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Don’t be an oxymoron!!
Abba Kovner
(Jewish WW2 resistance fighter)
Abdul
Ghaffar Khan (Muslim pacifist)
academics
/ activists for justice / peace
ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
ACORN: Association of Community Orgs for
Reform Now
Activist Links
for Women’s Issues
ACT UP (NY)
African National Congress (ANC)
Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Alfie Kohn: against competition
Alliance for Democracy:
progressive populism
All the Hemispheres
(by Hafiz, 14th
century Persian Sufi scholar and poet)
Alternative US Weekly
Newspapers
AlterNet – independent and alternative
journalism
America’s Progressive
Community: 120+ links from Common Dreams
American Federation of Teachers
American Friends Service Committee
American Jewish Historical Society
American Jewish World Service (a Jewish Peace Corps
and more)
American Museum of Natural History
American Sociological Association
Amilcar
Cabral (revolutionary leader from
“Another Generation”, Nonviolent
Activist, Sept-Oct 2004
“Another Miracle of Chanukah”,
Tikkun,
December 2005
Anti-Bush: over 500 links, lists,
and rings!
Apolitical
Intellectuals (Otto Rene Castillo)
Arts & Letters Daily: ideas, criticism,
debate
Arundhati
Roy (Indian author and activist)
Arutz Sheva : Independent Israel News
ASJE: Alliance for Sustainable Jobs &
Environment
Auguste Blanqui (19th
century French revolutionary)
Auroville – a universal city in the making in
south India
Basho’s Narrow Road to the Deep
North (plus a biography and chronology)
Basic
Call to Consciousness: Iroquois Confederacy / Great
Peacemaker
Beyond Blame Project:
A
Biodiesel, Vegetable Oil Fuel, and the Veggie Van
Bioengineering Action Network (BAN)
Bioneers: circles, cycles, solutions...
Birobidzhan – Jewish
Autonomous Republic in Russia
Blacks & Jews: A
Revolutionary View
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
(Horace Miner)
“Bombing
Baghdad by the Bay?”, From the Left, Spring/Summer 2003
“A
Call for Empathy: Rethink Pre-emptive Bush Doctrine”, Berkeley Daily Planet,
Weekend Edition, 4-7 April 2003 (shorter
version)
Book Crossing – a book lovers’ community
Brain Food/Die Off – Energy, Environment, Economics,
Etc.
Brit Tzedek v’Shalom (Jewish
Brook Computer Solutions: computer consulting for
business solutions
BURN! Nothing ever burns by itself.
Bushisms (by Jacob Weisberg
& Brian Curtis)
BuzzFlash – Daily Headlines and Breaking
News
CAF Issues : Campaign for America’s
Future
California Academy of Sciences
California Federation of Teachers
Celebrating Genocide! (CounterPunch) / Celebrating
Genocide!: anti-Thanksgiving polemic in English
(¡Celebrando el Genocidio!:
anti-Thanksgiving polemic en Español)
Center for Economic & Social Rights
Center for Health, Enviro & Justice
(CHEJ): formerly CCHW / Lois Gibbs
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Che Guevara’s Guerilla Warfare
Chiasmus (and vice versa)
Chomsky.info (Noam Chomsky’s Official Site)
Chronology of U.S. Imperialism
CIA’s
Greatest Hits by Mark Zepezauer
Cinetopia: lots of cool links, essays, etc.
Circle of Life Foundation: Julia
Butterfly Hill
Citizens for Democratic Renaissance: RKM,
cyberjournal
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Coalition on Environment & Jewish
Life (COEJL) - EcoJudaism
Common Dreams NewsCenter: Progressive News
& Views
An excellent non-profit, non-commercial news portal with breaking stories, cogent analysis,
syndicated authors, various alternative media, useful tools, lots of links, wire services, weather,
and much more…
Communications for a Sustainable Future: PSN
& other progressive resources
computers and social change links
Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations
Consortium News – Consortium for
Independent Journalism
“Continuum of Collective
Action”, Peace Review, Vol 13, No. 2
(June 2001)
Cops of the World (Phil Ochs)
Corporate Accountability Project: corp
power, corp welfare, anti corp action ...
