This section is intended to have links to useful websites and other resourses that will hopefully be useful as a guide for improving your footprint in the areas of Social Justice, Peace and the Environment.

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Some Related Quaker Organizations

• Quaker Earthcare Witness: https://www.quakerearthcare.org
• Right Sharing of World Resources: https://www.rswr.org/
• American Friends Service Committee: https://www.afsc.org/
• Friends Committee on National Legislation: https://www.fcnl.org/
• Friends International Bilingual Center (FIBC), Bolivia: http://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/372/Friends-International-Bilingual-Center-FIBC-Bolivia
• Linda and Gene Farley Center for Peace, Justice & Sustainability: http://farleycenter.org/
• Camp Woodbrooke: http://www.campwoodbrooke.org/index.php

Focus Issues for MMM

Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin: https://www.safeskiescleanwaterwi.org/
Climate Change: 350 Madison: https://350madison.org/
Anti-Racism/Mass Incaarceration: MOSES Madison: http://mosesmadison.org/

Anti-Racism Resources

• American Friends Service Committee Anti-Racism Resources https://www.afsc.org/key-issues/issue/ending-racism
• Northern Yearly Meeting Anti-Racism Working Group https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/northern-yearly-meeting/resources/nym-anti-racism-working-group
• Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/
• Movement for Black Lives  https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/
• An Anti-Racist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html
• Charleston Syllabus https://www.aaihs.org/resources/charlestonsyllabus/
• Climate, Race Justice: We’re All in This Together – Friends Economic Integrity Project – Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: https://vimeo.com/174734727
• Book: Waking Up White by Debby Irving

• Embrace Race  https://www.embracerace.org/
• Raising Race Conscious Children  http://www.raceconscious.org/ 
• Families for Justice  https://www.familiesforjustice.org/
• Anti-Racism Parenting Resources for Parents of White Kids https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZzV8mA3rwl4bqZuf1bn2pKPvo5dZRruPBxk-V0tmK0A/edit?usp=sharing
• Jane Addams Peace Association: “We envision a future where people actively work to dismantle injustices and build a more peaceful, equitable world.“ Social Justice Learning Resources: https://www.janeaddamschildrensbookaward.org/social-justice-learning/links-resources/
• Cultural Survival: Resources for Indigenous Peoples: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/resources
• Beyond the Walls Education: “Learning should be fun, a Childs' curiosity must be nurtured, and students need to feel connected.” https://www.beyondthewallseducation.com/kiribati-climate-change/

Role of the Subconscious:

• Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Miodinow
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt:- https://g.co/kgs/kGyxnx

Videos with Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt – they all deal with different aspects of her research

• Tackling Perception’s Effects on Behavior with “Biased” | The Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSdl52DQzCM&feature=youtu.be (my favorite)
• How to check your unconscious bias| Global Goals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egw-iheD1Mc&feature=youtu.be
• How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVNb53lkBuc&feature=youtu.be
• Biased - Uncovering Hidden Prejudice That Shape our livest: Animated Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85BzjI-9s34&feature=youtu.be
• Breakfast Plenary: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.unitedphilforum.org/resources/breakfast-plenary-dr-jennifer-eberhardt&ved=2ahUKEwj0k7Gs0__8AhXIkYkEHcw-A0Y4HhCjtAF6BAgKEAE&usg=AOvVaw0JRJn5-1kO61Sl7VLqkAC1

Books that Illustrate the role of bias in maintaining the status quo:

• Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo - “Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism”
• All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans (Myths Made in America) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker. “Each chapter deftly shows how these myths are rooted in the fears and prejudice of European settlers and in the larger political agendas of a settler state”

Podcasts and Videos:

