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Links to Our Partner Organizations
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition - San Jose
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) is a diverse grassroots
coalition that for almost twenty years has engaged in research,
advocacy, and organizing associated with environmental and human
health problems caused by the rapid growth of the high-tech
electronics industry.
Bay View Advocates - SF
The mission of the Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates is to
ensure environmental justice, promote economic alternatives which
contribute to the development of environmentally safe neigborhoods and
livelihoods, and secure our political, economic, cultural and social
liberation.
Citizens Against Violent Crime
Citizens Against Violent Crime (CAVC) is a California Political
Action Committee dedicated to amending California's Three Strikes Law
to apply only to violent felonies. CAVC has filed an initiative, The
Three Strikes Act of 2002, and is now raising funds to place the
initiative on the November, 2002, general ballot.
Criminal Justice Consortium - CA
The Criminal Justice Consortium's mission is to change public
policies that result in an over-reliance on incarceration and to
promote the least restrictive, most humane alternatives to
imprisonment.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
INS Watch
Books Not Bars
Founded in August 1996, the non-profit Ella Baker Center for Human
Rights is designed to be a "civil rights organization for the next
century." We combine litigation, with organizing, with smart media,
with appropriate technology -- all focused on one vexing and
widespread problem: the abuse of police authority.
Prison Activist Resource Center - Oakland
PARC is committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized
racism of the criminal injustice system and to further developing
anti-racism as individuals and throughout our organization.
Critical Resistance
CR's mission is to build a national campaign to challenge the Prison
Industrial Complex.
ACLU Prisoner Rights- National Prison Project
Founded in 1972 by the American Civil Liberties Union, the National
Prison Project seeks to create constitutional conditions of
confinement and strengthen prisoners' rights through class action
litigation and public education. Our policy priorities include
reducing prison overcrowding, improving prisoner medical care,
eliminating violence and maltreatment in prisons and jails, and
minimizing the reliance on incarceration as a criminal justice sanction.
October 22nd Coalition - San Diego, SF
The National Day of Protest aims to bring forward a powerful,
visible, national protest against police brutality and the
criminalization of a generation. It aims to expose the state's
repressive program. It aims to bring forward those most directly under
the gun of Police Brutality AND to also reach into all parts of the
society--bringing forward others to stand in the fight against this
official brutality.
Families to Amend Three Strikes
Families to Amend California's 3-Strikes is a state-wide California
organization with the purpose of amending the California 3-Strikes law.
California Prison Focus
California Prison Focus is dedicated to identifying, monitoring,
challenging and ending the human rights abuses that take place in
California prisons and particularly in Security Housing Units
(SHUs). CPF educates the public about violations of prisoners' rights
and engages in advocacy for prisoners and their families as well as
providing training for self-advocacy. California Prison Focus is
dedicated to identifying, monitoring, challenging and ending the human
rights abuses that take place in California prisons and particularly
in Security Housing Units (SHUs). CPF educates the public about
violations of prisoners' rights and engages in advocacy for prisoners
and their families as well as providing training for self-advocacy.
Prison Moratorium Project
The Prison Moratorium Project is working to end the expansion of the
prison-industrial complex by targeting large corporations that use
prisons as profit building mechanisms.
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation (FAMM Foundation) is a
national organization of citizens working to reform federal and state
mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion.
La Raza Centro Legal
La Raza Centro Legal, Inc. is a nonprofit organi-zation which
provides free legal services in the areas of immigration, housing,
employment, senior and youth laws.
National Network for Immigrant Rights
The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a
national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant,
refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations
and activists.
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker
organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed
to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.
Mujere Unidas y Activas
Mujere Unidas y Activas works to increase the political strength and
visibility of the immigrant community by developing strong leadership
among immigrant women; educate immigrant women about their rights and
the availability of services; promote self-esteem and self-sufficiency
in women; and develop and encourage mutual support, all in a friendly
and confidential atmosphere.
