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NOTEWORTHY ACTIVIST and
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SITES
Following is a List of Activist Sites Supporting Peace
CodePink
CODEPINK is a women initiated grassroots peace
and social justice movement that seeks positive social change
through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.
Americans
United
A powerful movement bringing together
independent voices
for new policy priorities and real leadership,
together amplifying
our voices so the priorities of the working
people can no longer be ignored
by the powerful. The goal: a
government that works for all!
InternationalANSWER
International A.N.S.W.E.R.
(Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)
PaxProtest.Net
A global calendar of pro-peace and anti-racism protests,
meetings, benefits, and conferences.
United
for Peace
United for Peace is a collaboration of national and international
peace and social justice organizations, local places of worship,
peace centers, and community organizations who
share the belief that the commemoration of September 11
and the loss of thousands of innocent lives that happened on that day
should bring us together to work for a peaceful future,
not a future of more war and violence.
Antiwar.com
This
site lists rallies, protests, vigils, and other nonviolent
direct actions organized to stop the call to war in Iraq.
A source for anti-war news and activities
MoveOn.org
MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics
and is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement,
supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice.
Our international network of more than 2,000,000 online activists
is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for
democratic participation available today.
PetitionOnline.com
Start
your own petition here:
Abolition
2000
A global network to eliminate nuclear weapons
Act
for Change
Gives individuals an opportunity to speak out on urgent issues of the day
and
a direct link to the decision-makers who can make a difference on these issues.
Action
Resource Center
In Defense of Human Rights and Social Justice
Ad
Busters
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 by toppling existing power structures
and forging a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
Ananova
Your news on your terms!
Ananova is a new kind of news service.
that let's you choose from more than 3,500 different kinds of content,
requesting e-mail alerts on anything from global warming to
Anthea Turner, from club listings to international affairs.
The
Atlantic Online
The online version of the Atlantic Magazine
AlterNet
AlterNet.org, launched in 1998, is a project of the Independent Media Institute,
a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and
supporting independent and alternative journalism.
It provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism
on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology and
cultural trends to policy debate, sexual politics and health issues.
The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200
sources.
American
Civil Liberties Union
An extremely informative activist site offering easy ways to
stay informed and to take action to protect our freedoms.
American
Prospect
The aim of The American Prospect is to contribute to a renewal of America's
democratic
traditions by presenting a practical and convincing vision of liberal philosophy,
politics,
and public life. We publish articles for the general reader that attempt to
break through
conventional understanding and creatively reframe public questions.
Ours is not a magazine of complaint, of angry gestures, or of private irritations.
It is a magazine of public ideas, firmly committed -- however unfashionably
--
to a belief in public improvement.
Amnesty
International
Working to protect human rights, worldwide
BBC
News
News stories that often do not appear
in the US mainstream media.
BioGems
A project of the National Resource Defense Council
California
Peace Action
We believe in a future where wealthy countries no longer profit
from the suffering of others through an obscene arms trade.
We believe in a future free from the constant threat of nuclear annihilation.
We believe in a future where we no longer squander
billions of dollars every year on unnecessary and menacing weapons.
Our vision is not built on wishful thinking.
Everything we do is designed to build lasting
organizational power to support and realize these ideals.
Campaign
for America's Future
Over 100 Prominent Americans - citizen activists and policy experts
concerned about our country and our planet -
have joined together to launch and build the
Campaign for America's Future.
We are challenging the big money corporate agenda
by encouraging Americans to speak up -
to discuss and debate a new vision of an economy
and a future that works for all of us.
Center
for American Progress
The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research
and educational institute dedicated to promoting
a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all Americans.
Center
for a New American Dream
The Center for a New American Dream's mission is to help Americans
change the way they consume to improve quality of life,
protect the natural environment, and promote social justice.
Center
for Defense Information
CDI seeks realistic and cost effective military spending without
excess expenditures for weapons and policies that increase the danger of war.
Center
for Third World Organizing
A central hub that links communities of color
with organizing skills, political education, and visions of a just society
Children's
Defense Fund
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind
and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe
Start,
and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help
of caring families and communities.
Citizen
Works
A new organization that recruits and trains citizen activists in
ever-increasing numbers, directs them to focused action campaigns
as well as novel synergies with existing efforts, and institutes simple
mechanisms for banding activists together.
Common
Cause
Common Cause is a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization
promoting open, honest and accountable government.
Supported by the dues and contributions of over 200,000 members
in every state across the nation, Common Cause represents the unified voice
of the people against corruption in government and big money special interests.
Common
Dreams News Center
Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community
Consumer
Watch Dog
Sponsored by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR),
a tax exempt, nonprofit organization founded in 1985 that deploys
an in-house team of public interest lawyers, policy experts,
strategists, public educators, and grassroots activists to advance
and protect the interests of consumers and taxpayers.
Co-op
America
Practical steps for using your consumer and
investor power for social change.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch works to hold corporations accountable on issues
of human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
Council
for a Livable World
Committed to ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction
and eliminating wasteful military spending
CounterPunch
CounterPunch is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter
bringing readers the stories that the corporate press never prints.
