Community

Bush Green Watch

"BushGreenwatch provides accurate and timely information on the Bush Administration's assault on our environment and public health."

"We are dedicated to expanding media coverage and public awareness of the many vital environmental and public health issues affected by the administration's anti-environmental agenda, which consistently places the interests of corporate donors above the public good."

Earth Rights International
EarthRights International 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.

Republicans for Environmental Protection

"REP America members are among the majority of Republicans who want to conserve, not squander, our natural heritage. Protecting our environment is not a partisan issue. We all benefit from a clean, healthy world; we all treasure natural areas and abundant wildlife."

"Unfortunately, some Republicans have made it their goal to undo the laws that have cleaned up our air and water, improved our health, and the quality of our lives, preserved our great natural heritage, and prevented the extinction of many native species, including our national symbol, the bald eagle."

Common Sense for Drug Policy

Stop the Drug War

Bite Back

"George Bush is using the World Trade Organisation to force-feed you genetically modified food. You can help stop them: Bite Back below and sign the Citizens' Objection.

Biotech companies have invested billions into GMO products that nobody needs and nobody wants. Such products take away consumer choice, make farmers dependent on big business and undermine food security in developing countries. Nobody knows what risks they pose to people�s health and the environment."

Generation F You
A vast guide to all sorts of websites: "The basic premise is that the internet is a powerful tool. Too important to spend gossiping about J Lo and P-Diddy, too important to use it to be just another e-commerce tool. Like we saw with the Seattle riots in 1999, a lot of that was coordinated with the internet and that shows it's use. Since starting the page we've seen the internet become more controlled and more spied upon, more dumbed down and monopolized and we don't like that. We're in our 5th year of operation."

Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars (The Detroit Project)

"Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars (AFEC) is a nonprofit group dedicated to decreasing America's reliance on foreign oil. AFEC was co-founded by columnist Arianna Huffington, film producer Lawrence Bender, environmental activist Laurie David, and movie and TV agent Ari Emanuel."

"Our goal is to mount a citizens� ad campaign aimed at getting Detroit to build cars and SUVs that get more miles per gallon and jolting our leaders into taking action to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Currently we are producing ads parodying the drugs-equal-terror ads the Bush administration is running. Lawrence Bender, producer of "Pulp Fiction" and "Good Will Hunting," and director Scott Burns, co-creator of the "Got Milk?" ad campaign, have agreed to donate their services to make these ads a reality through A Band Apart, Bender's production company."

Die Off--The end of oil
Petroleum geologists have known for 50 years that global oil production would "peak" and begin its inevitable decline within a decade of the year 2000. Moreover, no renewable energy systems have the potential to generate more than a tiny fraction of the power now being generated by fossil fuels.

Race

The Black Commentator

"Genuine journalists and sincere activists seek out an audience that can change the world for the better. In a real sense, The Black Commentator is not about us, the publication's creators, but about you, the visitor and reader."

"The Internet has provided a marvelous tool for social change. Those of us with access to this medium have been enabled to act as social demographers with a mission. Using the Internet as a kind of map, we can gather together groups and individuals who share a common interest and communicate with them, directly and instantaneously."

Model Minority

As diverse and rapidly changing as the society we live in, Asian Americans do not conform to any single description. Despite this, Americans reluctant to address the realities of continuing racism and white privilege have consistently portrayed Asian Americans as a "model minority" who have uniformly succeeded by merit.

While superficially complimentary to Asian Americans, the real purpose and effect of this portrayal is to celebrate the status quo in race relations. First, by over-emphasizing Asian American success, it de-emphasizes the problems Asian Americans continue to face from racial discrimination in all areas of public and private life. Second, by misrepresenting Asian American success as proof that America provides equal opportunities for those who conform and work hard, it excuses American society from careful scrutiny on issues of race in general, and on the persistence of racism against Asian Americans in particular.

The mission of ModelMinority.com is to provide this scrutiny in every possible way, so as to educate, inform, provoke, and inspire movements by individuals and groups toward Asian American empowerment. Through ModelMinority.com, we intend to provide the Web's richest collection of research articles, commentaries, stories, poems, pictures, and other documents on the Asian American experience.

Hispanic Online

African-AmericanWeb Connection
A directory billing itself as "An African American Cyber Gateway for the Entire Family" with some 17 topic areas.

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
"The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is a civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage. ADC, which is non-sectarian, non-partisan is the largest Arab-American grassroots organization in the United States. It was founded in 1980 by former Senator James Abourezk and has chapters nationwide."

BLACK Quest Power Resource Links
"A comprehensive source and gateway to African/African American history, culture and society." Lots of links!

Everythingblack.Com
"The place to find any and everything BLACK on the Net!" Directory, featuring nearly a thousand links, organized by category.

Latin America Working Group
"LAG is a coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations. Since 1983, the coalition has been striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region.

Latino Issues Forum
"IF addresses public policy issues from the perspective of how they will affect the social and economic future of the Latino community. To accomplish our mission of empowering Latinos to participate more fully and effectively in public policy issues, we provide the following: Policy Analysis & Development; Coalition Building; Community Education & Training; Media Resources; (and) Advocacy."

LatinoLinks
Directory web sites, maintained by HISPANIC/MODERN magazines.

