Links
The following web sites offer useful resources or have joined with breakingranks.net to support the cause of exposing rankism. If you have a web site dedicated to stopping abuses of power, and would like to exchange links, contact the webmaster.
- Dignitarian Speak
- Forum to Discuss Rankism (Bookcrossing)
Forum to discuss Robert Fuller's Somebodies and Nobodies. - I Feel Like Nobody When...
This children's book is a poignant and uplifting collection of students' responses that will be of interest to all ages; children, parents, grandparents and educators alike. - Right-Rank
Right-Rank uses communication theories and practices to help understand and deal with rankism. The site owner, Julie Ann Wambach, is the author of Battles Among Somebodies and Nobodies: Stop Abuse of Rank in Your Personal, Professional, and Public Lives. - The Dignitarian Dialogues
The Dignitarian Dialogues was created to encourage an international conversation on the problem of rankism. - The Dignitarian Foundation
The Dignitarian Foundation is dedicated to protecting the intrinsic right to human dignity - the belief that, as a person, one is worthy regardless of status, station, or stage of life. - Youth Empowering Systems
This non-profit training organization provides skill building services in the area of substance abuse and other dysfunctional behavior prevention. Programs include "Unmasking Rankism".
The Dignity Movement
- American Society for Ethics in Education
The ASEE is dedicated to stopping abusive practices in our schools that harm children. - Bully Police
A watchdog organization advocating for bullied children. - Character Counts
Character Counts is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian coalition of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations working to advance character education. - Hostile Hallways
AAUW Report on Bullying, Teasing, and Sexual Harassment in School (2001). - NAPTA
This is the web site for the National Association for Prevention of Teacher Abuse. - National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of graduate and professional student life in the United States of America. - No Bully Zone
New Zealand site that helps children cope with bullying. - No Name-Calling Week
No Name-Calling Week is an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities. - Operation Respect
Operation Respect is a non-profit organization working to transform schools, camps and organizations focused on children and youth, into more compassionate, safe and respectful environments. - Parent Advocates
This web site is an information nexus for resources on publicly funded education programs, policies, and schools in the United States. - Peer Abuse Know More
This site gives an overview of the psychological effects of Peer Abuse in children and adults. They find that bullying has been a problem for many years in the schools for children and the workplace for adults. - Power of One Foundation
The purpose of this site is to address a growing psychological and social problem affecting young people in junior high, high school and sometimes as early as elementary school - peer harassment also called bullying, and emotional violence. - Speers Society
The Speers Society developed Choices for Positive Youth Relationships, a curriculum for secondary school classrooms that aims to prevent relationship abuse. - Stop Hazing
This web site is dedicated to stopping hazing. Hazing activities are generally considered to be: physically abusive, hazardous, and/or sexually violating. - Thomas Kelly High School
This school is trying to overcome rankism. The Breaking Ranks team wishes them luck!
Dignity in Education
- AFL-CIO
The AFL-CIO is an alliance of labor unions that seeks to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement. - American Rights at Work
American Rights at Work envisions a nation where the freedom of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively with employers is guaranteed and promoted. - Badbossology.com
Badbossology.com provides news on bad bosses along with relevant resources to assist people in understanding and analyzing their boss to develop an action plan and protect themselves. - Bully EQ
This site explores the relationships between bullying, abuse, mobbing, psychopathy and emotional intelligence in various contexts. - Bully OnLine
This site aspires to be the world's largest resource on workplace bullying. The site is run by Tim Field, author of Bully in Sight and director of The Field Foundation. - BullyBusters
Catalyst for grassroots advocacy to stop workplace bullying. This site is coordinating support for a Healthy Workplace Bill. - Bullying Throughout the Life Cycle
Bullies are frequently the root of disruption, injury and violence in schools and the workplace. Learn how to change the culture of your organization in order to defuse bullying. - EQ in the Workplace
This site claims EQ (emotional intelligence) can help with Mobbing, Sexual Harassment, Fraud, Bullying, Hostile Workplace, Stress Management, Conflict Resolution, Discrimination, and Multicultural Issues. - Fair Jobs
The North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAFFE) is a network of organizations concerned about the growth of contingent work—including part-time jobs, temping, sub-contracting—and its impact on the well being of all workers. - Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center for grassroots groups and public officials, promoting corporate and government accountability in economic development and smart growth for working families. - JobSchmob
