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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS/PEOPLE
Black Lives Matter Ithaca Black Lives Matter Ithaca (BLMI) is a grassroots, ideologically diverse organization committed to anti-racism and to the political, economic, social, and cultural empowerment of black residents of the Ithaca area. BLMI was created by black people from different walks of life to fight the insecurity and marginalization that plague many local black residents, and to build upon the growing wave of energy and resistance that the “Black Lives Matter” movement has generated nationwide. Through agitation, education, and service, BLMI seeks fair and decent education, employment, housing, lending, political rights, and public accommodations for all Black people.

Center for Transformative Action   The Dorothy Cotton Institute envisions the full realization of a just and peaceful beloved community in which all people understand, respect, protect and exercise full human rights.

Ithaca Health Alliance  mission is to facilitate access to health care for all, with a focus on the needs of the uninsured.

Ithaca Free Skool Classes, discussion groups, skill shares, projects, and events hosted in a non-intimidating, informal, radical, creative, and fun environment.

Local First Ithaca  brings people, businesses, and organizations together to create a successful local economy that used resources, experience, and inclusiveness to create a thriving and livable community. We are an inclusive network of independent, locally owned businesses & services, farmers, non-profits and community members.


Multicultural Resource Center   offers a number of programs and cultural celebrations throughout the year, diversity workshops and trainings, and a lending library with resources on undoing racism and diversity education.

Racism Bores Me...seriously  - Eldred's Blog

Shaleshock  Protecting our communities and environment from exploitative gas drilling of the Marcellus Shale.

Share Tompkins  helps folks share and trade goods and services in Ithaca and Tompkins County. The volunteer-run group was formed through an open community meeting on May 7, 2009.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Ithaca - Local contact: kate.w.cardona@gmail.comSURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. National SURJ website.

Sustainable Tompkins   Sustainable Tompkins is a citizen-based organization working towards the long-term well-being of our communities by integrating social equity, economic vitality, ecological stewardship, and personal and civic responsibility.

Tompkins County Worker's Center   mission is to stand up with all people treated unfairly at work or faced with critical poverty, racial, housing, health care or other social and economic issues. We will support, advocate for, and seek to empower each other to create a more just community and world.

Village at Ithaca advocates for excellence and equity in Ithaca's public schools, by developing strategic community relationships, programs, and services to ensure that students, particularly Black, Latino, and low-income students, consistently meet or exceed local and New York state standards of achievement.

We Are Seneca Lake  We Are Seneca Lake is an ongoing, citizen-based, grassroots campaign that seeks to protect Seneca Lake and the surrounding region from gas storage expansion by Texas-based energy company, Crestwood Midstream. Crestwood’s intention is to repurpose the crumbling salt mines underneath Seneca Lake’s hillside into massive, unlined gas tanks for three highly pressurized products of fracking: methane (natural gas), and propane and butane (LPG, or Liquefied Petroleum Gases) and to turn the Finger Lakes into a fracked gas transportation and storage hub for the entire Northeast. Our intention is to direct the future of our community down sustainable, renewable pathways.

Park Center for Independent Media  is a national center for the study of media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/PEOPLE

Breakthrough Communities  promoting justice and sustainability in metropolitan regions.

Campaign Zero Campaign ZERO was developed with contributions from activists, protesters and researchers across the nation. This data-informed platform presents comprehensive solutions to end police violence in America. It integrates community demands and policy recommendations from research organizations and the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Together, we will win.

Colorlines  is a daily news site offering award-winning reporting, analysis, and solutions to today's racial justice issues.

Earthjustice  because the earth needs a good lawyer.

Applied Research Center Racial justice through media, research and activism. 

Everyday Democracy  ideas and tools for community change 

Policylink  a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity.

Showing Up for Racial Justice SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

Tim Wise

Van Jones

Racial Equity Tools  designed to support people and groups who are working for inclusion, racial equity and social justice.

Roots Action is a new online initiative dedicated to galvanizing millions of Americans who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights, civil liberties, environmental protection -- and defunding endless wars.