Twin Cities Activism

AlliantACTION

Anti-War Committee

CircleVision

Community Solutions Fund

Friends for a Non-Violent World

Headwaters Fund

Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace

Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action

Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers (MAP)

Minnesota Free Burma Coalition

MN Neighbors for Peace

Minnesota SOA Watch (MnSOAW)

Minnesota Welfare Rights Coalition (WRC)

Minnesota Women's Press

Peace North - Wisconsin

Veterans for Peace, MN Chapter 27


Activism

www.true-patriots.net This site is one of the outcomes of a coalition of groups and individuals (spearheaded by the MN Chapter of the National Laywers Guild) working to preserve our civil rights in MN and the U.S. - it contains news about the coalition's work, event information, and resources for anyone concerned about their rights or the rights of others. You will find the text and analyses of the USA PATRIOT Act and of the MN Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002.

Minnesotans for Fair and Clean Elections (FACE) is a broad based coalition of organizations that are working to replace Minnesota's campaign finance system. Led by the League of Women Voters of Minnesota and Common Cause Minnesota, FACE includes good government groups, religious organizations, environmentalists, people of color, labor unions, organizations that represent low income people, and many more, including WAMM. It currently has 49 members and is adding to its membership frequently. Members of FACE worked countless hours designing a proposal for a campaign finance system based on the Clean Elections systems that have been instituted in Maine and Arizona. Our goal was to create a system that would make people more important than money, would fit with Minnesota's political culture and would be constitutional. The result of our efforts is the Fair and Clean Elections bill, which is authored in the Senate by Senator John Hottinger (DFL-Mankato) and in the House by Representative Mike Osskopp (R-Lake City).

pax.protest.net has listings of anti-war and anti-racism events that are being organized around the world!

www.unitedforpeace.org

www.actforchange.org

www.notinourname.net


Alternative Media (many of these have resources pages to broaden your search)

Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! with host Amy Goodman. You can listen to past shows on-line by accessing the archives. This program is a favorite of WAMM members. Listen in the Twin Cities at noon and 5 a.m. on KFAI, 90.3 FM in Minneapolis, and 106.7 FM in St. Paul. Go to www.kfai.org for a link to live streaming radio, or www.democracynow.org for archived shows.

Zmag.org
An ever-growing collection of articles by the top progressive thinkers of our times, including Chomsky, Zinn, Said, Herman, Solomon, Pilger, and many more. Articles are of a very managable length, but you may need several visits to get through them all.

Twin Cities Indymedia Center
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets that exists for the creation of radical, objective, and passionate turth telling. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. Everyone is invited to publish news, editorials, etc. to this site. "Every reader is a reporter!" (This is the link to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Indymedia site.)

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Analysis of the media coverage of Sept. 11 tragedy. FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.

Counterpunch
CounterPunch is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. You will find Mark Twain's "A War Prayer" and a resources page with links to media reactions around the world, among other commentary.

The Nation
A biweekly news magazine for responsible journalism. The website features many stories published in the magazine.

In These Times
A newsmagazine committed to extending political and economic democracy in the U.S.

The Progressive
A journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad. The magazine, its affiliates, and its staff steadfastly oppose militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, the disenfranchisement of the citizenry, poverty, and prejudice in all its guises. They champion peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy.

Popular Education News
Connecting popular and community-based educators and activists to resources for improving educational work in social movements against oppression and for democracy, sustainability, social justice, and peace and building an information database about popular education resources one month at a time.

Insight News


Middle East

The Wisdom Fund


National Budget/Military Spending

Center for Defense Information The Nation's Foremost Independent Military Research Organization. Founded in 1972 as an independent monitor of the military, the Center for Defense Information is a private, nongovernmental, research organization. CDI seeks realistic and cost effective military spending without excess expenditures for weapons and policies that increase the danger of war.

Move our Money A campaign by Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, this is a wonderful, interactive site that educates about national defense spending, and makes it easy to send letters to your elected officials. It even has a counter to show you how much money the Pentagon spent since you arrived at the site. You will be amazed and disgusted!

Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities The goal of the Priorities campaign is to light the match that begins a fire that reshapes the public debate about the Pentagon budget, which is currently a feeding ground for pork-barreling politicians, defense contractors, and their lobbyists. This site has many resources, and an e-postcard to the President telling him to not go forward with a Missile Defense Program.

Coalition on Human Needs CHN is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies which address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable populations.

National Priorities Project NPP is a non-profit research and education organization providing citizens, community groups and elected officials with the tools they need to shape federal budget and policy priorities. Check NPP's reports to find out the local impacts of your tax dollars.


Nuclear Issues

Nukewatch Nukewatch, based in Luck, Wisconsin, evolved as a project of The Progressive Foundation. Nukewatch functions as an independent action group working for peace and justice, with a primary focus on the nuclear industry. The organization's various projects bring critical attention to the locations, movements, dangers, and the politics of nuclear weapons, nuclear power and radioactive wastes. Staff and volunteers advocate nonviolence in the spirit of the civil rights movement in education and action to abolish nuclearism.

Back From the Brink The Back From The Brink Campaign is a nationwide campaign to take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert.

Nuclear Info and Resource Service

Physicians for Social Responsibility Understanding that nuclear war continues to be the most acute threat to human life and the global biosphere, PSR reaffirms its commitment of nearly forty years to the elimination of nuclear weapons and the reversal of the arms race and the national budgetary priorities which fuel that race, sacrificing our nation's health, social and economic needs.


Economics/Globalization

Dollars and Sense is a magazine that explains the workings of the U.S. and international economies and provides unique perspectives on current economic affairs.

Economic Policy Institute A top-flight Washington economics research organization.

Fair Trade Watch Economic analysis from the worker's perspective. By the United Steelworkers of America.

United for a Fair Economy UFE draws attention to America's growing income and wealth gap and supports movement-building efforts to press for policies to reduce inequality and increase shared prosperity.

Corporate Power

Corporate Welfare Information Center A clearinghouse of information about corporate wealth-fare.

Alliance for Democracy The Alliance is a new Populist movement - not a political party -setting forth to end the domination of our economy, our government, our culture, our media and the environment by large corporations.

Corporate Watch A new site designed to provide activists, journalists, and policy makers around the world with up to date information and analysis on the social, ecological and economic impacts of transnational corporations.

INFACT is responsible for boycotts of companies that exemplify breaking the public trust.


School of the Americas

SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.
Local: MnSOAW.


Youth and Militarism

National Youth and Militarism Program The American Friends Service Committee National Youth and Militarism Program addresses the impact of war and military institutions on young people's lives. Sign up for their monthly e-newsletter.


Political Prisoners

Human Rights Program


Prison/Industrial Complex


Police Brutality


Racism


War Tax Resistance


War on the Poor


List in progress.