THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. I SELF PUBLISH EVERYTHING, SO IT WILL BE A LITTLE WONKY FOR THE NEXT MONTH OR SO. THE AIM IS TO HAVE A NEEDS RESOURCE LIST FOR MANY PEOPLE, WHETHER IT BE LOOKING FOR AID IN CREATIVITY, MENTAL HEALTH, AND/OR POLITICAL ACTIVISM.

Creativity

Healing

Activism

 

Creativity

Animals and Wildlife

• Explore.org
  

 

Healing

Vipassanā Center

• *Vipassanā Meditation Center, USA and Internationally (this is where I practice)

Meditation Centers

• Atlanta Mindfulness Institute, Atlanta, GA
• British Columbia Insight Meditation Society, British Columbia, Canada
• Gaia House, Devon, UK
• Gainesville Retreat Center, Gainesville, FL
• Great Vow Zen Monastery, Clatskanie, OR
• Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA
• Insight LA, Los Angeles and Southern California
• Insight Meditation Center, Redwood City, CA
• Insight Meditation Community, Washington, DC
• Insight Meditation Community of New Haven, New Haven, CT
• Madison Insight Meditation group, Madison, WI
• Mid-America Dharma, Kansas City, MO
• Mindfulness Northwest, Bellingham, WA
• New York Insight Meditation Center, New York, NY
• Seattle Insight meditation Society, Seattle, WA
• Sky Meadow Retreat Center, Greensboro Bend, VT
• Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, CA
• True North insight, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Vipassana Metta on Maui, Maui

Zen Centers

• Crestone Mountain Zen Center, Crestone, CO
• Minnesota Zen Center, Minneapolis, MN
• New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, New York, NY
• Rochester Zen Center, Rochester, NY
• San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco, CA
• Zen Life and Meditation Center, Chicago, IL

Tibetan Centers

• Karmê Chöling Retreat Center, Barnet, VT
• Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock, NY
• Menla Mountain Retreat Center, Phoenicia, NY
• Vajrapani Institute, Boulder Creek, CA

Other Centers

• Copper Beech Institute, Hartford, CT
• Mindful Way, Joshua Tree, CA
• Mindfulness and More, Philadelphia, PA
• Mindfulness Northwest, Bellingham, WA
• Springwater Center, Springwater, NY
• The Soul of Yoga, Encinitas/Oceanside, CA

Meditation Apps

• Insight Timer
• YogaGlo
• Headspace
• Ensō
• Calm
  
• 10% Happier: Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics
• Waking Up
  

LBGTQ Resources

• The Ali Forney Center's mission is to protect LGBTQ youths from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to live independently.
• The American Psychological Association (APA) provides countless educational and support resources on a range of LGBTQ topics
• The Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues in Counseling delivers educational and support resources for LGBTQ individuals, as well as promoting competency on LGBTQ issues for counseling professionals
• The Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists offers numerous resources for LGBT individuals experiencing mental health conditions and psychiatric professionals with LGBT clients
• The National Center for Transgender Equality offers resources for transgender individuals, including information on the right to access health care
• The Trevor Project is a support network for LGBTQ youth providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention, including a 24-hour text line (Text “START” to 678678)
• The LGBT National Help Center offers confidential peer support connections for LGBT youth, adults and seniors including phone, text and online chat
• The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association's Provider Directory is a search tool that can locate a LGBTQ-inclusive health care provider

Marijuana Advocacy

• Leaf Science
• National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
• Marijuana Policy Project
• National Cannabis Industry Association

Plant-based Lifestyle

• Health
  
  • Nutriciously
    
• Environmental
• Ethical

 

activism

Incarcerated Citizens Rights

• https://incarceratedworkers.org/
• https://www.innocenceproject.org/
• http://musicambia.org/
• https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice
• http://newjimcrow.com/
• https://asl19.org/en/internet-legislation-atlas.html
• https://www.hra-news.org/

#RiseUp4Rojava and #StandWithKurds

• https://internationalistcommune.com/
• https://internationalistcommune.com/
• https://rojavainformationcenter.com/
• https://thekurdishproject.org/rojava-breaking-news/
• https://makerojavagreenagain.org/
• https://www.ypgrojava.org/english
• https://itsgoingdown.org/solidarity-with-rojava/

