Organizations and Links helpful to good Grassroots policy idea and website links.Along with Information
General + Organizations
Eventbrite -Post Events on here to get more people showing up
League of Women Voters
Our Revolution
Progressive Democrats
Food and Water Watch (Environmental Organization mostly against Climate Change/Pollution and supportive of efforts to expand Clean Water/AHealthy Foods)
American Immigration Council
Environment New Jersey
Organization For Fair Drug Laws
Bus for Progress –
New Jersey Citizen Action (Citizen advocacy group- beware somewhat corporate aligned)
Justice Democrats
AdLibbing– Social Good Marketing Organization
Fighting Corruption
https://represent.us/about/ (passing city wide anti-corruption laws)
https://volunteer.represent.us/chapters
Wolf PAC (Money out of Politics) via constitutional amendment
https://vimeo.com/278195786
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/11/19283/here-are-interests-lobbying-every-statehouse -COVANTA HOLDING CORP. FIRSTENERGY CORP. VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC. CABLEVISION SYSTEMS CORP.) Top Industries lobbying NJ(2014)!
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2011/09/13/nj-election-cover/
Books on NJ Corruption
The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption
by Bob Ingle, Sandy McClure (2006)
Soft Corruption: How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What To Do About It
by William E. Schluter
Health Care
Health Over Profit (Universal Health Care)
Physicians for a National Health Program (Universal Health Care)
http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/ – Nurses for Universal Healthcare
https://www.kff.org/statedata/
http://universalhealthcarenj.org/index.html – For putting NJ on Medicare
https://www.njsaferatios.com/ For a ratio of patient/nurse number for healthcare
http://universalhealthcarenj.org/Top_Tools_Tactics_Notes_Links_SMT.pdf
Environmental, Sustainability
http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/solargardens – Solar Gardens
https://www.njlcv.org/
http://asbcouncil.org/nj#.WeU1gmhSxPY – American Sustainable Business Council NJ
http://www.arboraesthetics.com/blog/category/tree-planting
http://urbanforestrynetwork.org/benefits/aesthetic.htm
http://www.gardenaesthetics.com/
http://gardenpool.org/diy-projects – creating sustainable living in US and Abroad
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/ -Research focuses on long-term trends relevant to the environment, including changes in population,
http://www.lead.org.au/fs/fst29.html – Getting lead out of drinking water
https://www.nrdc.org/ – Protecting US Environment
http://www.vrg.org/- Vegetarian resource group
(From NJ Future Website)-http://designyourtown.org/places/ – Can look at town designs
https://www.institut.veolia.org/en/nos-publications/la-revue-de-linstitut-facts-reports/reinventing-plastics
Peace & International Conflict Resolution
Humanitarian Law Project (Fight for Human Rights)
Veterans for Peace (For International Peace and Nuclear Disarmament)
https://www.peacecoalition.org/ – For International Peace and Nuclear Disarm
http://worldbeyondwar.org/who/ -World Beyond War is a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114294746
http://gunsandbutter.org/ten-topicsten-shows.htm
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/meiklejohn/meik-peacelaw/meik-peacelaw-10.html
Women, Womens rights, Womens Issues
http://www.nownj.net/about-us/about-now-nj – NJ State-wide women’s rights activist organization
http://www.wpcnj.org/ – Womens Political Caucus of New Jersey – getting women elected/voting
https://girlswhocode.com/ – Helps Young Women Learn to Code
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
Internet Issues, Cyber Security, Freedom of Information
https://civic.mit.edu/ – Goal :sign, create, deploy, and assess tools and processes that support and foster civic participation and the flow of information between and within communities.
http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2017/07/Troops-Trolls-and-Troublemakers.pdf
https://libraryfreedomproject.org/ – Liberty Freedom Project – Cyber Security for the People
https://wordpress.com/?ref=footer_website
https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2017 – Rating Companies and Privacy
-https://www.defcon201.org/ – There New Jersey Branch in Jersey City
https://muninetworks.org/communitymap – Creating your own internet! Maps of who has done it!
http://www.toolboxfored.org/ – Creates games/programs for justice
https://law.duke.edu/cspd/ – Center for the Study The Public Domain Duke University
https://www.cleargov.com/products/civic – Gov Transparency
https://dci.mit.edu/decentralizedweb/- Push for Decentralized Web
Economic, Housing, Wage Issues,
(site below)
Housing/Development
http://www.njfuture.org
Home is NJ Future, they do smart growth on public policy.
