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Long Island

AQE Alliance for Quality Education
AQE advocates sensible funding, adequate resources for a sound basic education in every community, a fair tax system that is not overly reliant on local property or sales taxes, full support for 12th grade educations for every child. smarter spending, a fair funding formula and multiyear school budgeting, accountability from the statehouse to the schoolhouse, wise investments for the future, smaller classes, pre-k for all, fully qualified staff, and clean, safe, technologically up-to-date classrooms.

Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives

The Alliance was founded in 1985 to provide educational programs on peace and national security issues and to promote dialogue on the role and responsibility of citizens in determining national priorities and policies.

Great Neck SANE/Peace Action

Peace Action, the merger of SANE and The Freeze, has effectively mobilized for peace and disarmament for over forty years. At Peace Action we believe that every person has the right to live without the threat of nuclear weapons, that war is not a suitable response to conflict, and that America has the resources to both protect and provide for its citizens.

Long Island Politics.com
Lists of national, state, county, and village representatives, Long Island political news, political parties, voter statistics, election results, interviews, and political links.

LIPC Long Island Progressive Coalition
The Long Island Progressive Coalition is a community-based organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development, revitalizing local communities, enhancing human dignity, creating effective democracy, and achieving economic and social justice.

New York City

CFE Campaign for Fiscal Equity
A coalition of parent organizations, community school boards, concerned citizens and advocacy groups who seek to reform New York State's school finance system to ensure adequate resources and the opportunity for a sound basic education for all students in New York City and, indirectly, for students throughout the State.

Citizens Union of the City of New York
Citizens Union, founded in 1897, is the oldest, largest and most influential good-government organization in New York City. Its mission is to encourage a municipal democracy that values its citizens, that tackles key issues, and that operates fairly, transparently, and economically. Citizens Union is allied with no party or party faction.

LWV League of Women Voters, NYC
A nonpartisan organization that promotes informed and active citizen participation in government, LWV neither supports nor opposes candidates or political parties.

Gotham Gazette (a project of Citizens Union)
Complete coverage of New York City political news and information

The City Project
A progressive non-partisan public policy organization that, through research, advocacy, education, and technical assistance, tries to ensure that New York City’s budget, tax, and fiscal policies are fair and meet the diverse needs of low and moderate income residents and communities.

New York City Americans for Democratic Action
reflects the liberal, labor agenda in New York City through its involvement in issues that affect quality of life for all New Yorkers.

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Savvy Voter
Since 1998, SavvyVoter, a non-partisan election forum for New York City, has provided tens of thousands of New Yorkers and hundreds of candidates a free and open place on the Internet to communicate and learn about politics and public policy.

Straphangers Campaign
The campaign has played a leading role in building a consensus for new investments in NY metropolitan transit through rider organizing; coalition building; research and reports; and media savvy.

New York Urban League
The New York Urban League, an affiliate of the National Urban League, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multi-ethnic, social service organization which, through direct service, advocacy, referrals, community capacity building, information dissemination, and technical assistance, improves social and economic conditions and opportunities for African-Americans and other people who face barriers to full participation in American society.

New York State

ACCESS Advocacy Center for Children's Educational Success with Standards
The ACCESS Project is a national initiative, started in January 2001, that seeks to strengthen the links between school finance litigation, public engagement, and the standards-based reform movement.

Citizen Action of New York
Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots organization fighting for economic, racial, social and environmental justice.

Common Cause NY
Common Cause NY is a non-partisan, non-profit citizen's lobby and a leading force in the battle for honest and accountable government with a proven track record of hard-fought legislative campaigns and lasting victories at the state and local levels for the past three decades.

FPI Fiscal Policy Institute
The Fiscal Policy Institute, founded in 1991, is a nonpartisan research and education organization that focuses on the broad range of tax, budget, economic and related public policy issues that affect the quality of life and the economic well-being of New York State residents.

NYCLU New York Civil Liberties Union
The New York State affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, is a statewide organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of New Yorkers' civil liberties as enumerated in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the State of New York

NYPIRG - New York Public Interest Research Group
NYPIRG, with 85 000 members, is New York State's largest consumer, environmental and government reform organization. NYPIRG's full-time staff produces studies on a wide array of topics, coordinates state campaigns, lobbies public officials, and trains students and other New Yorkers to be advocates for reform.

NYPIRG's 'Who Represents Me?'

National

ADA Americans for Democratic Action

ADA voting records ADA rates Senators and Representatives according to the Liberal Quotient, based on 20 key votes covering domestic, foreign, economic, military, social and environmental legislation.

