Providence Youth-Student Movement
Providence, RI
2014
PrYSM was founded on November 8th, 2001, when a series of repeated Cambodian gang fights and resulting deaths inspired youth and local college students to fight for positive...
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Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!)
Pacifica, CA
2015
As queers, we are part of an international movement for human rights that encompasses the movement for Palestinian liberation, and all other liberation movements. Since 2000, QUIT! has...
Red Umbrella Project
New York, NY
2017
The Red Umbrella Project (RedUP) is a small peer-led organization based in Brooklyn, New York, which does community organizing and advocacy to make policy and systemic change to...
Resources for Organizing and Social Change
Augusta, ME
2018
Resources for Organizing and Social Change (formerly INVERT) was founded in 1977 by people who wanted an organization to promote nonviolence and social change through mechanisms of education,...
Restaurant Opportunities Center of Minnesota (ROC-MN)
New York, NY
2019
The mission of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Minnesota (ROC-MN) is to improve the wages and working conditions of low-wage restaurant workers in our state.
Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities (RISC)
Richmond, VA
2018
Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities (RISC) is a grassroots congregation-based organization comprising diverse congregations throughout the Greater Richmond region. With 22 diverse member congregations, RISC represents over...
Rockaway Wildfire
Far Rockaway, NY
2014
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, strangers from across New York City became first responders and colleagues. In this moment of crisis, Occupy Sandy stepped in to help...
San Francisco Living Wage Coalition
San Francisco, CA
2017
The Living Wage Coalition is a grassroots movement of low-wage workers and their allies fighting for economic justice. We have been struggling since 1998 to change political priorities...
San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
San Francisco, CA
2017, 2015
The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival has provided a forum for sex worker film and video makers since 1999. The Festival has since...
Semillas del Desierto/Desert Seeds
Flagstaff, AZ
2019
Semillas del Desierto/Desert Seeds are workers dedicated to serving the working-class community in Flagstaff who are experiencing wage theft and unfair labor practices, regardless of citizenship status. They...
Sex Workers Outreach Project-Chicago
Chicago, IL
2018, 2017, 2015
Sex Workers Outreach Project Chicago [SWOP-Chicago] is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of current and former sex workers in the Chicago area, on and off of...
South Carolina Progressive Network
Columbia, SC
2012, 2013, 2014
The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of grassroots activists who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Created in 1995...
South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice
Miami, FL
2011
SFIWJ provides a voice to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community to serve low-wage workers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. We dialogue with communities about religion’s historical...
South Florida Voices for Working Families
Miami, FL
2014
The South Florida Voices for Working Families was founded in 1999 as a coalition of labor, community, and faith-based organizations working together to win improvements in the quality...
Southern Maine Workers' Center
Portland, ME
2016, 2015, 2013
The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is a nonprofit membership organization committed to creating a grassroots, people-powered movement that improves the lives, working conditions, and terms of employment for...