Resources
Essential resources for a global community.
2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR)
A US HUD report to Congress that provides nationwide estimates of homelessness, including information about the demographic characteristics of homeless persons, service use patterns, and the capacity to house homeless persons. The report is based on...
5 Calls
5 Calls is an easy and effective way to make your views heard by the public employees elected to represent you in the U.S. Congress.
Aaron Maté
Reporting and analysis by an award-winning independent journalist. Aaron Maté is a Canadian writer and journalist. Aaron hosts the show Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone and, as of January 2022, he fills in as a host on the Useful Idiots...
ACLU Sonoma County
Working to preserve individual working rights and liberties.
Across the Great Divide: KPFA Radio Show
Music among friends; folk and acoustic music; singers and songwriters. Familiar and new songs from home and across the sea. Stories of Life, Struggle, and Humor. Hosted by Kevin Vance. Listen live on Sundays, 1:00 PM Pacific Time.
Agenda for Action
The Agenda for Action (AFA) is a call to action for people throughout Sonoma County to come together to invest sustainably in protecting and supporting the wellbeing of the community, and specifically the community members who have been most impacted...
Al Jazeera
Independent new source from Doha, Qatar, with an emphasis on current events in the Arab World.
Americans Who Tell the Truth
Using the power of art to illuminate the ongoing struggle to realize [U.S.] America's democratic ideals and model the commitment to act for the common good.
Amnesty International USA – Local Groups
Find a local AI group in your area.
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Supporting Political Prisoners since 1994. The Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty.
Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is an Australian/German independent, award-winning, investigative journalist, best-selling author and film-maker.
Area 941: KPFA Podcasts
Music among friends; folk and acoustic music; singers and songwriters. Familiar and new songs from home and across the sea. Stories of Life, Struggle, and Humor. Hosted by Kevin Vance. Listen live on Sundays, 1:00 PM Pacific Time.
Background Briefing: KPFA Radio Show
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of ‘fake news.’ Airs Monday – Friday 5:00 AM Pacific Time
BDS Movement
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice, and equality. It advocates for a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural...
Birth Control Pharmacist
Your pharmacist can help you find the best – and most affordable – birth control option to fit your individual preferences. Going to the pharmacy directly for your birth control can be helpful if you live in a region with inadequate...
Black Agenda Report
Insightful news and analysis from a Black US American perspective. Covers topics and events that are often missing from the corporate press,
Catholic Charities of the Diocese: Homeless Services Center and Family Support Center
Resources, counseling, intake for shelters, showers, laundry, telephone, and mail services. Emergency homeless shelter for families.
Center for Humane Technology
The Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that today’s most consequential technologies, such as AI and social media, actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the...
Change.org
Start an online campaign, mobilize supporters, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.
Chris Hedges
Independent, award-winning and uncompromisingly truthful war reporter. Not recommended for those desperately hiding within the tic-a-lock herd.
City of Santa Rosa Economic Development and Housing
Rental assistance and rehabilitation loans.
Climate Action Tracker
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to...
Climate Analytics
Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. Given its funders such the World Bank, it’s reports must be read carefully....
Committee on the Shelterless (COTS)
Emergency shelter, transitional housing and case management.
Community Action Partnership
Housing assistance, financial assistance and crisis support, community resource, health and wellbeing, community engagement and education.
Counterspin Radio
FAIR’s weekly radio show, produced and hosted by Janine Jackson. It’s heard on more than 160 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada.
Countrywide Shelter Listings
Online listings of all types of shelters and housing.
Daily Acts
To survive climate change, we must focus on the solutions that help reduce it as well as adapt to changes that are already happening. Daily Acts connects people and builds community through education, action, and policy change that address the...
DemocracyNow!
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. The reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the...
Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres
Every day, Doctors Without Borders teams deliver emergency medical aid to people in crisis, with humanitarian projects in more than 75 countries.
Earth.com
Earth.com is for those who care about our planet and environment and want to make a difference.
Earthquake Country Alliance
The Earthquake Country Alliance is a public-private-grassroots partnership of people, organizations, and regional alliances throughout California that work together to improve earthquake and tsunami preparedness, mitigation and resiliency.
Eden Housing
Affordable housing for very low, low and moderate-income families.
Effective Collective
Kavana Tree Bressen’s group facilitation site for helping groups of people function well together
Eisenhower Media Network
The Eisenhower Media Network (EMN) is an organization of expert former military, intelligence, and civilian national security officials. Their experts offer credible, independent, and critical analysis grounded in real-world practitioner experience...
FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
A national media watch group, offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. They work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that...
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California
Provides free comprehensive fair housing counseling, complaint investigation, and assistance in filing housing discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or the California Department of Fair Employment...