ACORN Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 700 neighborhood chapters in 51 cities across the country. Our priorities include: better housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. Since 1970 ACORN has built community organizations that have the power to win changes -- through direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation.

ACORN Housing Corporation

ACORN Living Wage Resource Center

ACORN Law on the Web

ACLU American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Since our founding in 1920, the nonprofit, nonpartisan ACLU has grown to an organization of nearly 400,000 members and supporters, with offices in almost every state. Most of our clients are ordinary people who have experienced an injustice and have decided to fight back. The ACLU has maintained, since its founding, the position that civil liberties must be respected even in times of national emergency.

ACT Americans Coming Together
In seventeen battleground states ACT will communicate with voters about issues that affect them and their families, will highlight the extremist positions of the Bush agenda and discuss positive, progressive alternatives; will coordinate with progressive organizations, and will work to mobilize millions of voters who will say NO to the Republican agenda by voting to defeat George W. Bush and elect progressives up and down the ticket. Ellen R. Malcolm, President of ACT, began EMILY's List to elect pro-choice Democratic women candidates and built it into the largest political action committee in the country.

AFSC American Friends Service Committee

The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures.

Brennan Center for Justice of the New York University School of Law

The Brennan Center provides scholarship, public education, and legal action that promotes equality and human dignity by finding solutions to intractable problems in the areas of democracy, poverty, and criminal justice.

Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute that works to find progressive and pragmatic solutions to domestic and international problems and develop policy proposals that foster a government that is "of the people, by the people, and for the people." We believe in honoring work, building strong communities, fostering effective government and encouraging free and fair markets.

Campaign for America's Future

Over 100 Prominent Americans — citizen activists and policy experts — joined together to launch the Campaign for America's Future which insists that the question of falling wages and rising insecurity be placed at the center of our national debate. We challenge those who suggest that nothing can be done, expose the conservative agenda that has made things worse, and try to revitalize a progressive agenda that makes this economy work for working people once again.

CDI Center for Defense Information
The Center for Defense Information is dedicated to strengthening security through: international cooperation; reduced reliance on unilateral military power to resolve conflict; reduced reliance on nuclear weapons; a transformed and reformed military establishment; and, prudent oversight of, and spending on, defense programs.

Center for Responsive Politics
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large.

The Century Foundation
The Foundation works to persuade those who care about issues such as economic inequality, population aging, homeland security, discontent with government and politics, and national security that significant improvements are possible even when the conventional wisdom says they are not. Since the Foundation's founding in 1919 as the Twentieth Century Fund it has corrected widespread misconceptions and provided policymakers with new ideas.

Social Security Network

CDF Children's Defense Fund
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to ensure every child a healthy start, in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves and pays particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF, begun in 1973, educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investment before they get sick or into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. CDF has never taken government funds.

Common Cause
Common Cause seeks by sustained and focused lobbying campaigns, grassroots activities, and other efforts to strengthen public participation and public faith in our institutions of self-government at the federal, state, and local levels; to ensure that government and the political process serve the general interest, rather than special interest;: to curb the excessive influence of money on government decisions and elections; to promote fair and honest elections and high ethical standards for government officials; and to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of all Americans.

Congress.org

Congress.org has information about national, state, and local elected representatives, a forum for comments about our representatives, lists of local media, and useful tools for voters, political campaign managers, and candidates.

CLW Council for a Livable World
The Council for a Livable World, the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation and PeacePAC are among the nation's preeminent arms control organizations and focus on halting the spread of weapons of mass destruction, opposing a national missile defense system, cutting Pentagon waste and reducing excessive arms exports. The Council and PeacePAC are also political lobbies which endorse political candidates.

Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 400,000 members. Since 1967, the fund has linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems

LWV League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

LWV Democracy Net

MoveOn
An international network of more than 2 000 000 online activists

Moving Ideas
explains and popularizes policy ideas to a broad audience to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators.

Moving Ideas' website has a list of their members that is an excellent directory of progressive organizations

National Jobs For All Coalition
The National Jobs for All Coalition is committed to building a new movement for full employment at livable wages.

PFAW People for the American Way
PFAW works to safeguard public education, protect religious freedom, maintain an independent judiciary, promote civil rights and equal rights, defend constitutional liberties, and promote civic participation.

Project Vote Smart
A national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings.

Public Citizen
Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts.

UFE United for a Fair Economy
helps build social movements for greater equality by raising awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart.

WFP Working Families Party
A grassroots, community- and labor- based political party whose goal is to hold candidates and elected officials accountable for issues of working-class, middle-class, and poor people, like jobs, health care, education, and housing.