Posted by:
Steve Dubb
New website links to over 500 groups
Although not formally launching until October, the START website already includes a wide range of resources for people interested in social change organizing. Developed by two activists from Cleveland and Philadelphia, the site includes a 24-session study course that small groups (say, of 8-10 people) can use to gather together, study and discuss environmental, domestic, and world issues using the on-line readings, read and think about the world they want and how to get there, and then act.
The website also includes a very extensive directory of progressive groups, sorted into 12 primary categories and 80 sub-categories.
Probably of most interest to the readers of this blog is the site’s Economic Justice category, which is divided include 12 sub-categories and includes a listing of over 70 national groups, including our very own Community-Wealth.org.
In the words of site founders Randy Schutt and Pamela Haines, START aims to provide a process to “enable a small group of people to better understand what is wrong with our world, develop a vision of a better society, and figure out effective strategies for moving from here to there.”