2/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://sfbayrevolution.org
Notes: Publishes visionary ideas that aim to improve human
society locally and internationally. Offers educational events,
participatory discussions, and an online library of revolutionary
biographies and essays.
Keys: calendars; education; global community; libraries
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Name: Shanti Project
Address: 730 Polk Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 674-4700 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 674-0373
Notes: Provides culturally-sensitive services for people
affected by HIV disease, including peer support, recreational
activities, help with chores, transportation, help with childcare,
free movie tickets, and help for caregivers
Keys: AIDS / HIV; services; support groups; transportation
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Name: Shared Living Resource Center, Inc.
Address: 2337 Parker Street #9
Berkeley, CA 94704-2841
Voice: (510) 548-6608 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sharedliving.org
Notes: Studies, promotes, and educates about Shared Living
Communities that are affordable, socially supportive, and
ecologically sustainable. Provides workshops, slide presentations,
profile / consultation sessions, and concept design services.
Published 'Rebuilding Community in America: Housing for Ecological
Design, Personal Empowerment, and the New Extended Family,' by Ken
Norwood AICP & Kathleen Smith (452 pages, 100% recycled), available
for $24.50 plus $3.00 for mailing.
Keys: books; cohousing; community-building; consultants;
sustainability
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Name: Shelter Network
Address: 1660 South Amphlett Blvd, Suite 200
San Mateo, CA 94402
Voice: (650) 235-3520 [2/00]
Fax: (650) 235-3530
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.shelternetwork.org/
Notes: A nonprofit organization that provides housing and
services for homeless families and individuals. The primary
provider of housing and services for homeless children and adults
in San Mateo County. Provides three types of programs: emergency
shelter, transitional housing, and longer-term transitional housing.
Keys: homelessness; housing; San Mateo County; services
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Name: Shundahai Network
Web: http://www.shundahai.org
Notes: A collective of dedicated activists who work with a broad
network of people and organizations to respond to pressing
environmental, nuclear, and Native issues and to ensure that Native
voices are heard and heeded in the movement to shape US nuclear and
environmental policies.
Keys: land use; national government; Native Americans; nuclear
weapons / testing
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Name: Sierra Club
Address: 85 Second Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105-3441
Voice: (415) 977-5500 [7/99]
Fax: (415) 977-5799
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sierraclub.org/
Notes: Supports conservation of the natural environment by
influencing public policy decisions --- legislative,
administrative, legal, and electoral.
Keys: environment; lobbying
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Name: Sierra Club Bookstore
Address: 6014 College Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
Voice: (510) 658-7470 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 658-9671
Email: info@sierraclubbookstore.com
Web: http://www.sierraclubbookstore.com
Notes: A store run by the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter
Keys: books; ecology
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Name: Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter
Address: 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite 1 (near Dwight)
Berkeley, CA 94702-2000
Voice: (510) 848-0800 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 848-3383
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sierraclub.org/chapters/sanfranciscobay
Keys: ecology; outdoor activity
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Name: Sierra Magazine
Address: 85 Second Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105-3441
Voice: (415) 977-5691 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 977-5794
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sierraclub.org
Notes: A bimonthy, general-interest environmental magazine
published by the Sierra Club. Provides phone numbers, addresses,
e-mail addresses to help readers contact officials, businesses,
etc. to express their views on environmental problems discussed in
the each issue. The January / February issue includes an outings
catalog.
Keys: ecology; magazines; outdoor activity
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Name: Silicon Valley for Democracy in China
Address: POBox 2658
Cupertino, CA 95015-2658
Voice: (408) 446-2011 [3/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.svdc.org
Notes: A grassroots organization dedicated to the promotion of
democracy and human rights in China with peaceful means through
public awareness, community actions, and organizational alliances
Keys: China; democracy; human rights; Santa Clara County
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Name: Silicon Valley Public Access Link (SV-PAL)
Address: 1777 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 208-A
San Jose, CA 95125
Voice: (408) 448-3071 [1/99]
Web: http://www.svpal.org/
Notes: A nonprofit computer network which makes on-line
information accessible to people living in the Silicon Valley,
regardless of financial status and educational level. An
all-volunteer organization that focuses on servicing people who
cannot afford commercial computer networks, do not have modern
personal computers, or need additional help in getting started
Keys: Internet; low-income; Santa Clara County; technical
assistance
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Name: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC)
Address: 760 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95112
Voice: (408) 287-6707 [12/98]
Fax: (408) 287-6771
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.svtc.org/
Notes: A diverse grassroots organization consisting of
environmental and neighborhood groups, labor unions, public health
leaders, people affected by toxic exposure and others. Core values
include a commitment to the practice of social justice and
multiracial democracy. Embraces a vision of a future which is
based on a sustainable nonpolluting economy where a healthy
environment is a right rather than a privilege.
Keys: coalitions; prevention; public health; Santa Clara
County; sustainability; toxics
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Name: Silkworm Peace Institute
Address: 3371 Moraga Blvd #100
Lafeyette, CA 94549-4641
Voice: (925) 284-2201 [4/00]
Fax: (925) 284-7588
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.silkworm.org
Notes: Committed to promoting peace, healing and cultural
understanding both in the US and abroad by showcasing the
experiences and journeys of individuals and groups who are on the
path of transforming revenge and anger into peace and forgiveness.
Keys: individuals; peace
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Name: Simple Living Network, The
Web: http://www.slnet.com/
Notes: A small, grass-roots, on-line service that provides
information about publications and tools for those wanting to learn
how to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative
lifestyle.
Keys: books; products; simple living
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Name: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc.
Address: PMB 392
584 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 552-0220 [5/99]
Web: http://www.thesisters.org
Notes: Since 1979 the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have used
a keen sense of camp to fight AIDS and social injustice issues,
often with unique fundraisers.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; coalitions; direct action; diversity
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Name: Slingshot
Address: c/o The Long Haul
3124 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 540-0751 [3/99]
Fax: (510) 649-7751
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.tao.ca/~slingshot
Notes: An independent radical newspaper published in the East
Bay since 1988. Send $1 per issue for a subscription ($2 for first
class) or more to help them publish more often
Keys: anarchism; newspapers
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Name: Social Justice Center of Marin
Address: 1000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Suite 18
San Anselmo, CA 94960
Voice: (415) 454-5027 [4/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://members.aol.com/mshcc/sjc/index.htm
Notes: Mission is (1) to engage in and to provide information
about issues which affect public policy in social, economic and
environmental arenas, (2) to seek out and work toward solutions to
problems that hinder the attainment of a sustainable, just society,
(3) to support public individuals and to participate in coalitions
that promote authentic democracy, human, rights, equality and a
liviable environment for all persons, and (4) to empower citizens
through education and training in activism, to be more effective,
individually and collectively in promoting progressive causes.
Keys: classes / courses; democracy; ecology; Marin County;
policy; sustainability
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Name: Socialist Action, 9928
Address: 3425 Cesar Chavez Street (between Mission & Valencia)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 821-0458 [12/98]
Fax: (415) 821-0166
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.socialistaction.org/
Notes: Stands for workers' democracy and socialism, for human
needs, not profits --- for the full liberation of the workers and
oppressed peoples everywhere. A multiracial political party of
workers, students, youth, feminists, and human rights activists
committed to the interests of the working class.
Keys: human rights; labor; newspapers; political parties;
socialism; youth
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Name: Socialist Review
Address: 1095 Market Street, Room 618
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 255-2296 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 255-2296 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.SocialistReview.org
Notes: A quarterly journal published on behalf of the Center for
Social Research and Education, an anti-profit 501©(3)
organization. A forum in which radical politics, cultural dissent,
political economy, and socialist critique are developed, debated,
and creatively contested. Drawing on a varied and inclusive body
of radical perspectives, SR works to promote and critically engage
the activist left in its diverse manifestations. Donations are
greatly needed, greatly appreciated, and tax deductible.
Subscribing is a political act (individuals: $35/yr; US$50 int?l).
Keys: diversity; economics; magazines; socialism
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Name: Solar Powered Urban Radio Transmissions (SPURT Radio)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.geocities.com/spurt_radio/
Notes: A micropower radio station operating at 6 watts at 102.5
FM every Thursday from 7 to 10 pm in Berkeley. Runs their entire
setup off solar power in the form of a car battery that gets
charged by a solar panel. News, storytelling, live music, CDs of
local bands, and shamelessly goofing around.
Keys: microbroadcasting; music; news; urban life
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Name: SoldOutUSA.com
Web: http://www.soldoutusa.com/
Notes: Reports on the increasing control of the government by a
wealthy corporate elite.
Keys: control; corporations; elitism; government
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Name: Solidarity, Bay Area
Voice: (510) 436-3722 [4/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.labornet.org/solidarity
Notes: An independent socialist organization dedicated to
forming a broad regrouping of the US left
Keys: feminism; internationalism; racism; socialism;
solidarity; unity
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Name: Solstice
Web: http://solstice.crest.org/index.shtml
Notes: The Internet information service of the Renewable Energy
Policy Project and the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable
Technology (REPP-CREST), and is your site for sustainable energy
and development information.
Keys: development; energy; policy; sustainability; technology
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Name: SoMa Partnership
Address: 165 Eighth Street, Suite 309
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 552-9201 [2/00]
Fax: (415) 552-9202
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.somapartnership.org/
Notes: Provides employment readiness training and job placement
to recovering homeless men and women through community improvement
projects in San Francisco, with the ultimate goal of obtaining
full-time employment and permanent housing for its participants.
Keys: classes / courses; employment; homelessness
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Name: Some Comments on Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Web: http://www.achilles.net/~guy/laura/main.htm http://www.achilles.net/~guy/laura/vanity.htm
Keys: abortion rights; controllers; media criticism; radio;
religious right; sex
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Name: Sonoma County Center for Peace and Justice
Address: 540 Pacific Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Voice: (707) 575-8902 [6/00]
Fax: (707) 575-8903
Web: http://www.sonic.net/~peacentr
Notes: Publishes the Sonoma County Peace Press, included with
annual membership. Operates a public resource center for
information, books, and videos, and presents public forums and
speakers on social justice and nonviolence issues.
Keys: books; film / video; newsletters; nonviolence; peace
centers; Sonoma County
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Name: Sonoma County Free Press
Address: POBox 296
Occidental, CA 95465
Voice: (707) 874-2248 [7/00]
Fax: By arrangement only
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.org/
Notes: An all-volunteer grassroots collective committed to
dialogue as a necessary force for progressive social change. Works
to eliminate racism, sexism, and classism, with focus on resisting
Prop 187 and supporting affirmative action. Publishes a bi-monthly
newspaper. Has a Corporate Watch. Contact is Mary K. Moore.
Keys: class; corporations; racism; sexism; Sonoma County
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Name: Sonoma Ecology Center
Address: 205 First Street West
Sonoma, CA 95476
Voice: (707) 996-9744 [8/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.vom.com/sec/
Notes: A nonprofit organization working toward a condition of
sustainable ecological health in the Sonoma Valley through
research, education and community involvement.
Keys: ecology; research; Sonoma County; sustainability
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Name: Sophia Center at Holy Names College
Address: Holy Names College
3500 Mountain Blvd
Oakland, CA 94619
Voice: (510) 436-1046
(800) 794-8813 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 436-1338
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.hnc.edu/~sophia/welcome.html
Notes: Sophia Center in Culture and Spirituality at Holy Names
College is a place to live in new ways and align your aspirations
with the great work of our time through the convergence of science,
art, religion, and justice. A fully accredited MA is offered in
weekend and semester formats.
Keys: classes / courses; creativity; ecology; education;
justice; religion; science; spirituality
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Name: South and Meso-American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC)
Address: Preservation Park, Higgins House
678 13th Street, Suite 200
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 834-6728 [9/99]
Fax: (510) 834-6728
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://saiic.nativeweb.org/
Notes: Exists to ensure that the struggles of Latin America's
Indigenous peoples for self-determination and respect are heard in
the US and internationally, and to support Indigenous peoples'
organizing.
Keys: indigenous people; research materials; South America
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Name: South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council
Address: Labor Temple
2102 Almaden Road, Suite 107
San Jose, CA 95125
Voice: (408) 266-3790 [3/99]
Fax: (408) 266-2653
Notes: Serving Santa Clara and San Benito Counties
Keys: labor councils; Santa Clara County
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Name: South Bay Bisexual Organizers and Activists (SoBOA)
Address: c/o Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center
938 The Alameda
San Jose, CA 95126
Voice: (408) 793-5131 (voicemail) [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.southbaybi.org/
Notes: A social group in the south San Francisco Bay area for bi
and bi-friendly people. We hold regular movie nights, coffee
socials, and other events where people can socialize and have fun.
Keys: bisexuals
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Name: South End Press
Web: http://www.zmag.org/sep/sep.htm
Notes: A collectively run 20-year-old publishing group of more
than 200 titles that nurture and inspire radical social change
Keys: books; collectives; mail-order; products
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Name: Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice (SAEJ)
Address: 744 Innes Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94124-2901
Voice: (415) 824-4102 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 824-1061
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.saej.org
Notes: Committed to protecting the health and lives of both
current residents and future generations living in and around the
Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) community in San Francisco,
California. This neighborhood is home to more than 300 toxic waste
and several 'Superfund' sites. The population in BVHP is composed
primarily of minority groups, as is often the case with toxic site
locations. This is an example of blatant Environmental Racism,
which has given rise to the Principles of Environmental Justice,
composed to help combat this environmental and humanistic abuse and
exploitation.
Keys: African Americans; environmental justice; pollution;
sustainability; toxics
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Name: Southern Poverty Law Center
Web: http://www.splcenter.org
Notes: Combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through
education and litigation. Programs include Teaching Tolerance,
Klanwatch, and the Militia Task Force.
Keys: hate crimes; litigation; militias; racism; right-wingers;
violence
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Name: Speak Out Speakers and Artists Agency
Address: POBox 99096
Emeryville, CA 94662-9096
Voice: (510) 601-0182 [2/00]
Fax: (510) 601-0183
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.speakersandartists.org
Notes: The country's only national not-for-profit artists and
speakers agency. Their roster includes some 200 women and men who
represent the breadth of movements for social justice as well as
important exhibits and films which address contemporary issues.
For a full listing, send your full mailing address.
Keys: art; film / video; speakers
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Name: Speak to Children
Address: 349 Cherry Street #2
San Francisco, CA 94118
Voice: (415) 752-7110 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.speaktochildren.org
Notes: Mission is to provide education and support to parents,
teachers and children by reinforcing basic values that foster
self-awareness and character development in the child.
Accomplishes this by talking with children about basic concepts
such as what it means to have a conscience, how it feels to
appreciate others, respecting personal choices and differences, the
joy of sharing, and developing self-esteem. Speaker Melanie Jones
offers the program as part of a classroom setting to grades 1
through 6 and in other learning environments such as day care
centers.
Keys: children; educational curriculum; psychology; speakers;
students
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Name: SPIN Project
Address: 77 Federal Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107
Voice: (415) 284-1427 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 284-1414
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.spinproject.org/spin
Notes: Provides media assistance to non-profit public interest
organizations around the nation who want to influence debate, shape
public opinion, and garner positive media attention. Offers public
relations consulting, comprehensive media training, and media
strategizing and planning. A project of the Independent Media
Institute.
Keys: classes / courses; consultants; media; public relations
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Name: Spunk Press
Web: http://www.spunk.org/
Notes: An online archive of anarchist and alternative materials
Keys: anarchism; archiving; research materials; writing
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Name: STAND! Against Domestic Violence
Address: POBox 6406
Concord, CA 94524
Voice: (510) 676-2845
(888) 215-5555 (24-hour crisis line) [12/00]
Fax: (510) 676-0532
Email: swoodhouse@home.com
Web: http://members.home.net/dwoodhouse/bwa/index.html
Notes: Serves abused women and their families. Mission is to
eliminate domestic violence and help families flourish. Serving
Contra Costa County in California, USA, STAND! is the largest
domestic violence agency in the San Francisco Bay Area and the sole
agency serving the 800,000 residents of the county. Founded in
1977 as one of the first non-profit agencies of its kind in the
country, STAND! is a leader, providing technical assistance and
resources to many other programs across the United States.
Keys: Contra Costa County; domestic violence; hotlines; support
groups; technical assistance; women
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Name: Stay Free!
Web: http://sunsite.unc.edu/stayfree/
Notes: A print magazine focused on issues surrounding
commercialism and American culture. Published about once every ten
months. Subscriptions are $10 for three issues (or $19 if you work
in the ad industry.). Bulk copies are free to schools and
worthwhile nonprofit groups (you pay postage).
Keys: advertising; consumer lifestyle; magazines
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Name: Stop AIDS Project
Address: 2128 15th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114-1213
Voice: (415) 575-0150 [1/99]
Fax: (415) 575-0166
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.stopaids.org
Notes: A nationally recognized peer support AIDS prevention
organization
Keys: AIDS / HIV; prevention; support groups
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Name: StopDrLaura.com
Web: http://stopdrlaura.com/home.htm
Notes: A critique of radio (and television?) personality 'Dr.
Laura' Schlessinger, especially her diatribe targeting sexual
minorities.
Keys: radio; right-wingers; sexual minorities; television
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Name: Straight People Against Sexual Apartheid in Marriage (SPASM)
Voice: (510) 548-4040 x321 (Jonathon Marley) [6/99]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: With the passage of the so-called 'Defense of Marriage
Act' and the upcoming 2000 California ballot initiative put forward
by heterosexist and homophobic right-wingers bent on outlawing
non-straight marriages in California, it is time for straight
people to take a stand in support of our lesbian, gay, and bisexual
sisters and brothers.
Keys: family; initiatives; law; sexual minorities
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Name: Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC)
Web: http://www.corpreform.org/
Notes: A network of people from various causes motivated and
linked by a common concern: the lack of democratic acountability
by corporations. Corporate influence within our government, our
media, and our universities has shifted power away from the people.
Keys: coalitions; corporations; media criticism; students
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Name: Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC ('seek'))
Web: http://www.seac.org/
Notes: Dedicated to building the capacity of youth to organize
for environmental justice. A student run and student led national
network of progressive organizations and individuals whose aim is
to uproot environmental injustices through action and education.
SEAC defines the environment to include the physical, economical,
political and cultural conditions in which we live. By challenging
the power structure which threatens these environmental conditions,
SEAC works to create progressive social change on both the local
and global levels. Has a speakers' bureau. Publishes Threshold
magazine. Has an office in Philadelphia.
Keys: coalitions; environmental justice; magazines; speakers;
students; youth
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Name: Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP)
Web: http://www.transact.org/
Notes: STPP's online resources feature articles, case studies,
reports and papers on the transportation system and communities in
the United States, and cover the new federal transportation law,
the transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21).
Keys: law; policy; transportation; urban life
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Name: Surfrider Foundation
Web: http://www.surfrider.org/
Notes: A grassroots based, non-profit environmental organization
that works to protect the coast. Founded in 1984, Surfrider now
has well over 40 Surfrider chapters located along the East, West,
Gulf, Puerto Rican, and Hawaiian coasts, plus chapter in Japan,
Brazil, France and Australia.
Keys: Australia; Brazil; coastal environment; Hawai'i; Japan;
Puerto Rico
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Name: Survivors International
Address: 447 Sutter Street, Suite 811
San Francisco, CA 94108
Voice: (415) 765-6999 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 765-6995
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.survivorsintl.org
Notes: Dedicated to the treatment and support of survivors of
torture. A network of professionals from the fields of medicine,
psychology, social work, public health, human rights, and the law,
providing psychological and medical treatment, and other
assistance. Provides psychotherapy, medical consultations, support
groups, ESL classes, social services assistance and psychological
and medical evaluations for political asylum applicants.
Keys: professionals; psychology; public health; services;
support groups; torture
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Name: Sustainable America
Web: http://www.sanetwork.org/
Notes: A national membership organization that brings together
not-for-profit groups, sustainable businesses, public-sector
entities, and individuals that are advancing sustainable
development policies and practices.
Keys: business; development; sustainability
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Name: Sustainable San Francisco
Web: http://www.sustainable-city.org/
Notes: A community-based organization dedicated to shaping a
sustainable future for San Francisco. A project of the Tides
Center.
Keys: community-building; sustainability
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Name: Sustainable San Mateo County (SSMC)
Address: 177 Bovet Road, #600
San Mateo, CA 94402
Voice: (650) 638-2323 [10/98]
Email: Sustainable@Advocate.net
Web: http://Sustainable.Advocate.net
Notes: Dedicated to the long-term social, economic, and
environmental health and vitality of San Mateo county. Purpose is
to promote those changes in attitude and action necessary to
achieve a sustainable quality of life
Keys: community-building; ecology; economics; San Mateo County;
sustainability
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Name: SustainableBusiness.com
Web: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/
Notes: Includes a monthly magazine of news and articles from
trade publications, resources for linking businesses and investors,
an internship listing service, and a library of resources for
sustainable businesses.
Keys: business; employment; investment; libraries; magazines;
news on-line; research materials; sustainability
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Name: Sweatshop Watch
Address: 310 Eighth Street, Suite 309
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 834-8990 [1/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sweatshopwatch.org
Notes: A statewide network of organizations, attorneys,
community leaders, organizers, and advocates committed to
eliminating sweatshop conditions in the garment industry.
Publishes a quarterly newsletter and distributes a Workers Rights
Calendar in English, Chinese, and Spanish, which explains to
workers their rights under state and federal labor laws. A
Retailer Accountability Campaign monitors which retailers carry
clothes made in sweatshops. Send $20 to subscribe to the Sweatshop
Watch newsletter
Keys: civil rights; coalitions; immigrants; sweatshops; women
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Name: Swords to Plowshares
Address: 1063 Market Street (between 6th and 7th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 252-4788 [11/99]
Fax: (415) 252-4790
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.swords-to-plowshares.org/
Notes: A community-based, non-profit organization dedicated to
restoring dignity, hope, and self-sufficiency to veterans in need.
Swords to Plowshares provides critical services to over 2000
veterans each year and educates the public about national and local
policies relating to veterans. Swords to Plowshares offers
comprehensive, veteran-specific services, including mental health
counseling, transitional housing, legal assistance, and job
training and placement.
Keys: counseling; drugs; employment; housing; legal services;
mental health; services; veterans
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Name: Teamster Joint Council 7
Web: http://www.thesteward.hypenet.com/council7/
Notes: An unofficial web site for San Francisco and vicinity
Keys: labor councils; transportation
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Name: Teamster Local 70
Web: http://www.thesteward.hypenet.com/local70/
Notes: An unofficial web site for this Oakland local
Keys: labor union locals; transportation
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Name: Teamster Local 78
Web: http://www.thesteward.hypenet.com/local78/
Notes: An unofficial web site for this Hayward local
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); labor union locals;
transportation
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Name: Teamster Local 856
Web: http://pw1.netcom.com/~unionyes/teamsters856.html
Notes: The web site for this San Francisco local
Keys: labor union locals; transportation
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Name: Teamster Local 921
Web: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3921/
Notes: An unofficial web site for this San Francisco local
Keys: labor union locals; transportation
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Name: Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center (TARC)
Address: 187 Golden Gate Avenue (near Leavenworth)
San Francisco, CA 94102-3809
Voice: (415) 431-7476 [8/00]
Fax: (415) 431-3959
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.tarcsf.org
Notes: Offering the frequently forgotten and often homeless
people in San Francisco respect, compassion and resources for a
better life since 1990. TARC works with individuals in one of San
Francisco?s most economically disadvantaged and drug-ravaged
neighborhoods. More than 600 people with HIV depend on TARC?s HIV
Services Program for case management, up-to-date HIV treatment
information, peer support with daily life tasks and access to
on-site primary medical care and nursing services.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; counseling; drugs; education; prevention;
services
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Name: Tenderloin Community Health Fair (TNDC)
Address: 201 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102-2715
Voice: (415) 776-6207 [3/99]
Notes: An anual fair with health screenings, informational
booths, games, healthy snacks, and prizes, organized by the
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and others.
Keys: children; community-building; festivals; health
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Name: Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC)
Address: 201 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102-2715
Voice: (415) 776-2151 [3/99]
Fax: (415) 776-3952
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.tndc.org
Notes: A low-income housing organization
Keys: community-building; development; housing; low-income
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Name: Terra Firma Farm, LLC
Address: POBox 836
Winters, CA 95694
Voice: (530) 756-2800 (voicemail) [9/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.terrafirmafarm.com/index.html
Notes: A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm that
delivers weekly to neighborhoods in San Francisco, the East Bay,
and beyond. Offering fresh organic fruits and vegetables right off
the farm, many of them delicious varieties not found in stores.
Keys: Community Supported Agriculture; food; neighborhoods;
noncorporate economy; organic agriculture; sustainability
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Name: The Oaks Project
Address: 711 Van Ness Avenue #350
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 673-6577 [8/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org
Notes: A California based civic training institute inspired by
Ralph Nader and Harvey Rosenfield. Teaches average citizens the
skills they need to be effective in fighting for government reform.
Keys: classes / courses; do-it-yourself; government
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Name: The Utility Reform Network (TURN)
Address: 711 Van Ness, Suite 350
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 929-8876 [1/00]
Notes: Crusades against unfair market practices by the utility
companies by representing residential and small business consumers
in nearly all major rate and policy proceedings at the California
Public Utilities Commission. Also represents consumers before the
Legislature, alerts the media to expose utility scams, educates and
counsels the public on their rights, and mobilizes community groups
into action.
Keys: business; consumer protection; energy; lobbying; privacy;
telephone service; utilities
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Name: Theater Artaud
Address: 499 Alabama Street, #450 (near 17th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 437-2700 (business office)
(415) 621-7797 (tickets) [12/98]
Fax: (415) 437-2722
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.theaterartaud.org
Notes: Dedicated to innovative performance in a variety of
disciplines that reflect the diversity of our cultural experience.
Provides professional, technical, and administrative services to
performing arts companies, and presents, produces, and collaborates
on productions. The theater is at 450 Florida (between 17th and
Mariposa) in SF
Keys: diversity; multiculturalism; technical assistance; theatre
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Name: Third Wave
Voice: (415) 392-6440 [8/98]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: The third generation of feminist activists committed to
social change.
Keys: feminism; youth
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Name: Third World Network (TWN)
Web: http://www.twnside.org.sg/
Notes: An independent nonprofit 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 representingly broadly Southern interests and
perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and
processes.
Keys: books; development; distribution of wealth; corporate
globalization; magazines; research; United Nations
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Name: This Modern World
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.thismodernworld.com
Notes: The popular and bitingly clever political cartoon by Tom
Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins).
Keys: art; humor; media criticism
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Name: Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Web: http://www.thoreau.org
Notes: A complex housing 20 nonprofit organizations in San
Francisco's Presidio National Park (which until recently was an
army base). Home of the Tides Foundation.
Keys: economic conversion; parks; sustainability
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Name: Through the Bagelhole
Web: http://bagelhole.hypermart.net/
Notes: Contains a collection of miscellaneous information useful
in making communities more self-sustainable. An experiment in
global collaboration thru the internet to lay the groundwork for a
non-polluting, non-toxic, mutually co-operative network of
self-sustainable, non-sovereign / inclusive communities throughout
the world.
Keys: decentralization; global community; Internet;
self-reliance; sustainability
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Name: Tibetan Nuns Project
Address: 2288 Fulton Street
Berkeley, CA 94704-1449
Voice: (510) 647-3423 [4/00]
Notes: Seeks to improve the quality of life and education of
Buddhist nuns and to increase awareness about the concerns of the
nuns and of Tibetan refugees in general.
Keys: education; refugees; religion; Tibet
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Name: Tikkun Magazine
Web: http://www.tikkun.org/
Notes: A bimonthly Jewish critique of politics, culture, and
society
Keys: Jewish Americans; magazines
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Name: TimorNet
Web: http://www.uc.pt/Timor/TimorNet.html
Notes: An information service on East Timor at the University of
Coimbra in Portugal.
Keys: East Timor
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Name: Tobacco Free Coalition
Address: c/o The Tobacco Free Project
1540 Market Street #250
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 554-9151 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 241-0484
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Name: Tobin Tax Initiative
Web: http://www.ceedweb.org/iirp/
Notes: A proposal to tax currency transactions on foreign
exchange markets, through multilateral cooperation, and to utilize
the revenue for basic environmental and human needs. Such a tax
will tame currency market volatility and restore national economic
sovereignty. (The name Tobin Tax derives from James Tobin, a
Nobel-laureate economist at Yale University.)
Keys: finance; initiatives; taxes
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Name: TODOS Institute
Address: 1203 Preservation Park #200
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-6448 [10/00]
Notes: Focuses on building relationships or alliances across
lines of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, age and the like.
Its mission is to build personal and organizational capacities in
groups of people creating more inclusive institutions, and by
extension, a just and equitable society.
Keys: community-building; divestiture; relationships
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Name: TomPaine.com
Web: http://www.tompaine.com/
Notes: A journal of opinion that seeks to enrich the national
debate on controversial public issues by featuring the ideas,
opinions, and analyses too often overlooked by the mainstream
media. Covers money and politics, the environment, media
criticism, and history. The new home of Economics Reporting Review
by Dean Baker (formerly found at the website of Fairness & Accuracy
In Reporting).
Keys: analysis; ecology; elections; history; media criticism;
news on-line
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Name: Tools for Change
Address: 349 Church Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Voice: (415) 861-6347
(800) 99-TOOLS [1/01]
Fax: (415) 861-6347 (same as voice)
Email: info@toolsforchange.org
Web: http://www.toolsforchange.org
Notes: Provides trainings on issues of diversity (especially
race, class, and gender), conflict resolution, and organizational
development, and also provides facilitation and mediation services.
Also investigates the relationship between politics and
spirituality and works with organizations on vision for movement
building.
Keys: class; classes / courses; conflict resolution; diversity;
facilitation; mediation; racism; sexism; spirituality
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Name: Town Hall Coalition
Address: POBox 1005
Occidental, CA 95465
Voice: (707) 874-9110 [1/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://freestone.com/ruralresponse/
Notes: Mission is to build a social movement that promotes
ecologically and economically health communities through
responsible land use: conserving, protecting and restoring our
watersheds, forests and natural habitats and supporting sustainable
and diverse agriculture. Located at 3610 Bohemian Highway (in
front of The Lookinglass Salon, next to The Bohemian Cafe).
Keys: agriculture; coalitions; conservation; deforestation;
endangered species / habitat; land use; sustainability
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Name: Trademark Wars On The Web
Web: http://www.web.net/~misha/trademark.html
Notes: An extensive list of sites that have gotten slammed in
one way or another for trademark concerns. Purpose is to document
what may be an increasing trend toward the use and abuse of
intellectual property law as a form of online censorship.
Keys: censorship; control techniques; copyright; intellectual
property
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Name: TransFair USA
Address: 52 Ninth Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 663-5260 [10/99]
Fax: (510) 663-5264
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.transfairusa.org
Notes: The only organization providing independent, neutral,
third party certification of Fair Trade practices in the United
States. TransFair also educates consumers about international
trade and economic development. By building consumer support for
Fair Trade products, TransFair seeks to reduce Third World poverty
and promote sustainable economic development around the world.
Coffee is currently TransFair's main product focus. TransFair
certified tea, honey, chocolate, sugar, bananas and orange juice
will also soon be available in the US market.
