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- Abolition Now!
The Abolition Now! Campaign aims to create the political will to abolish all nuclear weapons - by calling upon nations to dare to plan for a nuclear weapons free world and to begin negotiations for a treaty for the total elimination of nuclear weapons.
Alliance for Democracy
Alliance for Democracy is a new Populist movement --- not a political party --- setting forth to end the domination of our economy, our government, our culture, our media and the environment by large corporations.
Association for Canadian Educational Resources (ACER)
ACER is a not-for-profit organization that acts as a bridge between the professional educator and the materials needed to promote lifelong learning. |
Alliance for Democracy Health Care Action Group
- The purpose of this site is to make available to our citizenry information on the vast body of knowledge available about Universal Health Care, provide paths for communication among constituents and inform everyone of actions which can be taken toward establishing Universal Health Care for all.
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BC Teachers' Federation
- The British Columbia Teachers' Federation is the union of professionals representing 43,000 public school teachers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is based in Vancouver.
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Better World Links
- A non-commercial resource with links to websites covering current events and wide-ranging themes. * Please note: These websites are not necessarily endorsed by the Council.
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Canadian Auto Workers
- The CAW is the largest private sector union in Canada. Through our members and our departments, the CAW has on-going involvement in, and commitment to, many workplace, economic and social justice issues. The CAW is always engaged in campaigns and issues aimed at improving the lives of workers nationally and around the world.
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- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives offers an alternative to the message that we have no choice about the policies that affect our lives. The CCPA undertakes and promotes research on issues of social and economic justice. They produce research reports, books, opinion pieces, fact sheets and other publications, including The Monitor, a monthly digest of progressive research and opinion.
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- Canadian Council on Social Development
- The Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization, which was founded in 1920. Their mission is to develop and promote progressive social policies inspired by social justice, equality and the empowerment of individuals and communities through research, consultation, public education and advocacy.
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Canadian Environmental Law Association
- The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) is a non-profit, public interest organization established in 1970 to use existing laws to protect the environment and to advocate environmental law reforms. It is also a free legal advisory clinic for the public, and will act at hearings and in courts on behalf of citizens or citizens’ groups who are otherwise unable to afford legal assistance.
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Canadian Federation of Students
- The Canadian Federation of Students was formed in 1981 to provide students with an effective and united voice, provincially and nationally. Today, the Federation comprises more than 450,000 students from college and university students' unions across the country.
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Canadian Health Coalition
- The Canadian Health Coalition is dedicated to preserving and enhancing Canada’s public health system for the benefit of all Canadians. Founded in 1979, the coalition includes organizations representing unions, seniors, women, students, consumers and health care professionals from across Canada.
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The Canadian Peace Alliance
- The Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA) is Canada's largest umbrella peace organization. Since its foundation in 1985 the organization has been helping member groups to act as a broad network, in order to provide a strong, coordinated voice for peace issues at the national level.
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Canadian Union of Public Employees
- The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is Canada’s largest union. With more than half a million members across Canada, CUPE represents workers in health care, education, municipalities, libraries, universities, social services, public utilities, transportation, emergency services and airlines.
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Ceasefire.ca
- Ceasefire.ca is an initiative whose mission it is to provide people with Web-based tools to take political action and promote peace, disarmament and social justice.
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Centre for Social Justice
- The Centre for Social Justice is an advocacy organization that seeks to strengthen the struggle for social justice.
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Connexions Information Sharing Services
- An independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse (founded 1975) which produces electronic and print resources supporting social, economic and environmental alternatives, human rights, civil liberties, and grassroots activism.
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Coop Radio
- Redeye is a 3-hour radio program broadcast live every Saturday morning on Vancouver Cooperative Radio, CFRO 102.7FM. It is produced by an independent media collective at the studios of Coop Radio in Vancouver's downtown eastside.
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Common Front for Social Justice
- The Common Front for Social Justice(CFSJ) fights to build a more human New Brunswick society, based on the respect and the dignity of everyone.
