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 discovered
for people who want to make a difference. (As mentioned by
CNN...)
- Activism Right Here, Right Now
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*** Links to check every day ***
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Activists Resource Network
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AIDS - America Responds
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All the Latest News (provided by Global Commerce Link)
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Budget Revolution Bulletin Board (by Gian Trotta at Pathfinder)
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Budget Simulation at Berkeley
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Capitol Steps (entertaining political commentary through song)
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Child Cyber Search
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Common Dreams - building a better future
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Contract with my Grandchildren
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CQ's American Voter 96
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Democracy Net
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Earth Day
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Free Market
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Generation X Links
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Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
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How Did Your Senators and Representatives Vote?
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Lead... or Leave
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Leadership into the Future
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Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Internet
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Main Quad resources for college students - see
Fired Up
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Meta-index for Non-Profit Organizations by Ellen Spertus
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Milarepa Fund
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Mother Jones has a comprehensive Web guide to the
1996 Elections
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National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - see also
Nation's Missing Children Organization
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National Deficit/ Debt Feedback Form by Gene Greer;
see also his
National Debt and
Entitlements pages
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New Agenda by Richard Lamm
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Pinpoint yourself Politically
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Political Participation Project (part of the
MIT Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project)
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Political Site of the Day
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Politics USA - daily politics fix
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Register to Vote -
Rock the Vote
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Russia's Friends and Partners
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Stump political analysis
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Synergy Solutions
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The Survivor's Voice not-for-profit, voter action web site for
survivors of child abuse/assault and their supporters, activists, and
advocates
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Third Millenium
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This Modern World (cartoon by Tom Tomorrow, available
at the Well)
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Today's News (through CNN and UMD's gopher search)
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UNABOM FBI Task Force Press Release
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WebOvision - media links around the world
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What's New in Activism Online
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Yahoo's Current Events Summary
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Young Americans 96
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YPN NetVote - follow the 1996 campaign
- Canonical Starting Points
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Activist's Oasis (Practical Tools for Troublemakers, lots o links)
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All Things Political
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Berkeley Directory of Political Sites
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Charlotte's WWWeb (excellent, includes
California Issues)
- Cities: try
USA Citylink and
Citynet
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Citizens' Guide to the Net
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Civic Networking and Grass Roots
(the camel's nose under the government's tents)
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EFF Activism and Government Archive
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Emily's Page of social, political, and environmental Links
- Einet Galaxy Directory of
government and
politics
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Environment Virtual Library
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Fedworld
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Freenets home page
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GNN Directory for Government
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GovAccess Bulletins Gopher archive (by Jim Warren; put California online!)
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Government Information Resources at UCR
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Government Links from the Underground (by Justin Hall)
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Leftist and Progressive Internet Resource Directory by Jay Moore
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Links for those with Conscience and Consciousness (by Artitude)
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Murple Web's Politics page
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National Polticial Index
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Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet (compiled by Ellen Spertus;
check out the version with
pictures)
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Nonprofit Other Directories on the Web (compiled by Ellen Spertus)<
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Political Forum
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Political Participation Project (part of the
MIT Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project)
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Politics on the Net (we're on page 93, bay bee!)
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Politics on the Web by the Mississippi State CRs
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Progressive Pages (was: Left Side of the Web)
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Right Side of the Web
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Searchable database by C. Joe Holmes
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Student Government Home Pages
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Ultimate Political Resources Links by Steve Ertelt
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U.S. Federal Government Servers List
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Yahoo Politics Page
- Freedoms, Rights, and Just Causes
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ACA: American Communication Association (Communications Policies)
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ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
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Adbusters - the counterculture
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Adoption Network
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Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity
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American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee
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Amnesty International
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Artitude's Links for those with a Conscience and Consciousness
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Association of American Public Television Stations
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Banned Books Online
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CAM: Computerized AIDS Ministries (for
HIV/AIDS information, education and support)
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Cannabis Action Network
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Cannibis Activists Connection Collection
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CARAL: California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League-North
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Catt's Claws feminist newsletter
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CCA: College Conservatives Association
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Censorship Archive at the File Room in Chicago
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Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
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Children Now
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Children's Defense Fund
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Coalition to Reform Money
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College Republican WarRoom
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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".)
