Breaking The Chains Links
Responsible
Shopper
An online source for consumers and investors looking for independent information about the social and environmental practices of some of the country's most influential consumer product companies.
SourceWatch
Documenting public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests..
Corporate Accountability International
Corporate Accountability International has been waging winning campaigns to challenge corporate abuse for more than 30 years. We were there at the beginning of this movement to demand direct corporate accountability to public interests and have been at its forefront ever since.
Reclaim Democracy
Working to create a representative democracy with an actively participating public, where citizens play an active role in guiding the country and political agenda.
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Providing
free and affordable legal services to grassroots, community-based environmental
groups, and rural municipal governments.
The
180 Movement for Democracy & Education
Dedicated to helping build a campus-based movement for political empowerment and participatory democracy.
Adbusters
Dedicated to reinventing the outdated paradigms of our consumer culture & building a brave new understanding of living.
Corporate Watch (US)
Countering corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism.
POCLAD
Program on Corporations,
Law, and Democracy.
ASEED:
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment & Development
A network that initiates actions and campaigns on environmental and social justice issues.
Corporate Watch
A small independent not-for-profit research and publishing group which undertakes research on the social and environmental impact of large corporations, particularly multinationals.
Global Exchange
An international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice.
National Consumers League
For 100 years the National Consumers League has carried forward this founding principle: the working conditions we accept for our fellow citizens should be reflected by our purchases.
Americans
at Work
A directory of American Made Products divided in to numerous categories.
As You Sow
A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility.
Co-op America
A national nonprofit organization providing the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to address today's social and environmental problems.
Ethical
Consumer
The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names
Citizen Works
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded by Ralph Nader in April 2001 to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation in power.
Center
for Corporate Policy
A non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
Educational Tools from Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange's Fair Trade Curriculum Win Win Solutions: An Introduction to Fair Trade and Cooperative Economics
The Aurora Institute
A charitable, not-for-profit, citizens-based organization, working to conduct innovative research and provide public education on the role and structure of public and private institutions in a democratic society.
Wal-Mart Watch
A resource providing information on Wal-mart's poor employment practices, community exploitation, and other unethical business practices.
The
Multinational Monitor
Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment
Workers Rights & Anti-Sweatshop Groups
Solidarity Center
A non-profit that assists workers around the world who are struggling to build democratic and independent trade unions. (AFL-CIO affiliated)
Sweatshop Watch
A coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious and student organizations, and many individuals, committed to eliminating the exploitation that occurs in sweatshops.
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
An int'l student movement fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers’ rights.
Workers Rights Consortium (WRC)
Assisting in the enforcement of manufacturing Codes of Conduct adopted by colleges and universities; these Codes are designed to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing college and university names respect the basic rights of workers.
Behind The Label
A multimedia news website covering the stories of people fighting for fundamental human and labor rights against the goliath global clothing industry.
Fair Labor Association (FLA)
A non-profit organization combining the efforts of industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), colleges and universities to promote adherence to international labor standards and improve working conditions worldwide.
International Labor Rights Fund
An advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide.
National Labor Committee
A human rights organization focusing on the protection and promotion of workers' rights. Non -profit & independent
Agricultural Justice Project
A non-profit initiative to create fairness and equity in our food system through the development of social justice standards for organic and sustainable agriculture.
Anti-Sprawl & Independent Business Advocates
Smart Growth Online
Spurring the smart growth movement are demographic shifts, a strong environmental ethic, increased fiscal concerns, & more nuanced views of growth.
Sprawl Busters
Helping citizens groups strategize and carry out a plan to stop the superstores.
Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
An online clearinghouse of websites and printed matter having to do with stemming urban sprawl and promoting the smart growth of communities.
Stopping Sprawl, Sierra Club
Working to fight poorly planned runaway development and promotes smart growth communities that increase transportation choices, reduce air and water pollution, and protect our natural places.
New Rules Project
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Because the old rules don't work any longer. They undermine local economies, subvert democracy, weaken our sense of community, and ignore the costs of our decisions on the next generation.
American
Independent
Business Alliance
Congress for the New Urbanism
A Chicago
- based non-profit that works with
architects, developers, planners, and others involved in the creation of
cities and towns, teaching them how to implement the principles of the
New Urbanism.
Local Government Commission
A nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization that provides inspiration, technical assistance, and networking to local elected officials and other dedicated community leaders who are working to create healthy, walkable, and resource-efficient communities.
National Trust
Main
Street Center
A pioneering approach to commercial district revitalization, an innovative methodology that combines historic preservation with economic development to restore prosperity and vitality to downtowns and neighborhood business districts.
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Local Food Systems
Food Share
Working on food issues "from field to table" - focusing on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the growing, processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and consumption.
Food Security Learning Center
An electronic learning center that pulls together information on community food security, nutrition, domestic hunger and poverty, federal food programs, rural poverty, the family farm crisis, and migrant workers.
The People's Grocery
A community-based organization working to find creative solutions to the food needs of the residents of West Oakland by building a local food system and local economy.
Sustainable Food Center
Creating a food secure community by improving access to local, healthy and affordable food for children and adults in Central Texas.
Community Food Security Coalition
A non-profit North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times.
The Food Project
Growing a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system.
