List of progressive organizations
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The following is a list of progressive organizations; that is, organizations which promote progressive political and/or social values. Particularly notable or relevant books may also be included.
[edit] Government watchdogs and advocates
- Campaign for America's Future
- Center for American Progress
- Center for Public Integrity
- Center for Responsive Politics
- Center for the Study of Responsive Law [1]
- Common Cause
- Democracy for America
- Fund for Constitutional Government [2]
- Glaser Progress Foundation [3]
- Government Accountability Project
- Institute for Policy Studies
- MoveOn.org [4]
- National Security Archive
- New America Foundation
- New Democrat Network
- OpenSecrets.org [5]
- People for the American Way
- Privacy International
- Progressive Majority [6]
- Progressive Maryland [7]
- Progressive Policy Institute
- Project On Government Oversight [8]
- Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
- Transparency International (fighting corruption)
- TrueMajority
- Truth-Telling Project [9] (gov. whistleblowers)
[edit] Elections
- America Coming Together
- Americans For Democratic Action
- Campaign Legal Center [10]
- Center for Voting and Democracy
- League of Conservation Voters
- League of Pissed Off Voters [11]
- League of Rural Voters [12]
- Open Debates [13]
- Progressive Democrats of America
- Quixote Foundation [14]
- Rock the Vote
- Verified Voting [15]
[edit] Fundraising
- 21st Century Democrats
- ActBlue
- Council for a Livable World
- EMILY's List
- IPac [16]
- Media Fund
- National Committee for an Effective Congress
- Public Campaign [17]
[edit] Law
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Constitution Society
- Alliance for Justice
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society
- Brennan Center for Justice [18]
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Earthjustice (formerly Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- First Amendment Center
- Free Expression Policy Project [19]
- Human Rights First
- Institute for Democratic Studies [20]
- Lambda Legal
- Lawyers for Libraries [21]
- National Lawyers Guild
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Stanford Center for Internet and Society
[edit] Economy
- 2030 Center (economic futures) [22]
- Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
- Citizens for Tax Justice
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Center on Budget & Policy Priorities [23]
- Economic Policy Institute
- Mobilization for Global Justice (anti-World Bank)
- National Priorities Project
- Taxpayers for Common Sense [24]
- United for a Fair Economy
[edit] Books
- David Cay Johnston
- Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich
[edit] Media advocates
- Activist Media Project [25]
- Alicia Patterson Foundation [26]
- Center for Creative Voices in Media
- Center for Digital Democracy
- Center for Investigative Reporting [27]
- Center for Media and Democracy (PR watch)
- Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
- Free Expression Policy Project [28]
- Free Press [29]
- Fund for Investigative Journalism
- Glaser Progress Foundation [30]
- Independent Media Institute [31]
- Indymedia [32]
- Institute for Public Accuracy
- Media Alliance [33]
- Media for Democracy [34]
- Media Educational Foundation [35]
- Media Justice Network
- MediaMatters [36]
- Otto Haas Charitable Trust
- Park Foundation [37]
- People for Better TV
- Project Censored
- Quixote Foundation [38]
- The Spin Project [39]
[edit] Media outlets
- Adbusters Media Foundation
- Adbusters
- Air America Radio
- Alternative Radio [40]
- Alternet [41]
- The American Prospect
- AntiWar.com [42]
- The Atlantic Monthly
- Bad Subjects
- The Baffler [43]
- Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars [44]
- Business Ethics
- Bush Greenwatch [45]
- Buzzflash
- ColdType [46]
- Common Dreams
- Consumer Reports
- Cursor.org [47]
- Counterpunch
- Daily Misleader
- Democracy Now! [48]
- The Disinformation Company
- Dollars and Sense
- Grist [49]
- Guerilla News Network [50]
- Harper's
- In These Times
- Left Business Observer [51]
- London Review of Books
- Media Matters [52]
- Mother Jones
- MoveOn.org [53]
- Moving Ideas Network [54]
- The Nation [55]
- New Left Review
- The New Yorker
- New York Review of Books
- NOW with Bill Moyers
- Other Magazine
- Pacifica Radio [56]
- The Progressive
- The Progress Report [57] (American Progress Action Fund)
- Salon.com [58]