Corporate Welfare Information
Center
Corporation
Nation by Charles
Derber (excerpts)
CovertAction Quarterly: Spying on the Spies & Spooking the Spooks
craigslist:
community resources
Cutting
Corporate Welfare (Nader)
Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites
Deadly Deceits by Ralph McGehee (excerpts)
“Deadly
Humanitarianism”, From
the Left, Vol. 23, No. 2/3 (Spring/Summer 1999)
De-Colonizing
the Revolutionary Imagination (Patrick Reinsborough)
Deb & Jen’s Land O’ Useless Facts
Democracy
in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy Now! (with Amy Goodman)
Democracy Unlimited
of Humboldt County: corporate control & controlling corporations
Devil’s
Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Dictionary of
Critical Sociology
Dictionary.com: dictionaries and reference
Doug Henwood’s WBAI Radio
Archives
Dylan Thomas: “Do not go
gentle into that good night”
E Magazine:
The Case Against Meat
eActivist – Electronic Activism
Ecadre Directory – communist links
Eco Kosher
Network (EcoKashrut - Nourishment
For the Body, the Soul, and the World)
EcoPortal: Environmental Search Space
EcoPopulism:
Toxic Waste & the Movement for Environmental Justice (review)
Educators For Animal Rights: lots of info &
links
Electronic Frontier Foundation – “Defending Freedom
in the Digital World”
Eleven Inherent Rules of Corp Behavior
(Jerry Mander)
Ella Baker Center for Human
Rights
Environment: A Global
Challenge
“Environmental Genocide:
Native Americans and Toxic Waste” (abstract)
Essential Information: Nader groups and issues
Exxon Valdez oil spill in
Prince Willian Sound, Alaska
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – “national media watch group”
FBI files subject guide
(Secret No More)
FBI: Freedom of Information Act resources
Fibonacci
(numbers and nature)
Fireworks:
Breathtaking…and Deadly
Fireworks:
Fallout over Disneyland
Flashpoints Radio – “speaking truth to
power”
Foreign
Affairs (quasi official US publication)
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Frederick Douglass
(former slave and abolitionist)
Free Trade Area of the
Americas: Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the FTAA
Friedrich Froebel (inventor
of kindergarten)
Gate of Heavenly Peace
(Tiananmen)
General Leftist and
Progressive Resources and Hotlists
Genetically Engineered Food
Alert Campaign Center
George Orwell (political writings)
George Ritzer
(author of McDonaldization of Society)
Global Circle: global progressive portal…great
annotated links
Global
Exchange (an amazing international human rights org)
Global News Portal: antiCIA etc., news
Global
Village or Global Pillage
Globalization &
Corporate Rule
GRASP / Great Ape Standing & Personhood
Green Belt Movement (Wangari Maathai,
Ph.D., 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner)
Greg Palast (investigative reporter)
Grist Magazine:
Environmental News, Commentary and Humor
Gush Shalom / Israeli
Peace Bloc
HappyCow: global guide to vegetarian
restaurants
HateWatch :: Fighting online bigotry!
Health Central: Dr. Dean Edell
“Healthy
Eating, Healthy Environment”, Laptop
Lunch Times (October 2004)
Hillman’s
Top 100 Wonders of the World
History
as Mystery by Michael Parenti (book review)
History
as Mystery by Michael Parenti (excerpts)
History of BioChemical Weapons
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: life, the
universe, and everything
Holocaust Cybrary:
remember...
Howard Zinn (author of A
People’s History of the
Huck / Konopacki labor
cartoons
Human Education Should Be
Humanistic: A Progressive Philosophy of Teaching
Idealist: Action Without Borders
Independent Progressive Politics Network
Independent Media Center: aka indymedia aka
IMC
Indigenous Environmental Network
Inequality: news, info, quotes, links...
Information Please: reference links
Institute for Food & Development Policy
(Food First)
Institute for Global
Communications
Institute for Policy Studies: “an institute for
the rest of us”—I.F. Stone
International ANSWER (Act Now to
Stop War & End Racism)
International Children’s Digital Library
International Forum on Globalization
International Network of Engaged Buddhists
International Responsibilities Task
Force
The American Library Association’s
excellent source of annotated links
for information, resources,
organizations, events, campaigns, etc.
International Vegetarian Union (in various
languages)
Internet Archive: 1 petabyte / 40+ billion pages
Internet Jewish
History Sourcebook
Internet Public Library Kidspace
“Israel, Palestine, &
Justice” (Common
Dreams),
“Israel, Palestine and
Justice” (AlterNet),
“Israel,
Palestine and Justice” (Beyond Blame),
Israel/Palestine Center for Research
and Information
Jainism: Jain
Principles, History, & Resources
James Loewen (Lies
My Teacher Told Me)
Jay’s Leftist & Progressive Resources:
news, essays, films, links...