Federation of American Scientists
After the devastating U.S. bombings on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of atomic researchers, deeply concerned about the use of science for malice, created an organization committed to using science and technology to benefit humanity.
Films for Action
Films For Action is a community-powered, digital library for people who want to change the world. Their mission is to provide citizens with the knowledge and perspectives essential to creating a more beautiful, just, sustainable, and democratic...
Food Not Bombs – Petaluma
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement that provides free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
Food Not Bombs – Santa Rosa
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement that provides free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
Geopolitical Economy Report
Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet dedicated to producing investigative journalism and original analysis to understand the changing world. It was founded by journalist Ben Norton in 2022. It has no institutional support or...
Gimp (Graphic Image Manipulation Program)
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.The software is developed under the GNU General Public License, which maximizes your...
Glass Walls
Discover why everyone would be vegetarian if slaughterhouses had glass walls.
Glenn Greenwald
Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.
Green Science Policy Institute
The Green Science Policy Institute’s mission is to facilitate safer use of chemicals to protect human and ecological health. They educate and build partnerships among government, business, academia, and public interest groups to develop...
H-PEACE
A collective of Sonoma County Health professionals working for equality and community.
Healdsburg Peace Project
Peace and social justice action group in Healdsburg, CA.
Helen Caldicott
The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last forty two years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards...
Higher Ed Immigration Portal
A digital platform that integrates data, policies, and resources about DACA and undocumented, refugee, other immigrant, and international students to support federal immigration reform, fuel change at the state and campus level, and build a diverse...
HOME- Eviction Defense and Tenant Stabilization Program
Helps low-income tenants with eviction defense, Section 8 issues, mobile home park issues, habitability problems and price gouging.
Homeless Action!
Homeless Action! Sonoma County is an all-volunteer run and the only local independent homeless advocacy organization in Sonoma County which is not beholden to funders. They are responsible only to the homeless people in our community. Their members,...
HowardZinn.org
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of countless people.
ICE Raid Tracker
Monitoring immigration enforcement, deportations, and ICE activities across the United States to keep communities informed and protected.
ICE Shootings Tracker
See where and when people were shot or injured in ICE raids related to Trump’s reckless deployment of poorly-trained, masked people into U.S. cities.
Immigrant Legal Resources Center (ILRC)
Working with and educating immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
Indivisible Healdsburg
INDIVISIBLE HEALDSBURG is a community of more than 400 members who are engaged for the long term to promote progressive values and preserve democracy for generations to come. They embrace Abraham Lincoln’s model: “Government of the people, by the...
Indivisible Sonoma County
Indivisible Sonoma County was established in 2017, along with thousands of other Indivisible chapters, in response to the 2016 electoral selection of Donald Trump. This national, grassroots movement is based on the vision of a real democracy –...
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists tells stories that punch through the noise, showing how the world really works, triggering positive change. The ICIJ is driven by the belief that citizens have the right to be better informed,...
Jeffrey Sachs
Sachs is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic...
Jewish Council of Australia
The Jewish Council of Australia is an organization of Jewish people in Australia who are committed to the Jewish values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), calling out injustice, challenging assumptions and promoting debate. They work towards...
John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer is a political scientist and international relations scholar. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and the author of several important books, including...
John Trudell
John Trudell was a poet, recording artist, actor, civil rights activist and world-renowned speaker whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message.
Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist. He was based in Nazareth, Israel, for 20 years. He returned to the UK in 2021.
Kashia Band of Pomo Indians
The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians are the first inhabitants of the coastal Sonoma County area around Fort Ross. An estimated 1,500 people inhabited this area before European settler-colonialism. By 1870, only 3 villages remained. In 1914, the US...
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice. It’s compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organization.
Lifeboat
Volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts, which had set out from Libya, in the middle of the night.
Listening for a Change
Programs support listening and oral history to create a caring community.
Living on Shaky Ground
The Living on Shaky Ground handbook explains how to prepare for, survive, and recover from earthquakes and tsunamis. It also describes what you can do today to save lives, reduce injuries, and minimize damage. Lots more information on this website.
Long Time No See, Wuhan: Post Pandemic Wuhan Through the Lens of a Japanese Director
Japanese documentary director Takeuchi Ryo and his team went to Wuhan after the COVID-19 pandemic lock down had been lifted. Through the stories of several families in Wuhan, China, we see what it was like during the lock down, what Wuhan is really...
Mary Moore
Mary Moore is a longtime activist in Sonoma County, California, where she has lead struggles against corporate malfeasance, social injustice, racism and conventional apathy.
MEChA De Sonoma
Student group that focuses on issues affecting the Chicano/Latino community.
