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InterReligious Task Force on Central America
www.irtfcleveland.org

Links to organizations sorted by themes, with a section for educators

The InterReligious Task Force on Central America (IRTF) is a Cleveland-based interfaith group that promotes peace and human rights in Central America and Colombia. People of faith and conscience founded IRTF after the 1980 execution of four U.S. church women in El Salvador by U.S.-trained soldiers. (The Cleveland mission team lost Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kazel.)

Spirituality and Ecological Hope www.ecologicalhope.org

Exploring the spiritual meaning of the ecological crisis that now faces our precious Earth

From the vantage point of a consumer-oriented post-industrial society, the changes required to save humanity from disaster are particularly profound. In the short span of this generation, we human beings will have to decide how we are going to pass through this difficult era, whether or not we will survive, what kind of world we will be leaving to our children. To save the fabric of life on this Earth, to keep it from unraveling, we need to begin this work now.

Common Dreams www.commondreams.org

Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community
(note internship opportunities)

Founded in 1997, Common Dreams is committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism.

Democracy Now! www.democracynow.org

Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community - RADIO

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 500 stations. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Link TV ch. 375); as a "podcast," and on the internet.

Airs 6:00 pm weekdays in St. Louis on KDHX FM 88.1 radio & Ch 21 TV

Upside Down World! www.upsidedownworld.org

Online magazine covering activism and politics in Latin America.

Founded in 2003, it is made up of work from writers, activists, artists and regular citizens from around the globe who are interested in flipping the world upside down...or right side up.

"If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?" -Eduardo Galeano

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Across the Americas www.acrosstheamericas.org

Chicagoans for a Peaceful Colombia informs, educates and organizes to promote peace, human rights, democracy, and economic justice in Colombia. As an independent, not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization, working primarily through and with existing grassroots organizations and networks, Chicagoans for a Peaceful Colombia is not associated with any armed actor in the Colombia conflict and strongly condemns the use of terror and the targeting of civilian populations by these actors.

Washington Office on Latin America www.wola.org

Founded in 1974, WOLA promotes human rights, democracy and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean, facilitates dialogue between governmental and non-governmental actors, monitors the impact of policies and programs of governments and international organizations, and promotes alternatives through reporting, education, training and advocacy.

North American Congress on Latin America www.nacla.org

An independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 that works toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are free from oppression and injustice, and enjoy a relationship with the United States based on mutual respect, free from economic and political subordination. To that end, our mission is to provide information and analysis on the region, and on its complex and changing relationship with the United States, as tools for education and advocacy - to foster knowledge beyond borders.

Council on Hemispheric Affairs www.coha.org

Founded in 1975, COHA isa nonprofit, tax-exempt independent research and information organization established to promote the common interests of the hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America.

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Institute for Policy Studies www.ips-dc.org

Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice, and the Environment.
IPS strengthens social movements with independent research, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, scholars, and elected officials. We empower people to build healthy and democratic societies in communities, the U.S., and the world.

Truth Out www.truthout.org

Devoted to the principles of equality, democracy, human rights, accountability and social justice, Truthout believes ardently in the power of free speech, and understand that democratic journalism can make the world a better place for all of us. Truthout works to broaden and diversify the political discussion by introducing independent voices and focusing on undercovered issues and unconventional thinking.

Counterpunch www.counterpunch.org

Bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, bringing stories that the corporate press never prints. Not side-line journalists, but muckrakers with a radical attitude in the battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature.

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Americas Program www.cipamericas.org