http://designyourtown.org/places/ – Can look at town designs and building styles (From NJ Future)
https://centerforpartnership.org/mission-and-history/ – Cooperative Partnerships in all aspects of life
http://www.affordablehousingalliance.com/ – Affordable Housing- Monmouth/Ocean/Middle-sex Counties
https://www.unitedwayalice.org/new-jersey- Affordable Housing (ALICE)
http://nlihc.org/about – Nation Local Income Housing Coalition
http://ahpnj.org/resources/affordable-housing – Affordable Housing Professional of New Jersey
Important Housing Notes: http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/codes/publications/guide.html
https://homesforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Communities-Over-Commodities_Full-Report.pdf
https://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/
https://evictionlab.org/map/#/2016?geography=states-Map of evictions state level numbers
Economic
https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/-Tracking Subsidies,
Promoting Accountability in Economic Development
http://www.antipovertynetwork.org/
https://ilsr.org/-Self reliance institute
http://www.ideaeconomics.org/ -Micheal Hudson Economics
http://freakonomics.com/ -Steven Levitt
http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/ – Public Banks
https://www.census.gov/mycd/
http://rooseveltinstitute.org/about/ (Progressive Think Tank)
http://www.greenworker.coop/ourcoops
https://institute.coop/about-dawi/mission-vision
https://thenextsystem.org/principles – Gar Alperovitz
http://www.toolboxfored.org/ – Interactive toolbox to make games for social change
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/-Think Tank for Progressive Econ
https://www.localfutures.org/
Freedom of Speech
Political Action/Planning/ Tools for organizing
http://thecitizenscampaign.org/about/
- Running for office and citizen tools
https://ourrevolution.com/2017-elections-results/ – OUR REVOLUTION Election Results
https://democraticautopsy.org/democratic-party-in-crisis/ -Democratic Autopsy Report
http://thecitizenscampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/How-to-run-for-a-political-party-committee-seat.pdf
https://www.standcnj.org/education/six-levels-government/ -Understanding Local Government
Political Communication
http://nationbuilder.com/ – used to map voters/communicate/ planning
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/hustle-app-bernie-sanders-texting/ – Texting App
Political Planning/Must reads
Shows Political score if an Area leans Democrat or Republican (PVI) +
http://cookpolitical.com/pvi-map-and-district-list
https://openstates.org/nj/legislators/ – Good but needs updating
https://thebestschools.org/magazine/15-logical-fallacies-know/ – Understanding Logic
Showing influence
https://ballotpedia.org/Influencers_in_New_Jersey
Ideology Rating Sites(A-B + %)
http://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?house=senate
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2015/senate/ideology
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/DETOC/assoc/bowling.html – Talks about fragmented communities need to understand to get into modern US politics especially NJ
Advocacy
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/guide/advocacy-tactics/
Figuring Out Influence/ Who’s in charge
https://movetoamend.org/toolkit/guide-power-mapping
US Spending Data/State Spending/ Programs Spending
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/state_spending_rank_2018bH0C
Open Source Data Software
https://towardsdatascience.com/setup-a-data-science-environment-on-your-personal-computer-6ce931113914
Hosting Events- Post Here to Attract People+ Find Events
https://www.eventbrite.com- Find events
Texting App for Communication in newly formed/forming group or outreach
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/hustle-app-bernie-sanders-texting/ – texting app
Understanding Vulnerabilities of Large Corporations and Brand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxExkIVw-c –
Shows Political Funding
https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00000781
Why Civic Education is important
http://civiced.org/papers/articles_role.html
Small City Beating Corporate Giants
Immigration
http://www.njimmigrantjustice.org/
Higher Education/School Board (learning without college tuition)
https://www.facebook.com/pg/NJUnitedStudents/about/?ref=page_internal
https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx – Getting very cheap Education for high level information like government/peace/science topics…etc
https://www.coursera.org/- Getting Free Education for high level information like government/peace/science topics..etc
https://www.khanacademy.org/ – Mostly free highschool
http://www.njamistadcurriculum.net/about – Teach about African American Historyhttps://www.njsba.org/about/membership/membership-school-board-members/school-board-candidacy/- Run for School Board
Names
Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority
List of NJ Credit Unions
Credit Unions Online
http://www.njcul.org/- New Jersey League of Credit Unions
List of Labor Unions
https://www.manta.com/mb_44_F0277_31/labor_unions_and_similar_labor_organizations/new_jersey
Information on Area to help make decisions
https://datausa.io/
http://www.bestplaces.net/state/new_jersey
Alliance Map
Stand Central NJ
Reliable News Organizations
https://centerforcooperativemedia.org/ – Montclair NJ- Help start new state wide local media coverage via coop model
https://hudsoncountyview.com/ -Hudson County NJ News
(Intro)Film the Myth of the Liberal Media by Noam Chomsky : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8oHl3ooeZo&feature=share
WikiLeaks – Truth to Power
AirWars – Military news
Democracy Now! – World/ US News
DC Reporting – US News- Washington- Big Shots
The Real News Network – World/US News
https://worldjusticeproject.org/our-work/wjp-rule-law-index/wjp-rule-law-index-2017%E2%80%932018 – Has Rule of Law Report(global decline of law)
https://www.projectcensored.org/- News Stories that the media misses
https://usawatchdog.com/bio/ – US news and Corruption
The Intercept – In-depth News, mostly foreign Policy, in depth on domestic issues
Chapo Trap House – Young People on Policy