Teen Arts Puentes Project
Arts-activism and youth-development program for San Antonio, Texas, teenagers ages 13-17. Long-term, year-round program of Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Workshops in theater, poetry, video art, and visual art led by professional artists in apprenticeship structure.

AMD&Art
Uses the arts and community engagement to address abandoned mine drainage in Pennsylvania. Directed by T. Allan Comp.

ARROW
Art: a Resource of Reconciliation over the World (ARROW). Web-centered project to build a creative dialogue between schools in Plymouth, England and their counterparts in Palestine, Kosovo and South Africa. Partnership of The College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth City Council Department for Life-Long Learning, The Barefoot Project, Christian Aid and Burnley Youth Theatre.

Acts of Art
Group of artists committed to political activism. Special public projects about the USA Patriot Act and First Amendment.

AfroReggae
Cultural group (break-dance, capoeira, circus and 11-piece band) established in the favela (shantytown) of Vigário Geral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1993. They aim "to take young people out of the drug trade through arts-based activities," working in the poorest, most violent communities in Rio. Insight programme: community-based mixed-arts workshops, debates and trainings.

Arlene Goldbard
Community-arts expert offers writings on culture, politics, spirituality, plus a Web log.

Art & Democracy Project
National project of Center for Civic Participation working to "integrate arts and culture further and deeper into the democracy-building movement. " Information hub between arts, culture, activist and organizing groups. Documentation of exemplary work in the field, cross-sector resources, panels, conference presentations, briefings, gatherings. Directed by cultural organizer Caron Atlas.

Art Is Permitted Everywhere
Protest poetry site, dedicated to "Poetry against the Thought Police"

Art Quilt Gallery of the Atlantic
Laurie Swim's gallery in Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, featuring Swim's and other artists' fabric art. Web site documents Swim's participatory community art projects in quilting: "Breaking Ground: The Hogg’s Hollow Disaster, 1960," commemorating a watershed event in Canada’s labor movement; and "The Canadian LifeQuilt," commemorating thousands of young workers killed on the job.

Art for Change
Based in El Barrio of East Harlem, Art for Change engages individuals and communities in the production of art programs and performances "creating a forum for information exchange while inspiring reflection, discussion and action, resulting in social change."

Art for Social Change
Artists' network of ten European Resource Centers working with young people in areas of social and political turmoil. Supported by the European Cultural Council.

Art for a Change
Large collection of artworks from social-change movements. Site by Mark Vallen.

Art for the Environment
Initiative of the New World Museum and the U.N. Environment Programme. Creation and installation of visual-art exhibits worldwide in conjunction with major events such as World Environment Day (5 June) and UNEP Champions of the Earth awards. Unlearning Intolerance Seminars, performance festivals, international symposiums, competitions.

Art in Action Youth Leadership Program
Small multiracial collective founded 2000 by artists and youth advocates based in Oakland, Calif., working with young artists impacted by violence and poverty "to cultivate leadership through dance, theater, music, spoken word/poetry, painting, storytelling, and media arts." Based in popular and political education. Annual Leadership Training: 5-10 day summer camp open to ages 17-25. Programs: Dig This Story! Digital Storytelling; “Turf Unity” Music Program; Performances and Workshops; participation in the Silence the Violence Collaboration; online artwork.

Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change
Online slide show by Tufts University College Student Programs Manager Mindy Nierenberg for a 2005 course in the Experimental College, showing Tufts undergraduates and Tufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts dual-degree students ways to use art as a vehicle of social change.

ArtSpan
ArtSpan produces San Francisco Open Studios and Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth, publishes A Free Guide to San Francisco Open Studios, and organizes workshops to help artists with professional development.

Artists Network of Refuse & Resist
Artists' wing of Refuse & Resist, dedicated to a "culture of resistance against the politics of cruelty." Includes manifesto, newsletter and updates on artists' contributions to various actions of resistance.

Artists for Human Rights Trust (S. Africa)
Durban-based association that promotes the international cooperation of artists and human-rights organizations; special focus on HIV/AIDS.

Artists for Peace, Justice & Civil Liberties
Fine art gallery and anthology dedicated to peace and justice issues worldwide. Web site organized by The Arts Paper, a bimonthly arts advocacy journal of the Boulder, Colo., Arts Commission.

Arts for Change
Organizations supporting art for healing and social change. Workshops in activist art and teaching. Archive of site-specific works, interactive storyboard, articles, bibliography, links.

Artwomen.org
Focusing on news and resources in feminist art.

Axis of Justice
Nonprofit organization formed by artists Tom Morello of Audioslave and Serj Tankian of System of a Down. Its purpose is to bring together musicians, fans of music,and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice.

