Be an Activist!

Activism Right Here, Right Now

1. *** Links to check every day ***
2. Activists Resource Network
3. AIDS - America Responds
4. All the Latest News (provided by Global Commerce Link)
5. Budget Revolution Bulletin Board (by Gian Trotta at Pathfinder)
6. Budget Simulation at Berkeley
7. Capitol Steps (entertaining political commentary through song)
8. Child Cyber Search
9. Common Dreams - building a better future
10. Contract with my Grandchildren
11. CQ's American Voter 96
12. Democracy Net
13. Earth Day
14. Free Market
15. Generation X Links
16. Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
17. How Did Your Senators and Representatives Vote?
18. Lead... or Leave
19. Leadership into the Future
20. Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Internet
21. Main Quad resources for college students - see Fired Up
22. Meta-index for Non-Profit Organizations by Ellen Spertus
23. Milarepa Fund
24. Mother Jones has a comprehensive Web guide to the 1996 Elections
25. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - see also Nation's Missing Children Organization
26. National Deficit/ Debt Feedback Form by Gene Greer; see also his National Debt and Entitlements pages
27. New Agenda by Richard Lamm
28. Pinpoint yourself Politically
29. Political Participation Project (part of the MIT Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project)
30. Political Site of the Day
31. Politics USA - daily politics fix
32. Register to Vote - Rock the Vote
33. Russia's Friends and Partners
34. Stump political analysis
35. Synergy Solutions
36. The Survivor's Voice not-for-profit, voter action web site for survivors of child abuse/assault and their supporters, activists, and advocates
37. Third Millenium
38. This Modern World (cartoon by Tom Tomorrow, available at the Well)
39. Today's News (through CNN and UMD's gopher search)
40. UNABOM FBI Task Force Press Release
41. WebOvision - media links around the world
42. What's New in Activism Online
43. Yahoo's Current Events Summary
44. Young Americans 96
45. YPN NetVote - follow the 1996 campaign

Canonical Starting Points

1. Activist's Oasis (Practical Tools for Troublemakers, lots o links)
2. All Things Political
3. Berkeley Directory of Political Sites
4. Charlotte's WWWeb (excellent, includes California Issues)
5. Cities: try USA Citylink and Citynet
6. Citizens' Guide to the Net
7. Civic Networking and Grass Roots (the camel's nose under the government's tents)
8. EFF Activism and Government Archive
9. Emily's Page of social, political, and environmental Links
10. Einet Galaxy Directory of government and politics
11. Environment Virtual Library
12. Fedworld
13. Freenets home page
14. GNN Directory for Government
15. GovAccess Bulletins Gopher archive (by Jim Warren; put California online!)
16. Government Information Resources at UCR
17. Government Links from the Underground (by Justin Hall)
18. Leftist and Progressive Internet Resource Directory by Jay Moore
19. Links for those with Conscience and Consciousness (by Artitude)
20. Murple Web's Politics page
21. National Polticial Index
22. Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet (compiled by Ellen Spertus; check out the version with pictures)
23. Nonprofit Other Directories on the Web (compiled by Ellen Spertus)<
24. Political Forum
25. Political Participation Project (part of the MIT Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project)
26. Politics on the Net (we're on page 93, bay bee!)
27. Politics on the Web by the Mississippi State CRs
28. Progressive Pages (was: Left Side of the Web)
29. Right Side of the Web
30. Searchable database by C. Joe Holmes
31. Student Government Home Pages
32. Ultimate Political Resources Links by Steve Ertelt
33. U.S. Federal Government Servers List
34. Yahoo Politics Page

