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A magazine with innovative critiques of mass consumerism. Great resource for interdisciplinary media literacy, art and social studies classes.
American Friends Service Committee Founded in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian victims during World War I, today the AFSC has programs that focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth, in the United States, and in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Check out their national campaign to demilitarize schools.
 Boycott
Nike
Up-to-date information on the campaign to boycott NIKE due to its unfair labor practices. Includes information teachers can use in math and social
studies classes. TheBlackPast.org- Reference materials to the general public on six centuries of African American history. Includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in African America, full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the 18th Century to the present. There are also links to hundreds of websites that address the history of African Americans including major black museums and archival research centers in the United States and Canada. Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 
Building
Blocks for Youth Initiative
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Class Action is an organization that works to build bridges across the class divide, linking issues of race and gender with class. |
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The CCC Education Team supports grassroots organizing for public school reform by supporting education organizing campaigns; fostering networking among community organizations; investigating state and federal policy developments, and sharing campaign stories through Education Organizing. Curbstone Press is a non-profit publisher dedicated to literature that reflects a commitment to social change, with an emphasis on writing from Latin America and Latino communities in the United States. Critical Media Literacy in Times of War This site is especially recommended for anyone intersted in teaching or studying media, political events and US foreign policy. Created in interactive Flash 6, the two primary modules examine The 'War on Terror' and US attacks on Iraq in 1991 and 2002. You will find visually engaing material demonstrating the contradictory stories told by domestic and international media.
Well-organized,
annotated links to resources on anti-racist education, assessment,
critical pedagogy, education for equity, school-family-community relations,
whole school change, what works, professional development and much
more.  Educators for Social Responsibility
Educators
for Social Responsibility (ESR) is dedicated to helping young people
develop the convictions and skills to build a safe, sustainable,
and just world. ESR promotes children's ethical and social development
through courses and resources on conflict resolution, violence
prevention, intergroup relations, and character education. Enidlee Consultants works with a network of schools in the United States and Canada who are committed to "putting race on the table." Visit the Web site to learn about the work of those schools, for articles and equity tools developed by Enid Lee, and for news about upcoming institutes. Enid Lee is a Virtual Scholar at Teaching for Change.
 Facing
History and Ourselves
provides workshops and curricula on ways to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the
development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the Holocaust, and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral
choices they confront in their own lives.  The
National Center
for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) is an advocacy
organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized
testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair,
open, and educationally sound. 
Global Exchange produces popular education materials such as pamphlets, books and videos designed to make the world comprehensible. In addition Global Exchange coordinates Reality Tours to many parts of the world. |
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Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network is an education organization
creating safe schools for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
people.
Have you ever wondered where chocolate comes from, if antibacterial soap is good for your family, or how to recycle an old computer? If you've had these or other questions about the environmental and social impacts of the products you buy and use, Good Stuff is for you. It contains many of the tips, facts, and links you'll need to start making more informed purchases that benefit your health and the environment.
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IndyKids is a new free newspaper that aims to educate children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire in children a passion for social justice and learning. It is geared toward kids in grades 4 to 8.
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The
Institute for
Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, is
an alternative, outside the beltway, 'peoples' think tank, with a
mission to move people to take action to end the injustices that Kids
Can Make a Difference (KIDS), an educational program for middle-
and high school students, focuses on the root causes of hunger
and poverty, the people most affected, solutions, and how
students can help. The major goal is to stimulate students to take
follow-up actions as they begin to realize that one person can make
a difference. KIDS and World Hunger Year (WHY) published the excellent
curriculum Finding Solutions to Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference.
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Curbstone
Press
A wealth of resources for multicultural teacher education courses and K-12 classrooms including backgrround reading, lessons, book lists, and more. A project of EdChange.
The Nation Publishing since 1865, The Nation magazine and radio program provide in-depth coverage of the news from a progressive perspective.  National
Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
Information
about the National Association for Multicultural Education's upcoming
annual conference, regional contacts and quarterly magazine.  National
Women's History Project
Best single source of resources for teaching about women in history and women's issues.
