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Working to preserve individual working rights and liberties.
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.
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones.
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Santa Rosa, CA.
To survive climate change, we must focus on the solutions that help reduce it as well as adapt to changes that are already happening. Daily Acts connects people and builds community through education, action, and policy change that address the climate crisis to create a livable future for all.
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.
A collective of Sonoma County Health professionals working for equality and community.
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 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.”
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.
Programs support listening and oral history to create a caring community.
Student group that focuses on issues affecting the Chicano/Latino community.
Works to promote and build a nonviolent culture worldwide.
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.
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones for Napa County.
Brings greater awareness to the plight of the Palestinian people and works to end US military support for Israel.
A community-based, non-profit meeting space hosting a wide variety of services for restorative education, engaged citizenship and nonviolent action.
We seek to create a peaceful, just and sustainable world for future generations.
Grassroots, political education and action group. Producers of the Progressive Festival.
In support of single payer health insurance.
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.
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.
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.
A few songs of hope and resistance for those who still care despite the odds (which were never good).
The mission is to lead, serve, and thrive, by promoting positive community and youth engagement events. Monthly meetings.
Groups and individuals working address and reverse climate change. Meet in months with a 5th Monday, 7-9 PM at the PJC.
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!).
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Sonoma County, CA.
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.
Collective offers free trainings in methods and principles for progressive social change and peace.
A vital source of information on current peace and justice-related events in and around Sonoma County.
A publication of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County, an affiliate of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).
A neutral and non-partisan compilation of candidates and their major endorsements.
The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Office is committed to serving the voters of Sonoma County, eliminating barriers to participation in the democratic process, educating youth as to the importance of the democratic process, and providing assistance to candidates, proponents and opponents of ballot measures and political jurisdictions in a fair and unbiased manner
Supporting indigenous rights and fossil fuel resistance.
Peace and social justice group for Sonoma Valley.
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.
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.
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.
The Earthquake Country Alliance is a public-private-grassroots partnership of people, organizations, and regional alliances throughout California that work together to improve earthquake and tsunami preparedness, mitigation and resiliency.
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 Living on Shaky Ground handbook explains how to prepare for, survive, and recover from earthquakes and tsunamis. It also describes what you can do today to save lives, reduce injuries, and minimize damage. Lots more information on this website.
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.
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.
Since 2001, The Climate Center has been a leader in making climate solutions a reality in California at speed and scale. They are a think-tank, do-tank working to turn bold ideas into action for a climate-safe future.
A highly-recommended app for realtime tracking of urban and wild fires.
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.
The Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) Address to the Western World, offered to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, May 17, 2013. This document comprises a powerful message given by the Hau de no sau nee (or traditional Six nations council at Onondaga) also called the Iroquois Confederacy to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the United Nations. In an unprecedented move, the UN meeting was relocated to Geneva, Switzerland to bypass illegal impediments implemented by the settler-colonial regime in Washington D.C., which did not want this message of peace and understanding to go out.
Reporting and analysis by an award-winning independent journalist. Aaron Maté is a Canadian writer and journalist. He hosts the show Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone and, as of January 2022, he fills in as a host on the Useful Idiots podcast. Maté has worked as a reporter and producer for Democracy Now!, Vice, The Real News Network, and Al Jazeera, and has contributed to The Nation.
Maté currently works as a reporter for The Grayzone, a left-of-far-right news website and blog. He challenged allegations of collusion between the Russian government and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, and the extent to which Russian interference influenced the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election, winning an Izzy Award for this work.
Maté currently works as a reporter for The Grayzone, a left-of-far-right news website and blog. He challenged allegations of collusion between the Russian government and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, and the extent to which Russian interference influenced the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election, winning an Izzy Award for this work.
Independent new source from Doha, Qatar, with an emphasis on current events in the Arab World.
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.
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.
Your pharmacist can help you find the best – and most affordable – birth control option to fit your individual preferences. Going to the pharmacy directly for your birth control can be helpful if you live in a region with inadequate health insurance rights.
Insightful news and analysis from a Black US American perspective. Covers topics and events that of often "missing" from the corporate press,"
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.
Start an online campaigns, mobilize supporters, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.
Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a moral duty to avoid allowing a government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his disgust with the U.S. system of enslavement and the illegal land grab commonly referred to in the U.S. as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention into Mexico).
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 first alternative and independent Internet-based news service.
The seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century.
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. The reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.
Kavana Tree Bressen’s group facilitation site for helping groups of people function well together
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 U.S. population – who increasingly sense that U.S. foreign policy today is not making them, or the world, safer.
After the devastating U.S. bombings on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of atomic researchers, deeply concerned about the use of science for malice, created an organization committed to using science and technology to benefit humanity.
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.
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.
An analysis of how European and US racism, so rampant during WWI, came home to the center of empire.
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of countless people.
In the film “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” Baldwin traveled south to find out what really became of Black Americans after the protest movements of the nineteen-sixties.
Monitoring immigration enforcement, deportations, and ICE activities across the United States to keep communities informed and protected.
See where and when people were shot or injured in ICE raids related to Trump’s reckless deployment of poorly-trained, masked people into U.S. cities.
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.
A classic debate between a fearless fighter for universal beauty, justice and truth, and an articulate and outspoken racist.
