Progressive Organizations

Justice For New Orleans
• "Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster, but the continued displacement of New Orleans public housing residents is a man-made travesty."

Youth Empowerment Center (YEC)
• "...started by four of the Bay Area's most cutting-edge youth projects, who all wanted to come together to share resources and space, and work together to build the youth movement."

Future Leaders Institute, The (FLI)
• "...builds bold humanitarian leaders. The Future Leaders Institute (FLI) programs provide the inspiration, structure and guidance for Bay Area high school students to realize their passions through student-created projects that provide tangible social or environmental contributions to the community."

Active Element Foundation, The (AEF)
• "...a non-profit organization that builds relationships between grassroots youth organizers, donors, professionals and artists through grant making, technical assistance and youth culture."

International Parliamentarians' Petition (IPP)
• "...a practical way to assert support for the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, and to call for parliaments to be fully involved in the development and scrutiny of IMF and World Bank policies."

• "...founded because we love music. We cannot stand by silently while the recording industry continues its decades-long effort to lock up our culture and heritage by misrepresenting the facts to the public, to artists, the fans and to our government."
• http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
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• "...a local, membership organization committed to involving individuals and local communities in building foundations for a just and nonviolent world."
• http://www.icehouse.net/pjals/
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• "...to build a local grassroots community that combines spirituality and progressive politics, to be a forum for ideas and sharing, to network with one another in our local neighborhoods and in the greater Seattle area, and to work together in the coalescing of a nation-wide political movement."
• http://www.seattlespiritualprogressives.org/
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• "...the nation's only nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to strengthen the capacity of state legislators to lead and achieve progressive change."
• http://www.cfpa.org/
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• "The local food bank in Toppenish, Washington was on the verge of closing. Through the use of organizing skills learned at Citizens Alliance Leadership Institutes, the St. Aloysius Catholic Church Core Team of leaders was able to be the catalyst for a new community-based food bank..."
• http://www.cwiaf.org/
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