Last updated 04/21/08
Animal Testing / Experimentation / Cruelty
Equality for Women in the Workplace
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
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Trial (Opposing Viewpoints)
AB 540/Higher Education for Undocumented Students
The DREAM Act (The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act - H.R. 1275 & S.774 & S.2205
Library of Congress legislation information http://thomas.loc.gov/
People for the American Way: The Dream Act (pro) - http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=12475
The Heritage Foundation - The Dream Act (con) - http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/bg2069.cfm
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fun (MLADEF) - AB 540 http://www.maldef.org/ab540/ab540.cfm
Immigration Legal Resource Center: AB 540 Dream Act -
http://www.ilrc.org/ab540.html
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles - http://www.chirla.org/node/85
UNAIDS - http://unaids.org/en/
UNICEF Voices of Youth (Primary Sources) -
http://www.unicef.org/voy
FreeDonation.com- www.freedonation.com/aids
Adolescent AIDS Program at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center www.adolescentaids.org
Advocates for Youth- www.advocatesforyouth.org
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) - www.actupny.org
AIDS Education Global Information System - www.aegis.com
The AIDS Memorial Quilt - www.aidsquilt.org
AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition- www.atac-usa.org
American Foundation for AIDS Research- www.amfar.org
Black AIDS Institute- www.blackaids.org
The Body- www.thebody.com
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention- www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm
Coalition for Positive Sexuality- www.positive.org
Critical Path AIDS Project- www.critpath.org
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation- www.kff.org
Know HIV/AIDS- www.knowhivaids.org
The National Minority AIDS Council- www.nmac.org
Stop HIV- www.stophiv.com
The Student Global AIDS Campaign- www.fightglobalaids.org
Sex, Etc. – www.sxetc.org
Animal Testing/Experimentation/Cruelty
Dog Fighting Fact Sheet: Humane Society of the United States - http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/animal_fighting_the_final_round/dogfighting_fact_sheet/
Animal Cruelty and Fighting Campaign - http://www.hsus.org/acf/fighting/dogfight/
How Dogfighting Works: How Stuff Works - http://people.howstuffworks.com/dogfighting.htm
Cockfighting Fact Sheet: Humane Society of the United States http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/animal_fighting_the_final_round/cockfighting_fact_sheet/
The Animal Rescue Site- www.theanimalrescuesite.com
Care2- www.care2.com
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals- www.aspca.org
The Animal Concerns Community- www.animalconcerns.org
Farm Animal Reform Movement- www.farmusa.org
The Humane Society of the United States- www.hsus.org
Humane Teen- www.humaneteen.org
Kids for Animal Rights in Education- www.kare.homestead.com
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and PETA2- www.peta.org
Scientists Center for Animal Welfare- www.scaw.com
The Vegetarian Resource Group- www.vrg.org
World Wildlife Fund- www.worldwildlife.org
Armenian National Institute - http://www.armenian-genocide.org/
TheForgotten.org - http://www.theforgotten.org/intro.html
Armenian Genocide: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Univ. of Minn. http://chgs.umn.edu/histories/armenian/
Genocide Museum: The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute - http://www.genocide-museum.am/
Censorship (Book Challenges & Banning)
American Library Association (ALA) Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/basics/intellectual.cfm
ALA’s Challenged and Banned Books -
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.cfm
Censorship in School http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=ifissues&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=31680
ASIF! Authors Support Intellectual Freedom - http://asifnews.blogspot.com/
The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/woissues/civilliberties/cipaweb/cipa.cfm?CFID=107997886&CFTOKEN=7e60f4-de533567-64b2-4999-8f56-564e326fd408
Censorship (Music) see also Downloading links
Recording Industry Assoc of America - http://riaa.org/ (Check out the "For Students Doing Reports" link)
The "No Electronic Theft" (NET) Act - http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/17-18red.htm
Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
Wired Safety - http://www.wiredsafety.org/
Stop Cyberbullying - http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/
Don't Believe the Type - http://tcs.cybertipline.com/
StaySafe.org - http://www.staysafe.org/teens/default.html
NetSmartz.org - http://www.netsmartz.org/resources/reallife.htm
Natl. Crime Prevention Council - http://www.ncpc.org/newsroom/current campaigns/cyberbullying
Bullying UK - http://www.bullying.co.uk/
Act Against Bullying UK - http://www.actagainstbullying.com/
Other Bullying and School Violence Links
The Brady Campaign- www.bradycampaign.org
Common Sense about Kids and Guns- www.kidsandguns.org
Keep Schools Safe- www.keepschoolssafe.org
National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign- www.violencepreventionweek.org
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center- www.safeyouth.org
PAX: Real Solutions to Gun Violence- http://www.paxusa.org/
Report-it.com- www.report-it.com
Report Someone- www.reportsomeone.com
School Violence Resource Center- www.svrc.net
Students Against Violence Everywhere- www.nationalsave.org
Students Pledge Against Gun Violence- www.pledge.org
Teens, Crime, and the Community- www.nationaltcc.org
Warning Signs- helping.apa.org/warningsigns