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Community Services Network
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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)
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Conservative Site of the Day
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Constitutional Action Party
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Contact Center guide to community service and charities on the Web
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COOL
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Covington's Homeless Photos
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Democratic Party National Committee
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Democratic Socialists of America
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Digital Democratic Party
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Disability Rights Activist
- EarthWeb
- EcoWeb
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Enough anti-consumerism campaign
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EnviroLink
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Environmental Scorecard
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Environment, Ecology, and Biology (care of Wendee's World)
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EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
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ETD: Environment Technology Development
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Eureka's Homeless
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FAIR: Federation for American Immigration Reform
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FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
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FAIR Governing - federal agency integrity requirement for governing
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Families Against Mandatory Minimums
(mirror)
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Feminist Activist Resources on the Net (also
Feminism ftp Directory)
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Feminist Majority Online
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Food for the Hungry, International
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Freedom Forum (from Nando Net)
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Freedom of Information Act
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Friends of the Earth
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Friend of the Future
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GayWeb
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GOP Online - US Republican Party Information
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Govaccess
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Grass Root Organizations
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Grassroots World Government
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Green Party
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Greenpeace
- HungerWeb
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Illinois May Have Executed an Innocent Man
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Immigration Forum
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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)
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Independence Platform for Reform
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INFACT
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Institute for First Amendment Studies
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League of Conservation Voters
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League of Women Voters - Voter Information
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Left Links by DSAUSA
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Libertarian Party - National Info Service
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Libertarian Party (or check out those cool
MIT Libertarians,
UMD, or
Index of College Libertarian Clubs pages)
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Liberty and
Better World via WizarDave
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Liberty - past, present, and future
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LifeLinks (Pro-Life information)
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Marijuana Policy Project
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McSpotlight
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Men's Issues
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MESH's Environment Links
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National Child Rights Alliance
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New Party
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NOW: National Organization for Women
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NPR: National Public Radio
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NRA: National Rifle Association (want to be a
member,
like 3.5 million others?)
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Outrider - helping the homeless help themselves
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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)
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PBI: Peace Brigades International - making space for peace
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Prison-Related Links
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Privacy Issues (hosted by c2.org)
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Pro-Life Ultimate Resource List
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Project Censored
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Queer Cyberspace Elsewhere
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Queer Infoservers
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Queer Resources Directory
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Rainforest Action Network
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Right to Keep and Bear Arms (and from
eclipse and
karl
and scotto)
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Rise of the militias
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Root and Branch Collective - radical pacifism
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Rush Limbaugh Debates Reality, or
does he ?
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Safer Sex Page
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SEA: Society for Electronic Access
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SEAC: Student Environmental Action Coalition
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Secession and Independence Movements
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StatusQuo - including the Rape Poster Project and
Guilty Until Proven Wealthy
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Stop Nuclear Testing
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Stop Prisoner Rape
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The New Liberal
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Turn Left, a clearinghouse for liberal activists
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Voter Information Services
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War on Homelessness
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Women Resources on the Web compiled by the cool
Dave Siegel
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Working Assets long distance with a conscience
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World Neighbors to eliminate hunger, disease and poverty
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Yellow Ribbon
- International Organizations
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Amnesty International
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Food for the Hungry, International
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Greenpeace International (Amsterdam)
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IGC: Institute for Global Communications
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ISIL: International Society for Individual Liberty
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SACIS International Affairs Resources - United Nations
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United Nations
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United Nations gopher
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World Home Page
- Knowledge Can Be Dangerous
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Atomic Bombs: History and How-to
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Coombs Web of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Asian Studies
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Intelligence Watch Report (daily spook updates)
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MIT's Guide to Lockpicking
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World Factbook 1994
- Law
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Ackerson Law Library at Rutgers University
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American Bar Association
