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  • The Zipper `Want to raise hell in Washington, but not sure who to contact? Just enter your zipcode and you'll find out who your senators and representatives are as well as their addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers. If they're wired, you can send them e-mail or visit their home page.' -- from VoxPop the `voice of the people'

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  • WebActive ` ... weekly World Wide Web publication designed to keep you up-to-date on the latest in activism and progressive politics on the Internet'
  • Green Parties of North America
  • unofficial Ralph Nader for President page
  • Mother Jones Magazine's Election 96

    Philadelphia Museum of Art

    Philadelphia Delaware Valley area

  • Official Philadelphia Website
  • Clean Air Council
  • Joe's Links to Philadelphia Information
  • Justin's Links from the Underground at Swarthmore
  • Neighborhoods Online:National : `... part of a joint project of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values and LibertyNet in Philadelphia, aimed at helping neighborhood activists and organizations gain information and resources of use in solving ommunity problems.' The manic genius of Ed Schwartz is behind this. think globally act locally
  • Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors ` ... supports conscientious objectors and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war. We operate two offices in Philadelphia and San Francisco.'

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  • Here's a web page for City Paper Phila's self-proclaimed `Leading Weekly' -- why don't you mail them a piece of your mind? Also on the web is the Knight-Ridder Philadelphia Daily News the best local daily tabloid since the Journal pulled the plug -- don't hesitate to make a fool of yourself in print . Good luck getting published in the Knight-Ridder Philadelphia Inquirer -- oh well there's always the Philadelphia Weekly (former Welcomat). The Daily News and Inquirer have a combined archive, Philadelphia Online and search tool . Check out this recent series: Philadelphia Police misconduct `... has cost city taxpayers about $20 million in the last 28 months.'
  • World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
  • Neighborhood Appearance and Environment / Phila
  • The Electronic Activist for Pennsylvania
  • Schuylkill OnLine Homepage

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  • Washington Post | site index
  • Boston Globe (Massachusetts, USA) | Search
  • Providence Journal (Rhode Island, USA)
  • New York Times (New York, USA) | search archive (coming soon) | cyberTimes | search today's | today's contents
  • The Kathmandu Post
  • The Irish Times
  • The Times of London
  • Robert Campbell's Political Page
  • The Network Observer ` ... a free on-line newsletter about networks and democracy'
  • The Electronic Activist -- `This directory contains email addresses for some U.S. congressmen, state legislators, newspapers, and television and radio stations'

  • Institute for Global Communications `... presents the Progressive Directory-- the WWW home of the IGC Networks and your gateway to environmental and progressive resources worldwide.... PeaceNet | EcoNet | ConflictNet | LaborNet | WomensNet

  • League of Revolutionaries for a New America `... takes as its mission the political awakening of the American people.'

  • Refuse & Resist! `Because it's all one attack! The current war on women, concentration camps for immigrants, censorship of the arts, resurgent racism, police state measures, gay bashing, and compulsory patriotism, Refuse & Resist! says NO to the whole package. Mumia in chains
  • Frontline Network | Dread Times | Jamal Journal
  • The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal - A Saga of Shame
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal

  • Windgate Letters , `a liberal oriented human rights political weekly periodical commentary'

    Richard Milhouse Nixon

  • Nixon in '96: Now More Than Ever!

  • The Scout Report , `... a weekly publication provided by the Info Scout and the InterNIC to provide a sampling of the best of newly announced Internet resources'

  • Community Networking links from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

  • HandsNet , `a national, nonprofit network that promotes information sharing, cross-sector collaboration and advocacy among individuals and organizations working on a broad range of public interest issues.'

  • Activism/Government Archive from The Electronic Frontier Foundation `... a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to online resources and information.'

  • Resources for Revolutionaries on the Net from The League of Revolutionaries for a New America . The League `... takes as its mission the political awakening of the American people.'

