Some Other Worthy Links
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 | Rex Foundation Home Page The Rex Foundation was created as a charitable foundation by members of the Grateful Dead and friends. It aims to help secure a healthy environment, promote individuality in the arts, provide support to critical and necessary social services, assist others less fortunate than ourselves, protect the rights of indigenous people and ensure their cultural survival, build a stronger community, and educate children and adults everywhere. | |
| Seva Foundation Seva Foundation was founded by a group of former World Health Organization smallpox campaign workers and friends who came together to prevent and relieve suffering through compassionate action. Seva serves through projects and partnerships around the world that promote health, nutrition, education, economic sustainability, cultural survival, human dignity, and social and economic justice. | |
| "Unofficial" Rainbow Family Home Page It is longstanding Rainbow Family consensus that nobody has ever, or ever will represent the Rainbow Family. This is an unofficial collection of information on the Rainbow Family and the Rainbow Gathering. | |
| CAC Home Page The California Arts Council, a state agency, was established in January 1976 to encourage artistic awareness, participation and expression; to help independent local groups develop their own arts programs; to promote employment of artists and those skilled in crafts in the public and private sectors; to provide for exhibition of artworks in public buildings throughout California; and to enlist the aid of all state agencies in the task of ensuring the fullest expression of our artistic potential. | |
| Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse The Freight and Salvage (Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music) is a non-profit arts organization, supported by your continuing attendance, grants (California Arts Council, Berkeley Civic Arts Program, Zellerbach Family Fund, Rex Foundation ), musicians' benefits, volunteer efforts, and tax-deductible gifts. | |
| SEAC Student Environmental Action Coalition--is a grassroots coalition of student and youth environmental groups, working together to protect our planet and our future. Through this united effort, thousands of us have translated our concern into action by sharing resources, building coalitions, and challenging the limited mainstream definition of environmental issues. | |
| Farm Aid 96 FARM AID was born from the passion and commitment of a group of musical artists who wanted to give something back to the rural communities that raised them. Over the past nine years, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young have brought hundreds of artists into the FARM AID family to sing a song of hope for rural America. |
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| PLENTY: WELCOME TO THE HIPPIE PEACE CORPS PLENTY, founded in 1974, is a village-based, international development agency. The village is called THE FARM, a cooperative, intentional community located on a 1750 acre land trust in Tennessee. THE FARM was settled by 250 hippie pioneers in 1971 and grew to over 1500 inhabitants at its peak population in the early 1980's. Believing that all life is connected and how we live affects the world, PLENTY's founders were committed to creating an organization to help protect and share the world's abundance and knowledge for the benefit of all people. | |
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| Activist Handbook The Activist's Handbook is a hardhitting guide to winning social change in the 1990s. Randy Shaw, attorney andl ongtime activist for urban issues, shows how positive change can still be accomplished despite an increasingly grim political order, if activists employ the strategies set forth in this desperately needed primer. | |
| The Electronic Activist An email address directory of congresspeople, state governments, and media entities. | |
| John Perry Barlow Library John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is also a member of The WELL Board of Directors. Activist for Freedoms. | |
| ZIA Agriculture, Organic Farming Resources Searchable information on organic farming. Also check out their Home Page for tons of more information on anything imaginable. | |
| Food not Bombs NEWS Group Join an enlightening discussion. | |
| Glossary of the Rainbow Family extracted from The Rainbow Family; An Ethnography From Within, a Ph.D. dissertation currently archived by and available from University Microfilm International(UMI). | |