Keys: development; fair trade; poverty; products; sustainability
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Name: Transformation Program, The
Address: 140 Marina Vista Avenue
Larkspur, CA 94939
Voice: (415) 924-5200 [12/00]
Fax: (415) 924-5256
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.earley.org/Transformation/transformation_frame.htm
Notes: Social Transformation Coaching: Finding your
contribution to social transformation as part of your life
purpose. Transformation Groups: Ongoing groups for personal /
spiritual growth oriented toward social change.
Keys: classes / courses; counseling; Marin County; spirituality
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Name: Transit Information Project, Bay Area
Web: http://www.transitinfo.org/
Notes: A public service to provide instant online access to
transit information for the Bay Area.
Keys: transportation
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Name: Transportation Choices Forum
Address: 414 13th Street, 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 740-3100 [1/01]
Fax: (510) 740-3131
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.transcoalition.org/forum
Notes: A cooperative project of community groups and public
agencies interested in expanding public participation in regional
transportation and land use decisions.
Keys: government; land use; transportation; urban life
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Name: Tree Radio Berkeley
Web: http://www.radio4all.org/news/treeradio.html
Notes: From November 23, to December 4, 1998, Free Radio
activists conducted a non-stop broadcast atop a tree in Central
Berkeley to demand an end to the string of micropower radio station
closures and harassment by FCC officials.
Keys: free speech; microbroadcasting; parks
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Name: Tri-Cities Children's Centers
Voice: (510) 744-9280 x 24 (Paul Miller) [9/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.childrensservices.org
Notes: Provides early intervention and child development
services to a diversity of populations, including children with
disabilities, children with AIDS, children of abuse, neglect and
domestic violence, children whose parents are low and moderate
income who need services to work or attend training, children who
are homeless, and infants of teen parents. Provides services
through both center based and home based models. Currently located
in Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, Livermore, Dublin, San
Jose, Milpitas and Redwood City.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; Alameda County (below Oakland); children;
domestic violence; homelessness; services
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Name: Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (Tri-Valley CARES)
Address: 2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA 94550
Voice: (925) 443-7148 [12/98]
Fax: (925) 443-0177
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.org/tvc
Notes: A Livermore-based community group connecting issues of
peace, justice, and the environment. Exposes environmental hazards
of nuclear weapons production, and works to convert Livermore Labs
to peaceful, environmentally sound research. Publishes the
newsletter Citizen's Watch
Keys: community-building; Contra Costa County; economic
conversion; newsletters; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons / testing
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Name: Trotskyist Organizing Committee (TOC)
Address: POBox 451
Oakland, CA 94604
Voice: (510) 595-3229 [12/98]
Notes: Publishes the Marxist magazine 'October' and conducts
classes in Marxism
Keys: classes / courses; magazines; socialism
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Name: True Food Network
Web: http://www.truefoodnow.org/
Notes: A Greenpeace campaign to connect consumers who want to
take action to end the use of genetically engineered (GE)
ingredients in our foods. The Network calls on food companies,
like Kellogg?s, to stop using GE ingredients in our food. The web
site contains news updates and information.
Keys: biotechnology; corporations; food; news on-line
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Name: Trust for Public Land
Web: http://www.tpl.org/
Notes: Works exclusively to protect land for human enjoyment and
well-being. Helps conserve land for recreation and spiritual
nourishment and to improve the health and quality of life of
American communities. TPL's legal and real estate specialists work
with landowners, government agencies, and community groups to
create urban parks, gardens, greenways, and riverways; build
livable communities by setting aside open space in the path of
growth; conserve land for watershed protection, scenic beauty, and
close-to-home recreation; and safeguard the character of
communities by preserving historic landmarks and landscapes.
Keys: community-building; conservation; history; land use;
lawyers; parks; spirituality
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Name: Turn Left: The Home of Liberalism on the Web
Web: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/liberal.html
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Name: Turning Point Project
Web: http://www.turnpoint.org/
Notes: Formed specifically to design and produce a series of
educational advertisements concerning the major issues of the new
millennium. The ads will appear in The New York Times and, funds
permitting, other newspapers through spring of 2000. Topics
include the effects of industrial agriculture, the extinction
crisis, genetic engineering, economic globalization, and
megatechnology.
Keys: advertising; agriculture; biotechnology; corporate
globalization; endangered species / habitat; newspapers; pesticides
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Name: TV Turnoff Network
Web: http://www.tvturnoff.org/
Notes: Encourages children and adults to watch less television
in order to promote healthier lives and communities. Sponsors the
National TV-Turnoff Week each year during the last week of April,
and 'More Reading, Less TV', a six-week program designed to
encourage young students to develop a deep enjoyment for reading
while simultaneously helping them to reduce the amount of
television they watch.
Keys: books; television; youth
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Name: U.S. Cuba Medical Project
Address: POBox 206
408 Thirteenth Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 869-5655 [3/99]
Notes: Leads caravans that deliver medical supplies to hospitals
in Cuba to help fill shortages caused in part by the US economic
embargo of Cuba
Keys: Cuba; economic sanctions; hospitals; material aid; travel
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Name: UC California Policy Research Center
Address: 1950 Addison Street, Suite 202
Berkeley, CA 94704-1182
Voice: (510) 642-5514 [10/99]
Fax: (510) 642-8793
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ucop.edu/cprc
Notes: A public service program charged with applying the
extensive research expertise of the UC system to the analysis,
development and implementation of state policy. Topics covered by
the program's sponsored research and publications include
agriculture, criminal justice, cultural diversity and demographic
change, economic policy, education, governance, environmental
policy, health, housing / land use planning, employment, and social
services.
Keys: agriculture; analysis; demographics; diversity;
employment; health; housing; incarceration; land use; policy;
researchers; services
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Name: Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
Web: http://urpe.org/
Notes: An interdisciplinary association devoted to the study,
development,and application of radical political economic analysis
to social problems. URPE presents a continuing critique of the
capitalist system and all forms of exploitation and oppression
while helping to construct a progressive social policy and create
socialist alternatives.
Keys: analysis; capitalism; economics; policy; socialism
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Name: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Address: 2397 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 203 (at Channing Way)
Berkeley, CA 94704-1567
Voice: (510) 843-1872 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 843-3785
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ucsusa.org
Notes: An independent organization of scientists and others
concerned about the impact of advanced technology on society.
Programs focus on state & national energy policy; state & national
transportation policy; national security policy ; international
arms control; global resources, biodiversity, sustainable
agriculture, and biotechnology. Provides publications, curriculum
materials, videos, speakers, and activist trainings. Volunteer and
internship opportunities are also available.
Keys: agriculture; biodiversity; biotechnology; educational
curriculum; energy; militarism; nuclear energy; professionals;
science; speakers; sustainability; technology; transportation
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Name: Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE)
Web: http://www.uniteunion.org/
Notes: A merger of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers'
Union and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Keys: labor union locals; textiles
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Name: United Auto Workers International Union
Web: http://uaw.org/index.html
Keys: labor; transportation
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Name: United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/unitedelect/
Keys: labor union locals; radio; unity
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Name: United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO (UFW)
Address: 255 Ninth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 674-1884 [6/00]
Fax: (415) 674-1922
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ufw.org/
Notes: A trade union representing American farm workers.
Sponsors a boycott of table grapes, based on the fact that over
half of all acute pesticide-related illnesses reported in
California involve the cultivation or harvesting of grapes.
Keys: agriculture; boycotts; Chicanas / Chicanos; health; labor
union locals
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Name: United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, National Headquarters (UFW)
Web: http://www.ufw.org/
Keys: agriculture; Chicanas / Chicanos; labor; labor union
locals
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Name: United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, Santa Rosa (UFW)
Address: 1700-D Corby Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Voice: (707) 528-3039 [6/00]
Fax: (707) 573-3726
Keys: agriculture; boycotts; Chicanas / Chicanos; health; labor
union locals; Sonoma County
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Name: United for a Fair Economy
Web: http://www.ufenet.org/
Notes: A national, independent, nonpartisan organization that
puts a spotlight on the dangers of growing income, wage and wealth
inequality in the United States and coordinates action to reduce
the gap. Provides popular education resources, works with
grassroots organizations, conducts research, and supports creative
and legislative action to reduce inequality.
Keys: distribution of wealth; economics; educational
curriculum; lobbying; researchers
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Name: United States Code
Web: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
Notes: A searchable web site containing all laws of the USA.
Keys: law; national government; research materials
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Name: United Steelworkers of America AFL-CIO
Notes: Represents over 700,000 working men and women throughout
the United States and Canada.
Keys: labor
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Name: United Students Against Sweatshops
Web: http://www.umich.edu/~sole/usas/
Notes: An international student movement of campuses and
individual students fighting for sweatshop-free labor conditions
and workers' rights. Believes that university standards should be
brought in line with those of its students, who demand that their
school's logo is emblazoned on clothing made in decent working
conditions.
Keys: labor; students; sweatshops
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Name: United Transportation Union Local 23 (Santa Cruz) (UTU)
Address: 903 Pacific Avenue, Suite 200
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 [12/99]
Web: http://www.local23.org
Keys: labor union locals; transportation
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Name: Unity Council, The (The Spanish Speaking Unity Council)
Address: 1900 Fruitvale Ave., Suite 2A
Oakland, CA 94601
Voice: (510) 535-6900 [9/99]
Fax: (510) 534-7771
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.unitycouncil.org/
Notes: Provides leadership and community advocacy, social
service delivery, and economic development aimed at enriching the
quality of life of families and children in the Fruitvale
neighborhood, the City of Oakland, and Alameda County. Promotes
minority leadership and the enhancement of social and economic
opportunity for minorities in the community.
Keys: community-building; development; neighborhoods; services;
unity
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Name: University of Creation Spirituality
Address: 2141 Broadway (between 21st Street and Grand Avenue)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 835-4827 [4/99]
Fax: (510) 835-0564
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.creationspirituality.com/
Keys: diversity; spirituality
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Name: University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE / CWA 9119)
Address: POBox 4443
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 704-8783 (704-UPTE, Statewide)
(510) 848-8783 (848-UPTE, Local 1) [12/98]
Fax: (510) 704-8065
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.upte.org
Notes: Represents University of California workers.
Keys: educators; labor union locals; students
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Name: Urban Ecology, Inc.
Address: 405 14th Street, Suite 900 (at Franklin)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 251-6330 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 251-2117
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.urbanecology.org/
Notes: Works to build cities that are ecologically thriving and
socially just. Envisions, designs, and plans cities to support a
healthy natural environment, a multicultural and thriving
community, and an innovative and vigorous local economy. Through
educational programs, tools for community planning, and advocacy,
Urban Ecology assists diverse constituencies engaged in changing
their land use and building patterns. Connects individuals to
their neighborhoods, neighborhoods to cities, and cities to the
entire Bay Area region.
Keys: community-building; development; ecology; land use;
neighborhoods; sustainability; transportation; urban life
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Name: Urban View
Address: 315 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
Voice: (510) 645-1330 [10/00]
Fax: (510) 645-1331
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A free weekly newspaper covering urban life in Oakland,
available on the street.
Keys: newspapers; urban life
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Name: Urban Watershed Project
Address: POBox 29096
Building 204, Room 200C, Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94129
Voice: (415) 876-1804 [4/00]
Fax: (415) 876-1805
Email: info@kernsite.com
Web: http://www.kernsite.com/uwp
Notes: Mission is to restore the Tennessee Hollow Riparian
Corridor on the Presidio of San Francisco and demonstrate how
environmental stewardship significantly improves the quality of
urban life. The Project is managed by a team of dedicated
scientists and educators who provide educational opportunities
through environmental stewardship on a non-discriminatory basis to
all age groups. Conducts a citizen-based water quality monitoring
program at sites throughout the Presidio.
Keys: creek restoration; educators; science; urban life; water
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Name: US Vietnam Friendship Association
Address: POBox 460073
San Francisco, CA 94146-0073 [6/00]
Notes: Promotes peaceful and just relations towards Vietnam,
Laos, and Cambodia with respect for their independence and
sovereignty, and US commitment to alleviate Agent Orange effects on
human health and the environment.
Keys: Cambodia; self-determination; toxics; Vietnam
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Name: USA/Cuba-InfoMed
Address: POBox 450
Santa Clara, CA 95052
Voice: (408) 243-4359
(408) 738-2237 [3/99]
Fax: (408) 243-1229
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.org/cubasoli/
Notes: An all-volunteer Bay Area group dedicated to the support
of public health development in the Third World in general and in
the Republic of Cuba in particular. Supports the Cuban Medical
Information Network (InfoMed). Has sent to Cuba 800 computer
systems for hospitals and clinics. Collaborates with
internationalist efforts by the Cubans in third countries. Opposes
the US blockade of Cuba and promotes normalization of relations
between the US and Cuba. Maintains the 'Cuba Solidarity' web site.
Keys: computers; Cuba; economic sanctions; public health;
solidarity
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Name: Utne Reader Online, The
Web: http://www.utne.com/
Keys: magazines
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Name: Vajrapani Institute
Address: POBox 2130
Boulder Creek, CA 95006
Voice: (408) 338-6654 [2/99]
Fax: (408) 338-3666
Email: Vajrapani@compuserve.com
Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2094
Notes: A Tibetan Buddhist retreat center in the Santa Cruz
Mountains that provides an ideal environment for individual retreat
and courses and group retreats on meditation, Buddhist philosophy,
and topics involving personal growth. The facilities also provide
a unique setting for conferences and may be rented by groups of up
to 50 people.
Keys: philosophy; religion; Santa Cruz County; spaces for
events; Tibet
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Name: Vegan Action
Address: POBox 4353
Berkeley, CA 94704-0353
Voice: (510) 548-7377 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 548-7377 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.vegan.org
Notes: A grassroots activist network focused on promoting the
vegan (VEE-gun) diet and lifestyle and inspiring more people to
become actively involved in the vegan movement
Keys: email mailing lists; newsletters; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Vegan Action, Santa Cruz
Voice: (831) 502-7713 [11/99]
Email: [email protected]
Keys: Santa Cruz County; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Vegan.com
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.vegan.com/
Notes: A monthly web zine on veganism. 'Disparaging Meat Since
1997'
Keys: veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Vegetation Management Video Project Committee
Web: http://www.best.com/~canonbal/
Notes: A video project in progress about urban firestorms, fire
safety and the environment, entitled Cannonball Express. The goal
is to prevent a billion dollar Oakland-Berkeley Hills type fire
from striking San Mateo County. This video examines native and
exotic plants, suburban wildlife, toxic runoff from burned homes
and cars and erosion. The video aims to add much to the quality of
life in the Bay Area and affect land management policies across
much of the Western US.
Keys: endangered species / habitat; film / video; land use; San
Mateo County; toxics; urban life
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Name: Veggies Unite!
Web: http://www.vegweb.com/
Notes: Your on-line guide to vegetarianism
Keys: veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: VegNews
Address: POBox 2129
Santa Cruz, CA 95063
Voice: (408) 358-6478 [3/01]
Fax: (408) 358-7638
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Notes: North America's Monthly Vegetarian Newspaper is now
reaching 100,000 readers every issue. Not be missed are
interviews, articles, event listings, restaurant reviews, society
pages, recipes, travel tales, dining & lifestyle guides, cookbook
reviews, and the best in vegan products and services. Subscriptions
are $20/year and can be purchased by emailing
[email protected].
Keys: newspapers; products; travel; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: VegSource
Web: http://www.vegsource.org/
Notes: Mission is to offer the most up to date health and diet
information possible, and to encourage the many good reasons for a
plant-based diet. Sponsors leading authorities and organizations
and promotes their critical message. Provides 24-hour-a-day
support via discussion boards, live chats, and e-mail to help you
implement the critical information you learn into your everyday
routine.
Keys: health; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Venceremos Brigade
Address: POBox 7071
Oakland, CA 94601
Voice: (415) 267-0606 (voice mail) [2/99]
Notes: Works to end the travel, economic, and information
blockade imposed by the US government on Cuba. Sponsors solidarity
delegations to Cuba for first-hand experience of what's happening
there
Keys: Cuba; economic sanctions; government; law; solidarity;
travel
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Name: Veritable Vegetable
Address: 1100 Cesar Chavez Street
San Francisco, CA 94124
Voice: (415) 641-3500 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 641-3505
Notes: The oldest wholesale distributor of organic produce in
the US. A women owned and operated business.
Keys: food; organic agriculture; products; women
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Name: Veterans for Peace
Web: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
Notes: Works to increase public awareness of the costs of war,
to restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly,
in the internal affairs of other nations, to end the arms race and
to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, and to abolish
war as an instrument of international policy.
Keys: militarism; nuclear weapons / testing; peace; veterans
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Name: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Address: POBox 884354
San Francisco, CA 94188
Voice: (415) 468-5870 [2/99]
Web: http://www.alba-valb.org http://www.itec.sfsu.edu/students/projects/mandrews/VALB/valbhome.htm
Notes: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade consisted of North American
volunteers who helped fight the fascism of General Franco in the
Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939
Keys: Europe; fascism; militarism
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Name: Veterans Speakers Alliance (VSA)
Address: POBox 40430
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 255-7331 [7/99]
Notes: A volunteer organization of military veterans which
provides speakers free of charge to high schools, colleges, campus,
civic and religious organizations, unions and other community
groups. Also participates in forums and debates. VSA's members
share a strong belief that before young people decide about
military service, they should hear about war firsthand from those
who were there and who speak honestly and realistically about the
tragedies of war.
Keys: draft / registration; militarism; speakers; veterans;
youth
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Name: Video Activist Network, The (VAN)
Address: PO Box 40130
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 789-8484 [10/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.videoactivism.org
Notes: An informal association of activists and politically
conscious artists using video to support social, economic and
environmental justice campaigns.
Keys: classes / courses; economics; environmental justice; film
/ video; media; networking
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Name: Video Project, The
Address: 200 Estates Drive
Ben Lomond, CA 95005
Voice: (831) 336-0160
(800) 475-2638 (4-PLANET)(orders) [5/00]
Fax: (831) 336-2168
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.videoproject.org/
Notes: Distributes over 600 affordable videos on critical
environmental, hands-on science, nuclear, and global human rights
issues. Free catalog.
Keys: educational curriculum; film / video; nuclear weapons /
testing; products; science
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Name: Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist (SF Outpost)
Address: 1230 Market Street #104
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 719-0513 [12/98]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.oz.net/~vvawai
Notes: A network for people currently or formerly in the
military who have declined to participate in, or remain silent to,
US military intervention
Keys: draft / registration; intervention; militarism; networking
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Name: Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
Web: http://www.vvaf.org
Notes: An international humanitarian, advocacy, and educational
organization dedicated to assisting the victims of war. Provides
humanitarian assistance to the victims of war, promotes programs of
reconciliation between former adversaries, and conducts a global
campaign whose goal is to ban the production, sale, export and use
of antipersonnel landmines.
Keys: militarism; veterans; Vietnam
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Name: Violence Policy Center (VPC)
Web: http://www.vpc.org/
Notes: A national 501©(3) educational organization that works
to reduce gun death and injury in America by approaching firearms
violence as a public health issue and illustrating the need to hold
firearms to the same health and safety standards we hold all other
consumer products. To this end, the VPC: conducts research on the
gun industry, firearms violence, and federal regulatory approaches;
develops public policy options and offers analyses of
violence-reduction proposals; conducts public education activities
through the news media and other organizations; educates
policymakers and opinion leaders; and builds working coalitions
with organizations that have not traditionally been part of the gun
control debate but that represent constituencies affected by
firearms violence.
Keys: analysis; consumer protection; guns; policy; public
health; research; violence
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Name: Voices in the Wilderness
Web: http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/
Notes: A campaign to end the economic sanctions against the
people of Iraq. Voices in the Wilderness delegations journey to
Iraq to break the siege and bring desperately needed medical
supplies to children and families. The US Treasury Department
warns that they risk penalties of twelve years in prison and $1
million in fines for this effort.
Keys: economic sanctions; Iraq; material aid; travel
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Name: VOICES: Lesbian Choral Ensemble
Address: 4043 Piedmont Avenue, Suite 226
Oakland, CA 94611
Voice: (510) 486-8984 [2/01]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.lesbian.org/voices/
Notes: A primarily a cappella vocal ensemble whose mission is to
combine lesbian visibility with musical excellence.
Keys: Lesbians; music
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Name: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT)
Web: http://www.vhemt.org/
Notes: Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to
breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health.
Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become
less dense. 'May we live long and die out.'
Keys: population control
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Name: Volunteer Center of Alameda County (Central / South County)
Address: 21455 Birch Street
Hayward, CA 94541
Voice: (510) 538-0554 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 538-9317
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.volunteeronline.org
Notes: A clearinghouse that matches up volunteers with agencies
that deal with particular issues or populations of interest.
Hundreds of agencies seeking volunteers are registered here each
year. Potential volunteers can call to search for matches over the
phone or use the Center's on-line searchable database.
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); volunteer matching
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Name: Volunteer Center of Alameda County (Oakland / North County)
Address: 660 13th Street, Suite 200
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 419-3970 [7/00]
Fax: (510) 419-3975
Web: http://www.volunteeronline.org
Notes: A clearinghouse that matches up volunteers with agencies
that deal with particular issues or populations of interest.
Hundreds of agencies seeking volunteers are registered here each
year. Potential volunteers can call to search for matches over the
phone or use the Center's on-line searchable database.
Keys: volunteer matching
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Name: Volunteer Center of Alameda County (Tri-Valley)
Address: 333 Division Street
Pleasanton, CA 94566
Voice: (925) 462-3570 [7/00]
Fax: (925) 462-2063
Email: admin@volunteeronline.org
Web: http://www.volunteeronline.org
Notes: A clearinghouse that matches up volunteers with agencies
that deal with particular issues or populations of interest.
Hundreds of agencies seeking volunteers are registered here each
year. Potential volunteers can call to search for matches over the
phone or use the Center's on-line searchable database.
Keys: volunteer matching
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Name: Volunteer Center of Contra Costa
Address: 1820 Bonanza Street, Suite 100
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Voice: (510) 472-5760
(800) CARE-123 [1/99]
Web: http://www.meer.net/users/taylor/volcencc.htm
Notes: Mobilizes people and resources to bring creative
solutions to community problems. Helps hundreds of community
agencies meet their volunteer needs and extend services to a client
base that represents the diversity of Contra Costa County ---
programs that provide food for the homeless, counsel people in
crisis, support victims of violence, teach people to read, cuddle
crack babies, and lend a hand to preserving our environment
Keys: Contra Costa County; services; volunteer matching
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Name: Volunteer Center of San Francisco
Address: 1675 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Voice: (415) 982-8999 [12/99]
Fax: (415) 982-0890
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.vcsf.org/
Notes: Serves nonprofit organizations, individuals, city
agencies, and civic groups by promoting volunteerism throughout the
city. The Community Service Program, the backbone of the Center,
provides a referral service connecting people with a wide variety
of volunteer opportunities in San Francisco's diverse nonprofit
community.
Keys: volunteer matching
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Name: Volunteer Center of San Mateo County
Address: 800 South Claremont Street, Suite 108
San Mateo, CA 94402
Voice: (415) 342-0801
(800) 227-3123 [1/99]
Web: http://www.meer.net/users/taylor/volcensm.htm
Notes: Mobilizes people and resources to deliver creative
solutions to serious social problems
Keys: San Mateo County; volunteer matching
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Name: Volunteer Information Center, Bay Area
Web: http://www.VolunteerOnline.org/
Notes: A web site that provides information about volunteer
opportunities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Lets
potential volunteers know about the wide range of opportunities
open to them, and gives Bay Area non-profit organizations a means
of publishing their goals and needs
Keys: volunteer matching
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Name: VolunteerMatch
Web: http://www.volunteermatch.org/
Notes: Utilizes the power of the Internet to help individuals
nationwide find volunteer opportunities posted by local nonprofit
and public sector organizations. VolunteerMatch's powerful online
database allows volunteers to search thousands of one-time and
ongoing opportunities by zip code, category, and date.
Keys: volunteer matching
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Name: Vote Health
Address: POBox 32185
Oakland, CA 94604-3485
Voice: (510) 835-5803 [5/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.votehealth.org
Notes: An Oakland-based group of 700 activists, Vote Health?s
mission is to achieve accessible, affordable, high-quality health
care for all, without regard to legal status or ability to pay.
Vote Health works on local, state and national projects to create a
publicly financed (single-payer) health insurance system, preserve
and strengthen the health care safety net for low-income, uninsured
and underinsured people until a universal system is in place,
protect the health of insured people from the ravages of HMOs and
insurance companies, protect the rights of health-care workers, and
guarantee public participation in setting health care policy.
Keys: healthcare access; insurance; low-income; policy; single
payer health care
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Name: Vote Smart Web
Web: http://www.vote-smart.org/
Notes: Tracks the performance of over 13,000 politicians. Find
out how to contact your official representatives, and how they
voted.
Keys: directories; elections; government; research materials
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Name: Voters Telecomm Watch
Web: http://www.vtw.org/
Notes: A volunteer organization concentrating on legislation as
it relates to telecommunications and civil liberties. Alerts the
public at crucial times during the life of legislation so that
citizens can act without being a full-time activist
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; communications; Internet;
legislation
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Name: W.A.G.E. (We Advocate Gender Equity)
Address: POBox 8244
Berkeley, CA 94707 [9/99]
Email: wage@wage.org
Web: http://www.wage.org/
Notes: Works to end gender bias and achieve gender equity in the
education, hiring, retention, promotion and compensation of women
in the academic community within the University of California and
other academic institutions.
Keys: distribution of wealth; educators; sexism; women
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Name: War Resisters League
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl/
Notes: Affirms that all war is a crime against humanity, and
therefore is determined not to support any kind of war,
international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal
of all causes of war
Keys: militarism; peace
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Name: War Tax Resistance, Northern California (People's Life Fund)
Address: POBox 2422
Berkeley, CA 94702-2422
Voice: (510) 843-9877 [2/99]
Email: [email protected] (National Coordinating Committee)
Web: http://www.nonviolence.org/~nvweb/wtr/
Notes: An educational, support, and counseling organization
focusing on conscientious resistance to federal income taxes used
by the military. Organizes periodic workshops and gatherings
Keys: counseling; militarism; taxes
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Name: WasteLink
Web: http://www.radwaste.org/
Notes: Your guide to radioactive waste resources on the
Internet. Primarily provided as a reference source for radioactive
waste management professionals, but open to all.
Keys: nuclear energy; nuclear weapons / testing; research
materials; toxics
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Name: We Do the Work
Notes: See The Working Group.
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Name: We Interrupt This Message
Address: 965 Mission Street, Suite 220
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 537-9437 [11/98]
Fax: (415) 537-9439
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Challenges the lies and distortions served up by the
daily newspapers and evening new broadcasts, and shuts down
sensationalistic news reporting that promotes ignorance and
prejudice
Keys: media criticism; news
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Name: We The People (WTP)
Address: 200 Harrison Street (at Second Street, near Jack London Square)
Oakland, CA 94607-4114
Voice: (510) 836-3273 (836-DARE) [1/99]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wtp.org
Notes: Asserts that an increasingly pervasive corporate
structure has destroyed democracy, where jobs, media and national
elections are under the financial influence or control of a small
minority. While the richest 1% directs political fundraising,
elected 'representatives' pretend they are independent of their
well-healed handlers. A national organization formed by activists
involved in Jerry Brown's 1992 Presidential campaign. See also
their School of Sustainability
Keys: control techniques; corporations; democracy; spaces for
events
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Name: WebActive
Web: http://www.webactive.com/
Notes: A weekly publication from the makers of RealAudio
designed to offer progressive activists an up-to-date resource on
the Web to find other organizations and individuals with similar
values and interests. Includes Radio Nation (from The Nation
magazine), Pacifica Network News, the commentaries of Jim
Hightower, CounterSpin from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the
WebActive directory of two thousand progressive groups, and more
Keys: directories; news on-line
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Name: Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
Web: http://www.wwcd.org/
Notes: An online information, networking and conference center
established by The Institute for Cultural Democracy (ICD) in
Talmage, California to encourage study and exchange of ideas about
cultural policy and cultural development practice.
Keys: democracy; development; multiculturalism; policy
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Name: Wen Ho Lee Defense Fund Committee
Web: http://www.wenholee.org/
Notes: An in-depth analysis about Dr. Lee's case and information
about his defense fund. Dr. Lee is a nuclear physicist who was
fired and indicted on 59 counts of violating the Atomic Energy and
Espionage acts for a practice that occurs commonly among his
colleagues.
Keys: Asian Americans; nuclear weapons / testing; propaganda;
spying
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Name: West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation (WBNDC)
Address: POBox 2223
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 845-4106 [3/01]
Fax: (510) 845-4106 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://westberkeley.com/
Notes: Mission is to promote the economic and social
revitalization of West Berkeley, with particular attention to
residents who are low-income, elderly, disabled and you, in order
to secure a healthy living and working environment for all West
Berkeley residents. Sponsors the web site 'West Berkeley on the
Web', which includes directories of projects, community groups,
churches, parks, and business resources in the area.
Keys: business; community-building; development; directories;
disabilities; low-income; neighborhoods
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Name: West Coast Environmental Law
Web: http://www.wcel.org/
Notes: Strives to empower citizens to participate in forming
policy for, and making decisions about, protecting our environment.
Issues covered include climate change, endangered species,
environmental regulation, fish and oceans, forestry, international
trade and investment, land, wetlands,and water. Based in British
Columbia.
Keys: Canada; climate change; deforestation; deregulation;
endangered species / habitat; investment; law; policy; trade;
water; wetlands
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Name: West Downtown Neighborhood Alliance
Web: http://www.sirius.com/~marcello/wdna.htm
Notes: Actively involved in efforts to promote positive change
in the community, to work with residents about local issues that
affect us, to lobby public officials for improvements to our
neighborhood, and to craft a comprehensive plan to revitalize the
district. Residents and anyone with ties to West Downtown are
welcome and encouraged to help achieve these goals.
Keys: community-building; lobbying; neighborhoods
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Name: Western Association for Nude Recreation (WANR)
Web: http://wanr.earthbiz.net/wanr.html
Notes: A fun organization fostering the networking of naturist
information. A naturist organization promoting nonsexual nude
recreation.
Keys: nudism
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Name: Western Center on Law and Poverty
Web: http://www.wclp.org/
Notes: A non-profit legal services program devoted to
high-impact poverty law litigation and legislative advocacy in the
state of California. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in
Oakland and Sacramento, WCLP focuses its work in the areas of
welfare, housing and health care.
Keys: healthcare access; housing; law; legal services;
litigation; lobbying; poverty; welfare
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Name: Western Regional Alliance of Organizations Against Police Brutality
Address: POBox 5611
San Jose, CA 95150-5611
Voice: (408) 295-2842 [10/00]
Fax: (954) 337-5748
Email: [email protected]
Keys: coalitions; police accountability; Santa Clara County;
violence
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Name: Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF)
Address: 1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 839-5877 [6/00]
Fax: (510) 839-5397
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Investigates and challenges nuclear weapons programs at
the Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories and
the Nevada Test Site. Seeks to abolish nuclear weapons, compel
open public review of hazardous nuclear technologies, and ensure
appropriate management of nuclear waste. Grounded in both
international and environmental law, the principle guiding WSLF's
activities is advancement of the democratization of policies
affecting nuclear weapons and related technologies. WSLF's legal,
technical and organizing activities support public participation
in shaping domestic and global nuclear policy. A founding member
of Abolition 2000.
