A San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory Saturday 9 Jul ...

writers whose daily reporting and analysis serves as a leading voice on a broad range of issues
including politics, immigration reform, the economy and jobs. We cover pop culture and
Capitol Hill with equal zeal, and we offer readers the opportunity to take action on these
issues through our Action channel. Address: 900 Alice Street, Suite 400, Oakland CA
94607 Voice: (510) 653-3415 Fax: (510) 653-3427 Email: colorlines@colorlines.com
Web: http://www.colorlines.com [07 May 2011]
Commercial Alert Mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and
to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community,
environmental integrity and democracy. Web: http://www.commercialalert.org
[24 Jul 2009]
Committee for Green Foothills Our mission is to protect the open space, farmlands, and
natural resources of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties through advocacy, education and
grassroots action. Address: Peninsula Conservation Center, 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo
Alto CA 94303 Voice: (650) 968-7243 Fax: (650) 968-8431
Email: info@GreenFoothills.org Web: http://www.greenfoothills.org [09 Jan 2011]
San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (SF-CHRP) Shares
the vision of human rights advanced by the National Democratic movement of the Philippines.
SF-CHRP educates, organizes, and mobilizes people and communities in the Bay Area to take
progressive action in upholding and supporting human rights in the Philippines and
throughout the world. Email: sfchrp@yahoo.com Web: http://sfchrp.weebly.com
[10 Jul 2010]
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. (CNR) Works to prevent deception in
nuclear radiation research, while also contributing new insights about radiation injury.
Address: POBox 421993, San Francisco CA 94142-1993
Web: http://www.ratical.com/radiation/CNR [09 Jan 2011]
Bay Area Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) A
national, grassroots, solidarity organization. We have been working since 1980 in solidarity
with the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) and the Salvadoran social
justice movement to promote an alternative to the oppressive US-backed policies of the
Salvadoran right. Today, eighteen years after the signing of the Salvadoran Peace Accords, the
struggle for a more just society continues on many socio-economic fronts. Address: 2940
16th Street, #301, San Francisco CA 94103 Voice: (415) 503-0789
Web: http://www.cispes.org [16 Oct 2010]
Committee of 100 for Tibet Tibetans, with their distinct culture, religion, language and
national identity, are an oppressed people in China-occupied Tibet and face the real threat of
assimilation and extinction. The C100 is dedicated to educating people and governments on
the tragic human rights situation that exists in Tibet today, keeping Tibet on the
international political agenda, and advancing the Tibetan people's legitimate right to decide
their own future through the process of self-determination.
Web: http://www.c100tibet.org/ [24 Jul 2009]
Committee to Free Lori Berenson Lori Berenson is a US citizen currently being held as
a political prisoner in Lima. After serving nearly five years in harsh Peruvian jails high in the
Andes, her conviction of treason against Peru and her life sentence were overturned. In June
2001 she was cleared of charges of being a terrorist, but convicted of collaboration, and
sentenced to twenty years in prison by a civilian terrorism court which, according to the U.S.
State Department, "fails to meet international standards of openness, fairness, and due
process." Web: http://www.freelori.org/ [29 Jun 2008]
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CofC) We are people
of all races and national backgrounds who are committed to the struggle for democracy and
socialism. Our name is taken from the history of the U.S. revolutionary war against British
colonialism. In the 1770s, Committees of Correspondence were formed in all 13 colonies and