Banksy
Activist U.K. graffiti artist and "art terrorist" who mocks arts institutions and (lately) the wall between Israel and Palestine (see "News").

Banner Theatre Company
Socialist theater company based in Birmingham, England. Documentary theater works based on recordings of dialogue with people in their communities. Roots in radical political theater, popular theater, theater of resistance. Performs to community and trade union audiences in pubs, clubs and community centres and at rallies, festivals and conferences. Founded 1973/4.

Beehive Collective
Grassroots design collective for social change based in Maine, specializing in educational graphics campaigns, stone mosaic murals, apprenticeship programs. Posters, picture-lectures, tours. Focus on politics of globalization.

Billboard Liberation Front
Culture jammers who "improve outdoor advertising." Founded 1977 in San Francisco, Calif.

Black August Hip Hop Project
International cultural-activist exchange founded by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Stress Magazine, and Students for Jericho. Develops and implements International Human Rights Campaign using Hip Hop as a tool and common language. International network of hip-hop artists and activists in three countries. Hip Hop Activism workshops, exchanges between international communities, annual events, DVD and mix tape, benefits for political prisoners. Named after organization established in California prison system in early 1970s by men and women of the Black Liberation Movement.

Blackout Arts Collective
National grassroots coalition of artists, activists and educators working to empower communities of color through the arts. Seven U.S. chapters. Naitonal initiatives: annual tour -- "Lyrics on Lockdown: Slamming the Prison Industrial Complex"; Free! Eduation workshops supporting development and documentation of successful alternatives to failing public schools nationwide.

Blue Mountain Center
Working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians in the heart of New York 's Adirondack Mountains. Hosts conferences for up to 25 people working on pressing social problems such as civil liberties, environmental health and safety, peace and economic justice. Directed by Harriet Barlow.

Bread and Puppet Theater
"One of the oldest non-commercial self-supporting theaters in the country. Based since 1970 in rural northern Vermont, the theater continues to create shows around political and social themes, and is committed to community engagement, often involving large groups of volunteers in its productions." Founding Director Peter Schumann.

CAMEL
New York City collective working around the issues of labor, culture and economics, and attempting to build bridges between arts communities and social struggles.

Campus Compact
National coalition of 1,100 college and university presidents — representing six million students — dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement and service-learning in higher education. Initiatives: Campus & Community, Civic Engagement, Service Learning, Advocacy, more. Resources, research, publications, news, opportunities. Founded in 1985 by presidents of Brown, Georgetown and Stanford universities, and president of the Education Commission of the States. Based at Brown, Providence, R.I.

Center for Civic Participation
Works to increase civic engagement by individuals and organizations in communities historically underrepresented in U.S. democratic process. Based in Minneapolis, Minn. Interested in art-and-democracy projects. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Center for Political Song
Online collection of political songs; based in Scotland.

Center for Social Media
Showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. Public events, research projects, convenings, organizational links, Web-published research. Part of the School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C. Directed by Pat Aufderheide.

Civil Rights Memorial Center
Southern Poverty Law Center's Memorial in Mongomery, Ala., designed by artist Maya Lin.

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA)
Brtish band of clowns doing political street theater.

ColorLines
Online magazine on race, culture, and organizing from the Center for Third World Organizing.

Community-Based Youth Organizations Negotiating Educational and Social Equity
Case study of community-based youth development organization in northeastern U.S. advocating for social and educational equity for low-income families by challenging local school-district practice of referring low-income children of color to special education in disproportionate numbers. Shows how the assets CBOs bring to their communities can help them negotiate with schools: challenges & opportunities of school-CBO collaboration outlined, with appreciation of CBOs’ strong, culturally competent relationships with their program participants. Written by Sara Hill; published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterchool Matters, 2004. (PDF)

Creating Community Based Dialogue
Extensive essay by Headlines Theatre Director David Diamond, discussing approaches to using cultural work as a community-development tool responding to issues of globalization. On Headlines Web site.

Creative Defiance
Web site of Zimbabwean graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies in which he uses advertising startegies and techniques to take on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.

Creative Visions Foundation
Supports "creative activists -- social entrepreneurs working in media, the arts, and technology to inform, inspire and empower others to create positive action throughout the world." Mentoring, skill building, networking, seed funding, grants, fiscal sponsorship, outreach materials to raise social awareness and catalyze action of social, humantarian and environmental issues. Creative Activists Sponsorship Program, Creative Activists Network for Change, Creative Activists Network Education Program, Dan Eldon Traveling Exhibition "Images of War, Celebrations of Peace." Founded 1998 by Kathy and Amy Eldon in honor of late artist/activist Dan Eldon.

Critical Art Ensemble
Five artists dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory.