Workplace humor, including Job Title Generator. See also The Dilbert Zone and I Should Be Working. - Kickbully.com
This site helps people learn the verbal kung fu to fight bullies. - Management Malpractice
This site seeks to make an organization's degree of management malpractice a significant criterion in judging its viability, success, and longevity. - Mobbing-USA
Mobbing is a process of humiliating workplace expulsion, and an all too common occurrance with devastating outcomes for the targeted individuals, their families, and ultimately for society. - Mobbing.ca
This site helps Canadian employees and employers to overcome the needless suffering and tremendous costs associated with an insidious form of workplace abuse called 'mobbing'. - My Bad Boss
Place to share bad boss stories. - My Toxic Boss
Site for Susan Futterman's book, When You Work for a Bully. - National Employment Lawyers Association
The National Employment Lawyers Association advocates for employee rights and workplace fairness while promoting the highest standards of professionalism, ethics and judicial integrity. Includes a lawyer directory. - National Institute for Prevention of Workplace Violence
This web site aims to educate employers, unions and employees about the growing threat of violence in the workplace and how to effectively deal with it. - National Workrights Institute
The workplace is the last frontier of human rights in America. While the United States has generally done well in protecting human rights in the political sphere, we have failed to protect these same human rights in the world of work. - No Bully For Me
This web site provides tools for activism and empowerment of the targets of workplace bullying. - NoSlaves.com
NOSLAVES.com works to stop the trading of US citizens as commodities for cheap foreign labor. - Quit Abuse
Resource to help people find support for abuse of all kinds. - Scapegoats At Work
Scapegoats At Work is a survival manual for people caught in a scapegoating workplace. It is a book for workers and managers who wish to develop cooperative ways of dealing with individual differences. - Stop Workplace Bullying
The mission of the California Healthy Workplace Advocates is to raise public awareness and compel our state to correct and prevent abusive work environments through legislation. - Success Unlimited
Tim Field, author of Bully In Sight and founder of the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line shares his unique insight into workplace bullying, the common denominator of harassment, discrimination, prejudice, abuse, conflict, and violence. - The Dragon Complex
Abusive use of power and control of employees in the workplace is a subject that many people are afraid to discuss. Two leading psychologists and a management expert bring the taboos to light in The Dragon Complex. - The Expendables
Why nice, intelligent people finish last in the workplace...and what some of them are doing to fight back. - The Mobbing Encyclopedia
Dr. Hans Leymann's classic guide to how mobbing works. - Toxic Boss
This site seeks to help people to succeed in their present job, find a new job, be happy in their workplace and successful in their career. They also want employers to create a workplace environment that energizes people to perform at their best. - Verbal Abuse
This web site helps people fight the devastating impact of verbal abuse. - Work and Family Resources
Family therapists Judy Wyatt and Chauncey Hare offer personal coaching for those who are being harrassed, scapegoated, or emotionally mistreated in the workplace. - Work that Works
This bi-monthly e-journal draws attention to the role of workplace culture as a significant factor in worker health in Canada. - Workplace Bullying and Trauma Institute (WBTI)
The WBTI Mission is to raise societal awareness of, and to lead the public dialogue about, health-endangering Workplace Bullying and to create and communicate long-term, research-based solutions for individuals, employers and public policy makers. - Workplace Bullying Books
This site reviews a number of books written on workplace bullying, employment law, management skills, domestic violence, and similar issues. - Workplace Bullying, Stress, Employment Law, and You
This site offers a legal and human rights perspective onthe age old problem of harassment in the workplace. Includes online video documentaries and legal articles written by leading legal minds in the U.K. - Workplace Fairness
Workplace Fairness is a non-profit organization that provides information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. - Workplace-Violence.Info
This site presents the facts, statistics, and psychology behind workplace violence. It answers questions and examines the causes and possible preventative measures regarding violence in the workplace. - WorkTrauma.org
This South African site is affiliated with the Workplace Dignity Institute, committed to eradication physical and/or emotional workplace violence and related psychosocial problems. - WorldBlu
WorldBlu is a leadership and business design studio elevating the human spirit and inspiring freedom through organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership.
