Campaign for Labor Rights
Campaign for Labor Rights mobilizes grassroots activism throughout
the United States for campaigns to end sweatshop abuses and child labor.
We are involved in these and other struggles for the rights of sweatshop
workers.
Dallas Peace Center
The Dallas Peace Center is the oldest and largest peace and justice
organization in North Texas.
Jobs
With Justice
Jobs with Justice is a national campaign for workers’ rights. Working
through coalitions of labor, community, religious and constituency organizations,
Jobs with Justice is fighting for workers’ rights and economic justice.
International Action Center Homepage
Founded by Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General.
Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism, War, and
Corporate Greed, Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression within
the United States
Labor Links
Here you will find excellent reading material and sites concerning
the labor movement.
Fifty Years Is Enough!
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is a coalition
of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, social- and economic-justice,
youth, solidarity, labor, and development organizations dedicated to the
profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund (IMF).
Olympic Living Wage Project
The Story: In May of 1999, Jim Keady offered to work for six months
in a Nike shoe factory in South-East Asia to dispel the myth that "these
are great jobs for those people." Brad Figel of Nike’s Labor Practices
Department responded, "We are not interested in your offer." So, Keady
and project assistant, Leslie Kretzu, will do the next best thing... see
the truth.
Nike Watch:
Just Stop It
Behind
The Label
Shocking reports about swatshop abuses.
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions
Information about labor unions representing Teaching Assistants, Research
Assistants, and other Graduate Student Employees. The Coalition
of Graduate Employee Unions (CGEU) is a loose-knit coalition of unions
in the USA and Canada that represent graduate students employed as teachers,
researchers, and university staff.
United for a Fair Economy
United for a Fair Economy was founded as a “movement support” organization
to provide media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and
training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address
the widening income and asset gap in our country.
North Texas Labor
North Central Texas includes Dallas, Ft Worth, and the general area
north to the Red River. The Jobs with Justice
Chapter sponsors this page.
ADBUSTERS
We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters,
students, educators and entrepreneurs...
UPROAR!
Dallas is the belly of the American consumer beast, and Uproar is marching
straight into that belly on Buy Nothing Day, November 24th. If you want
to work with us on
BND, join our mailing list or get in touch with one
of our organizers.
Working Class Majority
The Group for the Study of Working Class Life is
dedicated to exploring the meaning of class in today's world. Looking at society
through the lens of class clarifies many important social questions in new ways
– why the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, what attacks on
government programs through privatization mean, why the suburbs aren't really a
middle class haven, how the "family values" debate impacts our lives,
and much more. We are an interdisciplinary effort of faculty and staff at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, founded in November, 1999.
Michael
Parenti's Web Site:
Michael Parenti is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one
of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. His highly informative
and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North
America and abroad. "Here at home and throughout the world people are
fighting back against the forces of wealth, privilege, and militarism -- some
because they have no choice, others because they would choose no other course
but the one that leads to peace and justice." Michael
Parenti
David
Rovics
Songs for social significance: Songs about globalization, workers,
environment and more.... He is great!
Student Global AIDS
Campaign
A growing network of college campuses organizing together to respond to the AIDS crisis in Africa.