Links - Resistance and Renewal
Roots of Change program
“organizations & initiatives for change”
Addressing today’s most pressing problems necessitates acts of both resistance and renewal, that is: those that resist the process of globalization, as well as those that help renew local economies and communities. Effective (and enjoyable!) change, in both cases, requires collective action – linking hands with like-minded people. There is a flourishing of organizations everywhere working to create a better world. Use the following list to discover, support, and join some of them!*
Resistance
- Corporate power / Corporate globalization / Resisting 'free trade'
- Resisting agricultural trade liberalization
- Food safety (GMOs, irradiation, cloning, etc.)
- Big-box ‘supercenters’
- Consumer culture / commercialization / advertising / marketing
- Greenwashing and corporate PR
Renewal
- Economic Localization / Community Rebuilding
- Local / Sustainable / Traditional Food
- Urban Foraging Links in the US
- Ecovillages / Permaculture / Sustainability Education
- Cultural Affirmation / Regeneration; Traditional knowledge; Rethinking 'development'
- Magazines
Resistance
Corporate power / Corporate globalization / Resisting 'free trade'
Action 2030 Institute (China): http://www.action2030.org/
ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (France/International): http://www.attac.org/
Centro de Investigaciones Economicas y Politicas De Accion Comunitaria (CIEPAC, Chiapas, Mexico): http://www.ciepac.org/index.php
Community Alliance for Global Justice (US): www.seattleglobaljustice.org
The Corner House (UK): www.thecornerhouse.org.uk
Corporate Watch (UK): www.corporatewatch.org
Corpwatch (US): www.corpwatch.org
Council of Canadians (Canada): www.canadians.org
ETC Group (Program on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (Canada): www.etcgroup.org
Focus on the Global South (Philippines/Thailand/India): http://focusweb.org
Global Justice Ecology Project (US): http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/
Global Trade Watch (AU): www.tradewatch.org.au
Good Jobs First (US): www.goodjobsfirst.org
India Resource Centre (India): www.indiaresource.org
International Forum on Globalization: www.ifg.org
Multinational Monitor (US): www.multinationalmonitor.org
People's Global Action (International): http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/index.html
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD, US): www.poclad.org
Protest.net (International): www.protest.net
Public Citizen (US): www.citizen.org
The Transnational Institute (Netherlands): www.tni.org
Third World Network (Singapore) www.twnside.org.sg/
United for a Fair Economy (US) www.faireconomy.org/
www.bilaterals.org (International; comprehensive monitoring of free trade agreements passed or being negotiated around the globe, plus links to local groups fighting them)
www.fightingftas.org (International; photo, audio and video archive of anti-free trade protests around the world)
Resisting agricultural trade liberalization
California Food and Justice Coalition: www.foodsecurity.org/california/index.html
Center for International Policy/Americas Policy Program (US/Mexico): www.americaspolicy.org
Community Alliance for Global Justice (US): www.seattleglobaljustice.org
Community Food Security Coalition: www.foodsecurity.org/index.html
Food First (US): www.foodfirst.org
GRAIN (Genetic Resources Action International – Spain, International): www.grain.org
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (US): www.iatp.org
IPC Food Sovereignty (International): www.foodsovereignty.org
Land Research Action Network (Mexico): www.landaction.org/spip/?lang=en
Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC, Mexico): www.rmalc.org.mx
Navdanya (India): www.navdanya.org
The Oakland Institute (US): www.oaklandinstitute.org
Via Campesina (International): www.viacampesina.org
Food safety (GMOs, irradiation, cloning, etc.)