Metta Center for Nonviolence
Works to promote and build a nonviolent culture worldwide.
NAACP – Country Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Seeks to eliminate racial hatred, racial profiling and discrimination.
NAACP of Sonoma County
The mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all...
Napa County Fire Incident Map
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones for Napa County.
Nation’s Finest: Santa Rosa
With 30 locations in 15 mostly rural communities in California, Arizona, and Nevada, providing critical services and support to more than 6,800 Veterans annually.
National Women’s History Project
coordinates observances of Women’s History month around the country.
Native Land Digital
Mapping indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and the present day. They hope to strengthen the spiritual bonds that people have with the land, its people, and its meaning.
North Bay Rapid Response Network
The Rapid Response Network provides a way for people to respond to fear and anxiety in our community as a result of the increase in immigration enforcement, ICE raids and other attacks against our communities.
North Coast Coalition for Palestine
Brings greater awareness to the plight of the Palestinian people and works to end US military support for Israel.
Northern California Public Media
Northern California Public Media is dedicated to utilizing media for inspiration, education, and connection in the region.
OBS Studio
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Pacifica Evening News: KPFA Radio Show
A collaboration of KPFA in Berkeley, KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
Peace Alliance
Educate, advocate, and mobilize people into action to transform systems and public policy toward a culture of peace.
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
A progressive community-based non-profit organization offering sponsorships, seed funding, meeting space, book library, Internet access and much more. Supports a wide range of services for peace and justice activists (socially concerned and engaged...
Peace Roots Alliance
We seek to create a peaceful, just and sustainable world for future generations.
Petaluma People Services Center
Petaluma Homelessness Prevention One-time grants for residents of Petaluma, providing rental assistance.
Petaluma Progressives
Grassroots, political education and action group. Producers of the Progressive Festival.
Physicians for a National Health Program, Sonoma County (PNHP).
In support of single payer health insurance.
Prison Radio
Prison Radio is an independent multimedia production studio producing content that challenges unjust police and prosecutorial practices which result in mass incarceration, racism and gender discrimination.
Progressive Sonoma
Progressive Sonoma, an affiliate of the Peaceful Resistance Network, is a group of local, concerned citizens, organizing for progressive political action. Members are from varying backgrounds and affiliations, but first and foremost we are...
Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation
Project Censored’s mission is to promote critical media literacy, independent journalism, and democracy. They educate students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. Censorship undermines democracy....
ProPublica
Nonprofit, investigative journalism on a mission to hold the powerful to account.
Protect Democracy
Protect Democracy is a cross-ideological nonprofit group dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat. Their experts use litigation, advocacy, research, and technology to stop the consolidation of power, defend dissent, protect our elections, and...
Purple Air
Hyper-local, Real-time air quality monitoring for everyone. PurpleAir sensors measure airborne particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter describes solid particles suspended in air; this includes dust, smoke, and other organic and inorganic...
Racial Disparities Dashboard
An online dashboard displaying disparities between people in the U.S. who are identified as being either Black or white (using the specific racist categories peculiar to the U.S. settler-colonial form of division.)
Racket News
The Racket News mission is to bring old-school journalistic standards to a new-school media environment. They want to give their audience relief from today’s noisy media landscape.
Radio OpenSource
Open Source is as a North American conversation with global attitude. Christopher Lydon recorded the original podcast in 2003 with Dave Winer. The rest is history in the making.
Radio Resistance
Radio Resistance, hosted by the intrepid Rebel Fagin, features interviews with activists, artists, and union organizers on the plight of the unhoused, climate change, trans rights, and the struggles of immigrants.
Reach for Home
Provide opportunities and support for participants to work toward self-sufficiency, independence, and permanent housing.
Redwood Gospel Mission
Emergency shelter 365 days a year. Intakes for men – Mon-Fri at 11am, for women Mon-Fri at 11am and Sat-Sun at 1pm, ID required.
Restorative Justice Process
Restorative justice is based on ancient and indigenous practices found in cultures worldwide. These documents provide an overview of the process and suggestions for getting started.
Roll Call
Roll Call is a source of timely news, facts, analysis, and coverage of US elections and the politics of US legislation.
Santa Rosa Evacuation Map
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones.
Santa Rosa Government Services
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Santa Rosa, CA.
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding...
Seeds for Change
The people of Seeds for Change believe that to create real change, we need to come together to fight injustice and win. They support groups who share their core values of equality, freedom and solidarity. They are a workers’ co-op of...
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh’s fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines, a staggering collection of awards, and no small amount of controversy. His story is one of fierce independence.
SHEERPOST
An award-winning, independent news organization that focuses on progressive politics and human rights issues that the mainstream media miss or decline to cover.
