On this page, find toolkits to guide you through issues facing your local and global community. Below information is available on three of our target campaigns, Bring the Troops Home, Wal-Mart, and No War in Iran, as well as other issues that community activists are working on throughout the country.
Guide to Getting a City Council Resolution Passed in Your Community
The following is a simple guide to getting ab City Council Resolution passed in your community. A City Council Resolution campaign is not a "one size fits all" effort but the following are ideas to get you started. Click here to view the guide.
Urban Policy Resolution
Human Rights City
Iran/Iraq Combined
Bring the Troops Home
Bring the Money Home
National Guard
No War on Iran
Wal-Mart
Universal Healthcare
One group that has done considerable work at the local level is Healthcare Now. To see how you can work at the local level with Healthcare Now, view their Take Action page.
The Cities for Progress toolkit for Universal Healthcare can be found below.
UN Millennium Goals
Eight ambitious goals of moral and economic importance including cutting poverty in half and promoting sustainable development can be accomplished by 2015 through the Millennium Development Goals. To promote this important plan, local governments, organizations and churches can play a tremendous part.
To learn about what your local government can do to support the Millennium Goals, see the United Cities and Local Governments website, and their Millennium Towns and Cities Campaign toolkit . To learn more about the Millennium Campaign and its importance, see the Millennium Campaigns official website, and their Action 2005 Toolkit.
Click here for your toolkit to help support the Millennium Development Goals.
Resolutions that have been passed in other cities can be found below.
Sweatshops
Do you know where garments paid for with your tax dollars were made?
Each year state and local governments spend more than $400 billion on various goods and services. Colleges and universities shell out another $300 billion. Purchasing by these institutions represents a sizeable chunk of the U.S. economy, helping to keep businesses running and jobs in place.
But how are our tax dollars being spent? Are cities and states buying products that are made in a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable manner? Or are our public institutions stuck in business-as-usual, carelessly purchasing goods that have been made under poor environmental and social conditions? These are important questions, because if we can convince institutional buyers to commit to purchasing only the most responsible and sustainable products, then we can use the power of the government purse to help build the market for green/fair goods.
Global Exchange has joined the national Sweat-Free Communities campaign, an effort to ensure that the clothes, uniforms, and other garments bought by our cities and states are not made in sweatshops. The goal of the campaign is to guarantee that we as taxpayers are not complicit in factory abuses by allowing our tax dollars to underwrite worker exploitation.
To join Global Exchange in supporting no-sweatshop resolutions in your city, click here for your toolkit.
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Resolution Toolkits 
