Phone: (410)752-2228
Fax: (410)752-3073
Contact Person: Mitch Klein
Address:
  285 Park Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21201
 
Email: mdacorn@acorn.org
Website: www.acorn.org
Top Issues:
  The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is the nation's largest community of low and moderate income families. Their priorities include: better housing for first time home buyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. They work on achieving these goals by building community organizations that have the power to win changes through direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation.
Meeting Time:
  Call for neighborhood meeting times

Phone: (410)323-7200
Fax: (410)323-7292
Contact Person: Mark Lancaster - Regional Director
Address:
  4806 York Road
  Baltimore, MD 21212
Email: mar@afsc.org
Website: http://www.afsc.org/midatlantic/baltimore.htm
Top Issues:
  We work throughout the region on issues related to youth, criminal justice, economic justice, social justice and peace building.

Phone: (410)837-7278
Fax: (410)752-1848
Contact Person: Michael Morrill, Director of Organizing
Address:
  1410 Bush St.
  Baltimore, MD 21230
Email: mmorrill@afscme67.org
Website: www.afscme67.org
Top Issues:
  Labor
 
  the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO,
  is the nation's largest union of public employees.

Phone: (410)547-9200
Fax: (410)547-8690
Contact Person: Sharon Rubinstein
Address:
  8 Market Place 5th Floor
  Baltimore, MD 21202-4034
Email: srubinstein@acy.org
Website: www.acy.org
Top Issues:
  ACY's mission has remained unchanged since its founding--to identify problems, promote policies and programs that improve results for Maryland children in measurable and meaningful ways, and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and policies for the state's children and youth.
 

Phone: (301)565-4590
Fax: (301)565-4596
Contact Person: Mark Catlin
Address:
  1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 600
  Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
Top Issues:
  The Alice Hamilton Occupational Health Center (AHOHC) is a non-profit, worker-oriented organization which provides training, technical assistance, research, and legislative advocacy services in the area of occupational safety and health. The center targets low wage, underserved, and hazardous occupations and workers.

Phone: (410)243-2471
Fax: (410)235-5325
Contact Person: Chuck D'Adamo
Address:
  1443 Gorsuch Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: altpress@altpress.org
Website: www.altpress.org
Top Issues:
  Founded in 1969, the APC provides to the alternative press and seek to increase awareness in the community. It does this through the organization of a library and the publication of a research tool, The Alternative Press Index. The APC also provides a website which is a gateway to materials on the practices and theories of radical social change.

Phone: (410)889-8555
Fax: (410)366-7838
Contact Person: Susan Goering
Address:
  3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 350
  Baltimore, MD 21211
 
Email: curtis@aclu-md.org
Website: www.aclu-md.org
Top Issues:
  The Maryland ACLU works to ensure that all people in the state of Maryland are free to think and speak as they choose and can lead their lives free from discrimination and unwarranted government intrusion. We are guided in our work by the United States Bill of Rights and the Maryland Declaration of Rights. They work without partisanship to achieve these goals.
 
Meeting Time:
  Yearly membership meetings and periodic board meeting

Phone: (410)358-4840
Contact Person: Sue Wasiljov
Address:
  P.O. Box 65074
  Baltimore, MD 21209
Email: Amnesty109@southroad.com
Website: www.southroad.com/ai109
Top Issues:
  The local group of Amnesty International, a human rights organization, works on behalf of prisoners of conscience to stop human rights abuses, abolish the death penalty and educate the community about human rights abuses worldwide
Meeting Time:
  Roland Park Place, second floor, first Monday of each month (no meetings July and August)
 

Contact Person: Michael J. Keller
Address:
  310 Riverview Avenue
  Annapolis, MD 21403
Email: jelled@worldnet.att.net
Website: www.ari.net/leerirwin/peaceannopolis
Top Issues:
  Disputes the promotion of community peacemaking, overcoming racism in the community, countering hate groups, reductions in military spending and conversion to peace economy and the abolition of weapons of mass destruction. The chapter sponsors educational programs, has a community access cable television show, coordinates a yearly statewide peace writing contest for middle school students, organizes booths at community events and engages in lobbying, voter education efforts and local direct action.
Meeting Time:
  First or second Tuesday of each month at homes of members

Phone: (410)659-0000
Fax: (410)659-0755
Contact Person: Derek Williams
Address:
  Marketing & Development Department,
  Associated Black Charities of Maryland
  1114 Cathedral Street
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: dwilliams@abc-md.org
Website: www.abc-md.org/

Phone: (410)467-9388
Fax: (410)235-5325
Contact Person: The Wheelers
Address:
  1443 Gorsuch Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: baltimoreaction@erols.com
Website: www.erols.com/Baltimoreaction/
Top Issues:
  Baltimore Action is a grassroots group of volunteers working for political, economic, and social justice in Baltimore and across the Americas.

Phone: (410)243-4141
Fax: (410)243-4780 (no press releases, please)
Contact Person: Alice Cherbonnier
Address:
  30 West 25th Street
  Baltimore, MD 21218
 
Email: editor@baltimorechronicle.com
Website: baltimorechronicle.com
Top Issues:
  The Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, founded in 1973, is devoted to the proposition that people deserve better than they usually get. Its purpose is to bring communities, organizations, and individuals together in ways that promote understanding and participation, and encourage initiative.
Meeting Time:
  Office hours: 9am-6pm

Phone: (410)358-6600
Fax: (410)358-2894
Contact Person: Valeria Boyd
Address:
  5800 Metro Drive 2nd Floor
  Baltimore, MD 21215
Email: info@baltu.org
Website: www.baltu.org/
Top Issues:
  The mission of The Baltimore Teachers Union is to be a powerful, political force that influences the direction of education in Baltimore City for the betterment of the persons represented by the organization, supporting and enforcing the terms of negotiated agreements, policies, rules and regulations in order to create a positive atmosphere within the BCPS where children are eager to learn and employees are eager to work.
Meeting Time:
  Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.

