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ACLU

American Civil Liberties Union

Defend the rights of all people nationwide With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, we’re in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights — and we need you with us.

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Placeholde

About Face

Veterans Against War

We are service members and vets organizing to end permanent wars and the use of military weapons, tactics and values in communities across the country

Deeply informed by Vietnam Vets Against the War, we are part of a legacy of service members organizing against the wars that we served in

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War - Resisting Domestic Use of Military

Activist Handbook

Global Organizing

We write guides for activists. Learn how to become an activist, plan a political campaign strategy, and start a grassroots movement - all while not burning out.

OrganizingWell BeingDigital ToolsResources
Resources

Amnesty International

Uncover the Truth

Through our detailed research and determined campaigning, we help fight abuses of human rights worldwide. We bring torturers to justice. Change oppressive laws. And free people jailed just for voicing their opinion.

IssuesTake ActionNews
Human Rights

B. A. R. E.

Uplifing Vulnerable Individuals Through Housing, Nutrition, and Mentorship

BARE provides mentorship, independent living assistance and  wellness services to impoverished individuals and families, helping  them attain healthy, purpose-driven lives, ultimately changing the  economic and living conditions of communities.

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Non-Profit

Barrett & Farahany

Justice At Work

Barrett & Farahany is an award-winning employment law firm – the oldest in the Southeast dedicated exclusively to employee rights, with a national reputation of excellence. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with physical offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, and Chicago, Illinois,

What Can You Do If You Witness Sexual Harassment?How Might Recent Transgender Laws Affect the Workplace?How Will the Change in DEI Law Affect Discrimination Lawsuits?
Employee Rights

Beautiful Trouble

Directly Supporting Activists

Modular toolkit Beautiful Trouble, and its Global-South focused follow-up, Beautiful Rising, which document and disseminate the breakthroughs and innovations world over. The toolkits are multilingual, movement-crowdsourced, evolve in real time alongside the movements they serve.

AMAZING Tool BoxTacticsPrinciplesMethodologiesStrategy Cards
Be Visible - Protest

Center for Story-Based Strategy

Where Imagination Builds Power

Center for Story-based Strategy cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power.

Imagining 2050Story Based StrategyBlogRadical Imagination
Prefigurative Politics

Center on Conscience and War

Who is a Military Conscientious Objector?

Contact the Center on Conscience & War if you’re in the US military and want to seek discharge or reassignment as a Conscientious Objector.

We have experienced staff that can support you through the somewhat complex, administrative conscientious objection application process.

VideoCounseling and Legal SupportPost Discharge Resources
War - Conscientious Objection

Civicus

Strengthen Civil Society

Civicus includes the following in its definition of civil society: civil society networks and organisations; trade unions; faith-based networks; professional associations; NGO capacity development organisations; philanthropic foundations and other funding bodies.

Civic Space DevelopmentsWatchlistPublications
Civic Society Ratings

Civilian Medical Resources Network

We help all military personnel.

We connect the service member with a medical or mental health professional in our network

Our team of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists & social workers can provide diagnoses, second opinions, treatment & letters that give information about diagnoses, treatments & recommendations

PartnersServices For Military Personnel
Healthcare

Council for a Livable World

No First Use

A nonpartisan nonprofit promoting policies to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, and to minimize the risk of war through lobbying and by helping elect and support Members of Congress who share our goals.

Take ActionLegislationElections
War - Nuclear Weapons

Dean Spade

Mutual Aid - Not Charity

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law.

Mutual Aid Explainer VideoBook - Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next)Building Accountable CitiesVideos
Mutual Aid

Free DC

Tell Congress to Respect DC

Congress should do everything in their power to stand down the escalation of federal forces in DC. And stop freezing our local budget, stop trying to overturn our local laws, and pass H.R. 51, the “Washington DC Admissions Act” so DC residents don’t have to live through these cycles of attack.

EventsKnow Your RightsNews
Be Visible - Protest

GI Rights Hotline

Military Discharges and Military Counseling

Why should I call 1-877-447-4487?

The GI Rights Network is a private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that answers thousands of calls from military personnel and their families.

Conscientious Objection Fact SheetFAQHomosexual Conduct Discharge (rescinded)Ban strips rights of transgender service membersIf your conscience troubles you...
Know Your Rights

Ground Avelo

Refreshingly Cruel

The first commercial airline in the U.S. to sign a deportation charter contract with ICE. Unmarked, secretive flights. No guarantee of due process. Public money subsidizing mass deportations.

Give Avelo Feedback DirectlyGuide for Contacting Universities to Stop Them From Using AveloTell Airports to Ground AveloStrategy to Cancel ICE Air
Be Visible - Protest Deportations

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Building an America as Good as Its Ideals

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is the nation's oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition. For 75 years, we’ve been fighting the intractable — together.

