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Afghan Magazine http://www.afghanmagazine.com afghanmagzine.com hopes to promote and bring awareness to the arts, culture and history of the Afghan people, and through the humanities, build a bridge between the West and Afghanistan.

Age of Meaning http://www.TheAgeOfMeaning.com Park Teter taught at universities in Lebanon and Iran and worked as a journalist at Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Post. To spark the World-Debate he has published on the Internet a short book entitled Revolution Against War. He has waived copyright so that any individual, organization, business, or publisher can make any number of copies (a dozen, a million) and distribute or sell them. A master copy for reprinting can be downloaded from a pdf file.

Al-Ahram Weekly Online http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/ Excellent site for information on the Middle East.

Ali Abunimah's Bitter Pill http://www.abunimah.org/ Ali Abunimah is a media analyst/watchdog, particularly on Palestine and Arab issues. Has Middle East and Arab American links.

AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/ AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism.

Americans For Peace Now http://www.peacenow.org/ Shalom Achshav [Peace Now], the largest grassroots movement in Israel's history, was founded in 1978 by 348 reserve officers of the Israel Defense Forces. Experience had convinced them that while Israel must always be ready to defend itself, violence is not the answer to the age-old conflict in the Middle East. Americans for Peace Now [APN] was founded in 1981 to help Shalom Achshav pursue a lasting and equitable peace in the Middle East and to build an informed and empowered pro-peace American public.

Amnesty International USA http://www.amnestyusa.org/ Amnesty International is dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience, gaining fair trials for political prisoners, ending torture, political killings and "disappearances," and abolishing the death penalty throughout the world. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section of Amnesty International.

AnitaRoddick.com http://www.anitaroddick.com Her Statement:This website is a grab-bag of ideas. But isn't that how we learn to appreciate life? Join me: I want to connect with people who share my outrage over the menace of global business practices, and who, like me, are seeking solutions. But I also want to tell -- and hear, from you -- stories that lift our spirits, that celebrate how glorious our planet is.

Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com/ Online site devoted to nonintervention. They state: This site is devoted to the cause of noninterventionism, and we have many regular readers who are pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism.

Awakened Woman: The Journal of Women's Spirituality http://www.awakenedwoman.com Excellent site with all sorts of imformation for and about women.

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BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/ British news.

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Captial Advantage http://capitoladvantage.com/h/ Founded in 1986, Capitol Advantage is the nation's largest publisher of Congressional directories. Capitol Advantage is also the developer of CapWiz, a grassroots legislative action tool in use on hundreds of corporation, association, and media organization web sites.

Center for Constitutional Rights http://www.ccr-ny.org The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights.

Center For Economic & Social Rights http://www.cesr.org/ The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) was established in 1993 to promote social justice through human rights. CESR works with social scientists and local partners in affected communities to document rights violations, advocate for changes in policies that impoverish and exploit people, and mobilize grassroots pressure for social change.

Center for Research on Globalization http://www.globalresearch.ca The Center for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research and media group of progressive writers, scholars and activists committed to curbing the tide of "globalisation" and "disarming" the New World Order. The CRG webpage at http://globalresearch.ca based in Montréal publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on the interrelationship between social, economic, strategic, geopolitical and environmental processes.

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors http://www.objector.org/ CCCO supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.

Chowk http://www.chowk.com Great site with a different perspective on political events and wonderful political cartoons.

Christian Aid http://www.christian-aid.org/ An agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland, Christian Aid works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion. It supports local organisations, which are best placed to understand local needs, as well as giving help on the ground through 16 overseas offices.

Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com The Christian Science Monitor is an international daily newspaper published Monday through Friday.

Civil Liberties http://civilliberty.about.com/mbody.htm Site with information on civil liberties, human rights, and legal issues. Has an alphabethical listing of 700 sites that is useful.

Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft http://www.comdsd.org COMD is an anti-militarism organization that also challenges the institution of the military, its effect on society, its budget, its role abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism and homophobia that are inherent in the armed forces and Selective Service System.

Common Dreams New Center http://www.commondreams.org Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future.

Consumer Project on Technology http://www.cptech.org Good information on medicine, consumer law, and ecommerce.

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Dawn: The Internet Edition http://www.dawn.com Pakistan English Language Newspaper.

Debt Relief Now http://www.debtweek.org An organization dedicated to compelling governments and international financial institutions to cancel and/or repudiate illegitimate debt in poverty stricken nations.

Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org Democracy Now! features the ideas and voices of activists, muckrakers, visionaries, artists, risk-takers, academics and "just folks" who share a commitment to truth, democracy, justice, diversity, equality and peace. Good site to listen to KPFA's Democracy Now program live on the Web, and they have an archieve of audio and video tapes of numerous interviews.

Direct Action to Stop the War http://www.actagainstwar.org Direct Action to Stop the War (San Francisco Bay Area) call on other cities to organize widespread noncooperation; Instead of going to work or school, they call on everyone to resist this war by particpating in or supporting mass nonviolent direct action, particularly focussed on the corporations, financial districts and other institutions involved in the war. In our collective efforts to build a mass movement of principled non-violent resistance to the U.S.-led war on Iraq, Direct Action to Stop the War (San Francisco/Bay Area) is calling a National Day of Direct Action and Civil Disobedience to Stop the War at Home and Abroad. We call upon all cities, organizations, and individuals to organize widespread non-cooperation focussing on: Federal and Government buildings, Oil corporations, Arms manufacturers and transportation systems. On Monday April 7th, instead of going to work or school, sustain the resistance to this war by participating in or supporting mass nonviolent direct action in any way possible. Our Goals: 1) If the government and corporations won?t stop the war, we'll shut down the warmakers! We will raise the economic, social and political costs of waging this war, and continue to stop business as usual until the war stops. We are publicly declaring and organizing mass nonviolent direct action now with the express intention of stopping this war against Iraq and future wars. 2) Assert our power to transform our city from profits, oil and war to resistance and life! We will create an open, welcoming, inspiring space that gives voice to the anti-war majority as an assertion of real democracy. 3) Uproot the system behind the war (and behind the war at home racism, poverty); help catalyze mass movements to challenge corporate and government power and create socially just, directly democratic, ecological, peaceful alternatives.

Dissident Voice http://www.dissidentvoice.org Dissident Voice is an on-line newsletter dedicated to challenging the distortions and lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves. The goal of Dissident Voice newsletter and Dissident Voice News Service is to provide hard hitting, thought provoking and even entertaining news and commentaries on politics and culture that can serve as ammunition in struggles for peace and social justice.

Doctors Without Borders http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ Online site for Doctors Without Borders or MSF) which delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation.

Dollars & Sense http://www.dollarsandsense.org More than 25 years and 240 issues after its founding, Dollars & Sense continues to meet the need for "left perspectives on current economic affairs," as their masthead proclaims. They print articles by journalists, activists, and scholars on a broad range of topics with an economic theme: the economy, housing, labor, government regulation, unemployment, the environment, urban conflict, and activism.

Downwinders http://www.downwinders.org/ Online site devoted to nuclear weapons. Downwinders is a research and educational foundation established in 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Downwinders takes its name from the residents living in the prevailing wind pattern surrounding the Nevada Test Site, and who have been constantly exposed to radioactive fallout from America's nuclear testing activities conducted there. Downwinders was founded with two primary goals: (1) To expose the plight of downwind residents whose fallout exposures have caused cancers, leukemia, and other illnesses, and to obtain justice for their injuries. (2) To fight for an immediate end to all nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere.

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Earth Flag International http://www.earthflag.net/ A site devoted to flags: some free and some costing from $9.00 to $85.00.

East Timor Action Network U.S. http://www.etan.org/default.htm ETAN provides information about, and ways to help, East Timor, which was invaded and subjugated by U.S. ally Indonesia in 1975. East Timor chose independence in August 1999 and was soon destroyed by the Indonesian military. East Timor finally beaome independent on May 20, 2002. ETAN advocates justice for past rights abuses, return of refugees and democratic reconstruction of East Timor. The East Timor Action Network urges you to learn more about this island country and join the struggle to free the East Timorese people.

Electronic Iraq Online Magazine http://electronicIraq.net A brand new online news project, Electronic Iraq -- found at electronicIraq.net -- has been launched by veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness (founded 1996) and respected Middle East supplementary news publishers, the Electronic Intifada (founded 2001). Electronic Iraq was launched on 8 February 2003 as the U.S. government made clear its determination to go to war against Iraq. Based firmly on humanitarian foundations, the Electronic Iraq online magazine offers News & Analysis, Opinion/Editorial, Iraq Diaries, International Law, Aid & Development, Fact Sheets, and Action & Activism. The Iraq Diaries section offers eyewitness reports from Iraq, and Electronic Iraq's intention is to publish diary accounts from on the ground during any hostilities.

