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Find a great site to add? a broken link? Email: sarah_bosler@cjuhsd.k12.ca.us 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
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 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 Pete Singer http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/index.html (FAQ) 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/aboutala/offices/oif/basics/intellectual.cfm ALA’s Challenged and Banned Books - http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/archive/challengedbannedDONOTUSE.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/aboutala/offices/wo/woissues/civilliberties/cipaweb/cipa.cfm
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/
Cyberbullying & Cyber Ethics 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/ NS Teens http://www.nsteens.org/videos/social-networking/
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 New 1/30/09- The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act - New 1/30/09 New 1/30/09 - National Organization for Women (NOW) - http://www.now.org/ New 1/30/09 - NWLC - Fair Pay Campaign - http://www.nwlc.org/fairpay/ Fair Pay Restoration Act - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.1843: Human Rights Watch: Women's Rights - http://www.hrw.org/ (Choose Women's Rights under Topics tab) Business and Professional Women USA:
Workplace Equity -
http://www.bpwusa.org/i4a National Women’s Law Center
(NWLC)-
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.foodanimalconcerns.org/index.htm 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
No Angel Came- http://takenbythesky.net/juarez/jindex.html a collection of new articles and photos and background on this femicide 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/ International Fur Trade Federation http://www.iftf.com/index.php Museum of Fur Trade http://www.furtrade.org/ Encarta Encyclopedia - Fur Trade http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574462/Fur_Industry.html
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.navy.mil/local/guantanamo/ The purpose of this website is to provide information and news about the United States Navy to the general public. 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. (temporarily down) 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) See also Political Detainee Torture
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.orgAmnesty 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 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. No on Proposition 8 - http://www.noonprop8.com/about Yes on Proposition 8 - http://www.protectmarriage.com/
Child Labor Coalition - http://stopchildlabor.org/ Colation to Stop the use of Child Soldiers
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http://www.child-soldiers.org Global Exchange – Sweatfree Campaign - http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/ United Students Against Sweatshops http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/
Violence Against Women/Domestic Violence ACLU Section on Women's Rights-Violence Against Women - http://www.aclu.org/womensrights/violence/index.html National Coalition Against Domestic Violence - http://ncadv.org/ American Bar Assoc. Commission on Domestic Violence - http://www.abanet.org/domviol/home.html U.S Dept. of Justice Violence Against Women Office - http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/ World Health Organization: Gender-based Violence - http://www.who.int/gender/violence/en/ Amnesty Intl: Stop Violence Against Women - http://www.amnesty.org/en/campaigns/stop-violence-against-women
UNICEF Voices of Youth (Primary Sources) -
http://www.unicef.org/voy Sierra Club -
http://www.sierraclub.org/
(Choose Safe and Healthy Communities under Conservation
Initiatives) Check your beach water quality - http://www.earth911.org/waterquality/index.asp?cluster=0 Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/
Feed the Children - http://www.feedthechildren.org/ Bread for the World - http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html World Hunger Year - http://www.worldhungeryear.org/ United Nations World Hunger Programme - http://www.wfp.org/english/ Free Rice - http://www.freerice.com World Hunger Campaign - http://www.care.org/campaigns/world-hunger/index.asp
Other Topics The 5-Minute Activist The Rainforest Site- www.therainforestsite.com EcologyFund- www.ecologyfund.com Tree4life- www.tree4life.com SolarSite- http://cannecy.free.fr/solar/ Resources Earth911- www.earth911.org Earth Day Network- www.earthday.net EnviroLink- www.envirolink.org Environmental Defense- www.environmentaldefense.org The Environmental Literacy Council- www.enviroliteracy.org Environmental Research Foundation- www.rachel.org Greenpeace- www.greenpeace.org Natural Resources Defense Council- www.nrdc.org National Wildlife Federation- www.nwf.org Rainforest Action Network- www.ran.org Save Our Environment Action Center- www.saveourenvironment.org Student Conservation Association- www.thesca.org Untied Nations Environment Programme- www.unep.org
The 5-Minute Activist Clear Landmines- www.clearlandmines.com Resources The King Center- www.thekingcenter.com National Youth and Student Peace Coalition- www.nyspc.net Nuclear Age Peace Foundation- www.wagingpeace.org September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows- www.peacefultomorrows.org The Student Peace Action Network- www.studentpeaceaction.org United for Peace and Justice- www.unitedforpeace.org Veterans Against the Iraq War- www.vaiw.org Veterans for Peace- www.veteransforpeace.org Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom- www.wilpf.org Iraq Coalition Casualty Count (Military Dead) http://www.icasualities.org Iraq Body Count (Civilian Dead) http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/ Alternative New Sources (Peace Resources) http://melvil.chicousd.org/peace.html
The 5-Minute Activist Feminist Campus- www.feministcampus.org/act/oneclick The Breast Cancer Site- www.thebreastcancersite.com Resources Advocates for Youth- www.advocatesforyouth.org The Alan Guttmacher Institute- www.agi-usa.org Association for Women’s Rights in Development- www.awid.org Feminist Majority Foundation- www.feminist.org The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy- www.teenpregnancy.org National Center for Policy Research for Women & Families- www.center4policy.org National Committee on Pay Equity- www.pay-equity.org National Partnership for Women & Families- www.nationalpartnership.org Planned Parenthood Federation of America- www.plannedparenthood.org National Abortion Federation- www.prochoice.org Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice- www.rcrc.org UNIFEM: A Portal on Women, Peace, and Security- www.womenwarpeace.org
Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberty The 5-Minute Activist The Electronic Frontier Fundraiser- www.eff.org Resources American Civil Liberties Union- www.aclu.org Civilrights.org- www.civilrights.org First Amendment Schools- www.firstamendmentschools.org High School Journalism- www.highschooljournalism.org Peacefire- www.peacefire.org (blocked on campus) Restrictions to Free Speech Online- www.kwc.org/memorylane/tjhsst/fapage/topics.html Student Press Law Center- www.splc.org U.S. Commission on Civil Rights- www.usccr.gov The U.S. Constitution Online- www.usconstitution.net National Youth Rights Assoc. http://www.youthrights.org/
Anti-Commercialism & Culture Jamming Adbusters Magazine http://adbusters.org/home/
Promoting Tolerance Toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth The 5-Minute Activist Resources California Safe Schools Coalition - http://casafeschools.org/ The National Youth Advocacy Coalition- www.nyacyouth.org The Human Rights Campaign- www.hrc.org Gay Straight Alliance Network http://www.gsanetwork.org/ American Civil Liberties Union Lesbian and Gay Rights Page- www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRightsMain.cfm Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists- www.aglp.org Bisexual Resource Center- www.biresource.org Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere- www.colage.org The Cool Page for Queer Teens- www.bidstrup.com/cool.htm The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation- www.glaad.org Human Rights Campaign- www.hrc.org International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission- www.iglhrc.org National Gay and Lesbian Task Force- www.ngltf.org The New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project- www.avp.org The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project- www.personproject.org Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays- www.pflag.org TransProud- http://www.transproud.com/web.html The Trevor Project: Saving Young Lives- www.thetrevorproject.org YouthResource- www.youthresource.com |
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