Phone: (410)578-1919
Fax: (410)578-0058
Contact Person: Deborah Bedwell
Address:
  5707 Smith Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21209
Email: Deborah.bedwell@baltimoreclayworks.org
Website: www.baltimoreclayworks.org
Top Issues:
  Baltimore Clayworks exists to develop, sustain, and promote an artist-centered community that provides outstanding artistic, educational, and collaborative programs in ceramics. A non-profit ceramic art center with galleries, clay classes, studio spaces and programs in the community.

Phone: (410)323-7200
Fax: (410)323-7292
Contact Person: Barbara Larcom or Max Obuszewski
Address:
  4806 York Road
  Baltimore, MD 21212
Email: mobuszewski@afsc.org

Phone: (410)728-8611
Fax: same as phone number
Contact Person: Bob Kaufman
Address:
  2001 N. Hilton St.
  Baltimore MD 21216
Email: dgreene@all-systems.com
Top Issues:
  ending war & terrorism, mobilizing the majority against the pro-war oppressive ruling class
Meeting Time:
  7:30pm 2nd & 4th Mondays

Phone: (410)480-5256
Fax: (410)520-1117
Contact Person: Dave Goldsmith
Address:
  PO Box 36001
  Baltimore, MD 21286
 
Email: dave@baltimorecountygreens.org
Website: www.baltimorecountygreens.org
Top Issues:
  The BCGP's mission is to mobilize an informed electorate in order to win Green Party candidates. We provide information to the community about the Green Party and its policies, advocating for political change at local, state, and national levels.
 
Meeting Time:
  Every 3rd Monday of the month, 7-9pm

Phone: (410)323-7200
Contact Person: Max Obuszewski
Address:
  327 E. 25th St.
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: bern@mobtown.org
Top Issues:
  opposing imperialism, war, militarism, nuclear weapons

Phone: (410)662-8196
Fax: (410)235-.5325
Contact Person: Office
Address:
  1443 Gorsuch Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: office@baltimoregreens.org
Website: www.baltimoregreens.org/
Top Issues:
  The Baltimore Green Party (GGP) is a volunteer organization committed to social justice, ecological wisdom, grassroots democracy and non-violence. BGP is an alternative to the major political parties, but unlike the others, BGP combines electoral politics and direct action into one organization that works to change the political agenda while not losing sight of the principals or values of BGP. Rather than being run by party bureaucracies and elites, the Baltimore Green Party is run by grassroots activists. This ensures bottom-up accountability rather than top-down control.

Phone: (410)727-0169, ext. 209
Fax: (410)727-7177
Contact Person: Ann Sherrill, Director
Address:
  2 East Read Street - 8th Floor
  Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Email: bnc@abagmd.org
Website: www.abagmd.org/info-url3450/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=107319
Top Issues:
  BNC's mission is to Strengthen the capacity of economically distressed neighborhoods in Baltimore so that they can become more self-sufficient in responding to the housing, human welfare and economic development needs within their communities. BNC accomplishes its mission by:
  making grants and providing technical assistance to support the work of neighborhood organizations which are addressing critical issues facing their communities; partnering with neighborhood organizations, local and national community development intermediary organizations, and national philanthropic efforts to leverage a wider variety of resources and improve the local community development support system; partnering with neighborhoods, government, and other funders to advance public policies that result in the improvement of neighborhoods; and increasing the effectiveness and capacity of funders to understand, respond to, and support community-building efforts.
 

Phone: (410)323-7200
Contact Person: Max Obuszewski
Address:
  4806 York Rd.
  Baltimore, MD 21212
Email: bpan@mobtown.org
Top Issues:
  opposing war, militarism, nuclear weapons

Phone: (410)383-2800
Fax: (410)383-2911
Contact Person: Benita B. Paschall
Address:
  714 Park Ave.
  1st Floor
  Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone: (410)752-3595
Fax: (410)752-0677
Contact Person: Sharon Connell, Director of Development
Address:
  1010 Park Ave, Suite 100,
  Baltimore, MD 21202
Email: rchang@baltimorereads.org
Website: www.baltimorereads.org
Top Issues:
  Their goal is improving quality-of-life for educationally disadvantaged families. A leader in developing and deploying effective learning services, Baltimore Reads reaches people who need help with the basic reading, writing, math and employment skills that are so essential to economic stability and success

Phone: (410)732-3701
Fax: (410)962-1849
Contact Person: David Casey
Address:
  3200 Garrision Blvd.
  Baltimore, MD 21216
Email: DCHCasey@aol.com
Website: www.gamaliel.org/bridge/
Top Issues:
  BRIDGE is an emerging vehicle for change and social justice
  in the Baltimore metropolitan region. It is a nonprofit, interfaith
  organization of geographically, racially, and economically diverse
  congregations from Baltimore City and Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Howard,
  Harford, and Carroll counties. Members of BRIDGE, currently representing
  30 congregations, have come together in a new understanding of the
  challenges facing their communities
 
Meeting Time:
  July 10 BRIDGE Public Meeting

Phone: (410)523-8150 ext 252
Fax: (410)523-4022
Contact Person: Aisha Burgess,Program Coordinator
Address:
  512 Orchard Street
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: aburgess@bul.org
Website: www.bul.org
Top Issues:
  Their mission is to enable African-American to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power, and civil rights

Phone: 410.366.8818
Contact Person: Frank Pratka
Address:
  P.O. Box 33231 Waverly Station
  Baltimore, MD 21216
Email: pres@baltimore-matanzas.org
Website: www.baltimore-matanzas.org/index.html
Top Issues:
  Baltimore/Matanzas Sister City Project is a non-profit organization, and the primary goal is to promote cultural and educational exchanges between the citizens of Baltimore, Maryland and Matanzas, Cuba. Baltimore has a handful of sister cities throughout the world, one is in Latin America.