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California Motor Vehicle Codes
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Copyright Act of the US
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Copyright Law
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Cyberspace Law for Nonlawyers
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FindLaw Internet Legal Services
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Gateway to World History
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Hill's Legal Resource Links
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International Trade Law (Ananse)
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Internet Law Hypercourse at UMass
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Intersof's Law Links
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Law School Internet Sites
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Law Student Web
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'Lectric Law Library
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Legal Information Institute at Cornell
(also see here)
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Legal Reference Page
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Legal ResearchNet
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Patent Law Primer from WIRED
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Pilot Online Law Page
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Sir Lou's Law Page
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Supreme Court Decisions
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The Real First Amendment
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USC Law Center and Law Library (Federal AND California stuff)
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Use of the Internet by Lawyers
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Usenet and the Law
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Villanova Information Law Chronicle
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Web Journal of Current Legal Issues
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West's Legal Directory
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Yahoo Law Links
- Miscellany
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Counter Revolutionary Page
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Communications for a Sustainable Future
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Community Networking gopher
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Moscow Libertarium Project
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Political Scientist's Guide to the Internet
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Oceania, a utopia without the mytopia
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Society of Professional Journalists and
National Press Club
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Scientific Selection of Candidates
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Survey of Community Networks
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White Water Scandal
- News
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alt.dear.whitehouse
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alt.fan.dan-quayle
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alt.fan.ronald-reagan
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alt.politics.usa.constitution
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alt.politics.usa.misc
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alt.politics.usa.republican
- Ordinary People
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Roger Hedgecock
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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)
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Rush Limbaugh
(and
another,
and
his
35 Undeniable Truths)
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Richard M. Nixon Memorial
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Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, USMC, ret.
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Dan Quayle
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Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Reagan Library
- Readings
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Addresses by US Presidents
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alt.activism ftp archives (maintained by Rich Winkel)
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American Information Network
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Banned Books Online
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Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution
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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
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Citizens' Guide to the Net
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Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
- Classic Literature and Political Documents
(MIT
or Indiana)
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Common Sense, Thomas Paine
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Constitution of the United States (or try this
mirror, or this
mirror)
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Contra Mundum journal of opinion and analysis
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Declaration of Independence of the United States (or try this
mirror)
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Declaration of the Rights of Man (France, 1789)
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Defrauding America, by Rodney Stich
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Electronic Newstand
(has many valuable magazine publications, including
Reason Magazine and
The Skeptical Inquirer)
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Federalist Papers (long)
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Firearms files from Jeff Chan
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Gettysburg Address
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Historical Documents
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Holocaust FAQs from the Usenet
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I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr.
- Internet Wiretap - Online
Books and
Library
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Liberty or Death (1775), Patrick Henry
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Legislate Gopher
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Liberty Documents, Anarcho-Capitalism
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Library of Congress
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John Locke's Second Treatise
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Machiavelli's The Prince
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Magna Carta
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Mother Jones Independent-Thinkers On-Line Magazine
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National Review
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New Paradigms Project
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New Republic magazine
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Objectivism Philosophy
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On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
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Psycheocracy, the Scientific Selection of Candidates
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Readings in Philosophy and Theology of Nations, Peoples, and Government
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Social Contract (on immigration)
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Soviet Archives at the Library of Congress (at
SunSITE)
- Time Magazine's
Election '94
and Washington
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U.S. Government Hypertext Documents (at
SunSITE)
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George Washington's Farewell Address
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Wiretap's Current Government Documents
- Technology
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APT: Alliance for Public Technology
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, home of the
Doomsday Clock
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CDA Decision
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Center for Democracy and Technology
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Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition
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Clipper Chip Archive at WIRED
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Communications Decency Act
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Communications Policy Project of the Benton Foundation
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Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center
(and check out their cool
magazine)
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CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
(foil that clipper chip!)