Freedoms, Rights, and Just Causes

1. ACA: American Communication Association (Communications Policies)
2. ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
3. Adbusters - the counterculture
4. Adoption Network
5. Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity
6. American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee
7. Amnesty International
8. Artitude's Links for those with a Conscience and Consciousness
9. Association of American Public Television Stations
10. Banned Books Online
11. CAM: Computerized AIDS Ministries (for HIV/AIDS information, education and support)
12. Cannabis Action Network
13. Cannibis Activists Connection Collection
14. CARAL: California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League-North
15. Catt's Claws feminist newsletter
16. CCA: College Conservatives Association
17. Censorship Archive at the File Room in Chicago
18. Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
19. Children Now
20. Children's Defense Fund
21. Coalition to Reform Money
22. College Republican WarRoom
23. 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".)
24. Community Services Network
25. 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)
26. Conservative Site of the Day
27. Constitutional Action Party
28. Contact Center guide to community service and charities on the Web
29. COOL
30. Covington's Homeless Photos
31. Democratic Party National Committee
32. Democratic Socialists of America
33. Digital Democratic Party
34. Disability Rights Activist
35. EarthWeb
36. EcoWeb
37. Enough anti-consumerism campaign
38. EnviroLink
39. Environmental Scorecard
40. Environment, Ecology, and Biology (care of Wendee's World)
41. EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
42. ETD: Environment Technology Development
43. Eureka's Homeless
44. FAIR: Federation for American Immigration Reform
45. FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
46. FAIR Governing - federal agency integrity requirement for governing
47. Families Against Mandatory Minimums (mirror)
48. Feminist Activist Resources on the Net (also Feminism ftp Directory)
49. Feminist Majority Online
50. Food for the Hungry, International
51. Freedom Forum (from Nando Net)
52. Freedom of Information Act
53. Friends of the Earth
54. Friend of the Future
55. GayWeb
56. GOP Online - US Republican Party Information
57. Govaccess
58. Grass Root Organizations
59. Grassroots World Government
60. Green Party
61. Greenpeace
62. HungerWeb
63. Illinois May Have Executed an Innocent Man
64. Immigration Forum
65. 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)
66. Independence Platform for Reform
67. INFACT
68. Institute for First Amendment Studies
69. League of Conservation Voters
70. League of Women Voters - Voter Information
71. Left Links by DSAUSA
72. Libertarian Party - National Info Service
73. Libertarian Party (or check out those cool MIT Libertarians, UMD, or Index of College Libertarian Clubs pages)
74. Liberty and Better World via WizarDave
75. Liberty - past, present, and future
76. LifeLinks (Pro-Life information)
77. Marijuana Policy Project
78. McSpotlight
79. Men's Issues
80. MESH's Environment Links
81. National Child Rights Alliance
82. New Party
83. NOW: National Organization for Women
84. NPR: National Public Radio
85. NRA: National Rifle Association (want to be a member, like 3.5 million others?)
86. Outrider - helping the homeless help themselves
87. 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)
88. PBI: Peace Brigades International - making space for peace
89. Prison-Related Links
90. Privacy Issues (hosted by c2.org)
91. Pro-Life Ultimate Resource List
92. Project Censored
93. Queer Cyberspace Elsewhere
94. Queer Infoservers
95. Queer Resources Directory
96. Rainforest Action Network
97. Right to Keep and Bear Arms (and from eclipse and karl and scotto)
98. Rise of the militias
99. Root and Branch Collective - radical pacifism
100. Rush Limbaugh Debates Reality, or does he ?
101. Safer Sex Page
102. SEA: Society for Electronic Access
103. SEAC: Student Environmental Action Coalition
104. Secession and Independence Movements
105. StatusQuo - including the Rape Poster Project and Guilty Until Proven Wealthy
106. Stop Nuclear Testing
107. Stop Prisoner Rape
108. The New Liberal
109. Turn Left, a clearinghouse for liberal activists
110. Voter Information Services
111. War on Homelessness
112. Women Resources on the Web compiled by the cool Dave Siegel
113. Working Assets long distance with a conscience
114. World Neighbors to eliminate hunger, disease and poverty
115. Yellow Ribbon

International Organizations

1. Amnesty International
2. Food for the Hungry, International
3. Greenpeace International (Amsterdam)
4. IGC: Institute for Global Communications
5. ISIL: International Society for Individual Liberty
6. SACIS International Affairs Resources - United Nations
7. United Nations
8. United Nations gopher
9. World Home Page

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

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

Law

1. Ackerson Law Library at Rutgers University
2. American Bar Association
3. California Motor Vehicle Codes
4. Copyright Act of the US
5. Copyright Law
6. Cyberspace Law for Nonlawyers
7. FindLaw Internet Legal Services
8. Gateway to World History
9. Hill's Legal Resource Links
10. International Trade Law (Ananse)
11. Internet Law Hypercourse at UMass
12. Intersof's Law Links
13. Law School Internet Sites
14. Law Student Web
15. 'Lectric Law Library
16. Legal Information Institute at Cornell (also see here)
17. Legal Reference Page
18. Legal ResearchNet
19. Patent Law Primer from WIRED
20. Pilot Online Law Page
21. Sir Lou's Law Page
22. Supreme Court Decisions
23. The Real First Amendment
24. USC Law Center and Law Library (Federal AND California stuff)
25. Use of the Internet by Lawyers
26. Usenet and the Law
27. Villanova Information Law Chronicle
28. Web Journal of Current Legal Issues
29. West's Legal Directory
30. Yahoo Law Links