Phone: (410)837-2050
Fax: (410)837-2071
Address:
  1001 Cathedral Street
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: info@chasebrexton.org
Website: chasebrexton.org
Top Issues:
  Chase Brexton Health Services, Inc. is a non-profit, community-based organization providing medical, psychological, and social services on a non-discriminatory basis. Centered in the gay and lesbian community, Chase Brexton is committed to caring for a diverse community including those persons who have traditionally faced problems in accessing quality health care. Because Chase Brexton recognizes the special needs of those at risk for, and affected by, HIV disease, it strives to engage and empower our community in its quest for wellness and quality of life.

Phone: (301)920-1644
Contact Person: CCAN
Address:
  P.O. Box 1138
  Takoma Park, MD 20912
 
Email: mwtidwell@chesapeakeclimate.org
Website: www.chesapeakeclimate.org/
Top Issues:
  CCAN's mission is to make Maryland an international leader in proactive, comprehensive actions in response to the threat of climate change. To accomplish this mission, CCAN's activities include: building the first-ever grassroots movement in Maryland comprised of a broad cross-section of society, including citizens, progressive businesses, organizations, and government officials, dedicated to climate protection; educating and mobilizing citizens to foster new laws, spawn markets, and cultivate rapid societal changes toward the widespread use of renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies and practices; acting as a catalyst to grow the markets for renewable energy, alternative transportation, and energy efficiency products and services; conducting customized research to educate leaders and citizens on the economic, environmental, and health risks and rewards of various actions and of inaction; exploiting our proximity to the nation's capital to bring national attention to realistic solutions to the climate change crisis through visible, well-timed events and demonstrations in the nation's capital.
 
 

Phone: (410)728-8611
Fax: same as phone number
Contact Person: A. Robert Kaufman
Address:
  2001 N. Hilton St.
  Baltimore MD 21216
Email: dgreene@all-systems.com
Top Issues:
  medicalize drugs, democratize schools, form insurance cooperative for city residents
 
Meeting Time:
  7:30pm monthly (date varies)
 

Phone: (410)235-8808
Fax: (410)235-8816
Address:
  200 West cold Spring Ln. 3rd Floor
  Baltimore, MD 21210
Email: baltcwa@cleanwater.org
Website: www.cleanwateraction.org
Top Issues:
  Clean water action is a national citizens’ organization working for clean, safe, and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work.

Phone: (410)467-9388
Fax: (410)235-5325
Contact Person: Jean Cushman
Address:
  1443 Gorsuch Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: cage@mobtown.org
Website: www.mobtown.org/cage
Top Issues:
  CAGE organized after the November 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle. Afterwards we were highly involved in organizing for the April 2000 protests against the IMF and World Bank in Washington DC. Since then we have continued to educate, and organize locally, and for national actions. Affiliated with the Direct Action Network, CAGE sees as its mission "creating a movement to overcome corporate globalization and all forms of oppression--a movement united in a common concern for justice, freedom, peace, and sustainability of all life, and a commitment to take direct action to realize radical visionary change."
Meeting Time:
  Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Phone: (410)534-6447
Fax: (410)534-6475
Address:
  2714 Hudson Street
  Baltimore, MD 21224
 
Email: ceclp@leadsafe.org
Website: www.leadsafe.org/index.htm
Top Issues:
  To end childhood lead poisoning so that every child has the opportunity to reach his or her full potential.

Phone: (410)433-3269 or (410)433-0520
Contact Person: Jim Baldridge or Tina Wheeler
Address:
  810 Winston Ave. or 906 Reverdy Rd.Baltimore, MD 21212
Email: jbaldridge@aol.com
Top Issues:
  Marxism-Leninism, defeat racism, defeat Bush/Cheney
Meeting Time:
  various. Usually Thursday evenings twice a month

Phone: (410) 285-9563
Fax: (410)285-9440
Contact Person: Bill Barry
Address:
  7200 Sollers Point Road
  Baltimore, MD 21222
 
Website: http://www.ccbc.cc.md.us/laborstudies.htm

Phone: (410)467-9165
Address:
  3333 Greenmont Ave.
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: info@communitymediation.org,littlquail@aol.com,cmp@deeppool.com
Website: www.communitymediation.org/
Top Issues:
  The Community Mediation Program reduces interpersonal and community violence by increasing the use of non-violent conflict resolution strategies, and making mediation accessible to Baltimore communities. The mission is to provide neutral and safe dispute resolution opportunities through which individuals are empowered to work collaboratively to develop creative and mutually agreeable solutions to conflicts

Contact Person: Tony Robalik
Email: arobalik@conestogaclub.org
Website: www.conestogaclub.org
Top Issues:
  Campus mobilzation
  Conservation
 
  This is a campus organization, although open to the community. The club itself tends to go into hiatus during the summer, but the parts of that whole still live and breathe and fight. Check out the website for upcoming Lancaster-area events.
 

Phone: (410)246-1651
Fax: (410)276-3206
Address:
  413 South Conkling Street
  Baltimore, MD 21224
Email: staff@creativealliance.org
Website: www.creativealliance.org
Top Issues:
  The Creative Alliance is a community based non-profit organization that presents and promotes the arts and humanities. As a membership organization of artists, arts supporters, writers, scholars and businesses, the Creative Alliance cultivates community through collaboration.
 