Critical Breakdown
Hip-hop activist program committed to engaging young people in social change. Based in Boston, Mass., and supported by American Friends Service Committee. Monthly open mics, conferences, participation in rallies, protests and marches

Cry of the Rooster Theater
Seattle-based performing arts collective using puppets, music in provocative presentations of world folklore; organized high-school students for the 1999 Seattle demonstration against the World Trade Organization.

Cultural Equity Group
Coalition of cultural arts organizations and artists working for equitable distribution of funds and resources to under-resourced and underserved emerging and mid-sized organizations grounded in the culture and arts of their communities. Objective: to stabilize the field, providing necessary technical assistance and program management resources to assure continued growth of the cultural arts field.

Cycle Circus
Touring group of puppeteers, circus performers, bicycle builders and educators traveling by bicycle to create community events for social change. Festivals, street performances, college residencies. Collaborations with community gardens, Mexican workers associations, refugee camps.

Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
Offers stage rights to Tim Robbins' play "Dead Man Walking" to high schools and colleges who agree to incorporate the issue of the death penalty into their curriculum in two academic departments. Web site offers dozens of tools for play production and discourse on the subject, including a blog, on-campus initiatives, local outreach and national and regional links. An initiative of the Death Penalty Discourse Network.

Deep Dish TV
Activist, progressive TV network that assembles material from independent producers and transmits it to community TV stations and home dish owners. Includes Webcasts and arts shows.

Drik
Bangladesh-based organization supporting photographers, journalists and media artists "who challenge the hegemony of Western media."

Earth Celebrations
Preserving the gardens of New York through art and community action.

Ecotopia
Annual gathering of activists from all over Europe involved or interested in environmental and social-justice issues. Every summer since 1989, each year in a different country. Organized by EYFA (European Youth For Action) and by a local grassroots environmental organisation as host organisation. Meetings are "horizontally and self-organized." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies
Online text of book by Sue Spaid, published in conjunction with 2002 exhibit she and Amy Lipton curated at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Explores artist's role in ecological issues and environmental justice.

El Teatro Campesino
Chicano Farmworkers Theater, organized in 1965 to support Cesar Chavez's farmworkers movement in California. Newsletter, store, history.

Empowerment Project
Community-based video resource service and documentary filmmaking organization based in Chapel Hill, N.C.; Oscar-winner for "The Panama Deception."

Esperanza Center
Progressive San Antonio-based grassroots cultural organization, advocating for people of color, women, lesbians and gay men, working class and poor; founded in 1987 by Latina women. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Exiled Writers Ink
Based in London, England. Facilitates dissemination of work by writers in exile and refugees, and act as a pressure group against racism and the abuse of human rights worldwide. Monthly Poetry Café, readings, seminars, workshops, conferences, interactive performances, festivals, publications, translations, collaborations, school programs. Exiled Ink magazine.

Facing History and Ourselves
International educational and professional-development organization helping teachers lead students in a critical examination of history, with particular focus on genocide and mass violence. Founded 1976 by teacher Margot Stern Strom. Publications and Resources; Pedagogy Research and Development (new scholarship, partnerships and pilot projects); Community Engagement (opportunities for discussion/reflection on civic engagement, individual/collective responsibility and tolerance); Special Initiatives include the arts. Seminars, workshops, community events, lending library. Interactive student Web site :“Be the Change: Upstanders for Human Rights.” Organization has an online campus and a new public high school in NYC.

Finding Our Folk
National partnership of artists and organizations seeking to raise voices of 2005 Hurricane Katrina's survivors. "Finding Our Folk" tour (2006 ) by high-school and college students to survivor's locations. Workshops related to Katrina: Documentation (for people displaced); Education (about circumstances before, during and after); Healing (confronting trauma); Organizing (what is actionable), especially among young people. Projects: People's Hurricane Relief Fund, Katrina Quilt, Database and GIS Maps of displaced individuals, performances and celebrations of Gulf Coast region.

Free Culture
International student movement of creative artists and writers, media activists and civil libertarians with roots in the free software/open source community.

Freechild Project
Online clearinghouse of information on youth-led social activism, including the arts.

GTC Dramatic Dialogues
Chicago-based Intervention theater, using interactive, issue-oriented theater programs to address sexual communication, date rape, racism, sexism, homophobia and substance abuse. (Formerly Gestic Theatre Company.)

Galeria de la Raza
San Francisco, Calif., interdisciplinary Chicano/Latino �space for Art, Thought and Activism."

Gas & Electric Arts
Philadelphia-based theater company that offers Boal-technique "Surge" workshops for negotiating conflict and building community, and "Generating: Real Stories Real People" storytelling and wine-tasting events at local restaurant. Founded by Lisa Jo Epstein and David Brown.

Global Action Project
Media-arts and leadership training for young people living in underserved communities to create media on local and international issues as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.

