Here is a list of links to community organizations and resources that we have gathered through our last projects:
- Hey-Way'-Noqu' Healing Circle for Addictions Society
- Directions Youth Services Centre
- Innervisions Recovery Center
- From Grief to Action/Parents Forever
- Native Courtworker and Counselling Assoc of BC
- Maple Ridge Treatment Center
- M.A.R.C. (Methamphetamine Response Committee)
- www.2020parenting.com
- www.gammaray.ca
- Keeping the Door Open Coalition
- www.no2meth.ca
- Immigrant Services Society of BC
- Progressive Intercultural Services Society
- South Asian Family Association info@safa.ca
- Surrey/Delta Immigrant Services Society
- VIRSA – Sikh Alliance Against Youth Violence
- UNITED
- A Community That Cares
Reading
- CCPA/SPARC co-publication "A Bad Time to be Poor: An Analysis of British Columbia's New Welfare Policies"
- Citizen's Handbook
- The Cost Shift Calculator
- PeaceVox
- PovNet BC
- Vancouver.IndyMedia.Org
- Women, Citizenship, and the End of Poverty by Hilkka Pietilä
Local Groups
- Building Community Assets
- Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom ~Vancouver Chapter
- Check Your Head
- City of Vancouver
- Civic Youth Strategy
- Community Solutions (TriCities: Coquitlam/Port Coquitlam/Port Moody)
- Community Learning Network (Vancouver)
- Council of Canadians
- Fair Vote Vancouver
- Fair Vote Canada
- Farm Folk City Folk
- IMPACS
- MOSAIC BC
- Self Help Resources Association
- Smart Growth BC
- SPARC
- Think Democracy
- Watari
Events and Actions
- BC Government Employees Union (petition against the two-year time limit)
- Citizen's Assembly
- Creative Resistance
- Democracy Watch
- Kinnex Youth Initiative - www.vcn.bc.ca/ypshra/
- LOVE (Leave Out ViolencE) - www.leaveoutviolence.com/
- Red Cross - www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000294
- Youth Co - www.youthco.org/
- Mind+Body+Love - www.mindbodylove.org/
- Kind Acts Association of BC - www.kindacts.net
- Invest in A Kinder World - www.investinakinderworld.com
- Gab Youth - www.lgtbcentrevancouver.com
- YouCAN - www.youcan.ca<
- Civic Youth Strategy - www.vancouveryouth.ca
- PR Watch - www.prwatch.org
- CBC One: Psychological Operations in Iraq - www.cbc.ca/webone/psyop/
- 101 Ways to Stop the War on Iraq - www.earthfuture.com/stopthewar/
Local (Vancouver-based) organizations working on water:
- CUPE BC (Canadian Union of Public Employees, BC Regional office)
Click here to get on the CUPE Water Watch listserve (to receive news about water struggles around the world) - Sierra Legal Defense Fund
- BC Tap Water Alliance
- The BC government and water:
BC Drinking Water Review Panel Report (released in Feb. 2002)
Global water sites
- The Water Observatory - a site "dedicated to providing information and resources to citizens, policy makers, the media, activist and movements working locally and globally on the right to water."
- Global Water Resource Management
* offers a huge network of links to information on water issues of all kinds! - Water and Globalization
- IMF and World Bank forced water privatizations
- Water and Development
Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations - Protection of Rivers (International Rivers Network)
Good papers and articles
- Security or Scarcity?: NAFTA, GATT and Canada's Freshwater
- The New Economy of Water: a report Detailing Water Privatization's Benefits and Pitfalls (Feb. 2002)
- Water privatisation: IMF and World Bank at the forefront : Poverty Reduction by Water Companies?
- IMF Forces African Countries to Privitise Water
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