Miscellany

1. Counter Revolutionary Page
2. Communications for a Sustainable Future
3. Community Networking gopher
4. Moscow Libertarium Project
5. Political Scientist's Guide to the Internet
6. Oceania, a utopia without the mytopia
7. Society of Professional Journalists and National Press Club
8. Scientific Selection of Candidates
9. Survey of Community Networks
10. White Water Scandal

News

1. alt.dear.whitehouse
2. alt.fan.dan-quayle
3. alt.fan.ronald-reagan
4. alt.politics.usa.constitution
5. alt.politics.usa.misc
6. alt.politics.usa.republican

Ordinary People

1. Roger Hedgecock
2. Thomas Jefferson (excellent! - and don't forget to check out One if by Congress, Two if by White House, a page dedicated to Jeffersonian conservatism)
3. Rush Limbaugh (and another, and his 35 Undeniable Truths)
4. Richard M. Nixon Memorial
5. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, USMC, ret.
6. Dan Quayle
7. Ronald Reagan
8. Ronald Reagan Library

Readings

1. Addresses by US Presidents
2. alt.activism ftp archives (maintained by Rich Winkel)
3. American Information Network
4. Banned Books Online
5. Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution
6. Channel Zero quarterly guerrilla videozine which seeks to blow holes in the global media and corporate monopolies that currently dictate our reality of systemic consumption and greed
7. Citizens' Guide to the Net
8. Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
9. Classic Literature and Political Documents (MIT or Indiana)
10. Common Sense, Thomas Paine
11. Constitution of the United States (or try this mirror, or this mirror)
12. Contra Mundum journal of opinion and analysis
13. Declaration of Independence of the United States (or try this mirror)
14. Declaration of the Rights of Man (France, 1789)
15. Defrauding America, by Rodney Stich
16. Electronic Newstand (has many valuable magazine publications, including Reason Magazine and The Skeptical Inquirer)
17. Federalist Papers (long)
18. Firearms files from Jeff Chan
19. Gettysburg Address
20. Historical Documents
21. Holocaust FAQs from the Usenet
22. I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr.
23. Internet Wiretap - Online Books and Library
24. Liberty or Death (1775), Patrick Henry
25. Legislate Gopher
26. Liberty Documents, Anarcho-Capitalism
27. Library of Congress
28. John Locke's Second Treatise
29. Machiavelli's The Prince
30. Magna Carta
31. Mother Jones Independent-Thinkers On-Line Magazine
32. National Review
33. New Paradigms Project
34. New Republic magazine
35. Objectivism Philosophy
36. On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
37. Psycheocracy, the Scientific Selection of Candidates
38. Readings in Philosophy and Theology of Nations, Peoples, and Government
39. Social Contract (on immigration)
40. Soviet Archives at the Library of Congress (at SunSITE)
41. Time Magazine's Election '94 and Washington
42. U.S. Government Hypertext Documents (at SunSITE)
43. George Washington's Farewell Address
44. Wiretap's Current Government Documents

Technology

1. APT: Alliance for Public Technology
2. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, home of the Doomsday Clock
3. CDA Decision
4. Center for Democracy and Technology
5. Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition
6. Clipper Chip Archive at WIRED
7. Communications Decency Act
8. Communications Policy Project of the Benton Foundation
9. Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center (and check out their cool magazine)
10. CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (foil that clipper chip!)
11. Cryptography
12. Crypto Export Control Archives at EFF (also at Cygnus)
13. Cyberlaw and Cyberlex World Wide
14. Cyberspace Law for Nonlawyers
15. Cyberspace Law Institute
16. Cyberspace Report
17. CyberWire Dispatch
18. Cypherpunks Page at Berkeley (also at CPSR)
19. Defense Fund for David LaMacchia
20. Domain Names and Trademarks
21. DTIC: Defense Technical Information Center
22. EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
23. E-Law by David Loundy
24. Electronic Democracy Information Network (gopher at Berkeley)
25. EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center
26. Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
27. IHAC: Information Highway Advisory Council
28. Information Activism by Gordon Irlam
29. Information Infrastructure Task Force
30. Internet Censorship
31. Internet Engineering Task Force
32. Internet Law Hypercourse at UMass
33. ISI Internet Notes
34. Journal of Online Law
35. Key server at MIT (directs you to the Latest Version of PGP without the copyright infringement problems, but you'll have to go through ftp and telnet as per the README to keep the Feds happy)
36. League for Programming Freedom (also at MIT)
37. Netwatchers Cyberzine
38. NSS: National Space Society (should we return to the moon?)
39. NTIA and Freedom of Information
40. Office of Technology Assessment
41. PC Week Online Highlights (stop Congress from killing the Internet)
42. People and the Governments in the Information Age
43. PGP: Pretty Good Privacy Public Key Cryptosystem Version 2.6
44. Quadralay Cryptography Archive
45. Questioning Technology by Frank Beacham
46. Security-related Net Pointers
47. SEA: Society for Electronic Access (civil liberties in cyberspace)
48. Sign the petition to oppose Senate bill S 314 and keep the government's Hands off the Net! (stop the Communications Decency Act of 1995)
49. Space Activism Home Page (or see SPACEHAB)
50. Telecommunications Policy
51. Zimmerman Legal Defense Fund