The Center for Food Safety (US): www.centerforfoodsafety.org
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies/Basudha (India): www.cintdis.org
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (India): www.csa-india.org
Consumers Association of Penang (Malaysia): www.en.cap.org.my/
The Edmonds Institute (US): http://www.edmonds-institute.org/
ETC Group (Program on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (Canada): www.etcgroup.org
Food and Water Watch (US): www.foodandwaterwatch.org
McSpotlight (UK): www.mcspotlight.org
Navdanya (India): www.navdanya.org
Organic Consumers Association (US): www.organicconsumers.org
Organic Farming Association of India (India): www.ofai.org
Pesticide Action Network (International): http://www.pan-international.org/panint/?q=node/33
Sustain (UK): http://www.sustainweb.org/
Thanal (India): www.thanal.org
Big-box ‘supercenters’
Big Box Collaborative (US): www.bbc.wikispaces.net
Breaking the Chains: Buy Local, Organic, Fair Made (US; a project of Organic
Consumers Association): www.organicconsumers.org/btc.cfm
Good Jobs First (US): www.goodjobsfirst.org
New Economics Foundation (UK): www.neweconomics.org
Wal-Mart Watch (US): www.walmartwatch.org
Consumer culture / commercialization / advertising / marketing
Adbusters (Canada, International): www.adbusters.org
Alternatives to Consumerism (Thailand): http://www.sulak-sivaraksa.org
The Australia Institute (AU): www.tai.org.au
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (US): www.commercialexploitation.org
Center for a New American Dream (US): www.newdream.org
Commercial Alert (US): www.commercialalert.org
The Compact (for simplicity and against consumerism) (US/International):
http://sfcompact.blogspot.com/
Greenwashing and corporate PR
Carbon Trade Watch (UK): http://carbontradewatch.org/
Center for Media and Democracy: www.prwatch.org, and their project Source Watch (US):
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch
Corporate Watch (UK): www.corporatewatch.org
Corpwatch (US): www.corpwatch.org
The Corner House (UK): www.thecornerhouse.org.uk
The Transnational Institute (Netherlands): www.tni.org
Wal Mart Sustainability Initiative: A Civil Society Critique (US):
www.bbc.wikispaces.net/space/showimage/CounterSustainability
Environmental Justice / Toxics / Waste
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights: www.ehumanrights.org
Center for Health, Environment and Justice (US): www.chej.org
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL, US): www.ciel.org
Collaborative on Environmental Health (US): www.healthandenvironment.org
EarthRights International: www.earthrights.org/home.html
Environmental Working Group (US): www.ewg.org
GAIA (Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance/Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) (Int'l): www.no-burn.org
Global Witness (US): http://www.globalwitness.org/
Health Care Without Harm (US): www.hcwh.org
Indigenous Environmental Network (US): www.ienearth.org
International Persistent Organic Pollutants Elimination Network: www.ipen.org
Pesticide Action Network (International): http://www.pan-international.org/panint/?q=node/33
Thanal (India): www.thanal.org
Toxics Link (India): www.toxicslink.org
Climate Action: www.350.org
Carbon Trade Watch (UK): http://carbontradewatch.org/
Climate Justice Now (International): http://climatejustice.blogspot.com
Climate SOS (US): www.climatesos.org
The Corner House (UK): www.thecornerhouse.org.uk
The Wuppertal Institute (Germany): http://www.wupperinst.org/en/home/
Renewal
Economic Localization / Community Rebuilding
Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE, Bay Area, California, US): http://wiki.sfbace.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Bay Localize (US – Bay Area, California, US): www.baylocalize.org
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE, US): www.livingeconomies.org
Center for Popular Economics ( www.populareconomics.org)
CERES (AU): http://www.ceres.org.au/
Community Economies (US): http://communityeconomies.org
Community Invest (US): www.communityi"nvest.org
The Community Solution (US): www.communitysolution.org
Community Supported Enterprises (Vermont, US): http://www.ptvermont.org/CommunitySupportedEnterprises/communitysupported.htm
Cultivating Community (AU): www.cultivatingcommunity.org.au
The Forum on Social Wealth (US): http://www.peri.umass.edu/fsw/
Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (Ireland): www.feasta.org
Green Worker Cooperatives (New York, US): http://www.greenworker.coop/website_j/
Gross National Happiness (Bhutan): www.gnh-movement.org
International Cooperative Alliance (International): www.ica.coop/al-ica/
Just, Alternative, Sustainable Economics (JASECON; Bay Area, California, US) http://jasecon.org/
National Cooperative Business Association (US): http://www.ncba.coop
Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (Bay Area, US): www.nobawc.org
New Economics Foundation (UK): www.neweconomics.org
Post-Carbon Institute (US): http://postcarbon.org
Relocalization Network (US): www.relocalize.net
Redefining Progress (US): www.rprogress.org
Transition Towns (UK): www.transitiontowns.org