Phone: (410)243-3118
Fax: (410)235-5325
Contact Person: Cliff Durand
Address:
  1443 Gorsuch Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: Cliffdurand@stargate.net
Website: www.radicalphilosophy.net
Top Issues:
  Each June the Cuba Conference co-sponsors a conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists at the University of Havana, Cuba. Occasionally they also sponsor lecture tours by visiting Cubans.

Phone: (410)523-1235
Contact Person: Richard Henderson
Address:
  1821 McCulloh Street
  Baltimore, Maryland 21217
Email: rhenderson@druidheights.com
Website: www.druidheights.com/
Top Issues:
  Housing, Community Development

Phone: (410)252-3043
Contact Person: Don Robertson
Address:
  517 Talbott Ave.
  Lutherville MD 21093
 
Email: baltimore@earthsave.org
Top Issues:
  The powerful impact a shift toward plant-centered food choices can have on the planet and all those who share it.
Meeting Time:
  second Saturdays at 6pm

Phone: (410)563-3160
Fax: (410)563-0097
Address:
  606 South Ann Street
  Baltimore, Maryland 21231
Email: director@eblo.org
Website: www.eblo.org/

Phone: (410)685-6567
Contact Person: John A. Kaplan
Address:
  P.O. Box 13221
  Baltimore, MD 21203
Email: info@freestatejustice.org
Website: www.freestatejustice.org/contact.html
Top Issues:
  (FSJ) is Maryland's largest Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender civil rights organization, fighting throughout the state to win equal rights? Begun in 1990, FSJ has fought diligently in the state capitol and other counties and cities to win equal rights. FSJ volunteers and employees are constantly speaking in schools, to employers, and to government agencies about a range of topics from schoolyard harassment to illegal discrimination to community building.
 

Phone: (410)889-4700
Contact Person: Laurie Bezold
Address:
  1601 Guilford Street
  Baltimore, MD 21202
Email: lbezold@fusiongroup.org
Website: www.fusiongroup.org/

Phone: (410)583-0438
Address:
  241 W. Chase Street
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: info@gfcbaltimore.org
Website: www.gfcbaltimore.org
Top Issues:
  Provide support and communications network for gay fathers
Meeting Time:
  2nd Friday of each month at 7:30; open to the public
 
 

Phone: (410)837-5445
Fax: (410)837-4114
Contact Person: Tim Hurley
Address:
  P.O. Box 22575
  Baltimore, MD 21203
 
  or
 
  241 W. Chase Street
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: office@glccbaltimore.org
Website: www.glccbaltimore.org/
Top Issues:
  The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland hosts support groups, recovery meetings and grassroots organizing concerning issues related to our communities. We also collaborate with other groups on shared issues such as civil or human rights and access to health care and social justice. They maintain a database of gay friendly businesses, support services and social groups.
Meeting Time:
  Call for Times

Contact Person: Dean Pappas
Email: generationsforpeaceanddemocracy@topica.net
Top Issues:
  peace and democracy
 
  American middle class culture is now fundamentally and vastly
  subsidized by the labor of workers abroad and the exploitation of natural
  resources abroad. We talk about poverty in the U.S., but even our poor are
  underwritten by the poor in India, Mexico, China now bigtime, etc. Our
  population cannot vote its self-interest because it has no idea what its real
  situation is. Our population lives in a fantasy world that is paid for by
  its enemies with wealth exploited from strangers in places far away. These
  elections are depressing charades, but only charades. The real game is off
  screen. World War III may get well underway and the people of Maryland will
  resent news bulletins that interrupt Ravens games."

Phone: (410)769-4172
Contact Person: Patrick Griffin
Address:
  Goucher College 1021 Dulaney Valley Road
  Towson, MD 21204
Email: jgriffin@goucher.edu
Website: groups.yahoo.com/group/G-R-O-W-L/
Top Issues:
  GROWL is involved in organizing around issues affecting workers

Contact Person: Liz Huntley
Address:
  Habitat for Humanity UC
  Box UMBC 1000 Hilltop Circle
  Baltimore, MD 21250
 
Email: LizHabitat@hotmail.com
Website: www.inform.umd.edu/Student/Campus_Activities/StudentOrg/hfh/
Top Issues:
  To build simple, decent affordable housing for low income families. We raise money for Habitat for Humanity affiliates. By doing so we educate the University of Maryland community about the importance of eliminating poverty housing.
 
Meeting Time:
  Every Wednesday night

Phone: (410)685-1180
Fax: (410)685-3101
Contact Person: Rod Clark
Address:
  1734 Maryland Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: rclar@hero-mcrc.org
Website: www.hero-mcrc.org/
Top Issues:
  Providing the city with HIV/AIDS support services since 1983

Phone: (410)323-7200
Contact Person: Max Obuszewski
Address:
  4806 York Rd.
  Baltimore, MD 21212
Top Issues:
  annual commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, monthly peace and justice movie series

Phone: (410)554-8448
Fax: (410)889-0347
Contact Person: Sue Flaherty
Address:
  2201 Argonne Drive
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: sue@hruth.org
Website: www.hruth.org
Top Issues:
  Leading domestic violence center, providing direct services to victims and their families (shelter, counseling, legal) and advocacy and education programs.
 

Phone: (410)537-5005
Address:
  1621 Fleet Street
  Baltimore, MD 21231
Website: parsons.iww.org/~iw/
Top Issues:
  The Industrial Workers of the World are a direct action anarchist-syndicalist labor organization. In Baltimore, IWW is involved in local strike-support work, anti-global capitl activism, and education.

