Recommended Links
Grassroots Movement Building
Third Root will add to and amend this list periodically, and we encourage you to browse our Bibliography and visit our Resource Library at Third Root for other resources. (Also, if you find a broken link here or have a link to add to this list, drop us a line at website@thirdroot.org and let us know.)
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The Catalyst Project — San Francisco, CA
www.collectiveliberation.org
Catalyst Project is a center for political education and movement building based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are committed to anti-racist work in majority white sections of left social movements with the goal of deepening anti-racist commitment in white communities and building multiracial left movements for liberation. We are committed to creating spaces for activists and organizers to collectively develop relevant theory, vision, and strategy to build our movements. Catalyst programs prioritize leadership development, supporting grassroots fighting organizations and multiracial alliance building. (JB)
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Committee In Solidarity with People of El Salvador — Washington, DC
www.cispes.org
We are a grassroots organization dedicated to supporting the Salvadoran people’s struggle for self-determination and social and economic justice. The alternative that they are building — an alternative based upon democratic and socialist ideals — is an example to all people who seek a world free of domination and exploitation. We support that alternative because we believe that capitalism is a fundamentally unjust, oppressive and ecologically unsustainable economic system. We join with poor and working people, immigrants and refugees in the struggle against neoliberalism — the current manifestation of capitalism imposed by the United States government and its state, institutional and corporate allies. Neoliberal policies continue to produce enormous suffering and destabilization around the world. We focus our work on El Salvador because of the U.S. government’s continuing military, economic, and political intervention on behalf of U.S. corporate interests, and because the Salvadoran people’s tenacious and inspiring struggle to build social justice. (JB)
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The Highlander Center — New Market, TN
www.highlandercenter.org
The Highlander Center serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny. Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we help create spaces — at Highlander and in local communities — where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible. We develop leadership and help create and support strong, democratic organizations that work for justice, equality, and sustainability in their own communities and that join with others to build broad movements for social, economic, and restorative environmental change. (JB)
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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement — National
www.mxgm.org
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend the human rights of our people and promote self-determination in our community. We understand that the collective institutions of white-supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism have been at the root of our people’s oppression. We understand that without community control and without the power to determine our own lives, we will continue to fall victim to genocide. Therefore, we seek to heighten our consciousness about self-determination as a human right and a solution to our colonization. While organizing around our principles of unity, we are building a network of Black/New Afrikan activists and organizers committed to the protracted struggle for the liberation of the New Afrikan Nation — By Any Means Necessary! (JB)
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The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond — New Orleans, LA
www.pisab.org
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation. The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, affectionately known in the community as The People’s Institute, considers racism the primary barrier preventing communities from building effective coalitions and overcoming institutionalized oppression and inequities. Through Undoing RacismTM/Community Organizing Workshops, technical assistance and consultations, PISAB helps individuals, communities, organizations and institutions move beyond addressing the symptoms of racism to undoing the causes of racism so as to create a more just and equitable society. (JB)
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People Organized to Win Employment Rights — San Francisco, CA
www.fairwork.org
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change. We have united to fight against the people who defend the economic and social systems that are keeping us down. We will not sit silently while others profit from our poverty. As an organization of largely women and people of color, POWER connects its struggle with the struggle of other working people around the world who make up the backbone of the global economy. In order to build a movement that can change the world, no- and low-wage workers are creating organizations like POWER so that we can rid the world of poverty and oppression — once and for all. (JB)
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Project South — Atlanta, GA
www.projectsouth.org
Project South is a leadership development organization based in the US South creating spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle to strengthen leadership and provide popular political & economic education for personal & social transformation. We build relationships with organizations and networks across the US and global South to inform our local work and to engage in bottom-up movement building for social & economic justice. (JB)
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Southerners on New Ground — Durham, NC
www.southernersonnewground.org
SONG (Southerners on New Ground) believes all our identities, issues and lives are connected across race, class, culture, gender, and sexuality. SONG is a membership-based, Southern regional organization made up of the working class, people of color, immigrants, and rural LGBTQ people. We envision a world where the double shift factory worker and the drag queen at the bar down the block see their lives as connected and are working together for liberation. (JB)
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The War Resisters League — New York, NY
www.warresisters.org
The War Resisters League has been resisting war at homea nd war abroad since 1923. Today, as one of the leading radical voices in the antiwar movement, we challenge military recruitment and war profiteering, organize nonviolent direct action, and offer on-the-ground tools to end the current war and all wars. The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war, including racism, sexism, and all forms of human exploitation. (JB)
