Power to the People
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Power to the People
Black Lives Matter
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
The Council of Canadians with
Disabilities
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The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) is a social justice organization of people with all disabilities that champions the voices of people with disabilities, advocating an inclusive and accessible Canada, where people with disabilities have full realization of their human rights, as described in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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American Civil Liberties Union
In the years following World War I, America was gripped by the fear that the Communist Revolution that had taken place in Russia would spread to the United States. As is often the case when fear outweighs rational debate, civil liberties paid the price. In November 1919 and January 1920, in what notoriously became known as the “Palmer Raids,” Attorney General Mitchell Palmer began rounding up and deporting so-called radicals. Thousands of people were arrested without warrants and without regard to constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure. Those arrested were brutally treated and held in horrible conditions.
In the face of these egregious civil liberties abuses, a small group of people decided to take a stand, and thus was born the American Civil Liberties Union.
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NAACP
From police brutality to COVID-19 to voter suppression, Black communities are under attack. We work to disrupt inequality, dismantle racism, and accelerate change in key areas including criminal justice, health care, education, climate, and the economy. When it comes to civil rights and social justice, we have the unique ability to secure more wins than anyone else. Help make racial equity a reality.
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CCLA
CCLA is a human rights organization committed to defending the rights, dignity, safety, and freedoms of all people in Canada. As was established in the organisation’s founding principles, CCLA is the pre-eminent voice advocating for the rights and freedoms of all Canadians and all persons living in Canada. We are a leader in protecting rights and have earned widespread respect for our principled stand on such issues as national security, censorship, capital punishment, and police and state accountability —with a fearless voice on civil liberties,
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The Black Panther Party
Mission
Our goal is to:
CREATE engaging, informative and entertaining content for People of Color.
CURATE current, relevant content from other sources to People of Color.
DISSEMINATE information, knowledge and opinions to People of Color.
EDUCATE People of Color on their history to empower their futures.
ELEVATE People of Color with the goal of leveling the playing field to better their lives.
Although our main focus is People of Color, we welcome ALL people who fundamentally believe in Justice, Equality, and that Black Lives Matter.
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NCTE
The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.
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The Canadian Council of Refugees
The Canadian Council for Refugees is a national non-profit umbrella organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees and other vulnerable migrants in Canada and around the world and to the settlement of refugees and immigrants in Canada. The membership is made up of organizations involved in the settlement, sponsorship and protection of refugees and immigrants. The Council serves the networking, information-exchange and advocacy needs of its membership.
The Latino Canadian Chamber of Commerce
The Latino Canadian Chamber of Commerce is a professional non-profit organization
committed to creating a bridge where the cultural and economic strengths of the Latino
community can be united and strengthened. “Our Mission is to become recognized as the most
progressive organization in creating bridges where the cultural and economic strengths of
Latino Communities can be united in Canada.”
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Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is a national advocacy organization that works to advance the collective aspirations of First Nations individuals and communities across Canada on matters of national or international nature and concern. The AFN hosts two Assemblies a year where mandates and directives for the organization are established through resolutions directed and supported by the First Nations in Assembly (elected Chiefs or proxies from member First Nations).
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NCCM - National Council of
Canadian Muslims
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is a prominent civil liberties and advocacy organization with over 15 years of professional activism and public service.
We were formerly known as the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relatons (CAIR.CAN). Founded in July 2000 by Canadian Muslim advocates in Ottawa, CAIR.CAN was a fully independent and distinct organization from the Washington DC-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a pioneering American Muslim civil liberties organization.
We originally adopted the CAIR.CAN name because CAIR was and remains an established and recognized brand in civil rights activism within North American Muslim communities since 1994. Using this well-known brand, over the years we successfully established ourselves from a fledgling Canadian organization into one whose professionalism and accomplishments made us a leader in promoting civic engagement and defending civil liberties.
Given our Canadian heritage and mandate, we believed the organization needed to look to the future to meet the growing needs and aspirations of Canadian Muslim communities. Thus, on July 6, 2013 the organization became the National Council of Canadian Muslims.
NCCM represents a natural evolution for the organization and better reflects our Canadian roots and focus. As the NCCM, we both continue and widen our work as successful advocates for civil liberties and champion the role of diverse communities in upholding Canadian pluralism.
The United Nations
One place where the world's nations can
gather together, discuss common problems
and find shared solutions.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
The UN has evolved over the years to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.
But one thing has stayed the same: it remains the one place on Earth where all the world’s nations can gather together, discuss common problems, and find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity.
Citizens for Public Justice
Canada is a world leader in immigration and refugee intake. In 1986, the people of Canada were awarded the UN’s Nansen Refugee Award for their outstanding service to the cause of refugees. Canada’s private sponsorship of refugees program has been benchmarked and emulated by several countries including Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Yet there is much work to be done to ensure that refugees rights and fully respected in Canada, and around the world.
CPJ conducts policy analysis and public justice framing on a range of refugee rights issues to educate the public—especially churches—on the ever-changing landscape of refugee legislation in Canada. Through high quality research, policy monitoring, and publishing, we bring attention to the impact of legislative change on refugees and claimants, and on the groups that privately sponsor them to come to Canada.
We speak out against policies that disregard the rights and pre-migration experiences of refugees and newcomers to Canada. We also engage with parliamentarians to bring a public justice and human rights framework to the issues. CPJ communicates our analysis and framing through public presentations, writing, advocacy and workshops to audiences ranging from public officials, to the media, leaders in church and society and CPJ supporters.
With Reclaiming Protection, CPJ called for an overhaul to the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), a policy that allows the Canada Border Services Agency to refuse most refugee claims made at the Canada-U.S. border. By rescinding the policy, Canada can better uphold its international obligations to refugees, as well as the rights of refugees to receive due process. In 2020, we collaborated with STAND-Canada to release Slamming the Door, a report on the legal challenges to the STCA and the overall US-Canada diplomatic relations.
In April 2017, CPJ released A Half Welcome, our report on private sponsorship issues in Canada which highlights refugee sponsorship agreements holders' top concerns with federal government policy. In 2020, CPJ published Continuing Welcome: A Progress Report on A Half Welcome. It tracked progress on these concerns and ongoing gaps in Canada's refugee sponsorship program.
CPJ provides timely analysis and research on refugee rights. CPJ is a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees, a national umbrella organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees and other vulnerable migrants in Canada.
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GREENPEACE
Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
Around the globe, we are standing up with communities, and we are holding governments and corporations accountable. Whether on the streets or at the ballot box, we hold the real power when we work together.
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IFHHRO
IFHHRO | Medical Human Rights Network promotes health-related human rights, including the right to health. Our focus is on the important role of health professionals.
We believe that there lies a huge potential in the health professions that could be mobilized for the promotion and protection of human rights.
PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, and PETA entities have more than 9 million members and supporters globally.
PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment business. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals.
PETA works through public education, investigative newsgathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
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NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
The National Coalition for the Homeless is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission: To end and prevent homelessness while ensuring the immediate needs of those experiencing homelessness are met and their civil rights are respected and protected.
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We believe that safe, decent, and affordable housing is a human right (as written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article Twenty-Five, Section One).
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