Our WorkThe CoalitionMediaTake Action
Racial Justice

May Day Strong

When We Stand Together We Win

We need a united, pro-immigrant, anti-racist working class politics in this country. Not only can workers and our communities stop Trump and the billionaire agenda, but we have the power to make a fair, just society.

Host an EventDownload Labor Day Tool KitJoin Hands Off Our Schools Call
Be Visible - Protest

Military Law Task Force

legal advocate for service members and veterans

Providing independent legal information and services to lawyers and legal workers, active-duty service members, reservists, veterans and their families.

It trains and mentors counselors and military law attorneys in all aspects of military law through training materials and direct communication.

US Military Know Your Rights GuideThe Right of Dissent and Protests in the MilitaryMilitary Equal Opportunity (MEO) Self-Help Guide
Know Your Rights

National Immigration Project

Lawyers for the Movement

We litigate, advocate, educate, and build bridges.

We are a membership organization of attorneys, advocates, and community members who are driven by the belief that all people should be treated with dignity, live freely, and flourish.

ResourcesLitigationProjects and Campaigns
Immigrant Justice

National Lawyers Guild

Law for the People

Dedicated to the need for change in the structure of our political and economic system.

Uniting lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights and ecosystems over property interests.

Legal Observer ProgramKnow Your RisksProtest ToolsAnti-Oppression Resources
Know Your Rights

Nonviolent Action Lab

Innovation Hub

Research on advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance. The Lab produces and disseminates up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, global trends in success and failure, trends in political violence and state repression, and analysis of these trends.

Our WorkDemocracy ExchangeResearchCivil ProtestAI and Democracy Movements
War - Nonviolence

Nonviolent Peaceforce

Transforming the World's Response to Conflict

Reimagining security and civilian protection in areas most impacted by conflict by working alongside communities to interrupt and prevent violence. Our evidence-informed, civilian-led approaches have protected tens of thousands of people around the world since our launch in 2002.

What We DoAdvocacyPublications
War - Nonviolence

One Million Rising

Support Materials

One million people by asking everyday people to host in-person community gatherings with their friends and family to continue to bring people into the movement, to step into our power together, and build impactful campaigns to stop this descent into authoritarianism.

Event Hosting KitSession 1 - YouTubeSession 2 - YouTube
Be Visible - Protest

Organized Power in Numbers

Digital Tools to Build Worker Power

We get power when we get together.  The solutions to today’s problems already exist. What doesn’t exist yet is a big enough movement to challenge the status quo and build a country and economy that centers workers instead of corporations and billionaires.

CampaignsPressResources
Research

Poor People's Campaign

A National Call for Moral Revival

Repairers of the Breach

A National Call for Moral Revival has connected with communities across this nation to learn from the struggles being waged. We have met with tens of thousands of people, witnessing the strength of their moral courage in trying times.

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Human Rights

Pulitzer Center

Stories Make Complex Issues Relevant

The Pulitzer Center champions the power of stories to make complex issues relevant and inspire action, stories on underreported issues ranging from health and social justice to climate change.

YouTubeTracked - Surveillance TechnologiesCampus Consortium NetworkFocus Areas: Climate, Human Rights, Tech & AI, Peace and Conflict, Global Health
News - Investigative/ Research

Rising Majority

Towards 2050 Building Power Through Collective Action

A coalition that commits to a shared vision and strategy that brings together labor, youth, abolition, immigrant rights, climate justice, feminist, anti-war, and economic justice forces to amplify our collective power and to build alignment across our movements.

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Prefigurative Politics

Surveillance Self -Defense

Safer Online Communications

Our expert guide to protecting you and your friends from online spying. Read the basics to find out how online surveillance works.

The BasicsTool GuidesSecurityElectronic Frontier Foundation (parent org)
AI and Tech

UNESCO

Building peace where it starts - in the minds of women & men

The United Nations organization that promotes cooperation in education, science, culture and communication to foster peace worldwide, setting global norms and standards, developing tools for international cooperation, producing knowledge for public policies and building global networks of sites and institutions.

GovernanceInstagramNewsScience and Sustainability
War - Peace

Valari Kaur

Revolutionary Love Project

We identified 10 core practices of revolutionary love, backed by research and infused with ancestral wisdom

A choice to labor for others, our opponents and ourselves to transform the world. It begins with wonder “You are a part of me I do not yet know.” Think of these practices as points on a compass

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Human Rights

We the Action

Connecting Lawyers with Causes

Connecting volunteer lawyers with nonprofits. Together, they advocate for a more equitable, inclusive, and just society.

Founded on the premise that lawyers have power to do good. If each of us gives an hour here or there, we can do some pretty extraordinary things together.

VolunteerImmigrationFederal Workforce
Legal Aid

World Beyond War

A Global Movement to End All Wars

Education and media that dispels myths, such as “War is natural” or “We have always had war,” showing people not only that war should be abolished, but also that it actually can be. We engage in all variety of nonviolent actions and campaigns that move the world in the direction of ending all war.

ActivismEducationCampaigns
War - Nonviolence