- TomPaine.com [59]
- Wiretap [60]
- Z Magazine
[edit] Technology
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Center for Digital Democracy
- Center for Social Media [61]
- Chilling Effects
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- Consumer Project on Technology
- CopyNight
- Council for Responsible Genetics
- Creative Commons
- Downhill Battle
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- freeculture.org [62] (student group)
- Free Expression Policy Project [63]
- Free Software Foundation
- IP Justice
- IPac [64]
- Institute for Global Communications
- International Center for Technology Assessment
- Internet Archive
- League for Programming Freedom
- Libraries for the Future
- Online Policy Group
- Participatory Culture Foundation
- Participatory Politics Foundation
- Peacefire
- Public Knowledge
- Public Patent Foundation
- Union for the Public Domain [65]
- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines [66]
- Verified Voting (electronic voting)
[edit] Education
- American Library Association
- Center for Commercial-Free Public Education [67]
- Child Development Project
- Coalition of Essential Schools [68]
- Commercial Alert [69]
- Commercialism in Education Research Unit [70]
- Educators for Social Responsibility
- FairTest [71]
- National Education Association (teachers)
- Park Foundation [72]
- Sudbury School
- Teach for America [73]
[edit] Books
- John Dewey
- John Holt
- Alfie Kohn
- No Contest: The Case Against Competition
- Punished By Rewards
- Alex Molnar
[edit] Citizen advocate groups
- Abolition 2000 (nuclear testing)
- American Friends Service Committee [74]
- Americans for Peace Now [75] (Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
- Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation [76]
- Center for Defense Information
- Center for International Policy
- Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
- Council for a Livable World
- Dads and Daughters
- Doctors Without Borders
- Federation of American Scientists
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Food Not Bombs [77]
- Global Exchange
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
- Mobilization for Global Justice (anti-World Bank)
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Peace Action
- Peaceful Tomorrow (nonviolent response to terrorism)
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- School of the Americas Watch
- Sojourners [78]
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Veterans for Peace
- Violence Policy Center
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
[edit] Consumer advocate groups
- CASPIAN
- Center for Auto Safety
- Center for Science in the Public Interest (food/nutrition)
- Center for the Study of Responsive Law [79]
- Commercial Alert
- Consumer Action
- Consumer Federation of America
- Consumers International
- Consumer Project on Technology
- Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues
- Consumers Union
- Co-op America
- National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA)
- National Consumers League
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- Public Citizen
- Public Interest Research Group
- Utility Consumers Action Network
[edit] Environmental
[edit] Human rights
- ACRA
- Americas Watch
- Amnesty International [80]
- Andean Commission of Jurists
- Center for Investigation and Popular Education (CINEP)
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Watch
- If Americans Knew (Israel/Palestine) [81]
- Inter-American Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Overbrook Foundation [82]
[edit] Labor
- AFL-CIO (ties to government)
- Chain Worker Advocacy [83]
- Cooperative Social Economy [84]
- Fight Privatization [85]
- Global Fight for Justice [86]
- Jobs with Justice
- Occupy, Resist, Produce [87]
- Promote Direct Democracy [88]
- Protect Indigenous Rights [89]
- SafeSpaces (formerly National Safe Workplace Institute) [90]
- SEIU
- Sweatshop Watch [91]
- Workers Without Bosses [92]
- Zapatistas [93]
- ZNet's Latin America Watch [94]
[edit] Books
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Nickel and Dimed (service industry)
- Ben Hamper
- Rivethead (automotive industry)
- Robert Jackall
- Workers in a Labyrinth: jobs and survival in a bank bureaucracy
- Moral Mazes (corporate corruption)
[edit] Poverty
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
- Bread for the World (hunger)
- Center for Community Change [95]
- Center for Third World Organizing [96]
- Families USA (health care)
- Food First!