Songs of Hope and Resistance
A few songs of hope and resistance for those who still care despite the odds (which were never good).
Sonoma County Black Forum
The mission is to lead, serve, and thrive, by promoting positive community and youth engagement events. Monthly meetings.
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!)
Groups and individuals working address and reverse climate change. Meet in months with a 5th Monday, 7-9 PM at the PJC.
Sonoma County for Palestine
Local Sonoma County group working to defend the human rights of Palestinians. Join them weekly in Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA to protest (Weekly since October of 2023!).
Sonoma County Government Services
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Sonoma County, CA.
Sonoma County Immigrant Community Support
Sonoma County is committed to all who are in need and are eligible for services, regardless of immigration status. All County immigrant residents, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, undocumented residents, refugees, or residents...
Sonoma County Library
Sonoma County Library welcomes all to grow and thrive in a community where equal access to knowledge creates understanding and limitless potential.
Sonoma County Nonviolence Training
Collective offers free trainings in methods and principles for progressive social change and peace.
Sonoma County Peace and Justice Events Calendar
A vital source of information on current peace and justice-related events in and around Sonoma County.
Sonoma County Peace Press
A publication of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County, an affiliate of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).
Sonoma County Registrar of Voters
The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Office is committed to serving the voters of Sonoma County, eliminating barriers to participation in the democratic process, educating youth as to the importance of the democratic process, and providing...
Sonoma Overnight Support
Information and assistance, counseling, emergency shelter. Drop In center offers use of computers, laundry, showers, and hot meals. Their services are also available to non-resident homeless.
Sonoma Solidarity With Standing Rock
Supporting indigenous rights and fossil fuel resistance.
Sonoma Valley Peace and Justice
Peace and social justice group for Sonoma Valley.
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across Imperial America, end the corrupting influence of fossil...
Sunrise Movement, Sonoma County
Sunrise is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across Imperial America, end the corrupting influence of fossil...
The Climate Center
Since 2001, The Climate Center has been a leader in making climate solutions a reality in California at speed and scale. They are a think-tank, do-tank working to turn bold ideas into action for a climate-safe future.
The Climate Clock
The Climate Clock adds the dimension of measurement to the climate crisis debate. As well-funded fossil fuel propagandists obfuscate, the clock inexorably ticks. We now have less than five years to make drastic common sense changes before the...
The Electronic Intifada
An independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world.
The Guardian
Covering UK, European, US, Australian and international news for an online, global audience. The Guardian is renowned for the Paradise Papers investigation and other award-winning work including, the NSA revelations, Panama Papers and The Counted...
The Living Room
Women’s drop-in center, resource navigation, hot meals, group activities, and more.
The New Humanitarian
Quality, independent journalism from the heart of conflicts and disasters.
The Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an award-winning, non-profit news organization that partners with journalists and newsrooms to support in-depth reporting on critical global issues to educate the public, promote solutions, and improve...
The Six Classes
The Six Classes is a program of the Green Science Policy Institute, whose aim is to reduce the use of harmful chemicals in consumer and other products. It focuses on entire classes or groups of chemicals of concern, rather than phasing out...
The Trace Atlas of [U.S.] American Gun Violence
An interactive map showing more than 441,000 incidents of gun violence in the U.S.
Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Seventeen interrelated sustainable development goals, with 169 specific targets identified by the UN as required if humanity is to survive the global ravages of foolish human activity.
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 to September 2025
An overview of U.S. military aid and arms transfers to Israel from October 2023 to September 2025.
Ukes4Peace
The Healdsburg Ukulele Club has kick-started a grassroots movement called ‘Ukes4Peace’. Twenty six ukulele clubs are hosting six Ukes4Peace jams to play music from a common songbook to promote peace, harmony and love in this fraught...
UN General Assembly 78th Session, 4th Plenary Meeting
An extensive overview of the global situation from the point of view of world leaders [public servants]. Interesting both for what was said and for what each was unwilling or unable to say.
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights.
UN World Meteorological Organization
The WMO is the United Nations system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
Undocufund
The UndocuFund is a collective local effort to ensure that undocumented individuals and families displaced by the fires and impacted by disasters (like the coronavirus pandemic) have the support and resources necessary to recover and rebuild their...
United Nations Association
Builds public understanding and support for the United Nations.
US Power in Freefall: The Most Dangerous Country in the World
The global economy is no longer wobbling – it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran and Russia, its economic confrontation with China,...
US Whistleblower Protection Program
OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program enforces protections for employees who suffer retaliation for engaging in protected activities under more than 20 federal laws.
US-Israel Attacks on Iran: Death Toll and Injuries Live Tracker
Live updates of death and injury counts resulting from the illegal attack by actors in the U.S., Israeli and aligned authoritarian regimes upon the people of Iran.
