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Organization |
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SCCC Seminar Group |
Dannielle Mckenzie
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SCCC students and faculty hold weekly meetings to discuss current issues, books, etc…. Meetings are held on Sundays @3:00 pm in Bill's of Broadway (check for changes days/times) |
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Adbusters Magazine |
General Inquiry: info@adbusters.org Phone:604-736-9401 |
Adbusters is a publication dedicated to liberating people from capitalism and supporting human rights. |
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Earth Policy Institute |
202.496.9290 |
Earth Policy Institute distributes books about change in the environment through major distributors to achieve a wider audience and help affect change. |
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NAACP |
NAACP.org |
Promotes and works for racial equality. |
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National Organization for Women |
206-632-8547 |
NOW’s goal is to take action and bring about equality for all women. |
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Landmark Education |
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Empowering people and organizations to empower themselves and teaching them tools to live life powerfully and live lives they love. |
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ElderFriends: Volunteer Companionship Network |
206-224-2790 |
Our mission is to relieve isolation and loneliness among isolated “shut-in” elders through friendly visits. |
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Massive change |
www.massivechange.com |
Informs the public about the effects of consumption and production with a view of a sustainable future |
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Ananda Seattle |
206-523-4343 |
A non-secular worship center focused on building the individual and the community. |
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Women’s Program Seattle Central |
Room 202 (206) 587 – 3854 |
Financial assistance for women attending |
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(206) 723 – 0767 |
Helps the community reach out with compassion to those who have lost hope. |
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International District Housing |
www.idhousingalliance.org |
Helps immigrants with limited English speaking and low-income families find housing. |
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Seattle Young People’s Project (SYPP) |
206-860-9606 |
A youth-led adult supported organization that empowers youth to express themselves and take action on issues that affect their lives. |
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Global Education Design Team |
206-587-5411 |
Committed to fostering campus-wide awareness and understanding of international issues and global connectedness. |
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Neighborhood House |
206-461-8430 |
Helps immigrants, refugees, and low-income people overcome economic, educational and employment challenges. |
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National Association for Multi-Cultural Education |
301-951-0022 |
An organization that brings together individuals and groups with an interest in multicultural education from all levels. |
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Community |
206-405-4600 |
Believes that the global economy should embody the core values of social justice, environmental sustainability, democracy and self-determination. |
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Planned Parenthood |
1-800-230-PLAN |
The nation’s leading sexual and reproductive healthcare advocate and provider, working to ensure that all women and men have the right and the means to meet their sexual and reproductive needs. |
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Peace Corps |
Peacecorps.com |
This is an organization with hosts in 183 countries; a person will volunteer one year. They agree to do various acts of humanity. |
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Global Partnerships |
Globalpartnerships.org |
This organization does microlending with mostly lower-class Latin American women. |
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Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood |
617-278-4172 ccfc@jbcc.harvard.edu |
A group that focuses on getting rid of the commercialization of children so they can grow freely. |
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NOMAS National Organization for Men Against Sexism |
NOMAS |
NOMAS advocates a perspective that is pro-feminist, gay affirmative, anti-racist, dedicated to enhancing men’s lives, and committed to justice on a broad range of social issues including class, age, religion, and physical abilities. |
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Surrealist Movement & Race Traitor Literature |
The Chicago Surrealist Group (773)465-7774 http://www.surrealistmovement-usa.org Race Traitor |
The Chicago Surrealist Group formed in the summer of 1966 as a collection of individuals staunchly opposed to Euro-American white power structures. Their website is free and includes many writings on abolishing whiteness and other topics regarding the rejection of white patriarchal system. The Race Traitor is literature that is published quarterly and can be issued upon subscription. |
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EAT THE STATE! |
Eat The State! |
EAT THE STATE! is a shamelessly biased political journal. We want an end to poverty, exploitation, imperialism, militarism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, environmental destruction, television, and large ugly buildings, and we want it fucking now. We are not affiliated with any political group or party. We publish EAT THE STATE as a not-for-profit way of sharing information, resources, opinions, and hopefully inspiring ACTION in our community. Please help! (from their masthead) |
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Class Matters |
Classmatters.com |
Movements for social change are stronger when people from more classes are involved! |
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Hunger Site |
Thehungersite.com |
An organization with stats about world hunger, information, and ways to donate to those less fortunate. |
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Campaign for workers right. “We believe that all people should have the right to a job and job security.” |
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Spread humanity and to end social injustice. |
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Youth Undoing Institutional Racism (YUIR) |
The youth in YUIR educate other youth about their culture, as well as institutional racism and how they can take action to undo racism in their schools and communities. |
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206 633-3350 |
Providing cheap health care, prescriptions and medication for those in need, based on that need. |
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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project |
NWIRP.org |
Advances the legal rights and dignity of low-income
immigrants in |
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NOW: The |
www.nowseattle.org |
“Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women. NOW works to eliminate discrimination and harassment in the workplace, schools, the justice system, and all sectors of society.” |
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Critical Mass |
5:00 at Red Square, then 5:30 at |
Ride bikes in mass in defiance of cars |
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CARW – Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites |
Phone#:
Delila 206 – 200-7971 www.carw.org |
Monthly Educational meetings, forum for sharing information about anti-racism events in the broader community, as well as news and articles, strategy meetings, support for people of color led groups, anti-racisism workshops for white folks |