Genocide Intervention Network http://genocideintervention.net/advocate/action/thingstodo
Save Darfur-Speak Out http://savedarfur.org/page/speakout/
Save Darfur http://www.savedarfur.org/
mtvU's Refugee Game for Change http://darfurisdying.com/
mtvU's Activism Site http://www.mtvu.com/on_mtvu/activism/
Genocide Intervention Network http://genocideintervention.net/
STAND - A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition http://www.standnow.org/
24 Hours for Darfur http://www.24hoursfordarfur.org/main.php
Amnesty Inlt - http://www.amnestyusa.org/ (Death Penalty Issue)
Death Penalty Focus of California - http://www.deathpenalty.org Death Penalty Focus of California is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organization, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
Death Penalty Information Center - http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ The Death Penalty Information Center conducts research into public opinion on the death penalty. The center opposes capital punishment because it is discriminatory, excessively costly, and may result in the execution of innocent persons.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - http://www.ncadp.org The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is a collection of more than 115 groups working together to stop executions in the United States. The organization compiles statistics on the death penalty.
Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project - http://www.deathpenaltyreligious.org/ Formerly the Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty, the Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project was created to galvanize and empower the religious community in the United States to work against capital punishment. Coordinated by the American Friends Service Committee's criminal justice program, the Project provides people of faith with the tools and resources they need to become effective advocates for abolition.
Campaign to End the Death Penalty - http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/index.html A nonprofit organization actively attempting to abolish the death penalty. Its Web site contains local contact information, regular updates on death row cases, and fact sheets about capital punishment in the United States.
Equality for Women in the Workplace
Human Rights Watch: Women - http://hrw.org/women/
Business and Professional Women USA:
Workplace Equity -
http://www.bpwusa.org/i4a
National Women’s Law Center -
http://www.nwlc.org/display
National Council of Women's Organizations - http://www.womensorganizations.org The NCWO is a nonpartisan network of more than one hundred organizations, and advocacy groups. NCWO's member organizations work together to address women's issues, including equal employment opportunity, economic equity, media equality, education, job training, welfare reform, and women's health and reproductive rights
Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) - http://www.foodanimalconcernstrust.org/ FACT promotes better care of farm animals and improved farming methods to produce safer foods and focuses on the food safety problems that arise from intensive animal production. Believing that factory-farming methods should be abolished, FACT helps farmers fund operations that raise animals humanely.
Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/
Sustainable Table - http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/factoryfarming/
Fair Trade Federation - http://fairtradefederation.org (Click Explore Fair Trade for FAQ and more)
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
The Female Genital Cutting Education Network Project- http://fgmnetwork.org/index.php
World Health Organization: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Fact Sheet - http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/fgm/index.html
Religious Tolerance: Debates about FGN in Africa, Middle East and Far East - http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_cirm.htm
UNICEF.org: FGM - http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_genitalmutilation.html
Circumcision and Information Resource Pages - http://cirp.org/pages/female/
IIRN: The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation - http://www.irinnews.org/IndepthMain.aspx?IndepthId=15&ReportId=62462
MexicoSolidarity.org - http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/site/juarez-chihuahua
Amnesty Intl. Individuals at Risk: Murders in Mexico-The Women of Ciudad Juarez - http://blogs.amnestyusa.org/urgentaction/archive/2007/07/30/murders-in-mexico--the-women-of-ciudad-juarez.htm
Amnesty International: Take Action for the Women of Juarez - http://www.amnestyusa.org/Bordertown/Take_Action_for_the_Women_of_Juarez/page.do?id=1101544&n1=2&n2=22&n3=795
PETA’s Fur is Dead Campaign - http://www.furisdead.com/
Humans Society of the United States Fur-Free Campaigns - http://www.hsus.org/furfree/campaigns/campaigns.html
The Fur Free Alliance Information About Use of Fur Bearing Animals for Fur - http://www.infurmation.com/
StopGlobalWarming - http://stopglobalwarming.com
Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/ (Choose Global Warming under Conservation Initiatives)
Stop Global Warming - http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/
Climate Crisis - http://www.climatecrisis.net
We Can Solve It - http://www.wecansolveit.org/
Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/
U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba - http://www.nsgtmo.navy.mil/ This facility hosts hundreds of accused Taliban and al Qaeda fighters imprisoned during the Afghanistan War of 2001. Human rights groups argue that these detainees have been denied access to the U.S. criminal justice system and subjected to "stress and duress" interrogation techniques.