Keys: appropriate technology; direct action; ecology;
environmental justice; global issues; law; legal defense; legal
services; litigation; nonviolence; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons
/ testing; peace; research materials; United Nations
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Name: Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival
Address: POBox 7184
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
Voice: (831) 426-4940 [3/99]
Notes: Produces an annual weekend celebration of labor music and
culture in January, with workshops on creating, performing, and
exchanging labor songs, theater, media, and visual arts, ending in
a concert to honor Martin Luther King
Keys: labor; music; Santa Cruz County; theatre
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Name: Whispered Media
Address: PO Box 40130
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 789-8484 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.whisperedmedia.org/ http://www.videoactivism.org
Notes: An activist group promoting the use of video to increase
awareness about current issues of social, economic and
environmental justice. Collects archival footage, offers
video-witness support, and produces short video works about
specific grassroots campaigns. Offers video training to
individuals and progressive nonprofit organizations acting for
social change.
Keys: archiving; classes / courses; collectives; economics;
environmental justice; film / video; media
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Name: Who Owns What in the Media
Web: http://www.cjr.org/owners/
Notes: Columbia Journalism Review's guide to what the major
corporate media companies own.
Keys: corporations; media criticism; research materials
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Name: Who's Counting? Project (WCP)
Address: c/o Susan Strong
POBox 892
Orinda, CA 94563
Voice: (925) 254-3304 [11/99]
Fax: (925) 254-3304 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.thewhoscountingproject.org
Notes: Promotes the film 'Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on
Sex, Lies, and Global Economics.'
Keys: analysis; corporate globalization; distribution of
wealth; film / video; women
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Name: Wise Fool Puppet Intervention (Wise Fool)
Address: 2633 Etna Street
Berkeley, CA 94704-3408
Voice: (415) 905-5958 [3/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/wisefool.htm
Notes: A theatre arts project dedicated to community,
celebration, and change. In the folk tradition of public
spectacle, brings giant puppets, stilt characters, and other
magical imagery into the streets where they are accessible to all.
Offers low cost workshops in maskmaking, stiltwalking and the
construction of giant puppets. Provides visual support for
actions, demonstrations, processions and community events. A
provocative intervention into daily life. Rents its
800-square-foot room at Valencia and 15th Street for $6 an hour for
rehearsals and meetings.
Keys: art; classes / courses; demonstrations; spaces for
events; street theater
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Name: Witness for Peace
Web: http://www.witnessforpeace.org/
Notes: A leader in the Central America movement, Witness for
Peace maintains permanent international teams in Nicaragua and
Guatemala and works in partnership with organizations in Mexico
(Chiapas) and Haiti. In the US, Witness for Peace accomplishes its
mission through delegations, publications, speaking tours,
nonviolent direct action, emergency response fax and e-mail
networks, letter writing campaigns, leafletting and more. Also
addresses the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
structural adjustment programs, labor rights, corporate
accountability, debt relief, US government relations with Latin
American militaries, and declassification of human rights and
related documents.
Keys: Central America; corporations; Guatemala; Haiti; human
rights; labor; leafleting; Mexico; Nicaragua; solidarity; World
Bank / IMF
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Name: Women Against Rape, San Francisco (SFWAR)
Address: 1841 Market Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-2024
(415) 647-RAPE (24-Hour Crisis Hotline) [3/00]
Fax: (415) 861-2092
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sfwar.org/
Notes: Provides services to survivors of sexual assault and
their significant others, including in-person counseling, support
groups, advocacy services, and rape prevention education.
Keys: counseling; prevention; rape; support groups
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Name: Women As Allies, Inc.
Address: POBox 794 (near Highway 9)
Boulder Creek, CA 95006
Voice: (831) 338-0843 [5/00]
Fax: (831) 338-0843 (same as voice)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.Women-As-Allies.org
Notes: Mission is to increase sensitivity and healing among
women in families, organizations and communities to the issues of
discrimination and hate involving race, gender, sexism, disability,
sexual orientation, religion, culture, class, language, ethnicity,
age, immigration and body image. And all issues confronting women,
our families, our schools, our churches, our organizations, the
workplace and our communities on a daily basis, locally, nationally
and internationally.
Keys: affirmative action; disabilities; family; people of
color; racism; sexism; sexual minorities; sizism; women
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Name: Women Defending Ourselves (WDO)
Address: POBox 19006
Stanford, CA 94309
Voice: (510) 601-0141
(415) 289-7944 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wdo.org
Notes: A women-run collective working to end violence against
women, primarily by teaching women-only self defense throughout the
Bay Area. The classes include physical techniques, verbal defense
and assertiveness, and discussion of issues of violence.
Keys: classes / courses; collectives; self-help; violence; women
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Name: Women For Peace
Address: 2302 Ellsworth
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 849-3020 [7/00]
Notes: Women of all races, creeds and political persuasions,
presenting a resolute stand against the unprecedented threat to
life from nuclear holocaust. Showing the connection between
nuclear spending and social problems such as homelessness and
declining educational opportunities. Office is open weekdays from
12 to 3. Meets second Mondays at l0:00 am at Redwood Gardens, 2951
Derby in Berkeley.
Keys: interconnectedness; nuclear weapons / testing; peace
centers; women
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Name: Women Leaders Online (WLO)
Web: http://wlo.org/
Notes: Empowering women in politics, media, society, the economy
and cyberspace.
Keys: Internet; women
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Name: Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC)
Address: 2288 Fulton Street, Suite 103
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: (510) 848-9272 [8/00]
Fax: (510) 548-3474 (call ahead)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.coloredgirls.org
Notes: Serves as a vehicle for dialogue and interchange among
women of color about their current status and strategies for
change. Works to provide up-to-date information and analysis to
organizers, advocates and scholars concerned with the condition of
women of color. Publishes a national directory of women-of-color
organizations.
Keys: directories; people of color; speakers; women; World-Wide
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Name: Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD)
Address: 414 13th Street, 2nd Floor (between Broadway and Franklin)
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 986-0340 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 986-0341
Web: http://www.womenhiv.org
Notes: Provides support and information to HIV-positive women
and their friends and family. Educates and inspires these women to
advocate for themselves, one another, and their communities.
Provides a monthly newsletter, retreats, support group referrals,
peer support, a speaker's bureau, advocacy, and an HIV / AIDS
library and university.
Keys: AIDS / HIV; libraries; newsletters; speakers; support
groups; women
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Name: Women's Cancer Resource Center (WCRC)
Address: 3023 Shattuck Avenue (off Ashby)
Berkeley, CA 94705
Voice: (510) 548-9272 (548-WCRC)
(510) 548-9288 TTY line (for the deaf community) [2/99]
Fax: (510) 548-2155
Email: wcrc@SineWave.com
Web: http://www.wcrc.org
Notes: Offers an information and referral hotline; a library
with books, tapes, clippings, and research assistance; speakers,
public forums, and workshops; a quarterly newsletter; legal
services; support groups on alternative treatments, lesbians with
cancer, grief, and other areas; one to one practical and emotional
support; a support group for Spanish speaking women, and free
Internet access. Located at 3023 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, one
block from the Ashby BART station. Open Tuesday 2 to 5, Wednesday
and Thursday 4 to 7 and Saturday 12 to 4
Keys: health; Internet; legal services; research materials;
sexual minorities; speakers; support groups; women
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Name: Women's Centers, Inc. / Women's Building, San Francisco
Address: 3543 18th Street (between Valencia and Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 431-1180 [6/99]
Fax: (415) 861-8969
Notes: A community organization providing varied services to
women, with a focus on low-income women, women of color, and
lesbians.
Keys: low-income; people of color; sexual minorities; spaces
for events; women
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Name: Women's EDGE
Web: http://www.womensedge.org/
Notes: A dynamic coalition of individuals and respected
organizations that is giving women and families around the world an
economic edge. 80% of developing country workers who manufacture
products for export are women. They work up to 80 hours a week for
as little as 18 cents an hour. Women's EDGE is working to make
sure women get more of the benefits from international trade and
investment by bringing women's voices to the trade negotiating
table.
Keys: coalitions; corporate globalization; distribution of
wealth; labor; trade; women
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Name: Women's Educational Media
Address: 2180 Bryant Street, Suite 203
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 641-4616 [6/99]
Fax: (415) 641-4632
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.womedia.org
Notes: Produces films and videos on a range of social justice
issues, including the academy award-winning documentary 'Deadly
Deception' on General Electric's involvement in the nuclear weapons
industry and 'It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in
School'. Produces its own documentaries, and also works with
public interest organizations to produce videos to enhance their
organizing, fundraising, and public education efforts.
Keys: film / video; nuclear weapons / testing; public
education; sexual minorities; women
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Name: Women's Energy Matters
Address: POBox 12487
Berkeley, CA 94712
Voice: (510) 528-5104 [6/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.womensenergy.org
Notes: A network of women and men committed to bringing about a
sustainable society that runs on renewable, non-polluting energy
and treasures the contributions of women and the natural world.
Keys: energy; sustainability; women
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Name: Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
Web: http://www.wedo.org/
Notes: A global organization working to increase women's
visibility, roles and leadership in public policy-making through
peace, gender, human rights, environmental and economic justice
campaigns; through advocacy nationally, regionally, at the United
Nations and in international financial institutions; and through
local actions.
Keys: development; economic justice; human rights; policy;
United Nations; women
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Name: Women's Health Rights Coalition (ACCESS)
Address: 3948 Webster Street (near 40th Street)
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (510) 923-0739
(800) 376-INFO (3646) [1/99]
Fax: (510) 923-0135
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Provides callers with comprehensive information on
health, referrals to nearby health care and social services, and
practical support such as transportation, childcare, and overnight
housing. Phone staffers and practical support providers are needed.
Keys: healthcare access; housing; reproductive rights;
services; transportation; women
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Name: Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights (WILD)
Address: 340 Pine Street, Suite 302
San Francisco, CA 94104
Voice: (415) 837-0795 [1/00]
Fax: (415) 837-1144
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wildhr.org
Notes: Promotes human rights through the conscious leadership
and action of women and girls. With a vision of social and
political change, WILD strives to improve the conditions of women
and girls and their communities. Provides human rights education,
engages in public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and
implementation of international human rights standards in the
United States. Their groundbreaking work on the San Francisco
implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is now moving
to statewide and national levels.
Keys: children; discrimination; human rights; United Nations;
women
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Name: Women's Voices, Sonoma County
Address: POBox 4448
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Voice: (707) 575-5654 [7/00]
Email: [email protected]
Notes: A feminist newspaper by, for, and about women, published
monthly in Sonoma County. Goal is to provide a forum for the
exploration and formation of women's issues and concerns and to
provide information on events, news items, and organizations of
interest to the women's community.
Keys: feminism; newspapers; Sonoma County; women
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Name: WomensNet
Web: http://www.igc.org/igc/gateway/wnindex.html
Notes: One of the computer networks of the Institute for Global
Communications.
Keys: Internet; women
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Name: Workers Democracy Network
Web: http://www.workersdemocracy.org/
Notes: Goal is to organize a democratic workers movement that
unites all workers, on an equal basis, around common interests.
Will battle business unionism and fight for democracy for the rank
and file. Seeks one-member, one-vote and the end to all
cooperation with the corporate elite.
Keys: democracy; labor; networking
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Name: Workers World Party (WWP)
Address: 2489 Mission Street, Room 26
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voice: (415) 826-4828 [2/99]
Fax: (415) 821-5782
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.workers.org/
Notes: A Marxist-Leninist party promoting socialism, supporting
working class struggles and lesbian / gay liberation, organizing
protests, and denouncing racism and sexism. Call for info on
weekly meetings on international and domestic struggles
Keys: political parties; racism; sexism; sexual minorities;
socialism
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Name: Workers' International Liaison Committee (ILC)
Address: POBox 40009
San Francisco, CA 94140
Voice: (415) 626-1175
(415) 285-3935
(415) 641-4440 [7/99]
Fax: (415) 626-1217
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.labornet.org/workers
Notes: Brings together in a fighting united front all those
activists and trade unionists who are struggling around the world
against the onslaught of the bosses against the working class.
This onslaught comes in the form of privatization, deregulation,
war and attacks on workers and unions everywhere. The ILC is
organized in over 80 countries around the globe and welcomes into
its ranks any individual, trade unionist, labor union or political
group that supports its program.
Keys: class; deregulation; labor; privatization
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Name: Workgroup for People's Health and Rights (HealthWrights)
Address: POBox 1344
Palo Alto, CA 94302
Voice: (650) 325-7500 [5/00]
Fax: (650) 325-1080
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.healthwrights.org
Notes: Focuses on community health in the third world in the
South and disadvantaged communities in the North, disability
issues, the man-made causes of poor health, networking among
progressive health, disability, human rights, environmental, and
other groups, and development and distribution of educational
materials on health and human rights.
Keys: disabilities; health; human rights; networking
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Name: Working Group, The
Address: 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 1550
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 268-WORK [8/99]
Fax: (510) 268-3606
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood
Notes: A media production company that has built its reputation
by turning its cameras toward a group rarely seen on television:
ordinary, hard-working Americans. Their series, We Do the Work,
has aired in more than 200 cities nationwide. The PBS Not In Our
Town specials gained national recognition for showcasing positive
community response to intolerance and hate violence. A new PBS
series is called Livelyhood.
Keys: hate crimes; labor; television; violence
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Name: Working Partnerships USA
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.atwork.org
Notes: A non-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding the
link between regional economic development and community
well-being, and developing state and national workforce development
and employment policy that truly benefits working families.
Keys: community-building; development; distribution of wealth;
economics; employment; family; policy; Santa Clara County
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Name: WorkingForChange
Web: http://www.workingforchange.com/
Notes: A web site brought to you by Working Assets. A place
where concerned citizens can find all the resources they need to
make a difference. The site contains current news stories.
Keys: news on-line
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Name: World Bank Bonds Boycott
Web: http://www.worldbankboycott.org
Notes: An international campaign using grassroots economic power
to demand an end to structural adjustment lending and other
environmentally and socially destructive World Bank policies. The
World Bank is a public institution which receives 80% of its
financing from publicly-held bonds. Ordinary people, through their
pension funds, labor unions, churches, municipalities, universities
and private investments, can exert considerable pressure on the
World Bank by refusing to buy its bonds. Activists can pass
resolutions in their communities and institutions committing them
not to buy World Bank bonds in the future and send a strong message
to the Bank.
Keys: boycotts; finance; policy; World Bank / IMF
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Name: World Federalist Association of Northern California (WFA/NCa)
Address: 55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 225 (between Market and Mission)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3421
Voice: (415) 227-4880 [5/00]
Fax: (415) 227-4878
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wfanca.org
Notes: Seeks to move beyond the obsolescent system of
'sovereign' nation-states whose rulers spend a trillion dollars
annually on war preparations but are unable to cope with
transnational problems affecting life (e.g. pollution, famine,
drugs, population growth) and liberty (violation of human rights).
Goal is a democratic federal system of global government with world
citizenship, to deal with those problems facing the world community
that nation-states cannot solve by themselves, to be pursued, if
possible, by the United Nations.
Keys: human rights; militarism; United Nations; world government
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Name: World Neighbors
Address: 1213-B York Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-4217
Voice: (415) 648-9577 [11/98]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wn.org
Notes: Provides long-term training to help impoverished
communities of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. All of the
self-help programs invest in local, indigenous leadership and
respect the dignity and ingenuity of all people. Six trips to
visit villages where work is taking place are planned this year
Keys: Africa; Asia; development; global community; hunger;
indigenous people; Latin America; microenterprise; networking;
poverty; self-help; travel
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Name: World PULSE (Program for Understanding Leadership, Service, and Exchange)
Address: 663 13th Street
Preservation Park
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 451-2995 [12/00]
Fax: (510) 451-2996
Email: info@worldpulse.org
Web: http://www.worldpulse.org
Notes: A part-time program that engages Bay Area young adults
(ages18-25) from low-income communities and diverse ethnic
backgrounds in community service, cross-cultural exchange,
leadership training, and educational travel. Offers a unique
chance for young people from different Bay Area neighborhoods to
come together, educate each other, and together make a difference
in their local and global communities. Participants also have the
opportunity to spend three weeks overseas on an international
service project.
Keys: community-building; diversity; global community;
low-income; travel; youth
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Name: World Resources Institute (WRI)
Web: http://www.wri.org/
Notes: An independent center for policy research and technical
assistance on global environmental and development issues.
Dedicated to helping governments and private organizations of all
types cope with environmental, resource, and development challenges
of global significance
Keys: development; ecology; global issues; researchers;
technical assistance
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Name: World Wall for Peace --- A Medicine Wheel of Love and Peace to Circle the Earth
Address: c/o Carolyna Marks
1427 Milvia Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510) 527-2356 [1/99]
Fax: (510) 527-2356 (same as voice; call ahead first)
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wwfp.org
Notes: Building the World Wall for Peace, a preventative
medicine wheel of love covered with peace tiles hand-painted by
many people. To participate, paint your vision of peace on a tile
to be included. Available for a tile painting at your home,
school, social concerns group, synagogue, church, or mosque.
Currently includes over 33,000 Peace Tiles, with 30 Walls in four
countries and five states of the US
Keys: art; peace; prevention
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Name: World Without War Council
Address: 1730 MLKing Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94709-2140
Voice: (510) 845-1992 [5/00]
Fax: (510) 845-5721
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wwwc.org/wwwc/wwwc.html
Notes: Joins pacifists and non-pacifists in an effort to make
America a leader in progress toward a world without war in which
freedom and democracy can flourish. Publishes and distributes
literature (including a guide to world affairs organizations in
Northern California), runs an Interns / Fellows program, consults
with NGOs, provides conscience and war counseling, and develops
cooperative programs among world affairs NGOs.
Keys: democracy; directories; draft / registration; global
issues; militarism
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Name: WorldViews
Address: 1515 Webster Street #305
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: (510) 451-1742 [7/99]
Fax: (510) 835-9631
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.igc.apc.org/worldviews/index.html
Notes: Gathers, organizes, and publicizes information and
educational resource materials that deal with issues of peace and
justice in world affairs. Their particular concern is with the
emerging nations of Africa, Asia and Pacific, Latin America and the
Caribbean, and the Middle East. WorldViews continues the work of
Third World Resources, a non-profit organization that was
established in 1984.
Keys: Africa; Asia; Caribbean; Latin America; Middle East;
Pacific Islands; peace; research materials
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Name: WTO WATCH
Web: http://www.wtowatch.org/
Notes: The global information center on the WTO and global
trade. Hosted by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Keys: corporate globalization; trade; World Trade Organization
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Name: X-plicit Players
Address: 1109 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 848-1985 [12/00]
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.xplicitplayers.com/
Notes: A performance group experimenting with alternative
functions of touch and customs that grow out of availability to the
naked body of others. Has performed outdoor street actions such as
top-free picnics and nude-ins as well as many indoor 'Acts of
Intimacy' rituals.
Keys: censorship; First Amendment; nudism; relationships;
theatre
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Name: Yes On Proposition 12! (The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000)
Web: http://www.safeparks.org/
Notes: This measure on the March 7, 2000 California ballot
provides funds for all the state agencies which protect land and
recreational resources for future generations, and also makes
grants to local agencies which perform the same functions.
Keys: air; grants / financial aid; initiatives; neighborhoods;
parks; water
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Name: Yes on Proposition 13! (The Safe Drinking Water Bond Act of 2000)
Web: http://www.prop13.org/
Notes: This measure on the March 2000 California ballot will
provide a safe drinking water supply to all Californians, increase
the reliability of our water supply in the event of a drought or
emergency, provide common sense flood protection by avoiding
development in the path of floods and by building necessary flood
control projects, improve the quality of our rivers, streams, and
coastal waters, and protect and restore fisheries and wildlife
habitat along rivers and streams.
Keys: development; endangered species / habitat; initiatives;
water; wilderness
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Name: Youth Alive!
Address: 3300 Elm Street
Oakland, CA 94609
Voice: (510 594-2588 [2/99]
Fax: (510) 594-0667
Email: mail@youthalive.org
Web: http://www.youthalive.org
Notes: A youth violence prevention and leadership development
agency. Mission is to prevent youth violence and generate youth
leadership in California communities.
Keys: prevention; violence; youth
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Name: Youth Employment Partnership, Inc., The
Address: 1411 Fruitvale Avenue (near East 14th Street)
Oakland, CA 94601
Voice: (510) 533-3447 [12/98]
Fax: (510) 533-3469
Notes: An employment training agency that helps at-risk youth in
poverty to overcome barriers to economic independence. Teaches
workplace behavior, job search strategies, and basic business and
life skills. Has a summer jobs program, and places homework tutors
in libraries. Provides secondhand career clothing, a resume update
station, career mentors, and job leads. Works in partnership with
over 300 employers and the City of Oakland.
Keys: classes / courses; clothing; employment; mentoring;
poverty; youth
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Name: Youth Homes, Inc.
Address: 1543 Sunnyvale Avenue, Suite 101
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Voice: (925) 933-2627 [10/00]
Fax: (925) 933-5824
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.youthhomes.org/
Notes: A non-profit organization committed to serving the needs
of abused, neglected, and delinquent children by providing
comprehensive quality group-home treatment programs and services
that promote the well-being of individuals, families, and the
County of Contra Costa.
Keys: children; Contra Costa County; family; services; youth
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Name: Youth Leadership Institute (YLI)
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 708 (near Powell)
San Francisco, CA 94102-2902
Voice: (415) 397-2256 [2/00]
Fax: (415) 397-6674
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.yli.org
Notes: A community based institute which joins with young
people to build communities which respect, honor and support youth.
YLI reaches out to youth who have not traditionally been viewed as
leaders and involves them in shaping community change. Recognized
as national models of youth-adult partnerships, YLI programs use
strategies ranging from community organizing to youth philanthropy,
youth-in-governance, and public policy advocacy. YLI also provides
extensive training to interested groups in youth development and
related topics. A second office is at 1115 Third Street, San
Rafael 94901, voice (415) 455-1676 and fax (415) 455-1683.
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; policy; youth
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Name: Youth Organizing Committee (Y.O.C.)
Address: POBox 2772
Berkeley, CA 94702
Voice: (510) 581-4566 [8/00]
Fax: (510) 893-5362 or (408) 954-1538
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Organizing throughout the Bay Area and Califas to
challenge education cuts and massive prison spending as well as the
anti-immigrant backlash. Working to incorporate Ethnic Studies
classes into the school systems and already teaches Raza Studies
classes in three Bay Area schools. Currently working in Pittsburg,
Concord, Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Daly City, San Bruno,
Hayward, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Ana.
Keys: Chicanas / Chicanos; educational curriculum; elections;
immigrants; incarceration; multiculturalism; people of color;
public education; students
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Name: Youth United for Community Action (YUCA)
Address: 1923 University Avenue
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Voice: (650) 322-9165 [1/99]
Fax: (650) 322-1820
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Led and run by young people of color, YUCA provides a
vehicle for young people of color to empower themselves and develop
productive life skills. Based in South Central Los Angeles and
East Palo Alto. Through the Irvine Fellows for Sustainable
Communities Program, YUCA provides in-depth leadership experience
for youth of color through summer-long paid internships with
community-based grassroots social and environmental justice
organizations throughout California followed by a yearlong component
Keys: environmental justice; people of color; self-reliance;
youth
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Name: YouthBuild San Francisco
Address: 1232 Connecticut Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Voice: (415) 648-7070 [1/00]
Fax: (415) 648-6303
Notes: For decades, San Francisco's ethnic neighborhoods have
been fighting the war of gentrification, with residents desperately
holding onto the multicultural, working-class character of the
areas that are so quickly being changed by new lofts, and trendy
bars and restaurants. YouthBuild San Francisco is one new program
that is empowering low-income youth with the skills to preserve
their communities, helping them to rebuild and strengthen their
neighborhoods. The program provides youth with classroom and
on-the-job instruction in construction, leadership and life skills,
and basic eductaion as it relates to life in an urban setting.
Keys: classes / courses; development; gentrification;
low-income; multiculturalism; neighborhoods; urban life; youth
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Name: Z Magazine
Web: http://www.zmag.org/ZNETTOPnoanimation.html
Notes: An independent political magazine of critical thinking on
political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United
States. It sees the racial, sexual, political, and class dimensions
of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving
contemporary circumstances, and it aims to assist activist efforts
to attain a better future.
Keys: analysis; class; economics; magazines; racism; sexism
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Name: Z Magazine Network (ZNet)
Web: http://www.zmag.org/
Notes: A community of people concerned about social change.
Keys: directories; news on-line
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Name: z san francisco
Web: http://www.zpub.com/sf/
Notes: An eclectic guide for an eclectic city. A guide to San
Francisco, including news, weather, sports, business, events, art,
music, books, food neighborhoods, community, relationships, jobs,
taxes, transportation, visitor info, camping, attractions, family,
health, media, email contacts, San Francisco history, and other San
Francisco web guides.
Keys: calendars; directories; history
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Name: ZAP Power Systems
Web: http://www.zapbikes.com
Notes: A Sebastopol, California-based manufacturer of electric
motors for bicycles as well as complete electric bicycles and
scooters.
Keys: cycling; energy; pollution; products; transportation
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Name: Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Web: http://www.zpg.org/
Notes: A national membership organization that works to achieve
a sustainable balance of population, resources and the environment,
both in the United States and worldwide.
Keys: population control
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Name: ZNet Anarchy Watch Page
Web: http://www.zmag.org/ZNETTOPnoanimation.html
Keys: anarchism
The Index
abortion rights (see also reproductive rights)
Abortion Clinics OnLine
Abortion Rights Activist, The
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Some Comments on Dr. Laura Schlessinger
advertising (see also propaganda, media criticism, publicity,
products, corporations, sneetchism, commodification, culture
jamming)
Adbusters
BADvertising Institute
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Commercial Alert
Oakland Billboard Coalition
pepsibloodbath.com
Resources for Independent Thinking
Stay Free!
Turning Point Project
affirmative action (see also people of color, women, employment,
Proposition 209 (CA Civil Rights Initiative), education, civil
rights, distribution of wealth, racism, diversity)
Californians for Justice
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary
Filipinos for Affirmative Action (San Pablo Office)
Filipinos for Affirmative Action (Union City Office)
Graduate Minority Students Project
In Motion Magazine
Women As Allies, Inc.
Africa (see also African Americans, South Africa, Eritrea,
Nigeria, places)
Africa Online
Amazigh Cultural Association in America
Arab Net
berberworld.com
Black World Today, The
California Newsreel
Economic Justice Now
International Development Exchange
Marcus Bookstores (Oakland)
Marcus Bookstores (San Francisco)
Millennia Educators, Inc.
Oxfam America
World Neighbors
WorldViews
African Americans (see also people of color, Africa, Mumia
Abu-Jamal, demographics)
Black Radical Congress
Black Scholar, The
Black World Today, The
Bolerium Books
California Newsreel
Center for African and African American Art and Culture
Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
Everything Black
Marcus Bookstores (Oakland)
Marcus Bookstores (San Francisco)
Millennia Educators, Inc.
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement
San Francisco Bay View
Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice
ageism (see youth, seniors)
agriculture (see also pesticides, gardening, food, hemp,
permaculture, farmers markets, outdoor activity, biodiversity,
Community Supported Agriculture, food security, organic
agriculture, seeds)
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee, East Bay Program
Basmati Action Group
Bay Area Coalition for Urban Agriculture
California Biotech Action Council
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
CropChoice.com
FactoryFarming.com
Fair Trade Federation
Farm, The
Farm Sanctuary
Farmworker Support Committee
Farmworkers Website, The
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
genetiX action!
Greenbelt Alliance
Humane Farming Association, The
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute of Science in Society
International Development Exchange
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Institute for Ecological Agriculture
Monsanto Monitor
National Family Farm Coalition
National Farm Worker Ministry
Native Seeds / SEARCH
Our Farm
Pesticide Action Network North America
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology
Rural Advancement Foundation International
Town Hall Coalition
Turning Point Project
UC California Policy Research Center
Union of Concerned Scientists
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, National Headquarters
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, Santa Rosa
AIDS / HIV (see also health, sex, needle exchange)
ACT UP East Bay
ACT UP Golden Gate
AIDS Emergency Fund
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
Asian AIDS Action
Berkeley Free Clinic
Bread & Roses
California Prison Focus
Catholics for a Free Choice
Center for AIDS Services, The
Community Awareness and Treatment Services, Inc.
Continuum
East Bay Community Law Center
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Growth House
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
Harm Reduction Coalition
Health Access Foundation
Health Global Access Project Coalition
Health Initiatives for Youth
Home Care Companions
Immigrant HIV Assistance Project
Immunet
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
Names Project Foundation
National AIDS Memorial Grove
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
Native American Health Center (Oakland)
Native American Health Center (San Francisco)
Pacific Center for Human Growth
PediatriCare, a program of East Bay Agency for Children
Pets Are Wonderful Support
Positive Resource Center
Pride At Work
Prison Activist Resource Center
Project Inform
Project Open Hand
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Shanti Project
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc.
Stop AIDS Project
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Tri-Cities Children's Centers
Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases
air (see also ecology, water, pollution, life necessities)
Air Quality Management District, Bay Area
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Burning Issues
Yes On Proposition 12! (The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000)
Alameda County (below Oakland) (see also counties)
Alameda County Waste Management Authority
Alonzo Printing Co., Inc.