US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (US): http://www.usworker.coop
US Solidarity Economy Network (US): www.populareconomics.org/ussen/
Local / Sustainable / Traditional Food
American Community Garden Association (US): www.communitygarden.org
City Farmer (CA): www.cityfarmer.org
Center for Ecoliteracy (US): www.ecoliteracy.org
Community Food Security Coalition (US): www.foodsecurity.org/index.html
Farm – The Independent Voice of Farmers (UK): www.farm.org.uk
Eat Grub Eat Local Challenge (US): http://204.200.217.48/wordpress/
Eat Local Challenge (Canada, US): www.eatlocalchallenge.com
Eat Well Guide: www.eatwellguide.org
Food Fairness Alliance (AU): www.sydneyfoodfairness.org.au
Food Routes (US): www.foodroutes.org
Food Share (Canada): www.foodshare.ca/
Garden Organic (UK): http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/index.php
Growing Power (Milwaukee, WI, US): www.growingpower.org
Local Harvest (US): www.localharvest.org
National Association of Farmers Markets (UK): http://www.farmersmarkets.net/
People's Grocery (Oakland, CA, US): www.peoplesgrocery.org
Pigs Will Fly (AU): www.pigswillfly.com.au
Robert Van En CSA Center (US): www.csacenter.org
Seed Savers Exchange (US): www.seedsavers.org
Seed Savers' Network (AU): www.seedsavers.net
San Francisco Bay Area local food info (Bay Area, US): www.locavores.com
Slow Food (International): www.slowfood.org
Small Farms Association (UK): http://small-farms-association.co.uk/default.aspx
Soil Association (UK): www.soilassociation.org
Sustain (UK): http://www.sustainweb.org/
Sustainable Table (US): www.sustainabletable.org
Thanal (India): www.thanal.org
Thousand Varieties/PunPun (Thailand): http://www.punpunthailand.org/
UK Food Directory 2007 (UK): http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/interactive/2007/nov/03/fooddirectory.foodanddrink
Vermont / New Hampshire localvores (Vermont, US): www.uvlocalvore.com
Wholesome Food Association (UK): http://www.wholesome-food.org.uk/
Urban Foraging Links in the US
Earthworks Boston (Boston, Massachusetts, US): http://earthworksboston.org/
Flagstaff Wild Foraging Project (Flagstaff, AZ, US): http://environmentdev.nau.edu/cswf/index.htm
Forage SF (CA, US): www.foragesf.com
Forage Oakland (Oakland, California, US): http://forageoakland.blogspot.com/
North Berkeley Harvest: http://northberkeleyharvest.org/
Philadelphia Orchard Project (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US): http://phillyorchards.org/
Portland Fruit Tree Project (Portland, Oregon, US): http://portlandfruit.org/
PUEBLO (People United for a Better Life in Oakland/Urban Youth Harvest): http://peopleunited.org/uyh.html
Village Harvest Project (San Jose, California, US): http://villageharvest.org/
Ecovillages / Permaculture / Sustainability Education
Centre for Human Ecology (UK): http://www.che.ac.uk/index.php/
Ecovillage Design Education (International): www.gaiaeducation.org
Gaia Education (US, International): www.gaiaeducation.org
Global Ecovillage Network (International): http://gen.ecovillage.org
Institute for Global Ecology (US): www.social-ecology.org
Permaculture Activist (US): www.permacultureactivist.net
Permaculture (UK): www.permaculture-magazine.co.uk
Cultural Affirmation / Regeneration; Traditional knowledge; Rethinking 'development'
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies/Basudha (India): www.cintdis.org
COMPAS (Comparing and Supporting Endogenous Development, Netherlands): http://www.compasnet.org/
Decroissance (Degrowth) (France): http://www.decroissance.org/ Ecojustice (US): www.ecojusticeeducation.org
Garden Organic (UK): http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/index.php
Institute Intercultural Montreal (Canada): www.iim.qc.ca
International Institute for Environment and Development (UK): www.iied.org
The Network of Growh Objectors for Post-Development (ROCADe) (France): http://www.apres developpement.org/accueil/index_en.php
PRATEC - Projecto Andino de Tecnologias Campesinas (Andean Project of Peasant Technologies, Peru): www.pratec.org.pe
Progressio (UK): http://www.progressio.org.uk/ Shikshantar: People's Institute for Rethinking Education and Development (India): www.swaraj.org/shikshantar
Survival International (UK): www.survivalinternational.org
TerraLingua (US): www.terralingua.org
Thousand Varieties/PunPun (Thailand): http://www.punpunthailand.org/
Universidad de la Tierra (Unitierra) (Mexico): www.unitierra.org
Magazines
Dollars & Sense: www.dollarsandsense.org
Ecojustice Review: www.ecojusticeeducation.org
The Ecologist: www.theecologist.org
Hope Dance: www.hopedance.org
Permaculture: www.permaculture-magazine.co.uk
The Permaculture Activist: www.permacultureactivist.net
Orion: www.orionmagazine.org
Resurgence: www.resurgence.org
Third World Resurgence: www.twnside.org.sg/twr.htm
The Sun: www.thesunmagazine.org
Yes!: www.yesmagazine.org
Z Magazine: www.zmag.org
* We do not claim this list to be comprehensive, but rather, an entry point to action. If you know of organizations/initiatives that you feel should be included, please let ISEC know about them – especially in countries/regions of the world that are, regrettably, under-represented above.