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Activist Rights
http://www.activistrights.org.au
Detailed information on rights of demonstrators and free speech participants. Most is specific to Victoria, Australia, but contains list of comparable international resources.
Affero Service
Web tools and services for activists to elicit action from others through weblog, forum post, e-mail, or web pages.
Black Cross Health Collective
http://www.blackcrosscollective.org/
First aid training to handle typical needs at protests. Based in Portland, Oregon.
Campus Activism
An extensive database of tools for student activists, groups, resources, and events.
Center for Cooperative Research
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/
Facilitates research on issues including the war on terrorism, United States foreign policy, and corporate power. Includes timelines.
Center For Creative Learning
Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other 'social threats.'
Center for Third World Organizing
A training and resource center dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color.
Citizen Science Toolbox
http://www.coastal.crc.org.au/toolbox/
Australia's Coastal Cooperative Research Centre provides case studies, techniques, and bibliography of strategies to enhance meaningful stakeholder involvement in decision-making.
Collective Book on Collective Process
http://www.geocities.com/collectivebook/
Handbook built on collective process for activist groups to recognize and resolve common abuses and negative group dynamics.
Community Empowerment
These collections of practical training materials for community workers mobilizing people to overcome poverty are organized by topic (such as microenterprise, evaluation, and brainstorming), and include reproducible illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography.
Data Center
Provides social justice advocates, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills to help conduct more effective campaigns.
Democracy Center
The Center combines investigation, reporting, training in public advocacy, and international campaigns to help build a global citizenry that understands the public issues before it and is able to take effective public action. They provide a range of how-to resources.
Empowerment Resources
http://www.empowermentresources.com/
Contains tools for personal growth, social change, and ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale.
Flying Fish
http://www.flyingfish.org.uk/links/
Provides links to alternative news and media for stories not covered in the mainstream press.
Human Rights Tech
http://www.humanrightstech.org
Non profit organization assisting and encouraging grassroots anti-poverty initiatives. Includes program history, projects, and digital divide resources.
Information Leaflets for Activists
http://www.united.non-profit.nl/pages/onderleaf.htm
A coalition of 500 European organizations working against racism has put together a series of short practical tip-sheets on Fundraising, Electronic Action (using email and the internet), Communication and Networking, and other issues of interest to grassroots organizations everywhere. Use the tip sheets online, or print out as handouts.
International Website Against Fascism and Racism
Portal and news site for antifascist and antiracist people and groups. Also a free hosting service for such groups.
Liberty Activist
http://www.libertyactivist.org
Provides information and materials to grassroots and underfunded liberty organizations.
National People's Action
Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US.
NPOBLOGS
NpoBlogs aggregates socially progressive RSS and xml feeds into one portal site.
Organizers' Collaborative
http://organizerscollaborative.org
A nonprofit group harnessing the collaborative potential of the Internet and working to making computers accessible as a tool in support of community-based, social change organizing.
Partners In Kindness
http://www.partnersinkindness.com/
Contains ideas, stories, advice, and encouragement for ways to practice kindness.
Peace and Environment Resource Centre
Educates and empowers the public on peace, environment and social justice issues; supports groups, online library search of books and magazines, lots of links, discussion forum, some publications.
PR Media Consultants
http://www.prmediaconsultants.com
Offers training and consultancy for public-interest groups on how the media really work and how to maximise exposure in the media.
Public Info Research Namebase
A database of articles on various political and paranormal subjects with information about their authors.