Alternatives to Violence Project
Chopped Liver Productions
Community Resources for Independent Living
Philippine Information Network Services
Teamster Local 78
Tri-Cities Children's Centers
Volunteer Center of Alameda County (Central / South County)
analysis (see also skepticism, media criticism, science, research)
Alternative Radio
Applied Research Center
Center for Popular Economics
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Common Courage Press
Corporate Watch
DataCenter
East Bay Skeptics Society
Economic Policy Institute
Electronic Policy Network
Environmental Working Group
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
FOCUS on the Global South
Foundation on Economic Trends
Institute for Public Accuracy
Interhemispheric Resource Center
International Food Policy Research Institute
Iraq Action Coalition
Metaphor Project, The
Michael Parenti Political Archive
Mindfield Magazine
Monsanto Monitor
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Noam Chomsky Archive
North American Congress on Latin America
Propaganda Analysis Home Page
Redefining Progress
Resources for Independent Thinking
TomPaine.com
UC California Policy Research Center
Union for Radical Political Economics
Violence Policy Center
Who's Counting? Project
Z Magazine
anarchism (see also decentralization, autonomy, control
techniques, populism, socioeconomic models)
A First Amendment Center
Bound Together Books
Bureau of Public Secrets
Community Access Teknowledgy
Emma Goldman Papers, The
Free Radio Berkeley
GrauSpace
Left Bank Books Collective
Long Haul Infoshop
Loompanics Unlimited
San Francisco Cacophony Society
Slingshot
Spunk Press
ZNet Anarchy Watch Page
animal liberation (see also veganism / vegetarianism, violence,
endangered species / habitat)
Action for Animals
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Animal Rights Connection
Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition - San Francisco
Bonobo Protection Fund
Center for Food Safety
Coalition To Abolish the Fur Trade - San Francisco
Culture and Animals Foundation
EarthSave Foundation
EcoVegEvents.com
FactoryFarming.com
Farm Sanctuary
Fund For Animals
FurKills.org
Greyhound Protection League
Humane Farming Association, The
In Defense of Animals
Milk Sucks.com
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
pepsibloodbath.com
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
San Francisco Vegetarian Society
appropriate technology (see also ecology, technology,
permaculture, simple living)
California Voter Foundation
Center for Environmental Health
Green Resource Center
Institute for Applied Autonomy
NetAction
Real Goods Renewables
Western States Legal Foundation
Arab Americans (see also Middle East, Palestinians, demographics)
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Arab Net
archiving (see also history, research materials, libraries)
Abortion Rights Activist, The
Bright Path Video
Corporate Accountability Project
Cuba Poster Project
Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Freedom Archives, The
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California
Green Earth Organics
Homeless People's Network Discussion List
Labor Archives and Research Center
Long Haul Infoshop
Michael Parenti Political Archive
Project Gutenberg
RENEGADE news_service
Spunk Press
Whispered Media
art (see also censorship, film / video, murals, crafts,
creativity)
848 Community Space
Aegean Friends
American Humanist Association
Art and Education Media
Art Institute, San Francisco
Artist Resource
Artists Against Racism
Artists' Television Access
Bay Area Video Coalition
Burning Man Project
Cell
Center for African and African American Art and Culture
Center for Electronic Art
Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender Art and Culture
Central City Hospitality House
Citizens for Peace
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Creativity Explored of San Francisco
Cuba Poster Project
Culture and Animals Foundation
Dharma Publishing
Galeria de la Raza / Studio 24
Graphic Artists Guild of Northern California
Integrated Arts
Intersection for the Arts
ISART
Just Cause Oakland
La Pena Cultural Center
Maganda Magazine
Minkler, Doug
Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
Moore (various)
Moving On Center - School of Participatory Arts & Research
National Coalition Against Censorship
New College of California
New Langton Arts
Nexteviction.com
Oakland Museum of California
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
PosterNation
Ruckus Society, The
San Francisco Cacophony Society
Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists
Speak Out Speakers and Artists Agency
This Modern World
Wise Fool Puppet Intervention
World Wall for Peace --- A Medicine Wheel of Love and Peace to Circle the Earth
Asia (see also Tibet, Asian Americans, Philippines / Filipinos,
Vietnam, East Timor, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, India, China,
North Korea, South Korea, Burma, Cambodia, Japan, places, Russia)
Asian AIDS Action
Asian American Public Policy Institute
Center for Citizen Initiatives
FOCUS on the Global South
International Development Exchange
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
Oxfam America
Pacific Environment and Resources Center
World Neighbors
WorldViews
Asian Americans (see also people of color, Asia, demographics)
American Friends Service Committee
Asian AIDS Action
Asian American Public Policy Institute
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, South Bay
Asian Law Caucus
Asian Neighborhood Design
Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment
Asian Women's Shelter
Bolerium Books
Chinatown Youth Center
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
Oakland Asian Students Educational Services
Pacific Friends
Wen Ho Lee Defense Fund Committee
audio recordings (see also media)
Association of World Citizens
Chopped Liver Productions
Australia
active-sydney
Community Access Teknowledgy
Echelonwatch
Surfrider Foundation
autonomy (see also self-help, anarchism, self-determination,
noncorporate economy, community-building, decentralization,
control, direct action, microbroadcasting, self-reliance, populism,
local currencies)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today
Berkeley Region Exchange And Development
Burning Man Project
Center for Independent Living (Berkeley)
Center for Independent Living (Oakland)
Critical Mass
Hawai'i Independent & Sovereign
Institute for Applied Autonomy
People's Education Network
Rainbow Family
Redefining Progress
Balkans (see also Europe, places, Yugoslavia)
antiwar.com
Depleted Uranium Weapons
Santa Cruz Coalition to Stop the Bombing of Yugoslavia
banks (see also investment, finance, corporations, World Bank /
IMF)
Annual Reports Library
Bank Information Center
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Center for Insurance Research
Consumer Action
Creative Investment Research
International Rivers Network
National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
bay / delta environment (see also ecology, water)
Bay Institute, The
San Francisco BayKeeper
San Francisco Estuary Project
Save the Bay
beer (see drugs, food)
benefits (see also fundraising, spaces for events)
Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
Positive Resource Center
bicycling (see cycling)
biodiversity (see also agriculture, diversity, endangered species
/ habitat, conservation, seeds)
Bay Area Seed Interchange Library
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Forest Guardians
Heirloom Gardening
Marine Conservation Biology Institute
Native Seeds / SEARCH
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology
Rural Advancement Foundation International
Union of Concerned Scientists
bioregionalism (see also ecology, endangered species / habitat,
places)
Cascadia Planet
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Northwest Environment Watch
Planet Drum Foundation
biotechnology (see also technology, evolution, science, control
techniques, organic agriculture, seeds, pesticides)
Alliance for Bio-Integrity
Basmati Action Group
Bay Area Coalition for Urban Agriculture
BGH Bulletin
BioDemocracy / Organic Consumers Association
Bioengineering Action Network
Boycott the Big Pesticide Corporations
California Right To Know / Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Initiative
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods, The
Council for Responsible Genetics
CropChoice.com
EarthFirstBiotech
Foundation on Economic Trends
Genetic Engineering Network
Genetically Engineered Food Alert
genetiX action!
Institute of Science in Society
Monsanto Monitor
Pesticide Action Network North America
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology
Rural Advancement Foundation International
True Food Network
Turning Point Project
Union of Concerned Scientists
bisexuals (see also sexual minorities)
South Bay Bisexual Organizers and Activists
books (see also media, libraries, education, writers, writing)
AK Press and Distribution
Alternatives Center, The
Art and Education Media
Association of World Citizens
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Bolerium Books
Bound Together Books
Bureau of Public Secrets
Cannabis Action Network West
City Lights Bookstore
Common Courage Press
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
Corporate Predators
Creative Xpressions Publishing and Consulting
Dharma Publishing
Earth Neighborhood
Foundation on Economic Trends
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
Global Village or Global Pillage Grassroots Education Project
Graphic Artists Guild of Northern California
Guilford Publications
Hazel Henderson
Heat is Online, The
Heirloom Gardening
Hesperian Foundation
Hightower, Jim
Interhemispheric Resource Center
Labor Notes
Left Bank Books Collective
LeftBooks.com
Loompanics Unlimited
Marcus Bookstores (Oakland)
Marcus Bookstores (San Francisco)
Michael Parenti Political Archive
Modern Times Bookstore
New Society Publishers
Nolo.com
Northwest Environment Watch
Our Stolen Future
Pilgrim Press, The
Political Research Associates
Progressive Science Institute
Project Gutenberg
Revolution Books
Ronin Books for Independent Minds
Shared Living Resource Center, Inc.
Sierra Club Bookstore
Simple Living Network, The
Sonoma County Center for Peace and Justice
South End Press
Third World Network
TV Turnoff Network
boycotts (see also corporations, products, consumer protection,
direct action)
Basmati Action Group
Boycott Home Depot
Boycott San Francisco 4th Street Marriott
Boycott the Big Pesticide Corporations
Boycott the GAP
Farm Sanctuary
INFACT
Monsanto Monitor
Nuclear Free Berkeley
pepsibloodbath.com
Rainforest Action Network
Save the Redwoods --- Boycott the GAP
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, Santa Rosa
World Bank Bonds Boycott
Brazil (see also South America, places)
Surfrider Foundation
Burma (see also Asia, places)
Action Resource Center
Free Burma
business (see also products, consumer protection, collectives,
microenterprise, corporations, privatization, services, economics)
Alternatives Center, The
Bay Area Naturally
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition
Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club
East Bay Business and Professional Alliance
Green Earth Organics
Green Pages Store
GreenMoney On-Line Guide, The
Hazel Henderson
Institute for Nonprofit Enterprise
JG Press Inc.
Left Business Observer
Planet Ark
S.E.E. Green Directory
Sustainable America
SustainableBusiness.com
The Utility Reform Network
West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation
calendars (see also media, directories)
Abacia.com
Action for Animals
active-sydney
Activist San Diego
Albion Monitor
Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation
Bay Area Naturally
Bay Guardian, San Francisco
Bay Times, San Francisco
Center for Campus Organizing
Change-Links
Democratic Activists for Women Now
Direct Action Media Network
Diversions
Earth Neighborhood
EcoCalendar
Ecology Center
EcoVegEvents.com
Feminist Majority Foundation
Green City Project
KPFA
MetroVox.org
New Mission News
Protest.Net
Seattle Peace and Justice Events Calendar
SF Bay Revolution
z san francisco
Cambodia (see also Asia, places)
US Vietnam Friendship Association
camps
Ruckus Society, The
Canada (see also places, North America)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Citizens? Council on Corporate Issues
Direct Action Network
West Coast Environmental Law
capitalism (see also economics, corporations, socioeconomic
models)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
DestroyIMF
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
Marxist Worker?s Group
Union for Radical Political Economics
Caribbean (see also Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, places)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Pastors for Peace
WorldViews
censorship (see also art, media criticism, nudism, sex, free
speech, control techniques)
American Library Association
BGH Bulletin
Center for Democracy and Technology
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Index on Censorship
Loompanics Unlimited
Moore (various)
Mother Jones
National Coalition Against Censorship
People for the American Way
Prison Radio
Project Censored
Refuse and Resist!
Ronin Books for Independent Minds
Trademark Wars On The Web
Voters Telecomm Watch
X-plicit Players
Central America (see also Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Latinas / Latinos, places, Panama, Latin America)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Committee for Health Rights in the Americas
Global Options
International Development Exchange
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
National Labor Committee
National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Oxfam America
Pastors for Peace
Peace Brigades International
San Carlos Foundation
Witness for Peace
Chicanas / Chicanos (see also people of color, Mexico,
demographics)
Farmworker Support Committee
Galeria de la Raza / Studio 24
Instituto Laboral de La Raza
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, National Headquarters
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, Santa Rosa
Youth Organizing Committee
children (see also youth, demographics, family)
Action Alliance for Children
Action Resource Center
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
BADvertising Institute
Bread & Roses
Broken Bud News
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Children and Armed Conflict Unit, The
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Housing America
Independent Television Service
Indigenous Nations: Child & Family Agency
Kids' Headquarters, Inc.
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
Middle East Children's Alliance
Multi-Cultural Development Association, Inc.
Najda: Women Concerned About the Middle East
Neighborhood Parks Council
PlaNetweavers Treasure Store
Poor Magazine Online
Raphael House
Rosenberg Fund for Children
Speak to Children
Tenderloin Community Health Fair
Tri-Cities Children's Centers
Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
Youth Homes, Inc.
Chile (see South America, places)
China (see also Asia, places)
Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War
Milarepa Fund
Silicon Valley for Democracy in China
CIA / FBI / NSA (see also spying, controllers, national
government)
Cocaine Import Agency
Echelonwatch
Judi Bari Home Page
circumcision (see also men, sex, youth, health, human rights)
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
National Organization for Restoring Men
National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers
National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males
civil disobedience (see also nonviolence, law, direct action)
Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition - San Francisco
Earth First!
Livermore Conversion Project
Ruckus Society, The
civil liberties (see also free speech, humanism, First Amendment,
civil liberties)
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
American Jewish Congress
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Center for Democracy and Technology
Civil Liberties Monitoring Project
Council for Responsible Genetics
Death with Dignity Alliance
Echelonwatch
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Mother Jones
National Coalition Against Censorship
People for the American Way
Voters Telecomm Watch
civil rights (see also human rights, racism, Proposition 209 (CA
Civil Rights Initiative), affirmative action)
American Jewish Congress
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Asian Law Caucus
California Association of Human Relations Organizations
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Civil Liberties Monitoring Project
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Filipino Civil Rights Advocates
GI Rights Hotline
Impact Fund, The
Latino Civil Rights Network
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
No On Knight (Proposition 22) Campaign
Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Sweatshop Watch
class (see also socialism, populism, elitism, distribution of
wealth, demographics, sneetchism)
Black Radical Congress
Center for Popular Economics
District 6 Sentinel, The
Marxist Worker?s Group
Monthly Review
Partisan Defense Committee
Poor Magazine Online
Sonoma County Free Press
Tools for Change
Workers' International Liaison Committee
Z Magazine
classes / courses (see also education)
Action Resource Center
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
Alameda County Waste Management Authority
Alternatives to Violence Project
Art Institute, San Francisco
Artists' Television Access
Bay Area Seed Interchange Library
Bike Traffic
California Institute of Integral Studies
Cell
Center for Electronic Art
Center for Environmental Citizenship
Center for Ethics and Economic Policy
Center for International Environmental Law
Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
Chiapas Media Project
Citizens for Peace
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
Community Boards of San Francisco
Compassionate Transformation: A Buddhist Way to Heal Racism
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Democracy Center, The
Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
Free Radicals, The
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
Harvey Milk Institute
Holocene Design
Human Rights Center
Institute for Deep Ecology
Institute for MultiRacial Justice
Integrated Arts
John F. Kennedy University
Metaphor Project, The
Moving On Center - School of Participatory Arts & Research
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture
Native Seeds / SEARCH
NetAction
New College of California
Northern California Land Trust
Open Forum
Organize Training Center
Peace and Conflict Studies Department, UC Berkeley
Petaluma Progressives
Poor Magazine Online
Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center
Pro-Choice Resource Center
Public Information Network
Resource Center for Nonviolence
Ruckus Society, The
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
Social Justice Center of Marin
SoMa Partnership
Sophia Center at Holy Names College
SPIN Project
The Oaks Project
Tools for Change
Transformation Program, The
Trotskyist Organizing Committee
Video Activist Network, The
Whispered Media
Wise Fool Puppet Intervention
Women Defending Ourselves
Youth Employment Partnership, Inc., The
Youth Leadership Institute
YouthBuild San Francisco
climate change (see also ecology, global warming)
Bluewater Network
Coral Reef Alliance, The
Earth Regeneration Society
International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths
International Society for Ecology & Culture
Ozone Action
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
West Coast Environmental Law
clothing (see also life necessities, textiles, sneetchism)
Cannabis Action Network West
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
PlaNetweavers Treasure Store
Save the Redwoods --- Boycott the GAP
Youth Employment Partnership, Inc., The
coalitions (see also networking)
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Abolition 2000
ACT UP East Bay
ACT UP Golden Gate
Action Coalition for Global Change
Activist San Diego
Alliance for Golden Gate Park
American Lands Alliance
Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition - San Francisco
Anti-Dairy Coalition
Anti-Racist Action Network
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
Bay Area Coalition for Urban Agriculture
Bay Area Committee on Safety and Health
Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
Bay Area Video Coalition
Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition
Bike the Bridge Coalition
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
California First Amendment Coalition
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Campaign to Abolish Poverty / Full Employment Coalition
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Coalition To Abolish the Fur Trade - San Francisco
Community Food Security Coalition
Community Technology Alliance
Consumers International
Council of Churches of Santa Clara County
Criminal Justice Consortium
Critical Resistance Youth Force
Digital Future Coalition
Drug Reform Coalition Network
Earth Share of California
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
East Bay Bicycle Coalition
Economic Justice Now
Electronic Policy Network
End the Sanctions on Iraq
Genetically Engineered Food Alert
Harm Reduction Coalition
Health Access Foundation
Health Global Access Project Coalition
Housing California
Indigenous Environmental Network
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
International Forum on Globalization
Iraq Action Coalition
ISART
JerryWatch Coalition
Just Cause Oakland
Kids First Coalition
Latin America Working Group
Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
Mexico Solidarity Network
National Coalition Against Censorship
National Coalition for the Homeless
National Coalition of Free Men, Northern California Chapter
National Family Farm Coalition
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Neighborhood Parks Council
Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Northern California Pilipino American Student Organization
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Oakland Billboard Coalition
October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Peoples' Global Action against 'Free' Trade and the World Trade Organisation
Power to the People
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
San Francisco Coalition for Lower Utility Bills
Santa Cruz Coalition to Stop the Bombing of Yugoslavia
Save America's Forests
Save Local Music Coalition
Save Our Environment Action Center
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc.
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Sweatshop Watch
Town Hall Coalition
Western Regional Alliance of Organizations Against Police Brutality
Women's EDGE
coastal environment (see also ecology, water, coral reefs)
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Clean Water Action
Coral Reef Alliance, The
Save Our Shores
Surfrider Foundation
cohousing (see also housing, community-building, intentional
communities)
Bay Leaf CoHousing Group
CoHousing Company, The
Ecological Villager's Alliance
Intentional Communities Web Page
San Mateo Cooperative
Shared Living Resource Center, Inc.
collectives (see also business, cooperatives, noncorporate
economy, employee ownership, employment, community-building)
Black World Today, The
Bound Together Books
Cell
Center for Popular Economics
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
Community Access Teknowledgy
GroundWork Magazine
Headwaters Action Video Collective
Inkworks Press
Left Bank Books Collective
Mime Troupe, San Francisco
New Earth Press
Open Forum
Red Vic Movie House / Film Collective
South End Press
Whispered Media
Women Defending Ourselves
Colombia (see also South America, places)
Action Resource Center
colonialism (see also control techniques, national government,
socioeconomic models)
Basmati Action Group
People Against Racist Terror
commodification (see also consumer protection, advertising,
corporations, products, control techniques, do-it-yourself)
Commercial Alert
FactoryFarming.com
Seeds of Change
communications (see also media, technology, telephone service)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Center for Democracy and Technology
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Labor Video Project
Latino Issues Forum
Media Access Project
Voters Telecomm Watch
communism (see also socioeconomic models)
Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru
Communist Party USA
Marxist Worker?s Group
Niebyl-Proctor Library
Revolution Books
Revolutionary Worker Online
Community Supported Agriculture (see also agriculture,
noncorporate economy, decentralization)
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Our Farm
Terra Firma Farm, LLC
community-building (see also gardening, global community,
conflict resolution, cohousing, festivals, neighborhoods, parks,
cooperative living, support groups, family, autonomy, collectives,
diversity, municipal government, sister communities,
demonstrations, urban life, microbroadcasting, local currencies,
intentional communities, trees)
848 Community Space
A First Amendment Center
Abacia.com
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Aegean Friends
AIDS Emergency Fund
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Alliance for a Paving Moratorium
Alternatives to Violence Project
American Community Gardening Association
American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Bay Area Coalition for Urban Agriculture
Berkeley Citizens Action
Berkeley Information Network
Berkeley Region Exchange And Development
Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Cell
Center for Ecoliteracy, The
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Community Currencies
Community Food Security Coalition
Community Peacemakers
Compassionate Transformation: A Buddhist Way to Heal Racism
craigslist
Critical Mass
DiversityWorks
E. F. Schumacher Society
East Bay Urban Gardeners
Free Radicals, The
Friends of Sausal Creek
Friends of the Urban Forest
GroundWork Magazine
Habitat for Humanity San Francisco
Immigrant Rights Movement
Interaction Institute for Social Change
International Development Exchange
International Society for Ecology & Culture
Intersection for the Arts
ISART
Jewish Youth for Community Action
Kids First Coalition
La Pena del Sur
Long Haul Infoshop
Magic, Inc.
Men's Associated Exchange
National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
Neighborhood Parks Council
Our Farm
Out on the Island
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Petaluma Community Access
Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center
Rainbow Family
San Francisco Conservation Corps
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center
Save Local Music Coalition
Shared Living Resource Center, Inc.
Sustainable San Francisco
Sustainable San Mateo County
Tenderloin Community Health Fair
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
TODOS Institute
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Trust for Public Land
Unity Council, The
Urban Ecology, Inc.
West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation
West Downtown Neighborhood Alliance
Working Partnerships USA
World PULSE
Youth Leadership Institute
composting (see also organic agriculture, recycling, science)
Alameda County Waste Management Authority
Farm, The
JG Press Inc.
San Francisco Recycling Program
computer bulletin boards (BBSs) (see also computers)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
computers (see also networking, appropriate technology, computer
bulletin boards (BBSs), technical assistance, email mailing lists,
email list servers, software, Internet, technology)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Artists' Television Access
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, South Bay
Berkeley Neighborhood Computers
Center for Democracy and Technology
Center for Electronic Art
Center for Responsive Politics, The
Chiapas Media Project
Community Technology Centers' Network
CompuMentor
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Computer Recycling Center
Free Radicals, The
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Holt Labor Library
Millennia Educators, Inc.
Nonprofit GENIE
PeaceTree
Plugged In
USA/Cuba-InfoMed
conflict resolution (see also facilitation, community-building,
mediation)
Alternatives to Violence Project
California Association of Human Relations Organizations
Community Peacemakers
Institute for MultiRacial Justice
On Conflict and Consensus
Peace and Conflict Studies Department, UC Berkeley
Peace Brigades International
Tools for Change
conscientious objectors (see also militarism, draft /
registration)
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
GI Rights Hotline
conservation (see also development, ecology, land use, endangered
species / habitat, deforestation, coral reefs, trees, biodiversity)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
American Hiking Society
American Lands Alliance
California League of Conservation Voters
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Center for Marine Conservation, Pacific Regional Office, The
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park
Clearinghouse on Environmental Research and Advocacy
Committee for Green Foothills
Coral Reef Alliance, The
Desert Survivors
Earth Island Institute
East Bay Conservation Corps
EnviroWatch
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Forest Guardians
Friends of Sausal Creek
Friends of the River
Golden Gate National Parks Association
Greenbelt Alliance
InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
Marine Conservation Biology Institute
Marine Mammal Center, The
National Family Farm Coalition
Native Forest Council
Native Seeds / SEARCH
Natural Resources Defense Council
Pacific Environment and Resources Center
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Planning and Conservation League
Redwood Action Team at Stanford
Reef Check
Reef Relief
Rural Advancement Foundation International
San Bruno Mountain Watch
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
San Francisco Conservation Corps
San Francisco Estuary Project
San Francisco League of Conservation Voters
Save Mount Diablo
Save Our Shores
Sea Shepherd International
Sempervirens Fund
Town Hall Coalition
Trust for Public Land
conspiracy (see covert operations)
consultants (see also individuals, facilitation)
Alternatives Center, The
CoHousing Company, The
Communication Works
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
CompuMentor
Consultants ONTAP
DataCenter
Green Resource Center
Hazel Henderson
Immunet
Institute for Nonprofit Enterprise
Interaction Institute for Social Change
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Management Center, The
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
Organize Training Center
Oyate
Shared Living Resource Center, Inc.
SPIN Project
consumer lifestyle (see also consumer protection, socioeconomic
models, sneetchism, simple living)
Adbusters
Commercial Alert
Fair Trade Federation
Overcoming Consumerism
Reverend Billy's Home Page
Stay Free!
consumer protection (see also products, boycotts, corporations,
consumer lifestyle, tenant rights, utilities)
As You Sow
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
California Association of Mental Health Patients' Rights Advocates
California Biotech Action Council
California Consumer Health Care Council
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods, The
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Consumer Action
Consumers Digest
Consumers International
Consumers Union
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Digital Future Coalition
East Bay Buying Club
Global Trade Watch
GreenMoney On-Line Guide, The
Just Cause Oakland
Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet
NetAction
Pesticide Action Network North America
Public Advocates, Inc.
Public Citizen
Public Interest Research Group, Berkeley Chapter, California
Rainforest Action Network
S.E.E. Green Directory
San Francisco Coalition for Lower Utility Bills
The Utility Reform Network
Violence Policy Center
Contra Costa County (see also counties)
Alternatives to Violence Project
Contra Costa County Earth Day Festival
Green Party (various)
Human Relations Commission, Contra Costa County
Mount Diablo Peace Center
Multi-Cultural Development Association, Inc.
National Organization for Restoring Men
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
RESULTS (various)
Richmond Neighbors
Save Mount Diablo
STAND! Against Domestic Violence
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Volunteer Center of Contra Costa
Youth Homes, Inc.
Contract with America (see elitism, national government)
control (see also control techniques, autonomy, controllers,
self-determination)
180 Movement for Democracy and Education
Accountable Public Broadcasting Committee
SoldOutUSA.com
control techniques (see also elitism, psychology, censorship,
law, militarism, torture, incarceration, control, religion,
propaganda, colonialism, economic sanctions, corporate
globalization, neoliberalism, socioeconomic models,
commodification, violence, biotechnology, intellectual property,
patents)
Accountable Public Broadcasting Committee
Coalition for a democratic Pacifica
Commercial Alert
Community Food Security Coalition
Echelonwatch
FreePacifica
People for Bread, Work, and Justice
Reverend Billy's Home Page
Rosenberg Fund for Children
Rural Advancement Foundation International
Save Our Station
seattlewto.net
Trademark Wars On The Web
We The People
controllers (see also corporations, control, World Bank / IMF,
government, media, police accountability, religious right, CIA /
FBI / NSA, World Trade Organization)
Some Comments on Dr. Laura Schlessinger
cooperative living (see also community-building, intentional
communities)
Intentional Communities Web Page
cooperatives (see also collectives, employee ownership,
noncorporate economy)
Alternatives Center, The
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center, San Francisco
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center --- ONLINE
Rainbow Grocery
copyright (see also law, writing, right to know, intellectual
property, patents)
Digital Future Coalition
Graphic Artists Guild of Northern California
Public Domain
Trademark Wars On The Web
coral reefs (see also water, conservation, coastal environment,
endangered species / habitat)
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Coral Reef Alliance, The
corporate globalization (see also economics, global issues,
corporations, control techniques, deregulation, privatization,
neoliberalism, labor, decentralization, World Trade Organization,
NAFTA / GATT, export credit agenices)
Action Resource Center
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Basmati Action Group
Campaign for Labor Rights
Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Bay Area
Corporate Predators
Corporate Watch
DestroyIMF
Direct Action Network
Economic Justice Now
Ending Corporate Governance
genetiX action!
Global Exchange
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
Global Trade Watch
Global Village or Global Pillage Grassroots Education Project
International Development Exchange
International ECA Reform Campaign
International Forum on Globalization
League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Multinational Monitor
Multinationals Resource Center
National Labor Committee
North Coast Xpress
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Peoples' Global Action against 'Free' Trade and the World Trade Organisation
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
Public Information Network
Ralph Nader for President
seattlewto.net
Third World Network
Turning Point Project
Who's Counting? Project
Women's EDGE
WTO WATCH
corporations (see also privatization, noncorporate economy,
boycotts, consumer protection, banks, capitalism, controllers,
corporate globalization, advertising, insurance, deregulation,
commodification, public relations, shareholder advocacy, utilities)
180 Movement for Democracy and Education
Accountable Public Broadcasting Committee
Action Resource Center
Amazon Watch
Annual Reports Library
As You Sow
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Basmati Action Group
BGH Bulletin
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
Bioengineering Action Network
Boycott Home Depot
Boycott the Big Pesticide Corporations
Boycott the GAP
Brown University Biology and Community Health
Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
Center for Environmental Health
Center for Insurance Research
Circle of Life Foundation
Citizens for Tax Justice
Citizens? Council on Corporate Issues
Common Cause
Communities for a Better Environment
Consumer Action
Corporate Accountability Project
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Corporate Predators
Corporate Watch
CropChoice.com
Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
Ending Corporate Governance
Environmental Protection Information Center
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Genetically Engineered Food Alert
genetiX action!
Global Trade Watch
How to Find US Company Information
Independent Media Center
INFACT
Interaction Institute for Social Change
International Forum on Globalization
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Jail Hurwitz Campaign
Judi Bari Home Page
Labor / Community Strategy Center
McSpotlight
Monsanto Monitor
National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
NetAction
New Party
Nonprofit Ventures, Inc.
North Coast Xpress
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
project underground
Public Information Network
Reclaim Democracy!
Reverend Billy's Home Page
Rural Advancement Foundation International
SoldOutUSA.com
Sonoma County Free Press
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
True Food Network
We The People
Who Owns What in the Media
Witness for Peace
counseling
Alternative Family Project
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Berkeley Free Clinic
Berkeley Tenant Action Project
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
California Institute of Integral Studies
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Central City Hospitality House
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
Chinatown Youth Center
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Community United Against Violence
Democracy Center, The
Equal Rights Advocates
Indigenous Nations: Child & Family Agency
Men Overcoming Violence
Pacific Center for Human Growth
PediatriCare, a program of East Bay Agency for Children
Positive Resource Center
Raphael House
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Swords to Plowshares
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Transformation Program, The
War Tax Resistance, Northern California
Women Against Rape, San Francisco
counties (see Alameda County (below Oakland), Contra Costa
County, Marin County, Napa County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara
County, Santa Cruz County, Solano County, Sonoma County, Mendocino
County, county government, places, Humboldt County)
county government (see also government, counties, hospitals)
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Alameda County Waste Management Authority
East Bay Bicycle Coalition
Human Relations Commission, Contra Costa County
couriers (see also transportation)
Pedal Express
covert operations (see also intervention, spying, national
government)
Cocaine Import Agency
crafts (see also art, simple living, do-it-yourself)
Borneo Project, The
Cell
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center, San Francisco
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center --- ONLINE
Mendocino Softworks
creativity (see also art, theatre, humor, music, dance, poetry,
diversity, spoken word, life necessities, writing)
Burning Man Project
Holocene Design
Integrated Arts
Moving On Center - School of Participatory Arts & Research
Poor Magazine Online
Sophia Center at Holy Names College
creek restoration (see also water)
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Friends of Sausal Creek
Urban Watershed Project
crime (see also death penalty, law, police accountability, urban
life)
California Association of Human Relations Organizations
Criminal Justice Consortium
Global Options
International Society for Ecology & Culture
Prison Activist Resource Center
Public Education Network
Senior Action Network
Cuba (see also Caribbean, places)
Cuba Poster Project
Global Exchange
Pastors for Peace
Peoples Video Network
San Francisco Bay Area Friendshipment
U.S. Cuba Medical Project
USA/Cuba-InfoMed
Venceremos Brigade
cultural survival (see also multiculturalism, rainforests,
indigenous people)
Amazigh Cultural Association in America
berberworld.com
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
Hawai'i Independent & Sovereign
International Campaign for Tibet
Milarepa Fund
Seva Foundation
culture jamming (see also advertising, humor, propaganda, media
criticism)
abrupt: Apocalyptic Optimism for the End of History
Adbusters
BADvertising Institute
Metaphor Project, The
San Francisco Cacophony Society
cycling (see also transportation, sports, outdoor activity,
simple living)
Berkeley TRiP Commute Store
Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition
Bike the Bridge Coalition
Bike Traffic
Critical Mass
Cyber Cyclery
Dedicated Urban Bikeways Project
East Bay Bicycle Coalition
Food Chain
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
JustAct - Youth ACTion for Global JUSTice
LessCars.net
Pedal Express
Reclaim the Streets!
Regional Bicycle Advisory Committee
Right Of Way
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
ZAP Power Systems
dams (see also energy, water)
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Friends of the River Narmada
Glen Canyon Action Network
International Rivers Network
dance (see also creativity)
Aegean Friends
Bullfrog Films
Cell
Culture and Animals Foundation
Moving On Center - School of Participatory Arts & Research
death penalty (see also crime, law, Mumia Abu-Jamal, racism,
human rights)
Amnesty International
Bruderhof Communities, The
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Critical Resistance Youth Force
Death Penalty Focus
Mumia2000.org
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Prison Activist Resource Center
Prison Radio
debt cancellation (see also finance, distribution of wealth,
poverty, World Bank / IMF)
Economic Justice Now
decentralization (see also anarchism, noncorporate economy,
control techniques, autonomy, socioeconomic models, corporate
globalization, Community Supported Agriculture, organic agriculture)
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Community Food Security Coalition
E. F. Schumacher Society
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Media Alliance
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology
Through the Bagelhole
deforestation (see also ecology, rainforests, conservation, land
use, trees)
Action Resource Center
American Lands Alliance
Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Forest
Borneo Project, The
Boycott the GAP
Cascadia Planet
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Circle of Life Foundation
Earth First!
