Groups in the Compass for Change
Displaying 1 to 10 of 128 groups listed in the Compass for Change.
| 1. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | 5 Boroughs of New York City | | Program Description | 5B News is a broadcast news blog and Podcast serving the 5 boroughs of New York City. Our Mission: FCC code sec. 315: (originally the Radio Act of 1927) - We shall operate in the public interest, convenience and necessity.
Television news stations do not view issues of social, racial and economic justice within underserved communities as being newsworthy or as having sufficient commercial advertising support for their respective local broadcasts.
Working non-exclusively with the over 100 organizations registered in the Compass for Change directory. 5B News provides a virtual broadcast newsroom, dedicated to increasing public awareness of issues being addressed by the local social justice and activist community. |
| 2. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | Flushing | | Program Description | Afghan Communicator is a community based, grass-roots organization dedicated to education, advocacy and youth leadership. AC's main focus is the Afghan and Muslims communities in New York. We also serve the larger community in New York and the broader Afghan community. Afghan Communicator is working to educate the public about Afghanistan, Islam, and the Afghan community. AC works with other community-based organizations to empower the Afghan community by referral to proper sources of information. AC organizes a number of cultural and academic activities to introduce the larger comunity to the Afghan community. |
| 3. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | Located: Williamsburg; Serve: all | | Program Description | Altar Magazine believes that problems are not monolithic, and neither are solutions. It is imperative to have socially progressive women and men fighting on all fronts of the movement whether that is anti-racist work, feminism, anti-heterosexism, economic justice or any other political action. Altar Magazine exists within a community that is fragmented, but not broken. It exists in a time when coalition is crucial and must be implemented. We believe that the personal is political; therefore, all forms of creativity are inherently political. We want to create a space where critical thought and understanding happen simultaneously. This is important because before we can create social change we must be able to re-imagine communities that foster difference. We must be able to take ownership of that which we do not claim in order to effectively critique this oppressive system that we know and perpetuate. Social change is not momentous. It is a process. Our hope is that each individual recognizes his or her place within this system of change. |
| 4. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | Manhattan | | Program Description | American Indian Artists Inc.(AMERINDA), is the only Native American artists' services and production organizastion in New York State. Committed to the idea that cultural as well as political sovereignty is at the heart of revitalization and renewal within indigenous commuinities, AMERINDA works to empower Native Americans, break down barriers, and foster intercultural understanding and appreciation for Native culture.
Through a variety of programs, productions and services to artists, AMERINDA supports Native artists who embody the traditional values that define Indian culture. We also promote the indigenous perspective in the arts to a wide audience through contemporary art forms-visual, performing, literary and media arts. |
| 5. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | Noho | | Program Description | The American Indian Law Alliance is an indigenous, non-profit organization that works with Indigenous nations, communities and organizations in our struggle for sovereignty, human rights, and social justice for our peoples. We support our elders and leaders and are accountable to the communities we serve. We welcome our allies, while remaining committed to our original instructions handed down through generations of ancestors in order to preserve Indigneous traditions for our descendants. |
| 6. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | NYC and surrounding regions | | Program Description | Anarco-nyc.net is a web based portal for anarchist, anti-authoritarian, and grasssroots organizations, collectives, and networks in the NYC and surrounding region. |
| 7. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | City-wide | | Program Description | Andolan organizes low-income, South Asian workers to fight against injustices faced because of abusive employers. Andolan envisions a world in which all workers are treated with respect and dignity.
Andolan’s main program areas are:
Providing support and resources to workers through workshops, individual assistance, and facilitating the exchange of information among workers;
Bringing lawsuits against abusive employers;
Organizing and educating workers and general public through campaigns.
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| 8. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | National organization | | Program Description | AUD is a civil liberties organization for union members. It counsels members on their rights, protected by law, to free speech, due process, fair elections and fair hiring. It provides organizing, educational, and legal guidance to those who are fighting for greater membership control of their union. AUD supports grassroots actions by rank and file union members which strengthen the democratic process, promote membership participation, free speech and fair elections. It also publishes the bi-monthly Union Democracy Review reporting on reform efforts and developments in union democracy law. AUD is the only national, nonprofit organization devoted solely to advancing the principles and practices of internal union democracy. It is the premise of AUD that internal union democracy makes unions stronger and better able to fight for their rights and interests of working people. |
| 9. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | Fort Greene | | Program Description | The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit and Transgender People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities. |
| 10. | | Group Name | | | Neighborhood | New York City (5 Boroughs) | | Program Description | The mission of the BWRC is to support the organizing efforts of survivors so that they can successfully work to improve New York City’s child welfare and court systems’ response to battered women. The Center does this through leadership development and training, technical assistance and support to survivors of domestic violence. The Center’s first initiative, the Voices of Women Organizing Project (VOW), is a grassroots activist group made up entirely of members who are domestic violence survivors. With the support of the Battered Women’s Resource Center, VOW members organize to influence, change and improve the many systems battered women and their children utilize for safety, assistance and justice. |
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