Veterans for Peace
Organization of vets working together for peace and justice through nonviolence.
VIDAS - Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy and Services
An affiliated organization with the Immigration Law & Justice Network (ILJN). The ILJ network provides support services, at no cost, to 19 affiliated organizations across the country that deliver immigration legal services for low-income...
Waging Nonviolence
Waging Nonviolence is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world. With a commitment to accuracy, transparency and editorial independence, they examine today’s most...
Watch Duty
A highly-recommended app for realtime tracking of urban and wild fires.
Windy
One of the better apps for observing realtime weather patterns, including wind speed and direction, satellite radar data, humidity, pollution, and other weather patterns.
ACLU Sonoma County
Working to preserve individual working rights and liberties.
Amnesty International USA – Local Groups
Find a local AI group in your area.
Committee on the Shelterless (COTS)
Emergency shelter, transitional housing and case management.
Community Action Partnership
Housing assistance, financial assistance and crisis support, community resource, health and wellbeing, community engagement and education.
Daily Acts
To survive climate change, we must focus on the solutions that help reduce it as well as adapt to changes that are already happening. Daily Acts connects people and builds community through education, action, and policy change that address the...
Food Not Bombs – Petaluma
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement that provides free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
Food Not Bombs – Santa Rosa
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement that provides free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
H-PEACE
A collective of Sonoma County Health professionals working for equality and community.
Healdsburg Peace Project
Peace and social justice action group in Healdsburg, CA.
HOME- Eviction Defense and Tenant Stabilization Program
Helps low-income tenants with eviction defense, Section 8 issues, mobile home park issues, habitability problems and price gouging.
Homeless Action!
Homeless Action! Sonoma County is an all-volunteer run and the only local independent homeless advocacy organization in Sonoma County which is not beholden to funders. They are responsible only to the homeless people in our community. Their members,...
Indivisible Healdsburg
INDIVISIBLE HEALDSBURG is a community of more than 400 members who are engaged for the long term to promote progressive values and preserve democracy for generations to come. They embrace Abraham Lincoln’s model: “Government of the people, by the...
Indivisible Sonoma County
Indivisible Sonoma County was established in 2017, along with thousands of other Indivisible chapters, in response to the 2016 electoral selection of Donald Trump. This national, grassroots movement is based on the vision of a real democracy –...
Kashia Band of Pomo Indians
The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians are the first inhabitants of the coastal Sonoma County area around Fort Ross. An estimated 1,500 people inhabited this area before European settler-colonialism. By 1870, only 3 villages remained. In 1914, the US...
Listening for a Change
Programs support listening and oral history to create a caring community.
Mary Moore
Mary Moore is a longtime activist in Sonoma County, California, where she has lead struggles against corporate malfeasance, social injustice, racism and conventional apathy.
MEChA De Sonoma
Student group that focuses on issues affecting the Chicano/Latino community.
Napa County Fire Incident Map
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones for Napa County.
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
A progressive community-based non-profit organization offering sponsorships, seed funding, meeting space, book library, Internet access and much more. Supports a wide range of services for peace and justice activists (socially concerned and engaged...
Petaluma People Services Center
Petaluma Homelessness Prevention One-time grants for residents of Petaluma, providing rental assistance.
Reach for Home
Provide opportunities and support for participants to work toward self-sufficiency, independence, and permanent housing.
Redwood Gospel Mission
Emergency shelter 365 days a year. Intakes for men – Mon-Fri at 11am, for women Mon-Fri at 11am and Sat-Sun at 1pm, ID required.
Restorative Justice Process
Restorative justice is based on ancient and indigenous practices found in cultures worldwide. These documents provide an overview of the process and suggestions for getting started.
Santa Rosa Evacuation Map
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones.
Santa Rosa Government Services
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Santa Rosa, CA.
Songs of Hope and Resistance
A few songs of hope and resistance for those who still care despite the odds (which were never good).
Sonoma County Black Forum
The mission is to lead, serve, and thrive, by promoting positive community and youth engagement events. Monthly meetings.
Sonoma County Government Services
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Sonoma County, CA.
Sonoma County Immigrant Community Support
Sonoma County is committed to all who are in need and are eligible for services, regardless of immigration status. All County immigrant residents, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, undocumented residents, refugees, or residents...
Sonoma County Library
Sonoma County Library welcomes all to grow and thrive in a community where equal access to knowledge creates understanding and limitless potential.
Sonoma County Nonviolence Training
Collective offers free trainings in methods and principles for progressive social change and peace.
Sonoma County Peace and Justice Events Calendar
A vital source of information on current peace and justice-related events in and around Sonoma County.
