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ECONOMIC JUSTICE
 50 Years Is Enough
U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
www.50years.org/
Accion- Chicago
 ACCION Chicago is an alternative lending organization dedicated to providing credit and other business services to small business owners who do not have access to traditional sources of financing. By encouraging the economic self-reliance of micro entrepreneurs throughout the Chicago land area, ACCION Chicago strives to help businesses and communities grow. For more information on Accion, click here: www.accionchicago.org
Acumen Fund
 This is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. The funders seek to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. The investments focus on delivering affordable, critical goods and services – like health, water, housing and energy – through innovative, market-oriented approaches. For more information click here: www.acumenfund.org
 Amnesty International
Support for political prisoners, campaign news, text of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.amnesty.org
 Asian Human Rights Commission
An independent non-governmental body which seeks to promote greater awareness and realization of human rights in the Asian region
www.ahrchk.net/
The Catholic-Labor Network
A place for those Catholics, lay, religious and clergy, who are active in their churches and in unions to learn about their Church's teachings as regards to labor issues, pray for those who are working for economic justice and share information about events and struggles that may be taking place in their area
www.pernet.net/~sinclair/home.htm
 Global Trade Watch
Promotes government and corporate accountability in the international commercial agreements shaping the current version of globalization.
www.tradewatch.org/
 Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
Encourage companies to be socially and environmentally responsible.
www.iccr.org/
 Jobs with Justice
A national campaign for workers' rights, working through coalitions of labor, community, religious and constituency organizations
www.jwj.org
 Human Rights Internet
A leader in the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community
www.hri.ca/
 Jubilee USA Network
Part of a worldwide movement to cancel the crushing international debt of impoverished countries .
www.jubileeusa.org
A Letter on Neo-Liberalism in Latin America
Latin American Jesuit Provincials Jesus, 1996
www.sedos.org/english/letter.htm
 Middle East Research and Information Project
Provides news and perspectives about the Middle East not available from mainstream news sources
www.merip.org/
 National Coalition for the Homeless
An advocacy network committed to ending homelessness
www.nationalhomeless.org/
Religious Perspective on Human Rights
Weekly newsletter issued by Buddhist, Muslim, Catholic and Christian groups on human rights initiated by the Asian Human Rights Center
www.ahrchk.net/rghr/index.php
Religious Working Group on the World Bank and IMF
Religious organizations, denominations, social justice and ecojustice groups working to build a broad network for action on global economic justice
www.religiouswg.org/index1.html
South Shore Banking Center
 7054 S. Jeffery Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60649
A community development and environmental bank in the Chicago area that is committed to building stronger communities, creating a healthier environment, and helping its customers achieve financial success. It is a specially designed, regulated bank can help to reverse the decline of inner-city neighborhoods coping with disinvestment and discrimination. For more information, visit:
www.sbk.com/bins/site/templates/splash.asp
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
 Encourages people to take a stand strong against hate by adding yourself to their map as a voice for tolerance. For more information visit http://www.StandStrongAgainstHate.org or learn about hate groups in our area at: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp or learn to respond to everyday bigotry and speak out against hate through Speak Up! and 10 Ways to Fight Hate publications at: http://www.tolerance.org/speakup/index.html
http://www.tolerance.org/10_ways/index.html
The Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36104
334.956.8200
www.splcenter.org
www.splcenter.org/center/contact.jsp
SPAN
A social justice and human rights project that provides resources and the presence of solidarity with communities struggling against oppression in the praxis of liberation theology and non violence in Latin America
www.lightlink.com/wrehberg/index1.htm
 Tobin Tax Initiative
Tobin Taxes are excise taxes on cross-border currency transactions.
www.ceedweb.org/iirp/
U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
A coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, social- and economic-justice, youth, solidarity, labor, and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
www.50years.org
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