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Common Frontiers
- Common Frontiers is a multi-sectoral working group which confronts, and proposes an alternative to, the social, environmental and economic effects of economic integration in the Americas.
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Corporate Watch
- CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. They work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.
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Earth Island Institute
- Earth Island Institute works for solutions to environmental problems by promoting citizen action and developing and supporting projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustain the environment. Through education and activism, these projects promote the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the Earth.
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Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
- An independent, Canadian, non-partisan voluntary organization whose mission is to defend and enhance the quality and quantity of Canadian programming in the Canadian audio-visual system.
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Global Aware
- Global Aware works to support fair trade and campaign human rights issues by putting the environment, social justice and quality of life before profit.
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Greenpeace Canada
- Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. They challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and educating and engaging the public.
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Halifax Initiative
- Halifax Initiative is a coalition of development, environment, labour, human rights and faith groups deeply concerned about the international financial system and its institutions.
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Information for Action
- Information for Action website explains the environmental problems and offers solutions to fix them and includes an automated lobbying service.
Institute for Cooperation in Space - The Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) is a non-profit foundation whose mission is to educate about efforts to transform the space-based weapons R&D program and war industry into a world cooperative civil, commercial and military space R&D and exploration program and industry (and other industries) without the mandate to weaponize space.
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International Gender & Trade Network
- The International Gender & Trade Network(IGTN) is an international network of gender advocates actively working to promote equitable, social, and sustainable trade. The Network utilizes research, advocacy and economic literacy to address the specific trade issues of the seven regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Pacific.
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Karvonen Films Ltd
- Karvonen Films Ltd (KF)is an independent Canadian production company specializing in natural history films.
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LaborNet
- LaborNet was founded in 1991 to build a democratic communication network for the labor movement. LaborNet's founders believe that the new communication technology must be put to use to revitalize and rebuild the labor movement. LaborNet also works to defend the Internet from censorship and the privatization of information that would limit and destroy our rights to communicate and build world unionism.
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Making the Links
- Making the Links is now in its sixth year of broadcasting on CFCR 90.5 FM community radio in Saskatoon. Making the Links is committed to reporting on international and local issues in a way that is informative, indepth and offers coverage not normally found in the mainstream media.
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Maquila Solidarity Network
- The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.
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Mines Action Canada
- Mines Action Canada (MAC) is a coalition of over 40 Canadian non-governmental organizations working in mine action, peace, development, labour, health and human rights that came together in 1994. The coalition's primary concerns are the human and socio-economic impacts of landmines and other weapons with similar effects.
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National Farmers Union
- The National Farmers Union (NFU) goal is to work together to achieve agricultural policies which will ensure dignity and security of income for farm families while enhancing the land for future generations.
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National Union of Public and General Employees
- The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is a family of 15 component unions whose mission is to: monitor provincial and federal labour laws and developments; analyse restructuring of social programs and public services; report on and contribute to legislation affecting the workplace; give our members a national presence through participation in the Canadian Labour Congress and internationally through Public Services International; develop and share successful bargaining strategies with our component unions; and contribute to a national framework of services and solidarity to benefit all Canadian workers.
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National Union of Public and General Employees
- The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is a family of 15 component unions whose mission is to: monitor provincial and federal labour laws and developments; analyse restructuring of social programs and public services; report on and contribute to legislation affecting the workplace; give our members a national presence through participation in the Canadian Labour Congress and internationally through Public Services International; develop and share successful bargaining strategies with our component unions; and contribute to a national framework of services and solidarity to benefit all Canadian workers.
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National Union of Public and General Employees
- The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is a family of 15 component unions whose mission is to: monitor provincial and federal labour laws and developments; analyse restructuring of social programs and public services; report on and contribute to legislation affecting the workplace; give our members a national presence through participation in the Canadian Labour Congress and internationally through Public Services International; develop and share successful bargaining strategies with our component unions; and contribute to a national framework of services and solidarity to benefit all Canadian workers.