United States and its Government

1. *** Federal Web Locator ***
2. American Political Science Association Gopher
3. American Politics Gopher
4. Budget of the US Government, 1996
5. California Election Results
6. California Electronic Government Information FAQ
7. California Secretary of State's Gopher Site
8. CapWeb - Guide to Congress
9. Center for Disease Control
10. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
11. Citizens' Guide to the Net
12. Clinton Watch (and not exactly nice)
13. Congress Email Addresses
14. Congress gophers
15. Congressional Quarterly gopher site
16. Constitution of the United States
17. C-SPAN (the government monitoring cable station)
18. Declaration of Independence of the United States
19. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (from the Campaign Trail)
20. Entitlement Reform Commission, a "bi-partisan" federal government commisssion has lots of facts on entitlement problems, with a Budget Game that can be played on a PC with Lotus where you solve the budget crisis.
21. EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
22. FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation
23. FCC: Federal Communications Commission
24. Federal Government Info on the Internet from A to Z
25. Federal Government (lots of info maintained by the Library of Congress)
26. FedStats - one stop shopping for federal statistics
27. FinanceNet - innovate and optimize the way governments manage and account for taxpayer resources
28. Forecast (monthly journal of law and public policy)
29. GAO: General Accounting Office of the U.S. government
30. Gingrich Watch: What's Newt (also check out Newtwatch)
31. GOP Contract With America
32. Government gophers
33. GPO Federal Information Search WAIS (at Purdue)
34. How Your Representatives Have Been Voting
35. Information Infrastructure Task Force
36. Internet Wiretap - Government Information (such as Congressional Contacts and Committee Memberships and Current Presidential Documents like Executive Orders, etc.)
37. IRS
38. National Archives of historic and other information
39. Library of Congress (and see here)
40. Military History of the U.S.
41. National Performance Review
42. National Criminal Justice Reference Service BBS
43. Office of Senator Barbara Boxer
44. Office of Senator Edward Kennedy
45. Office of Senator Patrick Leahy
46. Office of the Secretary of Defense
47. Policy Net - Campaigns, Publications and Alerts
48. POPClock Projection of the U.S. Population
49. Project Vote Smart political database gopher (info on members of Congress, political candidates, and other legislators)
50. Social Security Administration
51. Taxing Times (more tax info than you ever wanted to know)
52. Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet (about the House and Senate)
53. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
54. U.S. Census Bureau
55. U.S. Department of Agriculture
56. U.S. Department Of Commerce
57. U.S. Department Of Energy (and check out the gopher, and the Environment, Safety and Health page)
58. U.S. Federal Government Servers - Master List
59. U.S. Government Hypertext Documents (at SunSITE)
60. U.S. Government Resources
61. U.S. House of Representatives
62. U.S. House of Representatives gopher
63. U.S. National Archives
64. U.S. Navy
65. U.S. Postal Service
66. U.S. Senate gopher (also check the U.S. Senate Server)
67. U.S. Supreme Court and its decisions, from Cornell's Legal Information Institute
68. Veterans Affairs Department
69. Webcorp's Wheel o' Congress
70. What's in those Wharehouses?
71. White House (or East Mirror or West Mirror)
72. White House documents
73. White House Briefing Room
74. White House ftp server
75. White House Electronic Access FAQ
76. Wiretap's Current Government Documents