Eco Echo
Environmental Protection Information Center
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Forest Guardians
Forests Forever
Headwaters Action Video Collective
InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
Jail Hurwitz Campaign
Judi Bari Home Page
Native Forest Council
Neighbors for Responsible Logging
New Leaf Paper
Pacific Environment and Resources Center
Red Cloud Thunder at Fall Creek
Redwood Action Team at Stanford
ReThinkPaper
Save America's Forests
Save the Redwoods --- Boycott the GAP
Sempervirens Fund
Town Hall Coalition
West Coast Environmental Law
democracy (see also proportional representation, socioeconomic
models)
180 Movement for Democracy and Education
Action Coalition for Global Change
Campaign for United Nations Reform
Center for Living Democracy
Center for Media & Democracy
Committees of Correspondence, Northern California
Common Courage Press
Democracy Center, The
Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
Democratic Socialists of America
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Freedom Socialist Party
IBON Foundation, Inc.
Industrial Workers of the World (various)
Informed Democracy
Labor Notes
Mexico Solidarity Network
National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
Northern California Citizens for Proportional Representation
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
Reclaim Democracy!
RESULTS (various)
Santa Cruz Action Network
Silicon Valley for Democracy in China
Social Justice Center of Marin
We The People
Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
Workers Democracy Network
World Without War Council
demographics (see also African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian
Americans, Chicanas / Chicanos, family, distribution of wealth,
indigenous people, Jewish Americans, Latinas / Latinos, Native
Americans, people of color, professionals, political prisoners,
refugees, immigrants, seniors, students, men, veterans, women,
youth, sexual minorities, low-income, individuals, class,
multiculturalism, Kurds, urban life, rural life, sneetchism,
children)
UC California Policy Research Center
demonstrations (see also direct action, outdoor activity,
community-building)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
Critical Mass
International Action Center
Mobilization to Protest the Democratic National Convention 2000
National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
National People's Campaign
Nevada Desert Experience
Petaluma Progressives
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Committee
Wise Fool Puppet Intervention
deregulation (see also law, corporations, corporate
globalization, privatization, utilities)
Center for Insurance Research
West Coast Environmental Law
Workers' International Liaison Committee
desert (see also land use)
Burning Man Project
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Desert Survivors
Forest Guardians
Nevada Desert Experience
development (see also conservation, land use, World Bank / IMF,
gentrification, housing, export credit agenices)
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Action Coalition for Global Change
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development
Action Resource Center
Agua Para la Vida
Amazon Watch
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Basmati Action Group
Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
Bike the Bridge Coalition
Borneo Project, The
Bullfrog Films
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Development Group for Alternative Policies, The
EarthRights International
Ecocity Builders
Ecological Building Network
Ecological Villager's Alliance
Economic Justice Now
FOCUS on the Global South
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Golf War
Green Resource Center
Hazel Henderson
Holocene Design
Housing California
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
International Center for Research on Women
International Development Exchange
International ECA Reform Campaign
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths
International Rivers Network
JerryWatch Coalition
Latin America Working Group
Mercy Charities Housing California
Northern California Land Trust
Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal
OneWorld
Oxfam America
Partners in Responsible Tourism
Public Good
RESULTS (various)
San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
Save Mount Diablo
Solstice
Sustainable America
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
Third World Network
TransFair USA
Unity Council, The
Urban Ecology, Inc.
Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation
Women's Environment & Development Organization
Working Partnerships USA
World Neighbors
World Resources Institute
Yes on Proposition 13! (The Safe Drinking Water Bond Act of 2000)
YouthBuild San Francisco
direct action (see also civil disobedience, logistics, vigils,
squatting, boycotts, needle exchange, demonstrations, leafleting,
picketing, autonomy, tabling, strikes, microbroadcasting,
divestiture, fasting)
ACT UP East Bay
ACT UP Golden Gate
Animal Rights Connection
Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition - San Francisco
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Forest
Circle of Life Foundation
Coalition To Abolish the Fur Trade - San Francisco
Direct Action Media Network
Direct Action Network
Earth First!
Eco Echo
Food Not Bombs (various)
Friends of Black Bart
Friends of the Biotic Baking Brigade
genetiX action!
GroundWork Magazine
Homes Not Jails
International Development Exchange
Just Cause Oakland
Lesbian Avengers
Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
Mobilization to Protest the Democratic National Convention 2000
National People's Campaign
Political Ecology Group
PosterNation
Rainforest Action Network
Reclaim the Streets!
Red Cloud Thunder at Fall Creek
Redwood Action Team at Stanford
Reverend Billy's Home Page
San Francisco Bay Area Friendshipment
seattlewto.net
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc.
Western States Legal Foundation
directories (see also calendars, research materials)
Abacia.com
Abortion Clinics OnLine
active-sydney
Activism Links of the Open Directory Project
Activist San Diego
Address Directory For The Politicians Of The World
Artist Resource
Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation
Bay Area Naturally
Bay Guardian, San Francisco
Bay Times, San Francisco
Community Action Publications
Crosspoint, The
Earth Neighborhood
Eco Echo
EcoCalendar
eGroups Activism Directory
Everything Black
Heirloom Gardening
Helplink Information and Referral
Institute for Global Communications
Institute for Nonprofit Enterprise
Intentional Communities Web Page
Kilroy's Directory of San Francisco's Politically Active Groups
Macrocosm USA
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Men's Issues Page, The
Militia Watchdog
National Women's Mailing List
New Mission News
Nonviolence Web, The
OneWorld
Open Directory Project
Organic Kitchen
Phoenix Data Center
Planet Drum Foundation
Political Research Associates
Q San Francisco
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
ReThinkPaper
S.E.E. Green Directory
Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center
Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine
Vote Smart Web
WebActive
West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation
Women of Color Resource Center
World Without War Council
Z Magazine Network
z san francisco
disabilities (see also health, diversity, human rights)
Access Abilities
American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Center for Independent Living (Berkeley)
Center for Independent Living (Oakland)
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Community Awareness and Treatment Services, Inc.
Community Resources for Independent Living
Creativity Explored of San Francisco
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Housing California
Integrated Arts
Marcus, Neil
MHONA International
Project HIRED
Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists
West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation
Women As Allies, Inc.
Workgroup for People's Health and Rights
discrimination (see also racism)
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Asian American Public Policy Institute
Human Relations Commission, Contra Costa County
Human Rights Watch, California Committee North
National Coalition of Free Men, Northern California Chapter
Public Advocates, Inc.
Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
distribution of wealth (see also economics, elitism, class,
demographics, affirmative action, Proposition 217 (No Tax Cuts for
the Rich), living wage, taxes, economic justice, gentrification,
World Bank / IMF, debt cancellation)
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
Citizens for Tax Justice
Common Cause
Development Group for Alternative Policies, The
Economic Policy Institute
FOCUS on the Global South
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Friends of Black Bart
Health Global Access Project Coalition
International Development Exchange
JerryWatch Coalition
Margit Stange Support Committee
People for Bread, Work, and Justice
Third World Network
United for a Fair Economy
W.A.G.E.
Who's Counting? Project
Women's EDGE
Working Partnerships USA
diversity (see also multiculturalism, sexual minorities,
endangered species / habitat, creativity, men, women, youth,
seniors, disabilities, evolution, community-building, solidarity,
global community, unity, affirmative action, biodiversity)
ACT UP Golden Gate
Alternatives to Violence Project
Anti-RacismNet
Bullfrog Films
California Newsreel
Center for African and African American Art and Culture
Center for Marine Conservation, Pacific Regional Office, The
Defenders of Wildlife
DiversityWorks
Friends of the Earth
Integrated Arts
International Development Exchange
Intersection for the Arts
LaFetra Operating Foundation
Native Seeds / SEARCH
New Party
Nonprofit Ventures, Inc.
Save the Bay
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc.
Socialist Review
Theater Artaud
Tools for Change
UC California Policy Research Center
University of Creation Spirituality
World PULSE
divestiture (see also direct action, finance, noncorporate
economy, investment, shareholder advocacy)
Investor Responsibility Research Center
TODOS Institute
do-it-yourself (see also noncorporate economy, self-help,
self-reliance, simple living, crafts, commodification, local
currencies, gardening, intentional communities)
Berkeley Region Exchange And Development
Cell
Center for Living Democracy
Corporate Accountability Project
Ecology Action
Home Care Companions
Loompanics Unlimited
People's Convention, The
Petaluma Community Access
The Oaks Project
domestic violence (see also violence, rape)
Asian American Public Policy Institute
Asian Women's Shelter
Community Peacemakers
Community United Against Violence
Indigenous Nations: Child & Family Agency
Men Overcoming Violence
National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape
STAND! Against Domestic Violence
Tri-Cities Children's Centers
draft / registration (see also militarism)
American Friends Service Committee, East Bay Program
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
GI Rights Hotline
Mount Diablo Peace Center
Veterans Speakers Alliance
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
World Without War Council
drugs (see also health, hemp, tobacco, beer, needle exchange,
Proposition 215 (Medical Marijuana))
Asian AIDS Action
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Central City Hospitality House
Chinatown Youth Center
Cocaine Import Agency
Consortium For Independent Journalism
Creative Xpressions Publishing and Consulting
Drug Reform Coalition Network
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Family Council on Drug Awareness
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
GWBush.com
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
Harm Reduction Coalition
Health Global Access Project Coalition
Human Rights and the Drug War
Lindesmith Center - West
Native American Health Center (Oakland)
Native American Health Center (San Francisco)
Rational Drug Policy Reform
Ronin Books for Independent Minds
School of the Americas Watch
Swords to Plowshares
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Earth Day (see also ecology, festivals)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Contra Costa County Earth Day Festival
East Timor (see also Asia, places)
East Timor Action Network / San Francisco
East Timor Religious Outreach
TimorNet
ecology (see also air, conservation, deforestation, energy,
greens, land use, nuclear energy, ozone, pesticides, rainforests,
recycling, toxics, transportation, veganism / vegetarianism, water,
endangered species / habitat, appropriate technology, wilderness,
sustainability, global issues, Earth Day, oil, coastal environment,
bay / delta environment, climate change, pollution, science,
bioregionalism, public health, environmental justice, global
warming)
Action for Animals
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development
Alliance for Golden Gate Park
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Automobile Moratorium
Bullfrog Films
California League of Conservation Voters
Campus California TG
Cascadia Planet
Center for Ecoliteracy, The
Center for Economic Conversion
Center for Environmental Citizenship
Center for Food Safety
Center for International Environmental Law
Civil Liberties Monitoring Project
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
E. F. Schumacher Society
Earth First!, Sonoma County
Earth Island Institute
Earth Neighborhood
Earth Share of California
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
EarthLight: The Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology
EarthRights International
EarthSave Foundation
Eco-Compass
EcoCalendar
Ecocity Builders
Ecological Villager's Alliance
Ecology Center
EcoMall
EcoNet
Economics Working Group
EcoVegEvents.com
EnviroLink Network
Environment News Service
Environmental Center of Sonoma County
Environmental Defense
Environmental News Network
Environmental Research Foundation
Environmental Working Group
EnviroVideo
EnviroWatch
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Friends of the Earth
Green City Project
Green Resource Center
Green World Center
GreenMarketplace.com
GroundWork Magazine
Health & Harmony Music & Arts Festival
Indigenous Environmental Network
Institute for Deep Ecology
Macrocosm USA
Magic, Inc.
Mother Jones
Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet
Multinational Monitor
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Natural Resources Defense Council
News On Earth
North Coast Xpress
Oakland Museum of California
Partners in Responsible Tourism
Planet Ark
PlaNetweavers Treasure Store
Progressive Asset Management, Inc.
Public Citizen
Public Education Network
Public Interest Research Group, Berkeley Chapter, California
Rainbow Family
RENEGADE news_service
S.E.E. Green Directory
Santa Cruz Action Network
Save Our Environment Action Center
Sierra Club Bookstore
Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter
Sierra Magazine
Social Justice Center of Marin
Sonoma Ecology Center
Sophia Center at Holy Names College
Sustainable San Mateo County
TomPaine.com
Urban Ecology, Inc.
Western States Legal Foundation
World Resources Institute
economic conversion (see also economics, militarism)
Center for Economic Conversion
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
Common Agenda Network
Earth Regeneration Society
International Development Exchange
Livermore Conversion Project
Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
economic globalization (see corporate globalization)
economic justice (see also economics, fair trade, distribution of
wealth, justice)
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
American Friends Service Committee
Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz
Democracy Center, The
Economic Justice Now
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center, San Francisco
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center --- ONLINE
International Indian Treaty Council
JerryWatch Coalition
Just Cause Oakland
LaborNet
Mexico Solidarity Network
National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
PeaceNet
Seva Foundation
Women's Environment & Development Organization
economic sanctions (see also control techniques, economics,
trade, foreign policy)
End the Sanctions on Iraq
Iraq Action Coalition
National Emergency Coalition to Stop the War Against Iraq
San Jose Peace Center
U.S. Cuba Medical Project
USA/Cuba-InfoMed
Venceremos Brigade
Voices in the Wilderness
economics (see also labor, economic conversion, trade, poverty,
business, noncorporate economy, fair trade, capitalism, World Bank
/ IMF, finance, distribution of wealth, corporate globalization,
economic sanctions, socioeconomic models, economic justice)
Between The Lines
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Center for Ethics and Economic Policy
Center for Popular Economics
Dollars and Sense
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
Economic Policy Institute
Economics Working Group
Environmental Defense
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Foundation on Economic Trends
Left Business Observer
Magic, Inc.
Northwest Environment Watch
Petaluma Progressives
Redefining Progress
Socialist Review
Sustainable San Mateo County
Union for Radical Political Economics
United for a Fair Economy
Video Activist Network, The
Whispered Media
Working Partnerships USA
Z Magazine
Ecuador (see also places, South America)
Sentient Experientials
education (see also computers, consultants, mail-order, research
materials, students, study groups, classes / courses, books,
libraries, Proposition 187 (Save Our State), mentoring, leafleting,
affirmative action, educational curriculum, public education,
educators)
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
Applied Research Center
California Prevention Education Project
Cell
Center for International Environmental Law
DiversityWorks
East Bay Conservation Corps
Equal Rights Advocates
John F. Kennedy University
KALW
Millennia Educators, Inc.
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, California Chapter
Open Forum
SF Bay Revolution
Sophia Center at Holy Names College
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Tibetan Nuns Project
educational curriculum (see also education, research materials)
Community Boards of San Francisco
Green City Project
Hesperian Foundation
Informed Democracy
International Development Exchange
Oyate
Save the Bay
Speak to Children
Union of Concerned Scientists
United for a Fair Economy
Video Project, The
Youth Organizing Committee
educators (see also professionals, demographics, education)
Margit Stange Support Committee
Millennia Educators, Inc.
University Professional and Technical Employees
Urban Watershed Project
W.A.G.E.
El Salvador (see also Central America, places)
Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Bay Area
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
elections (see also government, proportional representation,
Political Action Committees (PACs), initiatives, voter
registration, Proposition 212 (Anti-Corruption Act), Proposition
208 (Political Reform))
Asian American Public Policy Institute
Berkeley Citizens Action
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
California League of Conservation Voters
California Voter Foundation
Center for Environmental Citizenship
Center for Responsive Politics, The
Democratic Activists for Women Now
District 6 Sentinel, The
Forests Forever
GWBush.com
Harvey Milk Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club
Mobilization to Protest the Democratic National Convention 2000
Northern California Citizens for Proportional Representation
People's Convention, The
Planning and Conservation League
Ralph Nader for President
RecallBrown.com
San Francisco League of Conservation Voters
San Francisco Online Voter Guide
TomPaine.com
Vote Smart Web
Youth Organizing Committee
elitism (see also class, control techniques, Contract with
America, distribution of wealth, right-wingers, sneetchism,
philosophy)
SoldOutUSA.com
email list servers (see also email mailing lists)
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Critical Mass
email mailing lists (see also computers, email list servers, news
on-line)
bay_area_activist
Dreamworld
eGroups Activism Directory
Homeless People's Network Discussion List
Vegan Action
employee ownership (see also collectives, cooperatives,
employment)
National Center for Employee Ownership
employment (see also labor, volunteer matching, professionals,
affirmative action, collectives, life necessities, human rights,
employee ownership)
AlterNet
Asian Neighborhood Design
Bike Traffic
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Campaign to Abolish Poverty / Full Employment Coalition
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Center for Electronic Art
Center for Independent Living (Berkeley)
Center for Independent Living (Oakland)
Chinatown Youth Center
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz
Community Technology Alliance
craigslist
East Bay Conservation Corps
East Bay Urban Gardeners
Economics Working Group
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths
International Society for Ecology & Culture
La Raza Centro Legal
MetroVox.org
People for Bread, Work, and Justice
People Organized to Win Employment Rights
Positive Resource Center
Project HIRED
Public Education Network
San Francisco Conservation Corps
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
SoMa Partnership
SustainableBusiness.com
Swords to Plowshares
UC California Policy Research Center
Working Partnerships USA
Youth Employment Partnership, Inc., The
endangered species / habitat (see also conservation, ecology,
evolution, diversity, rainforests, bioregionalism, biodiversity,
coral reefs, animal liberation)
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Forest
Bay Institute, The
Bonobo Protection Fund
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Committee for Green Foothills
Coral Reef Alliance, The
Defenders of Wildlife
Earth First!
Earth Island Institute
Environmental Protection Information Center
EnviroWatch
Forests Forever
Headwaters Action Video Collective
In Defense of Animals, South Bay
Marine Mammal Center, The
Planet Drum Foundation
Planning and Conservation League
Reef Check
San Bruno Mountain Watch
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
Sea Shepherd International
Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Town Hall Coalition
Turning Point Project
Vegetation Management Video Project Committee
West Coast Environmental Law
Yes on Proposition 13! (The Safe Drinking Water Bond Act of 2000)
energy (see also ecology, nuclear energy, science, dams,
utilities, oil, micropower)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Alliance for a Paving Moratorium
Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation
Burning Issues
EcoMall
Friends of the River Narmada
Green Resource Center
Heat is Online, The
International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
Plutonium Free Future
Power to the People
Real Goods Renewables
San Francisco Coalition for Lower Utility Bills
Solstice
The Utility Reform Network
Union of Concerned Scientists
Women's Energy Matters
ZAP Power Systems
environmental justice (see also racism, ecology, toxics, human
rights, public health)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, South Bay
Borneo Project, The
Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
Center for Environmental Health
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Communities for a Better Environment
Corporate Watch
Downwinders
EcoNet
Environmental Justice Resource Center
Environmental Research Foundation
Global Options
Greenaction
Impact Fund, The
Labor / Community Strategy Center
Midway Residents for Environmental Justice
Minkler, Doug
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights
People United for a Better Oakland
Pesticide Action Network North America
Political Ecology Group
project underground
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Video Activist Network, The
Western States Legal Foundation
Whispered Media
Youth United for Community Action
Eritrea (see Africa, places)
Europe (see also Ireland, Balkans, places, Russia, Turkey,
Greece, Yugoslavia)
Baiki: the North American Sami Journal
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Global Options
International Volunteer Program
Liverpool Dockworkers Strike Web Page
Monsanto Monitor
OZGURLUK
Samefolknet
Santa Cruz Coalition to Stop the Bombing of Yugoslavia
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
evolution (see also religion, science, endangered species /
habitat, diversity, biotechnology, sneetchism)
California Biotech Action Council
export credit agenices (see also national government, World Bank
/ IMF, finance, development, corporate globalization)
International ECA Reform Campaign
facilitation (see also consultants, conflict resolution)
Alternatives to Violence Project
Interaction Institute for Social Change
On Conflict and Consensus
Tools for Change
fair trade (see also economics, trade, economic justice)
Borneo Project, The
Fair Trade Federation
Global Exchange
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center (various)
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center --- ONLINE
International Development Exchange
TransFair USA
family (see also seniors, youth, community-building,
relationships, demographics, children, intentional communities)
Action Alliance for Children
Alliance for Golden Gate Park
Alternative Family Project
Berkeley Neighborhood Computers
Bruderhof Communities, The
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
Chinatown Youth Center
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Family Council on Drug Awareness
Foundation for International Community Assistance
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Home Care Companions
Indigenous Nations: Child & Family Agency
Men's Issues Page, The
Multi-Cultural Development Association, Inc.
National Family Farm Coalition
Our Family, The Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Family Group
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
PediatriCare, a program of East Bay Agency for Children
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
Raphael House
Straight People Against Sexual Apartheid in Marriage
Women As Allies, Inc.
Working Partnerships USA
Youth Homes, Inc.
farmers markets (see also agriculture, food, noncorporate
economy, outdoor activity, simple living)
Ecology Center
fascism (see also socioeconomic models, sneetchism, racism)
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
fasting (see hunger, direct action)
feminism (see also women)
Basmati Action Group
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
Black Radical Congress
Feminist Majority Foundation
Freedom Socialist Party
Margit Stange Support Committee
National Organization for Women, San Francisco
National Women's Mailing List
Peace and Freedom Party (various)
Radical Women
Solidarity, Bay Area
Third Wave
Women's Voices, Sonoma County
festivals (see also music, community-building, Earth Day, outdoor
activity)
Burning Man Project
Contra Costa County Earth Day Festival
Petaluma Progressives
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Committee
Tenderloin Community Health Fair
film / video (see also art, media)
Aegean Friends
Art and Education Media
Artists' Television Access
Bay Area Video Coalition
Bright Path Video
Bullfrog Films
California Newsreel
Chiapas Media Project
Cicala Filmworks, Inc.
Cine Accion
Citizens for Peace
EnviroVideo
First Run Features
Global Village or Global Pillage Grassroots Education Project
Golf War
Green World Center
Headwaters Action Video Collective
INFACT
Informed Democracy
Institute for MultiRacial Justice
La Pena Cultural Center
Labor Video Project
Media Watch
Moore, Michael
Paper Tiger TV West / Deep Dish Satelite Network
Peoples Video Network
Petaluma Progressives
Red Vic Movie House / Film Collective
Revolution Books
Roxie Cinema
Sonoma County Center for Peace and Justice
Speak Out Speakers and Artists Agency
Vegetation Management Video Project Committee
Video Activist Network, The
Video Project, The
Whispered Media
Who's Counting? Project
Women's Educational Media
finance (see also World Bank / IMF, economics, banks,
divestiture, investment, Proposition 212 (Anti-Corruption Act),
Proposition 208 (Political Reform), microenterprise, local
currencies, debt cancellation, export credit agenices)
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
AIDS Emergency Fund
ATTAC
Berkeley Region Exchange And Development
Center for Insurance Research
Center for Responsive Politics, The
Consumers Union
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Jail Hurwitz Campaign
Jubilee 2000
National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
Nonprofit GENIE
Public Campaign
Resourceful Women
San Francisco Online Voter Guide
Tobin Tax Initiative
World Bank Bonds Boycott
First Amendment (see also free speech, freedom of information,
separation of church and state)
A First Amendment Center
California First Amendment Coalition
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
First Amendment Project
Free Radio Berkeley
Freedom Forum
Institute for First Amendment Studies
Media Access Project
National Coalition Against Censorship
Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press
Ronin Books for Independent Minds
X-plicit Players
food (see also hunger, gardening, homelessness, veganism /
vegetarianism, agriculture, beer, life necessities, farmers
markets, food security, organic agriculture)
Aegean Friends
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Anti-Dairy Coalition
Bay Area Organic Xpress
BGH Bulletin
BioDemocracy / Organic Consumers Association
California Right To Know / Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Initiative
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods, The
Center for Ecoliteracy, The
Center for Food Safety
Community Action Publications
Community Food Security Coalition
Consumers Union
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Council for Responsible Genetics
East Bay Buying Club
Food Chain
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Friends of the Biotic Baking Brigade
Genetic Engineering Network
Genetically Engineered Food Alert
genetiX action!
Green Earth Organics
McSpotlight
Monsanto Monitor
Organic Kitchen
Our Farm
Phoenix Data Center
Project Open Hand
Rainbow Grocery
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Seeds of Change
Terra Firma Farm, LLC
True Food Network
Veritable Vegetable
food security (see also food, agriculture)
Bay Area Coalition for Urban Agriculture
Community Food Security Coalition
Rural Advancement Foundation International
foreign policy (see also policy, places, national government,
trade, global issues, economic sanctions)
Asian American Public Policy Institute
free speech (see also civil liberties, censorship, First
Amendment, Internet, pornography)
A First Amendment Center
Alternative Radio
American Library Association
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Burning Man Project
California First Amendment Coalition
Center for Democracy and Technology
Coalition for a democratic Pacifica
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Flag Burning Page
Frank Little Club
Free Radio Berkeley
Free Speech TV
Freedom Forum
FreePacifica
Independent Media Institute
Independent Press Association
Index on Censorship
Love Underground Vision Radio
Media Alliance
Peoples Video Network
Tree Radio Berkeley
freedom of information (see also sunshine laws, open government,
First Amendment)
American Library Association
California First Amendment Coalition
Electronic Privacy Information Center
First Amendment Project
Freedom of Information Center
Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press
fundraising (see also benefits, grants / financial aid)
California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
Cine Accion
Communication Works
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Consultants ONTAP
Earth Share of California
Grassroots Fundraising Journal
Horizons Foundation
Men's Associated Exchange
Nonprofit GENIE
Ploughshares Fund
gambling
Greyhound Protection League
gardening (see also food, agriculture, community-building,
outdoor activity, organic agriculture, do-it-yourself, trees,
seeds, noncorporate economy)
American Community Gardening Association
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
East Bay Urban Gardeners
Ecocity Builders
Ecology Action
Heirloom Gardening
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
People's Education Network
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
Seeds of Change
Gays (see also sexual minorities)
Men's Associated Exchange
Pacific Friends
genetic engineering (see biotechnology)
genocide (see also human rights)
Baiki: the North American Sami Journal
gentrification (see also development, distribution of wealth,
low-income, sneetchism, housing)
Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
Save Local Music Coalition
YouthBuild San Francisco
global community (see also world government, networking, global
issues, community-building, internationalism, diversity)
Association of World Citizens
Center for International Environmental Law
eActivist.org
Earth Neighborhood
Foundation for Global Community
JustAct - Youth ACTion for Global JUSTice
Pathways to Peace
PlaNetweavers Treasure Store
SF Bay Revolution
Through the Bagelhole
World Neighbors
World PULSE
global issues (see also global community, ecology, world
government, corporate globalization, global warming, foreign policy)
Abolition 2000
Action Coalition for Global Change
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Global Options
Informed Democracy
International Development Exchange
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
Western States Legal Foundation
World Resources Institute
World Without War Council
global warming (see also climate change, global issues, ecology,
trees)
California Global Warming Campaign
Heat is Online, The
Ozone Action
government (see also lobbying, political parties, petitions,
taxes, elections, world government, proportional representation,
welfare, policy, controllers, socioeconomic models, municipal
government, state government, national government, county
government, public education, separation of church and state)
abagOnline
Address Directory For The Politicians Of The World
American Gulf War Veterans Association
Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform
Echelonwatch
First Amendment Project
Free Burma
Global Trade Watch
Harvey Milk Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club
Human Rights Watch, California Committee North
International ECA Reform Campaign
Mobilization to Protest the Democratic National Convention 2000
National Women's Political Caucus, Alameda North
Public Campaign
Public Information Network
Public Interest Research Group, Berkeley Chapter, California
Regional Bicycle Advisory Committee
Richmond Neighbors
Santa Cruz Action Network
SoldOutUSA.com
The Oaks Project
Transportation Choices Forum
Venceremos Brigade
Vote Smart Web
grants / financial aid (see also fundraising)
Agape Foundation
AIDS Emergency Fund
Annual Reports Library
Center for Ecoliteracy, The
Center for Third World Organizing
Foundation Center, The
Freedom Forum
Friends of the Urban Forest
Global Fund for Women, The
Habitat for Humanity, East Bay
Habitat for Humanity San Francisco
Impact Fund, The
Independent Television Service
International Development Exchange
Invest in Kids
Milarepa Fund
Oxfam America
Resist
Rosenberg Fund for Children
San Carlos Foundation
Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists
Yes On Proposition 12! (The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000)
Greece (see also places, Europe)
Aegean Friends
greens (see also ecology, political parties)
Green Party (various)
Green Party of Alameda County
Green Party of San Mateo County
Green Party of Santa Clara County
Progressive Review On-Line Report, The
Ralph Nader for President
Guatemala (see also Central America, places, Mayans)
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Guatemala News and Information Bureau
International Development Exchange
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Seva Foundation
Witness for Peace
guns (see also violence, technology, militarism)
Violence Policy Center
Haiti (see also Caribbean, places)
Global Exchange
Witness for Peace
hate crimes (see also racism, sexual minorities, violence)
California Association of Human Relations Organizations
San Jose Peace Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
Working Group, The
Hawai'i (see also indigenous people, places)
Hawai'i Independent & Sovereign
Hawaiian Nation Information Group of Northern California
nativehawaiians.com
Surfrider Foundation
health (see also AIDS / HIV, disabilities, drugs, veganism /
vegetarianism, reproductive rights, pesticides, circumcision,
insurance, mental health, single payer health care, hemp,
Proposition 187 (Save Our State), seniors, public health, toxics,
prevention, hospitals, Proposition 214 (HMO Patient Rights),
Proposition 215 (Medical Marijuana), healthcare access, Proposition
65 (toxics labeling))
Abortion Clinics OnLine
About-Face
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Agua Para la Vida
Alliance for Bio-Integrity
American Gulf War Veterans Association
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Bay Area Committee on Safety and Health
Bay Area Naturally
Berkeley Free Clinic
BioDemocracy / Organic Consumers Association
Burning Issues
California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
California Nurses Association
Center for Food Safety
Drug Reform Coalition Network
EarthRights International
EarthSave Foundation
Environmental Research Foundation
FactoryFarming.com
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Global Trade Watch
Green Resource Center
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
Human Rights Center
Humane Farming Association, The
John F. Kennedy University
Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
Latino Issues Forum
Macrocosm USA
Marine Mammal Center, The
McSpotlight
Milk Sucks.com
Moving On Center - School of Participatory Arts & Research
Multinational Monitor
National Latina Health Organization
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
National Organization for Restoring Men
Native American Health Center (Oakland)
Native American Health Center (San Francisco)
NoFluoride.com
Our Stolen Future
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, San Jose/Peninsula
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at Columbia University
Public Advocates, Inc.