Glocal Forum
International nongovernmental organization devoted to "city-to-city diplomacy." Network of over 100 cities from five continents and public- and private-sector partners that gather annually to promote "glocalization." Art programs in youth-development centers(Ethiopia, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone). Art photo projects to raise awareness of urgent situations. Research on art in peacebuilding activities.

Graphic Witness
Site dedicated to political and social commentary through graphic imagery. By artist Judy Brody.

Greene Dragon
Political artist/activist group based in New York City

Gregory Sholette
Art and writing by artist who co-founded REPOhistory and Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PAD/D). Many useful articles about history, theory of art and community.

Guerrilla Performance Locator
Map of iconoclastic works by artist and activists and the political issues and ideas they are bringing attention to.

GuluWalk
Project drawing attention to plight of children of rural northern Uganda, who, to avoid abduction by the rebel army, walk every night towards the safety of larger cities, like Gulu, from as far as 12km away. Involves PeaceVox and other artists.

HartBeat Ensemble
"Theater for active change" in Hartford, Conn., founded by former members of San Francisco Mime Troupe. Mainstage plays, street theater, plays in Hartford city parks, educational workshops for children and aduts in using theater for social change with Boal techniques. Partnerships with Two Way Youth Employment Program in Hartford’s North End and the Amistad Youth Project in Hartford's South End.

Headlines Theatre Company
Canadian issue-oriented company whose Theatre for Living is based on August Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. Boal-technique training programs. Directed by David Diamond.

Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs
HECUA: independent, nonprofit organization founded and governed by 17 liberal-arts colleges, universities and associations dedicated to experiential education for social justice. Study-abroad and off-campus study programs, seminars, field research, internships, fellowships. Instructors are teams of local teachers including Ph.D. faculty members who serve as mentors, advisers, co-learners and connections to the community. Programs include City Arts and Writing for Social Change. Syllabi posted online. Instituted as Crisis Colony in 1971. Based in St. Paul, Minn.

Highlander Research and Education Center
Educational programs and research into community problems; residential Workshop Center for grassroots social-change organizations. Based in New Market, Tenn., with a strong history in Southern labor movements, Civil Rights Movement and Appalachian people's movements. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Hip-Hop Caucus Institute
Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that "strengthens social movements with independent research, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, the hip-hop community, scholars and elected officials." Programs promote social and political equality in the areas of economics, education, healthcare, housing, and justice: Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign, Hip Hop Helping the Homeless, Southern Progressive Leadership Conference, Shirley Chisolm/Ossie Davis Leadership Institute, Cities For Progress. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Home land security
Community arts performance project created by Marty Pottenger, commissioned by Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, Me. Civic-dialogue project in response to post-9/11 immigrant and refugee sweeps in Maine. Attempt to foster connections between radical left and right elements of the area. Site has performance excerpts, videos, reviews, plus related history and politics info.

I-10 Witness Project
Community-based story collective Louisiana artists, educators and community organizers documenting stories from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through sound and video. Interviews online with displaced citizens in shelters, relief workers, community organizers, neighborhood leaders, artists, medical staff, city planners, government officials. Partners include Mondo Bizarro, ArtSpot Productions, Xavier University Department of Communication, Nunez Community College Audio-Visual Archive, Center for Digital Storytelling. Plans to make interviews available through partnerships with public broadcast networks and credible local, state and national oral-history archives.

Imagine/RENDER
Global/local projects based in Burnsville, N.C. Mission "based on the understanding that creativity involves both the imagination and the ability to make the imagined come to life." Projects: Empty Bowls (far-reaching hunger/pottery project); Garden Projects; seminars/workshops like "extended season gardening" and "social justice through the arts." Founded by Lisa Blackburn and John Hartom.

InteractiveTheatre.org
Resource for educational Interactive Theatre, where performers interact with audiences as core part of performance. Special focus on using drama to educate about sexual assault.

Involver
Artists' movement to convince young people to get involved in politics, offering ways to take action. National political arts calendar.

Irondale Ensemble Project
New York company dedicated to theater as educational tool for fostering social change.

Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Nonprofit, community-based umbrella institution founded 1973 by community activists to serve social/cultural needs of Chicago's Puerto Rican/Latino community. Umbrellas Family Learning Center, Consuelo Lee Corretjer Childcare Center, Vida/SIDA HIV and AIDS education and prevention programs; La Casita de Don Pedro community garden and cultural space; Café Batey Urbano cultural space for the youth. Organizes annual Puerto Rican Peoples Parade,co-sponsors Fiesta Boricua annual Puerto Rican music festival. PRCC is the parent organization and provides a space to the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.

