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Activism
National Activist Organizations

modified:20/Feb/2003

Activism | Advocacy | Arts | Education | Government
Health | Media | Recreation | Science | Society

also see: Advocacy

• PR Watch

Animal Rights

• Animal Welfare Institute
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Campaign Finance/Electoral Reform

• Common Cause
• Public Campaign
• Rock the Vote  

Children

• California Tomorrow
• Children's Defense Fund  
• Dads & Daughters 
• Stand for Children  

Civil Liberties

• American Civil Liberties Union  
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• First Amendment Lawyer's Assoc.
• Freedom Forum  

• Center for Public Integrity
• Center for Responsive Politics
• Common Cause
• Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
• National Priorities Project
• Taxpayers for Common Sense

Handguns

• Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
• Handgun Control, Inc.
• Violence Policy Center

Health

• Families USA
• Physicians for a National Health Program
• Sound Partners for Community Health

Housing/Homelessness

• Housing America  
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• National Housing Institute
• National Housing Trust Fund
• National Law Center on Homelessness and  Poverty
• National Low-Income Housing Coalition

Human Rights/Foreign Policy

• Amnesty International
• East Timor Action Network
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• MADRE

Internet & Computers

• Center for Democracy and Technology
• CFP Conference
• Computer Professionals for  Social Responsibility
• Electronic Activist
• Electronic Frontier  Foundation
• Global Internet Liberty Campaign
• Information Subway  
• Internet Privacy Coalition
• NetAction  
• Privacy Page  

Labor

• AFL-CIO  
• Campaign for Labor Rights  
• Jobs with Justice  
• LaborNet  
• Labor Party
• Labour International
• Labour Start
• National Labor Committee
• Teamsters for a Democratic Union
• United Auto Workers
• Union Ring

Media

• Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting (CIPB)
• Low Power Broadcasting
• Media Alliance
• People for Better TV

Mental Health

• Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
• Support Coalition International

Multi-issue

• 20/20 Vision
• 2030 Center
• American for Democratic Action
• American Friends Service Committee
• ACORN
• Campaign for America's Future
• Center for Third World Organizing
• Citizen Works
• Consumer Project on Technology
• Co-op America
• Democratic Socialists of America  
• Educators for Social Responsibility
• Friends Committee on Legislation
• Global Exchange
• Institute for Global Communications
• Interfaith Alliance
• International Action Center
• International Center for Technology Assessment 
• League of Women Voters 
• National Lawyers Guild 
• People for the American Way
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Progressive Challenge  
• Public Citizen  
• Public Interest Research Groups
• RainbowPush  
• Reclaim Democracy   
• Unitarian Universalists Service Committee
• Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)
• Working for Change

Multi-issue E-activism

• Act For Change

• Act Now--The Nation

• eActivist

• Friends Committee

• Move On

• Progressive Portal

• Progressive Secretary

Peace/Military

• Abolition 2000
• Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
• Conventional Arms Transfer Project
• Council for a Livable World
• Fellowship of Reconciliation
• Global Action to Prevent War
• Iraq Action Coalition  
• Nonviolence Web
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• Peace Action
• School of the Americas Watch
• Student Peace Action Network
• Sunshine Project
• Union of Concerned Scientists 
• Veterans for Peace
• Voices in the Wilderness
• War Resister's League

Seniors/Social Security

• 2030  
• AARP-American Association of Retired Persons
• Gray Panthers

Women

• 9 to 5 National Association for Working Women
• Feminist.com
• Feminist Majority
• National Abortion Rights Action League
• National Breast Cancer Coalition
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• National Organization for Women
• National Partnership for Women and Families
• Planned Parenthood
• Reproductive Health and Rights Center
• Voters for Choice
• Women Leaders Online

Listed here are progressive organizations based in the United States with a national and/or global focus that recruit people to take action to change public policy. Organizations that only engage in public education and advocacy from a progressive perspective are listed under Advocacy.

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