Political, activist-type links
(or, Rationalizing Those Big Online Service Bills)

New

• The Telecommunications Deregulation Bill looks like it's about to become law. Find out why this is a Bad Thing at spies.com's Censored Site.

  Getting Technology Under Control

• The Loka Institute -- democratizing technology policy.
• Gary Chapman's 21st Century Project
• Jerry Berman's CDT, The Center for Democracy and Technology.
• Think about going solar .

  Other Activists

• Help stop nuclear bomb tests! This web petition replaces an earlier chain e-mail message, which should not be distributed.
• Learn about Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philidelphia journalist on death row.
• IGC, The Institute for Global Communications (PeaceNet, LaborNet, ConflictNet, EcoNet, WomensNet), a good place to link to progressive sites
• The ACLU
• If you think the Net is all guys (why would you think that?), check out these feminist connections.

  Educating Yourself

• Here's an excellent list of right-wing groups of all kinds. No, you're not supposed to join them, you're supposed to fight them!
• Read up on economics and then try the budget simulator at UC Berkeley
• Writings of the prolific Noam Chomsky

  Net-Related

• The swashbuckling Electronic Frontier Foundation or EFF
• The Electronic Democracy Forum has a good list of congressional e-mail addresses.
• CPSR is also good, but their site needs updating.
• Howard Rheingold's Electronic Democracy Toolkit
• Brock Meeks' Cyberwire Dispatch is the cream of net.journalism.

  Government Sites

• See the pretty picture of The White House
• US Government gophers
• Most of the proceeding of Congress are available online.
• FedWorld (what a name!), a good master site for gov't stuff
• CIA web site (shhh...)
• Visit the IRS to find out what to do about those six years of back taxes.
• Bone up on US Census figures to buttress your fuzzy political arguments.