Social Justice
Working to preserve individual working rights and liberties.
Radio Resistance, hosted by the intrepid Rebel Fagin, features interviews with activists, artists, and union organizers on the plight of the unhoused, climate change, trans rights, and the struggles of immigrants.
An affiliated organization with the Immigration Law & Justice Network (ILJN). The ILJ network provides support services, at no cost, to 19 affiliated organizations across the country that deliver immigration legal services for low-income immigrants.
Supporting indigenous rights and fossil fuel resistance.
Peace and social justice group for Sonoma Valley.
Local Sonoma County group working to defend the human rights of Palestinians. Join them weekly in Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA to protest (Weekly since October of 2023!).
Collective offers free trainings in methods and principles for progressive social change and peace.
In support of single payer health insurance.
The mission is to lead, serve, and thrive, by promoting positive community and youth engagement events. Monthly meetings.
Progressive Sonoma, an affiliate of the Peaceful Resistance Network, is a group of local, concerned citizens, organizing for progressive political action. Members are from varying backgrounds and affiliations, but first and foremost we are individuals that love [US] America and hold themselves and their people to the highest expectations. They do not condone the scapegoating of minorities, misogyny, racism, homophobia, islamophobia, or any other attack on civil liberties, nor violence or the destruction of property. They are a peaceful resistance.
We seek to create a peaceful, just and sustainable world for future generations.
Grassroots, political education and action group. Producers of the Progressive Festival.
Brings greater awareness to the plight of the Palestinian people and works to end US military support for Israel.
Works to promote and build a nonviolent culture worldwide.
Programs support listening and oral history to create a caring community.
Student group that focuses on issues affecting the Chicano/Latino community.
INDIVISIBLE HEALDSBURG is a community of more than 400 members who are engaged for the long term to promote progressive values and preserve democracy for generations to come. They embrace Abraham Lincoln’s model: “Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Peace and social justice action group in Healdsburg, CA.
Homeless Action! Sonoma County is an all-volunteer run and the only local independent homeless advocacy organization in Sonoma County which is not beholden to funders. They are responsible only to the homeless people in our community. Their members, both housed and unsheltered, have life experiences that bring passion and dedication to tbeir work.
Indivisible Sonoma County was established in 2017, along with thousands of other Indivisible chapters, in response to the 2016 electoral selection of Donald Trump. This national, grassroots movement is based on the vision of a real democracy – of, by, and for the people. Indivisible Sonoma County is led by a team of volunteers, some with decades of political experience and others who have skills from various fields that help to support the organization’s efforts.
A community-based, non-profit meeting space hosting a wide variety of services for restorative education, engaged citizenship and nonviolent action.
A vital source of information on current peace and justice-related events in and around Sonoma County.
The Agenda for Action (AFA) is a call to action for people throughout Sonoma County to come together to invest sustainably in protecting and supporting the wellbeing of the community, and specifically the community members who have been most impacted by an interlocking ecosystem of systemic inequities. The AFA aims to mobilize multi-stakeholder collaboration among governments, funders, public and private sectors, and other community partners to transform access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunities, and to ensure people across Sonoma County have the resources to thrive and reach their full potential.
Sonoma County is committed to all who are in need and are eligible for services, regardless of immigration status. All County immigrant residents, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, undocumented residents, refugees, or residents with any other immigration status, are valued and are integral members of our social, cultural, and economic fabric.
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement of that provide free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement of that provide free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
The mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination. We are committed to a world without racism where Black people enjoy equitable opportunities in thriving communities.
The Healdsburg Ukulele Club has kick-started a grassroots movement called ‘Ukes4Peace’. Twenty six ukulele clubs are hosting six Ukes4Peace jams to play music from a common songbook to promote peace, harmony and love in this fraught political environment.
A few songs of hope and resistance for those who still care despite the odds (which were never good).