Kuratorisk Aktion
Platform for curators engaged in a critical practice along the lines of race, class, gender and sexuality. Founded by Danish-born curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen in 2005. "Merging feminist, queer, and activist informed approaches, Kuratorisk Aktion pledges itself to raise consciousness on the politics of representation and translate this consciousness into practice. We attempt to achieve this through a 65/35 percent representation of minoritarian and majoritarian subjectivities respectively in all our productions, at the same time as we open this procedure up to critique as part of the curatorial methodology."

La Pena Cultural Center
Community arts and cultural education center in Berkeley, Calif., founded 1975 by Latinos and North Americans to instill political consciousness through culture and the arts. Events, classes, school programs, restaurant.

Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus
Chorus of union workers, students, others dedicated to "building more democracy and representation within our unions" and celebration of workers' culture. Based in San Francisco Bay Area, directed by labor organizer Pat Wynne.

LaborFest
Annual labor cultural, film and arts festival established San Francisco, Calif., 1994, "to institutionalize the history and culture of working people." Begins every July 5, anniversary of 1934 “Bloody Thursday” attack on S.F. strikers and supporters, touching off general strike and shutdown of city. Led to hundreds of thousands of workers joining the trade-union movement. Site is excellent link to international labor sites on the Web.

League of Young Voters
Uses arts-based organizing, alliance building and nonpartisan voter engagement to build youth civic-engagement and leadership-development organizations in six states: Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Maine, California, Ohio and Wisconsin. Each local affiliate conducts a comprehensive year-round program. Site features nonpartisan voter guides.

Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
"One of the largest mass-transit, anti-racist organizations it the U.S." fighting for a "first-class, clean-fuel, bus-centered public transportation system in Los Angeles." Uses "teatro" (theater) for organizing.

Lysistrata Project
Theater project in protest against expected 2003 war against Iraq.

Make Art Not War
Features modern-day peace posters by international artists.

Make the Road by Walking
Community organizing group in Brooklyn, N.Y., primarily low-income Latino and African-American residents of Bushwick and surrounding neighborhoods. Collaborates with artists.

Media That Matters
Online showcase of new media works for social change co-presented by Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and powered by Free Speech TV.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)
Contemporary arts space in William/Reed Corridor of San Jose, California, founded in 1989 by community activists to change representation of multicultural artists within the city's art allocations. Exhibitions, performance, youth arts education.

Music for Change
British organization interested in the intrinsic value of music and how it can play a vital role in community development, social inclusion and antiracist work through education, cooperation and building self-esteem.

Nancy B. Jefferson Literacy and Creative Media Program
Program at Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School providing print- and media-literacy skills-enhancement programs to young people detained in Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago, Ill. Programs in tutoring, creative writing, publishing, digital image manipulation, sound editing and sequencing, web design, maintenance of personal computers from the inside out, including building them from scratch. Library, volunteer coordination, school-wide events, seminars. Excellent links to activism in "prison industrial complex" issues.

National Call to Artists
Web repository for images, songs, scripts and ideas that can assist activists in mobilizing and participating in social action. By Judy Baca and Arlene Goldbard.

National Coalition Against Censorship
Alliance of 50 national nonprofit literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor and civil liberties groups. Founded 1974 to educate members and the public about dangers of censorship and how to oppose them.

New WORLD Theater
Visionary presenter and producer of works by playwrights of color, "purposely blurring the lines between professional and community, art and politics, scholarship and activism;" in residence at UMass. Offers training in community arts techniques.

NiteStar Program
Drama, music and peer-education for pre-adolescents, adolescents and young adults living with HIV/AIDS. Includes direct service, training and technical assistance. Productions created by members of the company, with followup workshops, heighten awareness, provide accurate information and help to reduce risky behaviors. Founded by Dr. Cydelle Berlin in 1987. Located at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York City, N.Y.

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Nonprofit organizing and education center and organic farm in Northern California’s Sonoma County. Founded in 1994 by artists, biologists, horticulturists, educators and activists. Research, demonstration, education and organizing to develop collaborative, community-based strategies for positive social change and effective environmental stewardship. Programs: Permaculture, Intentional Communities, Arts, Mother Garden Biodiversity, Wildlands Biodiversity, Ecological Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems, WATER Institute and School Gardens.

Paper Tiger TV
Nonprofit, volunteer video collective working to "challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media." Production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings, grassroots advocacy.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Uses cardboard, papier-m�ch�, trash and a variety of puppetry styles to help promote "social change, peace and hope for a better world." Community collaborations. Based in Saxapahaw, N.C.; directed by artists Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger.

Phakama
Southern Africa educational project using community arts projects to train young people about human rights issues through leadership and facilitation. Part of the Communication Initiative.

Planners Network
Association of professionals, activists, academics and students involved in physical, social, economic and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in political and economic systems. Established in 1975.