Cultural
Survival
Developing new strategies for responding directly to the
critical needs of the world's indigenous populations.
Defenders
of Wildlife
Dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants
in their natural communities.
Democratic
Underground
Democratic Underground was founded on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001,
to protest the illegitimate presidency of George W. Bush
and to provide a resource for the exchange and dissemination of
liberal and progressive ideas.
Earth
Island Institute
Provides in-depth information and resources from our project network,
award-winning journalism from the Earth Island Journal,
and tools to address the environmental challenges we face.
Emily's
List
EMILY's List is a political network for pro-choice Democratic
women candidates that raises early money to make women credible contenders.
EMILY stands for "Early Money Is Like Yeast" (we help the "dough"
rise).
End
Game Research Services
Provides research services and training to citizens who are working
for corporate and governmental accountability, and who are committed to
socially just and ecologically sustainable societies.
Essential
Information
Encouraging Activism
Fair.org
A site promoting Media Activism
Feminist Majority
Founded in 1987, the Feminist Majority Foundation
is a cutting edge organization dedicated to
women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence.
Forefront
Leaders
A Global Network of Grassroots Human Rights Advocates
Foundation
for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) is a tax exempt,
nonprofit organization deploying an in-house team of public interest lawyers,
policy experts, strategists, public educators, and grassroots activists to
advance
and protect the interests of consumers and taxpayers.
Freedom
Forum
A nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and
free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three main priorities:
the Newseum, First Amendment freedoms and newsroom diversity.
Freedom
of Information Center
Serving the general public and the media on questions about
access to government documents and information
Government Information Awareness
The misssion of this site is to empower citizens
by providing a single, comprehensive, easy-to-use
repository of information on individuals,
organizations, and corporations related to the U.S.
government and to allow citizens to submit intelligence about
government-related issues, while maintaining their anonymity.
It also enables members of the government a chance to
participate in the process.
Grassroots
Globalization Network
Empowering People-Centered, Sustainable Community Development
(a project of Earth Island Institute)
Guerrilla News Network is an underground news organization
with headquarters in New York City and production facilities
in Berkeley, California. Their mission is to expose people
to important global issues through guerrilla programming
on the web and on television.
Habitat
for Humanity
Brings families and communities in need
together with volunteers and resources
to build decent, affordable housing.
The
Hill
The Hill is a non-partisan, non-ideological weekly newspaper
that describes the inner workings of Congress, the pressures
confronting policy makers and the many ways -- often unpredictable --
in which decisions are made.
Holistic
Politics
At no time in the history of mankind is the "individual" more dependent
on his fellow man for survival. Whether it be environmental and economic concerns,
local living conditions, or basic human rights, man must learn to cooperate
on a global level.
We must set a side partisan politics and special interests and
seek solutions for the "whole" of mankind.
Hope
Magazine
Finding the Courage to Change what we can.
Real stories of people and possibilities.
Human
Rights Watch
Defending Human Rights Worldwide
The
Hunger Project
Committed to the sustainable end of chronic hunger
The
Hunger Site
Donate free food with the click of your mouse.
Independent
Judiciary
Since 1985, the Alliance for Justice has been extensively involved in the
appointment process for federal judges. Through the Judicial Selection Project,
the Alliance monitors and investigates judicial nominations at all levels
of the
federal branch, and encourages public participation in the confirmation process.
Independent
Media Center
A collective of independent media organizations and
hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate,
and passionate tellings of truth.
InFact
Since 1977, Infact has been exposing life-threatening abuses
by transnational corporations and organizing successful grassroots campaigns
to hold corporations accountable to consumers and society at large.
International
Forum on Globalization
An alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers
and writers
formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in
response
to economic globalization.
Just
Act
Youth Action for Global Justice
Make
Them Accountable
A website for those who are tired of
conservative commentaries on the airwaves.
The
Mainstream Media Project
Founded in 1995, the Mainstream Media Project is a nonprofit
public education organization that places top policy analysts
and social innovators on radio stations across the country and around the
world.
The project focuses on current news events
to bring the attention of producers and the public
to the larger questions surrounding these issues.
The project seeks to re-establish a healthy balance
in the national debate by introducing a vital new generation
of informed and persuasive voices to the mainstream broadcast media.
MediaChannel
MediaChannel is a media issues supersite, featuring criticism,
breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds
of organizations worldwide. As the media watch the world, we watch the media.
Move
Our Money
Our Contact Congress page provides you with an easy and efficient way
to let your Representative and Senators know that it's time
to take action to protect our communities.
The
Nation
The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body.
It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion
of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war
upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which
so much of the political writing of the day is marred.
Net
Aid
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
New
College of California Center for Social Action
Center for Education and Social Action (CESA) links New College
with community groups working for global justice, peace
and the environment, organizes public events, workshops and
teach-ins on crucial issues facing activists today,
and develops internship and practicum opportunities for students
to learn through social action in the community.
