The South Bronx Board of Trade is a not-for-profit organization that has been in existence for the past nineteen years. During these past years we have seen tremendous growth, not only within our own organization but have seen some of our members grow to reach financial freedom and become successful businessmen and businesswomen. Our membership consist of over 150 community leaders, business owners, bankers, real estate professionals and other business ventures from all over the Tri-State area. www.sbbt.org
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. www.indymedia.org
Paper Tiger has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media since 1981! The programs produced at PTTV have inspired media-savvy community productions and activism around the world. Through the distribution of our short documentary programs, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy, PTTV works to expose and challenge the corporate control of media. Because of the bias and misrepresentation of issues in mainstream media it is critical to include diverse perspectives in the process of making media. PTTV strives to increase awareness of how media can be used to affect social change. A public that can strategically and creatively use the media is necessary for a more equitable and healthy democracy. www.papertiger.org
East Timor & Indonesian Action Network (ETAN) is a U.S.-based grassroots organization working in solidarity with the peoples of East Timor and Indonesia. ETAN provides information about, and ways to help, East Timor, which was invaded and subjugated by U.S. ally Indonesia in 1975. East Timor chose independence in August 1999 and was soon destroyed by the Indonesian military. East Timor finally became independent on May 20, 2002. ETAN educates, organizes, and advocates for justice for historic and ongoing crimes against humanity, war crimes, and human rights violations in East Timor and Indonesia. ETAN supports democratic reconstruction of East Timor. ETAN supports restrictions on military assistance to Indonesia in order to support democracy and justice in both countries. www.etan.org
The New York Latinas Against Domestic Violence (NYLADV) is a group of Latina advocates, community activists, practitioners, and survivors of domestic violence working together to raise awareness, promote understanding, sustain dialogue, and generate solutions to move toward the elimination of domestic violence affecting Latino communities. www.bridesmarch.com
El Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College/CUNY, is a research center dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. We are committed to making this research available and useful to those in community organizations, public policy, academia and the public at large. www.centropr.org
Comité Noviembre’s mission is to commemorate and acknowledge all aspects of Puerto Rican life from the social and cultural to the educational, economic and political. The charge of Comité Noviembre is to create an awareness of the rich culture, language and heritage of the Puerto Rican community and to acknowledge its numerous contributions to this state and nation. www.comitenoviembre.org
Taller Boricua was established in 1970, in New York as a non-profit arts organization. Taller Boricua/Puerto Rican Workshop Inc. has expanded into a multi cultural institution by providing a variety of programs that stimulate the social, cultural and economic development of the community. Our workshops offer artists the opportunity to share ideas and inspirations with colleagues, enhances productivity and collaborations with other non profit organizations, schools, artists, public service providers, private corporations, and the community. The Taller Boricua (translation: workshop Puerto Rican) has evolved into a highly respected community arts organization that continues to be a proactive resource for the promotion of the arts. We have been very successful in attracting the art community to function as an essential nucleus supporting creative means of expression. www.tallerboricua.org.
Pastors for Peace is a special ministry of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, and was created in 1988 to pioneer the delivery of humanitarian aid to Latin America and the Caribbean. Many thousands of people have participated since our founding in more than 40 caravans to Mexico and Central America, 16 to Cuba and many delegations and work brigades. Join us to learn about the reality of the country, make a difference to the people there -- and to your own life! www.ifconews.org
The BRECHT FORUM is a place for people who are working for social justice, equality and a new culture that puts human needs first. Through its programs and events, the Brecht Forum brings people together across social and cultural boundaries and artistic and academic disciplines to promote critical analysis, creative thinking, collaborative projects and networking in an independent community-level environment. www.brechtforum.org
Left Forum brings together organizers and intellectuals from across the globe to share ideas for understanding and transforming the world. We organize events throughout the year, and our annual flagship conference that takes place each spring. Left Forum provides a context for the critical dialogue that is essential for a stronger Left and a more just society. Each spring Left Forum convenes the largest gathering in North America of the US and international Left. Continuing a tradition begun in the 1960s, we bring together intellectuals and organizers to share new perspectives, strategies, experience and vision. www.leftforum.org
Oceania Indymedia syndicates news from local Independent Media Centres (IMCs) in the region. We aim to be a space to facilitate the networking of solidarity between communities engaged in struggles for social, environmental and economic justice. http://oceania.indymedia.org