Workplace Fairness and Workers' Rights
- AdBusters
AdBusters is a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. - AlterNet.org
lternet is an "infomediary" that finds, evaluates, aggregates and organizes links to the best journalism, policy analysis and web sites on a range of pressing issues, from globalization to genetic engineering. - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
The ACLU defends the two counterbalancing principles of the U.S. government: that the majority of the people govern, through democratically elected representatives; and that the power of a democratic majority must be limited. - Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International pursues research and action focused on preventing grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination. - Anti-Defamation League
The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. - Beyond Political Center
A place to imagine a new economic and political system for the modern world. - CalAware
California Aware helps journalists and others keep Californians aware of First Amendment issues in the news and political arenas. - California Peace Action
California Peace Action fights for a future where wealthy countries no longer profit from the suffering of others through an obscene arms trade. - Child Labor Photo Project
This is the web site for the project Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change. The site exhibits the work of photographers who photograph child workers around the globe. - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
- Class Action
Our mission is to raise consciousness about the issues of Classism: class and money, and their powerful impact on our individual lives, our relationships, organizations, institutions, and culture. - Common Cause
Common Cause is a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy organization that helps citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and hold elected leaders accountable to the public interest. - Craigslist Foundation
Help for new nonprofits. - Democracy Now
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. - Edge
The Edge Foundation promotes inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society. - End Abuse
- Factcheck.org
This web site serves as a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. - Findlaw
Useful site for finding lawyers and legal information. Also see Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyers.com. - Global Giving
Global Giving connects donors directly to social and economic development projects. - Global Guerillas
Power to the people! - Grade the News
Geared toward the San Francisco Bay Area, but offers a generally useful approach to analyzing the news. - HALT
Organization dedicated to legal reform that favors individuals rather than corporations. Includes a list of Court Watching programs. - Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Web site for organization dedicated to ending humiliating practices and breaking cycles of humiliation throughout the world. - Human Rights Watch
- Idealist.org
Web site for Action Without Borders to connect people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. - Internews
Internews works to improve access to information for people around the world. - League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education and advocacy. - Members for Democracy
Labor union reform group. - Moms Rising
MomsRising brings millions of people, who all share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America, together as a non-partisan force. - MoveOn.org
The MoveOn family of organizations brings real Americans back into the political process. With over 3.3 million members across America they work together to realize the progressive vision of our country’s founders. - NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is one the most important civil rights organizations in the United States. - National Center on Elder Abuse
The NCEA is a national resource for elder rights, law enforcement and legal professionals, public policy leaders, researchers, and the public. - National Organization of Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. - National Youth Rights Association
Youth rights - "the last civil rights movement" - New Dimensions
An independent, listener-supported producer and distributor of public radio programs, New Dimensions presents diverse views from many traditions and cultures. New Dimensions Tape #2672, "Being a Nobody" features guest Robert Fuller. - OMB Watch
OMB Watch is a nonprofit government watchdog organization located in Washington, DC. Their mission is to promote open government, accountability and citizen participation. - Outside the Box
Little web site about People Power. - Peace Majority
The PeaceMajority Report is an email newsletter and online resource with news and information for building the American peace community. - People's Movement for Human Rights Learning (PDHRE)
Every woman, man, youth and child has the human right to a life in dignity. - Planet Earth Foundation
Planet Earth Foundation is a nonprofit public service media agency dedicated to creating awareness and action on social issues, locally, nationally, and globally. - Positive Universe
News Aggregator for Progressive community. - Project Vote Smart
Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense System to provide people with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. - PRWatch
The nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy works to strengthen democracy by promoting media that are "of, by and for the people." Home of "Spin of the Day". - Public Citizen
Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. - Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)
The state Public Interest Research Groups are a network of independent, state-based, citizen-funded organizations that advocate for the public interest. - Ragged Edge Online
The Ragged Edge examines current and emerging public issues from a disability perspective: civil rights, politics, culture, humor, sexuality, art, technology. - Raise the Bar
Small press that aims to support fiction with a progressive politics theme. - Restorative Justice Online
- Since Sliced Bread
Since Sliced Bread is a national call for fresh, common sense ideas. Sponsored by the SEIU. - Suppression of Dissent
According to this site, suppression of dissent occurs when a person makes a public statement or does something that is seen as a threat to the powerful interest group. - Survival International
Survival is an international organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide. - The Pragmatism Cybrary (Cornel West)
Web site of Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University: "one of America’s most gifted, provocative, and important public intellectuals". - The Revealer
A daily review of religion and the press. - The Social Edge
Social Edge is a site where social entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, philanthropists and other practitioners of the social sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources. - The Viveka Foundation
The Viveka Foundation, A Centre for Alternative Perspectives, established in 2001, is a civil society organisation based in New Delhi, India. - The Volunteer Center
Coordinates volunteers for San Francisco Bay Area. - Theocracy Watch
Web site monitors invasion of theocracy in U.S. Government. - Transpartisan.net
This site supports Transpartisanship, an emerging field that advocates pragmatic and effective solutions to social and political problems, transcending and including preexisting political ideologies. - TruthDig
- TruthOut
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Read the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. - WITNESS
WITNESS provides people with video cameras to document human rights violations. - Working for Change
- World Campaign
A project of the Planet Earth Foundation, World Campaign's purpose is to create an unprecedented ongoing media campaign tokeep in public view the great issues facing humanity as we begin the new millennium. - World Development Movement
WDM tackles the underlying causes of poverty. They lobby decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor, research, and promote positive alternatives.