Platform
British artist/activists Dan Gretton, James Marriot and Jane Trowell working to help achieve an ecological and democratic society, with a primary focus on London, the Tidal Thames Valley and the oil industry.

Poetry & Writing by the People of Dignity Village
Writing, poems and songs by residents of a mobile tent city in Portland, Oregon.

Poets Against the War
Online anthology of works by poets across the globe in response to possible U.S. war in Iraq. Founded 2003 by poet Sam Hamill upon being invited to a White House poetry symposium, which was subsequently canceled.

Positive Futures Network
Supports "people's active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world." Includes YES! magazine with archive of political, social, cultural and environmental articles. Education section with curricular material. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Prison Poster Project
Collective of artists & activists working in collaboration with U.S. prisoners. Creating a portable mural to be used by prison activists, educators, the incarcerated and community leaders. Mission: "To create a public education tool to expose how the prison industrial complex affects our diverse communities and to challenge current reliance on prisons as a solution to social problems."

Prisons Foundation
Nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes the arts and education in prison and alternatives to incarceration. Prison Art Gallery showcases prisoners' artworks (1600 K Street NW, Suite 501, open daily). Cosponsor of Annual Victims’ Forum organized by the National Organization for Victim Assistance. Web site has publications, music, newsletter, links to prison art resources.

Provisions
Washington, D.C., organization providing resources for arts and social change. Online Provisions Library has study guides, virtual exhibitions and "meridians," i.e., categories providing links to related books, print media, Web sites, organizations, schools and education, artists and artwork, audio, interviews, moving images, gatherings and intersections with their other meridians. Initiated by Gaea Foundation.

Public Art as Social Intervention
"Public Art as Social Intervention - But Now I Have to Speak - Testimonies of Trauma, Change and Transformation," ongoing collective/collaborative project concerned with violence against women.

Public Assembly
North Carolina-based organization involving children and adults in public arts activities to promote non-violence and civil liberties. Includes Peace Parasol Project and Twin Towers of Democracy / City on a Hill mobile public sculpture project.

Public Conversations Project
Massachusetts dialogue organization promoting constructive conversations and relationships among people who have differing values, world views and perspectives about divisive public issues. Includes arts projects.

Questions of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions
(Book) Twenty writers and artists evaluate what works and what doesn't for artists working toward social change in Canada. Discusses concrete examples and theory.

RTMark.com
Web-based artist group that "supports the sabotage (informative alteration) of corporate products, from dolls and children's learning tools to electronic action games, by channelling funds from investors to workers for specific projects."

Radical Art Caucus
Coalition of academics promoting art and art historical scholarship that addresses historical and contemporary problems of oppression and possibilities for resistance. An official affiliated society within the College Arts Associstion.

Radio ARTE Chicago
Award-winning Latino-owned, youth-driven, urban community radio station ("the only one in the country"). Bilingual initiative of National Museum of Mexican Art, located in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Offers full range of Latin music. Covers social-justice issues and engage in dialogue through community journalism and first voice forums.

Radius of Arab American Writers
RAWI, progressive membership organization of fiction and nonfiction writers, essayists, poets, journalists, photojournalists, artists who work with words and academics of Arab heritage from the Arab lands. Largely concerned with English-medium literary works and professionals working in English, and issues of social justice. Annual conference, newsletter, opportunities, members' writings and profiles.

Rafani
Artist group in Czech Republic, founded in Prague in 2000. Mostly gallery political work, but some activist public art and art in schools. See site by Kristofer Paetau for documentation in English.

Regent Park Focus Media Arts Centre
Youth program in Toronto's Regent Park, Canada’s largest public housing community, to develop prevention programs and activities exploring radio and print journalism, and audio, video, photography arts. Catch da Flava Newe, Catch da Flava Radio, E.Y.E. Video Library, Focus Music Studio, Zapparoli Photo Studio. Directed by Adonis Huggins.

Rini Templeton's Art for the Struggle
Memorial to the late artist Rini Templeton, whose unsigned, black-and-white images promoted unity among people involved in grassroots struggles.

River Network
Supports grassroots river and watershed conservation groups. Programs: Partnerships, National Watershed Health Project, River Watch, Clean Water Act Online Course, Health and Environmental Justice. Includes "River Voices" newsletter issue: "Rivers and the Arts" online. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Save the Children UK Teaching Resources
Free and priced resources for teachers and youth workers on global children's rights. Includes a downloadable "Children's Rights: A teacher's guide"; a step-by-step guide for children on developing and maintaining a school council; training exercises and handouts for workers training young people to undertake social research; arts-based session plans for work with young people around issues of violence; teaching pack that looks at children taking action in their communities; "Interviewing Children"; cross-curricular resource pack on child labor and globalization; teaching resource for developing an anti-bullying culture in primary schools; citizenship and geography activities about working children. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Shanti ko Samjhana - Remembering Peace
Public art installation dedicated to peace and the environment, 2002, in Kathmandu and Pharping, Nepal by Jyoti Duwadi.

