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Street Community Center
Empowering the Loisaida community by organizing neighborhood residents
around issues concerning food, health and the environment.
9/11 Environmental
Action
We are an advocacy group for the area affected by the collapse of
the World Trade Center. We demand an environmentally friendly clean
up and reconstruction. Cleanup Now! Not Coverup!
ABC No
Rio
A collectively-run center for art and activism. We seek to facilitate
cross-pollination between artists and activists. ABC No Rio is a
place where people share resources and ideas to impact society,
culture, and community.
Activism
Center at Wetlands Preserve
We fight for human, animal, and earth liberation through protest,
direct action, street theater, political advocacy, and public education.
Audre Lorde
Project
Is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit and Transgender People of
Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York
City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building,
we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic
justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to
responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities.
Books
Through Bars
Cleaning out your shelves? Looking to donate your unwanted books
to a local organization that sends books to prisoners? Look no further!
We need your books.
Bluestockings
Bookstore
We are a radical bookstore, fair-trade cafe, and activist center
in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The
Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE)
Works as a catalyst for change in the lives of women, teen women,
children, and other communities especially affected by violence.
CAE’s programs are designed to develop participants’
skills, knowledge, and awareness to enable them to heal from, prevent,
and counter violence. We do this work to actively create a peaceful,
just, and equitable world.
The
Change You Want to See
Online gallery and virtual convergence space representing the culture
of resistance.
Cheer
New York
Through performances, which combine cheerleading, dance and extreme
stunts, we inspire hope, encouragement, spirit, strength, support
and understanding in audiences wherever we perform. For our athletes,
we provide a positive and mutually supportive environment, where
men and women of all ages, gay and straight, can challenge themselves,
and strive for personal excellence with a little help from their
friends.
Community
Voices Heard
A membership organization of low-income individuals, mostly women
with experience on public assistance, working together to build
the power of our families, our communities and low-income people.
We are working to accomplish this through a multi-pronged strategy
which includes community organizing, public education, public-policy
work, coalition building, leadership development, training low-income
people about their rights, political education and direct-action
issue campaigns. We are led, directed, run and being built by low-income
people ourselves. While we were founded by women on public assistance
to impact on the welfare system, we now focus on economic justice.
Critical Resistance
A prison abolition group. Open meetings are held twice a month.
968 Atlantic Ave, 1st fl. Brooklyn. 718.398.2825
Fierce!
A community organizing project for Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Two Spirit, Queer, and Questioning youth of color in New York City.
We are dedicated to exploring and building power in our communities
through a mix of leadership development, artistic and cultural activism,
political education, and campaign development while taking care
of ourselves and each other. We take on the institutions that perpetuate
transphobia, homophobia, racism, ethnic conflict, gender bias, economic
injustice, ageism, and the spread of HIV, STIs, STDs, and other
mental and physical health crises — that make daily survival
a terrifying challenge for many of our youth.
Food Not Bombs - North Brooklyn
Serves dinner and a movie at Jane Doe Books, 93 Montrose Ave, every
Friday at 6:30 pm. 718.599.6557
Food
Not Bombs - Manhattan
The food we serve is usually donated from a local health food store,
or is dumpstered, and on rare occasions, is purchased.
GlowLab
is a Brooklyn-based arts lab exploring the nature of urban public
space. Dedicated to the evolution of contemporary psychogeography,
we organize events, lectures, collaborative projects and exhibitions.
Glowlab is particularly interested in the idea of public space as
a creative medium, and we offer the Glowlab website as an online
studio/playground where artists and the public can connect and learn.
Gotham
Gazette
A daily digest of news about New York City; a news operation in
itself; a policy magazine; and a reference tool for students and
serious researchers alike.
Graduate
Students of Color Network (GSCN)
Our mission is to meet the needs of graduate students by providing
a network of resources, a place for empowerment in which members
can become involved within the organization as well as in NYU to
develop personally and professionally. As such, GSCN seeks to provide
enriching and fulfilling opportunities for graduate students to
enhance and further their career goals, empower each other, become
activists for their beliefs, and socialize with others.
Holy
Apostles Soup Kitchen
Holy Apostles is a place of humanity, compassion, and dignity…
a lifeline to those in need.
Housing
Works
Housing Works: New Yorks largest AIDS service organization. We constantly
strive towards ending the twin crises of homelessness and AIDS by
promoting social entrepreneurship and providing housing, medical
care, job training, case management, advocacy and HIV prevention
counseling and testing services.
The
Indypendent
Bi-weekly newspaper of NYC indymedia. Downloads available on website.
Just
Vision
Weary of violence, bigotry, and propoganda, and thirsty for courageous
leadership, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Just Vision links
North Americans with Israeli and Palestinian grassroots peace efforts
through innovative online and face to face encounters.
The
Lower East Side Biography Project
A community based media program training individuals in all aspects
of dv video production. Participants attend workshops and then apply
their new skills by working within small production teams to shoot,
edit and direct their own biography segment on one of the long-term
residents of the Lower East Side.
The
Madagascar Institute
Is an art combine in Brooklyn that specializes in large-scale sculptures
and rides, live performances, and guerilla art events.
