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Category: Start / Social/Political News & Activism / National & International Groups
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Jobs With Justice
working to improve working people's standard of living, fight for job security, and protect workers' right to organize
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 327
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Peaceful Tomorrows
"Peaceful Tomorrows is an advocacy organization founded by family members of September 11th victims who have united to turn our grief into action for peace."
Added on: 05-Sep-2003 | hits: 345
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Democratic National Committee
DNC's calendar, pressroom, issues-by-region, and more
Added on: 11-Sep-2003 | hits: 387
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True Majority
TrueMajority was founded by Ben Cohen, Co-founder, Ben and Jerry?s. It is a grassroots education and advocacy project
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 361
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Voice 4 Change
promotes other sites and action on issues including nuclear weapons, war, nuclear testing, star wars, intervention in Central America, corporate led globalization, and advocacy for the homeless
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 388
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MoveOn.org
"our 'representatives' don't represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice. Our international network of more than 2,000,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today"
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 295
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Holy Cross International Justice Office [Catholic]
a nice peace and justice website from a Catholic perspective -- includes presidential election information
Added on: 21-May-2004 | hits: 435
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum
"America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust" -- includes lots of info. on other genocides: Sudan, Rwanda, etc., and audio interviews, e.g., of Canadian General Romeo Dallaire.
Added on: 30-May-2004 | hits: 312
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Inequality.org
"a nonprofit organization based in New York City [whose mission] is, first of all, to illuminate the causes and multidimensional consequences of the growing inequality of wealth, income, power and opportunity in America; and second, to move this critical national problem onto the front burner of American politics and public discourse"
Added on: 04-Jun-2004 | hits: 337
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Sudan: Passion of the Present
a nonprofit group devoted to getting "word out about the genocide in Sudan"
Added on: 04-Jun-2004 | hits: 436
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"'Stress and Duress' Techniques Used Worldwide"
from Human Rights Watch on torture
Added on: 29-Jun-2004 | hits: 446
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Center for Digital Democracy
"preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming"
Added on: 02-Jul-2004 | hits: 350
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Corp Watch
great corporation watch-dog group
Added on: 02-Jul-2004 | hits: 321
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Sweat Shop Watch
"founded in 1995, Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of over 30 labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious and student organizations, and many individuals, committed to eliminating the exploitation that occurs in sweatshops"
Added on: 02-Jul-2004 | hits: 326
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Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
"the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan"
Added on: 02-Jul-2004 | hits: 390
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Miftah -- Palestinian Initiative to Promote Democracy
devoted to representing and informing the world about the interests of Palestinians
Added on: 02-Jul-2004 | hits: 427
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American Institute of Philanthropy 
"a nationally prominent charity watchdog service whose purpose is to help donors make informed giving decisions"
Added on: 14-Jul-2005 | hits: 2564
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Iraq Veterans Against the War
"a group of veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom ... committed to saving lives and ending the violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces"
Added on: 27-Jul-2004 | hits: 444 | Rating: 9.0 (1 Vote)  
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1816
First use of term "scab" to refer to strike-breakers by Albany Typographical Society, Albany, NY.
1884
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, born.
1936
Buenaventura Durruti, the famous Spanish anarchist, shot in the lung the day before, dies. Durruti's body was taken to Barcelona, where he was buried in a ceremony attended by over 500,000 people.
1980
President Carter briefs incoming President Reagan for over an hour on various secret matters in which the government is currently involved; Reagan is disengaged throughout the briefing and clearly bored, he takes no notes and his only comment is an expression of envy for South Korean dictator Park's power to crackdown on student protests by closing the universities and drafting the students.
1983
Reagan administration propaganda regarding the supposed survivability of nuclear war leads over 100 million Americans to watch the miniseries The Day After on ABC.
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