Public Education Network
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
Ronin Books for Independent Minds
San Francisco Vegetarian Society
Service Employees International Union Local 250
Service Employees International Union Local 250, San Francisco Office
Service Employees International Union Local 250, San Jose Office
Seva Foundation
Tenderloin Community Health Fair
UC California Policy Research Center
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, Santa Rosa
VegSource
Women's Cancer Resource Center
Workgroup for People's Health and Rights
healthcare access (see also health, human rights, reproductive
rights, single payer health care, physician-assisted suicide)
Abortion Clinics OnLine
Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
California Association of Mental Health Patients' Rights Advocates
California Coalition for Ethical Mental Health Care
California Consumer Health Care Council
California Physicians Alliance
Center for Insurance Research
Committee for Health Rights in the Americas
Community Technology Alliance
Consumers Union
Death with Dignity Alliance
Doctors Without Borders / M?decins Sans Fronti?res
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Gray Panthers (various)
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
Health Access Foundation
Health Care for All --- California
Health Global Access Project Coalition
Health Initiatives for Youth
Helplink Information and Referral
Hemlock Society USA, The
Hesperian Foundation
Home Care Companions
Housing California
LifeLong Medical Care
Phoenix Data Center
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
Pride At Work
San Carlos Foundation
Senior Action Network
Vote Health
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Women's Health Rights Coalition
hemp (see also drugs, sustainability, agriculture, health)
Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp
Cannabis Action Network West
Creative Xpressions Publishing and Consulting
Family Council on Drug Awareness
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, California Chapter
history (see also education, museums, archiving)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
abrupt: Apocalyptic Optimism for the End of History
Bolerium Books
California Newsreel
Center for Socialist History
City Lights Bookstore
Culture and Animals Foundation
Direct Action Media Network
Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
Ecology Action
Economic Justice Now
Emma Goldman Papers, The
Folk This! - Traditional Music with Attitude
Frank Little Club
Freedom Archives, The
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California
Holt Labor Library
Labor Archives and Research Center
Millennia Educators, Inc.
Monthly Review
News from Native California
Niebyl-Proctor Library
Oakland Museum of California
Oyate
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
Resource Center for Nonviolence
TomPaine.com
Trust for Public Land
z san francisco
homelessness (see also housing, poverty)
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee, East Bay Program
Art and Education Media
Bread & Roses
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Center for Independent Living (Berkeley)
Center for Independent Living (Oakland)
Central City Hospitality House
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz
Community Awareness and Treatment Services, Inc.
Community Technology Alliance
Continuum
Copwatch
Dorothy Day House
Food Not Bombs (various)
General Assistance Advocacy Project
Habitat for Humanity San Francisco
HomeBase / Center for Common Concerns
Homeless Action Center
Homeless People's Network Discussion List
Homes Not Jails
Housing California
InnVision
National Coalition for the Homeless
Native American Health Center (Oakland)
Native American Health Center (San Francisco)
People's Education Network
Poor Magazine Online
Raphael House
Religious Witness with Homeless People
San Jose Peace Center
Shelter Network
SoMa Partnership
Tri-Cities Children's Centers
hospitals (see also health, county government, Proposition 214
(HMO Patient Rights))
Abortion Clinics OnLine
California Nurses Association
Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
U.S. Cuba Medical Project
hostels (see travel)
hotels (see also travel, labor)
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Boycott San Francisco 4th Street Marriott
housing (see also homelessness, cohousing, squatting, life
necessities, urban life, human rights, gentrification, tenant
rights, development)
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
Asian Neighborhood Design
Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment
Asian Women's Shelter
Berkeley Tenant Action Project
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
California Housing Law Project
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Center for Independent Living (Berkeley)
Center for Independent Living (Oakland)
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Community Boards of San Francisco
Community Technology Alliance
craigslist
East Bay Community Law Center
Ecocity Builders
Ecological Building Network
Eviction Defense Center, A Non-Profit Law Corporation
Gray Panthers (various)
Green Resource Center
Habitat for Humanity, East Bay
Habitat for Humanity San Francisco
HomeBase / Center for Common Concerns
Homes Not Jails
Housing America
Housing California
Housing Project
Just Cause Oakland
La Raza Centro Legal
Mercy Charities Housing California
MetroVox.org
Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
Nexteviction.com
Northern California Land Trust
Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal
Phoenix Data Center
Progressive Asset Management, Inc.
Raphael House
RecallBrown.com
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
San Francisco HomeShare Program
San Francisco Tenants Union
Save Local Music Coalition
Sentinel Fair Housing
Shelter Network
Swords to Plowshares
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
UC California Policy Research Center
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Women's Health Rights Coalition
human rights (see also civil rights, privacy, torture,
circumcision, death penalty, disabilities, employment,
environmental justice, genocide, housing, hunger, living wage,
public education, self-determination, political prisoners,
healthcare access)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Action Coalition for Global Change
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development
Action Resource Center
Amnesty International
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
California Association of Human Relations Organizations
California Prison Focus
Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Bay Area
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
Corporate Watch
Crosspoint, The
DIANA International Human Rights Database
EarthRights International
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
East Timor Religious Outreach
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Free Lori!
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Human Rights and the Drug War
Human Rights Center
Human Rights Watch, California Committee North
International Campaign for Tibet
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
International Indian Treaty Council
Latin America Working Group
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Mexico Solidarity Network
MHONA International
Middle East Children's Alliance
National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons
National Labor Committee
OneWorld
Peace Brigades International
PeaceNet
Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at Columbia University
project underground
Prostitutes' Education Network
Public Good
RENEGADE news_service
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Committee
Silicon Valley for Democracy in China
Socialist Action, 9928
Witness for Peace
Women's Environment & Development Organization
Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
Workgroup for People's Health and Rights
World Federalist Association of Northern California
humanism (see also civil liberties, philosophy)
American Humanist Association
Campus California TG
Queer Notions
Humboldt County (see also counties)
Civil Liberties Monitoring Project
Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
Earth First! (various)
Environmental Protection Information Center
Jail Hurwitz Campaign
Redwood Community Radio, Inc.
humor (see also creativity, culture jamming)
About-Face
American Newspeak
Bill Hicks Web Site
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
Chopped Liver Productions
Earth Neighborhood
GWBush.com
Hightower, Jim
Mime Troupe, San Francisco
Mindfield Magazine
Moore, Michael
Northern Sun Merchandising
Reverend Billy's Home Page
This Modern World
hunger (see also food, homelessness, fasting, human rights)
Action Coalition for Global Change
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Bread for the World
Community Food Security Coalition
Dorothy Day House
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Food Not Bombs (various)
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
International Food Policy Research Institute
Oxfam America
RESULTS (various)
World Neighbors
immigrants (see also refugees, Proposition 187 (Save Our State),
multiculturalism, demographics)
Amazigh Cultural Association in America
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee, East Bay Program
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, South Bay
Asian Law Caucus
Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment
Baiki: the North American Sami Journal
California Tomorrow
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Chinatown Youth Center
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Bay Area
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz
Crosspoint, The
FireWorx
Helplink Information and Referral
Housing California
Immigrant HIV Assistance Project
Immigrant Rights Movement
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
International Action Center
La Raza Centro Legal
Labor / Community Strategy Center
Mindfield Magazine
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
National People's Campaign
Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Oakland Asian Students Educational Services
Refuse and Resist!
Sweatshop Watch
Youth Organizing Committee
imperialism (see also national government, intervention,
socioeconomic models)
Frank Little Club
Marxist Worker?s Group
incarceration (see also political prisoners, drugs, Proposition
184 (Three Strikes), control techniques, prisons)
Alternatives to Violence Project
Bound Together Books
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
California Prison Focus
Criminal Justice Consortium
Drug Reform Coalition Network
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Families to Amend California's Three Strikes
Human Rights and the Drug War
National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons
North Coast Xpress
Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners
Prison Activist Resource Center
Prison Law Project
Prison Radio
UC California Policy Research Center
Youth Organizing Committee
India (see also Asia, places)
Basmati Action Group
Friends of the River Narmada
International Development Exchange
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology
Seva Foundation
indigenous people (see also Native Americans, Hawai'i, Mayans,
demographics, cultural survival)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Action Resource Center
Amazigh Cultural Association in America
Amazon Watch
Baiki: the North American Sami Journal
berberworld.com
Borneo Project, The
Bullfrog Films
Chiapas Media Project
Chiapas Support Committee
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Galeria de la Raza / Studio 24
Hawai'i Independent & Sovereign
Indigenous Environmental Network
Indigenous Peoples Committee
International Development Exchange
International Indian Treaty Council
Native Seeds / SEARCH
nativehawaiians.com
Oxfam America
Partners in Responsible Tourism
project underground
Rainforest Action Network
Reef Relief
Samefolknet
Sentient Experientials
Seva Foundation
South and Meso-American Indian Rights Center
World Neighbors
individuals (see also consultants, demographics)
Cheetham, Ken
Marcus, Neil
Moore (various)
Silkworm Peace Institute
Indonesia (see also Asia, places)
East Timor Action Network / San Francisco
initiatives (see also legislation, law, elections, Proposition
209 (CA Civil Rights Initiative), Proposition 184 (Three Strikes),
Proposition 187 (Save Our State), petitions, Proposition 214 (HMO
Patient Rights), Proposition 215 (Medical Marijuana), Proposition
216 (Patient Protection Act), Proposition 212 (Anti-Corruption
Act), Proposition 217 (No Tax Cuts for the Rich), Proposition 208
(Political Reform), Proposition 65 (toxics labeling))
California Right To Know / Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Initiative
Critical Resistance Youth Force
Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
Just Cause Oakland
No On Knight (Proposition 22) Campaign
Straight People Against Sexual Apartheid in Marriage
Tobin Tax Initiative
Yes On Proposition 12! (The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000)
Yes on Proposition 13! (The Safe Drinking Water Bond Act of 2000)
insurance (see also health, single payer health care,
corporations)
California Coalition for Ethical Mental Health Care
California Consumer Health Care Council
California Physicians Alliance
Center for Insurance Research
Health Care for All --- California
International ECA Reform Campaign
Pride At Work
Vote Health
intellectual property (see also law, copyright, control
techniques, patents)
Basmati Action Group
Council for Responsible Genetics
Digital Future Coalition
Public Domain
Rural Advancement Foundation International
Trademark Wars On The Web
intentional communities (see also community-building, cooperative
living, family, do-it-yourself, noncorporate economy, cohousing)
Ecological Villager's Alliance
Green Resource Center
Intentional Communities Web Page
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
San Mateo Cooperative
interconnectedness (see also spirituality, sustainability)
John F. Kennedy University
Women For Peace
internationalism (see also world government, multiculturalism,
global community)
Global Exchange
Interhemispheric Resource Center
International Development Exchange
Labor / Community Strategy Center
Solidarity, Bay Area
Internet (see also computers, free speech, news on-line)
abagOnline
Artists' Television Access
Bright Path Video
Center for Democracy and Technology
Center for Electronic Art
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
Community Access Teknowledgy
Community Technology Centers' Network
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
craigslist
Digital Future Coalition
Dreamworld
eActivist.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Environmental Working Group
Foundation on Economic Trends
Google.com
Impact Online
Institute for Global Communications
Love Underground Vision Radio
NetAction
Plugged In
Public Domain
Silicon Valley Public Access Link
Through the Bagelhole
Voters Telecomm Watch
Women Leaders Online
Women's Cancer Resource Center
WomensNet
intervention (see also militarism, covert operations, School of
the Americas, imperialism, national government)
Committee for Health Rights in the Americas
FireWorx
International Action Center
Noam Chomsky Archive
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
investigative journalism (see also journalism, research)
Center for Investigative Reporting
CounterPunch
investment (see also banks, divestiture, finance, shareholder
advocacy)
Annual Reports Library
Bay Area Social Investment Forum
Creative Investment Research
Global Trade Watch
GreenMoney On-Line Guide, The
Hazel Henderson
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Parnassus Investments
Progressive Asset Management, Inc.
Resourceful Women
SustainableBusiness.com
West Coast Environmental Law
Iran (see Middle East, Kurds)
Iraq (see also Middle East, places, Kurds)
American Gulf War Veterans Association
antiwar.com
Depleted Uranium Weapons
End the Sanctions on Iraq
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
International Action Center
Iraq Action Coalition
Iraqi National Congress
Middle East Children's Alliance
National Emergency Coalition to Stop the War Against Iraq
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Peoples Video Network
San Jose Peace Center
Voices in the Wilderness
Ireland (see also Europe, places)
Irish People, The
Irish Political Prisoner Information
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
Roisin McAliskey Justice Campaign
Israel (see also places, Israelis, Middle East)
Bay Area Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu
Middle East Children's Alliance
Israelis (see Palestinians, Middle East, Jewish Americans, Israel)
issues (see also affirmative action, animal liberation, autonomy,
censorship, civil liberties, civil rights, conflict resolution,
consumer protection, crime, cultural survival, development,
disabilities, distribution of wealth, domestic violence, draft /
registration, drugs, economic conversion, corporate globalization,
employment, endangered species / habitat, environmental justice,
fair trade, free speech, global issues, homelessness, human rights,
incarceration, intervention, land reform, land use, minimum wage,
nuclear energy, nuclear weapons / testing, population control,
poverty, privacy, privatization, racism, reproductive rights,
self-determination, sexism, sustainability, torture, violence,
sizism)
Action Alliance for Children
Agape Foundation
Center for Responsive Politics, The
janitorial work (see also labor)
Service Employees International Union Local 1877
Japan (see also Asia, places)
Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War
Japan Pacific Resource Network
Plutonium Free Future
Surfrider Foundation
Jewish Americans (see also Middle East, demographics, Israelis)
American Jewish Congress
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Crosspoint, The
International Jewish Peace Union
Jewish Youth for Community Action
Tikkun Magazine
journalism (see also media, writing, Mumia Abu-Jamal, news,
investigative journalism)
Center for Campus Organizing
Center for Media & Democracy
Consortium For Independent Journalism
First Amendment Project
Free Lori!
Freedom Forum
Hazel Henderson
Independent Media Institute
Independent Press Association
Marcus, Neil
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Pacific News Service
Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press
judiciation (see also law)
Critical Resistance Youth Force
justice (see also law, economic justice)
Agape Foundation
First Congregational Church of San Francisco
Sophia Center at Holy Names College
Kurds (see also demographics, Middle East, Turkey, Iraq, Iran)
Kurdish Information Network
OZGURLUK
labor (see also economics, employment, picketing, strikes, sex
work, hotels, labor union locals, janitorial work, labor councils,
corporate globalization, living wage, sweatshops)
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, South Bay
Bay Area Committee on Safety and Health
Bolerium Books
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
California Newsreel
California Nurses Association
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Campaign for Labor Rights
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Dharma Publishing
Economic Justice Now
Exotic Dancers Alliance
Farmworker Support Committee
Farmworkers Website, The
Foundation on Economic Trends
Frank Little Club
Freedom Song Network
Holt Labor Library
Immigrant Rights Movement
Industrial Workers of the World (various)
Instituto Laboral de La Raza
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
International Labor Organization
International Labor Rights Fund
International Wages for Housework Campaign
Labor / Community Strategy Center
Labor Archives and Research Center
Labor Notes
Labor Party, East Bay Chapter
Labor Video Project
LaborNet
Liverpool Dockworkers Strike Web Page
Marxist Worker?s Group
Mindfield Magazine
Minkler, Doug
Monthly Review
Multinational Monitor
National Farm Worker Ministry
National Labor Committee
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Organize Training Center
Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical, and Energy Workers International Union
Pride At Work
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
Prostitutes' Education Network
Socialist Action, 9928
United Auto Workers International Union
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, National Headquarters
United Steelworkers of America AFL-CIO
United Students Against Sweatshops
Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival
Witness for Peace
Women's EDGE
Workers Democracy Network
Workers' International Liaison Committee
Working Group, The
labor councils (see also labor)
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
Central Labor Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
San Francisco Labor Council
South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council
Teamster Joint Council 7
labor union locals (see also labor)
Boycott San Francisco 4th Street Marriott
California Professional Employees
Graphic Artists Guild of Northern California
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6
National Writers Union
Service Employees International Union Local 1877
Service Employees International Union Local 250
Service Employees International Union Local 250, San Francisco Office
Service Employees International Union Local 250, San Jose Office
Teamster Local 70
Teamster Local 78
Teamster Local 856
Teamster Local 921
Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, National Headquarters
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, Santa Rosa
United Transportation Union Local 23 (Santa Cruz)
University Professional and Technical Employees
land reform (see land use)
land use (see also conservation, development, ecology, land
reform, parks, desert, deforestation)
American Hiking Society
Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
Berkeley Partners for Parks
Bike the Bridge Coalition
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Clearinghouse on Environmental Research and Advocacy
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Committee for Green Foothills
Earth First!
Ecocity Builders
Golf War
Green City Project
Greenbelt Alliance
Homes Not Jails
International Development Exchange
InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
Northern California Land Trust
People's Education Network
Planning and Conservation League
project underground
Public Good
Reverend Billy's Home Page
Right Of Way
San Bruno Mountain Watch
Save Mount Diablo
Shundahai Network
Town Hall Coalition
Transportation Choices Forum
Trust for Public Land
UC California Policy Research Center
Urban Ecology, Inc.
Vegetation Management Video Project Committee
Latin America (see also Central America, Mexico, places, South
America)
Center for Latin American Studies
DataCenter
Fellowship of Reconciliation
International Development Exchange
La Pena del Sur
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
Latin America Working Group
North American Congress on Latin America
School of the Americas Watch
World Neighbors
WorldViews
Latinas / Latinos (see also Central America, South America,
demographics)
Berkeley Neighborhood Computers
Bolerium Books
Cine Accion
Galeria de la Raza / Studio 24
Immigrant Rights Movement
Instituto Laboral de La Raza
La Pena Cultural Center
La Raza Centro Legal
Latino Civil Rights Network
Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
Latino Issues Forum
Mindfield Magazine
Modern Times Bookstore
National Latina Health Organization
New Mission News
People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights
law (see also crime, death penalty, government, lobbying, police
accountability, civil disobedience, legal services, lawyers,
legislation, litigation, legal defense, justice, judiciation,
control techniques, initiatives, sunshine laws, copyright, right to
know, deregulation, World Trade Organization, NAFTA / GATT,
intellectual property)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
As You Sow
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
California Legislative Information
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Death Penalty Focus
Drug Reform Coalition Network
EarthRights International
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Environmental Defense
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Family Council on Drug Awareness
Flag Burning Page
Forest Guardians
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Goforth Progressive Law Student Web Site
Human Rights Center
Human Rights Watch, California Committee North
John F. Kennedy University
LawCrawler
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape
New College of California
Nolo.com
Pacific Environment and Resources Center
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
Public Domain
Sea Shepherd International
Straight People Against Sexual Apartheid in Marriage
Surface Transportation Policy Project
United States Code
Venceremos Brigade
West Coast Environmental Law
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Western States Legal Foundation
lawyers (see also law, professionals)
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
First Amendment Project
General Assistance Advocacy Project
International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet
Media Access Project
National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Prison Law Project
Trust for Public Land
lead poisoning (see also toxics)
Consumer Action
Environmental Law Foundation
leafleting (see also direct action, education)
Animal Rights Connection
Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition - San Francisco
Institute for Applied Autonomy
Witness for Peace
legal defense (see also law, legal services)
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Partisan Defense Committee
Western States Legal Foundation
legal services (see also legal defense, law, services)
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Asian Law Caucus
Berkeley Tenant Action Project
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
Center for International Environmental Law
East Bay Community Law Center
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Environmental Law Foundation
Eviction Defense Center, A Non-Profit Law Corporation
First Amendment Project
General Assistance Advocacy Project
HomeBase / Center for Common Concerns
Homeless Action Center
Instituto Laboral de La Raza
International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet
La Raza Centro Legal
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Phoenix Data Center
Swords to Plowshares
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Western States Legal Foundation
Women's Cancer Resource Center
legislation (see also law, government, lobbying, Proposition 209
(CA Civil Rights Initiative), Proposition 187 (Save Our State),
Proposition 184 (Three Strikes), initiatives)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
American Library Association
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment
California Housing Law Project
California Legislative Information
Californians for Justice
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods, The
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Family Council on Drug Awareness
Flag Burning Page
Forests Forever
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Native Forest Council
Planning and Conservation League
Prostitutes' Education Network
School of the Americas Watch
Voters Telecomm Watch
Lesbians (see also sexual minorities)
Lesbian Avengers
Lesbian.org
National Center for Lesbian Rights
VOICES: Lesbian Choral Ensemble
letter-writing (see also lobbying)
Address Directory For The Politicians Of The World
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Livermore Conversion Project
RESULTS (various)
Save Our Environment Action Center
libraries (see also books, education, media, research materials,
archiving)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
American Library Association
Annual Reports Library
Bay Area Seed Interchange Library
Berkeley Information Network
Berkeley Public Library
Ecology Center
Friends of California Libraries
Green Resource Center
Guatemala News and Information Bureau
Holt Labor Library
HomeBase / Center for Common Concerns
Institute for First Amendment Studies
Labor Archives and Research Center
Niebyl-Proctor Library
Oakland Public Library
Oyate
Pesticide Action Network North America
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Resource Center for Nonviolence
S.E.E. Green Directory
San Francisco Public Library
Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center
SF Bay Revolution
SustainableBusiness.com
Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases
life necessities (see also clothing, food, housing, air, water,
creativity, employment, simple living, utilities)
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
litigation (see also law)
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Animal Legal Defense Fund
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Center for Environmental Health
Center for Food Safety
Center for Insurance Research
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Civil Liberties Monitoring Project
Communities for a Better Environment
Environmental Protection Information Center
Equal Rights Advocates
Headwaters Action Video Collective
Impact Fund, The
Margit Stange Support Committee
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Public Advocates, Inc.
Save the Bay
Southern Poverty Law Center
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Western States Legal Foundation
living wage (see also minimum wage, distribution of wealth,
labor, human rights)
Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment
Fair Trade Federation
International Development Exchange
National Labor Committee
lobbying (see also government, law, legislation, letter-writing)
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
American Hiking Society
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Asian AIDS Action
Bread for the World
Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp
California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
California Housing Law Project
California League of Conservation Voters
Campaign to Abolish Poverty / Full Employment Coalition
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods, The
Cannabis Action Network West
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Common Cause
Death with Dignity Alliance
Fund For Animals
Global Trade Watch
Graphic Artists Guild of Northern California
Housing America
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, California Chapter
Native Forest Council
Public Citizen
RESULTS (various)
Save Mount Diablo
Sierra Club
The Utility Reform Network
United for a Fair Economy
West Downtown Neighborhood Alliance
Western Center on Law and Poverty
local currencies (see also finance, autonomy, community-building,
minimum wage, noncorporate economy, do-it-yourself)
Berkeley Region Exchange And Development
Community Currencies
E. F. Schumacher Society
logistics (see also direct action, publicity)
On Conflict and Consensus
low-income (see also poverty, minimum wage, demographics,
gentrification)
AIDS Emergency Fund
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Asian Law Caucus
Asian Neighborhood Design
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
Berkeley Neighborhood Computers
Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
California Housing Law Project
Center for Third World Organizing
Central City Hospitality House
Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Continuum
East Bay Community Law Center
Gray Panthers (various)
Habitat for Humanity, East Bay
Habitat for Humanity San Francisco
Health Access Foundation
Housing America
Immigrant HIV Assistance Project
Instituto Laboral de La Raza
Interaction Institute for Social Change
International Food Policy Research Institute
Invest in Kids
La Raza Centro Legal
LifeLong Medical Care
Mercy Charities Housing California
National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights
Phoenix Data Center
Plugged In
Poor Magazine Online
Progressive Asset Management, Inc.
Silicon Valley Public Access Link
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
Vote Health
West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation
Women's Centers, Inc. / Women's Building, San Francisco
World PULSE
YouthBuild San Francisco
magazines (see also media)
Adbusters
AK Press and Distribution
AlterNet
American Newspeak
Applied Research Center
Atlantic Monthly
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Consumers Digest
Consumers Union
Dollars and Sense
Earth Island Institute
EarthLight: The Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology
Ecology Center
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Grassroots Fundraising Journal
GroundWork Magazine
In Motion Magazine
Index on Censorship
JG Press Inc.
Labor Notes
Left Bank Books Collective
Maganda Magazine
Mindfield Magazine
Monthly Review
Mother Jones
Multinational Monitor
News from Native California
North American Congress on Latin America
North Coast Xpress
Poor Magazine Online
Progressive Review
Samefolknet
Sierra Magazine
Socialist Review
Stay Free!
Student Environmental Action Coalition
SustainableBusiness.com
Third World Network
Tikkun Magazine
Trotskyist Organizing Committee
Utne Reader Online, The
Z Magazine
mail-order (see also research materials, education)
AK Press and Distribution
Bureau of Public Secrets
Common Courage Press
Headwaters Action Video Collective
Left Bank Books Collective
National Women's Mailing List
Nolo.com
Northern Sun Merchandising
Organic Kitchen
Peoples Video Network
Ronin Books for Independent Minds
South End Press
Marin County (see also counties)
Access Abilities
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Antenna Theater
Bay Area Naturally
Bay Institute, The
Green Party (various)
In Defense of Animals
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Marin Peace News
Marine Mammal Center, The
National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers
New Society Publishers
Pathways to Peace
Petaluma Community Access
Petaluma Progressives
Social Justice Center of Marin
Transformation Program, The
material aid (see also welfare, technical assistance)
Alameda County Community Food Bank
American Friends Service Committee
Chiapas Support Committee
Committee for Health Rights in the Americas
Community of Mindful Living
Doctors Without Borders / M?decins Sans Fronti?res
Elders for Survival
Global Exchange
Guatemala News and Information Bureau
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Middle East Children's Alliance
Najda: Women Concerned About the Middle East
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
Pastors for Peace
San Carlos Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area Friendshipment
U.S. Cuba Medical Project
Voices in the Wilderness
Mayans (see also indigenous people, Zapatistas, Guatemala)
Chiapas Support Committee
Schools for Chiapas
media (see also film / video, radio, television, audio
recordings, books, magazines, media criticism, calendars,
libraries, printers, journalism, controllers, communications, news,
university publications, publicity)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Adbusters
Center for Electronic Art
Center for Food Safety
Center for Responsive Politics, The
Cicala Filmworks, Inc.
Citizens for Peace
Communication Works
Independent Media Center
Independent Media Institute
Independent Press Association
Latino Issues Forum
Media Alliance
New Langton Arts
Ruckus Society, The
SPIN Project
Video Activist Network, The
Whispered Media
media criticism (see also advertising, propaganda, media,
censorship, analysis, microbroadcasting, culture jamming)
About-Face
Accountable Public Broadcasting Committee
Adbusters
American Newspeak
BGH Bulletin
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
California Newsreel
Center for Investigative Reporting
Center for Media & Democracy
Center for Popular Economics
Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
Consortium For Independent Journalism
DataCenter
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Hawaiian Nation Information Group of Northern California
Housing Project
Independent Media Center
Institute for Public Accuracy
Media Alliance
Media Watch
National Radio Project
New Party
Noam Chomsky Archive
Peoples Video Network
Project Censored
Resources for Independent Thinking
Rocky Mountain Media Watch
Some Comments on Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
This Modern World
TomPaine.com
We Interrupt This Message
Who Owns What in the Media
mediation (see also conflict resolution, services)
Berkeley Dispute Resolution Center
Community Boards of San Francisco
Conciliation Forums of Oakland, Inc.
Magic, Inc.
Sentinel Fair Housing
Tools for Change
men (see also circumcision, diversity, demographics)
East Bay Men's Chorus
Men Overcoming Violence
Men's Associated Exchange
Men's Issues Page, The
National Coalition of Free Men, Northern California Chapter
Mendocino County (see also counties)
Boycott the GAP
Community Action Publications
Mendocino Softworks
Redwood Community Radio, Inc.
mental health (see also health, psychology, support groups)
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
California Association of Mental Health Patients' Rights Advocates
California Coalition for Ethical Mental Health Care
Center for Independent Living (Berkeley)
Center for Independent Living (Oakland)
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
Community Awareness and Treatment Services, Inc.
Creativity Explored of San Francisco
Gaylesta, Inc.
Guilford Publications
Homeless Action Center
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
Native American Health Center (Oakland)
Native American Health Center (San Francisco)
Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine
Swords to Plowshares
mentoring (see also education, technical assistance)
Berkeley Neighborhood Computers
CompuMentor
Invest in Kids
Youth Employment Partnership, Inc., The
Mexico (see also Chicanas / Chicanos, Zapatistas, places, North
America, Latin America)
Chiapas Media Project
Chiapas Support Committee
Economic Justice Now
Forest Guardians
Interhemispheric Resource Center
International Development Exchange
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Mexico Solidarity Network
National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
Native Seeds / SEARCH
Pastors for Peace
Schools for Chiapas
Witness for Peace
microbroadcasting (see also autonomy, community-building, media
criticism, radio, direct action, microbroadcasting, micropower)
About Pirate / Free Radio
Association of Micro-Power Broadcasters
Free Radio Berkeley
Niko Radio
Radio 4 All
San Francisco Liberation Radio
Solar Powered Urban Radio Transmissions
Tree Radio Berkeley
microenterprise (see also business, poverty, finance, micropower)
Foundation for International Community Assistance
RESULTS (various)
World Neighbors
micropower (see also energy, utilities, noncorporate economy,
microbroadcasting, microenterprise)
Borneo Project, The
Middle East (see also Iraq, Jewish Americans, Palestinians, Arab
Americans, places, Israelis, Kurds, Israel, Turkey)
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee, East Bay Program
Arab Net
Middle East Children's Alliance
Najda: Women Concerned About the Middle East
Resource Center for Nonviolence
WorldViews
militarism (see also intervention, peace centers, veterans,
economic conversion, draft / registration, conscientious objectors,
peace, School of the Americas, control techniques, refugees,
national government, militias, socioeconomic models, guns)
Action Coalition for Global Change
Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee, East Bay Program
antiwar.com
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Center for Defense Information
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
Children and Armed Conflict Unit, The
Common Agenda Network
Depleted Uranium Weapons
East Timor Action Network / San Francisco
East Timor Religious Outreach
Foundation for Global Community
Free Burma
GI Rights Hotline
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
Hawaiian Nation Information Group of Northern California
International Action Center
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
International Wages for Housework Campaign
Marin Peace News
Mother Jones
National Emergency Coalition to Stop the War Against Iraq
Noam Chomsky Archive
Pax Christi, Bay Area
Peace Action (various)
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Ploughshares Fund
Political Ecology Group
Santa Cruz Coalition to Stop the Bombing of Yugoslavia
School of the Americas Watch
Union of Concerned Scientists
Veterans for Peace
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Veterans Speakers Alliance
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
War Resisters League
War Tax Resistance, Northern California
World Federalist Association of Northern California
World Without War Council
militias (see also militarism, right-wingers)
Militia Watchdog
Public Good
Southern Poverty Law Center
minimum wage (see distribution of wealth, labor, low-income,
local currencies, living wage)
multiculturalism (see also people of color, cultural survival,
internationalism, diversity, immigrants, demographics,
socioeconomic models, sneetchism)
Alternatives to Violence Project
Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
Asian Neighborhood Design
Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
California Tomorrow
Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club
Creative Investment Research
Dharma Publishing
Freedom Song Network
Global Options
Graduate Minority Students Project
Health & Harmony Music & Arts Festival
Independent Television Service
International Volunteer Program
KUSF
La Pena Cultural Center
Mime Troupe, San Francisco
Modern Times Bookstore
Multi-Cultural Development Association, Inc.
New College of California
Nonprofit Ventures, Inc.