- Food Not Bombs [97]
- Habitat for Humanity (homeless)
- Hunger Project
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy [98]
- Oxfam
- Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
[edit] Gender and reproductive rights
- Dads and Daughters
- EMILY's List (fundraising for pro-choice women candidates)
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- Institute for Democratic Studies [99]
- League of Women Voters
- MADRE
- NARAL Pro-Choice America
- National Organization for Women
- Planned Parenthood [100]
- Quixote Foundation [101]
- Voters for Choice
- Women's Action for New Directions
- Women's Economic and Development Organization
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Women Leaders Online
[edit] Civil rights
- Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
- Human Rights Campaign
- Lambda Legal
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [102]
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays
[edit] Drugs
[edit] Other notable groups
- 20/20 Vision (peace, environment, democracy)
- 50 Years Is Enough
- ActUP
- Ad Council
- Advocacy Institute
- Affero
- Alliance for Democracy
- Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
- The American Democracy Institute (youth leadership development/civic engagement) [105]
- American Muslim Voice [106]
- American Social Science Association
- Atmo [107]
- Australian Privacy Foundation
- Bits of Freedom (Netherlands)
- British Columbia Civil Liberties Assocation
- Business for Social Responsibility
- Center for a Better South [108]
- Center for Health, Environment and Justice
- Center for Justice and Democracy
- Center for Progressive Leadership Action Network [109]
- Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia University Law School
- Century Foundation
- Children Now
- Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes
- Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination
- Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR)
- Community Media Center [110]
- Conservation Fund
- Conventional Arms Transfer Project
- Critical Art Ensemble
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Demos!
- Design Action Collective
- Earth Charter USA
- Earth Day Network 2000
- East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
- Environmental Media Services [111]
- Envirovideo [112]
- Federacuón de Consumidores en Acción (FACUA)
- Foundation for Information Policy Research
- Foundation on Economic Trends
- Freedom Center [113]
- Friends of the Earth
- Global Green USA
- GRAIN [114]
- Help for Sewage Victims
- INFACT
- Inkworks Press
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy [115]
- Jubilee 2000/USA (debt freedom)
- Latin America Working Group
- Music for America [116]
- National Breast Cancer Coalition
- National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- National Jewish Democratic Council [117]
- New Century Alliance for Social Security
- Open Society Institute
- Open Society Policy Center
- Political Research Associates
- Priority Africa Network
- PrivacyActivism
- Privacy Rights Now Coalition
- Privacy Times
- Private Citizen, Inc.
- Privaterra
- Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
- ProgressivePunch/VoterPunch
- Public Information Research, Inc.
- Public Interest Pictures [118]
- Public Voice for Food and Health Policy
- Redefining Progress
- Ruckus Society [119]
- Safe Food Coalition
- Social Science Research Center [120]
- Southern Development Foundation
- Speak Out [121]
- Students for an Orwellian Society
- Third World Majority [122]
- Tides Center
- Toward Peace [123]
- Waste Risk Education Fund
- Propaganda Review
- Wellstone Action
- Working Assets
- World Centric [124]
- World Privacy Forum
- Worldwatch Institute
- The Yes Men
[edit] Websites
- Daily Kos - the leading progressive blog
- Democratic Underground - Progressive news views and active progressive message boards
- Empathic Science Institute - The starting point for a progressive methodology for political science
- Oregon Bus Project - Progressive, grassroots non-profit based in Oregon
- Arianna Huffington Blog - Progressive Blog
- MoCoProgressive - The progressive blog for Montgomery County, Maryland
- Progressive Strategy Blog - Blog reporting insights and debates contributing to the formulation of a strategy for building progressive power in the United States
- Progressive Texan - Web log, or blog, about progressive issues affecting Texas
- Progressive U - The new media voice for students
- ProgressiveSpace
- Progressive Omaha
- Progressive Review - News, commentary, and more
- Talking Points Memo - Web log, or blog, offering progressive political opinion
- GNN, the Gorilla News Network
- MoveOn, Democracy in Action
- People for the American Way
- How to Fight the Religious Right
- TrueMajority
- How the US doesn't stack up next to other rich nations
- Delusional Democracy
- blackboxvoting.org [125]
- warprofiteers.com [126]
- saferparks.org [127]
- corpwatch.org [128]
- corporatepolicy.org [129]
- activeopposition.com [130]
- deceptiondollar.com [131]
- onlinejournal.com [132]
- legitgov.org [133]
- standdown.net [134]
- globalresearch.ca [135]
- cooperativeresearch.org [136]
- fromthewilderness.com [137]