Sharon Siskin
Web site of artist Sharon Siskin, showcasing her visual art and tracking her experience in community-based public art projects in the San Francisco Bay Area AIDS support-service community; in the City of Berkeley homeless women and children services community; with San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, Inc; and as founder of Postive Art. She is currently an assistant professor of visual art at University of San Francisco and co-director, with Richard Kamler of Arts Outreach: The Artist as Citizen, which seeks to embed student art practioners into communities to collaboratively engage in community-based art.

Silence the Violence
Initiative of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to reduce violence and empower young people to speak as voices for peace in Oakland, Calif. Working to create opportunities for work, recreation and community involvement. "We do everything from throw parties to talk to lawmakers about job and community programs to create them. Our groundbreaking mix of public education, cultural events, policy advocacy and youth leadership development is making a real difference in Oakland."

Spiral Q Puppet Theater
Theater founded in 1996 by Matthew (Mattyboy) Hart, using giant puppets and pageantry "to mobilize communities, empower marginalized people and illuminate the victories, frustrations and possibilities of living in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia."

Stitching Truth: Women’s Protest Art in Pinochet’s Chile
Study guide on the arpilleristas, women who used their art and tapestries to attract international attention to the human rights abuses occurring during Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, 1973-1990. Includes historical narrative, primary sources, poetry, discussion questions and images of the arpilleras (tapestries). Downloadable from the Web site of Facing History and Ourselves.

Story Workshop (Malawi)
Artist-scholar team "creating entertainment for social change in Malawi" on behalf of human rights, democracy, AIDS education, literacy, etc. Using radio, TV, comics, village drama.

Street Art Workers
Network of printmakers, stencil artists, graffiti writers and painters who use the streets for art and activism.

Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility
(Book) Contributors from South Africa, the Czech Republic, Iran, Poland, Mexico and the U.S. discuss the role of artists in their own societies and analyze their activist identities as a basis for their own work. Writers include Fusco, Ehrenberg, Ndebele, Dyson and Sadri.

THINK AGAIN
David John Attyah and S.A. Bachman, an artist-activist collaborative that recruits art making in the service of political action. Mural-sized posters, mobile billboards and postcards. Book: A Brief History of Outrage.

TOPLAB
Theatre of the Oppressed Laboratory, based in work of Augusto Boal. Conducts on-site training workshops on theater as an organizing tool for activists in neighborhood, labor, peace, human rights, youth and community-based organizations. Based in New York City.

Teenage Life
Organization in Tanzania carrying out projects to educate young people about HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), media and culture. Workshops and presentations at Tanzanian universities, schools and communities and 30 cities worldwide. Uses information and communication technology, video, television, radio, music, intercultural exchange, publications, numerous partnerships. Co-founded Tanzanian Youth Network, co-operates an orphanage center for Tanzanian children. Founded in Dar es Salaam, 2000.

The Change You Want To See
Gallery and convergence space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y., that showcases visual art pieces representing the culture of resistance.

The Corrections Documentary Project
Web site elaborating issues around "Corrections," a documentary film about the prison-industrial complex by Ashley Hunt. Project continues to grow with additional videos, spefici campaigns and "footnotes" on how ideas of crime and punishment not "natural," but are built upon and coded with politics of race and class.

The Puppeteers Cooperative
Artists and puppeteers working in U.S. cities "to create giant puppet parades, pageants, and ceremonies of celebration and complaint, using simple materials and movements to build community cardboard extravaganzas." Founded 1976 by (the late) George Konnoff. Site includes diagrams and patternbooks for making puppets of all kinds; scripts of puppet plays; thoughts on organizing parades and pageants; links to free puppet-lending libraries and other puppetry Web sites. Organization offers videos, DVDs, workshops, services, consulting.

The Steel Yard
In Providence, R.I., offering arts and technical training programs, career-oriented training and small-business incubation at the historic Providence Steel and Iron site; 5,612-square-foot industrial shop with foundry, ceramics studio, blacksmithing & welding shops, studio space, outdoor work and exhibition space. Caters to working artists, students and community members, tradespeople, arts educators and entrepreneurs. Partners: Urban Agriculture Unit with mobile greenhouse for local education projects; Industrial Evolution promoting creative re-use of industrial discards; PUENTE, redeveloping environmentally, economically and socially sustainable community assets for communities facing gentrification; NOD (New Object Design) Studio, innovative re-purposers of old factory materials.

