Diversity Office Virtual Library

Resources by community or issue - Social Justice
Eugene | Oregon | Regional | National

Eugene :

• City of Eugene Human Rights Commission
  Description and volunteer info.
• ESSN – Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network
  Brings together labor unions, religious congregations, and community organizations to support civil and economic rights of working people. Includes news and events.
• Community Alliance of Lane County-CALC
  Includes info on programs, draft resistance, reporting hate crimes, and calendar.
• Lane County Human Rights Advisory Committee
  Includes info on EEO, Diversity Plan, meeting notes, reporting hate crimes, and forms.
• Lane County Legal Aid Service
  Includes news, extensive links, map of equal justice websites around the U.S., domestic violence programs, online law library, and civil clinic.

Oregon :

• Rural Organizing Project (“Advancing Democracy in Rural Oregon”)
  Supports grassroots movement for social justice in small-town and rural Oregon - provides skills training, strategic planning, outreach development, and opportunities to plug into statewide grassroots organizing. Includes “Kitchen Table Activities.”
• Oregon League of Women Voters
  Includes news.
• Oregon Center for Public Policy
  Public policy think tank on Oregon tax and budget policies. Includes news, archives, reports and publications.
• Oregon Health Action Committee
  "…empower the consumer voice in the development of quality, responsive health systems that allow all people to access the health care they need, when they need it from the providers of their choice at an affordable cost." Includes legislative info, health care resources, reports, and a health helpline.
• PCUN - Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Del Noroeste - Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United
  Fundamental goal is to empower farmworkers to understand and take action against systematic exploitation and all of its effects. Includes job and internship openings, calendar, newsletters, links, legislative, public action info, and pesticide info, photographs. En espanol.

Regional:

• Northwest Federation of Community Organizations
  Regional network of four grassroots organizations including  Oregon Action (OA). Includes news, campaign info, links.
• Northwest Health Law Advocates
  Promotes increased access to health care and basic health care rights and protections for all individuals through legal and policy advocacy, education and support to community organizations in the Pacific Northwest. Includes resources.
• Western States Center
  Mission is to build a progressive movement for social, economic, racial and environmental justice in the eight Western states. Resources include organizational development, fundraising, money in politics, dismantling racism. Extensive, well organized links.

National:

• Center for Community Change
  Helps establish and develop community organizations across the country. Provides policy and organizing expertise on a range of issues, including: community reinvestment, affordable and public housing, transportation, income support and job creation, economic development and housing production, hunger and malnutrition, immigrant rights and legislation, and community monitoring efforts to hold government agencies accountable to residents. Resources include technical assistance and training, community and organizational development tools.
• ACORN - Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now
  I mprove housing conditions for the economically disadvantaged, increase community safety, secure living wages for all workers and improve the quality of local schools.  Includes info on free tax prep, housing services, resources, newsletter. En espanol.
• Peace and Justice Studies Association
  Promotes peace studies; acts as professional organization for scholars in field of peace and conflict resolution studies. Includes annual conference info, links to educational programs, journals, religious and community organizations, K-12 resources, NGOs, conflict resolution resources, research resources, alternative media, job info, and online links.
• Amnesty International
  Research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. Includes action center, news, and jobs.
• ZNET – A Community of people committed to social change
  Enormous site with thousands of pages, but easily navigated. Subsites, called Watch Sites, provide an in-depth look at particular domains of concern, with commentary, articles, links, etc. Continuous town meeting and intellectual and activist service center for large sectors of the progressive community.
• Teaching for Change
  Provides teachers and parents with tools to transform schools into socially equitable centers of learning. Works with school communities to develop and promote pedagogies,  resources and cross-cultural understanding for social and economic justice in the Americas. Online catalog for books, videos, and posters for the classroom.
• Southern Poverty Law Center
  Civil rights legal center known for tolerance education programs, legal actions against white supremacists, tracking of hate groups. Includes Teaching Tolerance , an educational program to help K-12 teachers and Tolerance.org ,an online destination for those wanting to dismantle bigotry and promote diversity in their communities.
• Human Rights Watch
  Investigates and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. Includes info on grants, films, jobs, fellowships, internships, news, info by country and issue.
• Children’s Defense Fund
  Provides voice for children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves, with particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. Includes events, data, and extensive list of annotated links.
• Human Rights Education Associates
  International NGO that supports human rights learning; training of activists and professionals; development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. Online learning center includes distance learning courses, interactive tutorials, study guides to human rights topics/themes and discussion boards; Electronic Resource Center is online repository of human rights education and training materials, on-line forums, databases and links to other organizations and resources. Materials free of charge.
• Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
  Brings advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, conflict resolution and worker rights. Computer networks include PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, ConflictNet, LaborNet and AntiRacismNet.