List of Organizations

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This page is to LIST THE ORGANIZATIONS that are out there fighting for change and to show how they contribute to our vision, or are detracting from getting us there. This is "our view", as it develops. This went through a few rounds on the Occupy-Strategy list, before the information was consolidated and put here.

Scroll down to see both the categories that we're using (change them if you like) and which groups falling into which categories:

CATEGORIES:

1. 1 profit focused/predatory capitalists and their agents. ALEC, US

Chamber of Commerce (as oppose to the locals)

1. 2 socialists and professional lobbiers, advocacy groups,

organization/empire builders w/vested interest in relationships with media and/or no-change government) These groups "talk 3" but "act 2". Reformers that want to keep #1 intact.

1. 3 soft sustainable (triple bottom line) capitalism, and their agents

(advocacy groups without a vested interest in profit-over-people, building large salaries for themselves, or economic growth in and of itself)

CONSOLIDATED LIST (includes Brandi's list, but I took out Sundance and SXSW...and media events: (can we add more groups that are doing more specific things? Code Pink and Vets for Peace are great activists and great at raising awareness, but are they going for anything specific? any specific change/legislative focus? ideological specific?) PLEASE ADD INFO ABOUT WHAT THESE GROUPS ARE ACTUALLY DOING...it's hard to tell from their rhetoric.

350.org (advocacy, education, public awareness, legislative/lobbying, specific project: stop pipeline, others?) (Cateogry: 2?)

ACCE ? AFSCME AJC ACCESS ALEC (Category 1) All-Ages Movement Project Allhiphop.com Alliance for American Manufacturing Allied Media Projects Alternate ROOTS America Votes American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Applied Research Center / Colorlines Magazine Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance

Backbone Campaign Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Blue Green Alliance Burning Man Project: Educational group showing people how "to be". (Category: #3, but with a sliver on #2, because of their control mechanisms and exclusive governance) Bus Federation Business for Social Responsibility

CAF Caring Across Generations Center for Working Families Chamber of Commerce, US/National (Category 1) Chamber of Commerce, Locals (Category 1/3, depending on the local) Clinton Global Initiative Code Pink Coffee Party USA Common Cause (Grade 2) Congressional Black Caucus congressional progressive caucus Conservative Political Action Committee Council on Foundations DA DFA DNC DNC Youth Council Democratic Socialists of America (Grade: 2?) EAC EDF (Grade 2) EGA FCCP Free Press Free Speech for People (Grade 3, with a sliver into 2...this may change if they adopt the anti-org right to assemble/speak language that MTA's got going on) Future of MusicCoalition: Information freedom (Grade 3?) Gamaliel Global Exchange Green Party education/awareness, takes positions on legislation, but nothing specific. Green New Deal has a lot of stuff, but too much to get anything specific done? (Grade 3, w/sliver in 2, because of its empire building focus) HCAN IAF-SE and Bank Accountability Campaign Immokalee Farm Workers (Category: 3, democratic governance, sustainability, they are walking the walk) Inspired Legacies Interfaith Power and Light Its Our Economy (Category: 3)

J Street

Keystone Progress

LCV + LCVEF League of Young Voters League of Women Voters (Grade 2) Liberty Tree

Move to Amend - Move to Amend (advocacy, education/public adwareness, specific projects: amend constitution, local ordinaces/resolutions) (Grade: mostly 3, but lots of ties to 2, because of co-option by Common Cause, LWV, other too-big-to-effect-change lobbyists) MoveOn (Grade 2...talk like 3 sometimes, but definitely solidly in #2)

NAACP National Action Network National Council For La Raza National Domestic Worker Alliance National Education Association National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (Grade 3?, or ties to 2? been a while since I've worked closely with them) National Organizers Alliance National People's Action Neighborhood Funders Group Netroots Nation Netroots NY New Organizing Institute NRDC (Grade 2) NWF (Grade 2) One Arizona Organizing 2.0 Personal Democracy Forum Pew Charitable Trusts PFAW PICO Planned Parenthood Policy Link Progressive Democrats of America (Grade: mostly 2, but partly in 3 because of specific push back actions) Public Banking (education/public wareness, specific project: take state money out of private banks) (Mostly 3, but relies too heavily on ties to 2) Public Citizen Rebuild the Dream Rock the Vote Rockwood Leadership Institute Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Roosevelt Institute | Pipeline SEIU SEE UNION LIST BELOW Sierra Club (Grade: 2) Social Venture Network Strike Debt (education/public awareness, specific project: end healthcare debt) (Grade: definitely 3) Sustainable Business Network (Grade: 3, they are all about co-ops and social enterprise) The King Center The Management Center Unions (SEE SEPARATE LIST BELOW) Unitarian Universalist Social Action Committees United for a Fair Economy (Grade: mostly 3, but solidly in 2, because of firm socialism belief structure) United Farm Workers (Grade: mostly 3, with tiny ties to 2) United States Student Association (USSA) US Action US Food Sovereignty Alliance Us Uncut Veterans for Peace mostly just education and awareness, but backs specific legislation, (Grade: mostly 2 but partially in 3) Victory Fund We Are Ohio We Are Wisconsin Web of Change Women's Funding Network Working America World Social Forum Young Democrats of America Young Invincibles

UNIONS (let's make a separate list) AFL-CIO (Grade: solid 2) Teachers (Grade: mostly 2, sliver of 3 talk) Iron Workers (ditto) Steel Workers (ditto) SEIU (Grade: most 3 than the others, but still solidly 2)