• Scene On Radio: Seeing White series: http://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/ series of podcasts on the development of racism and its history – recommended by NYM
• Code Switch: The fearless conversations about race hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
• Talking While Black: Think back to two summers ago, the summer of 2020, when a series of violent, highly-publicized killings of Black Americans sparked outrage and a national movement to eradicate racism and its evils. That movement gave way to a newer, reactionary one, a backlash that is playing out in schools and school board meetings across America. Host Emanuele Berry shares stories about Black people who got tangled up in this current backlash in both extreme and very personal ways. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/758/talking-while-black
• Hidden Brain Episodes:
• Double Standard on how learning about one's bias causes people to recognize it in other but strengthens is in oneself : https://hiddenbrain.org/category/podcast/?s=Double+standard
• Other related Hidden Brian episodes: The Easiest Person to Fool is oneself - https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-easiest-person-to-fool/
• Changing Behavior Not Beliefs: successful strategies to decrease police violence; https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/changing-behavior-not-beliefs/
• Choose Carefully – On how our choices are manipulated: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/choose-carefully/
• How to outsmart your own subconscious bias – you see what you believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-cqFLS8Q4&feature=youtu.be
• Cross cultural communication: Good explanation of how culture shapes a person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMyofREc5Jk
• HeatherMcGhee:
• Talking on her book The Sum of Us: https://www.c-span.org/video/?516936-3/washington-journal-heather-mcghee-discusses-book-the-sum-us or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2Bz7dQilU (the first one is a bit longer but includes her great responses to some questionable questions.
• Earlier talks by her are also interesting - Racism has a cost for everyone https://www.ted.com/talks/heather_c_mcghee_racism_has_a_cost_for_everyone?language=en (her talks at the Bioneers conferences also good):
• Is Meritocracy a Myth?" - https://youtu.be/YUbSpI0J9aQ
• Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise: https://www.pbs.org/show/black-america-mlk-and-still-i-rise/
• Documentary: My Name Is Pauli Murray An amazing woman. Unfortunately as far as we can tell it is only available on Amazon Prime.
• Mitakuye Oyasin" (We Are All Related) is a short documentary that sheds a light on the problems facing the noble people of the Great Sioux Nation – horse culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m8pMmcEkSA
• Documentary: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America Information at The Who We Are Project: https://thewhoweareproject.org/

• City of Decatur Anti-Racism Speaker Series: Tim Wise: https://youtu.be/le5qbbgLXEo
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son | Tim Wise | https://youtu.be/oV-EDWzJuzk
• Ep. 56 - Not Quite Strangers conversation on race: Meet Jae Maye & Shelly Tochluk (podcasts) https://youtu.be/le5qbbgLXEo

Socially Responsible Shopping

Definition:

1. Shopping/living sustainably
2. Not supporting a company that abuses the environment or the labor force or animals or creates social injustice
3. Shopping for a lower carbon footprint (foods that do not use fossil fuels, short travel distances etc)
4. Supporting companies that are doing a good job on the above issues.
5. Avoiding all the toxins and unhealthy products that are being sold.
6. Other?

Links to useful sites (also see Fair Trade Pamphlet attached below):

• http://www.greenamerica.org/
• http://www.greenamerica.org/programs/responsibleshopper/
• http://equalexchange.coop/
• http://www.fairtradefederation.org/
• http://unionwear.com/
• https://unionmadegoods.com/
• http://www.sweatfree.org/shoppingguide
• http://sweatfreeshop.com/
• http://www.globalexchange.org/programs
• http://www.fairworldproject.org/
• http://www.endslaverynow.org/
• http://www.endslaverynow.org/ast/buy-slave-free/slave-free-companies
• https://www.betterworldshopper.com/
• https://www.betterworldshopper.com/the-research/
• http://www.thegoodshoppingguide.com/
• http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/
• http://www.serrv.org/
• http://www.slavefreechocolate.org/
• https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/

Guide to Social Justice Practices of Madison Restaurants: http://wrcmadison.org/WP/just-dining/

Links to Information on Human Trafficking

• National Human Trafficking Hotline: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/
• Polaris Project: https://polarisproject.org/
• Trafficking Statistics: https://polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/facts
  
• Human Rights First: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/
  
• Slave Free Madison: http://slavefreemadison.org/
  
• National Human Trafficking Hotline: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/
  
• End Slavery Now: https://www.endslaverynow.org/
  
• Slavery footprint survey: http://slaveryfootprint.org/
  
• Know the Chain: https://knowthechain.org/
  
• ECPAT USA: https://www.ecpatusa.org/
  
• Who have signed the code: http://www.thecode.org/who-have-signed/intro/
  
• Girl Rising: Educate Girls. Change the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGH1cy0KiPQ
  
• My bittersweet life story by Sokha Chen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-kqtib-6iw

Social Justice and Environmental Blogs

https://globalexchange.org/blogs/

Creating a Sustainable Healthy Home

• Home Power Online Magazine: https://www.homepower.com
• Wisconsin Solar Power Rebates and Incentives: https://www.energysage.com/solar-rebates-incentives/wi/