PEN Oakland
People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights
Theater Artaud
Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
Youth Organizing Committee
YouthBuild San Francisco
Mumia Abu-Jamal (see also African Americans, death penalty,
journalism, political prisoners)
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Political Prisoners, South Bay
Mumia Abu Jamal Web Page
Mumia2000.org
National People's Campaign
Partisan Defense Committee
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Prison Activist Resource Center
municipal government (see also government, police accountability,
sister communities, urban life)
Air Quality Management District, Bay Area
Berkeley Citizens Action
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
District 6 Sentinel, The
Friends of Black Bart
Friends of Sausal Creek
InBerkeley
Just Cause Oakland
NoFluoride.com
Nuclear Free Berkeley
RecallBrown.com
San Francisco Coalition for Lower Utility Bills
murals (see also art, community-building)
Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center
museums (see also history)
Oakland Museum of California
music (see also punk, festivals, radio, creativity)
848 Community Space
Aegean Friends
Artists Against Racism
Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
Bread & Roses
Bullfrog Films
Cell
Chopped Liver Productions
Culture and Animals Foundation
East Bay Men's Chorus
Folk This! - Traditional Music with Attitude
Freedom Song Network
GrauSpace
Health & Harmony Music & Arts Festival
La Pena Cultural Center
Mime Troupe, San Francisco
Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
New Langton Arts
Rebecca Riots
Save Local Music Coalition
Solar Powered Urban Radio Transmissions
VOICES: Lesbian Choral Ensemble
Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival
NAFTA / GATT (see also World Trade Organization, trade, law,
corporate globalization)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Napa County (see also counties)
Community Action Publications
national government (see also government, Contract with America,
covert operations, spying, CIA / FBI / NSA, militarism,
imperialism, colonialism, foreign policy, export credit agenices)
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
Center for Responsive Politics, The
Common Cause
Golden Gate National Parks Association
GWBush.com
International Forum on Globalization
National Organic Program
People for Bread, Work, and Justice
Ralph Nader for President
Shundahai Network
United States Code
nationalism (see also socioeconomic models, sneetchism)
Black Radical Congress
Native Americans (see also indigenous people, demographics)
Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation
Indigenous Nations: Child & Family Agency
International Indian Treaty Council
Intertribal Friendship House
InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
Native American Health Center (Oakland)
Native American Health Center (San Francisco)
News from Native California
Oyate
Peace Brigades International
Shundahai Network
needle exchange (see also AIDS / HIV, drugs, direct action)
ACT UP East Bay
Harm Reduction Coalition
San Francisco AIDS Foundation HIV Prevention Project
neighborhoods (see also community-building, parks, urban life)
Alliance for Golden Gate Park
Community Boards of San Francisco
Friends of the Urban Forest
Kilroy's Directory of San Francisco's Politically Active Groups
Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
Neighborhood Parks Council
New Mission News
Northern California Land Trust
Organize Training Center
Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center
San Francisco Bay View
San Francisco Tree Council
Terra Firma Farm, LLC
Unity Council, The
Urban Ecology, Inc.
West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation
West Downtown Neighborhood Alliance
Yes On Proposition 12! (The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000)
YouthBuild San Francisco
neoliberalism (see also World Bank / IMF, socioeconomic models,
control techniques, corporate globalization)
Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Bay Area
Economic Justice Now
Jubilee 2000
National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
networking (see also coalitions, global community, computers,
noncorporate economy)
A First Amendment Center
Abacia.com
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development
Activist San Diego
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Berkeley Information Network
Bioengineering Action Network
California Public Health Association - North
Californians for Justice
Cannabis Action Network West
Center for Campus Organizing
Cheetham, Ken
Committees of Correspondence, Northern California
Common Agenda Network
Community Access Teknowledgy
Community Technology Alliance
CompuMentor
Earth Regeneration Society
East Timor Action Network / San Francisco
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Forests Forever
Free Radicals, The
Freedom Song Network
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network / San Francisco - East Bay
Global Village or Global Pillage Grassroots Education Project
Green City Project
Homeless People's Network Discussion List
Independent Media Center
Institute for Global Communications
Institute for Nonprofit Enterprise
Interaction Institute for Social Change
International Rivers Network
Latino Civil Rights Network
Long Haul Infoshop
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Nonviolence Web, The
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Open Directory Project
Paper Tiger TV West / Deep Dish Satelite Network
Partners in Responsible Tourism
PeaceTree
Pesticide Action Network North America
Philippine Information Network Services
Protest.Net
Rainforest Action Network
Resource Center for Nonviolence
Seattle Peace and Justice Events Calendar
Senior Action Network
Video Activist Network, The
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
Workers Democracy Network
Workgroup for People's Health and Rights
World Neighbors
news (see also journalism, research materials, media, news
on-line, newsletters, newspapers)
Between The Lines
Center for Investigative Reporting
Center for Responsive Politics, The
Consortium For Independent Journalism
EcoMall
EnviroVideo
KPFA
News On Earth
Newslink
Pacific News Service
Queer Notions
Rocky Mountain Media Watch
Solar Powered Urban Radio Transmissions
We Interrupt This Message
news on-line (see also news, Internet, email mailing lists)
active-sydney
Africa Online
Albion Monitor
AlterNet
antiwar.com
Arab Net
bay_area_activist
Black World Today, The
California Housing Law Project
Cascadia Planet
Common Dreams News Center
Corporate Watch
CropChoice.com
Direct Action Media Network
District 6 Sentinel, The
Earth Neighborhood
EarthFirstBiotech
Electronic Policy Network
EnviroLink Network
Environment News Service
Environmental News Network
Environmental Research Foundation
Feminist Majority Foundation
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Human Rights Watch, California Committee North
Independent Media Center
indybay media
LaborNet
Love Underground Vision Radio
Multinational Monitor
Nation Newsweekly Online, The
Nonviolence Web, The
OneWorld
Planet Ark
Progressive and Left News Sources on dmoz
Progressive Review On-Line Report, The
Protest.Net
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
RENEGADE news_service
SustainableBusiness.com
TomPaine.com
True Food Network
WebActive
WorkingForChange
Z Magazine Network
newsletters (see also media, news)
Bay Area Committee on Safety and Health
Broken Bud News
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Center for Insurance Research
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
CounterPunch
DataCenter
Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
East Bay Bicycle Coalition
Green Earth Organics
Heirloom Gardening
Institute for First Amendment Studies
Left Business Observer
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Marin Peace News
Media Watch
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, California Chapter
NetAction
News On Earth
Nonprofit GENIE
Our Family, The Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Family Group
San Jose Peace Center
Save the Bay
Sonoma County Center for Peace and Justice
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Vegan Action
Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases
newspapers (see also media, news)
Action Alliance for Children
American Newspeak
Bay Area Reporter
Bay Guardian, San Francisco
Bay Times, San Francisco
Change-Links
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
Death Penalty Focus
East Bay Express
Friends of the People's Weekly World
Irish People, The
Iskra
New Mission News
Organizer Newspaper, The
Progressive Populist, The
San Francisco Bay View
San Francisco Tenants Union
Slingshot
Socialist Action, 9928
Turning Point Project
Urban View
VegNews
Women's Voices, Sonoma County
Nicaragua (see also Central America, places)
Agua Para la Vida
Consortium For Independent Journalism
Elders for Survival
International Development Exchange
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
Witness for Peace
Nigeria (see Africa, places)
noncorporate economy (see also autonomy, collectives,
corporations, decentralization, economics, networking, divestiture,
farmers markets, do-it-yourself, simple living, local currencies,
Community Supported Agriculture, intentional communities, seeds,
gardening, cooperatives, micropower)
City CarShare
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Conciliation Forums of Oakland, Inc.
craigslist
Dreamworld
Economic Justice Now
Free Radicals, The
Loompanics Unlimited
Love Underground Vision Radio
National Family Farm Coalition
Open Forum
Our Farm
Seeds of Change
Terra Firma Farm, LLC
nonviolence (see also civil disobedience, peace, philosophy)
Agape Foundation
Alternatives to Violence Project
Animal Rights Connection
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
Community Peacemakers
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Nevada Desert Experience
New Society Publishers
Nonviolence International
Nonviolence Web, The
Peace Brigades International
Resource Center for Nonviolence
Ruckus Society, The
Sonoma County Center for Peace and Justice
Western States Legal Foundation
North America (see places, Canada, Mexico)
North Korea (see Asia, places)
nuclear energy (see also energy, ecology, technology, nuclear
weapons / testing, utilities)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
American Gulf War Veterans Association
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc.
Depleted Uranium Weapons
Downwinders
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
INFACT
Nuclear Guardianship Project
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Plutonium Free Future
San Jose Peace Center
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Union of Concerned Scientists
WasteLink
Western States Legal Foundation
nuclear weapons / testing (see also nuclear energy, militarism,
toxics)
Abolition 2000
American Gulf War Veterans Association
Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation
Bay Area Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu
Depleted Uranium Weapons
Downwinders
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
Livermore Conversion Project
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nevada Desert Experience
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Nuclear Free Berkeley
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Ploughshares Fund
San Jose Peace Center
Shundahai Network
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Veterans for Peace
Video Project, The
WasteLink
Wen Ho Lee Defense Fund Committee
Western States Legal Foundation
Women For Peace
Women's Educational Media
nudism (see also censorship, simple living)
BARE-2-BREAKERS
Naturist Society
Western Association for Nude Recreation
X-plicit Players
oil (see also ecology, utilities, energy)
Action Resource Center
Amazon Watch
Bluewater Network
Heat is Online, The
National Station Car Association, The
Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical, and Energy Workers International Union
project underground
open government (see also sunshine laws, freedom of information)
Public Citizen
organic agriculture (see also agriculture, gardening, food,
sustainability, decentralization, pesticides, composting,
biotechnology)
Bay Area Organic Xpress
BioDemocracy / Organic Consumers Association
California Certified Organic Farmers
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
Community Action Publications
East Bay Buying Club
Ecological Villager's Alliance
Ecology Action
Food Chain
Green Earth Organics
Heirloom Gardening
Mendocino Softworks
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture
National Organic Program
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Organic Farming Research Foundation
Organic Kitchen
Rainbow Grocery
Red Vic Movie House / Film Collective
Seeds of Change
Terra Firma Farm, LLC
Veritable Vegetable
outdoor activity (see also street theater, festivals, parks,
gardening, demonstrations, sports, travel, vigils, cycling, farmers
markets, agriculture)
American Hiking Society
BARE-2-BREAKERS
Burning Man Project
Green Tortoise Adventure Travel
PosterNation
Rainbow Family
Save the Bay
Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter
Sierra Magazine
ozone (see also ecology)
Earth Regeneration Society
Ozone Action
Pacific Islands (see also Asia, places)
American Friends Service Committee
Asian Law Caucus
Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment
Borneo Project, The
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
WorldViews
Palestinians (see also Middle East, Israelis)
Kids' Headquarters, Inc.
Middle East Children's Alliance
Najda: Women Concerned About the Middle East
Panama (see Central America, places)
parks (see also community-building, neighborhoods, land use,
sports, outdoor activity, urban life, trees)
Action for Animals
Alliance for Golden Gate Park
Berkeley Partners for Parks
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park
Friends of the Urban Forest
Golden Gate National Parks Association
Greenbelt Alliance
Mime Troupe, San Francisco
National AIDS Memorial Grove
Neighborhood Parks Council
People's Education Network
San Francisco Tree Council
Save Mount Diablo
Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Tree Radio Berkeley
Trust for Public Land
Yes On Proposition 12! (The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000)
patents (see also copyright, intellectual property, control
techniques, law, technology)
Health Global Access Project Coalition
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
peace (see also militarism, peace centers, nonviolence)
Aegean Friends
Agape Foundation
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Citizens for Peace
Community of Mindful Living
Community Peacemakers
Grandmothers for Peace International
Gray Panthers (various)
Informed Democracy
International Jewish Peace Union
Macrocosm USA
Marin Peace News
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Nonviolence Web, The
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Pathways to Peace
Pax Christi, Bay Area
Peace Action (various)
Peace and Conflict Studies Department, UC Berkeley
PeaceNet
Ploughshares Fund
Silkworm Peace Institute
Veterans for Peace
War Resisters League
Western States Legal Foundation
World Wall for Peace --- A Medicine Wheel of Love and Peace to Circle the Earth
WorldViews
peace centers (see also militarism, peace)
Mount Diablo Peace Center
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
San Jose Peace Center
Sonoma County Center for Peace and Justice
Women For Peace
people of color (see also African Americans, multiculturalism,
Palestinians, racism, Asian Americans, Chicanas / Chicanos, Latinas
/ Latinos, affirmative action, demographics)
Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
Center for Third World Organizing
Housing California
In Motion Magazine
Institute for MultiRacial Justice
Just Cause Oakland
People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights
Women As Allies, Inc.
Women of Color Resource Center
Women's Centers, Inc. / Women's Building, San Francisco
Youth Organizing Committee
Youth United for Community Action
permaculture (see also sustainability, agriculture, appropriate
technology)
Green Resource Center
Holocene Design
International Institute for Ecological Agriculture
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Peru (see also South America, places)
Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru
Free Lori!
pesticides (see also agriculture, health, toxics, organic
agriculture, biotechnology)
Boycott the Big Pesticide Corporations
Boycott the GAP
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Natural Resources Defense Council
NoFluoride.com
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Pesticide Action Network North America
Pesticide Watch
Turning Point Project
petitions (see also government, initiatives)
A First Amendment Center
Californians for Justice
Forests Forever
Just Cause Oakland
Livermore Conversion Project
People's Education Network
RecallBrown.com
School of the Americas Watch
Philippines / Filipinos (see also Asia, places)
Filipino Civil Rights Advocates
Filipinos for Affirmative Action (San Pablo Office)
Filipinos for Affirmative Action (Union City Office)
Golf War
IBON Foundation, Inc.
International Development Exchange
Maganda Magazine
Northern California Pilipino American Student Organization
Philippine Information Network Services
philosophy (see also socioeconomic models, nonviolence,
psychology, simple living, veganism / vegetarianism, elitism,
humanism)
California Institute of Integral Studies
Culture and Animals Foundation
Progressive Science Institute
Vajrapani Institute
physician-assisted suicide (see also healthcare access)
Death with Dignity Alliance
Hemlock Society USA, The
picketing (see labor, direct action)
places (see Africa, Asia, Balkans, bioregionalism, Brazil, Burma,
Cambodia, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, China, Colombia,
counties, Cuba, East Timor, El Salvador, Eritrea, Europe,
Guatemala, Haiti, Hawai'i, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Japan,
Mexico, Middle East, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, Pacific
Islands, Peru, Philippines / Filipinos, Puerto Rico, South Africa,
South America, South Korea, spaces for events, tourism, travel,
Vietnam, Russia, North America, Canada, Israel, Turkey, Panama,
Ecuador, Latin America, Greece, foreign policy, Yugoslavia)
poetry (see also creativity, spoken word)
City Lights Bookstore
Culture and Animals Foundation
Maganda Magazine
PEN Oakland
police accountability (see also crime, law, controllers,
municipal government)
American Friends Service Committee
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
California Association of Human Relations Organizations
Civil Liberties Monitoring Project
Copwatch
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Judi Bari Home Page
Livermore CopWatch
National People's Campaign
October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality
People United for a Better Oakland
Refuse and Resist!
Western Regional Alliance of Organizations Against Police Brutality
policy (see also government, foreign policy)
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Action Alliance for Children
Alliance for a Paving Moratorium
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Applied Research Center
Asian AIDS Action
Asian American Public Policy Institute
Bank Information Center
Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
California Association of Mental Health Patients' Rights Advocates
California Certified Organic Farmers
Campaign to Abolish Poverty / Full Employment Coalition
Catholic Charities of San Jose
Catholics for a Free Choice
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Center for Ethics and Economic Policy
Center for Insurance Research
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
Clean Water Action
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Consumers International
Criminal Justice Consortium
Development Group for Alternative Policies, The
Digital Future Coalition
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Drug Reform Coalition Network
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Ecological Building Network
Economic Justice Now
Economic Policy Institute
Electronic Policy Network
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
FOCUS on the Global South
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Friends of the River
General Assistance Advocacy Project
Health Global Access Project Coalition
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Public Accuracy
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Interhemispheric Resource Center
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Rivers Network
Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
Latino Issues Forum
Lindesmith Center - West
Middle East Children's Alliance
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Coalition for the Homeless
NetAction
North American Congress on Latin America
Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Pacific Environment and Resources Center
Pilgrim Press, The
Policy.com
Project Inform
Rational Drug Policy Reform
Redefining Progress
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
Save Local Music Coalition
Save Our Shores
Social Justice Center of Marin
Solstice
Surface Transportation Policy Project
UC California Policy Research Center
Union for Radical Political Economics
Violence Policy Center
Vote Health
Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
West Coast Environmental Law
Women's Environment & Development Organization
Working Partnerships USA
World Bank Bonds Boycott
Youth Leadership Institute
Political Action Committees (PACs) (see also elections,
Proposition 212 (Anti-Corruption Act))
Center for Responsive Politics, The
National Women's Political Caucus, Alameda North
political parties (see also government, greens)
Berkeley Citizens Action
Communist Party USA
Democratic Activists for Women Now
Frank Little Club
Green Party (various)
Green Party of Alameda County
Green Party of San Mateo County
Green Party of Santa Clara County
Labor Party, East Bay Chapter
New Party
Organizer Newspaper, The
Peace and Freedom Party (various)
People's Convention, The
Socialist Action, 9928
Workers World Party
political prisoners (see also incarceration, Mumia Abu-Jamal,
demographics, human rights)
A First Amendment Center
Amnesty International
Bay Area Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu
Chiapas Support Committee
FireWorx
Free Howard Mechanic
Free Lori!
Irish Political Prisoner Information
Justice for Silvia!
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Political Prisoners, South Bay
Mumia Abu Jamal Web Page
National People's Campaign
Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners
Partisan Defense Committee
Prison Activist Resource Center
Roisin McAliskey Justice Campaign
pollution (see also ecology, air, water)
Air Quality Management District, Bay Area
Bluewater Network
Burning Issues
EnviroWatch
International Society for Ecology & Culture
Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice
ZAP Power Systems
population control (see also sustainability)
Childfree
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Zero Population Growth
populism (see also anarchism, socioeconomic models, autonomy)
Ending Corporate Governance
Hightower, Jim
New Party
Progressive Populist, The
Progressive Review On-Line Report, The
Richmond Neighbors
pornography (see also sex, free speech, sexism)
Kids' Headquarters, Inc.
poverty (see also homelessness, economics, microenterprise,
low-income, debt cancellation)
Action Coalition for Global Change
American Jewish Congress
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Campaign to Abolish Poverty / Full Employment Coalition
Catholic Charities of San Jose
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz
Community Awareness and Treatment Services, Inc.
DestroyIMF
Foundation for International Community Assistance
Habitat for Humanity San Francisco
Hesperian Foundation
HomeBase / Center for Common Concerns
Impact Fund, The
International Action Center
International Development Exchange
International Food Policy Research Institute
Jubilee 2000
Labor / Community Strategy Center
Multi-Cultural Development Association, Inc.
San Carlos Foundation
Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists
TransFair USA
Western Center on Law and Poverty
World Neighbors
Youth Employment Partnership, Inc., The
prevention (see also health, sustainability)
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
California Prevention Education Project
Chinatown Youth Center
Community Boards of San Francisco
Community United Against Violence
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
Human Relations Commission, Contra Costa County
Men Overcoming Violence
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
San Francisco AIDS Foundation HIV Prevention Project
Seva Foundation
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Stop AIDS Project
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Women Against Rape, San Francisco
World Wall for Peace --- A Medicine Wheel of Love and Peace to Circle the Earth
Youth Alive!
printers (see also products, media, recycling)
Alonzo Printing Co., Inc.
Center for Electronic Art
Central EcoPrint
Inkworks Press
New Earth Press
Nonviolence Web, The
prisons (see also incarceration)
Alternatives to Violence Project
Critical Resistance Youth Force
National People's Campaign
Prison Activist Resource Center
privacy (see also human rights, spying)
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
The Utility Reform Network
privatization (see also corporations, business, corporate
globalization, deregulation, utilities)
Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
Power to the People
Workers' International Liaison Committee
products (see also books, consumer protection, business,
services, thrift stores, boycotts, advertising, commodification)
A First Amendment Center
Art and Education Media
Bay Area Naturally
Bay Area Organic Xpress
Brown University Biology and Community Health
Bullfrog Films
Cannabis Action Network West
Coalition To Abolish the Fur Trade - San Francisco
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
Community Action Publications
Consumers Digest
Consumers Union
craigslist
Earth Neighborhood
East Bay Buying Club
EcoMall
First Run Features
Global Exchange
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center (various)
Global Exchange Fair Trade Craft Center --- ONLINE
GrauSpace
Green Pages Store
GreenMarketplace.com
GWBush.com
Holocene Design
LeftBooks.com
Long Haul Infoshop
Mendocino Softworks
Michael Parenti Political Archive
New Leaf Paper
Northern Sun Merchandising
Pangea Vegan Products
Pilgrim Press, The
PlaNetweavers Treasure Store
Rainbow Grocery
Real Goods Renewables
Rebecca Riots
S.E.E. Green Directory
San Francisco Recycling Program
Seeds of Change
Simple Living Network, The
South End Press
TransFair USA
VegNews
Veritable Vegetable
Video Project, The
ZAP Power Systems
professionals (see also employment, consultants, psychology,
writers, lawyers, educators, demographics)
American Community Gardening Association
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Bay Area Naturally
California Coalition for Ethical Mental Health Care
California Nurses Association
California Physicians Alliance
California Public Health Association - North
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Doctors Without Borders / M?decins Sans Fronti?res
East Bay Business and Professional Alliance
Ecological Building Network
Economics Working Group
Environmental Defense
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Gaylesta, Inc.
Growth House
Investor Responsibility Research Center
National Abortion Federaion
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press
Rosenberg Fund for Children
Survivors International
Union of Concerned Scientists
propaganda (see also advertising, media criticism, television,
psychology, control techniques, public relations, culture jamming)
American Newspeak
Heat is Online, The
Iskra
Metaphor Project, The
Noam Chomsky Archive
Propaganda Analysis Home Page
Resources for Independent Thinking
Wen Ho Lee Defense Fund Committee
proportional representation (see also government, elections,
democracy)
Northern California Citizens for Proportional Representation
Proposition 184 (Three Strikes) (see also incarceration,
initiatives)
Families to Amend California's Three Strikes
Prison Activist Resource Center
Proposition 187 (Save Our State) (see also immigrants, health,
education, welfare, initiatives)
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Proposition 208 (Political Reform) (see initiatives, elections,
finance)
Proposition 209 (CA Civil Rights Initiative) (see legislation,
affirmative action, initiatives, civil rights)
Proposition 212 (Anti-Corruption Act) (see initiatives, finance,
Political Action Committees (PACs), elections)
Proposition 214 (HMO Patient Rights) (see hospitals, health,
initiatives)
Proposition 215 (Medical Marijuana) (see initiatives, health,
drugs)
Proposition 216 (Patient Protection Act) (see initiatives, health)
Proposition 217 (No Tax Cuts for the Rich) (see initiatives,
taxes, distribution of wealth)
Proposition 65 (toxics labeling) (see also initiatives, toxics,
health)
As You Sow
Environmental Law Foundation
psychology (see also mental health, professionals, science,
control techniques, propaganda, sneetchism, philosophy)
About-Face
California Institute of Integral Studies
EarthLight: The Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology
Gaylesta, Inc.
John F. Kennedy University
Speak to Children
Survivors International
public education (see also education, government, human rights)
180 Movement for Democracy and Education
Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
Center for Ecoliteracy, The
Center for Latin American Studies
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network / San Francisco - East Bay
Latino Issues Forum
People United for a Better Oakland
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Public Advocates, Inc.
Public Education Network
Schools for Chiapas
Women's Educational Media
Youth Organizing Committee
public health (see also health, single payer health care,
ecology, environmental justice)
Brown University Biology and Community Health
Bus Riders Union, Los Angeles
California Public Health Association - North
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Center for Environmental Health
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc.
Communities for a Better Environment
Community Action Publications
Council for Responsible Genetics
Greenaction
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Public Citizen
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Survivors International
USA/Cuba-InfoMed
Violence Policy Center
public relations (see also corporations, propaganda)
Brown University Biology and Community Health
Center for Media & Democracy
Circle of Life Foundation
Communication Works
Heat is Online, The
SPIN Project
publicity (see also advertising, logistics, media)
A First Amendment Center
Cine Accion
Communication Works
Community Access Teknowledgy
Puerto Rico (see also Caribbean, places)
FireWorx
Peoples Video Network
Surfrider Foundation
punk (see music)
racism (see also people of color, political prisoners,
environmental justice, civil rights, affirmative action, death
penalty, fascism, hate crimes)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Anti-RacismNet
Anti-Racist Action Network
Applied Research Center
Artists Against Racism
Black Radical Congress
Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
Compassionate Transformation: A Buddhist Way to Heal Racism
Crosspoint, The
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
FireWorx
Freedom Socialist Party
Institute for MultiRacial Justice
International Action Center
JerryWatch Coalition
Monthly Review
National People's Campaign
PeaceNet
People Against Racist Terror
Pilgrim Press, The
Political Research Associates
Prison Radio
Radical Women
Recovering Racists Network
Refuse and Resist!
Solidarity, Bay Area
Sonoma County Free Press
Southern Poverty Law Center
Tools for Change
Women As Allies, Inc.
Workers World Party
Z Magazine
radio (see also media, music, microbroadcasting)
Accountable Public Broadcasting Committee
Alternative Radio
Between The Lines
Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
Coalition for a democratic Pacifica
Freedom Archives, The
FreePacifica
Hightower, Jim
KALW
KALX
KKUP
KPFA
KQED
KUSF
KZSU
Love Underground Vision Radio
National Radio Project
Prison Radio
Radio Television B92
Redwood Community Radio, Inc.
Save Our Station
Some Comments on Dr. Laura Schlessinger
StopDrLaura.com
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America
rainforests (see also deforestation, ecology, endangered species
/ habitat, cultural survival)
Action Resource Center
Borneo Project, The
Boycott Home Depot
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Rainforest Action Network
Sentient Experientials
rape (see also women, violence)
CalCASA Rape Prevention Resource Center
National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape
Rape Trauma Services
Women Against Rape, San Francisco
recycling (see also ecology, printers, products, sustainability,
reuse, composting)
Alameda County Waste Management Authority
Alonzo Printing Co., Inc.
Central EcoPrint
Clean Water Action
Community Access Teknowledgy
Computer Recycling Center
craigslist
East Bay Buying Club
Ecology Center
JG Press Inc.
New Earth Press
New Leaf Paper
Oakland Recycling Association
ReThinkPaper
refugees (see also immigrants, militarism, demographics)
Asian Law Caucus
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Committee for Health Rights in the Americas
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Immigrant HIV Assistance Project
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights
San Carlos Foundation
Tibetan Nuns Project
relationships (see also family)
Childfree
TODOS Institute
X-plicit Players
religion (see also spirituality, evolution, control techniques,
religious right, separation of church and state)
Alliance for Bio-Integrity
American Humanist Association
Bread for the World
Bruderhof Communities, The
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
California Institute of Integral Studies
Catholic Charities of San Jose
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Catholics for a Free Choice
Center for Third World Organizing
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
City of Refuge Community Church
Council of Churches of Santa Clara County
Dorothy Day House
EarthLight: The Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
East Timor Religious Outreach
Engaged Buddhist Dharma Page
Fellowship of Reconciliation
First Congregational Church of San Francisco
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Habitat for Humanity, East Bay
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
National Farm Worker Ministry
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Nevada Desert Experience
Organize Training Center
Pastors for Peace
Pax Christi, Bay Area
Pilgrim Press, The
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Religious Witness with Homeless People
Reverend Billy's Home Page
Sophia Center at Holy Names College
Tibetan Nuns Project
Vajrapani Institute
religious right (see also religion, controllers, reproductive
rights, sexual minorities, right-wingers)
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
DataCenter
Institute for First Amendment Studies
People for the American Way
Political Research Associates
Some Comments on Dr. Laura Schlessinger
reproductive rights (see also women, health, religious right,
healthcare access, abortion rights)
Abortion Clinics OnLine
Abortion Rights Activist, The
California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
Catholics for a Free Choice
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
National Abortion Federaion
National Women's Political Caucus, Alameda North
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
Pro-Choice Resource Center
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Women's Health Rights Coalition
research (see also researchers, research materials, analysis,
investigative journalism)
About-Face
Access Abilities
Applied Research Center
Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
Center for Campus Organizing
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Responsive Politics, The
Corporate Watch
DataCenter
Downwinders
FOCUS on the Global South
Global Trade Watch
Google.com
Greenbelt Alliance
Human Rights Center
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Interhemispheric Resource Center
International Forum on Globalization
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Organic Farming Research Foundation
Political Research Associates
Project Inform
Public Information Network
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology
Sonoma Ecology Center
Third World Network
Violence Policy Center
research materials (see also mail-order, computers, libraries,
directories, research, news, educational curriculum, archiving)
Abortion Rights Activist, The
Africa Online
Annual Reports Library
Arab Net
Bank Information Center
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
BioDemocracy / Organic Consumers Association
Black Scholar, The
Brown University Biology and Community Health
California League of Conservation Voters
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Center for Investigative Reporting
Children and Armed Conflict Unit, The
Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
Cocaine Import Agency
Corporate Accountability Project
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
DIANA International Human Rights Database
Eco-Compass
Environmental Research Foundation
Environmental Working Group
Fair Trade Federation
Feminist Majority Foundation
Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
Freedom of Information Center
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
How to Find US Company Information
Immunet
Institute for Global Communications
Institute of Science in Society
LawCrawler
Long Haul Infoshop
Men's Issues Page, The
Multinationals Resource Center
National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Organic Farming Research Foundation
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Planet Ark
Policy.com
Public Education Network
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
RENEGADE news_service
Resources for Independent Thinking
South and Meso-American Indian Rights Center
Spunk Press
SustainableBusiness.com
United States Code
Vote Smart Web
WasteLink
Western States Legal Foundation
Who Owns What in the Media
Women's Cancer Resource Center
WorldViews
researchers (see also research)
California Tomorrow
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Center for Insurance Research
Center for Latin American Studies
Center for Media & Democracy
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Citizens for Tax Justice
Earth Regeneration Society
Ecology Action
Electronic Policy Network
Environmental Working Group
Green World Center
HomeBase / Center for Common Concerns
Institute for Applied Autonomy
Institute for First Amendment Studies
Institute for Public Accuracy
International Center for Research on Women
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths
Lindesmith Center - West
Metaphor Project, The
Native Seeds / SEARCH
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
Northwest Environment Watch
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
Progressive Science Institute
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
UC California Policy Research Center
United for a Fair Economy
World Resources Institute
reuse (see also recycling, sustainability, simple living)
Computer Recycling Center
right to know (see also copyright, law, sunshine laws)
California First Amendment Coalition
California Right To Know / Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Initiative
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Genetically Engineered Food Alert
Public Domain
right-wingers (see also religious right, elitism, militias)
Anti-Racist Action Network
Clearinghouse on Environmental Research and Advocacy
GWBush.com
Militia Watchdog
Political Research Associates
Southern Poverty Law Center
StopDrLaura.com
runaways (see also youth)
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
rural life (see also urban life, agriculture, self-reliance,
simple living, demographics)
Agua Para la Vida
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Farm, The
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
National Family Farm Coalition
Rural Advancement Foundation International
Russia (see also Asia, Europe, places)
Peoples Video Network
San Mateo County (see also counties)
Committee for Green Foothills
Green Party of San Mateo County
Midway Residents for Environmental Justice
Our Farm
Peace Action, San Mateo County
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
Rape Trauma Services
San Bruno Mountain Watch
San Mateo Cooperative
Shelter Network
Sustainable San Mateo County
Vegetation Management Video Project Committee
Volunteer Center of San Mateo County
Santa Clara County (see also counties)
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, South Bay
Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation
Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center
Catholic Charities of San Jose
Center for Economic Conversion
Committee for Green Foothills
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
Community Technology Alliance
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Council of Churches of Santa Clara County
Democratic Activists for Women Now
Foundation for Global Community
Green Party of Santa Clara County
Impact Online
In Defense of Animals, South Bay
InnVision
KKUP
KZSU
Magic, Inc.