Critical Resistance - http://www.criticalresistance.org This is an activist group opposed to caging and controlling people in prisons, maintaining that prison is not an effective response to poverty and crime. The group advocates the immediate release of all nonviolent offenders from the U.S. prison system. It publishes several reports offering alternatives to incarceration on its Web site, including A Plan to Save the State of California a Billion Dollars.
Amnesty Intl. - http://www.amnestyusa.org/ (Choose War on Terror or Torture and USA)
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: Hate Crimes - http://www.civilrights.org/issues/hate/
All One Heart- www.alloneheart.com
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee- www.adc.org
Anti-Defamation League- www.adl.org
A.R.I.S. (The Anti-Racism Information Service) - www.antiracism-info.org
The Art of the T-shirt- www.art-teez.org
Crosspoint- www.magenta.nl/crosspoint
E.R.A.C.E. (Eliminating Racism and Creating Equality) – www.erace.com
F.A.I.R.’s Anti-Racism Desk- www.fair.org/racism-desk
Hope in the Cities- http://www.iofc.org/en/programmes/hic/
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice- www.jfrej.org
NAACP- www.naacp.org
National Council of La Raza- www.nclr.org
National Urban League- www.nul.org
Project Change www.projectchange.org
Race, Racism, and the Law- academic.udayton.edu/race
Stop the Hate- www.stop-the-hate.org
The Southern Poverty law Center- www.splcenter.com
Tolerance.org- www.tolerance.org
Youth against Racism- www.angelfire.com/rebellion/youthagainstracism
Youth Web- www.youthwebonline.com
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - http://www.adc.org The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee fights anti-Arab stereotyping in the media, and discrimination and hate crimes against Arab Americans. It publishes a series of issue papers and a number of books, including the two-volume Taking Root/Bearing Fruit: The Arab-American Experience.
Michael Moore's SiCKO Factual Backup Resources- http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/checkup/
Links and Resources from Michael Moore - http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/links-resources/
The Alliance to Defend Health Care - http://www.massdefendhealthcare.org/ The Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care is a group of doctors and nurses that encourages a broad public dialogue about the structuring and financing of health care services and works toward reform in the current health care system.
National Coalition on Health Care - http://www.massdefendhealthcare.org/ The National Coalition on Health Care is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that represents the nation's largest alliance working to improve America's health care and make it more affordable.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - http://bphc.hrsa.gov/ The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.
Health Coalition on Liability and Access - http://www.hcla.org HCLA is a national advocacy coalition united in our strong belief that federal health liability laws are needed to bring greater fairness, timeliness and cost-effectiveness to our system of civil justice. We also believe legal reform is the best way to protect medical progress and to ensure that affordable health care is accessible to all Americans.
Intl. Campaign Against Honour Killings (UK)- http://www.stophonourkillings.com/index.php
Amnesty Magazine - "Killing for Honor: Legalized Murder" http://www.amnestyusa.org/amnestynow/legalizedmurder.html
Gendercide Watch: Case Study-Honour Killings - http://www.gendercide.org/case_honour.html
The Murder of Samia Sarwar - http://saxakali.com/southasia/honor.htm
Human Trafficking (Slavery)
MTV's EXIT Campaign: End Exploitation and Trafficking - http://www.mtvexit.org/eng/index_flash.html
Human Trafficking.org - http://humantrafficking.org/
Amnesty Intl - http://www.amnestyusa.org/stopviolence/trafficking/
U.S. Dept. of State "Trafficking in Persons" - http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0603/ijge/ijge0603.htm/
U.S. Dept of State List of Internet Sites on Human Trafficking - http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0603/ijge/gj11.htm
Action to End Exploitation - http://endexploitation.org/
Recognizing Human Trafficking Victims - http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/fs/34563.htm
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International - http://www.catwinternational.org/
Children of the Night - http://www.childrenofthenight.org/home.html
ABC News - Online Resources to Escape the Sex Trade - http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4495862
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) - http://nnirr.org/
U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration - http://www.state.gov/g/prm The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs.