List of Environmental Topics

• Climate change: Global warming, Global dimming, Fossil fuels, Sea level rise, Greenhouse gas, Ocean acidification, Environmental impact of the coal industry, Flooding,
• Environmental degradation: Habitat destruction, Invasive species
• Environmental health: Air quality, Asthma, Birth defect, Developmental, environmental impact of the coal industry, Environmental impact of nanotechnology, Electromagnetic fields, Electromagnetic radiation and health, Indoor air quality, Nature deficit disorder, Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
• Environmental issues with energy: Environmental impact of the coal industry, Environmental impact of the energy industry, Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
• Overpopulation
• Genetic engineering: Genetic pollution, Genetically modified food controversies
• Pollution: air pollution, light pollution, noise pollution, soil pollution, water pollution
• Pollinators
• Resource depletion: Exploitation of natural resources, Over drafting (groundwater), Overexploitation
• Water conservation and water quality
• Consumerism: Consumer capitalism, Planned obsolescence, Over-consumption
• Fishing: Blast fishing, Bottom trawling, Cyanide fishing, Ghost nets, Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, Overfishing, Shark finning, Whaling
• Logging: Clearcutting, Deforestation, Illegal logging
• Mining: Acid mine drainage, Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing, Mountaintop removal mining, Slurry impoundments
• Water (depletion)
• Toxicants
• Waste: Electronic waste, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Illegal dumping, Incineration, Litter, Waste disposal incidents, Marine debris, Medical waste, Landfill, Toxic waste, Environmental impact of the coal industry, Exporting of hazardous waste, Plastic waste

Informational Links

Documentary: The Pollinators; On the decline of native pollinators and of bee populations:https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/7/the_pollinators_film_decline_of_bee or https://youtu.be/zYrop603NMw

Links to useful sites for Information on Environmental Issues

• Wisconsin Environmental Health Network: https://www.wehnonline.org
• Wisconsin Conservation Voters: https://conservationvoters.org/

Links to Interfaith Coalitions on Environmental Issues

• Wisconsin Interfaith Power and Light: http://wisconsinipl.org/
• Green Faith, Interfaith Partners for the Environment: http://www.greenfaith.org

Climate Change Information and Solutions

Tips for Living a Sustainable Lifestyle

• https://theminimalistvegan.com/live-a-more-sustainable-lifestyle/
• http://www.globalstewards.org/ecotips.htm

Dane County Recycling: https://pwht.countyofdane.com/recycling.aspx

Plastic and the Environment

• Alliance to End Plastic Waste: https://endplasticwaste.org/
• Plastic Free Foundation: https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/
• The Story of Stuff Home Page: https://www.storyofstuff.org/
• The Story of Plastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3SA4YyEYU

Overview of issues:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_pollution
• https://www.ehn.org/plastic-environmental-impact-2501923191.html
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis/
• https://www.unenvironment.org/interactive/beat-plastic-pollution/
• https://www.eartheclipse.com/environment/environmental-effects-plastic-pollution.html

Tips for reducing use of plastic (note: some suggestions may be a cause of other problems):

• https://myplasticfreelife.com/plasticfreeguide/
• https://www.reefrelief.org/2013/01/51-ways-to-reduce-plastic-use-or-completely-eliminate-it/
• http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/nationalgreenweeksub/waste-reduction-tips/tips-to-use-less-plastic.html
• https://www.treehugger.com/green-home/11-easy-ways-reduce-your-plastic-waste-today.html
• https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/ten-tips-reduce-your-plastic-footprint

Environmentally friendly Toothbrushes

• https://wastelandrebel.com/en/my-quest-to-find-the-most-sustainable-toothbrush/
• https://www.foreo.com/mysa/how-toothbrushes-affect-environment-infographic/

Toxicity of plastic (Some disagreement from different sources):

• http://www.babygreenthumb.com/p-122-safe-plastic-numbers-guide.aspx
• https://learn.eartheasy.com/articles/plastics-by-the-numbers/
• https://www.almanac.com/content/which-plastics-are-recyclable-number
• https://plasticpollutioncoalition.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/222813127-Why-is-plastic-harmful-
• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/photo-stories/toxicity-alert-know-the-7-types-of-plastic-and-which-is-the-most-dangerous/photostory/64828668.cms

Social Justice

Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin Chapter: https://www.psr-wisconsin.org

Why Hungar: https://whyhunger.org/

Links to Information on Refugee/Immigration Issues

• Open Doors for Refugees Madison: http://www.opendoorsforrefugees.org/
• Wisconsin Refugee Programs: https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/refugee
• Links to Partner Agencies: https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/refugee/agencies

Peace

The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund:: http://peacetaxfund.org/