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
works to advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees
and to foster and environment of positive human relations in Los Angeles.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Since 1939, LIRS has brought newcomers and their neighbors together
so they can enrich each other's growth as world citizens. LIRS
programs include: refugee resettlement; foster care for refugee
minors; assistance for political asylum seekers; immigration training
and consulting; legislative advocacy; and public education.
Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition
The Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition is dedicated to the fight for
our neighborhoods, for social, economic, and environmental justice,
for the arts, for affordable housing and for a San Francisco for
everyday working people.
ACLU Immigrant Rights Page
The Immigrants' Rights Project (IRP) of the American Civil Liberties
Union works to defend the civil and constitutional rights of
immigrants through a comprehensive program of impact litigation and
public education. The IRP files constitutional and class action
lawsuits protecting the historic guarantee to judicial review,
enforcing fair employment practices, and maintaining constitutional
safeguards against detention practices and biased asylum adjudication.
Border Action Network
Border Action Network is a grassroots membership-based organization in Nogales, Douglas, and Tucson, Arizona. Our mission is to ensure that our rights are protected, our human dignity upheld and that our communities are safe and healthy for everyone. Over the years, Border Action has organized our communities to defend human and constitutional rights; to hold government agencies accountable for violations of peoples' rights; and has inserted the voices of our communities into national and international debates on immigration and border policies.
JUNTOS
Juntos is a San Francisco Bay Area Coalition opposed to US military
expansion throughout the globe and in space.
Just Act
JustAct is a national, nonprofit organization promoting youth
leadership and action for global justice. Founded by students in 1983
as the Overseas Development Network, the organization has been a forum
for thousands of young people to address global issues such as social
inequity, human rights, and environmental sustainability.
Homies Unidos
We are a nonpolitical, nonreligious, autonomous organization
comprised of youth from different gangs who are no longer active in
violence. Based on our experience, we offer youth and communities at
high risk productive and positive opportunites to diminish and prevent violence.
Center for Third World Organizing - Oakland
The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO, pronounced C-2) is a
racial justice organization dedicated to building a social justice
movement led by people of color. CTWO is a 20-year-old training and
resource center that promotes and sustains direct action organizing in
communities of color in the United States.
Third Eye Movement
Third Eye Movement (3EM) is a youth-led community organization
committed to fighting against the brutality, harassment and occupation
imposed upon our communities by the growing police state.
YES! Youth for Environmental Sanity
YES! is a non-profit organization that educates, inspires and
empowers young people to join forces for social justice and
environmental sanity.
The Bus Riders Union and/or the Strategy Center - LA
The Bus Riders Union/El Sindicato de Pasajeros, with 3,000 dues
paying members and 50,000 self-identified supporters on the buses, is
one of the largest mass transit anti-racist grassroots organizations
in the U.S., fighting for a first-class, clean-fuel, bus-centered
public transportation system in Los Angeles.
UNITE!
A new chapter in the history of the U.S. labor movement began in 1995
with the founding of UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and
Textile Employees). UNITE members work in basic apparel and
textile. UNITE also represents workers in the distribution, industrial
laundry, auto parts and auto supply, millinery, shoe, glove and
tanning, bag and packaging, retail and related industries. In
addition, UNITE represents all 7,000 Xerox manufacturing workers in
the U.S. and Canada.
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student
movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop
free labor conditions and workers' rights.
National Labor Committee
The National Labor Committee's mission is to educate and actively
engage the U.S. public on human and labor rights abuses by
corporations. Through this education and activism, our goal is to end
labor and human rights violations, ensure a living wage tied to a
basket of needs, and help workers and their families live and work
with dignity.
Maquiladora Solidarity Network
The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a Canadian network promoting
solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia organizing
in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve
conditions and win a living wage.
Sweatshop Watch
Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of labor, community, civil rights,
immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and
individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the
global garment industry.
Justice for Janitors - LA
Justice for Janitors is a 16-year old campaign that began in 1985 in
Denver, Colorado. The campaign is about hard-working janitors uniting
for fair working conditions with support from our communities.