New
Dimensions Radio
New Dimensions Broadcasting Network is a communications medium
like no other. An independent, listener-supported producer
and distributor of public radio, shortwave and internet programs,
New Dimensions is dedicated to presenting a diversity of views
from many traditions and cultures, and strives to impart
practical knowledge and perennial wisdom.
New Dimensions fosters the process of living a more
healthy life of mind, body and spirit while deepening
our connections to self, family, community and the environment.
Not
In Our Name
The Not in Our Name Project was initiated at a meeting
in New York City, on March 23, 2002.
The meeting was called for by a letter that proposed ways
to strengthen and expand resistance to the U.S. government's course
in the wake of September 11, 2001. This website
lists upcoming events, contacts and also a
Pledge
of Resistance
OneWorld.Net
Connect to a Better World
Open
Secrets
run by the Center for Responsive Politics; a comprehensive breakdown
by district, state, party, and economic sector of campaign
contributions, including soft money
Pesticide
Action Network
Advancing Alternatives to Pesticides
Project
on Government Oversight (POGO)
The mission of POGO is to investigate, expose, and remedy abuses of
power, mismanagement, and government subservience to powerful
special interests by the federal government.
Progressive
Portal
Progressive Portal provides opportunities for effective,
easy grassroots activism on a range of progressive issues.
It is designed to remove the obstacles to increased activism
that many busy people face, without compromising impact.
Progressive
Secretary
Progressive Secretary is a free, cooperative letter-writing service.
It sends out letters devoted to progressive causes, from civil rights to
international politics, on behalf of its thousands of participants.
Public
Campaign
If you're looking for real solutions to clean up the campaign finance mess
in this country, you've come to the right place. We can show you
what's wrong with the system and how you can help fix it.
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.
The
Ruckus Society
Provides training in the skills of non-violent civil disobedience to help
environmental and human rights organizations achieve their goals.
Share
International Media Service
Share International Foundation is a non-profit, NGO organization.
supported by a worldwide network of volunteers. One of its primary
goals is to synthesize the ideas and events which are rapidly propelling
humanity toward a complete restructuring of its global institutions. It
focuses on gradually-emerging patterns that underlie many social, political,
economic and spiritual events, with a view to stimulating practical action
for the rebuilding of our world along more just and compassionate lines.
Sustainable
Energy & Economy Network (SEEN)
The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network,
a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC)
and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam),
works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally
on environment, human rights and development issues
with a particular focus on energy, climate change,
environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues,
particularly as these play out in North/South relations.
TV
Turnoff Network
TV-Turnoff Network, formerly TV-Free America, is a nonprofit organization
that encourages children and adults to watch much less television
in order to promote healthier lives and communities.
Trees
for the Future
Works to counteract the growing world crisis caused by deforestation,
desertification, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.
True
Majority
TrueMajority was founded by Ben Cohen, Co-founder, Ben and Jerry's.
It is a grassroots education and advocacy project of Priorities, Inc,
a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-deductible, 501(c)(3) corporation.
It enables you to easily send faxes on the issues we all care about
to members of Congress and national leaders.
Truth
Out
An alternative news source providing
critical news and commentary on world events
Turn
the Tide Project
Nine personal actions to protect the environment --
complete with calculators that tally and track our individual
and collective impact right away!
Plus, advocacy to move communities, businesses,
and governments to change the way goods
are produced and consumed.
Unknown
Country
Unknowncountry.com presents the credible edge
in current events and science news, crop circles, prophecy,
and other unexplained phenomena not covered by the mainstream media.
Unreasonable
Women
Sometimes it takes being outrageous to protect the life of the world,
and often today it is women who are putting themselves on the line.
This site gives you an opportunity to be outrageous in taking action
to protect the earth and its inhabitants.
VoxNYC
The New Resistance News Source
Piercing the Thin Veil of Lies
War
Times
President Bush's response of "permanent war against terrorism
at home and abroad" has endangered the lives and liberties
of millions of people everywhere.
War Times is being produced to help broaden
and deepen the fight against the Bush program
by compiling information and analysis,
and putting them into the hands of large numbers of readers.
Washington
Watchdog
A project of Common Cause focused on
monitoring pending legislation
Women's
Action for New Directions
We organize, strategize, mobilize and VOTE.
We offer solutions—we expect results!
Women
for Women
Provides women survivors of war, civil strife, and other conflicts
with tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty
into a civil society that promotes and protects
peace, stability, and self-sufficiency.
Z-Net
Magazine
Z is an independent political magazine of critical thinking on political,
cultural, social, and economic life in the United States.
It sees the racial, sexual, political, and class dimensions of personal life
as
fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances
and it aims to assist activist efforts to attain a better future.
2020
Vision
Empowers citizens to speak out for a clean environment
and a world free of nuclear weapons. Each month we pick
one issue that is critically important to the future of the planet,
where your voice will make the most difference.
Thousands of letters, written in just 20 minutes a month
can move political mountains.
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