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Cryptography
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Crypto Export Control Archives at EFF
(also at Cygnus)
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Cyberlaw and Cyberlex World Wide
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Cyberspace Law for Nonlawyers
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Cyberspace Law Institute
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Cyberspace Report
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CyberWire Dispatch
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Cypherpunks Page at Berkeley
(also at CPSR)
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Defense Fund for David LaMacchia
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Domain Names and Trademarks
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DTIC: Defense Technical Information Center
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EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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E-Law by David Loundy
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Electronic Democracy Information Network (gopher at Berkeley)
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EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center
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Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
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IHAC: Information Highway Advisory Council
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Information Activism by Gordon Irlam
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Information Infrastructure Task Force
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Internet Censorship
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Internet Engineering Task Force
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Internet Law Hypercourse at UMass
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ISI Internet Notes
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Journal of Online Law
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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)
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League for Programming Freedom
(also at MIT)
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Netwatchers Cyberzine
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NSS: National Space Society (should we return to the moon?)
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NTIA and Freedom of Information
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Office of Technology Assessment
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PC Week Online Highlights (stop Congress from killing the Internet)
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People and the Governments in the Information Age
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PGP: Pretty Good Privacy Public Key Cryptosystem Version 2.6
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Quadralay Cryptography Archive
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Questioning Technology by Frank Beacham
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Security-related Net Pointers
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SEA: Society for Electronic Access (civil liberties in cyberspace)
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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)
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Space Activism Home Page (or see
SPACEHAB)
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Telecommunications Policy
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Zimmerman Legal Defense Fund
- United States and its Government
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*** Federal Web Locator ***
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American Political Science Association Gopher
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American Politics Gopher
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Budget of the US Government, 1996
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California Election Results
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California Electronic Government Information FAQ
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California Secretary of State's Gopher Site
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CapWeb - Guide to Congress
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Center for Disease Control
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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Citizens' Guide to the Net
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Clinton Watch (and not exactly nice)
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Congress Email Addresses
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Congress gophers
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Congressional Quarterly gopher site
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Constitution of the United States
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C-SPAN (the government monitoring cable station)
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Declaration of Independence of the United States
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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (from the Campaign Trail)
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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.
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EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
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FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation
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FCC: Federal Communications Commission
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Federal Government Info on the Internet from A to Z
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Federal Government (lots of info maintained by the Library of Congress)
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FedStats - one stop shopping for federal statistics
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FinanceNet - innovate and optimize the way governments manage and
account for taxpayer resources
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Forecast (monthly journal of law and public policy)
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GAO: General Accounting Office of the U.S. government
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Gingrich Watch: What's Newt
(also check out Newtwatch)
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GOP Contract With America
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Government gophers
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GPO Federal Information Search WAIS (at Purdue)
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How Your Representatives Have Been Voting
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Information Infrastructure Task Force
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Internet Wiretap -
Government Information
(such as
Congressional Contacts and Committee Memberships and
Current Presidential Documents like Executive Orders, etc.)
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IRS
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National Archives of historic and other information
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Library of Congress (and see
here)
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Military History of the U.S.
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National Performance Review
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service BBS
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Office of Senator Barbara Boxer
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Office of Senator Edward Kennedy
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Office of Senator Patrick Leahy
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Office of the Secretary of Defense
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Policy Net - Campaigns, Publications and Alerts
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POPClock Projection of the U.S. Population
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Project Vote Smart political database gopher
(info on
members of Congress, political candidates, and other legislators)
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Social Security Administration
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Taxing Times (more tax info than you ever wanted to know)
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Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
(about the House and Senate)
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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U.S. Census Bureau
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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U.S. Department Of Commerce
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U.S. Department Of Energy (and check out the
gopher,
and the Environment,
Safety and Health page)
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U.S. Federal Government Servers - Master List
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U.S. Government Hypertext Documents (at
SunSITE)
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U.S. Government Resources
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U.S. House of Representatives
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U.S. House of Representatives gopher
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U.S. National Archives
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U.S. Navy
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U.S. Postal Service
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U.S. Senate gopher (also check the
U.S. Senate Server)
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U.S. Supreme Court and its
decisions, from Cornell's Legal Information Institute
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Veterans Affairs Department
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Webcorp's Wheel o' Congress
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What's in those Wharehouses?
- White House (or
East Mirror or
West Mirror)
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White House documents
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White House Briefing Room
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White House ftp server
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White House Electronic Access FAQ
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Wiretap's Current Government Documents
Maintained by Adam Rifkin
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