 The New Internationalist Journal, books, and web site for progressive perspectives on the international politics, history and culture. |
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Some of the best on-line lessons available on range of social justice issues for students and teachers. For example, there are interactive lessons for both elementary aged children and secondary school on the environment, trade, racism, immigration, health, maps, food, and much more. Although developed for a UK audience, most of these lesssons are relevant for children in the U.S. as well. |
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PILA develops tools and materials for community based organizations to compliment their leadership development and electoral organizing efforts. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to leadership development and voter education, we offer versatile exercises, strategies and practices to organizations with limited resources. |
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 RETANET
- Resources for Teaching about the Americas
RETANET
provides an archive of lesson plans for teaching about Latin America,
the Caribbean and the Latino Southwest written by and for secondary
teachers; database of resources such as videos, museum materials
and teacher packets; other resources such as a list of embassies,
teachers interested in doing collaborative projects and links. 
Rethinking
Schools is the best education journal in the country. Check
out the Rethinking Schools site to see the latest issue. Rethinking
Schools also publishes books such as Rethinking Our Classrooms:Teaching
for Equity and Justice (Volumes 1 and 2), Rethinking Globalization,
and Reading, Writing & Rising Up One of the
most valuable organizations for teachers of writing. Check out their
catalog and journal.
The
S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum The National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum, a staff-development equity project for educators, is in its fourteenth year of establishing teacher-led faculty development seminars in public and private schools throughout the United States and in English-speaking international schools. A week-long SEED Summer Leaders' Workshop prepares school teachers to hold year-long reading groups with other teachers to discuss making school curricula more gender-fair and multiculturally equitable in all subject areas.
 Teaching Tolerance
Twice
a year the Southern Poverty Law Center produces the excellent magazine Teaching Tolerance
(free to educators). In addition to the journal, teachers can request free films on the Civil Rights Movement, anti-bias early childhood education, and the Holocaust. The web site includes
articles from past issues, teaching strategies and information about
grants and fellowships for teachers. USC
is an independent nonprofit alliance of 50,000 concerned citizens
and scientists across the country. UCS has become a powerful
voice for change with a core groups of scientists and engineers
who collaborate with colleagues across the country to conduct technical
studies on renewable energy options, the impacts of global
warming, the risks of genetically engineered crops, and other related
topics. USC shares the results of its research with policymakers,
the news media, and the public.  WEEA
- National Women's Educational Equity Act
The best site for young people and teachers on youth activism. We document the value of young people working with teachers and other adults on projects that combine powerful learning with public purpose for an audience of educators and policy makers, journalists, community members, and students.
World Trust is a nonprofit educational organization whose vision is a vibrant, equitable, sustainable world that honors and embraces all people. This organization has recently created a video entitled Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, which features personal stories of white activists and their ongoing journeys of transformation. Participants talk about being unconsciousness about their learned and internalized sense of white supremacy. Writers and Readers' For Beginners Books The For Beginners book collection covers a diverse range of subjects including history, current events, philosophy, visual arts, music, literature, and science in easy to read, comic-book formats.
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Producers and distributors of award-winning educational videos about important social issues. Our aim is to create new perspectives on these issues. We produced, directed and currently distribute 17 educational videos about advertising's image of women, domestic violence, trauma, rape, alcohol advertising, eating disorders, self esteem, media literacy, homophobia, the labor movement, gender roles, career counseling, nuclear war, reproductive health hazards, the women's health movement, gay and lesbian parenting and other social issues.
First
Run/Icarus has distributed high quality social issue documentaries
to the educational community for over fifteen years. Their films
cover a wide range of topics, including human rights, labor issues,
and African, Asian and Latin American studies.  Human Rights International Film Festival Showcase
for leading fiction and documentary videos with human rights themes.  Maryknoll
World Productions
Maryknoll
and UNICEF have teamed up to bring high quality educational videos
from around the world at a very low price.  National
Asian American Telecommunications Association
Founded
in 1980, the mission of the National Asian American Telecommunications
Association (NAATA) is to advance the ideals of cultural pluralism
in the United States and to promote better understanding of Asian
Pacific American experiences through film, video, radio and new
technologies to the broadest audience possible.  New Day Films Cooperative of independent producers and filmmakers with over 100 films for schools on a variety of social issues including multiculturalism, gender, media, physical and mental health, young adult issues, social and political history, and more.
Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women.
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Africa
Access (reviews of books for schools on Africa) Center
for Applied Linguistics
Arte
Publico Press Children's Books and Early Childhood Education
Environmental Studies, Hunger, Ecology Food
First
Including
Every Parent: A Step-by-Step Guide to Engage and Empower Parents
at Your School
American
Association of University Women
Publications
By & About Latinos and Latin Americans Americas
Book Award
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