Phone: (410)747-3811
Contact Person: Paulette Hammond
Address:
  401 Westshire Road
  Baltimore, MD 21229
Website: www.interfaith-coalition-for-the-environment.org/
Top Issues:
  The Interfaith Coalition for the Environment is a charitable, grassroots organization of men and women, lay and ordained, from various religious and spiritual traditions who believe that care for Creation and environmental justice are important matters common to us all. We promote projects, programs and activities to help our members and others of faith recognize and act on these beliefs.

Phone: (410)323-7200
Contact Person: Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Emergency Response Network
Email: Mobuszewski@afsc.org
Website: www.peacepledge.org/resist/contacts.shtm
Top Issues:
  As individuals who work for peace and justice, and who oppose further devastation being visited upon the people of Iraq, we invite you to stand in the way of this mad rush to war. We invite you to join us in the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, a campaign to build a network of nationally-coordinated, nonviolent civil disobedience to oppose President Bush’s plans for war on Iraq

Phone: (410)908-7603
Contact Person: Virginia Rodino
Address:
  8000 York Road
  Towson, MD 21252
Email: vrodino@towson.edu
Website: http://www.leftturn.org
Top Issues:
  global justice
  anticapitalism
 
  Left Turn is a network of revolutionary socialists and anti-capitalists. We are involved in struggles against globalization, imperialism and war, police brutality and for workers' rights. We meet regularly to discuss issues facing the movements for social justice. The one idea that unites us is the belief that through our united efforts a better world is possible.

Phone: (703)370-0714
Contact Person: Beverley Britton
Address:
  PO BOx 23091
  Alexandria, Va. 22304
 
Email: Lifeline4Peace@yahoo.com
Top Issues:
  Human/civil rights/humanitarian advocacy...promoting equitable Peace with Justice
 
  Truth access, local and global, in all media, especially exposing the profit motive and corporate instigators behind most conflicts, which is sacrificing the lives, wellbeing, and futures of American and all other children on the planet.

Phone: (410)685-0295
Fax: (410)752-8433
Contact Person: Beth Campbell Intern & Volunteer Coordinator
Address:
  802 South Caroline Street
  Baltimore, Maryland 21231
Email: beth@livingclassrooms.org
Website: www.livingclassrooms.org/
Top Issues:
  The Living Classrooms Foundation is a non-profit education facility that has provided hand-on, experience-based educational programs for more than 100,000 students since 1985. The Foundation's philosophy is based on the concept that students placed into small groups and environmentally challenging settings respond with a degree of learning not often found in a traditional classroom.

Phone: (410)947-0404
Fax: (410)947-1853
Contact Person: William G. Ewing or Bill McLennan
Address:
  241 N. Franklintown Road, Baltimore, MD 21223
Email: craig@mdfoodbank.org
Website: www.mdfoodbank.org/
Top Issues:
  As long as hunger exists in Maryland, the Maryland Food Bank will strive to supply necessary grocery products to charitable food providers so that these organizations can feed every individual and family in need. The MD Food bank will accomplish this by gathering excess donated food and grocery products from the food industry and the general public and by distributing these products to community food providers so that these organizations can feed every individual and family in need.

Phone: (301)565-4154
Fax: (301)588-5790
Contact Person: Maryland NARAL, Inc
Address:
  8121 Georgia Avenue Suite 501
  Silver Spring, MD 20910
Email: info@mdnaral.org
Website: www.mdnaral.org
Top Issues:
  The state affiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League

Phone: (410)467-0439
Contact Person: Dan Shawhan
Address:
  3121 St. Paul St. Suite 26
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: dshawhan@juno.com
Website: www.marypirg.org/
Top Issues:
  For decades fossil fuels and nuclear power have dominated the energy picture. But cleaner, safer alternatives exist making these dirty, dangerous sources of energy obsolete. Still in Maryland 68% of our energy comes from burning coal, oil and gas and almost all of the rest comes from nuclear power. We can and must do better to protect our health and the environment. We need to shift towards more renewable energy, and start to build a new energy future

Phone: (410)225-2318
Address:
  Printmaking Department
  Dolphin Building 100 Dolphin Street
  Baltimore, MD 21217
Email: info@marylandprintmakers.org
Website: marylandprintmakers.org
Top Issues:
  A member of the American Print Alliance, a non-profit consortium of printmakers' councils in the United States and Canada. the Alliance publishes a journal of critical literature about the Print arts and a guide to printmaking workshops, curates exhibitions, provides information and is an advocate for prints, paper works and brook arts.

Contact Person: Adrienne Nash
Address:
  300 Washington Ave.
  Chestertown, MD 21620
Email: anash2@washcoll.edu
Website: www.ssc.org/md/
Top Issues:
  sprawl, wildlands, trade, energy
 
  Like the Sierra Club, we are volunteer-run, and our strength comes from joining together as a statewide community to win campaigns our activists care about. It's as simple as that; our all-volunteer network is built on each individual's passion.

Phone: (410)467-7756
Contact Person: Bill Harvey
Address:
  3504 Yolando Rd
  Baltimore, MD, 21218
Email: bharvey@smart.net
Website: Listserv Only
Top Issues:
  We are a health care reform advocacy group. We have been involved in a number of projects including, most recently, the successful effort to keep MD Blue Cross/ Blue Shield's CareFirst from being converted to a for-profit entity. Our main goal is the establishment of a single payer health insurance system along the lines of Canada's.
Meeting Time:
  4th Thursday of every month

Phone: (410)747-3811 OR (301)390-9684
Contact Person: Carol Solomon
Address:
  327 East 25th Street
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: MUPJ@Bigfoot.com
Website: www.mupj.org
Top Issues:
  A networking organization seeking peace, justice and resolving environmental concerns through nonviolent means.
Meeting Time:
  Quarterly in March, June, September and December on third Saturdays.Call for places.
 
