Activism
- Global Rising - what can you do? Start
here. Organisations listed here are working towards global justice in at least one of the following areas: global
democracy, global finance, trade and general global co-ordination. All of them need voluntary help. With your
involvement, another world ceases to be possible. It becomes inevitable.
- Indymedia - A network of individuals,
independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial
coverage of important social and political issues.
- Adbusters - a global network of
artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social
activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the
way we will live in the 21st century.
- Reclaim the Streets - a group of
people with a collective ideal of community ownership of public spaces. A resistance movement to the corporate forces
of globalisation, and, more significantly, as a form of opposition to the car as the dominant mode of transport.
- Space Hijackers - Our group is dedicated to battling
the constant oppressive encroachment onto public spaces of institutions, corporations and urban planners. We oppose the
way that public space is being eroded and replaced by corporate profit making space. We oppose
the way that users of space are being put under increasing scrutiny and control by those who own or run it. Be this via
CCTV installed to monitor us, or architectural elements designed to control our moods. We oppose the blanding out and destruction of local culture in the name of global economic progress. Newer
and Bigger is not always better, it is usually both impersonal and imposing.
- Anti-Slavery - millions of men, women
and children around the world are forced to lead lives as slaves. Although this exploitation is often not called
slavery, the conditions are the same. People are sold like objects, forced to work for little or no pay and are at the
mercy of their 'employers'.
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