Progressive Organizations and Resources (Compiled 2006)

News and Views

·        www.wsws.org

World Socialist Website

Provides analysis of major world events, comments on political, cultural, historical, and philosophical issues, and valuable documents and studies from the heritage of the socialist movement.

 

·        www.freespeech.org

Free Speech TV

FSTV uses television to expose social and environmental injustices.

 

·        www.papertiger.org

Paper Tiger Television

Open, non-profit, volunteer video collective.

 

·        http://www.commondreams.org/

Common Dreams

An eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news.

 

·        www.pacifica.org

Pacifica Radio

The nations only radio network funded solely by listener support, with no corporate subsidy or underwriting.

 

·        www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now!

One of the nations best news and views programs from the Pacifica radio.

 

·        www.indymedia.org

Independent Media Center

Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth.  

 

·        www.planetout.com

Planet Out

News, people, shopping, activism, and personals for the gay and lesbian community.

 

·        www.narconews.com

The Narco News Bulletin

Reporting on the Drug War and Democracy from Latin America.

 

·        www.zmag.org

Z Magazine

A huge website updated many times daily and designed to convey information and provide community. A quarter of a million people a week use it. ZNet offers information through diverse watch areas and sub-sites, translations, cartoons, archives, links to other progressive sites, a daily commentary program, and much more.

 

·        www.fair.org

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

National Media watch group, had been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.

 

·        www.peoplesvideo.org (may be blocked by school network filters)

The People’s Video Network

Group of media activists with more than 50 public access shows across the country and hundreds of videos documenting the struggle.

 

Anti-War

 

·       www.iacenter.org

International Action Center

Founded by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed, Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression within the US.

 

·       www.internationalanswer.org

International A.N.S.W.E.R.

(Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) One of the Groups who helped organize the events on Oct. 26. The site has info, fliers, things to do, and news.

 

·       www.notinourname.net

Not In Our Name

Groups who helped organize Oct. ^ rallies “Not in our name will you invade countries bomb civilians, kill more children.”

 

Labor and Economy

 

·        www.fguide.org

The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy

Developing economic literacy and encouraging economic debate.

 

·        www.ufnet.org

United for a Fair Economy

Visions of a global society there the power of concentrated money and corporations neither dominated the economy nor dictates the content of mass culture.

 

·        www.globalexchange.org

Global Exchange

Large Site that offers educational materials on world economic institutions such as World Bank, WTO, and IFM. Also a fair trade shop, and reality tour organizer.

 

·        www.jwj.org

Jobs With Justice

Improving working people’s standard of living, fighting for job security, and protecting workers’ right to organize.

 

·        www.uniteunion.org

UNITE

Union of Needle trades, Industrial, and Textile Employees. Working to end sweatshops and bring together workers in the textile trades.

 

·        http://www.afscme.org/

AFSCME

Public service and health care worker: the most active and powerful union in the Labor movement.