Pesticide Action Network
PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America) has campaigned to
replace pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives since
1982. PANNA links over 100 affiliated health, consumer, labor,
environment, progressive agriculture and public interest groups in
Canada, Mexico and the U.S. with thousands of supporters worldwide to
promote healthier, more effective pest management through research,
policy development, education, media, demonstrations of alternatives
and international advocacy campaigns.
Lideres Campesinas - Salinas
CHAMACOS, Salinas
CHAMACOS means small child in Mexican Spanish and is an acronym for
the Center for Health Assessment of the Mothers and Children of
Salinas. CHAMACOS is a community/university partnership studying the
environment and children's health in the Salinas Valley, in Monterey
County, California.
AmoOrganics - Hollister
AMO Organics is a grower-owned marketing cooperative whose members
are all small family organic farmers. AMO farmers farm a wide variety
of fresh vegetables and strawberries in the Salinas Valley and
Hollister regions.
Plight of the Redwoods Campaign
The Plight of the Redwoods Tour is a unique presentation by
California forest activists and tree-sitters who work on the front
lines to protect the last 3% of the world's old-growth Redwood
Forests. Since December 1998, the tour has reached over 50 million
people through presentation to community groups, church groups,
businesses, schools, universities, radio programs, and public cable TV.
Intento Fallido Project
INTENTO FALLIDO promotes an understanding that only through dialogue
and shared experiences that human rights are embraced.
David Bacon
Stories and photos pertaining to Mexico, immigration, farmworkers, and more.
Border Arts Workshop
The Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo BAW/TAF was formed
in 1985 for a group installation/performance project at La
Galería de la Raza in San Francisco in partnership with the
Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. The Workshop has functioned
as a collective association of artists and cultural workers, and has
brought along non-artists collaborators throughout the years.
Art and Revolution - SF
Art & Revolution is a unique arts organization which emphasizes
politics and direct action in our work. We see activism as crucial to
meaningful arts expression. We believe that our politics suffer
without creative vision in the same way that our art suffers without
political or social relevance.
El Poder es La Gente
Dedicated to civil participation and education in Tijuana, BC Mexico
Tel: 011-52-66-36-27-42; email: rbantonieta@hotmail.com
Procuraduria de Derechos Human de Baja California
The state-level human rights office for the state of Baja California.
Tel: 52 (66)81-74-40; fax: 52 (66) 81-74-41; email:
clademnt@usa.net
Frente Indigena Oaxaque o Binacional - Oaxacan Indigenous Binacional
Front (FIOB)
The FIOB is a non-profit organization that is composed of several
other indigenous organizations, communities, and individuals. The
goals of the FIOB are to maintain the Cultural, Social and Linguistic
integrity of the indigenous communities, members of our organization,
to protect and defend the human, labor and civil rights of the migrant
Oaxacan indigenous, and to promote the economic, social, and cultural
development of our communities.
Yeuani
Mexican attorneys specialized in labor and environmental law, devoted
to community well-being in the Tijuana-San Diego border region.
US/Mexico Border Health Association
The U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association promotes public and
individual health along the United States-Mexico border through
reciprocal technical cooperation.
Casa de la Mujer / Grupo Factor X
Casa de la Mujer is a center that specializes in counseling and legal
assistance to women workers in the maquiladora industry and offers
programs about sexual abuse and reproductive rights.
Centro de Apoyo al Migrante
Centro de Informacion para Trabajadores y Trabajadoras (CITAC)
Committee for Solidarity in the America
Grupo Ecologista Gaviotas
Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network
The Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network is a volunteer
network of over 400 occupational health and safety professionals who
have placed their names on a resource list to provide information,
technical assistance and on-site instruction regarding workplace
hazards in the over 3,200 maquiladora (foreign-owned assembly)
plants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
California/Baja California Binational Health Council
The Association brings together persons actively engaged in or
interested in binational health activities. It serves as a mechanism
for communication between the health authorities in Mexico and the
United States of America for the joint solution of problems arising in
the important border area between the two countries.
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