  • Activism Folder
  • Progressive E-mail Lists and Archives

  • Greg Alt's stupid little WWW page with useful URLs

  • jrp's Political Organization List and `gigantic piles of societies and organizations ', courtesy of Joshua R. Poulson (you remember josh)

  • National Rifle Association (you remember the NRA)

    toxic waste dumping

  • Toll-Free Environmental Directory
  • Environmental Organization WebDirectory | Air Pollution
  • Rainforest Action Network
  • GreenLife Society - North America formerly the Pacific Center For International Studies
  • United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Global Resource Information Database (GRID) center located in Arendal , Norway.
  • The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society : ` ... one of the only organizations in the world that is on the front lines, defending the world's marine mammals'
  • Recycling and Waste Exchange at Northeast Business Environmental Network
  • Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

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    Automatic mail servers

    `The PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE is now available on the World Wide Web at http://www.mcs.com/~jdav/league.html For free electronic subscription, email: pt-dist@noc.org with the word "subscribe" in the subject.' Search for Mailing Lists Here are some automatic mail servers I subscribe to:

    ACTIV-L is a moderated list for political activists. To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU -- Because this is a high volume list I've chosen to receive a summary only. Once you have subscribed you can send mail to same address, with body: SET ACTIV-L INDEX to receive just a list of article titles with sender's ID, with instructions on obtaining selected articles. The articles on list ACTIV-L also appear on a moderated newsgroup on Usenet called misc.activism.progressive. If you have access to Usenet, you may prefer to read the newsgroup rather than subscribe to ACTIV-L. There is also an UNMODERATED newsgroup alt.activism which includes most, or maybe all, of the articles on ACTIV-L, and lots of additional feedback (flame war zone). To subscribe to the (moderated) list send mail with body SUBSCRIBE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU -- Because this is a high volume list I've chosen to receive a summary only. Once you've subscribed you can send mail to same address, with body: SET ACTIV-L INDEX to receive just a list of article titles with sender's ID, with instructions on obtaining selected articles.

    Communet: Community and Civic Network Discussion List -- To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE COMMUNET to LISTSERV@UVMVM.UVM.EDU. If this doesn't work try LISTSERV@UVMVM.BITNET. For summary only follow up with message SET COMMUNET DIGEST.

    For my Delaware Valley neighbors there is the penn-neighbor mailing list, "... a list aimed at creating a dialogue among people working to improve urban and suburban neighborhoods throughout the Commonwealth of Pennnsylvania....managed by Ed Schwartz , founder and President of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values in Philadelphia. To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE PENN-NEIGHBOR to Majordomo@world.std.com.

    Also from the Institute for the Study of Civic Values in Philadelphia comes Civic Values. Start with the digest -- send mail with body SUBSCRIBE CIVIC-VALUES-DIGEST to Majordomo@world.std.com. -- 'Civic Values is a mailing list devoted to an ongoing dialogue on how Americans can work as citizens to achieve the ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence, and the Preamble to the Constitution through active participation in communities and neighborhoods throughout the United States.'

    The Sierra Club electronic mailing list is for legislative alerts and other important information. If you want to join the list, send e-mail to: majordomo@igc.apc.org. with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: subscribe sc-action

    Stamper's News Nuggets, a random compilation of news items, web & other internet sites: `This is a read-only list for delivery of a net.letter containing choice morsels of news about politics and juicy Internet stuff.... Stamper's News Nuggets is compiled by Chris Stamper and is not supported by any group or organization....' To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE NUGGETS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU.

    PNEWS-L mailing list (Progressive News & Views List) by Hank Roth [odin@SHADOW.NET]. To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE P-NEWS to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU.

    NJ-SPEAKOUT: `We will serve as a clearing house for New Jersey debate and discussion about what direction to go for those truly sincere about reversing the trend toward hegemony over our lives by the international corporate elite. Our focus will be the common, poor, middle class, and working people of the state of New Jersey. We will serve as a means to organize and mobilize our forces for a fightback like this state has never seen bef ore. ...The list is associated with an igc.apc conference called njspeakout.' To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE NJ-SPEAKOUT to Majordomo@igc.apc.org.

    For What It's Worth, a mailing list from The Conservative Corner `... attempts to assemble quality non-mainstream Conservative text files.' To subscribe to mailing list FWIW send to: listserv@earth.execpc.com email with Subj: (blank), Message: SUBSCRIBE FWIW

    Here are some news groups I read sometimes:

  • alt.activism
  • alt.activism.death-penalty
  • alt.org.sierra-club
  • misc.activism.progressive
  • nj.politics
  • pa.environment
  • pa.hbg.general
  • pa.politics
  • phl.announce
  • phl.bicycles
  • phl.outdoors
  • talk.environment
  • us.politics.bob-dole

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