Sonoma County Peace Press
A publication of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County, an affiliate of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).
Sonoma County Registrar of Voters
The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Office is committed to serving the voters of Sonoma County, eliminating barriers to participation in the democratic process, educating youth as to the importance of the democratic process, and providing...
Sonoma Valley Peace and Justice
Peace and social justice group for Sonoma Valley.
The Living Room
Women’s drop-in center, resource navigation, hot meals, group activities, and more.
Undocufund
The UndocuFund is a collective local effort to ensure that undocumented individuals and families displaced by the fires and impacted by disasters (like the coronavirus pandemic) have the support and resources necessary to recover and rebuild their...
Agenda for Action
The Agenda for Action (AFA) is a call to action for people throughout Sonoma County to come together to invest sustainably in protecting and supporting the wellbeing of the community, and specifically the community members who have been most impacted...
Earthquake Country Alliance
The Earthquake Country Alliance is a public-private-grassroots partnership of people, organizations, and regional alliances throughout California that work together to improve earthquake and tsunami preparedness, mitigation and resiliency.
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California
Provides free comprehensive fair housing counseling, complaint investigation, and assistance in filing housing discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or the California Department of Fair Employment...
Living on Shaky Ground
The Living on Shaky Ground handbook explains how to prepare for, survive, and recover from earthquakes and tsunamis. It also describes what you can do today to save lives, reduce injuries, and minimize damage. Lots more information on this website.
NAACP of Sonoma County
The mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all...
Nation’s Finest: Santa Rosa
With 30 locations in 15 mostly rural communities in California, Arizona, and Nevada, providing critical services and support to more than 6,800 Veterans annually.
North Bay Rapid Response Network
The Rapid Response Network provides a way for people to respond to fear and anxiety in our community as a result of the increase in immigration enforcement, ICE raids and other attacks against our communities.
Northern California Public Media
Northern California Public Media is dedicated to utilizing media for inspiration, education, and connection in the region.
Ukes4Peace
The Healdsburg Ukulele Club has kick-started a grassroots movement called ‘Ukes4Peace’. Twenty six ukulele clubs are hosting six Ukes4Peace jams to play music from a common songbook to promote peace, harmony and love in this fraught...
VIDAS - Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy and Services
An affiliated organization with the Immigration Law & Justice Network (ILJN). The ILJ network provides support services, at no cost, to 19 affiliated organizations across the country that deliver immigration legal services for low-income...
Watch Duty
A highly-recommended app for realtime tracking of urban and wild fires.
5 Calls
5 Calls is an easy and effective way to make your views heard by the public employees elected to represent you in the U.S. Congress.
Across the Great Divide: KPFA Radio Show
Music among friends; folk and acoustic music; singers and songwriters. Familiar and new songs from home and across the sea. Stories of Life, Struggle, and Humor. Hosted by Kevin Vance. Listen live on Sundays, 1:00 PM Pacific Time.
Americans Who Tell the Truth
Using the power of art to illuminate the ongoing struggle to realize [U.S.] America's democratic ideals and model the commitment to act for the common good.
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Supporting Political Prisoners since 1994. The Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty.
Area 941: KPFA Podcasts
Music among friends; folk and acoustic music; singers and songwriters. Familiar and new songs from home and across the sea. Stories of Life, Struggle, and Humor. Hosted by Kevin Vance. Listen live on Sundays, 1:00 PM Pacific Time.
Background Briefing: KPFA Radio Show
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of ‘fake news.’ Airs Monday – Friday 5:00 AM Pacific Time
Birth Control Pharmacist
Your pharmacist can help you find the best – and most affordable – birth control option to fit your individual preferences. Going to the pharmacy directly for your birth control can be helpful if you live in a region with inadequate...
Change.org
Start an online campaign, mobilize supporters, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.
Counterspin Radio
FAIR’s weekly radio show, produced and hosted by Janine Jackson. It’s heard on more than 160 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada.
Countrywide Shelter Listings
Online listings of all types of shelters and housing.
Effective Collective
Kavana Tree Bressen’s group facilitation site for helping groups of people function well together
Eisenhower Media Network
The Eisenhower Media Network (EMN) is an organization of expert former military, intelligence, and civilian national security officials. Their experts offer credible, independent, and critical analysis grounded in real-world practitioner experience...
Films for Action
Films For Action is a community-powered, digital library for people who want to change the world. Their mission is to provide citizens with the knowledge and perspectives essential to creating a more beautiful, just, sustainable, and democratic...
Green Science Policy Institute
The Green Science Policy Institute’s mission is to facilitate safer use of chemicals to protect human and ecological health. They educate and build partnerships among government, business, academia, and public interest groups to develop...
