LINKS TO LIVE BY
P.a.p.
Human Rights Blog seen from the perspective of politics, art, philosphy
check it: human rights maps
Information is Beautiful
"Ideas, issues, knowledge, date - visualized!"
Better World Shopper
Five years of research compiled into a resource that rates products on an ethical scale. Available for download so it can be used while shopping.
Available as an iPhone application
Better World Books
Buy new and used books with free, carbon-neutral shipping while supporting literacy initiatives. BWB is a "self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that creates social, economic and environmental value for all our stakeholders."
Fair Trade Towns
The Good Guide
"Find safe, healthy and green products, then find better ones using expert ratings."
Availabe as an iPhone application
The Ethical Travel Guide: Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays
Tourism Concern
"Tourism Concern fights exploitation in tourism. We are an independent, non-industry based, UK charity. We have a membership of almost 900 and we work with partners in over 20 destination countries to ensure that tourism always benefits local people."
United Students Against Sweatshops
Hardcore Socially and Environmentally Responsible Gift Guide
Pure Citizen
B Corporation
"B Corporations are a new type of corporation that use the power of business to create public benefit"
SweatFree Communities - 2010 Shop With a Conscious Consumer Guide
Wholesale Guide - great for t-shirt orders for clubs, organizations, etc
Dotted Line Company
Alternative Apparel
International Labor Rights Forum - 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame
TOMS Shoes
Roma Boots
Warby Parker Glasses
CULTURAL RESISTANCE
Banksy
Just Seeds
"Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 26 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance"
NoiseTrade - fair trade music
BriteRevolution - a portion of all sales supports each musician's cause
Dan Eldon Foundation
Inform, Inspire, and Empower through Creative Activism
"The Dan Eldon Project is a collection of clothing inspired by the life of artist, photographer and creative activist Dan Eldon, who's young life was cut short while on assignment for Reuters in Somalia."
NEWS AND INFORMATION
Newseum: Today's Front Pages
Browse the front pages of newspapers from all over the world
TED
"TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading"
Democracy Now!
Common Dreams
The Guardian
The New Internationalist
"the people, the ideas and the actions in the fight for social justice. Reports on issues of world poverty and inequality, and debates and campaigns for radical change."
Upside Down World
Al Jazeera English
Crimes of War Project
Center for Constitutional Rights
World Changing
Campus Progress
LATIN AMERICA
Dream Activist
Undocumented students action & resource network
Amnistía Internacional- México
Human Rights Watch: Americas
Colombia: Deadly Threats
FAITH BASED
Interfaith Worker Justice
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
Consp!re
"CONSP!RE is a magazine committed to building relationships and nurturing those trying to follow the way of Jesus . It is supported by a network of communities, groups, and individuals. Each issue explores the questions of faith that arise from living for justice and as part of the body.
Consp!re means breathing together. We believe the reign of God is about relationship and living with imagination. Consp!re also means plotting together—and we are plotting goodness. We yearn to do small things with great love, interrupting injustice with grace, and transforming ugliness to beauty."
The Simple Way
INTERNATIONAL AID
Beyond Good Intentions
Charity Navigator
Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Aid Watch
Aid Worker Daily
Nobody Wants Your Old Shoes: How Not to Help In Haiti
NETWORKS
Aid Workers Network
Change
Idealist
ACT
Jennifer Connelly in charity: water Public Service Announcement from charity: water on Vimeo.
United Nations Online Volunteering
charity:water
Partners In Health - Haiti
Unshaken - charity: water's campaign for Haiti from charity: water on Vimeo.
Central Asia Institute
International Justice Mission
Center for Global Initiatives
BLOGROLL
The Modern Young Lady's Guide to Coups, Contagions & Calamity
One of my favorite blogs. She is an amazing writer and offers an interesting insight into working for the World Bank.
Tales From the Hood
Experienced* aid worker currently writing from Haiti.
* meaning he has been "stranded, mugged, shot at, deathly ill, upgraded, dissed, pampered, promoted, in the vicinity of bomb blasts, detained, reprimanded, micro-managed, empowered, and ignored."
iRevolution
Writing about digital security in repressive countries - for example, activist in Iran could use this information to coordinate activities.
I Shouted My Joy
Tales of peace, reconciliation, and education from Rwanda