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More on grassroots political activity
CIP promotes a United States foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization, and respect for basic human rights.
The Disarm Education Fund promotes peace, social justice, and human rights. Founded in 1976 as a gun-control group, Disarm has broadened its mission and transformed itself into an internationally recognized advocacy and medical assistance organization.
TransAfrica Forum is the oldest and largest African American human rights and social justice advocacy organization promoting diversity and equity in the foreign policy arena and justice for the African World. TransAfrica Forum envisions a world where Africans and people of African descent are self-reliant, socially and economically prosperous, and equal participants in a just international system structured to benefit their self-determined governments and peoples. To this end, TransAfrica Forum serves as an educational and organizing center that encourages progressive viewpoints in the United States foreign policy arena and advocates justice for the people of Africa and the African Diaspora. The organization promotes solidarity with the oppressed and supports human rights, gender equity, democracy, and sustainable economic and environmental development practices in Africa and other countries where people of African descent reside.
50 Years Is Enough: US Network for Global Economic Justice is a coalition of over 200 United States-based grassroots, women’s, solidarity, faith-based, policy, social- and economic-justice, youth, labor, and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Network works in solidarity with over 185 international partner organizations in more than 65 countries. Through education and action, the Network is committed to transforming the international financial institutions’ policies and practices, to ending the outside imposition of neo-liberal economic programs, and to making the development process democratic and accountable. It was founded in 1994, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the World Bank and IMF. It focuses on action-oriented economic literacy training, public mobilization, and policy advocacy.
Witness for Peace is a politically independent, grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience.
The YWCA USA is a women’s membership movement nourished by its roots in the Christian faith and sustained by the richness of many beliefs and values. Strengthened by diversity, the YWCA draws together members who strive to create opportunities for women’s growth, leadership, and power in order to attain a common vision: peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people. The YWCA will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism, wherever it exists, and by any means necessary.
The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) website contains several resources related to grassroots political activity, including event ideas, hosting speakers, organizing locally, reaching the media, and starting student groups on college campuses. Event ideas: www.lawg.org/tools/forStudents/event_ideas.htm Hosting a speaker: www.lawg.org/tools/forStudents/hosting_a_speaker.htm Organizing locally: www.lawg.org/tools/organizing_locally.htm Reaching the media: www.lawg.org/tools/Media.htm Student groups: www.lawg.org/tools/forStudents/starting_a_group.htm
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