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New Internationalist
- The New Internationalist workers' co-operative (NI) has existed for over 30 years. It is a not-for-profit group who report on the issues of world poverty and inequality; focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and powerless worldwide; debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice.
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Nova Scotia Nurses' Union
- The Nova Scotia Nurses' Union is a professional union representing Licensed Practical Nurses and Registered Nurses in hospitals, Long Term Care facilities, Community Care, Adult Residential Centres, VON branches and Canadian Blood Services. The membership benefits from our focus on exclusive nurse issues and a heart-felt concern about the provision of adequate health care to the people of Nova Scotia.
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OneWorld Canada
- OneWorld.ca showcases progressive social movements in Canada and beyond our borders. We are a partnership of NGOs committed to social justice, human rights and sustainable development. OneWorld.ca presents news and analysis from social justice movements in Canada and beyond. The engine of this service is our family of partners — nearly 100 Canadian civil society organizations.
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Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation
- The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation(OSSTF) is the first educational union in English Canada committed to representing the collective strength of teachers, educational professionals and support personnel together - regardless of religion, language or place of employment.
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Parkland Institute
- The Parkland Institute is an Alberta research network situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. It operates within the established and distinctive tradition of Canadian political economy and is non-partisan.
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People Against Weapons In Space
- People Against Weapons in Space (PAWS) is a Toronto-based group which came together in June 2003 - shortly after the federal government announced that Canada would consider joining the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program. They have added their voices to many other voices in this country urging the Canadian government NOT to join U.S. BMD.
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People for Education
- People for Education is a group of parents who are working to support public education in Ontario. People for Education is dedicated to the ideal of a public education system that guarantees every child access to the education that meets their needs and equips them to contribute to and participate as citizens in a civil society.
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Polaris Institute
- The Polaris Institute is designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization. The Institute works with citizen movements in developing the kinds of strategies and tactics required to unmask and challenge the corporate power that is the driving force behind governments concerning public policy making on economic, social and environmental issues.
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Public Citizen
- Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. They fight for openness and democratic accountability in government, for the right of consumers to seek redress in the courts; for clean, safe and sustainable energy sources; for social and economic justice in trade policies; for strong health, safety and environmental protections; and for safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs and health care.
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Public Service Alliance of Canada
- The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), is one of Canada's largest unions. The PSAC exists to help its members have a voice in their workplace and in their community.
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Red Pepper
- Red Pepper is an independent magazine of news, debate and culture for the left. Red Pepper seeks to be responsive to the needs of the left in the changing political situation in the UK and internationally as well as to be self-critical as they develop.
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Sierra Club of Canada
- The Sierra Club of Canada aims to develop a diverse, well-trained grassroots network working to protect the integrity of our global ecosystems. Sierra Club of Canada’s mission focuses on five overriding threats: loss of animal and plant species; deterioration of the planet’s oceans and atmosphere; the ever-growing presence of toxic chemicals in all living things; destruction of our remaining wilderness; and spiralling population growth and over consumption.
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Sierra Legal Defence Fund
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The Ecologist Magazine
- Founded in 1970, The Ecologist is the world's most widely-read environmental magazine. Published in four continents, The Ecologist is read by over 200,000 people in 150 countries. A key player in major environmental campaigns against GM crops, rainforest destruction, climate change and the impact of globalisation, The Ecologist's early-warning signs have helped set environmental and political agendas across the world. The Ecologist is a non-profit making magazine and is edited by Zac Goldsmith.
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World Advocacy
- Worldadvocacy.com is the world's premier list of advocacy groups.
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World Development Movement
- The World Development Movement tackles the underlying causes of poverty. They lobby decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor. They research and promote positive alternatives and work alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice.
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World Social Forum
- The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where groups and movements of civil society opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a planetary society centred on the human person, come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action
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