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Political Prisoners, South Bay
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Phoenix Data Center
Plugged In
Project HIRED
Redwood Action Team at Stanford
RESULTS, San Jose
San Jose Peace Center
Sempervirens Fund
Service Employees International Union Local 1877
Service Employees International Union Local 250, San Jose Office
Silicon Valley for Democracy in China
Silicon Valley Public Access Link
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council
Western Regional Alliance of Organizations Against Police Brutality
Working Partnerships USA
Santa Cruz County (see also counties)
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz
EarthSave Foundation
Informed Democracy
Mercy Charities Housing California
Neighbors for Responsible Logging
Resource Center for Nonviolence
Santa Cruz Action Network
Santa Cruz Coalition to Stop the Bombing of Yugoslavia
Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center
Vajrapani Institute
Vegan Action, Santa Cruz
Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival
School of the Americas (see also intervention, militarism)
School of the Americas Watch
science (see also evolution, psychology, skepticism, energy,
ecology, analysis, technology, biotechnology, composting)
Alliance for Bio-Integrity
American Humanist Association
Bonobo Protection Fund
Communities for a Better Environment
Council for Responsible Genetics
EarthLight: The Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology
East Bay Skeptics Society
Environmental Defense
Environmental Research Foundation
Foundation on Economic Trends
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute of Science in Society
Marine Conservation Biology Institute
Millennia Educators, Inc.
News On Earth
Our Stolen Future
Pilgrim Press, The
Progressive Science Institute
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
Sophia Center at Holy Names College
Union of Concerned Scientists
Urban Watershed Project
Video Project, The
seeds (see also agriculture, biodiversity, gardening,
noncorporate economy, trees, biotechnology)
Bay Area Seed Interchange Library
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Educational Center
Ecology Action
Heirloom Gardening
Native Seeds / SEARCH
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Rural Advancement Foundation International
Seeds of Change
self-determination (see also autonomy, control, self-help,
self-reliance, human rights)
Center for Young Women's Development
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
East Timor Action Network / San Francisco
Economic Justice Now
Hawai'i Independent & Sovereign
Hawaiian Nation Information Group of Northern California
Hesperian Foundation
Institute for Applied Autonomy
International Campaign for Tibet
International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet
International Development Exchange
International Indian Treaty Council
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization
National Emergency Coalition to Stop the War Against Iraq
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
US Vietnam Friendship Association
self-help (see also autonomy, self-determination, do-it-yourself,
self-reliance)
Agua Para la Vida
Hesperian Foundation
National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
National Latina Health Organization
Nolo.com
Oxfam America
Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine
Women Defending Ourselves
World Neighbors
self-reliance (see also autonomy, self-help, self-determination,
do-it-yourself, rural life, simple living)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Economic Justice Now
Farm, The
IBON Foundation, Inc.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
JustAct - Youth ACTion for Global JUSTice
Scavenger Online, The
Through the Bagelhole
Youth United for Community Action
seniors (see also family, health, diversity, demographics, ageism)
Asian Law Caucus
Bread & Roses
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
California Housing Law Project
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing
Elders for Survival
Grandmothers for Peace International
Gray Panthers (various)
Health Access Foundation
Just Cause Oakland
La Raza Centro Legal
Older Women's League
Project Open Hand
San Francisco HomeShare Program
Senior Action Network
separation of church and state (see also First Amendment,
religion, government)
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Institute for First Amendment Studies
services (see also couriers, products, tourism, recycling,
printers, business, telephone service, legal services, sex work,
welfare, mediation)
abagOnline
Abortion Clinics OnLine
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
AIDS Resources, Information & Services of Santa Clara County
Alternative Family Project
Art and Education Media
Asian AIDS Action
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Asian Women's Shelter
Bay Area Naturally
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Center for AIDS Services, The
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz
Community Awareness and Treatment Services, Inc.
Community Boards of San Francisco
Community Technology Alliance
Continuum
DataCenter
Doctors Without Borders / M?decins Sans Fronti?res
Dreamworld
Food Not Bombs (various)
General Assistance Advocacy Project
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Growth House
Harm Reduction Coalition
Health Initiatives for Youth
Helplink Information and Referral
Holocene Design
Immigrant HIV Assistance Project
Indigenous Nations: Child & Family Agency
InnVision
Instituto Laboral de La Raza
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Mercy Charities Housing California
Oakland Asian Students Educational Services
PediatriCare, a program of East Bay Agency for Children
Phoenix Data Center
Positive Resource Center
Project Open Hand
Rape Trauma Services
Raphael House
Rosenberg Fund for Children
San Francisco HomeShare Program
Sentinel Fair Housing
Shanti Project
Shelter Network
Survivors International
Swords to Plowshares
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Tri-Cities Children's Centers
UC California Policy Research Center
Unity Council, The
Volunteer Center of Contra Costa
Women's Health Rights Coalition
Youth Homes, Inc.
sex (see also AIDS / HIV, censorship, sexual minorities,
circumcision, rape, sexual harassment, sexism, sex work,
pornography)
848 Community Space
Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at Columbia University
Prostitutes' Education Network
Some Comments on Dr. Laura Schlessinger
sex work (see also sex, labor, services)
Broken Bud News
Center for Young Women's Development
Exotic Dancers Alliance
sexism (see also women, sexual harassment, sex, pornography)
International Action Center
Margit Stange Support Committee
Media Watch
Men Overcoming Violence
Monthly Review
National Coalition of Free Men, Northern California Chapter
People Against Racist Terror
Sonoma County Free Press
Tools for Change
W.A.G.E.
Women As Allies, Inc.
Workers World Party
Z Magazine
sexual harassment (see also sexism, sex)
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Equal Rights Advocates
sexual minorities (see also sex, diversity, demographics,
Lesbians, Gays, bisexuals, hate crimes)
ACT UP East Bay
Alternative Family Project
Asian AIDS Action
Bay Area Reporter
Bay Times, San Francisco
Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center
Bolerium Books
Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender Art and Culture
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
Community United Against Violence
East Bay Business and Professional Alliance
East Bay Men's Chorus
FireWorx
First Congregational Church of San Francisco
Freedom Socialist Party
Freedom Song Network
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network / San Francisco - East Bay
Gaylesta, Inc.
Harvey Milk Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club
Harvey Milk Institute
Horizons Foundation
International Action Center
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center
Lesbian Avengers
Men Overcoming Violence
Modern Times Bookstore
National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
No On Knight (Proposition 22) Campaign
Our Family, The Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Family Group
Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners
Out on the Island
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Pilgrim Press, The
Pride At Work
Q San Francisco
Queer Notions
Queer Resource Center & Queer Alliance
Radical Women
Refuse and Resist!
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Committee
Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center
StopDrLaura.com
Straight People Against Sexual Apartheid in Marriage
Women As Allies, Inc.
Women's Cancer Resource Center
Women's Centers, Inc. / Women's Building, San Francisco
Women's Educational Media
Workers World Party
shareholder advocacy (see also divestiture, corporations,
investment)
As You Sow
Investor Responsibility Research Center
simple living (see also rural life, noncorporate economy,
appropriate technology, crafts, cycling, do-it-yourself, life
necessities, nudism, reuse, self-reliance, sustainability, farmers
markets, consumer lifestyle, philosophy)
Scavenger Online, The
Simple Living Network, The
single payer health care (see also health, insurance, public
health, healthcare access)
California Physicians Alliance
Health Care for All --- California
Neighbor To Neighbor, San Francisco
Vote Health
sister communities (see also municipal government,
community-building)
Borneo Project, The
sizism
Women As Allies, Inc.
skepticism (see also analysis, science)
East Bay Skeptics Society
Resources for Independent Thinking
sneetchism (see class, clothing, advertising, socioeconomic
models, psychology, multiculturalism, demographics, evolution,
fascism, nationalism, elitism, consumer lifestyle, gentrification)
socialism (see also class, socioeconomic models)
Black Radical Congress
Center for Socialist History
Committees of Correspondence, Northern California
Democratic Socialists of America
Frank Little Club
Freedom Socialist Party
International Socialist Organization
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
Iskra
Marxist Worker?s Group
Niebyl-Proctor Library
Organizer Newspaper, The
Peace and Freedom Party (various)
Queer Notions
Radical Women
Revolution Books
Socialist Action, 9928
Socialist Review
Solidarity, Bay Area
Trotskyist Organizing Committee
Union for Radical Political Economics
Workers World Party
socioeconomic models (see also anarchism, capitalism, communism,
economics, fascism, militarism, multiculturalism, government,
populism, socialism, world government, democracy, decentralization,
colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, neoliberalism, sneetchism,
control techniques, consumer lifestyle, philosophy)
Guilford Publications
software (see also computers)
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
CompuMentor
Guilford Publications
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Nolo.com
Solano County (see counties)
solidarity (see also diversity, global community, unity)
California Students Against Sweatshops
Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Bay Area
Elders for Survival
Guatemala News and Information Bureau
International Labor Rights Fund
Mexico Solidarity Network
Neighbor To Neighbor, San Francisco
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
People Against Racist Terror
Schools for Chiapas
Solidarity, Bay Area
USA/Cuba-InfoMed
Venceremos Brigade
Witness for Peace
Sonoma County (see also counties)
Albion Monitor
Earth First!, Sonoma County
Environmental Center of Sonoma County
Health & Harmony Music & Arts Festival
Institute for Deep Ecology
North Coast Xpress
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Project Censored
S.E.E. Green Directory
Sonoma County Center for Peace and Justice
Sonoma County Free Press
Sonoma Ecology Center
United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, Santa Rosa
Women's Voices, Sonoma County
South Africa (see also Africa, places)
Peoples Video Network
South America (see also Latinas / Latinos, Brazil, Peru,
Colombia, Chile, places, Ecuador, Latin America)
Amazon Watch
Oxfam America
South and Meso-American Indian Rights Center
South Korea (see Asia, places)
spaces for events (see also benefits, places)
848 Community Space
Artists' Television Access
Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
Bound Together Books
Cell
Free Radicals, The
La Pena Cultural Center
Long Haul Infoshop
New College of California
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Vajrapani Institute
We The People
Wise Fool Puppet Intervention
Women's Centers, Inc. / Women's Building, San Francisco
speakers
Alternative Radio
Community United Against Violence
Creative Xpressions Publishing and Consulting
Dedicated Urban Bikeways Project
Ecocity Builders
Global Exchange
Hawaiian Nation Information Group of Northern California
Mount Diablo Peace Center
National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape
National Coalition of Free Men, Northern California Chapter
Northern California Citizens for Proportional Representation
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Physicians for Social Responsibility
RESULTS (various)
Speak Out Speakers and Artists Agency
Speak to Children
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Union of Concerned Scientists
Veterans Speakers Alliance
Women of Color Resource Center
Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases
Women's Cancer Resource Center
spirituality (see also religion, interconnectedness)
848 Community Space
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Alternatives to Violence Project
Bruderhof Communities, The
California Institute of Integral Studies
Center for AIDS Services, The
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
Community of Mindful Living
Compassionate Transformation: A Buddhist Way to Heal Racism
Continuum
EarthLight: The Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology
Foundation for Global Community
San Francisco Vegetarian Society
Sophia Center at Holy Names College
Tools for Change
Transformation Program, The
Trust for Public Land
University of Creation Spirituality
spoken word (see poetry, creativity)
sports (see also cycling, parks, outdoor activity)
BARE-2-BREAKERS
Bluewater Network
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park
Golf War
Greyhound Protection League
spying (see also covert operations, CIA / FBI / NSA, national
government, privacy)
Wen Ho Lee Defense Fund Committee
squatting (see also housing, direct action)
Homes Not Jails
state government (see also government, initiatives)
abagOnline
California Legislative Information
street theater (see also outdoor activity, theatre)
Direct Action Network
Reverend Billy's Home Page
San Francisco Cacophony Society
Wise Fool Puppet Intervention
strikes (see also labor, direct action)
Liverpool Dockworkers Strike Web Page
students (see also youth, education, university publications,
demographics)
180 Movement for Democracy and Education
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development
Bay Area ACTION and Peninsuala Conservation Center Foundation
California Students Against Sweatshops
Campus California TG
Center for Campus Organizing
Center for Environmental Citizenship
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary
Goforth Progressive Law Student Web Site
Graduate Minority Students Project
Human Rights Center
Informed Democracy
JustAct - Youth ACTion for Global JUSTice
KALX
KUSF
Maganda Magazine
Millennia Educators, Inc.
Nonprofit Ventures, Inc.
Northern California Pilipino American Student Organization
Peace and Conflict Studies Department, UC Berkeley
Public Interest Research Group, Berkeley Chapter, California
Queer Resource Center & Queer Alliance
Redwood Action Team at Stanford
Speak to Children
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
Student Environmental Action Coalition
United Students Against Sweatshops
University Professional and Technical Employees
Youth Organizing Committee
study groups (see also education)
Political Ecology Group
sunshine laws (see freedom of information, open government, law,
right to know)
support groups (see also community-building, mental health)
Center for AIDS Services, The
Community Resources for Independent Living
Community United Against Violence
Growth House
Helplink Information and Referral
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center
MHONA International
Older Women's League
Our Family, The Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Family Group
Pacific Center for Human Growth
PediatriCare, a program of East Bay Agency for Children
Pets Are Wonderful Support
Recovering Racists Network
Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center
Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine
Shanti Project
STAND! Against Domestic Violence
Stop AIDS Project
Survivors International
Women Against Rape, San Francisco
Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases
Women's Cancer Resource Center
sustainability (see also permaculture, ecology,
interconnectedness, hemp, prevention, reuse, recycling, simple
living, population control, organic agriculture)
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
Action Coalition for Global Change
Alliance for a Paving Moratorium
Alliance for Bio-Integrity
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Bay Area Coalition for Urban Agriculture
Bay Area Organic Xpress
Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
BioDemocracy / Organic Consumers Association
Bullfrog Films
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Cascadia Planet
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Center for Ecoliteracy, The
Center for Economic Conversion
Center for Marine Conservation, Pacific Regional Office, The
Central EcoPrint
Community Action Publications
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Critical Mass
E. F. Schumacher Society
Earth Neighborhood
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
Ecological Building Network
Ecological Villager's Alliance
EcoNet
Economics Working Group
Foundation for Global Community
Green City Project
Green Earth Organics
Green Resource Center
Hazel Henderson
Holocene Design
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
International Development Exchange
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Institute for Ecological Agriculture
International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths
JG Press Inc.
JustAct - Youth ACTion for Global JUSTice
Latin America Working Group
Metaphor Project, The
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
New Society Publishers
Northern California Land Trust
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Northwest Environment Watch
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Oakland Recycling Association
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
OneWorld
Planet Drum Foundation
Plutonium Free Future
Public Information Network
Real Goods Renewables
RESULTS (various)
RIDES for Bay Area Commuters, Inc.
Rural Advancement Foundation International
S.E.E. Green Directory
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
Seeds of Change
Seva Foundation
Shared Living Resource Center, Inc.
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Social Justice Center of Marin
Solstice
Sonoma Ecology Center
Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice
Sustainable America
Sustainable San Francisco
Sustainable San Mateo County
SustainableBusiness.com
Terra Firma Farm, LLC
Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Through the Bagelhole
Town Hall Coalition
TransFair USA
Union of Concerned Scientists
Urban Ecology, Inc.
Women's Energy Matters
sweatshops (see also labor, textiles, women)
California Students Against Sweatshops
Sweatshop Watch
United Students Against Sweatshops
tabling (see direct action, voter registration)
taxes (see also government, Proposition 217 (No Tax Cuts for the
Rich), distribution of wealth)
ATTAC
Citizens for Tax Justice
Common Cause
Graphic Artists Guild of Northern California
Public Good
Tobin Tax Initiative
War Tax Resistance, Northern California
technical assistance (see also computers, material aid,
mentoring, technology)
Anti-RacismNet
Bay Area Video Coalition
BioDemocracy / Organic Consumers Association
Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
California Tomorrow
Center for Ethics and Economic Policy
Chiapas Media Project
Cicala Filmworks, Inc.
Community Access Teknowledgy
Community Technology Alliance
CompuMentor
Democracy Center, The
Ecological Building Network
Environmental Law Foundation
Environmental Working Group
Friends of the Urban Forest
HomeBase / Center for Common Concerns
Immunet
Impact Fund, The
Independent Press Association
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Institute for Nonprofit Enterprise
International Center for Research on Women
LaborNet
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Coalition for the Homeless
Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal
Petaluma Community Access
Pro-Choice Resource Center
Resist
Silicon Valley Public Access Link
STAND! Against Domestic Violence
Theater Artaud
World Resources Institute
technology (see also appropriate technology, technical
assistance, transportation, computers, communications,
biotechnology, science, guns, nuclear energy, patents)
Alliance for Bio-Integrity
California Biotech Action Council
Center for Democracy and Technology
Community Technology Centers' Network
Consultants ONTAP
FactoryFarming.com
Foundation on Economic Trends
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Nonprofit GENIE
Pilgrim Press, The
Rural Advancement Foundation International
Solstice
Union of Concerned Scientists
telephone service (see also services, technology, communications,
utilities)
Consumer Action
Electronic Privacy Information Center
The Utility Reform Network
television (see also media, propaganda)
Accountable Public Broadcasting Committee
Artists' Television Access
Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
EnviroVideo
Free Speech TV
Independent Television Service
KQED
Media Watch
Moore, Michael
Paper Tiger TV West / Deep Dish Satelite Network
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Peoples Video Network
Petaluma Community Access
Radio Television B92
StopDrLaura.com
TV Turnoff Network
Working Group, The
tenant rights (see also housing, consumer protection)
Berkeley Tenant Action Project
California Housing Law Project
Homes Not Jails
Just Cause Oakland
San Francisco Tenants Union
Sentinel Fair Housing
textiles (see also clothing, sweatshops)
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Cell
GrauSpace
Mendocino Softworks
Names Project Foundation
Northern Sun Merchandising
Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees
theatre (see also creativity, street theater)
Antenna Theater
Cell
Culture and Animals Foundation
Intersection for the Arts
Marcus, Neil
Mime Troupe, San Francisco
Moore (various)
Moving On Center - School of Participatory Arts & Research
Theater Artaud
Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival
X-plicit Players
thrift stores (see products)
Tibet (see also Asia)
Committee of 100 for Tibet, The
International Campaign for Tibet
International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet
Milarepa Fund
Tibetan Nuns Project
Vajrapani Institute
tobacco (see also drugs)
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
BADvertising Institute
Brown University Biology and Community Health
INFACT
torture (see also violence, control techniques, human rights)
Amnesty International
Free Burma
National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons
Survivors International
tourism (see also business, travel, places)
Broken Bud News
Hawaiian Nation Information Group of Northern California
Partners in Responsible Tourism
toxics (see also ecology, lead poisoning, environmental justice,
health, pesticides, Proposition 65 (toxics labeling))
Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse
As You Sow
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
Clean Water Action
Communities for a Better Environment
Community Action Publications
Depleted Uranium Weapons
Downwinders
Ecological Building Network
Environmental Law Foundation
Multinational Monitor
Natural Resources Defense Council
NoFluoride.com
Nuclear Guardianship Project
Our Stolen Future
People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice
US Vietnam Friendship Association
Vegetation Management Video Project Committee
WasteLink
trade (see also economics, economic sanctions, World Trade
Organization, NAFTA / GATT, foreign policy)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Berkeley Region Exchange And Development
Economic Justice Now
Global Trade Watch
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6
Pilgrim Press, The
Public Information Network
West Coast Environmental Law
Women's EDGE
WTO WATCH
transgenders (see sexual minorities)
transportation (see also cycling, couriers, technology, urban
life)
Access Abilities
Alliance for a Paving Moratorium
Alliance for Golden Gate Park
Amazon Watch
Automobile Moratorium
Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
Berkeley TRiP Commute Store
Bike the Bridge Coalition
Bluewater Network
Bus Riders Union, Los Angeles
City CarShare
Critical Mass
Dedicated Urban Bikeways Project
East Bay Bicycle Coalition
Ecocity Builders
eRideShare.com
Friends of Black Bart
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Labor / Community Strategy Center
LessCars.net
National Station Car Association, The
Reclaim the Streets!
RIDES for Bay Area Commuters, Inc.
Right Of Way
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Senior Action Network
Shanti Project
Surface Transportation Policy Project
Teamster Joint Council 7
Teamster Local 70
Teamster Local 78
Teamster Local 856
Teamster Local 921
Transit Information Project, Bay Area
Transportation Choices Forum
Union of Concerned Scientists
United Auto Workers International Union
United Transportation Union Local 23 (Santa Cruz)
Urban Ecology, Inc.
Women's Health Rights Coalition
ZAP Power Systems
travel (see also tourism, hostels, outdoor activity, hotels,
places)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal
Burning Man Project
Community Action Publications
Desert Survivors
eRideShare.com
Global Exchange
Green Tortoise Adventure Travel
International Volunteer Program
LaFetra Operating Foundation
Middle East Children's Alliance
Millennia Educators, Inc.
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
Peace Brigades International
Rainbow Family
Resource Center for Nonviolence
San Francisco Bay Area Friendshipment
Sentient Experientials
U.S. Cuba Medical Project
VegNews
Venceremos Brigade
Voices in the Wilderness
World Neighbors
World PULSE
trees (see also parks, gardening, global warming,
community-building, deforestation, conservation, seeds)
Friends of the Urban Forest
Magic, Inc.
Red Cloud Thunder at Fall Creek
San Francisco Tree Council
Turkey (see also Europe, places, Kurds)
Aegean Friends
OZGURLUK
United Nations (see also world government, World Bank / IMF)
Campaign for United Nations Reform
Catholics for a Free Choice
International Indian Treaty Council
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Pathways to Peace
Third World Network
Western States Legal Foundation
Women's Environment & Development Organization
Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
World Federalist Association of Northern California
unity (see also diversity, solidarity)
Committees of Correspondence, Northern California
FreePacifica
Solidarity, Bay Area
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America
Unity Council, The
university publications (see also media, students)
Maganda Magazine
Progressive Review
urban life (see also municipal government, community-building,
housing, transportation, crime, neighborhoods, parks, demographics)
Action Resource Center
Alliance for Golden Gate Park
Bay Area Coalition for Urban Agriculture
Bike Traffic
Brownfields Leadership and Community Revitalization Project
Center for Young Women's Development
City CarShare
Communities for a Better Environment
craigslist
Dedicated Urban Bikeways Project
Ecocity Builders
Friends of the Urban Forest
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Green City Project
Greenbelt Alliance
Labor / Community Strategy Center
Right Of Way
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
Solar Powered Urban Radio Transmissions
Surface Transportation Policy Project
Transportation Choices Forum
Urban Ecology, Inc.
Urban View
Urban Watershed Project
Vegetation Management Video Project Committee
YouthBuild San Francisco
utilities (see also energy, telephone service, corporations, life
necessities, nuclear energy, oil, micropower, consumer protection,
deregulation)
Power to the People
San Francisco Coalition for Lower Utility Bills
The Utility Reform Network
veganism / vegetarianism (see also animal liberation, health,
food, philosophy)
Anti-Dairy Coalition
Bay Leaf CoHousing Group
EarthSave Foundation
EcoVegEvents.com
Farm Sanctuary
Food Chain
Milk Sucks.com
Pangea Vegan Products
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
San Francisco Vegetarian Society
Vegan Action
Vegan.com
Veggies Unite!
VegNews
VegSource
veterans (see also militarism, demographics)
American Gulf War Veterans Association
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
Swords to Plowshares
Veterans for Peace
Veterans Speakers Alliance
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
Vietnam (see also militarism, veterans, Asia, places)
Community of Mindful Living
Free Howard Mechanic
US Vietnam Friendship Association
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
vigils (see direct action, outdoor activity)
violence (see also crime, torture, rape, guns, control
techniques, hate crimes)
Abortion Rights Activist, The
Action Coalition for Global Change
Alternatives to Violence Project
American Jewish Congress
CalCASA Rape Prevention Resource Center
California Association of Human Relations Organizations
Citizens for Peace
Community Peacemakers
Community United Against Violence
Copwatch
Human Relations Commission, Contra Costa County
Livermore CopWatch
Media Watch
MHONA International
October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality
Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
Peace Brigades International
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Prostitutes' Education Network
Right Of Way
Southern Poverty Law Center
Violence Policy Center
Western Regional Alliance of Organizations Against Police Brutality
Women Defending Ourselves
Working Group, The
Youth Alive!
volunteer matching (see also labor)
Agua Para la Vida
AIDS Emergency Fund
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
Alternatives to Violence Project
American Friends Service Committee
Center for Electronic Art
CompuMentor
Dharma Publishing
Green City Project
Impact Online
International Volunteer Program
LaFetra Operating Foundation
Nonprofit GENIE
Open Directory Project
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Volunteer Center of Alameda County (Central / South County)
Volunteer Center of Alameda County (Oakland / North County)
Volunteer Center of Alameda County (Tri-Valley)
Volunteer Center of Contra Costa
Volunteer Center of San Francisco
Volunteer Center of San Mateo County
Volunteer Information Center, Bay Area
VolunteerMatch
voter registration (see also elections, tabling)
Green Party, San Francisco
water (see also ecology, air, coastal environment, wetlands, bay
/ delta environment, creek restoration, pollution, life
necessities, dams, coral reefs)
Agua Para la Vida
Bay Institute, The
Bluewater Network
Center for Ecoliteracy, The
Center for Marine Conservation, Pacific Regional Office, The
Clean Water Action
Friends of Sausal Creek
Friends of the River
Friends of the River Narmada
Glen Canyon Action Network
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6
International Rivers Network
Marine Conservation Biology Institute
Marine Mammal Center, The
Natural Resources Defense Council
NoFluoride.com
Reef Check
Reef Relief
San Francisco BayKeeper
Save the Bay
Sea Shepherd International
Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Urban Watershed Project
West Coast Environmental Law
Yes On Proposition 12! (The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000)
Yes on Proposition 13! (The Safe Drinking Water Bond Act of 2000)
welfare (see also government, material aid, Proposition 187 (Save
Our State), services)
Asian Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment
Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
Common Cause
East Bay Community Law Center
Equal Rights Advocates
General Assistance Advocacy Project
Global Options
Homeless Action Center
People for Bread, Work, and Justice
Western Center on Law and Poverty
wetlands (see also water)
Committee for Green Foothills
Greenbelt Alliance
West Coast Environmental Law
wilderness (see also ecology)
American Lands Alliance
Center for Biological Diversity, California and Pacific Office
Defenders of Wildlife
Desert Survivors
Forests Forever
Planning and Conservation League
Yes on Proposition 13! (The Safe Drinking Water Bond Act of 2000)
women (see also reproductive rights, affirmative action, sexism,
rape, sex, diversity, feminism, demographics, sweatshops)
About-Face
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, South Bay
Asian Women's Shelter
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
Broken Bud News
CalCASA Rape Prevention Resource Center
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Catholics for a Free Choice
Center for Young Women's Development
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Creative Investment Research
Crosspoint, The
Democratic Activists for Women Now
Emma Goldman Papers, The
Equal Rights Advocates
FireWorx
Foundation for International Community Assistance
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Global Fund for Women, The
Grandmothers for Peace International
International Center for Research on Women
International Development Exchange
International Wages for Housework Campaign
Margit Stange Support Committee
Najda: Women Concerned About the Middle East
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape
National Organization for Women, San Francisco
National Women's Mailing List
National Women's Political Caucus, Alameda North
Older Women's League
Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners
Progressive Asset Management, Inc.
Queer Notions
Refuse and Resist!
Resourceful Women
Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists
STAND! Against Domestic Violence
Sweatshop Watch
Veritable Vegetable
W.A.G.E.
Who's Counting? Project
Women As Allies, Inc.
Women Defending Ourselves
Women For Peace
Women Leaders Online
Women of Color Resource Center
Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases
Women's Cancer Resource Center
Women's Centers, Inc. / Women's Building, San Francisco
Women's EDGE
Women's Educational Media
Women's Energy Matters
Women's Environment & Development Organization
Women's Health Rights Coalition
Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
Women's Voices, Sonoma County
WomensNet
World Bank / IMF (see also controllers, banks, United Nations,
world government, finance, development, neoliberalism, distribution
of wealth, debt cancellation, export credit agenices)
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Bank Information Center
DestroyIMF
Economic Justice Now
International Development Exchange
International Rivers Network
Witness for Peace
World Bank Bonds Boycott
world government (see also government, global community, United
Nations, internationalism, World Bank / IMF, global issues,
socioeconomic models, corporate globalization, World Trade
Organization)
Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Self-Development in South & Meso America
Action Coalition for Global Change
World Federalist Association of Northern California
World Trade Organization (see also controllers, world government,
trade, law, corporate globalization, NAFTA / GATT)
Direct Action Network
Global Exchange
Peoples' Global Action against 'Free' Trade and the World Trade Organisation
seattlewto.net
WTO WATCH
writers (see also professionals, writing, books)
Artist Resource
Environmental Working Group
International Forum on Globalization
National Writers Union
Pacific News Service
PEN Oakland
writing (see also writers, creativity, journalism, books,
copyright)
Mindfield Magazine
New Langton Arts
Queer Notions
Spunk Press
youth (see also students, circumcision, runaways, family,
diversity, demographics, ageism, children)
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee, East Bay Program
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Artists Against Racism
Asian American Public Policy Institute
BADvertising Institute
Bike Traffic
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Center for Young Women's Development
Central City Hospitality House
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Chaplaincy to the Homeless
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
Chinatown Youth Center
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club
Critical Resistance Youth Force
DiversityWorks
East Bay Conservation Corps
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Health Initiatives for Youth
Horizons Foundation
Invest in Kids
Jewish Youth for Community Action
JustAct - Youth ACTion for Global JUSTice
Kids First Coalition
La Raza Centro Legal
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
Men Overcoming Violence
Milarepa Fund
Oakland Asian Students Educational Services
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
Pacific News Service
People United for a Better Oakland
Plugged In
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
San Francisco Conservation Corps
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
Socialist Action, 9928
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Third Wave
TV Turnoff Network
Veterans Speakers Alliance
World PULSE
Youth Alive!
Youth Employment Partnership, Inc., The
Youth Homes, Inc.
Youth Leadership Institute
Youth United for Community Action
YouthBuild San Francisco
Yugoslavia (see also Balkans, places, Europe)
Radio Television B92
Zapatistas (see also Mexico, Mayans)
Chiapas Support Committee
National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
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