Social Action


Social Activism


- Working Towards a Better Society -


"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

Here is an assortment of some hyperlinks to resources relating to social action and to organizations working in diverse ways toward the goal of a better society:

  • PeaceNet
  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
  • Club of Rome
  • Friends of the Earth
  • Public Citizen
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Council for a Livable World
  • The Preamble Center
  • Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
  • International Peace Bureau
  • Amnesty International
  • Essential Information WWW Server
  • Fourth Freedom Foundation
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • oneworld.net
  • Boston Independent Media Center
  • MoveOn.org
  • ZNET
  • Participatory Economics Project
  • Democratic Socialists of America
  • E The People
  • Antiwar.com - antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities
  • Not In My Name
  • 20/20 Vision
  • Chicago Direct Action Network
  • Friends of the Parks - Chicago
  • The Free Time - Free People Campaign
  • 8th Day Center for Justice
  • Solidarity

    Additional Hyperlinks:

  • Norbert's Bookmarks for a Better World

    Working for Peace in the Wake of September 11:

  • 9-11peace.org
  • Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism

    NEWS (Green news and opinion, updated daily):

  • Green Party - Tompkins County (Ithaca NY/Cornell)

    MEDIA

  • Media Guide (Find and contact national and local media)(AFSC)

    ELECTED OFFICIALS

  • Elected Officials (Find and contact elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, and more)(AFSC)
  • U.S. Senate contact information
  • U.S. House of Representatives contact information

    UPCOMING EVENTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS:

  • AFSC Chicago Area Events
  • Peace.Protest.Net
  • Protest.Net
  • 8th Day Center for Justice Calendar

    URGENT ACTIONS

  • Urgent Actions (from Norbert's Bookmarks for a Better World)


    And here are some individual voices:

  • Your silence will not protect you

    "Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has already known it, the loss of all that gave an identity, the end of safety." - James Baldwin

    "First they came for the communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Niemoeller

    This page updated 23 July 2002.
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