You might want to go to this link for an update re what the progressives stand for in America. Most of our internal enemies fall into this progressive label. They have been financed by people like Ma Ma T Rex Heinz for decades under the guise of non profits:
http://www.commondreams.org/community.htm
Organizing for America's future...
America's Progressive Community
...over 120 groups on the frontlines of change -
representing tens of millions of progressive-thinking Americans.
20/20 Vision
20/20 Vision makes it easy for busy people to act for peace and the environment.
2030 Center
Action tank founded and run by young leaders to conduct research and advocacy about economic issues affecting America's future.
21st Century Democrats
Formerly Democrats 2000, 21st Century Democrats was founded by progressive Democratic officials to give progressive and populist candidates the support they need to win elections.
Abolition 2000
You can play a part in ending nuclear testing.
AFL-CIO
The On-Line Union Hall
Alliance For Democracy
AFD's mission is to free all people from corporate domination of politics, economics, the environment, culture and information; to establish true democracy; and to create a just society with a sustainable, equitable economy.
America Coming Together (ACT)
America Coming Together (ACT) was started by grassroots and political leaders who share a vision of a progressive America and are committed to defeating George W. Bush and electing progressive candidates across the country.
American Civil Liberties Union
Fighting for our constitutional rights.
American Forests
Nation's oldest nonprofit citizen conservation organization, founded in 1875. AF's vigorous advocacy helped create the conservation movement and the National Park and National Forest systems in the U.S.
American Friends Service Committee
The AFSC is a Quaker organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.
American Rivers
North America's leading national river-conservation organization.
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA is the nation's oldest independent liberal political organization, dedicated to individual liberty and building economic and social justice at home and abroad.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Church-state separation stands as one of the foundations of our Nation. Because of it, Americans enjoy unparalleled religious liberty and nurture one of the most vital religious communities in the world.
Amnesty International
AI is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.
Animal Welfare Institute
The Animal Welfare Institute has been working for over 40 years to prevent needless suffering of animals.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ACORN is striving to organize the poor and powerless into a strong political presence.
BioDemocracy Campaign
The BioDemocracy Campaign is a public interest organization dedicated to building a healthy, safe, and sustainable system of food production and consumption. We are a global clearinghouse for information and grassroots technical assistance.
` Bread for the World
A Christian movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying decision makers in the United States.
Business for Social Responsibility
BSR is a US-based global resource for companies seeking to sustain their commercial success in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment.
Campaign for America's Future
Challenging the big money corporate agenda by encouraging Americans to speak up - to discuss and debate a new vision of an economy and a future that works for all of us.
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Food
Mission: To create a national grassroots consumer campaign for the purpose of lobbying Congress and the President to pass legislation that will require the labeling of genetically engineered foods in the United States.
Center for Auto Safety
Consumers Union and Ralph Nader founded the Center for Auto Safety (CAS) in 1970 to provide consumers a voice for auto safety and quality in Washington and to help lemon owners fight back across the country. CAS has a small budget but a big impact on the auto industry.
Center for Community Change
CCC helps poor people to improve their communities and change policies and institutions that affect their lives by developing their own strong organizations.
Center for Defense Information
Founded in 1972 as an independent monitor of the military, the Center for Defense Information is a private, nongovernmental, research organization. Its directors and staff believe that strong social, economic, political, and military components and a healthy environment contribute equally to the nation's security. CDI seeks realistic and cost effective military spending without excess expenditures for weapons and policies that increase the danger of war.
Center for Democracy and Technology
CDT works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age.
Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Center for Economic and Policy Research was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people’s lives. CEPR works to ensure that the citizenry has the information and analysis that allows it to act effectively in the public interest.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
CHEJ believes in environmental justice, the principle that people have the right to a clean and healthy environment regardless of their race or economic standing. Our experience has shown that the most effective way to win environmental justice is from the bottom up through community organizing and empowerment.
Center for International Policy
Promoting a U.S. foreign policy based on peace, international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights.
Center for Public Integrity
Exposing the powerful economic interests that have captured our Congress and our politics.
Center for Responsive Politics
Tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. Search their database to see who's paying off who.
Center for Science in the Public Interest
CSPI is a nonprofit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional quality of our food supply.
Center for Third World Organizing
Building a social justice movement led by people of color.
Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
CBPP is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
CPHV is the education, legal advocacy, and research affiliate of Handgun Control, Inc. CPHV’s national initiatives include prevention programs for parents and youth on the risks associated with guns; legal representation for gun violence victims, and outreach to the entertainment community to encourage the deglamorization of guns in the media.
Children's Defense Fund
America's Strongest Voice for Children.
Citizens Coal Council
Let's clean up the coalfields! CCC has begun a 5-year effort to improve the economy and quality of life in communities where coal is mined. This campaign for jobs and justice in the coalfields aims to put unemployed people to work cleaning up old, abandoned mines.
Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting (CIPB)
Nonprofit education/advocacy group being established to promote a restructuring of U.S. public broadcasting as an independently-funded public trust, free from corporate and political influence. The goal is to revitalize public broadcasting and resist commercialization.
Citizens for Tax Justice
CTJ's mission is to give ordinary people a greater voice in the development of tax laws and stand against the armies of special interest lobbyists for corporations and the wealthy.
Clean Air Trust
The Clean Air Trust was formed in 1995 by former Senators Edmund Muskie of Maine and Robert Stafford of Vermont. The Trust was created to educate the public and policymakers about the value of the Clean Air Act, to promote effective enforcement of the Act through grassroots education, and to defend the Act against attack by special interest polluters. .
Clean Water Action
National citizens' organization working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work.
Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
The Coalition was founded in 1995 to coordinate the largest and most active arms control and disarmament groups in a common effort to strengthen national and international security by reducing the threats posed by nuclear weapons.
Co-op America
Providing the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to address today's social and environmental problems.
Commercial Alert
Commercial Alert helps families, parents, schools and communities defend themselves against harmful, immoral or intrusive advertising and marketing, and the excesses of commercialism.
Common Cause
Representing the unified voice of the people against corruption in government and big money special interests.
Common Dreams
National citizens' organization working to bring together progressive Americans to promote progressive visions for America's future. Publishers of Common Dreams NewsCenter / NewsWire.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society. We work to influence decisions regarding the development and use of computers because those decisions have far-reaching consequences and reflect our basic values and priorities.
Consumer Federation of America
The size and diversity of its membership -- more than 260 organizations from throughout the nation with a combined membership exceeding 50 million people -- enables CFA to speak for virtually all consumers.
Consumer Project on Technology
The Consumer Project on Technology was started by Ralph Nader in 1995. Currently CPT is focusing on intellectual property rights and health care, electronic commerce and competition policy.
Consumers Union
Publisher of Consumer Reports, is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization serving only consumers. A comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns.
Conventional Arms Transfer Project
The Conventional Arms Transfer Project serves as a resource of information and opinion to the public, Congress and the media on arms trade issues. A project of the Council for a Livable World Education Fund.
Corporate Watch
Committed to exposing corporate greed by documenting the social, political, economic and environmental impacts of transnational giants.
Council for a Livable World
Committed to ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction and eliminating wasteful military spending.
Council for Responsible Genetics
The Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG), founded in 1983, is a national nonprofit organization of scientists, environmentalists, public health advocates, physicians, lawyers and other concerned citizens. CRG encourages informed public debate about the social, ethical, and environmental implications of new genetic technologies, and advocates for socially responsible use of these technologies.
Critical Mass Energy Project
Created by Ralph Nader to promote energy conservation and track government activities related to such issues as nuclear power, radioactive waste, renewable energy and fuel efficiency.
Dads & Daughters
National, nonprofit membership organization of fathers with daughters. DADs provides tools to strengthen our relationships with our daughters and transform the pervasive messages that value our daughters more for how they look than who they are.
Death Penalty Information Center
Serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.
Defenders of Wildlife
Dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.
Demos!
Demos is a new non-profit organization focusing on two of the most urgent challenges facing the United States in the 21st century: strengthening our democracy and creating more broadly shared prosperity. Demos conducts original research and builds networks of civic and economic reformers around the United States to help turn ideas into action.
Doctors Without Borders
DWB/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) delivers medical relief to populations in danger due to war, civil strife, epidemics or natural disasters.
Drug Policy Alliance
The Lindesmith Center and Drug Policy Foundation merged with the objective of building a national drug policy reform movement, and has changed its name to Drug Policy Alliance. Drug Policy Alliance is the nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs and promote new drug policies based on common sense, science, public health and human rights.
