Campaigns

© Oxfam America

Help bring to light the underlying poverty in East Biloxi, in East Asia, and around the world. There are many ways to get involved, from donations to simple fundraisers to hosting an Oxfam Hunger Banquet. Oxfam will provide you with everything you need to build the program that’s right for your group, including ideas, free tools and resources.

Help OneWorld partners in the U.S. provide short-term emergency assistance, such as water, food, blankets and personal hygiene kits, and long-term aid to help with reconstruction efforts.

Turn the Tide is a campaign to educate and mobilize concerned citizens to take action to encourage elected officials to establish policies that will reduce and eliminate the nuclear threat.

Polaris Project created the Grassroots Network to provide individuals opportunities to take action in multiple ways to fight human trafficking.

The Advocacy Project, with support from the Roma Information Project (RIP), an AP partner, and other prominent international Roma organizations, has launched an online petition campaign to protest an offensive definition of 'Gypsy' in one of the most popular online dictionaries, Dictionary.com.

Global Exchange is offering the world's first sweatshop-free sneakers made by a union in Jakarta, Indonesia, in their online store. They also joined No Sweat Apparel's founder and CEO Adam Neiman in challenging Nike's Phil Knight to offer consumers the same no-sweat guarantee.

Logging, distributing and selling old growth and endangered forest products is a barbaric, outdated practice that has entered its endgame in the American marketplace. Yet Weyerhaeuser, a U.S. forestry giant that claims to be an environmental leader, remains North America’s top logger and distributor of forest products from old growth and endangered forests. Clearly, Weyerhaeuser is on the wrong side of history.

Violence against women is a cancer eating away the core of every society, in every country of the world. This truth is at the core of a multifaceted campaign launched today by Amnesty International to provide women and men around the world with opportunities to demand an end to the many forms of violence to which women are subjected every day.

The US invasion of Iraq has moved Iraq from a secular to a more religious and violent society where women’s rights are being curtailed. Visit CODEPINK’s website to read their report Iraqi Women Under Siege and other recent articles about women in Iraq. You can also donate to support Iraqi women.

© In These Times

In the wake of the hurricane and the subsequent flooding, entire cities have been left in ruins. The GlobalGiving Hurricane Rebuilding Fund will support long term projects that focus on rebuilding the affected areas along the Gulf Coast. As immediate relief work shifts into long term rehabilitation, donations will be directed to projects working directly on the ground.

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India Resource Center is asking people to send a free fax to the CEO of Coca-Cola and join the growing community resistance in India in demanding that Coca-Cola stop destroying lives, livelihoods and communities in India and internationally. A massive community led movement has emerged all across India to challenge the company for its crimes in India. One of Coca-Cola's single largest plants in India, in Plachimada in Kerala, has been shut down since March 2004 because of community opposition.

© Action Against Hunger-USA

West Africa is entering a yearly cycle of chronic food shortage. This year, due to several natural events, the shortage will turn into crisis if help is not sent. Almost 100 percent of last season's crops were destroyed by swarms of desert locusts. Coupled with scarce rainfall during the majority of planting season, much of West Africa is speeding towards mass starvation. Approximately 3.6 million people in Niger alone currently are at risk of food shortage. Through GlobalGiving, you can help the people of West Africa by contributing to a project that will provide food assistance.

© Amit Srivastava / India Resource Center

From April 4-19, a Speaking Tour to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable will hold public events on the East Coast, including New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, to demand justice for communities in Colombia and India that are being adversely impacted by Coca-Cola's practices. The tour will also stop at Coca-Cola's shareholder meeting in Wilmington on April 19. In India, Coca-Cola is guilty of creating severe water shortages, polluting the soil and groundwater, distributing toxic waste as fertilizer to farmers, and selling sub-standard drinks in the Indian market which contain high levels of pesticides, sometimes higher than 30 times those allowed by European Union standards. In Colombia, Coca-Cola is charged with complicity in the murder, torture and intimidation of labor union organizers at Coca-Cola bottling plants.

Launched on the Fourth of July, the Leadership for Sustainability
campaign is a response to the lack of long-term vision among many U.S.
politicians and government officials. The campaign calls on citizens, public leaders, and candidates for office to: (1) raise awareness about what is needed to make America sustainable; (2) build support for the many sustainability initiatives and campaigns around the country; and (3) advocate for a national sustainability strategy.

Fifty years ago the U.S. exploded a nuclear device, "Bravo," on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, causing great harm to both inhabitants and environment. Now Washington is again preparing to beef up its nuclear arsenal, at a time when the world can ill afford to waste money on weapons. You can take action against further U.S. nuclear buildup.

Preview Forum, a national media and dialogue initiative, is inviting groups to partner with them to organize dialogues on globalization and its impact at the local level. Free resources, including videos, planning guides, and publicity materials will be provided to the first 100 organizations that sign on as partners. For more information, contact 781-893-3336 x12 or previewforumpartners@roundtablemedia.com.