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November |
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Working to end drug war injustice, the November Coalition, a non-profit grassroots organization, was founded in 1997. |
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The Hunger Site |
Tim Kunin and Greg Hasterberg www.thehungersite.com |
Originally launched in June 1999, The Hunger Site focuses the power of the internet on a specific humanitarian need, the eradication of world hunger. On average over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the “give free food” button and help feed the hungry. |
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Apa Online Collaborative Project
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These are a few organizations that are trying to fight racism. It’s more directed in the area of whites against racism. |
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Lambert House |
206.322.2515 |
Lambert House creates safe, nurturing, and empowering spaces for queer youth and their allies. |
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Religious Coalition for Marriage Equality (RCME) |
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RCME is an ecumenical organization, advocating the inclusion
of same sex couples into the legal institution of marriage in |
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Noel House Programs |
206.441.3210 info@noelhouse.org |
Noel House and its parent organizations assist low-income and homeless women and children with finding shelter, food, and community. |
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Partners In Health (PIH) |
617.432.5256 info@pih.org |
PIH works in resource-poor areas of the world, advocating for better health through social justice and medical programs. |
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Project Access |
828.274.6989 |
Project Access is a community based effort to provide free and sliding scale primary care to the residents of a poor, partly rural county. It is an effective model and information resource. |
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The |
http://seattlehempfest.org |
The Seattle Peace Heathens Community Action Group has been involved with building community for the last 17 years. Our main claim to fame is the Crisis Resource Directory, an online and hard-copy guide to all of the emergency services provided in the city of Seattle, that are either free, or sliding scale fees. The Seattle Peace Heathens are also the steering committee for Seattle Hempfest, which has been fighting for social justice, and against the ‘class war’ for the last 16 years. |
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The NW Network |
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The NW Network increases our communities’ ability to support the self-determination and safety of bisexual, transgendered, lesbian, and gay survivors of abuse through education, organizing and advocacy. |
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Kiva |
http://www.kiva.org/ |
Interest-free loans to individuals who need it. The website allows users to go online, make a loan (minimum 25 dollars) to the person of their choosing, and watch it get used then payed back within the next year or so. |
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Northwest Immigration Rights Project (NWIRP) |
NWIRP is committed to defending and advancing the legal
rights and well-being of low-income immigrants and refugees in |
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Team Victory |
We are a dedicated group of individuals with concern for the future. We are sick to death of the inequalities created by capitalism and neoliberal trade policies as well as the destruction of our world. We believe that it is time for the workers of the world to form one big union and democratically control the means of production |
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Passages northwest |
www.passagesnw.org |
At passages northwest we are dedicated to edjucating and motivating girls to develop leadership and courage through the integrated exploration of the arts and the natural environment. |
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The LDS (Morman) Humanitarian Services |
www.Providentliving.org Humanitarian Services: 801-240-1201 Email: LDS-Charities@ldschurch.org |
For millions of people in need around the world, the humanitarian out reach program of the LDS Church offers hope and potential far a life that transcends disease, poverty, and despair. |
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Artist trust |
www.artisttrust.org |
Provides funds, aids, & placement help for artists based out of capital hill. |
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Government Accountability Project (GAP) |
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We are a 30-year-old nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. We pursue this mission through our Nuclear Safety, International Reform, Corporate Accountability, Food & Drug Safety, and Federal Employee/National Security programs. GAP is the nation's leading whistleblower protection organization. |
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World vision |
Email: info@worldvision.org Phone: 1-888-511-6548 |
World vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty |
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Treehouse |
Phone: (206) 767-7000 |
Support foster children in our community with much needed services, such as: paying fees for extra-curricular programs, summer camp, clothing, haircuts, birthday/x-mas gifts, and educational support services |
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International Monetary Fund |
Tel: (202)623-8695 Email: imfcenter@imf.org |
Promotes international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange management |
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UNESCO |
www.unesco.org |
Aid peace by advancing international relations in education, science and culture |
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Local Organic Food Cooperatives, Community P-Patches, Urban Agriculture, Gardening Classes, Urban Conservation including Composting and Rainwater Catchment |
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Out and Equal |
info@outandequal.org |
A National Organization devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality in the workplace |
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ncseoffice@nsceweb.org |
To keep creationism out of the science class room |
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Global Warming |
Globalwarming.org |
To raise awareness and provide information on global warming. |
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Architecture 2030 |
Architecture2030.com |
Rapidly accelerating climate change caused by greenhouse
gas emission is severely effecting the climate of our
earth. Immediate action in the |
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Old Dog Haven |
360.653.0311 |
Finds homes and foster care for old and infirm dogs in WA. |
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Grand Illusion Cinema |
206.523.3935 |
All volunteer run non-profit cinema in the UDistrict. |
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Home Alive |
206.323.HOME |
Anti-violence non-profit organization located on Capital Hill teaching self-defense, public education and awareness. |
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A.W.A.R.E. – Association for White Anti-Racist Education |
Email Tim Wise at timjwise@msn.com for information |
Tim Wise’s writing and speeches are intended to educate and enlighten people on the “savage inequalities” among races in our society. |
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ADDA
Asociacion Defensa Derecho Animal |
Cruel Festivals with Animals (Bullfights) |
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EFF –
Electronic Frontier Foundation |
www.eff.org |
Defending digital rights and fighting for digital freedoms in court. |