M*A*M*A
Welcomes any mama regardless of her parenting style, age, race,
tax bracket, or status as a stay at home or work for pay mom. Lesbian/Bi/Trans
loving and inclusive. We are a coalition which exists to strengthen
common bonds, solidarity and community among women, to fight for
women's and children's rights, and to shed light on the integral
role that traditional "women's work" has played in our
economy and society. 212.714.4725 mamariseup@yahoo.com
Medical
Activists of NY (MANY)
Medical care for protests and direct actions, trainings, jail support,
aftercare, and referral network of activist-friendly healthcare
professionals.
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Gardens Coalition
A group of community people, gardeners, and environmental and social
justice activists committed to revitalizing and enhancing existing
community gardens and making more gardens!
New
York 9/11 Truth
We are an organization dedicated to challenging the cover up surrounding
9/11. We provide access to educational materials and listings of
events.
New
York City Student Initiative for AIDS
We want to raise both awareness and funds to fight the global HIV/AIDS
epidemic. We support initiatives that treat, educate and care for
people affected by HIV/AIDS in developing nations. We are actively
seeking to involve student communities in this fight through artistic
and educational means.
New York Collective of Radical
Educators (NYCoRE)
A collective of public school teachers committed to social justice
in education. Contact: nycore2003@yahoo.com
email list: nycoreupdates-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
New
York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)
We educate workers and the public about the growing number of hazards
on the job. We provide unions with safety and health training. And
we maintain a resource center and technical assistance Hotline to
address questions about hazards ranging from high-voltage electrical
power lines and asbestos removal, to less apparent threats, such
as radiation, indoor air pollution, and infectious disease in the
workplace.
New
York Environmental Law and Justice Project (NYELJP)
An organization which counsels and represents groups and individual
concerns with the preservation and improvement of community environmental
conditions. It is possible for citizens to protect themselves and
their communities from dangerous and burdensome environmental hazards
through knowledge and effective -- affordable legal avenues. We
believe that environmental justice should be available to all people
regardless of race, gender or age. By utilizing our "commando"
law techniques we are able to effectively promote the interests
of the environmental community.
October
22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization
of a Generation
We have been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day
of Protest on October 22, bringing together those under the gun
and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic
of police brutality. The Coalition also works on the Stolen Lives
Project, which documents cases of killings by law enforcement nationwide.
Peace and
Justice Radio WBAI 99.5 FM
Radio station that seeks to inform and educate, as well as contribute
to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals
of all nations, races, creeds and colors; to gather and disseminate
information on the causes of conflict between any and all of such
groups.
P.S. 122
Performance Space 122 is committed to supporting the development
of work by individual artists who create live art with an authentic
vision. We are fully dedicated to finding, developing, and bringing
to the public eye artistic creations from a diversity of cultures,
points of view, ages, and sexual orientations.
Radical
Cheerleaders
We are a collectively run radical cheerleading squad comprised of
queer, straight and transgendered women and men, youth and adults
living in the boroughs of new york city.
Rude Mechanicals Orchestra
Activist Brass Band. michele@riseup.net
The
Sikh Coalition
We seek to safeguard the civil and human rights of all citizens
as well as to promote the Sikh identity and communicate the collective
interests of Sikhs to civil society. The Coalition serves as a resource
for all organizations and individuals as well as a point of contact
for Sikh people.
Sista
II Sista (SIIS)
A Brooklyn-wide community-based organization located in Bushwick.
We are a collective of working-class young and adult Black and Latina
women building together to model a society based on liberation and
love. Our organization is dedicated to working with young women
to develop personal, spiritual and collective power. We are committed
to fighting for justice and creating alternatives to the systems
we live in by making social, cultural and political change.
St. Mark's Church
An organizing hub for the radical community. 131 E 10th St. 212.674.6377
Theaters
Against War (THAW)
THAW is an international network of theater artists responding to
the United States' ongoing "War on Terror", aggressive
and unilateral foreign policies, and escalating attacks on civil
liberties in the US and throughout the world.
Time's
Up
An environmental group that uses events and educational programs
to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city through the use of
bicycles and such.
Toy
Shop Collective
A street art collective that confronts urban alienation and private
ownership with a takeover of public space and events and performances
aimed at redrawing our physical and psychological landscapes.
Wooster
Collective
A celebration of Street Art
The
Works Catering
is a full-service, non-profit catering company, established five
years ago to create jobs and provide dollars to help Housing Works,
Inc. continue providing social services for homeless New Yorkers
living with HIV/AIDS. The Works menu has a real international flavor,
with dishes from many African-influenced cuisines—Southern,
Caribbean, Middle Eastern—as well as many original recipes.
Prices are in the mid-range for New York City, and we also offer
special discounts for other non-profits. Recent clients include
The New York Road Runners, LUCKY Magazine, Open Center, Merrill
Lynch and Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary), to mention only
a few.
WW3
Arts in Action
Is an independent collective of artists dedicated to using our work
as a voice for peace in the face of endless war, and to protest
injustices such as corporate globalization, economic colonialism,
and the growth of the prison industry. We utilize diverse expressions:
murals, banners, posters, illustrations and street theater, in conjunction
with direct action strategies, to communicate our message with optimal
impact.
Youth
Solidarity Summer (YSS)
A volunteer collective of artists, activists, educators and students
providing alternate education for South Asian youth.. YSS's mission
is to provide radical political education for young activists of
South Asian descent. YSS aims to build a movement of youth activists
engaged in anti-oppression work, and to create a forum to share
organizational and political strategies. The long-term goal of the
program is to create solidarity among a new generation of activists
fighting for social justice.
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