National Immigration Forum - http://www.immigrationforum.org/The forum believes that legal immigrants strengthen America and that welfare benefits do not attract illegal immigrants. It supports effective measures aimed at curbing illegal immigration and promotes programs and policies that help refugees and immigrants assimilate into American society.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - http://www.nnirr.orgThe National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights includes community, church, labor, and legal groups committed to the cause of equal rights for all immigrants. These groups work to end discrimination and unfair treatment of illegal immigrants and refugees.
International Immigrants Foundation - http://www.10.orgThe IIF's mission is to help immigrant families and children to achieve their aspirations for a better life in the United States. The organization addresses its mission by providing direct support to promote positive intercultural relations.
Global Exchange Campaign – Mexico, Trade and Migration - http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/mexico/
DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) - http://www.data.org/
ONE Campaign - http://www.one.org (fair trade, debt relief, poverty, education, health, clean water, food, and other issues)
FreetheJena6.org - http://www.freethejena6.org/
NAACP: Justice for the Jena Six -
http://www.naacp.org/youth
ACLU Racial Prejudice and Jena Six -
http://www.aclu.org/racialjusti
Democracy Now! The Case of the Jena Six -
http://www.democracynow.org
Washington Post Continuing Coverage on
Jena Six -
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Media Downloads (copyright infringement)
Most Teens Unaware of Digital Copyright Laws - Microsoft Survey - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-13MSIPSurveyResultsPR.mspx
PDF of Microsoft's study -http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/download/press/2008/02-13KRCStudy.pdf
Microsoft's MYBYTES website (primary sources) - http://www.mybytes.com/
Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
Recording Industry Association of America - http://riaa.org/
U.S. Copyright Office Home Page - http://copyright.gov/
Gallup Poll Articles on Downloading - http://www.gallup.com/ (Main Site) http://www.gallup.com/search/default.aspx?q=downloading&s=2&i=370&t=&p=
Media Awareness Network: Portrayals of Ethnic and Visible Minorities - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/ ethnics_and_minorities/index.cfm
Center for Media Literacy: Minorities & The Media - http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article231.html
Missing: Minorities in the Media - http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/77789/
Center for Equal Opportunity - http://www.ceousa.org The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) is the only think tank devoted exclusively to the promotion of colorblind equal opportunity and racial harmony. CEO sponsors conferences, supports research, and publishes policy briefs on issues related to race, ethnicity, assimilation, and public policy.
Translation of the Qur'an Ch.4: Women - http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/004.qmt.html
Council on American-Islamic Relations - http://www.cair.com/
Islamic Society of North America - http://www.isna.net
Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights - http://karamah.org/home.htm
Muslim Women's League - http://mwlusa.org/
Amnesty International U.S.A. http://www.amnestyusa.org Amnesty International is an independent worldwide movement working impartially for the release of all prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for political prisoners, and an end to torture and executions. Amnesty International is funded by donations from its members and supporters throughout the world.
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International (AI) is an international organization that works to promote human rights. In 1999 it launched the "China: Ten Years After Tiananmen" campaign to raise awareness of the imprisonment of political dissidents in China. Details of the campaign are available on the group's website. AI also publishes an annual report detailing human rights violations around the globe.
Derechos Human Rights http://www.derechos.org Derechos Human Rights promotes human rights worldwide by distributing human rights information, educating the public, providing support to local human rights organizations, and working to unmask human rights violators.
Human Rights in China http://www.hrichina.org Human Rights in China (HRIC) is an international nongovernmental organization founded by Chinese scientists and scholars. It monitors the implementation of international human rights standards in the People's Republic of China and carries out human rights advocacy and education among Chinese people inside and outside the country.
Laogai Research Foundation http://www.laogai.org The Laogai Research Foundation is dedicated to collecting information about China's system of forced-labor camps.
New Panther Vanguard Movement http://www.globalpanther.comThe NPVM is a left-wing African American group that seeks slavery reparations from the U.S. government to redress the poverty, crime, and educational failure evident in the black community.
See also Guantanamo Bay Detainees or search for "prisoner abuse"
Clean Air World: Air Pollution - http://cleanairworld.org/
I Want Clean Air- www.iwantcleanair.com
Clean Air Now http://www.cleanairnow.org Clean Air Now is an alliance of citizen-funded public interest advocacy organizations that aims to protect public health from air pollution through informed action. It publishes numerous reports on air pollution, including Danger in the Air: Unhealthy Levels of Smog in 2003, and Darkening Skies: Trends Toward Increasing Power Plant Emissions.