A great resource with loads of
material if you’re willing to dig around…
Jay’s Marxisms and Socialisms
Links
Jewish Family & Children’s Services
Jewish Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender
Archive (Twice Blessed)
Jewish holiday texts
& meditations
Jewish Languages Research Website
Jewish Renewal: National Jewish Renewal
Center
Jewish Resources
on the Internet
Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA)
Jewish Vegetarians of North America
newsletter archives/blog
Judaism, Vegetarianism, & Animal
Rights
Judi Bari: Redwood Summer Justice Project
“Judi Bari and the FBI”
(ZNet) / “Judi Bari and the FBI”
(IMC) / & on Hippyland
Kazaa (file swapping)
KDVS (
Ken
Saro Wiwa (Nigerian environmental activist)
Kerala (democratic socialist
state in India): Richard Franke
KFOG (classic rock and roll)
Kids Environmental
Education Links
Koogle – The Kosher Search Engine
Korten’s
Post Corporate World (excerpts)
KPFA (community/listener supported public radio
in
KQED (national public radio in SF)
Kyoto USA – encouraging action to end global
warming
LA Weekly, Letters to the Editor,
10 16 December 1999
Lake Merced (SF)
Lakeshore
Alternative Elementary School (SF)
Langston Hughes: “Let
America Be America Again”
Le Monde Diplomatique English Edition
LETS – open money resources for communities
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
Lift Every Voice and
Sing: The Negro National Anthem
Lonely Planet
Thorn Tree: Travel Bulletin Board
Lori Berenson (
Macrocosm USA: progressive clearinghouse
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers
Project
Marxists Internet Archive (original works)
MarxMail
(listserv, links, art, & more)
“Masculinity
as a Foreign Policy Issue” by Cynthia
Enloe
Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger
“Meatless in Mexico City”,
Vegetarian
Journal, Jan/Feb 1996
(“Cena Vegetariana en
la Ciudad de México” on IVU)
mediachannel: global media connection
Media monstrosities – Who Owns What
Metaphor Project:
Co-Intelligent Talk about Mainstreaming Sustainability
Meyer
London (socialist congressperson from NYC c. WW1)
Micah Publications (publishing arm of Jews for Animal Rights)
Michael
Lerner – Editor/Rabbi of Tikkun
Michael Moore – author/film maker/rabble
rouser/jokester
Michael Parenti (author of History as Mystery,
Democracy for
the Few, et al.)
Middle East Media Research Institute: The Middle
East through its own Media
MidEast Web for Coexistence
MLK’s
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Mo Tzu (Chinese
philosopher, 470-391 BCE, “universal love” and “righteousness”)
Mo Tzu, the Humanist
Modern
Revolution: Social Change and Cultural Continuity in Czechoslovakia and China
(
Modern Times Bookstore (socialist collective)
Moe’s Books (
Mondragon (Spanish
cooperative network)
Musicians United for Songs in the
Classroom (MUSIC)
“Nader and the Nadir of
Democracy?”, Dissident Voice,
NAFTA analyses by
Public Citizen
National Coalition Against Censorship
National Political Index: 30+ categories
of links
National Security Archive: independent
research library
Nature: A Conclusion (by Nina
Moliver following Martin Niemoeller)
National Abortion Federation / Voice of Choice
National Organization for Men
Against Sexism (NOMAS)
National Organization of Women
Noam Chomsky
(selected excerpts)
Nonviolent
Activist (journal of the War
Resisters League)
Not In My Name (Taking Action for a Just Peace
in Israel & Palestine)
Norbert’s Bookmarks for a
Better World
An incredible collection of 30,000+
progressive links,
organized by subject matter and
geography.
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA)
North American Natural History
“Oil War: Fueling the
Empire”, CounterPunch,
“Ongoing Tragedy of the
Commons”, Social Science Journal, October 2001 (38:4)
Open Music Registry (Open Audio)
“Open Our Ears:
Listening for a Change”, Jewish Magazine, No. 90, May 2005
Operation Respect (founded by Peter
Yarrow)
Oregon Museum of Science & Industry: OMSI
Paper Tiger Television (PT TV)
ParEcon – Participatory Economics Project
(Michael Albert)
Parihaka
(Maori 19th century non-violent resistance)
Part-Time
Faculty: An Annotated Bibliography
Passover Project / Anti Slavery Then
& Now
Paulo Coelho (author of The
Alchemist)
Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash
People’s
History of the US (excerpts)
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Plum Village (Thich Naht Hanh)
Political Research Associates: Fight the
Right!
Port Huron Statement
(Students for a Democratic Society)
Prevent Genocide International
Procott (opposite of boycott)
“Questions of Liberty”,
Common Dreams,
Rachel’s
Environment & Health News
Radio for Change –
Working Assets Radio
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative (vegetarian,
worker-owned)
Rainer Maria
Rilke Archive – Quotes, Poetry, etc.