Human Rights and Social Activism
- CorpWatch
CorpWatch covers a wide range of issues involving corporate power, corporate globalization and grassroots resistance to it. - Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) is a nationally recognized consumer group that has been fighting corrupt corporations and crooked politicians since 1985. - Media Matters
- POCLAD
Corporations, Law, and Accountability - Public Concern at Work
Resource for whistleblowers. - Wal-Mart Watch
Wal-Mart Watch serves as a catalyst for coordinated action, a fact-based presence on the truths about Wal-Mart’s business model, and the nation’s premiere online resource center for Wal-Mart educational tools. - Weasel Words
This site leads the rebellion against managerial abuse of language.
Corporate Accountability
- Congresspedia
Find out everything your congressperson doesn't want you to know. - Government Accountability Project
Resource for whistleblowers. - National Whistleblowers Center
Resource for whistleblowers. Link to False Claims Act. - No Fear Act (Text)
Text of No Fear Act to protect government whistleblowers. Also see the required No Fear statistics posted by government agencies such as State, Transportation, Interior, CIA, Energy, Treasury, Labor, Homeland Security, Social Security, FTC, etc. - No Fear Coalition Forum
Forum for people who support the No Fear Act. - No Fear Institute
The No Fear Institute pushed for the No Fear Act and monitors its implementation. - Sunlight Foundation
This organization works to expose earmarked funding hidden within federal legislation.
Rankism in Government Agencies
- Center for Studying Health System Change
The mission of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is to inform health care decision makers about changes in the health care system at both the local and national levels and the effects of such changes on people. - Families USA
Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. - Genetic Alliance
Genetic Alliance increases the capacity of genetic advocacy groups to achieve their missions and leverages the voices of millions of individuals and families living with genetic conditions. - Health Administration Responsibility Project (HARP)
HARP is a resource for patients, doctors, and attorneys seeking to establish the liability of HMOs, Managed Health Care Organizations, and Nursing Facilities for the consequences of their decisions. - Health Care Renewal
The Health Care Renewal blog addresses threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power. Affiliated with Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine. - QuackWatch
Quackwatch, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. - The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund's mission is to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable.
Health Care Consumer and Patient Advocacy
- Apollo Alliance
Plan for alternative energy. - Bioneers
Bioneers conducts educational and economic development programs in the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, traditional farming practices, and environmental restoration. - Earth First!
Earth First! is a front-line, direct action approach to protecting wilderness. They believe in biocentrism, that life of the Earth comes first, and a practice of putting beliefs into action. - Earth Secure
Earthsecure produces TV programs that inform and empower people to "secure the Earth" for future generations using television to entertain and spur global action. - Greenpeace
Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment. - Gristmill
Environmental news blog. - John Muir Trust
The goal of the John Muir Trust iis to conserve and protect wild places with their indigenous animals, plants and soils for the benefit of present and future generations. - Nature Conservancy
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. - Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. - Sustainable Cities Research Institute
The Sustainable Cities Research Institute at Northumbria University aims to develop and promote sustainable approaches to urban living. - TreeHugger
Online magazine supporting a "green" lifestyle. - Wilderness Society
The Wilderness Society seeks to deliver to future generations an unspoiled legacy of wild places, with all the precious values they hold: Biological diversity; clean air and water; towering forests, rushing rivers, and sage-sweet, silent deserts. - Wildlife Trust
Wildlife Trust empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystem and human health.
Environment and Sustainability
- Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. - Center for Digital Democracy
Preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era and realizing the full potential of digital communications. - Chilling Effects
This site educates people in regard to their online rights to combat forms of intimidation that chill free speech. - Civilities
- Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF)
The EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights. - Integral Visioning
Exploration of an emerging P2P society. - Intermediate Technology Development Group
The ITDC aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. - International Center for Technology Assessment
The CTA is a non-profit, bi-partisan organization committed to providing the public with full assessments and analyses of technological impacts on society. - Link TV
Link TV broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. - Slashdot
News for nerds...and a whole lot more.
Technology and Democracy
- Antivists (LiveJournal Community)
- Book Discussion (Bookcrossing Web Site Forum)
- Bully Online (YahooGroup)
- Bullying (YahooGroup)
- BullyPolice USA (YahooGroup)
- Cube Dwellers (LiveJournal Community)
- Dignitarian Meetup
- Frappr Network of Nobodies
- Freedom From Bullying (YahooGroup)
- Human Majority (LiveJournal Community)
- International Association of Nobodies Wiki
- NAPTA Forum (NAPTA Web Site Forum)
- No Fear Coalition (MSN Group)
- No-More-Abuse (YahooGroup)
- Nobodies Google Group
- Peer Abuse (YahooGroup)
- PeerPower (YahooGroup)
- Suidoo Lens on Nobodies
- Toxic Managers (YahooGroup)
- WorkBully Support (YahooGroup)
- WorkBully-Discuss (YahooGroup)
- Workplace Bullying (Monster Forum)