Higher Ed Immigration Portal
A digital platform that integrates data, policies, and resources about DACA and undocumented, refugee, other immigrant, and international students to support federal immigration reform, fuel change at the state and campus level, and build a diverse...
HowardZinn.org
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of countless people.
ICE Raid Tracker
Monitoring immigration enforcement, deportations, and ICE activities across the United States to keep communities informed and protected.
ICE Shootings Tracker
See where and when people were shot or injured in ICE raids related to Trump’s reckless deployment of poorly-trained, masked people into U.S. cities.
Immigrant Legal Resources Center (ILRC)
Working with and educating immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
National Women’s History Project
coordinates observances of Women’s History month around the country.
Pacifica Evening News: KPFA Radio Show
A collaboration of KPFA in Berkeley, KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
Peace Alliance
Educate, advocate, and mobilize people into action to transform systems and public policy toward a culture of peace.
Petaluma Progressives
Grassroots, political education and action group. Producers of the Progressive Festival.
Physicians for a National Health Program, Sonoma County (PNHP).
In support of single payer health insurance.
Progressive Sonoma
Progressive Sonoma, an affiliate of the Peaceful Resistance Network, is a group of local, concerned citizens, organizing for progressive political action. Members are from varying backgrounds and affiliations, but first and foremost we are...
ProPublica
Nonprofit, investigative journalism on a mission to hold the powerful to account.
Protect Democracy
Protect Democracy is a cross-ideological nonprofit group dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat. Their experts use litigation, advocacy, research, and technology to stop the consolidation of power, defend dissent, protect our elections, and...
Racial Disparities Dashboard
An online dashboard displaying disparities between people in the U.S. who are identified as being either Black or white (using the specific racist categories peculiar to the U.S. settler-colonial form of division.)
Roll Call
Roll Call is a source of timely news, facts, analysis, and coverage of US elections and the politics of US legislation.
Seeds for Change
The people of Seeds for Change believe that to create real change, we need to come together to fight injustice and win. They support groups who share their core values of equality, freedom and solidarity. They are a workers’ co-op of...
Sonoma Solidarity With Standing Rock
Supporting indigenous rights and fossil fuel resistance.
The Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an award-winning, non-profit news organization that partners with journalists and newsrooms to support in-depth reporting on critical global issues to educate the public, promote solutions, and improve...
The Six Classes
The Six Classes is a program of the Green Science Policy Institute, whose aim is to reduce the use of harmful chemicals in consumer and other products. It focuses on entire classes or groups of chemicals of concern, rather than phasing out...
The Trace Atlas of [U.S.] American Gun Violence
An interactive map showing more than 441,000 incidents of gun violence in the U.S.
US Whistleblower Protection Program
OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program enforces protections for employees who suffer retaliation for engaging in protected activities under more than 20 federal laws.
Veterans for Peace
Organization of vets working together for peace and justice through nonviolence.
Native Land Digital
Mapping indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and the present day. They hope to strengthen the spiritual bonds that people have with the land, its people, and its meaning.
Aaron Maté
Reporting and analysis by an award-winning independent journalist. Aaron Maté is a Canadian writer and journalist. Aaron hosts the show Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone and, as of January 2022, he fills in as a host on the Useful Idiots...
Al Jazeera
Independent new source from Doha, Qatar, with an emphasis on current events in the Arab World.
Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is an Australian/German independent, award-winning, investigative journalist, best-selling author and film-maker.
BDS Movement
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice, and equality. It advocates for a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural...
Black Agenda Report
Insightful news and analysis from a Black US American perspective. Covers topics and events that are often missing from the corporate press,
Center for Humane Technology
The Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that today’s most consequential technologies, such as AI and social media, actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the...
Chris Hedges
Independent, award-winning and uncompromisingly truthful war reporter. Not recommended for those desperately hiding within the tic-a-lock herd.
Climate Action Tracker
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to...
Climate Analytics
Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. Given its funders such the World Bank, it’s reports must be read carefully....
DemocracyNow!
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. The reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the...
Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres
Every day, Doctors Without Borders teams deliver emergency medical aid to people in crisis, with humanitarian projects in more than 75 countries.
Earth.com
Earth.com is for those who care about our planet and environment and want to make a difference.
FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
A national media watch group, offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. They work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that...
Federation of American Scientists
After the devastating U.S. bombings on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of atomic researchers, deeply concerned about the use of science for malice, created an organization committed to using science and technology to benefit humanity.
Geopolitical Economy Report
Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet dedicated to producing investigative journalism and original analysis to understand the changing world. It was founded by journalist Ben Norton in 2022. It has no institutional support or...
