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The Amoreys - A For Peace band outta Chicago.
Art for a Change hails from Los Angeles, California where Mark Vallen was born and raised and continues to work as an Artist. The Website is dedicated to the Arts and their role in transforming society, from his own socially conscious Artworks to the works of other like minded Artists possessing a critical vision.
Beyondmedia Education envisions a compassionate and just society where universal access to media tools and information equip women and youth to document and communicate their stories, serve as educators and role models for others, influence public policy, and generate social transformation.
The Bread and Roses Cultural Project was founded in 1979 as a cultural resource for union members and students in New York City who would otherwise have little access to the arts. Special emphasis is given to programs that signify and interpret their history while generating new artistic expression.
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (Los Angeles)
The Center for the Study of Working Class Life (SUNY - Stony Brook) is dedicated to exploring the meaning of class in today's world. Looking at society through the lens of class clarifies many important social questions in new ways – why the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, what attacks on government programs through privatization mean, why the suburbs aren't really a middle class haven, how the "family values" debate impacts our lives, and much more.
The Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University was the first center of its kind in the United States devoted to the study of working-class life and culture. The CWCS creates social spaces for civic and academic conversations on working-class life and culture and its intersections with race, gender, and sexuality and serves as a clearinghouse for information on working-class culture, issues, and pedagogy.
Curbstone Press - Their mission encompasses two interdependent goals: 1) publishing creative literature that promotes human rights and inter-cultural understanding and 2) bringing writers and programs deep into the community to promote literacy, knowledge about many cultures, and an appreciation of literature.
Drawing Resistance is a group art show of two dimensional artwork of 31 artist/activists from North America. The content based show speaks to various subject matters that are vital to understanding the world today. Some of the subjects include the anti-globalization movement, working class rights, the destruction of the environment, corporate control, police brutality, homelessness, gentrification and the Zapatista liberation movement in Mexico.
The Guild Complex is an independent, not for profit cultural center that serves as a forum for literary cross cultural expression, discussion and education in combination with other arts. They believe that the arts are instrumental in defining and exploring the human experience, while encouraging participation by artist and audience alike in changing the conditions of our society. Through its culturally inclusive, primarily literary programming, the Guild Complex provides the vital link that connects communities, artists and ideas.
The Journal of Ordinary Thought - Every Person Is a Philosopher. JOT is founded on this basic idea and is dedicated to bringing out the unheard voices and stories of Chicago. Many of the writers in JOT groups are marginalized from traditional, mainstream literary circles, because of class, race, physical isolation, or other issues. We only publish writing produced in our workshops.
Kansas City Labor History Virtual Tour
LaborFest (San Francisco) was established in 1994 to institutionalize the history and culture of working people in an annual labor cultural, film and arts festival.
The Labor Heritage Foundation works to strengthen the labor movement through the use of music and the arts.
The Labor Party is a new political party of, by and for working people. It was founded in June 1996 at a convention of 1,400 delegates from hundreds of local and international unions as well as individual activists. We believe that on issues most important to working people – trade, health care, and the rights to organize, bargain and strike – both the Democrats and Republicans have failed working people.
Mess Hall is a place for visual culture, creative urbanism, sustainable ecology, food democracy and cultural experimentation. We are networked with other intiatives like ours in Chicago, the U.S. and abroad.
Northland Poster Collective is your source for art of the labor movement as well as others working for a just and beautiful world. There are hundreds of items to choose from ranging from art posters to buttons, from T-shirts to baby bibs.
People's Music Network for Songs of Freedom and Struggle uses music and culture to promote progressive ideas and values. It's committed to working with and supporting grassroots and community organizations, to explore and present the diversity of people's culture.
Poets Against the War - The 11,000 poets whose work is published on this site were part of the largest outcry of poets in history against the war. After the fall of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, and as the fighting winds down, it is important for us to celebrate this eloquent demand for peace, and to pledge ourselves to continue this work for peace.
The Public Square at the Illiniois Humanities Council fosters debate, dialogue, and exchange of ideas about cultural, social and political issues with an emphasis on social justice. Our programs promote participatory democracy by creating space for public conversations.
Rock & Rap Confidential, the monthly music and politics newsletter, covers culture and politics, funk and country, hiphop and heavy metal, racism and revolution, jazz and reggae, folk music and ska, censorship and the phony war on drugs.
Syracuse Cultural Workers is an educational and cultural organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to help sustain a culture that honors diversity and celebrates community; that inspires and nurtures justice, equality and freedom; that respects our fragile Earth and all its beings; that encourages and supports all forms of creative expression.
UNITE HERE! UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Textiles and Industrial Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) merged on July 8, 2004 forming UNITE HERE. The union represents more than 450,000 active members and more than 400,000 retirees throughout North America.
United Students Against Sweatshops. USAS is an organization of students and community members at over 200 campuses. It is part of a movement that supports the struggles of working people and challenges corporate power. It works to build power on campuses, to develop solidarity with workers. The energy and lessons from those campaigns have deepened it's commitment to support the rights of working class people everywhere.
The Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center is a non-profit agency producing annual exhibits of art work on T-shirts in public spaces on-line year round and off-line every summer. We bring together artists from around Chicago showcasing Chicago's cultural diversity. UMCAC sponsors the Annual Art of the T-shirt Harvest Festival at the American Indian Center.