• ”Make Rojava Green Again” Book

Immigration and Refugee Rights

• https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention
• https://movements.org/
• https://www.amnesty.org/en/
• https://www.hra-news.org/
• https://asl19.org/en/internet-legislation-atlas.html
• https://muzikhane.org/our-muzikhane
• http://politicalyouthnetwork.org/why-are-minority-rights-important-2/
• https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/sectors/human-rights-and-governance/democracy-and-human-rights/anti-discrimination-movements-2_en
• http://prisoninmatepenpal.com/
• https://www.ideasbeyondborders.org/

Environmental Action

• https://borgenproject.org/air-pollution-in-iran/
• https://eafworld.com/
• https://vafashelter.com/vafa-animal-shelter/
• https://thebulletin.org/
• https://www.ucsusa.org/
• https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/

Women’s Rights

• https://time.com/5274229/mothers-day-gift-donation-women-conflict-refugees/
• https://www.un.org/en/spotlight-initiative/resources.shtml
• https://curlie.org/Society/People/Women/Issues/Violence_and_Abuse
• https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/fgm/en/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110516094651/http://www.echr.coe.int/NR/rdonlyres/39C38938-2E29-4151-9280-D5AC063DD02E/0/FICHES_Violence_femmes_EN.pdf

Fighting Hate

• https://www.splcenter.org/
• https://www.adl.org/
• http://onepeoplesproject.com/

Workers Rights Organizations

• https://iww.org/
  
• https://www.dsausa.org/

Secular and Irreligious Resources
Humanist
Animal Rights

• https://www.janegoodall.org/
• https://www.peta.org/
• https://www.humanesociety.org/
• https://www.onekind.scot/
• https://www.rootsandshoots.org/

Reading

• The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
• Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
• Notes on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
• Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
• Sociobiology or Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin
• Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
• An Anarchist FAQ by social anarchists worldwide
  
• Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• Untitled Anarchist Poem by John Cage
• Letter to John Cage by Esther Ferrer
  
• The Conscience of a Hacker by The Mentor
  

Publications

• It's Going Down
  
• In Defense of Marxism
• Marxists Internet Archives
• The Anarchist Library

Watching

• anactualjoke
  
• Angie Speaks
• Audible Anarchist
• BadMouse Productions
• Bat'ko
• Beau of the Fifth Column
• Big Joel
• Chomsky's Philosophy
• Contrapoints
• Cuck Philosophy
• David Pakman Show
• Democracy Now!
• Destiny
• DisContent
• Earthlings
• Empire Files
• Faraday Speaks
• Feminist Frequency
• Genetically Modified Skeptic
• hbomberguy
• Holy Koolaid
• The Humanist Report
• Innuendo Studios
• The Jimmy Dore Show
• Kat Blaque
• Libertarian Socialist Rants
• The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
• The Michael Brooks Show
• NonCompete
• Not Exactly Normal
• Peter Coffin
• PIGPUNCHER
• Philosophy Tube
• Poli-dice
• Potholer54
• Rational Disconnect
• The Rational National
• Rationality Rules
• Radical Reviewer
• RE-EDUCATION
• Reich-Wing Watch
• RichardDWolff
• Secular Talk
• Shaun
• Some More News
• Suck My Opinion
• T1J
• Thom Avella
• Thought Slime
• Three Arrows
• Vaush
• Wisecrack
• The Young Turks
• Zero Books

Community Organizations (NYC)

• ABC No Rio
• About Face: Veterans Against the War
• Anarchist Black Cross
• Autonomedia
• The Base
• BlueStockings
• Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
• DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus
• Food Not Bombs
• Freegan.info
• Industrial Workers of the World (NYC)
• Interference Archive
• Judson Memorial Church
• MACC
• Mayday Space
• May First/People Link
• Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
• New York City Anarchist Book Fair
• NYC Anarchist News
• NYC Books through Bars
• NYC DSA
• Revolution Books
• Times-Up
• Veterans For Peace