Gimp (Graphic Image Manipulation Program)
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.The software is developed under the GNU General Public License, which maximizes your...
Glass Walls
Discover why everyone would be vegetarian if slaughterhouses had glass walls.
Glenn Greenwald
Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.
Helen Caldicott
The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last forty two years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards...
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists tells stories that punch through the noise, showing how the world really works, triggering positive change. The ICIJ is driven by the belief that citizens have the right to be better informed,...
Jeffrey Sachs
Sachs is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic...
Jewish Council of Australia
The Jewish Council of Australia is an organization of Jewish people in Australia who are committed to the Jewish values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), calling out injustice, challenging assumptions and promoting debate. They work towards...
John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer is a political scientist and international relations scholar. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and the author of several important books, including...
John Trudell
John Trudell was a poet, recording artist, actor, civil rights activist and world-renowned speaker whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message.
Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist. He was based in Nazareth, Israel, for 20 years. He returned to the UK in 2021.
Lifeboat
Volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts, which had set out from Libya, in the middle of the night.
Long Time No See, Wuhan: Post Pandemic Wuhan Through the Lens of a Japanese Director
Japanese documentary director Takeuchi Ryo and his team went to Wuhan after the COVID-19 pandemic lock down had been lifted. Through the stories of several families in Wuhan, China, we see what it was like during the lock down, what Wuhan is really...
Metta Center for Nonviolence
Works to promote and build a nonviolent culture worldwide.
North Coast Coalition for Palestine
Brings greater awareness to the plight of the Palestinian people and works to end US military support for Israel.
OBS Studio
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Peace Roots Alliance
We seek to create a peaceful, just and sustainable world for future generations.
Purple Air
Hyper-local, Real-time air quality monitoring for everyone. PurpleAir sensors measure airborne particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter describes solid particles suspended in air; this includes dust, smoke, and other organic and inorganic...
Racket News
The Racket News mission is to bring old-school journalistic standards to a new-school media environment. They want to give their audience relief from today’s noisy media landscape.
Radio OpenSource
Open Source is as a North American conversation with global attitude. Christopher Lydon recorded the original podcast in 2003 with Dave Winer. The rest is history in the making.
Radio Resistance
Radio Resistance, hosted by the intrepid Rebel Fagin, features interviews with activists, artists, and union organizers on the plight of the unhoused, climate change, trans rights, and the struggles of immigrants.
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding...
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh’s fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines, a staggering collection of awards, and no small amount of controversy. His story is one of fierce independence.
SHEERPOST
An award-winning, independent news organization that focuses on progressive politics and human rights issues that the mainstream media miss or decline to cover.
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!)
Groups and individuals working address and reverse climate change. Meet in months with a 5th Monday, 7-9 PM at the PJC.
Sonoma County for Palestine
Local Sonoma County group working to defend the human rights of Palestinians. Join them weekly in Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA to protest (Weekly since October of 2023!).
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across Imperial America, end the corrupting influence of fossil...
The Climate Center
Since 2001, The Climate Center has been a leader in making climate solutions a reality in California at speed and scale. They are a think-tank, do-tank working to turn bold ideas into action for a climate-safe future.
The Climate Clock
The Climate Clock adds the dimension of measurement to the climate crisis debate. As well-funded fossil fuel propagandists obfuscate, the clock inexorably ticks. We now have less than five years to make drastic common sense changes before the...
The Electronic Intifada
An independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world.
The Guardian
Covering UK, European, US, Australian and international news for an online, global audience. The Guardian is renowned for the Paradise Papers investigation and other award-winning work including, the NSA revelations, Panama Papers and The Counted...
Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Seventeen interrelated sustainable development goals, with 169 specific targets identified by the UN as required if humanity is to survive the global ravages of foolish human activity.
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 to September 2025
An overview of U.S. military aid and arms transfers to Israel from October 2023 to September 2025.
UN General Assembly 78th Session, 4th Plenary Meeting
An extensive overview of the global situation from the point of view of world leaders [public servants]. Interesting both for what was said and for what each was unwilling or unable to say.
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights.
UN World Meteorological Organization
The WMO is the United Nations system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
United Nations Association
Builds public understanding and support for the United Nations.
US Power in Freefall: The Most Dangerous Country in the World
The global economy is no longer wobbling – it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran and Russia, its economic confrontation with China,...
US-Israel Attacks on Iran: Death Toll and Injuries Live Tracker
Live updates of death and injury counts resulting from the illegal attack by actors in the U.S., Israeli and aligned authoritarian regimes upon the people of Iran.
Windy
One of the better apps for observing realtime weather patterns, including wind speed and direction, satellite radar data, humidity, pollution, and other weather patterns.