John Mearsheimer is a political scientist and international relations scholar. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and the author of several important books, including "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy", "Why Leaders Lie" and "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics".
John Trudell was a poet, recording artist, actor, civil rights activist and world-renowned speaker whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message.
A classic critique of mainstream mathematics indoctrination by a master mathematics teacher.
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.
coordinates observances of Women’s History month around the country.
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.
Educate, advocate, and mobilize people into action to transform systems and public policy toward a culture of peace.
Nonprofit, investigative journalism on a mission to hold the powerful to account.
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 Racket News mission is to bring old-school journalistic standards to a new-school media environment. They want to give their audience relief from today’s noisy media landscape.
Open Source is as a North American conversation with global attitude. Christopher Lydon recorded the original podcast in 2003 with Dave Winer. The rest is history in the making.
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.
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
The people of Seeds for Change believe that to create real change, we need to come together to fight injustice and win. They support groups who share their core values of equality, freedom and solidarity. They are a workers’ co-op of experienced campaigners, who offer training, facilitation, online resources and other support for campaigns, community groups and co-operatives.
Seymour Hersh’s fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines, a staggering collection of awards, and no small amount of controversy. His story is one of fierce independence.
An award-winning, independent news organization that focuses on progressive politics and human rights issues that the mainstream media miss or decline to cover.
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.
Sunrise is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across Imperial America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on politics, and elect government servants who have the backbone to stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
The Commons has 1500+ radical, progressive and alternative educational resources in many different formats including podcasts, videos, book excerpts, articles, templates and guides.
“I will not become you.” John Trudell discusses the “drunken Indian” stereotype.
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an award-winning, non-profit news organization that partners with journalists and newsrooms to support in-depth reporting on critical global issues to educate the public, promote solutions, and improve lives. The video below is a quick introduction to our history and mission.
An interactive map showing more than 441,000 incidents of gun violence in the U.S.
An overview of U.S. military aid and arms transfers to Israel from October 2023 to September 2025.
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to favor a specific political party or group. This practice can distort the democratic process by allowing politicians to choose their voters rather than the other way around.
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.
Organization of vets working together for peace and justice through nonviolence.
Bertrand Russell held many unpopular and controversial views, however his logic was usually difficult or impossible to refute. In a Free Man’s Worship, Russell peers unblinkingly into the infinite void and arrives at a discomforting conclusion. He thought that the evidence of science indicated that we live in a universe without purpose or plan. He felt that the Laws of Thermodynamics predict that the universe will end in an entropic death, and no matter how humans may strive, their own end, decreed by nature, is certain. Yet, Russell believes that humans may have some freedom of choice. They can thereby assert a ‘subtle mastery over the thoughtless forces of Nature’ and stand ‘proudly defiant of irresistible forces.’ ”
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C." A collaboration of two organizations, Climate Analytics and NewClimate Institute, the CAT has been providing this independent analysis to policymakers since 2009.
Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. Given its funders such the World Bank, it’s reports must be read carefully. For example individual country contributions to global warming are compared without reference to per capital rates. This favors relatively high polluting, low population countries, such as the U.S.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.The software is developed under the GNU General Public License, which maximizes your freedoms.
Discover why everyone would be vegetarian if slaughterhouses had glass walls.
Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists tells stories that punch through the noise, showing how the world really works, triggering positive change. The ICIJ is driven by the belief that citizens have the right to be better informed, that access to independently-sourced facts is not only essential for democracy but is also a fundamental human right.
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.
Japanese documentary director Takeuchi Ryo and his team went to Wuhan after the COVID-19 pandemic lock down had been lifted. Through the stories of several families in Wuhan, China, we see what it was like during the lock down, what Wuhan is really like now, and how life has changed forever for Wuhan’s millions of residents.
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Hyper-local, Real-time air quality monitoring for everyone. PurpleAir sensors measure airborne particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter describes solid particles suspended in air; this includes dust, smoke, and other organic and inorganic particles.
Independent, award-winning and uncompromisingly truthful war reporter. Not recommended for those desperately hiding within the tic-a-lock herd.
The Climate Clock adds the dimension of measurement to the climate crisis debate. As well-funded fossil fuel propagandists obfuscate, the clock inexorably ticks. We now have less than five years to make drastic common sense changes before the earth’s atmosphere warms more than 1.5°C over the era of pre-industrial foolishness.
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
An independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world.
Covering UK, European, US, Australian and international news for an online, global audience. The Guardian is renowned for the Paradise Papers investigation and other award-winning work including, the NSA revelations, Panama Papers and The Counted investigations.
The US Pig Farm Flu (often misnamed The Spanish Flu), was the most deadly flu pandemic in history. It begin in dirty pig farms in Kansas, United States, spread to nearby army bases, and from there was transported with the troops around the world. Although the US government was aware of the outbreak, they kept it secret for propaganda purposes.
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
The science is clear: to avert the worst impacts of climate change and preserve a liveable planet, global warming needs to be limited as much as possible and as a matter of urgency. (IPCC)
Climate Change is one of the defining issues of our time and we are at a pivotal moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. Taking decisive action today will make adapting to these impacts in the future more effective and less costly.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights.
The WMO is the United Nations system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
Builds public understanding and support for the United Nations.
One of the better apps for observing realtime weather patterns, including wind speed and direction, satellite radar data, humidity, pollution, and other weather patterns.