 

Phone: (410)277-0040
Fax: (410)277-0090
Contact Person: Ed Rothstein
Address:
  2517 North Rolling Road, Suite 200
  Windsor Mill, MD 21244-1931
Email: changetherules@juno.com
Top Issues:
  Builing democratic worker-led labor unions

Address:
  PO Box 1583
  Annapolis, MD 21404-1583
Email: debron@home.com
Website: www.curenational.org/~mdcure/

Phone: (410)243-9183
Fax: (410)243-9183
Contact Person: Paul Santomenna
Address:
  PO Box 50152
  Baltimore MD 21211
 
Email: info@megaphoneproject.org
Website: www.megaphoneproject.org
Top Issues:
  social and economic justice
 
  Megaphone Project is the low- and no-cost video production resource for social and economic justice advocates in Baltimore. We're supported by donations, grants and in-kind donations of time and equipment. If you'd like to volunteer, contribute or learn more about how we can work with your organization, please feel free to contact us.

Phone: (410)366-3300
Fax: (410)366-3304
Address:
  8 W. 26th Street
  Baltimore, Md. 21218
 
Email: info@naacpbaltimore.org
Website: www.naacpbaltimore.org/
Top Issues:
  We are premier advocates for civil rights, equality and justice for all people. Our objectives are to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality for all constituents in Baltimore.

Phone: (443)824-3273
Contact Person: Patricia Mitchell
Address:
  PO Box 50206, Baltimore
  MD 21211
Email: nlg_baltimore@hotmail.com
Top Issues:
  protection of civil liberties, social and political reform
Meeting Time:
  Last Wednesday of each month

Phone: (202)662-1530
Fax: (202)393-1973
Address:
  1012 Fourteenth Street NW Suite 610
  Washington, D.C. 20005
Email: info@nlihc.org
Website: www.nlihc.org
Top Issues:
  Dedicated solely to ending America’s affordable housing crisis

Phone: (410)537-5005
Address:
  1621 Fleet Street
  Baltimore, MD 21231
Email: roundhouse@mobtown.org
Website: www.nefac.net
Top Issues:
  NEFAC is an anarcho-communist federation which struggles for a classless, stateless and non-hierarchical society. NEFAC envisions an international confederation of directly-democratic, self-managed communities and workplaces.

Phone: (410)234-1091
Fax: (410)234-2816
Contact Person: Pamela King – Program Officer Community Fellowship and Urban Debate
Address:
  201 North Charles Street, Suite 1300
  Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Email: pking@sorosny.org
Website: www.soros.org/baltimore/
Top Issues:
  In 1998, the Open Society Institute (OSI) opened an office in Baltimore to focus on critical national urban issues as they are expressed locally. The office grapples with issues of national consequence that take on the limitations and opportunities created by local social, economic, and political conditions. This targeted focus enables OSI to develop a comprehensive understanding of the city’s assets and shortcomings and to respond with integrated grantmaking.

Phone: (410)539-6010
Contact Person: Scott Wilfong
Address:
  2105 N. Charles Street
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: outfront2000@aol.com
Website: come.to/outfront
Top Issues:
  Baltimore's HIV prevention program for gay men
Meeting Time:
  TBA

Phone: (757)622-PETA Ex:7382
Fax: (757)622-0457
Address:
  501 Front St.
  Norfolk, VA 23510
 
Email: info@peta.org
Website: www.peta.org
Top Issues:
  Animal Rights
 
  Animals are not ours to eat, wear, for entertainment or for experimentation. If you would like to learn more about jsutice for all creatures, contact PETA.

Phone: (410)433-3524
Address:
  P.O. Box 5637
  Baltimore, MD 21210
Email: gary@min.net
Website: www.pflagbaltimore.org
Top Issues:
  Volunteer organization; help change negative attitudes and create an environment of understanding so that all gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people can live with dignity and respect.
 
Meeting Time:
  2nd Sunday of each month, Sept-Jun, 1:00pm-3:00pm

Phone: (410)889-0071 ext 11
Fax: (410)889-0652
Contact Person: Beth Dellow
Address:
  410 East North Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: energyhands@earthlink.net
Website: www.phghouse.org/
Top Issues:
  In 1983, eleven low-income women joined forces with local housing activists to form the People's Homesteading Group and to pursue a shared vision of decent, affordable housing in Baltimore. Beginning as a grassroots self-help housing effort, PHG created homes throughout Baltimore City. With a skeleton staff and countless volunteers, we evolved into a community development corporation

Phone: (410)235-7760
Fax: (410)235-7711
Contact Person: Larry Egbert
Address:
  325 East 25th Street
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: EgbertL4pj@yahoo.com
Top Issues:
  Started as a group of physicians opposed to nuclear war.

Phone: (410)576-1400
Fax: (410)385-2762
Address:
  610 N. Howard Street
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: mailto:choice_ppm@ppfa.org
Website: www.plannedparenthoodmd.org

Phone: (410)323-7200
Fax: (410)323-7292
Contact Person: Max Obuszewski or John Dornheim
Address:
  4806 York Road
  Baltimore, MD 21212
Email: MObuszewski@afsc.org
Top Issues:
  Peace and Justice issues. We are a local affiliate of the Iraq Pledge of Resistance. We are committed to non violent acts of civil disobedience.
 