The Wisdom of Crawford
Essay on "investigating activism" at Camp Casey, activist Cindy Sheehan's antiwar project in Crawford, Texas, near the Bush ranch. Written by John Warren, director of Unconditional Theatre. Published (.pdf) on the theater's Web site, 2005.

The Yard Sign Project
Project by artist Bill Fisher encouraging community collaboration: downloadable yard signs with political content.

The Yes Men
Performers who have impersonated "some of the world's most powerful criminals at conferences, on the Web and on television, in order to correct their identities."

Theaters Against War (THAW)
International network of theater artists responding to the U.S. ongoing "War on Terror," aggressive and unilateral foreign policies and escalating attacks on civil liberties in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Theatre and Social Change (TASC)
Focus group of Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) in U.S.

Third World Majority
New-media training and production resource center "run by a collective of young women of color and our allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots political organizing." Community digital storytelling workshop, COINTELNOW security training initiative, participation in Media Justice and Technology Organizing movement, community training and education, facilitative production (consulting support to organizations seeking to define and share their story and mission), Storylink 1.0., community organizing and media services, blog. National partnerships.

Time & Space Limited
Hudson Valley, N.Y. arts organization with programs in all disciplines dedicated to community and activism. Youth projects and Time To Talk discussion series on local political, social and environmental topics that reflect regional and national concerns. Founded 1991 by N.Y. theater artists Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce.

Tohono O'odham Community Action
Independent grassroots organization in Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago) Nation, Sonoran Desert, 60 miles west of Tucson, Arizona, creating culturally based responses to problems of severe poverty, health, juvenile violence, lack of education, loss of language, traditions and ceremonies. Includes Community Arts Program to revitalize tribal cultural traditions. Online gallery. Founded by artist Terrol Dew Johnson and organizer Tristan Reader, recipients of Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award.

Tostan
African grassroots organization using the arts in nonformal education in local languages (the Community Empowerment Program) to educate poor villagers in Senegal and neighboring countries about development and human rights. Uses modern and traditional African oral techniques, including theater, storytelling, dance, artwork, song, debate, and the sharing of personal experience. "Community-led successes" in six countries in West and East Africa: abandoning female genital cutting, ending child marriage, promoting grassroots democracy, improving maternal and child health, preventing and treating malaria and more. Microcredit program, prison project.

UHC Collective
Political artists' collective in Manchester, England. Postcards, posters, T-shirts, 'zines, exhibitions, campaigns, education.

Umbrage Editions' Traveling Exhibition Program
Museum-quality exhibitions of photographs complementing Umbrage Editions' publications on subjects including global human rights, AIDS, the Tibetan struggle, Cuba, innocent prisoners and more.

Under the Volcano
annual arts and activism festival, North Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Undesirable Elements
Interactive Web site dedicated to Ping Chong’s "Undesirable Elements/Secret History" series, an ongoing community-specific oral-history theater project exploring issues of race, culture and identity in the lives of individuals living between cultures. Since 1992, Ping Chong has created over 30 works in this series in U.S. and abroad. Site contains background information, production history, photos, script and video samples, frequently asked questions, related links, resources for further research, interactive features.

Visual Resistance
Poster Project by noRNC project protesting 2004's Republican National Convention and the Bush Administration. Free downloads.

Voting Arts Project
St.-Louis, Mo.-based organization dedicated to voter engagement.

We, The World
Global network of collaboration among those working for peace, sustainability and transformation. Programs: Public International Events, Interdependence Day, Art for Children's Sake, The International Truth and Reconciliation Hearings, World Communities Interchange, Ethical Impact Reports. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Witness
International human-rights organization that provides training and support to local groups to use video in human-rights advocacy campaigns. Provides video cameras and editing equipment, exposure partners' issues on a global scale. Brokers relationships with international media outlets, government officials, policymakers, activists and general public. Partnerships, memberships. Founded 1992 by musician/activist Peter Gabriel and Reebok Human Rights Foundation. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance
Volunteer organization making visible women's experiences in the criminal justice system. Art gallery, glossary, resources, reports, essays and links to information on women and prison. Women and the Prison Industrial Complex; Motherhood and Mothers in Prison; State Violence/Private Violence; Sexuality: Stigma and Punishment; Activism and Social Justice: Inside and Outside. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Women in Black Art Project
Feminist cultural activism project that seeks to enhance the visualization and building of peace.

Words on Fire
Web site of a 2003 Boston, Mass., arts and humanities festival to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi book burnings in Berlin, May 10, 1933. Explores freedom of expression and history of book burning.

justseeds
"One-stop shop for radical art, anarchist culture and street art/stenciling." Distributes books, stencils, zines, prints, Celebrate People's History posters. Owner: Josh McPhee.