Military Toxics Project http://www.cleanairnow.org The mission of the Military Toxics Project is to unite activists, organizations, and communities in the struggle to clean up military pollution, safeguard the transportation of hazardous materials, and to advance the development and implementation of preventative solutions to the toxic and radioactive pollution caused by military activities.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water http://epa.gov/waterscience The Office of Science and Technology (OST) is one of five water offices at EPA. We set national environmental baselines for the quality of the Nation's waters. We help ensure the latest water pollution science and best available control technologies to support Office of Water program goals to keep water safe and clean.
Foundation for Clean Air Progress http://www.cleanairprogress.org FCAP is a nonprofit organization that believes the public remains unaware of the substantial progress that has been made in reducing air pollution. It represents various sectors of business and industry in providing information to the public about improving air quality trends. In support of its call for less government regulation, FCAP publishes numerous reports and studies demonstrating that air pollution is on the decline.
EnviroHealthAction http://www.envirohealthaction.org EnviroHealthAction is an education and advocacy center sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility. EHA provides information about the negative effects of pollution on human beings to health care professionals and others interested in environmental health. It is designed to provide professionals with the opportunity to access important resources and deliver well-researched input to policy makers. EHA publishes research papers on toxics and health, children’s environmental health, air pollution and health, chronic disease and the environment, safe drinking water, and other issues.
Group Against Smoking Pollution http://www.smokefree.net Made up of nonsmokers adversely affected by tobacco smoke, GASP (Group Against Smoking Pollution) works to promote the rights of nonsmokers, to educate the public about the problems of secondhand smoke, and to encourage the regulation of smoking in public places.
Clean Air Task Force http://www.catf.us CATF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring clean air and a healthy environment through scientific research, public education, and legal advocacy. It publishes fact sheets and reports about air pollution, including "Children at Risk" and "Death, Disease, and Dirty Power.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Indoor Air Quality Information Clearinghouse http://www.epa.gov/iaq The EPA is the agency of the U.S. government that coordinates actions designed to protect the environment. It promotes indoor air quality standards that reduce the dangers of secondhand smoke. The EPA publishes and distributes reports such as Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders and What You Can Do About Secondhand Smoke as Parents, Decisionmakers, and Building Occupants.
ACLU Definition of Racial Profiling - http://www.aclu.org/racialjustice/racialprofiling/19901res20050815.html
ACLU TV: Racial Profiling - http://www.aclu.tv/episodes/racialprofiling
TIME Magazine Photo Essay: Racial Profiling - http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010730/
California Dept. or Conservation - http://www.bottlesandcans.com/
Keep California Beautiful - http://www.cleanca.org/
Earth 911 - California - http://earth911.org/recycling/
Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) - http://nnirr.org/
Human Rights Watch: Refugees -
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=refugees
U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration - http://www.state.gov/g/prm The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs.
U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - http://www.uscis.gov The USCIS is responsible for the administration of immigration and naturalization adjudication functions and establishing immigration services policies and priorities. USCIS processes all immigrant and non-immigrant benefits provided to visitors of the United States.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - http://www.nnirr.orgThe National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights includes community, church, labor, and legal groups committed to the cause of equal rights for all immigrants. These groups work to end discrimination and unfair treatment of illegal immigrants and refugees.
Amnesty Intl - http://www.amnestyusa.org/ (Refugees & Asylum Issue)
Sierra Club: Clean Energy Solutions - http://sierraclub.org/globalwarming/cleanenergy/solutions.asp
American Solar Energy Society: FAQs - http://ases.org/aboutre/faq.htm
American Wind Energy Association: FAQs - http://www.awea.org/faq/wwt_basics.html
U.S. Dept of Energy - http://energy.gov/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -http://epa.gov/ Also http://www.epa.gov/Energy/renwenergy.html
Rosen Links on Green Technology - http://www.rosenlinks.com/itn/gtei/
Abiding Truth Ministries - http://www.abidingtruth.comAbiding Truth Ministries provides resources and funding for conservative Christian activists to promote traditional family values in their communities. The organization's Pro-Family Law Center and Rescue the Schools Campaign fight against same-sex marriage and gay and lesbian political power.
Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry - http://www.rcfm.orgThe coalition supports civil marriage rights for same-gender couples and seeks to promote dialogue within faith communities about religious marriage for gay and lesbian couples. Active members include clergy from Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Disciples of Christ, Episcopalian, Jewish, Lutheran, Metropolitan Community Church, Presbyterian, Quaker, Unitarian Universalist, United Church of Christ, and other religious organizations.
Child Labor Coalition - http://stopchildlabor.org/
Colation to Stop the use of Child Soldiers -