Meeting Time:
  Monday Nights, 7:30 pm

Phone: (410)262-8484
Address:
  P.O. Box 4796
  Baltimore, MD 21211
Email: jacquelinerobarge@msn.com
Website: www.powerinside.org
Top Issues:
  Power inside provides direct support to incarcerated women in Maryland. They advocate for the civil and human rights of women currently in the criminal justice system. They challenge the oppressive social and political conditions that drive the mass exploitation, criminalization and incarceration of women and girls. They look to the leadership of current and former women prisoners to determine the nature of their support services and advocacy work.
 
Meeting Time:
  Call for times

Phone: (410)467-9388
Fax: (410)235-5325
Contact Person: Chuck D'Adamo
Address:
  1443 Gorsuch Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: cdadamo@charm.net
Top Issues:
  The Progressive Action Center is a home for progressive forces in Baltimore. Opened in 1982 by Research Associates, it is a place to meet, network, learn, socialize and find some of the support resources needed by an effective organization. It is available to all groups and individuals who are prepared to work cooperatively for social change. Since the center is nonprofit, resources and space are available for little expense-basically at cost. The aim of the PAC is to strengthen progressive forces by nurturing a combination of personal, organizational and political activists.
 

Contact Person: Chris Scott
Email: leftist17@yahoo.com
Website: www.shepherd.edu/greenweb
Top Issues:
  War and occupation of Iraq, FTAA, human rights issues
Meeting Time:
  not meeting over summer

Phone: (301)277-7111 or (410)813-2225
Fax: (301)277-6699
Contact Person: Laurel Imlay
Address:
  7338 Baltimore Avenue (Suite 1A)
  College Park, Maryland 20740
Email: laurel.imlay@sfsierra.sierraclub.org
Website: maryland.sierraclub.org/
Top Issues:
  Confined Animal Feeding Operations, Forests/Wildlands, Global Warming, Open Bay Dumping/Site 104
  Sprawl, University of Maryland Wetlands Development, Population Growth.
 

Phone: (410)243-6987
Address:
  2743 Maryland Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: sociala@nothingness.org
Website: nothingness.org/sociala
Top Issues:
  Social Anarchism is a vital journal of anarchist ideas, now in its 20th year of provocative writing. Each issue contains three feature articles of current interest and debate, a historical essay, a reader writes section on hot topics, and an extensive section of book reviews. On our editorial board are activists, independent intellectuals, and academics--all focused on building a new society in the vacant lots of the old. Our contributors are international and have included virtually every major anarchist writer in the English-speaking world

Phone: (410)625-4215
Fax: (410)727-8316
Contact Person: Sonia Socha
Address:
  28 East Ostend Street
  Baltimore, MD 21230
Email: SoniaSocha@southbaltimorelearns.org
Website: www.southbaltimorelearns.org
Top Issues:
  The South Baltimore Learning Center is a private nonprofit adult literacy center committed to improving the basic educational and job skill levels of individuals (from non-readers to GED candidates) who live and work in South Baltimore and the surrounding areas. In serving nearly 400 learners each year, our mission is to strengthen the economic and cultural vitality of Baltimore by empowering educationally disadvantaged adults to improve their quality of life.
 

Phone: (443)416-0832
Contact Person: Josh Brown
Email: baltimoresustain@yahoo.com
Website: www.sustaincampaign.org
Top Issues:
  Ending U.S. support to the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.
 
  Stop US Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now! SUSTAIN is a non-hierarchical,
  grassroots organization committed to supporting and sustaining the
  Palestinian movement for justice, human rights and self-determination.
  The United States government supports Israeli violations of
  Palestinian national and human rights militarily, economically, and
  ideologically. The most tangible form of this support is the massive
  tax-funded aid that goes to Israel. We are committed to building a
  campaign against US military and economic aid to Israel so that US
  tax-dollars do not support the abuse of human rights.

Address:
  P.O. Box 39521
  Baltimore, MD 21212
Email: cansu@icg.org
Top Issues:
  Street Voice is a four-page quarterly tabloid distributed free in the inner city. Focus on drugs, crime, poverty, and homelessness, the paper provides an inside critique of everyday life in the ghetto. The paper doesn't sanitize issues for spurious mainstream

Phone: (410)516-8068
Fax: (410)516-6097
Contact Person: William Brody
Address:
  Johns Hopkins University
  Homewood Campus
  Baltimore, MD 21218
 
Email: jhuslac@hotmail.com
Website: slac.members.easyspace.com
Top Issues:
  The Student Labor Action Committee at Johns Hopkins is involved with issues of economic justice in Baltimore, especially as they involve JHU. It has fought a living wage campaign, with significant victories, and supported union efforts, as well as education.

Phone: (410)837-8888
Fax: (410)837-8512
Contact Person: Chris Tuttle
Address:
  241 West Chase Street
  Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: SAIMmd@aol.com
Top Issues:
  SAIM is a queer youth support and service organization working under the youth and young adult programs of the Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore

Address:
  Elicott City, MD 21042
Website: www.howardcountypeace.com
Top Issues:
  They are individuals and members of various lay and religious organizations in Howard County who are opposed to the war in Iraq.
Meeting Time:
  Tuesdays at 8:00 P.M., Owen Brown Interfaith Center

Website: www.indymedia.org
Top Issues:
  The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. They work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.

