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ParticipatoryDemocracy.org 8/14/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Per the introduction of this activist/action oriented site: "The citizens organizing the Participatory Democracy web site and the "We The People" march on Washington D.C. are ordinary working class citizens. We come from various regions of the United States and are concerned about both public and media apathy regarding the Bush Administration policies. We are a nonpartisan group and share a common concern for human rights. We are not paid or elected political figures, just ordinary, middle-class Americans." The "We The People" protest is scheduled for March 15, 2003. Radical Fringe 5/29/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage This site covers all the things the Bush-Enron Administration doesn't want you to know, talk about, or even think about - the oil connections, the questions, the river of taxpayer dollars flowing to their buddies. Includes several pages of great downloadable graphics and banners for private use to let the world know you're here, you're mad, and you're not going away... or, as they put it: "We will NOT watch what we say, we WILL dissent and WE AREN'T GETTING OVER IT." Citizens for Tax Justice 5/29/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Citizens for Tax Justice is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to fair taxation at the federal, state, and local levels. Founded in 1979, it focuses on federal, state and local tax policies and their impact upon our nation. CTJ's mission is to give ordinary people a greater voice in the development of tax laws. Against the armies of special interest lobbyists for corporations and the wealthy, CTJ fights for fair taxes for middle and low-income families, requiring the wealthy to pay their fair share, closing corporate tax loopholes, adequately funding important government services, reducing the federal debt and taxation that minimizes distortion of economic markets. AlterNet 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. First launched in 1998, AlterNet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate, sexual politics and health issues. The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources. BuzzFlash 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage The "UNdruge report" - a daily collection of headlines from around the web, plus original content including exclusive interviews, editorials and analysis, and regular features such as The Weekly World Media Watch, the Angry Liberal, The Daily Buzz, the Fifth Columnist and much, much more. Common Dreams News Center 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage It's been said that dreams are our roadmaps to the future. If so, where are we headed? Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997, we are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism. We are funded exclusively by our members and supporters - no corporate money, no advertising, no hidden agendas. Democracy Corps 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Democracy Corps was founded in 1999 by James Carville, Stanley Greenberg, and Bob Shrum. It provides free public opinion research and strategic advice to those dedicated to a more responsive Congress and Presidency. Democracy Corps seeks to play a vital role in shaping the political debate, providing research, strategic advice, and a public voice to the issues important to the American people. It acts as a resource for the unions, public interest organizations, party and congressional leaders who are working for a more responsive government. DemocraticUnderground.com 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Democratic Underground (DU) was founded on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001, to protest the illegitimate presidency of George W. Bush and to provide a resource for the exchange and dissemination of liberal and progressive ideas. Since then, DU has become one of the premier left-wing websites on the Internet, publishing original content six days a week, and hosting one of the Web's most active left-wing discussion boards. Democrats.com 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Democrats.com is both a company and an internet community. As a company, they have two goals: To build the largest online community of Democratic voters, candidates, committees and causes, and to provide Democratic candidates, committees and causes with the most powerful and effective Internet campaign services including Web sites, e-mail, online fundraising and advertising. As a community, they have one of the best daily news round-ups on the web, reported in their unique "aggressive progressive" style. Moving Ideas 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Moving Ideas, the online magazine published by the Policy Action Network (formerly known as the Electronic Policy Network), a project of The American Prospect magazine. Moving Ideas posts the best ideas and resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions, as well as promotes high-quality websites and publishes original content. We hope to strengthen democratic participation by providing a more inclusive and intelligible debate about the issues that shape our world. Like its forerunner EPN, Moving Ideas draws from the research of a network of more than 100 member organizations, and provides timely information and leading ideas about the policies and politics that drive the nation's agenda. F.A.I.R. 