LatinoWeb
"A Latino Virtual Community ... a virtual information center for Latino resources."

NAACP Online
Home page of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Includes issue alerts, press releases and lots of information about the organization.

NativeWeb
"Welcome to NativeWeb ... Our purpose: to provide a cyber-community for Earth's indigenous peoples." Currently, this site is "predominantly about the Americas, from the Arctic to Amazonia. In time, this will change. As access to the Web grows, as native peoples of other continents reach out through cyber-space, NativeWeb will grow also.Already there are many links to the aboriginal peoples of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia."

Not In Our Town
"NOT IN OUR TOWN and NOT IN OUR TOWN II are public television programs that have helped coalesce a national movement against hate crimes. Since the national broadcast of Not in Our Town II on PBS in December, 1996, many communities have joined the campaign, organized by the Institute for Alternative Journalism and the video's producers, The Working Group. On this website you will find materials about the programs and the campaign." Unions pay a big role in both videos.

Universal Black Pages
"Created (and is developed) through the efforts of members of the Black Graduate Students Association at the Georgia Institute of Technology... the main purpose of the UBP is to have a complete and comprehensive listing of African diaspora related Web pages at a central site."

Community Organizations

Center for Rural Strategies

"The Center for Rural Strategies is a public-spirited communications organization that seeks to improve rural life by increasing public understanding about the importance and value of rural communities. Our goals are to use media strategically to reframe the broad public discourse that defines rural communities, and create an environment in which positive changes can occur."

"The Center for Rural Strategies helps communities and nonprofit organizations incorporate media and communications into their work in support of strategic goals. We also design and implement information campaigns that educate the public about the problems and opportunities that exist in contemporary rural communities."

Center for New Community
The Center for New Community, in its own words, "is a faith-based, rural-urban initiative whose mission is to revitalize congregations and community for genuine social, economic and political democracy." Among the various worthwhile projects they are involved in is the "Building Democracy Initiative" which is aimed at "developing a lasting commitment, particularly within the religious community, to counter far-right, anti-democratic movements in the Midwest." The Building Democracy project produced an excellent report on white supremacists on the Internet, for example.

New World Village
"...the On-line home of the Internet's only national provider run by men and women of color ... and of the members of People Link, an on-line community of progressive activism." The "Neighborhoods" section features "theme-based sections with links to hundreds of the most important and informative progressive web sites."

Gender

Code Pink
CODEPINK is a women initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.

Feminist.com
Absolutely huge Web site, organized into some 45 subject areas covering many, many different areas (news, "outrage of the week", activism, and on ...). Also plays web-host to a number of additional groups and organizations for, by and about women.

National Organization for Women (NOW)
From issues to actions, information and news, you'll find a lot of information at NOW's home page. Includes a search feature and information on local chapters.

National Women's History Project
"History looks different when the contributions of women are included... The National Women's History Project is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1980, that is committed to providing education, promotional materials, and informational services to recognize and celebrate women's diverse lives and historic contributions to society." The National Women's History Project (NWHP) is the source for updates about events, conferences, publications, films and other resources related to U.S. women's history.

Women's Web World: The Feminist Majority
Displays many web-site awards -- this is the home page of the Feminist Majority, founded in 1987. Regularly-updated news. Sub-sites include: Feminist News & Events; Feminist Internet Gateway; Feminist University Network; 911 for Women; Take Action!; Feminist Census; Feminist Career Center; Affirmative Action; Feminist Budget Center; Global Feminism; Breast Cancer Center; Feminist Research Center; Reproductive Rights; Feminist Arts, Literature, and Entertainment Center; Feminist Online Store.

WomensNet
"WomensNet supports women's organizations worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work." One of the I.G.C. progressive networks.

WWWomen!
"The premier search directory for Women Online!" With a Yahoo!-like interface, "WWWomen fills a need for anyone who is looking for topics relating to women. We are dedicated to finding all sites on the Web relevant to women-- from sites about child rearing and pregnancy to sites about civil liberties, careers and religion."

Countering Hate

Anti-Racism Net
"The mission of Anti-Racism.Net is to provide information and technical assistance while serving as an Internet portal on race and diversity for anti-racism advocates." Hosted by IGC, this site features alerts, news and updates, links and help resources.

Stop the Hate!
Well, it's not exactly a community, but it can help yours! A long list of links to anti-racist/anti-fascist information. Not organized in any particular order, but the page subhead catches the spirit: "Get Informed - Get Involved!"

Sexuality

Human Rights Campaign
"As America's largest gay and lesbian organization, the Human Rights Campaign provides a national voice on gay and lesbian issues. The Human Rights Campaign effectively lobbies Congress; mobilizes grassroots action in diverse communities; invests strategically to elect a fair-minded Congress; and increases public understanding through innovative education and communication strategies."

Spreading Santorum
Everything you need to know about the Honorable and Homophobic United States Senator Rick Santorum. Just don't get any in your eye.

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
"GLAAD was formed in New York in 1985 and began by protesting The New York Post's blatantly offensive and sensationalized stories about AIDS. Its mission was to improve the public's attitudes toward homosexuality and put an end to violence and discrimination against lesbians and gay men. "