List of progressive organizations
A list of progressive organizations, that is, organizations which promote progressive values while not having any regressive ideological ties. Organizations may be listed under multiple applicable categories; particularly notable or relevant books may also be included.
Contents
Equality
Age
- Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex by Judith Levine
- Escape From Childhood by John Holt
Gender
- National Organization for Women
- EMILY's List (fundraising for pro-choice women candidates)
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- MADRE
- Women's Action for New Directions
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Women Leaders Online
National origin
Race
Religion
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- American Atheists
- American Humanist Association
- Interfaith Alliance
Sexual orientation
- Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
- Human Rights Campaign
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Species
Foundations
Freedom
Drugs
Expression
- American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
- American Library Association, Office for Intellectual Freedom
- Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression
- Feminists for Free Expression
- Free Expression Policy Project [7]
- Free Expression Network
- Free Speech Coalition
- Freedom to Read Foundation
- First Amendment Center
- First Amendment Project
- National Coalition Against Censorship
- Online Policy Group
- Peacefire
Reproductive
Sexual
- Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex by Judith Levine
Technology and intellectual monopolies
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Center for Digital Democracy
- Center for Social Media [8]
- Chilling Effects
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- Consumer Project on Technology
- CopyNight
- Creative Commons
- Downhill Battle
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Free Expression Policy Project [9]
- Free Software Foundation
- IP Justice
- IPac [10]
- International Center for Technology Assessment
- League for Programming Freedom
- Online Policy Group
- Peacefire
- Public Knowledge
- Public Patent Foundation
- Union for the Public Domain [11]
- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines [12]
- Verified Voting (electronic voting)
- freeculture.org [13] (student group)
Fulfillment
Government
- Green Party
- Ralph Nader
- Socialist Party of America
- Communist Party
- Freedom Socialist Party
- New Party
- Peace and Freedom Party
- Socialist Labor Party of America
- Socialist Workers Party
- Working Families Party
- Social Democratic Party (1897-1901)
- 21st Century Democrats
- People for the American Way (stopping the religious right: judicial nominations, organizing community groups)
- Center for American Progress
- Progressive Policy Institute
- Institute for Policy Studies [15]
- New America Foundation
- New Democrat Network
Watchdogs
- Common Cause
- Fund for Constitutional Government
- Government Accountability Project
- Project On Government Oversight
- Truth-Telling Project [16] (gov. whistleblowers)
- Center for the Study of Responsive Law [17]
Elections
- California Voter Foundation
- Center for Voting and Democracy
- Open Debates
- Verified Voting (electronic voting)
- America Coming Together
- Music for America
- League of Conservation Voters
- League of Rural Voters [18]
- League of Pissed Off Voters [19]
- Rock the Vote
- Americans For Democratic Action
Campaign finance
Fundraising
- ActBlue (ActBlue.com) (fundraising)
- Media Fund
- National Committee for an Effective Congress
- Progressive Majority
- Voters for Choice
- EMILY's List (fundraising for women)
- IPac [20]
Watchdogs
Courts
- American Constitution Society
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Alliance for Justice
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Earthjustice (formerly Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- First Amendment Center
- Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
- National Lawyers Guild
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Brennan Center for Justice [21]
- Institute for Democratic Studies (independent judiciary) [23]
Economy
- Citizens for Tax Justice
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
- Economic Policy Institute
- Preamble Center
- Taxpayers for Common Sense
- United for a Fair Economy
- Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich by David Cay Johnston
Media
- Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
- Institute for Public Accuracy
- Media Alliance [24]
- Media For Democracy [25]
- People for Better TV
- Center for Creative Voices in Media
- Free Press [26]
- Center for Digital Democracy
- Project Censored
- Free Expression Policy Project [27]
- Women's Media Center
Creation:
Public journalism:
Monitoring
- Center for Media and Democracy
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
- Media Matters for America
- NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak
- Institute for Media Analysis
- CovertAction Quarterly (publication suspended)
- Lies Of Our Times (defunct)
- MediaChannel.org
- Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
- Eric Alterman
- What Liberal Media?
