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Activists, phony

Air America Radio

Alliance for Human Research Protection

Alternative energy sources
   Living off the grid

Alternative technologies  Rex Research

American Civil Liberties Union

American Friends Service Committee
   (The Quakers)
     . Friends Committee on National Legislation (The Quakers' lobby)
     . Eyes Wide Open (Iraq war memorial)

American Peace
   (U.S. military actions through history)

Americans for All The Bill Of Rights

Anonymous blogging

Arab-Israel conflict (timeline)

Asian Development Bank

Assorted outrages
     . Ashraf Al-Jailani & Michele Swensen
     . Derek Bentley
     . Google refuses our ad
     . Stephen Sutton
     . Pat Tillman
     . The Voith family story
     . Ted White
     . Working Assets works for Bush

Atheists, discrimination against

Atheists for Jesus


Backwoods Home
      practical ideas for self-reliant living

The Battle of Athens, Tenn.

Better than Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Bill of Rights

Billionaire search engine

Biological weapons, opposition to
      Sunshine Project

Black Box Voting (opposing rigged elections)

Blogging anonymously

Bush-Cheney administration
     . Controversies - Wikipedia's overview
     . Environmental record
     . Lies of the Bush administration
     . Signing statements

Bush ain't no Christian

Bush family's Nazi connections

Bush's National Guard service

Bush's skeleton closet

Buy American

Buy Blue
   (tracking corporations' political donations)


Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace

Castle Coalition
   (opposes government abuse of eminent domain)

Casualties in Afghanistan & Iraq

Center for Cooperative Research

Center for Land Use Interpretation

Cheap dates

Chickenhawks (pro-war draft-dodgers)

Chilling effects of 'war on terror'

Christmas, history of

Classic-literature.co.uk
   (public domain literary works)

Computer TakeBack Campaign (against e-waste)

Consumerama
   (Consumer news, advice, & commentary)

Conversion calculator

Cool Graphics (resources for webmasters)

Corporate rights, reversing
   (against corporatocracy)

Corporations (research into)

CorpWatch (corporate crime)

CouchSurfing Project (lodging exchange for travel)

Courage to Resist (against Iraq occupation)

Crypto-Gram Newsletter (security issues)

Cryptome (free speech trumps national security)

C-Span

Cup-holder for tremors or Parkinson's


Declaration of Independence

Depleted Uranium Education Project

Diabetes (possible tips, tricks, and leads regarding diabetes prevention, treatment, and cures -- some of which you (and even your doctor!) may be unaware)

Dictator Watch

Disability links

DIY Media (pirate radio)

Downing Street memo (Iraq war "smoking gun")

Downloads (old versions)

Drug Policy Alliance (against prohibition)


Earth Liberation Front

Eigen's Political & Historical Quotations
   (better than Bartlett's)

Election 2000:  
Our final tally and Frequently asked questions

Electricity
   Living off the grid

Electronic waste, opposed to
   Computer TakeBack Campaign

Emergency supplies

Eminent domain, opposition to  Castle Coalition

Eyeglasses, affordable

Exxonsecrets.org  (lying about science)


Fair trade

Federation of American Scientists
   (Science with a conscience)

Food Not Bombs (feeding the hungry)

Foreign Policy in Focus

Fourth Freedom Forum

Freeware, best ever list

Freedom from Religion Foundation
   (help with FOIA requests)

Freedom of Information Advocates
   (separation of church and state)

Free State Project

Front groups (phony activists)


Geneva Convention relative to
the Treatment of Prisoners of War

Gilmore v. US DoJ (freedom to travel)

Glasses, affordable

Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria

Graffiti (quotations which should be familiar)

Greed (well-written economics primer)


HandSteady (cup-holder for tremors, Parkinson's)

Health care: DoctorYourself.com
 
Forgotten research in medicine

History of Christmas

Homophobia
   (per the American Psychological Ass'n)

The Hospitality Club (lodging exchange for travel)

Human Rights Watch

Hussein: Made by America


Identity Project
   (against mandatory ID, "Your papers please?")

Images of Resistance

Innocence Project
   (Righting wrongful convictions)

Institute for Policy Studies

Intentional Community Database

International Society for Individual Liberty

Invisible Web

IQ and politics
   (state-by-state 2004 election results)

Iraq Wall (peace park project)

Iraq war resistance

Iraq war "smoking gun" (Downing Street memo)

Iroquois Constitution
   (The Great Law is the founding constitution of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy)

Israel-Palestine conflict (timeline)


Jewish Friends of Palestine

Jews Not Zionists

Judges, ratings of

Judicial Watch

Katrina charities
     . Common Ground Collective
     . MoveOn's Hurricane Housing
     . Don't give to Red Cross

Kindness, the power of


Kiva (microloans)



Legal guide for bloggers

Librarians' Index to the Internet


Living off the grid
   Electricity

Loans (Kiva microloans)

Lodging exchange
     . CouchSurfing Project
     . The Hospitality Club

logo design (do-it-yourself for free)

LowBudgetLife

Low-tech living (Primitive Ways)

Lucid dreaming (playing God)

Lynch, Jessica

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MacArthur Justice Center
   (social justice through litigation)

McSpotlight (anti-McDonald's)

Media Matters (search)

Media ownership (corporate journalism)

Mercenary companies & war profiteers

Mining campaign

More lies you paid for

MoveOn's progressive media strategy

Mozilla (free downloadable browser, so very, very much better than Microsoft's IE broswer)

The myth of the spat-upon veteran

National Lawyers Guild (know your rights)