The UndocuFund is a collective local effort to ensure that undocumented individuals and families displaced by the fires and impacted by disasters (like the coronavirus pandemic) have the support and resources necessary to recover and rebuild their lives in Sonoma County, where many have put down deep roots. Affected immigrants include our friends, neighbors, coworkers, and fellow students. Many care for our children and elderly parents; clean our homes and hotel rooms; cook and serve our restaurant meals; maintain our lawns and landscaping; and tend to and harvest the grapes that are the backbone of our County’s economy.
Restorative justice is based on ancient and indigenous practices found in cultures worldwide. These documents provide an overview of the process and suggestions for getting started.
Provides free comprehensive fair housing counseling, complaint investigation, and assistance in filing housing discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH). FHANC is a HUD certified to offer pre-purchase counseling and education programs, as well as foreclosure prevention counseling and workshops.
The Rapid Response Network provides a way for people to respond to fear and anxiety in our community as a result of the increase in immigration enforcement, ICE raids and other attacks against our communities.
With 30 locations in 15 mostly rural communities in California, Arizona, and Nevada, providing critical services and support to more than 6,800 Veterans annually.
Supporting Political Prisoners since 1994. The Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty.
A digital platform that integrates data, policies, and resources about DACA and undocumented, refugee, other immigrant, and international students to support federal immigration reform, fuel change at the state and campus level, and build a diverse movement of partners and stakeholders advocating alongside these students.
Organization of vets working together for peace and justice through nonviolence.
Educate, advocate, and mobilize people into action to transform systems and public policy toward a culture of peace.
coordinates observances of Women’s History month around the country.
Live updates of death and injury counts resulting from the illegal attack by actors in the U.S., Israeli and aligned authoritarian regimes upon the people of Iran.
Mapping indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and the present day. They hope to strengthen the spiritual bonds that people have with the land, its people, and its meaning.
An online dashboard displaying disparities between people in the U.S. who are identified as being either Black or white (using the specific racist categories peculiar to the U.S. settler-colonial form of division.)
The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. In the Middle East, MECA provides humanitarian aid, partners with community organizations to run projects for children, and supports income-generation projects. In the US and internationally, MECA raises awareness about the lives of children in the region and encourages meaningful action.
Monitoring immigration enforcement, deportations, and ICE activities across the United States to keep communities informed and protected.
The Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that today’s most consequential technologies, such as AI and social media, actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.
The global economy is no longer wobbling – it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran and Russia, its economic confrontation with China, and its attempt to reassert dominance across the Western Hemisphere. The pillars that held the global system together.
The Commons has 1500+ radical, progressive and alternative educational resources in many different formats including podcasts, videos, book excerpts, articles, templates and guides.
The Eisenhower Media Network (EMN) is an organization of expert former military, intelligence, and civilian national security officials. Their experts offer credible, independent, and critical analysis grounded in real-world practitioner experience and years of sustained study and scholarship. EMN seeks to reach broad, cross-partisan audiences in diverse media outlets and among the US population – who increasingly sense that US foreign policy today is not making them, or the world, safer.
CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. warfare and imperialism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming* programs. Join us! Life-affirming programs are investments in social programs that uplift human dignity instead of tear it down. We believe universal health care must include the right to an abortion, access to education must not be determined by income bracket, and housing is a human right.
The Skä•noñh – Great Law of Peace Center is a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Cultural Center focused on telling the story of the native peoples of central New York. The history is told through the lens of the Onondaga Nation and covers topics such as Creation, European Contact, The Great Law of Peace, and more. The Onondagas, or People of the Hills, are the keepers of the Central Fire and are the spiritual and political center of the Haudenosaunee.
Using the power of art to illuminate the ongoing struggle to realize [U.S.] America's democratic ideals and model the commitment to act for the common good.
5 Calls is an easy and effective way to make your views heard by the public employees elected to represent you in the U.S. Congress.
Working with and educating immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
Films For Action is a community-powered, digital library for people who want to change the world. Their mission is to provide citizens with the knowledge and perspectives essential to creating a more beautiful, just, sustainable, and democratic society.
Builds public understanding and support for the United Nations.
Every day, Doctors Without Borders teams deliver emergency medical aid to people in crisis, with humanitarian projects in more than 75 countries.
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
Volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts, which had set out from Libya, in the middle of the night.