- column in The Nation
- Altercation (MSNBC weblog)
Outlets
- Adbusters Media Foundation
- Air America Radio
- Alternative Radio [29]
- AlterNet
- The American Prospect
- AntiWar.com [31]
- The Baffler [32]
- Business Ethics
- Buzzflash
- ColdType [33]
- Common Dreams
- Consumer Reports
- Counterpunch
- Cursor.org
- Dollars and Sense
- Grist [34]
- Guerilla News Network [35]
- In These Times
- International Socialist Review [36]
- Left Business Observer [37]
- London Review of Books
- Media Matters [38]
- Mother Jones
- MoveOn.org
- The Nation
- Pacifica Radio
- The Progressive
- The Progressive Radio Network [40]]
- The Progress Report [41] (American Progress Action Fund)
- Toward Freedom
- Socialist Worker [42]
- TomPaine.com [43]
- Upside Down World
- Z Magazine
And, to a lesser extent:
- The New Yorker
- Harper's
- The Atlantic Monthly
- Salon.com
- New York Review of Books
- Other Magazine
- NOW with Bill Moyers
Scholarly journals
Book publishers
- Akashic Books
- Black Rose Books [46]
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers [47]
- Chealsea Green
- Common Courage Press
- Haymarket Books
- The New Press
- Seven Stories Press
- South End Press
- Verso Books [48]
- Pluto Press
Columnists and commentators
- Paul Krugman, New York Times
- Joe Conason, Salon.com
- This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
- Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau
- Michael Moore, filmmaker
- Mark Achbar, filmmaker
- Mark Crispin Miller
- Seymour Hersh, journalist
- Howard Zinn, historian
- Alexander Cockburn, journalist
- Studs Terkel
- Ted Rall, comics
- Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling
Usage
Framing:
- Rockridge Institute
- Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff
- Don't Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
- Frameworks Institute
Protection
Children
- Coalition of Essential Schools [49]
- Center for Commercial-Free Public Education [50]
- Commercial Alert [51]
- Commercialism in Education Research Unit [52]
- FairTest [53]
- Child Development Project
- Alfie Kohn
- No Contest: The Case Against Competition
- Punished By Rewards
Citizens
- Abolition 2000 (nuclear testing)
- Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Center for Defense Information
- Center for International Policy
- Federation of American Scientists
- School of the Americas Watch
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation [54]
- Peace Action
- Peaceful Tomorrow (nonviolent response to terrorism)
- Veterans for Peace
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Americans for Peace Now [55] (Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
- CODEPINK [56]
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Mobilization for Global Justice (anti-World Bank)
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
City planning
Consumers
- Center for Science in the Public Interest (food/nutrition)
- Consumers Union
- Public Citizen
- Public Interest Research Groups
- Center for Auto Safety
- Commercial Alert
- Center for Media and Democracy (PR watch)
- Consumer Federation of America
- Consumer Project on Technology
- Consumers Union
- Consumer Federation of America
- Public Interest Research Group
Criminals
Environment, environmental health, and environmental justice
List of environmental organizations
Human rights
- Australian Coalition for Transitional Justice in East Timor
- Amnesty International (see page for serious criticism)
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Human Rights Watch (see page for serious criticism)
- Americas Watch (see page for serious criticism)
- Human Rights First
- Inter-American Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States (see page for serious criticism)
- Andean Commission of Jurists
- Center for Investigation and Popular Education (CINEP)
- If Americans Knew (Israel/Palestine) [58]
Labor
- AFL-CIO (ties to government)
- SEIU
- Jobs with Justice
- SafeSpaces (formerly National Safe Workplace Institute) [59]
- Sweatshop Watch [60]
- Rivethead by Ben Hamper (car factory)
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (service industry)
- Workers in a Labyrinth by Robert Jackall (clerical bureaucracy)
Poor
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
- Center for Community Change [61]
- Center for Third World Organizing [62]
- Families USA (health care)
- Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
- Bread for the World (hunger)
- Food First!
