Activism Links and Information

[Demosthenes]

This sticky thread is for collecting links relating to activism relating to atheism and secular topics. Feel free to post in here!

[Demosthenes]

Activists' Corner

http://www.infidels.org/activist/index.shtml

Organizations:

http://www.infidels.org/org/index.shtml

Events:

http://www.infidels.org/events/index.shtml

Newswire:

http://www.infidels.org/wire/index.shtml

[Demosthenes]

Write your Senator:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Write your Representative
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Complain To Your Senator - Call 202-224-3121
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=15280&c=83

[Demosthenes]

Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/) which have listings of all kinds of charities

Council for Secular Humanism (http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/6790.htm) found through Charity Navigator

Red Cross (http://www.redcross.org/)

The Nature Conservatory (http://nature.org/)

Population Connection (http://www.populationconnection.org/)

Doctors without Borders (http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/)

[Demosthenes]

Oxfam International (http://www.oxfam.org/eng/)

United Nations Children's Fund (http://www.unicef.org/)

Earth's Atheist Resistance To Holy Wars And Religious Devastation (http://www.earthward.org/) - An actual atheist charity

Secular Coalition for America (http://www.secular.org/)

and of course our very own Internet Infidels Support (http://www.infidels.org/infidels/support.shtml) (how could I have forgotten about this, many thanks to Bill!)

[Demosthenes]

Please refer to this thread Secular Charities (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=81110) for more links to charities.

[DMB]

On the international front:

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (http://www.iheu.org/)

UK campaigning:

The National Secular Society (http://www.secularism.org.uk/)

For those of muslim background:

The "No to Political Islam" campaign (http://www.ntpi.org/)

The Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society (http://www.secularislam.org/)

[crazyfingers]

I get the Humanist Network News (http://www.humaniststudies.org/enews/index.html?id=134&lid=781#n3) emailed to me.

There is a signup link at the bottom.

There is ususally lots of good stuff.

[EverLastingGodStopper]

Links from my chat room bot:

Fight Hate! Teach Tolerance: http://www.splcenter.org/splc.html

Battle Bigotry with resources @ Human Rights Campaign: http://www.hrc.org

Legislative Action center of Americans United for Separation of Church and State: http://capwiz.com/au/home

Be an Informed and Outspoken American: http://www.vote-smart.org

Learn how to become an activist and protest! http://protest.net/activists_handbook

Expect Resistance: http://www.crimethinc.com

A global network of artists, writers and activists making a magazine: http://adbusters.org

The Center for Cooperative Research: http://www.cooperativeresearch.org

Free Speech. Who needs it? WE DO! http://www.freespeech.org

Making radical books and materials available to the public: http://www.akpress.org

Punk bands, musicians, and record labels have built a coalition to educate, register and mobilize progressive voters. http://punkvoter.com

Articles, stories and information abroad to keep you informed. http://www.counterpunch.org/

Subscribe to the Atheist Daily Briefing. http://www.atheistlaw.org

[EverLastingGodStopper]

One of my favorite activist resources is Progressive Secretary. (.org) They send letters to me for my approval. If I reply, then they forward the letters to various elected officials. I've sent several hundred letters through Progressive Secretary. I do not particiapte in ALL campaigns, but I do most of them.

http://www.progressivesecretary.org/

It's free. And it's a great project.

[EverLastingGodStopper]

quoted from another thread:
Individual activism: LTEs (Letters to the Editor) and Lobbying (Letters to elected officials). Free, doable from the privacy of your own home.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State CAPWIZ
http://capwiz.com/au/home/
Contact the media: http://capwiz.com/au/dbq/media/

GAMPAC: Godless Americans Political Action Committee CAPWIZ
http://www.capwiz.com/godlessamericans/home/

Use these links to contact your elected officials and/or local/national media on matters that are important to you.

[EverLastingGodStopper]

Make sure you visit the Secular Lifestyle forum for more. Check out this sticky, titled Living Secular: Resources and References (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=65458). Many atheist and freethought groups are listed in this thread.