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Activism Right Here, Right Now

• AIDS - America Responds
• All the Latest News (provided by Global Commerce Link)
• Budget Revolution Bulletin Board (by Gian Trotta at Pathfinder)
• Budget Simulation at Berkeley
• Capitol Steps (entertaining political commentary through song)
• Election Results
• Free Market
• Generation X Links
• Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
• Lead... or Leave
• Leadership into the Future
• Meta-index for Non-Profit Organizations by Ellen Spertus
• Milarepa Fund
• Mother Jones has a comprehensive Web guide to the 1996 Elections
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• National Deficit/ Debt Feedback Form by Gene Greer; see also his National Debt and Entitlements pages
• Political Participation Project (part of the MIT Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project)
• Russia's Friends and Partners
• Synergy Solutions
• Third Millenium
• This Modern World (cartoon by Tom Tomorrow, available at the Well)
• Today's News (through CNN and UMD's gopher search)
• UNABOM FBI Task Force Press Release
• What's New in Activism Online

Freedoms, Rights, and Just Causes

• ACA: American Communication Association (Communications Policies)
• ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
• Adbusters - the counterculture
• Adoption Network
• Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity
• American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee
• Amnesty International
• Artitude's Links for those with a Conscience and Consciousness
• Association of American Public Television Stations
• Banned Books Online
• CAM: Computerized AIDS Ministries (for HIV/AIDS information, education and support)
• Cannabis Action Network
• CARAL: California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League-North
• Catt's Claws feminist newsletter
• CCA: College Conservatives Association
• Censorship Archive at the File Room in Chicago
• Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
• Common Cause Texas (a nonpartisan citizens' lobbying organization that works to make government more honest, open and accountable; stresses the need for people to get involved and "Hold Power Accountable".)
• Community Services Network
• Concord Coalition (a nonprofit, nonpartisan grass roots organization which works to educate voters about the evils of deficit spending in order to preserve our economy and the American dream for our children and grandchildren)
• Covington's Homeless Photos
• Democratic Socialists of America
• Democratic Party
• EarthWeb
• EcoWeb
• EnviroLink
• Environmental Scorecard
• Environment, Ecology, and Biology (care of Wendee's World)
• EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
• ETD: Environment Technology Development
• FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums (mirror)
• Feminist Activist Resources on the Net (also Feminism ftp Directory)
• Feminist Majority Online
• Food for the Hungry, International
• Freedom Forum (from Nando Net)
• Freedom of Information Act
• Friends of the Earth
• GayWeb
• GOP Online - US Republican Party Information
• Govaccess
• Grass Root Organizations
• Grassroots World Government
• Green Party
• Greenpeace
• HungerWeb
• Illinois May Have Executed an Innocent Man
• Impact Online (hosts many nonprofits and is one, too; also offers information about volunteer opportunities nationwide, has an internet course for nonprofits that want to use online technology and even offer information on social issues such as homelessness and public education)
• INFACT
• League of Conservation Voters
• League of Women Voters - Voter Information
• Libertarian Party - National Info Service
• Libertarian Party (or check out those cool MIT Libertarians, UMD, or Index of College Libertarian Clubs pages)
• LifeLinks (Pro-Life information)
• Marijuana Policy Project
• Men's Issues
• MESH's Environment Links
• National Child Rights Alliance
• NOW: National Organization for Women
• NPR: National Public Radio
• NRA: National Rifle Association (want to be a member, like 3.5 million others?)
• Oxfam Bridgehead / Oxfam America Trading (Providing artisans and small farmers from the developing world with markets for their goods where they can receive fair prices for their products)
• PBI: Peace Brigades International - making space for peace
• Privacy Issues (hosted by c2.org)
• Pro-Life News
• Project Censored
• Queer Cyberspace Elsewhere
• Queer Infoservers
• Queer Resources Directory
• Rainforest Action Network
• Right Side of the Web (includes Rush Limbaugh, the Republican Contract with America, and CA Prop 187)
• Right to Keep and Bear Arms (and from eclipse and karl and scotto)
• Rise of the militias
• Safer Sex Page
• SEA: Society for Electronic Access
• SEAC: Student Environmental Action Coalition
• Stop Nuclear Testing
• Stop Prisoner Rape
• Turn Left, a clearinghouse for liberal activists
• Women Resources on the Web compiled by the cool Dave Siegel
• World Neighbors to eliminate hunger, disease and poverty
• Yellow Ribbon

International Organizations

• Amnesty International
• Food for the Hungry, International
• Greenpeace International (Amsterdam)
• IGC: Institute for Global Communications
• ISIL: International Society for Individual Liberty
• United Nations
• United Nations gopher
• World Home Page

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

• Atomic Bombs: History and How-to
• Coombs Web of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Asian Studies
• Intelligence Watch Report (daily spook updates)
• MIT's Guide to Lockpicking
• World Factbook 1994

Law

• Ackerson Law Library at Rutgers University
• California Motor Vehicle Codes
• Copyright Act of the US
• Gateway to World History
• Hill's Legal Resource Links
• International Trade Law (Ananse)
• Intersof's Law Links
• Legal Information Institute at Cornell (also see here)
• Legal Reference Page
• Patent Law Primer from WIRED
• Pilot Online Law Page
• Sir Lou's Law Page
• Supreme Court Decisions
• USC Law Center and Law Library (Federal AND California stuff)
• Villanova Information Law Chronicle

Lists o Web Links

• Activist's Oasis (Practical Tools for Troublemakers, lots o links)
• Charlotte's WWWeb (excellent, includes California Issues)
• Cities: try USA Citylink and Citynet
• Citizens' Guide to the Net
• Civic Networking and Grass Roots (the camel's nose under the government's tents)
• Emily's Page of social, political, and environmental Links
• Einet Galaxy Directory of government and politics
• Fedworld
• Freenets home page
• GNN Directory for Government
• GovAccess Bulletins Gopher archive (by Jim Warren; put California online!)
• Government Information Resources at UCR
• Government Links from the Underground (by Justin Hall)
• Links for those with Conscience and Consciousness (by Artitude)
• Murple Web's Politics page
• Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet (compiled by Ellen Spertus; check out the version with pictures)
• Nonprofit Other Directories on the Web (compiled by Ellen Spertus)<
• Political Forum
• Political Participation Project (part of the MIT Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project)
• Searchable database by C. Joe Holmes
• Student Government Home Pages
• Ultimate Political Resources Links by Steve Ertelt
• U.S. Federal Government Servers List
• Yahoo Politics Page

Miscellany

• Counter Revolutionary Page
• Communications for a Sustainable Future
• Community Networking gopher
• Foundation for National Progress (from Mother Jones magazine)
• Moscow Libertarium Project
• Political Scientist's Guide to the Internet
• Oceania, a utopia without the mytopia
• Survey of Community Networks
• White Water Scandal