Pan Left Productions

Pan Left Productions (Tucson, AZ) is a membership-driven collective of progressive artists and activists who believe in the positive use of media for social and environmental justice and social change. Their mission is to amplify progressive stories and voices by providing access to equipment and resources, increasing the capability of individuals and organizations to use and make media, and promoting equity in media distribution.

Arizona Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice

As Arizona’s only worker rights center, AIAWJ (Phoenix, AZ) is a place where Arizona’s working women and men are able to take charge of solving their own workplace issues. Many of these same individuals have emerged as the center’s strongest worker leaders, board members, volunteers, and staff.

Action Resources International

Action Resources International (Laramie, WY) is an organization dedicated to serving victims and survivors of sexual violence, with a special focus on women and girls who have survived family-based and sexual violence and gone on to become anti-violence activists. Action…

On Coal River, a film by Adams Wood and Francine Cavanaugh

On Coal River takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia — a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The film follows a former coal miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children, and life as they know it.

Rwanda: Beyond the Deadly Pit, a film by Gilbert Ndahayo

In 1994, Gilbert Ndahayo hid to survive Rwanda’s days of genocide only to return to his childhood home to find it destroyed, his parents killed, and their corpses dumped, along with 153 bodies of his neighbors, in a pit in his back garden where he played as a boy.

13 years later, Ndahayo focuses his camera and his compassion on his home in ruin, behind a convent where his neighbors had sought sanctuary. He records the quiet beauty of survivors, the haunting accounts of the nuns who witnessed the horrors, and a rare confession by one of the men who murdered his parents.

Emerge Massachusetts

Emerge Massachusetts is part of a national movement to address the under-representation of women in elected office at the local, state, and federal level. Although the network is only eight years old, there are Emerge affiliates in nine states: Arizona, California, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, and Wisconsin.

Families for Freedom

Families for Freedom is a grassroots network of families with loved ones facing risks of deportation that works with detainees and advocates for immigration reform.

Chinese Staff and Workers Association

When a fellow employee was fired at the Saigon Grill because he was too old,  Jerry Wang took a stand. That got him fired, too.  Since then, Wang has come together with other Chinese Staff and Workers Association (CSWA) members…

Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR…

Sylvia Rivera Law Project, New York City

The small things in life that many people take for granted – like using a public restroom – can be a battleground for transgender people. The big struggles in life can be much much worse. A trans woman, who found herself placed in a men’s prison, faced various health risks and constant sexual harassment. She was left with no options and very few rights.