Earth Charter USA
The Earth Charter USA Campaign is made up of people from all walks of life who embrace the values in the Earth Charter and who seek to make these values a blueprint for a sustainable way of life in this country. These efforts of involved and committed individuals will popularize and build support for the Earth Charter as a guide towards a sustainable future. Ultimately, a 'people's movement' will spring up around the Charter which will provide enough political support for endorsement of the Earth Charter by the United Nations in 2002.
Earth Day Network 2000
EDN is mobilizing citizens to demand serious actions to address climate change and to reform our outdated, polluting energy system. Earth Day 2000 will lead the world toward a swift transition to an energy efficient economy built on clean, safe, renewable energy sources.
Earth Island Institute
Founded by environmentalist David Brower, EII fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment.
Earthjustice
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, is the non-profit law firm for the environment. For more than a quarter century, the Legal Defense Fund has represented hundreds of environmental clients, large and small, without charge.
East Timor Action Network
ETAN/US advocates changing US foreign policy and urges support for self-determination and human rights for East Timor.
Economic Policy Institute
EPI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.
Educators for Social Responsibility
Helping young people develop the skills and convictions needed to shape a safe, sustainable, and just world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Working to ensure that the principles embodied in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights (and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights) are protected as new communications technologies emerge.
Electronic Policy Network
An online consortium of progressive research and advocacy organizations, EPN works for a more inclusive and intellible debate about the policy issues that shape our world.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. EPIC is a project of the Fund for Constitutional Government.
Emily's List
'Early Money is Like Yeast' (it makes the dough rise), EMILY's List identifies viable pro-choice Democratic women candidates for key federal and statewide offices.
Environmental Defense Fund
Working to stop environmental pollution by encouraging business, labor, government, and citizen groups to cooperate and identify practical policies to protect the environment.
Environmental Working Group
EWG is a leading content provider for public interest groups and concerned citizens who are campaigning to protect the environment.
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
FAIR is the national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. We seek to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press. We scrutinize media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.
Families USA
Dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans.
Federation of American Scientists
Conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy. Board of Sponsors includes half of America's living Nobel Laureates.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
FOR is a national, interfaith organization that seeks to replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace and justice.
Feminist Majority Foundation
Mission is to create innovative, cutting-edge research, educational programs, and strategies to further women's equality and empowerment, to reduce violence toward women, to increase the health and economic well-being of women, and to eliminate discrimination of all kinds.
Food First!
The Institute for Food and Development Policy better known as Food First--is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Our work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.
Friends of the Earth
Advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and the empowering of citizens.
Fund for Constitutional Government
The Fund for Constitutional Government is a publicly supported, charitable, nonprofit corporation established in 1974 to expose and correct corruption in the federal government and other major national institutions through research and public education.
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
GLAAD is a national organization dedicated to promoting fair, accurate and inclusive representation of individuals and events in the media as a means of challenging discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity.
Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world. 'Since our founding in 1988, we have been striving to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world.'
Global Green USA
Global Green USA works in cooperation with individuals, industry, and government to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future. Acting as a catalyst, facilitator, and mediator, Global Green USA encourages collaborative approaches and crosscutting solutions to environmental challenges.
Government Accountability Project
Brave whistleblowers are often targeted for harassment, intimidation, demotion, and dismissal. In 1977, the non-profit Government Accountability Project was created to help these employees, who, through their individual acts of conscience, protect each and everyone of us.
Greenpeace USA
Independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Handgun Control, Inc.
A non-profit, non-partisan organization with over 380,000 active members, HCI is dedicated to the passage of sensible gun laws. Recognized as the premier gun violence prevention lobby in the nation.
Headwaters Forest
The Headwaters Forest contains the largest stands of ancient redwoods in existence. They are about to come under the saw unless people like you get in the way.
Heritage Forests
Alliance of conservationists, educators, scientists, clergy and ordinary Americans who are working together to ensure our unprotected scenic wilderness forests are permanently protected.
Human Rights Campaign
The largest national lesbian and gay political organization, envisions an America where lesbian and gay people are ensured of their basic equal rights -- and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
Human Rights Watch
New York-based organization that monitors human rights in over seventy countries worldwide. Keep up-to-date with world events and learn about human rights around the globe.
Humane Society of the United States
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) envisions a world in which people satisfy the physical and emotional needs of domestic animals; protect wild animals and their environments; and change their relationships with other animals, evolving from exploitation and harm to respect and compassion.
Hunger Project
Committed to creating a future that rejects the inevitability of hunger and recognizes the limitations of a consumeristic society.
