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Providence
Direct Action for Rights and Equality / DARE
DARE is organizing low-income families in communities of color for social, economic, and political justice since 1986.
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Providence
Reclaim Rhode Island
A member-led housing justice group in Providence, Reclaim RI is building the Rhode Island Tenants Union to take on corporate landlords. Members also run legislative and electoral campaigns and train neighbors who have never organized before.
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Providence
Rhode Island Working Families
The Rhode Island chapter of the national Working Families Party recruits volunteers, endorses progressive candidates, and holds officials accountable. It helped win paid sick days in the state and has backed slates focused on rent stabilization and accountable schools.
national groups with chapters near you
These national organizations have local chapters, hubs, or groups in most states. Click through to find the one closest to you, or to start one.
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50501
50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement. A volunteer-built, nonviolent movement defending democracy, with state and local groups organizing days of action and community.
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Authors Against Book Bans
A national network of writers, illustrators, and other creators fighting book bans and challenges. Members back local grassroots groups, speak at school board meetings, meet with legislators, and stand with librarians, educators, parents, and students defending the freedom to read.
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Black Voters Matter
Co-founded by LaTosha Brown and Cliff Albright, Black Voters Matter boosts voter registration and turnout in Black communities, mostly across the South, funds and trains local partner groups, and tours on its "Blackest Bus in America" to highlight voter suppression.
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Common Defense
Common Defense organizes veterans and engages the military community to transform our society by advocating for progressive policies that work for all of us.
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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
The largest socialist organization in the U.S. Local chapters organize tenants, workers, and neighbors to build an economy run for human need, not profit. Look up your chapter by zip code.
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Dream Defenders
Dream Defenders is a Black-led, feminist, socialist, abolitionist, and internationalist political formation fighting for a world without prisons, police, capitalism, and imperialism. We envision communities where safety is built through solidarity, care, and self-determination rather than through punishment and surveillance. Founded in 2012 in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin, the Dream Defenders has grown into a powerful force advocating for liberation, justice, and dignity for Black and marginalized people across the United States and beyond.
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Indivisible
A network of thousands of local groups that hold elected officials accountable and defend democracy. Use the group map to find one near you, including groups marked newcomer-friendly.
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NDN Collective
Rapid City-based and Indigenous-led, this collective backs Native communities through organizing, grants, and loans to Indigenous groups and entrepreneurs. Its campaigns include LANDBACK, which seeks the return of Lakota lands in the Black Hills, along with climate justice and education equity.
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Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
A national network organizing white people to fight racism and economic injustice as part of multiracial movements. Find a local chapter or join a regular online orientation.
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Sunrise Movement
A youth-led movement of local hubs working to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal. No hub near you? Sunrise will help you start one.
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Third Act
Organizes older Americans to protect climate and democracy, through volunteer-led working groups by location and by affinity.
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Working Families Party
Building a multiracial party of working people. WFP recruits and elects progressive candidates and organizes between elections, with state parties in 18 states and volunteer actions everywhere.
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