Ruckus.org

The Ruckus Society provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals.

Working with a broad range of communities, organizations, and movements - from high school students to professional organizations - Ruckus facilitates the sharing of information and expertise that strengthens the capacity to change our relationship with the environment and each other.

Additionally, the Ruckus Society is dedicated to fostering leadership of those most affected by the injustice and oppression we struggle against. Therefore, in all our initiatives, we aim to prioritize the voices and visions of youth, women, people of color, indigenous people and immigrants, poor and working class people, lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender queer, and transgendered people, and other historically marginalized communities. Ruckus has trained and assisted thousands of activists in the use of nonviolent direct action. We either bring activists to us or we go to them.

*Noam Chomsky*

The best way to defend civil liberties is to build a movement for social change with a positive programme that has a broad-based appeal, that encourages free and open discussion and offers a wide range of possibilities for work and action.