INFACT
A national grassroots organization whose purpose is to stop life-threatening abuses by transnational corporations and increase their accountability to people around the world.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable rural communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy. We assist public interest organizations in coalition building and influencing both domestic and international policymaking through monitoring, analysis and research, education and outreach, and information systems management.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Nonprofit research and educational organization that provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies.
Institute for Policy Studies
At a time when other think tanks celebrate the virtues of unrestrained greed, unlimited wealth, and unregulated markets, IPS is striving to create a more responsible society - one built around the values of justice, nonviolence, sustainability, and decency. IPS, as I.F. Stone once said, is an Institute for the rest of us.
Institute for Public Accuracy
A nationwide consortium, IPA represents an unprecedented effort to bring other voices to the mass-media table often dominated by a few major think tanks. IPA works to broaden public discourse in mainstream media, while building communication with alternative media outlets and grassroots activists.
Interfaith Alliance
TIA's members have come together for the purpose of standing up to the Christian Coalition and other radical right wing groups and individuals who wrap themselves in the language and symbolism of religious faith.
International Center for Technology Assessment
The International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) is a non-profit, bi-partisan organization committed to providing the public with full assessments and analyses of technological impacts on society. CTA is devoted to fully exploring the economic, ethical, social, environmental and political impacts that can result from the applications of technology or technological systems.
Jobs with Justice
A national campaign for workers’ rights. Working through coalitions of labor, community, religious and constituency organizations, Jobs with Justice is fighting for workers’ rights and economic justice.
Jubilee 2000/USA
Biblical tradition calls for a Jubilee year, when slaves are set free and debts cancelled. Jubilee 2000/USA is part of the worldwide movement to cancel the crushing international debt of impoverished countries.
Latin America Working Group
LAWG is a coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations. Striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region.
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Working to protect and promote human rights and hold all governments accountable to the standards affirmed in the Intl Bill of Human Rights. Its programs focus on building the legal institutions and structures that will guarantee human rights in the long term.
League of Conservation Voters
The political voice for over 9 million members of environmental groups, LCV works full-time to educate citizens about the environmental voting records of Members of Congress.
Libraries for the Future
A national organization dedicated to information equity, literacy and the preservation and renewal of libraries as essential tools for a democratic society.
MADRE
Since 1983, MADRE has worked in partnership with community-based organizations in conflict areas worldwide to address issues of women's health, economic development, and other human rights. MADRE provides resources and training for its sister organizations and works to empower people in the US to demand changes to unjust policies.
Media Alliance
Media Alliance is a 22-year-old nonprofit training and resource center for media workers, community organizations, and political activists. Their mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility.
Mobilization for Global Justice
Leading the charge against the IMF and the World Bank.
MoveOn.org
MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics. With a system that today revolves around big money and big media, most citizens are left out. When it becomes clear that our "representatives" don't represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice. Our international network of more than 2,000,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today.
National Abortion Rights Action League
NARAL fights to protect our very basic and necessary right to choose - meaning having access to safe and legal abortion, effective contraceptive options, and quality reproductive health care.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP is the the oldest, largest and strongest Civil Rights Organization in the US. Works to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of the United States.
National Breast Cancer Coalition
The National Breast Cancer Coalition is a grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer. NBCC was formed in 1991 with one mission: to eradicate breast cancer through action and advocacy.
National Committee for an Effective Congress
NCEC is a full-service progressive political action committee which supports progressive House and Senate candidates.
National Environmental Trust
NET is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the American public on contemporary environmental issues.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
NGLTF is the leading progressive civil rights organization that has supported grassroots organizing and advocacy to strengthen the gay and lesbian movement at the state and local level while connecting these activities to a national vision of change.
National Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization that shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property interests.
National Organization for Women
NOW is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
National Parks Conservation Association
NPCA is a non-profit, private organization dedicated to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the U.S. National Park System.
National Priorities Project
The National Priorities Project (NPP) offers citizen and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice. Since 1983, the National Priorities Project (NPP) has been the only group in the country that focuses on the impacts of federal tax and spending policies at the community level.
Native Forest Council
Utilizes ethical, moral, religious, and eco-economic arguments to protect, preserve and recover our nation's national forests and watersheds, and end corporate welfare destructive to the public health and well being.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Excerpted. For the total list of anti America organizations today working 24/7/365 to weaken America go to this link:
http://www.commondreams.org/community.htm