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage FAIR is a national media watch group, offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. FAIR works to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. FAIR also operates specialized research and advocacy desks that work with activists and media professionals on specific issues. The Women's Desk analyzes the effects of sexism and homophobia in the media and works to get feminist perspectives included in the public debate. The Racism Watch Desk monitors and combats the media's marginalization, misrepresentation and exclusion of people of color--both in the news and in the newsroom. Liberalism Resurgent 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage The web site that stands up for liberalism. More than ever before, opponents of liberalism are broadcasting pseudo-science, demagogic politics, crank economics, and think-tank propaganda in easily parrotted sound bites. Liberalism Resurgent is a gateway to an entire arsenal of liberal studies, statistics and state-of-the-art arguments that refute their myths. Home of the famous "FAQ on Liberalism" in both a short and long version. Liberal Slant 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Frequently updated original commentary on both political and non-political issues, including subjects such as gun control, bias in the media, George W. Bush, civil rights, the environment, Enron, media ownership, separation of church and state, religion, Al Gore, election coverage. MakeThemAccountable.com 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage This site was started in the summer of 2001 focusing primarily on two issues: the "Media Coverup of the Gore Victory" and a proposal to "Buy Back Our Government" - a proposal to counteract the power corporate money has over government policies. It remains one of the best sources of information on the media's complicity in covering up the Gore victory, but it has also become one of the best sites covering the questions raised by the attacks of September 11th, starting with the inaugural "What Did They Know And When Did They Know It" page in November of 2001. Media Whores Online 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Media Whores Online takes an unbiased, in-depth look at the astonishingly vast myriad of whores who call themselves "journalists." MWO casts a garish spotlight on the relentless screaming heads of television, the babbling paranoids of squawk radio, and the crayon scribblings of lazy print media "columnists." BartCop 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Although the headline says Bartcop covers "politics, humor, fine tequila, outrage, travel, sports, garbage and entertainment," that description simply doesn't do the site justice. Each day's "volume" provides a witty, eclectic - and more than a little eccentric - view of news, events, and people. More than a blog, less than a full-scale news review, it's just right length and flavor to accompany a dedicated liberal's morning cup of coffee. "Wielding a part-time hammer in a full-time war" says the tag line. It might be a part-time hammer, but it's a BIG hammer. Online Journal 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage An extensive site offering original commentary and reporting from a liberal/progressive viewpoint since 1998. Or, as the tagline says, "building a NEW news media of, by, and for the people." Features an extensive "Special Reports" section with in-depth coverage of wrongs, rights and historical perspectives on issues of both national and global concern. The Nation 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage The website of the grand-daddy of progressive weekly opinion journals. Includes links to many of the stories found in the magazine, as well as web-exclusive features such as "The Online Beat" by John Nichols, "Capital Games" by David Corn and "The Failsafe Point" by Matt Bivins. The Nation is a subscription magazine, and not technically "donation-supported." However, they have published their journal at a loss for every one of their 137 and counting years, so they do ask for donations to help cover their annual deficit. Consortiumnews.com 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Consortiumnews.com is a product of The Consortium for Independent Journalism, Inc., a non-profit organization that supports independant journalism and journalistic research. CIJ has provided independant reporting since 1995, and maintains the website Consortiumnews.com, which relies on donations from its readers. truthout 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage A news and commentary site featuring global perspectives on issues of concern to progressives - the environment, the economy, human rights, indigenous survival, health, labor, trade, voting rights, and women, to name a few. The site includes both original commentary and links to articles published on other websites. Bush Watch/Bush News 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage BushWatch was created in 1998 by "Politex, a non-affiliated U.S. citizen" from Austin, Texas to watch the then-Governor Bush's antics in the Texas Governor's mansion. Since then, Politex has amassed a stunningly comprehensive collection of news reports and articles documenting George W. Bush's years of inept and ethically questionable "leadership" - first as Texas Governor, now as the President selected by the Supreme Court. TomPaine.com 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public issues by featuring the ideas, opinions, and analyses too often overlooked by the mainstream media. It features original commentary, news analysis and a collection of editorial advertisements that have appear in The New York Times and elsewhere, along with in- depth articles that back them up. Women's eNews 5/21/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Women's Enews is a nonprofit independent news service covering the issues that are of particular concern to women. It was created in 1999 by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund as an Internet-based news service, with a special emphasis on being a resource for commercial media, and became an independent news agency on January 1, 2002. They receive financial support from readers, private donors, commercial publications that republish their material, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Barbara Lee Family Foundation. 9-11 Conspiracy Theories from Worthwhile to X-File 4/1/2002 | Type: Website | Format: Webpage Alex's Restaurant creator Peter Sinclair has collected various "conspiracy" theories about 9-11, and attempted to distinguish the "Worthwhile" theories from the "X-File" theories. Use this handy resource to learn about some of the major questions the Republicans refuse to investigate, and come to your own conclusions. Click on each category heading to display the items. |