Electronic Privacy Information Center http://www.epic.org/ Information on issues such as privacy, cryptography, free speech and consumer protection.

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Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting http://www.fair.org/ FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. FAIR also publishes Extra!, a magazine of media criticism; produces the weekly radio program CounterSpin, and has an Action Alert list. FAIR also operates specialized research and advocacy desks that work with activists and media professionals on specific issues, such as: Women's Desk and Racism Watch Desk.

Feminist Majority Foundation Online http://www.feminist.org A site working for women's equality everyday.

Flashpoints News Radio http://www.flashpoints.net A Daily Investigative Radio Magazine produced by Dennis Bernstein. He can be heard on KPFA radio.

From The Wilderness Magazine (FTW) http://www.copvcia.com From The Wilderness magazine deals with the effects of illegal covert operations on our society.

Frontline http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/ Online Edition of India's National Magazine.

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Global Exchange http://www.globalexchange.org Global Exchange is a San Francisco based non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world.

Globalvision News Network http://www.gvnewsnet.com The Globalvision News Network is built upon a global network of in-country media partners and journalists who have joined forces to give a native voice to news events of global import.

Guardian Unlimited http://www.guardian.co.uk/ A United Kingdom newspaper web site that has a different perspective than the United States press.

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Ha'aretz Daily Newspaper http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ Israeli news.

Health Global Access Project (GAP) Coalition http://www.healthgap.org Online site for: Bridging the Gap in Access to Medicines.

The Hindu http://www.hinduonnet.com Online edition of India's National Newspaper.

Holt Labor Library http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org The mission of the Holt Labor Library is to make available to working people, activists, and scholars the theoretical, historical, and experiential dimensions of the class struggle in the advanced industrialized world in the 19th and especially 20th centuries. They invite you to utilize the resources they have collected by browsing their web pages and visiting their library in San Francisco.

Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/ Online site for HRW. Who They Are Statement: More than 150 dedicated professionals work for Human Rights Watch around the world. We are lawyers, journalists, academics, and country experts of many nationalities and diverse backgrounds. We often join forces with human rights groups from other countries to further our common goals. A growing cadre of volunteers supports us. What They Do Statement: Human Rights Watch researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch then publishes those findings in dozens of books and reports every year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media.

The Independent Newspaper http://www.independent.co.uk/ UK online newspaper with an alternative perspective.

Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. You can post your own information on this site.

Independent Media Center Bay Area http://www.indybay.org This is the Indymedia site for the Bay Area. Excellent site with loads of information and photos.

INFOPAL The Independent Palestinian Information Network http://www.infopal.org Online site devoted to information on Palestine.

Institute for Public Accuracy http://www.accuracy.org As a nationwide consortium of policy researchers, the Institute for Public Accuracy seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out by corporate-backed think tanks and other influential institutions.

International Action Center http://www.iacenter.org/ IAC was founded by Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General. Emphasis on: information, activism, and resistance to U.S. militarism, war, and corporate greed. The site has a link to IAC in Spanish. Has a list of interesting alternative links.

International A.N.S.W.E.R http://www.internationalanswer.org/index1.html Act Now And Stop War And End Racism Site.

International Solidarity Movement http://www.palsolidarity.org Online site devoted to international solidarity with the Palestian people.

Iraq Body Count http://www.iraqbodycount.net This is a Human Security project to establish an independent and comprehensive public database of civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly from military actions by the USA and its allies in 2003.

Iraq Peace Team http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org Since September 2002, seasoned nonviolent activists have been on the ground in Iraq working in tandem with those in the United States and the world who seek to prevent a U.S. attack on Iraq. Initiated by Voices in the Wilderness, Iraq Peace Team will remain in Iraq in the event of an attack with these intentions: We will live among the Iraqi people during any aggression directed at them, including continued economic sanctions. We will use our presence and non-violent actions to witness, understand and expose the situation of both the civilian population of Iraq and highlight the importance of facilities such as water purification plants that are critical to daily life. We will report on our experiences in Iraq through this website, our support teams, and all who will listen.

Ivri-NASAWI http://www.ivri-nasawi.org/ NASAWI is an acronym for the New Association of Sephardi/Mizrahi Artists and Writers International. Ivri-NASAWI is an independent non-profit membership organization which celebrates the rich legacy and thriving contemporary expressions of Sephardi and Mizrahi culture.



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