Raise the Floor: wages & policies that
work for all of us
Ralph Nader / In the Public Interest
RAWA: Revolutionary Association of Women of
Afghanistan
Real History Archives
Collection
Reclaim the Streets (SF Bay Area)
RefDesk: Comprehensive Reference Site
Refuser Solidarity Network (intl
solidarity with Israeli refusniks)
Renewables: living without
polluting
Resistance is Fertile: activists
against genetic engineering
“Revolutionary Rehearsal
& the Case(s) of China”: Before & Beyond Tiananmen Square
“Revolutionary
Ecology” by Judi Bari
Robert Fisk (independent journalist)
Robert Frost: “The Road
Not Taken”
Rogue State by Blum (excerpts)
Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran
San Francisco State University
San Francisco Vegetarian Society
Satya Magazine: vegetarianism, environmentalism, animal advocacy,
social justice
Schools of Thought: social,
political, economic
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Sean Gonsalves
(essays)
Seattle
Weekly Letters, 9 15 December 1999 (“World Traitor Organization”)
Secular Web “… a drop of reason in a pool of confusion.”
“Seeking
and Speaking the Truth” (review of William Blum’s Rogue State)
September
11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Seven Plus Wonders of
Sustainability: Donella Meadows: “Global Citizen” (8/26/99)
SF Bay Area Progressive Directory
Shakespeare: the complete
works
“Shocking and Awful”, Online Journal of Public Theology,
Simple Living Network – “Tools for
Restorative Living”
Simplicity and Success (Bruce Elkin)
Slowlane – for
stay-at-home dads
Smoking Links / Smoking Stinks
Social Action: Jewish resources for social
change activists
Socialist Viewpoint – “news and
analysis for working people”
Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians
Sociological
Snippets: intro sociology nuggets with lots of links
SocioSite:
Sociological Subject Areas
Solidarity
Forever (by Ralph Chaplin, 1915)
Some Social
Stratification Links (Martha Gimenez)
Soul of a Citizen: Living
With Conviction in a Cynical Time (Loeb)
Spin Project (Strategic Press
Information Network)
Steal
This Book by Abbie Hoffman
Stevia – the herb that’s literally sweeter than
sugar
Stew Albert’s Yippie Reading
Room
Stockwell’s
In Search of Enemies (excerpts)
Stop the War / anarchist
statements/resources
Stratfor: global intelligence updates
Subcommander
Marcos of the EZLN
Subvertise (subvert the dominant paradigms)
Synthesis/Regeneration: Green Social Thought
Talking Seattle
(oral history by John Charlton)
Talmud (Babylonian Talmud,
trans. by Michael L. Rodkinson, 1918)
Talmud (A Page of
Talmud – info, resources, links)
Talmud (bibliographical)
Teaching for Change: Multicultural
Resources & Links
Teaching Tolerance: Southern Poverty Law Center
Temporary Autonomous Zone
(Hakim Bey)
The Book
of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura
The Campaign against
genetically-engineered “food” and other products
“The Courage To Be
Courageous” [review of John McCain’s Why
Courage Matters], Dissident Voice, 12 Oct. 2004
The Farm (commune in
The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free
The Jerusalem Link – 2
Women’s Peace Groups, 1 Israeli & 1 Palestinian
The Literature Network (searchable
online literature)
The Nonprofits: Donate for FREE to 75
Charities
The Romantic’s Guide: 1000s of Creative Ideas
The Smoking Gun - formerly confidential
documents
The Useful Page Directory: tools,
resources, issues, orgs...
Third World Traveler: politics,
media, quotes, travel
This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow)
Thom Hartmann – Renaissance Thinking
about the Issues of the Day
Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor Accident
Thrillionaires – Know the Thrill of
Giving
Tiananmen: The
Gate of Heavenly Peace
Tikkun (“a Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society”)
Time Dollars (community currencies)
Timeline of Sociology: 1620
to 1995
TomPaine.commom sense – A Public Interest
Journal
Tools for Change
resource ring
Tools for Organizers, Activists,
Educators, etc.: great advice, lots of links
Tools for Teaching: Suggestions
for Teaching with Excellence
Torahnet: Torah Study Opportunities on
the Net
Translations: Altavista
Babelfish
Translations (Free Translation)
Travelers’ Blessing from the
Talmud
TravLang: language & travel center
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
University of California at Berkeley
University of California, Davis
Urban Legends and Folklore (About)
Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes)
US
Declaration of Independence
US
Military Interventions: 1945 to 1999 (William Blum)
US State Dept /
Countries & Capitals
US State Dept / Travel & Intl Info
US
Wanted to Provoke War w/ Cuba
Vandana
Shiva (author, activist, feminist, environmentalist, physicist)
Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG)
VegSource: veg news & resources
Vernal Project (Randy Schutt’s papers,
favorite quotes, book)
W. H. Auden: “September
1, 1939”
Wabi Sabi (Japanese art of
imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness…)
Wallace Stevens:
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
war?: powerful short movie w/
music & Zinn quotes
War Times – “The First
Casualty of War is Truth”
Water,
commodification, and war (“blue gold”)
Way Left Links:
The World Wide Red
What Matters?: Money/Love/Madness
What
Uncle Sam Really Wants (excerpts)
When
Corporations Rule the World (excerpts)
“Why Socialism?” by Albert Einstein