- Hunger Project
- Habitat for Humanity (homeless)
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy [63]
- Oxfam
Sick
Society
- Alfie Kohn
- No Contest: The Case Against Competition
- Punished By Rewards
Religious
- Religious Tolerance [67]
- Liberals Like Christ [68]
- Sojourners Magazine [69]
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- Canadian Council of Churches [70]
- National Council of Churches [71]
Worker self-management
- Workers Without Bosses [72]
- Promote Direct Democracy [73]
- Cooperative Social Economy [74]
- Protect Indigenous Rights [75]
- Fight Privatization [76]
- Chain Worker Advocacy [77]
- Global Fight for Justice [78]
- Occupy, Resist, Produce [79]
- Zapatistas [80]
- Znet?s Latin America Watch [81]
Canada:
- Promote Worker Co-operatives [82]
- Protect Worker Rights [83]
- Educate. Organize. Activate. [84]
- Advocate Economic & Social Justice [85]
- Partnerships With People in the South [86]
- Partnerships For Global Change [87]
- Promote Workable Alternatives [88]
- Expose Sweatshop Abuses [89]
- Rights of Low Income Citizens [90]
- Resist Global Capitalism [91]
- Linking Canada with Latin America & the Caribbean [92]
- Enhance Political Dialogue [93]
- Promote International Awareness [94]
- Research, Education, Advocacy, Action [95]
- Fighting Back Makes A Difference [96]
- Reclaim Our Culture [97]
- An Alternative POV [98]
- Promote Global Human Security [99]
- Moving Social Justice Forward [100]
Anti-globalization
Other
- 20/20 Vision (peace, environment, democracy)
- 2030 Center (economic future)
- 50 Years Is Enough
- Activist Media Project [104]
- ActUP
- Ad Council
- Advocacy Institute
- Affero
- Alicia Patterson Foundation [105]
- Alliance for Democracy
- Alliance for Better Campaigns (campaign finance reformers)
- Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
- The American Democracy Institute (youth leadership development/civic engagement) [106]
- American Friends Service Committee (Quaker) [107]
- American Muslim Voice [108]
- American Social Science Association
- Atmo [109]
- Australian Privacy Foundation
- Berman Center [110]
- Bits of Freedom (Netherlands)
- British Columbia Civil Liberties Assocation (Canada)
- Business for Social Responsibility
- CASPIAN
- Campaign for America's Future [111]
- Center for a Better South [112]
- Center for Health, Environment and Justice
- Center for Justice and Democracy
- Center for Progressive Leadership Action Network [113]
- Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia University Law School
- Center for Progressive Leadership
- Century Foundation
- Children Now
- Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes
- Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination
- Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR)
- Community Media Center [114]
- Conservation Fund
- Consumer Action
- Consumer Federation of America
- Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues
- Consumers International
- Co-op America
- Critical Art Ensemble
- Council for a Livable World
- Council for Responsible Genetics
- Dads and Daughters
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Demos!
- The Disinformation Company
- Doctors Without Borders
- Earth Charter USA
- Earth Day Network 2000
- East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
- Educators for Social Responsibility
- Environmental Media Services [115]
- Federacuón de Consumidores en Acción (FACUA) (Spain)
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Food Not Bombs [116]
- Foundation for Information Policy Research (UK)
- Foundation on Economic Trends
- Freedom Center [117]
- Friends of the Earth
- Fund for Investigative Journalism
- Global Exchange
- Global Green USA
- Growing Without Schooling
- Help for Sewage Victims
- Independent Media Institute [118]
- Indymedia [120]
- INFACT
- International Relations Center
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy [121]
- Institute for Policy Studies [122]
- Jubilee 2000/USA (debt freedom)
- Latin America Working Group
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- League of Women Voters
- Media Alliance
- Media Educational Foundation [123]
- Media Justice Network
- Mobilization for Global Justice (anti-World Bank)
- Nathan Cummings Foundation [124]
- Moral Mazes, Robert Jackall
- National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA)
- National Breast Cancer Coalition
- National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- National Consumers League
- National Education Association (teachers)
- National Jewish Democratic Council [125]
- National Priorities Project
- National Security Archive, "a nonprofit organization that publishes declassified US government documents"
- New Century Alliance for Social Security
- Open Society Institute
- Open Society Policy Center
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Political Research Associates (research the right)
- PrivacyActivism
- Privacy International (UK)
- Privacy Rights Now Coalition
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- Privacy Times
- Private Citizen, Inc.
- Privaterra (Canada)
- Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
- ProgressivePunch/VoterPunch
- Public Information Research, Inc.
- Public Interest Pictures [126]
- Public Voice for Food and Health Policy
- Redefining Progress
- Safe Food Coalition
- Social Science Research Center [127]
- Sojourners [128]
- Southern Development Foundation
- Speak Out [129]
- Students for an Orwellian Society
- Stanford Center for Internet and Society, law school
- Sudbury School
- Teach for America [131]
- Teach Peace Foundation
- Third World Majority [132]
- Tides Center
- Toward Peace [133]
- Transparency International (fighting corruption)
- Utility Consumers' Action Network
- Waste Risk Education Fund
- Propaganda Review
- Wellstone Action
- Women's Action for New Directions
- Women's Economic and Development Organization
- Working Assets
- World Centric [134]
- World Privacy Forum
- Worldwatch Institute
- The Yes Men
- Priority Africa Network
- GRAIN [135]
- corpwatch.org
- corporatepolicy.org
- Design Action Collective
- Inkworks Press
- Center for Investigative Reporting [136]
- warprofiteers.com
- saferparks.org
- Envirovideo [137]
- Ruckus Society [138]
- socialistalternative.org
- blackboxvoting.org
- activeopposition.com
- deceptiondollar.com
- onlinejournal.com
- legitgov.org
- standdown.net
- globalresearch.ca
- cooperativeresearch.org
- fromthewilderness.com