Be an Activist!
What can one person do to help our collective future? Don't be cynical.Be active. Here are some WWW sites I've discoveredfor people who want to make a difference.- Activism Right Here, Right Now
- 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 rootsorganization which works to educate voters about the evils of deficitspending in order to preserve our economy and the American dream for ourchildren 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
- Knowledge Can Be Dangerous
- Law
- Lists o Web Links
- Miscellany