Join others in working on these issues
Contents: healthy community, healthy workplace, human rights, voting rights
Healthy Community Groups
This currently has a California focus, but will be broadened soon.
National & International Organizations
(Most have state groups that are listed on their websites)
Center for Health, Environment and Justice www.chej.org
Clean Water Action cleanwateraction.org/state.htm
Corporate Watch www.corpwatch.org
Environmental Working Group www.ewg.org
Friends of the Earth: www.foe.org
Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice www.greenaction.org
Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy www.iatp.org
National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides www.beyondpesticides.org
National Environmental Trust www.environet.org
National Resources Defense Council www.nrdc.org
Physicians for Social Responsibility www.psr.org
Pesticide Action Network of North America www.panna.org
Pesticide Watch www.pesticidewatch.org
Public Interest Research Group www.pirg.org
Right to Know Network www.rtk.net
University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production www.chemicalpolicy.org
Women's Voices for the Earth www.womenandenvironment.org
Working Group on Community Right to Know www.crtk.org
World Wildlife Fund www.wwfus.org
Statewide and regional organizations:
WEST COAST:
Alaska Community Action on Toxics www.akaction.org
California Public Interest Research Group - www.environmentcalifornia.org
Communities for a Better environment - California www.cbecal.org
Center for Environmental Health - www.cehca.org
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice www.ccaej.org
Environmental Health Coalition (San Diego) www.environmentalhealth.org
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition www.svtc.org
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides www.pesticide.org
Oregon Toxics Alliance www.oregontoxics.org
Washington Toxics Coalition www.watoxics.org
MIDWEST:
Great Lakes Environmental Center - www.ecocenter.org
Hoosier Environmental Council- www.hecweb.org
Kentucky Resources Council - www.kyrc.org
EAST COAST:
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (New York) - www.cectoxic.org
Maine - www.preventharm.org
SOUTH:
Louisiana Bucket Brigade - www.labucketbrigade.org
Healthy Workplace Groups
COSH: All the cosh groups in the US are listed at www.coshnetwork.org
Arkansas www.coshnetwork.org/ARCOSH.htm
California: WORKSAFE! www.worksafe.org; SoCALCOSH : Www.socalCOSH@iir.ucla.edu
Connecticut: www.connectiCOSH.org
Massachusetts : www.masscosh.org
Michigan: www.semcosh.org
New Jersey Work Environment Council www.njwec.org
New York: www.nycosh.org (near NYC) and www.coshnetwork.org/CNYCOSH.htm (for central and upstate NY)
North Carolina: www.ncosh.org
Pennsylvania: www.philaposh.org
Rhode Island: www.coshnetwork.org/RICOSH.htm
Texas: www.coshnetwork.org/houston_cosh.htm
Wisconsin: www.wiscosh.org
AFL-CIO actions for students: www.aflcio.org/siteguides/students.cfm
AFL-CIO summer activities in human rights and organizing: www.aflcio.org/aboutus/unionsummer/
United Farm Workers: www.ufw.org
United Steelworkers of America: www.uswa.org
Join as an associate member, show solidarity, and receive useful benefits at very low cost
www.uswa.org/usw/program/content/overview_sub.php?modules2_ID=186&modules_ID=297
General Human Rights
Human Rights Watch lists many actions, including blogging for human rights www.hrw.org/blogs.htm
Voting Rights
www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections.htm
www.svrep.org/latino_vote/2004/vr/california.html
www.truthout.org/voters.rights.htm
www.immigrantvoting.org/statescurrent/california.html