Strategic Action Center

Links

The Corporate Research Project
http://www.corp-research.org/index.htm

A non-profit center that assists community, environmental and labor organizations in researching and analyzing companies and industries. The Project is designed to be a resource to aid activism. Consequently, our focus is on strategic research, i.e., identifying the information activists can use as leverage to get business to behave in a socially responsible manner.

The Dirt Diggers Digest
http://www.corp-research.org/dirtdiggersdigest.htm

The Dirt Diggers Digest is an online newsletter for corporate researchers working for labor unions, environmental groups, public interest organizations and other progressive entities. Each issue of the Digest reports on new sources for information that may be of use to such researchers. Also covered are trends in corporate and government disclosure policies and practices. The Digest is published roughly ten times a year.

The Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/

The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

What began as a collaboration between students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 is now an alliance of more than 200,000 citizens and scientists. UCS members are people from all walks of life: parents and businesspeople, biologists and physicists, teachers and students. Our achievements over the decades show that thoughtful action based on the best available science can help safeguard our future and the future of our planet. UCS stands out among nonprofit organizations as the reliable source for independent scientific analysis. The scientists and policy experts on our staff are highly respected in both Washington, DC, and state capitals, and are frequently called to testify before government committees.

Ceres
http://www.ceres.org/

Ceres (pronounced "series") is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change.

Mission: Integrating sustainability into capital markets for the health of the planet and its people.

About Us: At its founding 17 years ago, Ceres introduced a bold new vision to the business world. That vision is of a world in which business and capital markets promote the well being of human society and the protection of the earth's biological systems and resources. Ceres advances its vision by bringing investors, environmental groups and other stakeholders together to compel companies and capital markets to incorporate environmental and social challenges into their day-to-day decision-making. By leveraging the collective power of investors and other key stakeholders, Ceres has achieved dramatic results, among those:

• Launched the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), now the de-facto international standard (used by over 850 companies) for corporate reporting on environmental, social and economic performance.
• Brought together 500 investor, Wall Street and corporate leaders at the United Nations in 2005 to address the growing financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change. The ground-breaking meeting included 28 U.S. and European investors approving a 10-point action plan seeking stronger analysis, disclosure and action from companies, Wall Street and regulators on climate change.
• Launched and directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a group of more than 50 leading institutional investors with collective assets of over $3 trillion.

AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 54 national and international labor unions.

Today's unions represent 10 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life. We are teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers—and more.

The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.

Change To Win
http://www.changetowin.org/

Our mission is to unite the 50 million workers in Change to Win affiliate industries whose jobs cannot be outsourced and who are vital to the global economy.  We seek to secure the American Dream for them, and for all working people, including:

• A paycheck that supports a family
• Universal health care
• A secure retirement
• The freedom to form a union to give workers a voice on the job

Change to Win was founded in September 2005 by seven unions and six million workers devoted to building a movement of working people.  We are uniting workers in industries such as hospitality, construction, retail, food processing, healthcare, and trucking and transportation, among others.

The seven affiliated unions are: International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers' International Union of North America, Service Employees International Union, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Farm Workers of America, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and UNITE HERE.

American Rights At Work
http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/index.cfm

Since 2003, American Rights at Work has informed the American public about the struggle to win workplace democracy for nurses, cooks, computer programmers, retail cashiers, and a variety of workers who we all depend on every day.  Our vision is a nation where the freedom of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively with employers is guaranteed and promoted.

Through coalition-building, research, public relations, policy analysis, and advocacy, we:

• Investigate and expose workers' rights abuses and the inadequacy of U.S. labor law.
• Stimulate debate about the state of workers' rights among journalists, policymakers, advocacy groups, and the public.
• Promote public policy that protects workers from hostile employers and weak laws that impede their rights to form unions and collectively bargain.

Axis of Justice
http://www.axisofjustice.org/

Axis of Justice Axis of Justice is non-profit organization formed by 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.

We aim to build a bridge between fans of music around the world and local political organizations to effectively organize around issues of peace, human rights, and economic justice.

The Labor Heritage Foundation
http://www.laborheritage.org/index.htm

The Labor Heritage Foundation works to strengthen the labor movement through the use of music and the arts.

Rock & Rap Confidential
http://www.rockrap.com/

Rock & Rap Confidential is the monthly newsletter edited by Grammy-winning writer Dave Marsh. We accept no advertising so we are free to tell the truth about what's going on in music. We promote every style of music. Check us out with a super-cheap introductory subscription.

The music industry is hopelessly corrupt. The music industry is also obsolete--it no longer functions as a useful vehicle for the creation and distribution of music. The purpose of this website, maintained by Rock & Rap Confidential, is to be a connecting point where all the evidence that we no longer need the music industry can be centralized for easy access by the world's music communities.