Phone: (410)728-3625
Fax: (410)728-3633
Contact Person: Leslie Kirkland
Address:
  2523 Gwynns Falls Parkway
  Baltimore, MD 21216
Email: Kirkland@loadingdock.org
Website: www.loadingdock.org/
Top Issues:
  TLD is a nonprofit building materials reuse warehouse. Their mission is to increase decent affordable housing for Maryland's low to moderate income families through the collection and distribution of reusable and surplus building materials; while diverting durable goods from the waste-stream. TLD is a membership organization with a 21,000 square foot warehouse filled to the brim with materials for use in renovations and community projects. They serve as an example of a successful cooperation between businesses and nonprofit organizations to assist in housing and environmental issues.
Meeting Time:
  Tues.-Friday 8 am-4 pm, Sat. 8am-3 pm, Sun-Mon. Closed

Phone: (410)767-8150
Fax: (410)333-3616
Address:
  William Donald Schaefer Tower
  6 Saint Paul Street, Suite 2102
  Baltimore, Maryland 21202
 
Email: mdopc@mail.state.md.us
Website: www.opc.state.md.us/
Top Issues:
  The voice of Maryland's residential utility customers.

Phone: (410)243-6987
Contact Person: Howard J. Ehrlich
Address:
  2743 Maryland Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: prejinst@aol.com
Website: www.prejudicinstitute.org
Top Issues:
  The Institute is a "think tank" since 1985 focusing all aspects of prejudice, discrimination; hate crimes, ethno violence and social policy. We do policy search on these issues, publish a newsletter, and provide consultations, seminars, and workshops. The Institute also has an active internship program for college students.
 

Phone: (410)235-8400
Contact Person: Eric Miller - Director
Address:
  2521 St. Paul Street
  Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Email: ericmiller@villagelearningplace.org
Website: villagelearningplace.org
Top Issues:
  Hours Vary – Library, Café both have different hours throughout the day.
 
 

Phone: (410)321-8761
Fax: (410)321-0462
Contact Person: Tracy Brown
Address:
  305 W. Chesapeake Avenue Suite 201
  Towson, MD 21204
 
Email: admin@wlcmd.org
Website: www.wlcmd.org
Top Issues:
  The Women's Law Center serves as a leading voice for justice and fairness for women and children. WLC advocates for the rights of women through policy analysis, litigation, education and research. They are a membership organization that offers opportunities for its members to support and participate in advocacy on behalf of women and families.

Phone: (410)455-1726
Fax: (410)455-9985
Contact Person: Maria Mayr or Joseph Cook
Address:
  715 Ingleside Avenue Suite 201
  Baltimore, MD 21228
Email: yof@erols.com
Website: www.yof.homestead.com
Top Issues:
  The goal of this non-profit organization is to encourage, develop, and support education, employment, and training opportunities for troubled youth. It is dedicated helping each young person so they are "prepared fully for the demands of society and for a contributing role in the community."

Contact Person: Pat Concern
Email: towsonantiwar@hotmail.com
Website: www.towsonantiwar.org
Top Issues:
  War (costs and effects), Globalization, Education, Local Labor Issues
 
Meeting Time:
  Tuesdays at 5:30; tentative. check website or call contact person.

Phone: (410)669-3637
Contact Person: Patricia Mitchell
Address:
  1420 N Charles St.
  Baltimore, Md 21212
Email: bbaker@ubalt.edu
Top Issues:
  The UB Progressives believe those in the bottom 90% of society have the right to social and economic justice. The rights of the bottom 90% are constantly infringed upon by those in the top 10% percent of society who own most of the world’s wealth.
 
  We oppose intolerance, hatred and discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, class, income, gender and sexual orientation. We seek to create a discourse in the UB community and surrounding areas about issues such as civil liberties, workers rights, the death penalty, imperialism, and globalization and to encourage active participation in the fight for justice.
 
Meeting Time:
  Call for times

Email: sjpmaryland@yahoo.com
Website: www.sjpumd.org
Top Issues:
  Their main and fundamental mission is to reach peace and justice. A lasting peace is one which is fair and just for all. It cannot be imposed by one people upon another.

Phone: (410)516-8853
Fax: (410)516-8890
Contact Person: Jan Danforth
Address:
  2250 Druid Park Drive
  Baltimore, MD 21211
Email: jdanforth@csos.jhu.edu
Website: www.aboutwoodberry.com
Top Issues:
  urban forest conservation and public (adult and children) STEWARDSHIP of our natural environment; city government responsibility for a healthy urban ecosystem; STOP LOYOLA COLLEGE FROM BUILDING A 71-acre sports complex with a 6000-seat stadium in these unprotected public woodlands; PUT ALL ACREAGE INTO PERMANENT CONSERVATION EASEMENTS (We are now established as The Woodberry Land Trust, incorporated with the State of Maryland, 501-c-3 organization, 9 board members, looking for more. Free tours of the area offered. Twelve grants won so far (including a Ntl. Fish & Wildlife grant). More than 300 new trees planted, invasive vines pulled.
  It's fun here. Come on in, the woods are fine.
 

Phone: (410)233-0488
Contact Person: Willa Bickham and Brendan Walsh
Address:
  26 South Mount Street
  Baltimore, MD 21224
Top Issues:
  Viva House is a Catholic worker house of hospitality in the tradition of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. They try to do the works of mercy and resist the works of war. We are a non-violent community and serve as a soup kitchen, food pantry, after school program and neighbor. They do their best to engage in civil disobedience as well as picket lines and vigils

Email: wibbaltimore@hotmail.com
Website: www.peacepath911.com
Top Issues:
  Women in Black--Baltimore is the local expression of an internationally renowed peace network--multi-faith, multi-cultural, and multi-ethnic--which initiates peace vigils and other visible peace actions in solidarity with women around the globe
Meeting Time:
  weekly vigil

Phone: (410)235-5782
Fax: (410)235-9460
Address:
  119 East 25th Street
  Baltimore, MD 21218
Website: www.womenshousing.org/
Top Issues:
  Incorporated in 1979, the WHC is a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to providing safe and affordable housing and support services to homeless and very low-income women and families in Baltimore City.