Nike Watch

9/11 WTC Environmental Health News

Nuclear Test Watch

No NAIS (opposing mandatory ID for livestock)

Notable Names Database (biographies à la snark)

NORML (against prohibition)

Not In Our Name
Nova M Radio   
Nuclear Weapons Image Gallery

The occupation of Iraq
     . ElectronicIraq
     . End the War
     . Iraq Body Count
     . Iraqi Resistance Report
     . Photos from Iraq
     . Today in Iraq
     . Webloggers from Iraq

OpenNet Initiative (against on-line censorship)

Operation Northwoods

Outsourcing the U.S. economy

Outlaws Legal Service


Palestine-Israel conflict (timeline)

Parkinson's, cup-holder for

Path to Freedom (do-it-yourself)

Pharmacy Checker (price comparison and customer reviews for on-line pharmacies)

Phony groups (fake activists)

Playing God (lucid dreaming)

Pope Benedict, observations of


Police, abuse of power
. American Civil Liberties Union:
I wish they had the funding and attitude to fight harder, but they do accomplish a lot of good.
. America's toughest Sheriff?
The truth about nutty Sheriff Joe Arpaio
. Bad Cop News:
A dang fine ongoing overview of cop corruption and abuse of authority in the news.
. Bad Cop, No Donut:
A regular feature on The Bitter End radio show.
. Black Robed Hooliganism: Does for judges what 'Stinky Badges' does for cops -- good coverage of the bad news.
. Cops Suck!:
Another fine collection of not-so-fine cops.
. CopWatch:
This is the big, national group that fights police abuse, brutality, and corruption, with lots of local chapters. It started with Berkeley Copwatch, and that's probably still their best local group. "Policing the police."
. The Copwatch Database:
A permanent, searchable repository of complaints filed against police officers.
. Flex Your Rights:
Protect your rights during police encounters
. The Innocence Project:
Last chance after a guilty verdict.
. More Bad Cop News:
Perhaps the most comprehensive collection of cop crimes
. Meet up with others who care about police misconduct
. Michaelbradford.com keeps a sharp, skeptical eye on the cops in California's Santa Clara county.
. National Lawyers Guild:
Lawyers with consciences.
. PoliceAbuse.org: Well-funded organization runs video stings of police operations.
. PoliceCrimes.com: News and information on police brutality and criminality.
. Roadblocks:
What to expect and how to handle the situation
. Stinky badges
Our archive of criminal cops
. Truth in Justice, an educational non-profit organized to educate the public regarding the vulnerabilities in the U. S. criminal justice system that make the criminal conviction of wholly innocent persons possible
. When the police don't take no for an answer
by Claire Wolfe, Backwoods Home Magazine

Poverty survival (low-cost living)

Primitive Ways (low-tech living)

Prisoners held without charges

Privacy (excellent collection of articles on the topic)

The Private Advantage Club
   (privacy, security, legal protections)

Project for a New American Century
    
Who's who in PNAC

Project Gutenberg (free electronic library)

Propaganda in theory and practice

Proper English, common errors in

Protest kit


Quackpot Watch
   (AMA discredits alternative medicine)

Quotations (our 'wall of fame')


Radio Lovers (old-time radio)

Real ID rebellion

Recipes: Quick and easy

Refugee rights campaign

Rex Research
   (alternative technologies, unconventional science)

Rip-Off Report

Rotten Library
   (excellent resource for odd information)

Rove, Karl (debunking the 'Karl Roverer' myth)

Rumsfeld & North Korea


Scroogle (Google without tracks)

Self-reliance
      Backwoods Home magazine

Serendipity
   (Counterculture resource on current events)

Sex in Christ

Sex information (S.F. Sex Information)

Sisters, by Lynne Cheney

Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy Constitution
   (The Great Law is the founding constitution of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy)

Snopes (urban legends reference pages)

Sodomy Laws Around the World

Software (old versions)

Soulforce (Christians for Christ)

SourceWatch (non-corporate encycopedia)

Spartacus Educational
   (an excellent historical reference site)

State constitutions that
discriminate against atheists

StillMadeinUSA.com (buy American)

The Straight Dope, by Cecil Adams

Sugar-free candy

Sunshine Project (opposes biological weapons)

Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly, Int'l
   (an organization of hope)


Taxpayers for Common Sense

TerraServer USA (you are there)

Things only Americans worry about (compared to the citizenry of other modern democracies)

"Torture warrants", by Alan Dershowitz

Travel: lodging exchange
     . CouchSurfing Project
     . The Hospitality Club

Tremors, cup-holder for

Truth in Justice (against false convictions)


Unblocking your computer or e-mail

Unconventional science  Rex Research

United for Peace and Justice

U.S. foreign policy

U.S. vetoes in United Nations

Veterinary medicine
     . Cat care
     . Cats' kidney problems
     . Spay-neuter clinics (free and low-cost)

Vietnam memorial

Vision  (affordable eyeglasses)


Waco: What happened here?

"War on terror"
     . Background and threat assessments
     . Chilling effects
     . Criminal enforcement against terrorists

War profiteers

War is a Racket, by Smedley Butler

War resistance

Wars based on lies

Wayback Machine (the way the web was)

Weather forecast & conditions

Whizzinator (for beating urine tests)

Whole Again (resource guide)

Who's a rat? (narcs & snitches)

Wikipedia (open-source encyclopedia)

Words of wisdom from U.S. leaders

Working America (AFL-CIO for non-union workers)


Yaktrax snow & ice walkers


Zen stories to tell your friends

Zine World
   (a readers' guide to the underground press)


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