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Alaska Gov. Palin To Resign
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:44:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was Republican Sen. John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign, says she will resign from office July 26.
Gov. Ted Strickland On Ohio's Budget Impasse
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:45:00 -0400
Ohio is facing a $3.2 billion shortfall in its finances. Gov. Ted Strickland has proposed slots at racetracks and spending cuts, but has not been able to reach a deal with the Legislature. The state is operating on a temporary budget for the next few days.
Rare Copy Of Declaration Found In England
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:00 -0400
An original copy of the Declaration of Independence was recently discovered in the British National Archives. Edward Hampshire, the diplomatic and colonial specialist at the archives, talks with Melissa Block about the discovery of the 26th copy of the document.

The Talk of the Town

Lauren Collins: Track School
Lauren Collins Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
June marks the onset of what one Village resident refers to as “devil-baby season”--the time of the year when the temperature climbs and New Yorkers start doing crazy stuff. This year, the weather stayed cold, and damp. Things still got weird. On Long Island, a newborn was found . . .
James Surowiecki: Caveat Mortgagor
James Surowiecki Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
In 1937, the Massengill Company began selling a health product called Elixir Sulfanilamide, which contained one of the antibiotic sulfa drugs. Unfortunately, it also contained diethylene glycol, a solvent that happens to be deadly to humans. In a matter of months, the elixir killed more than a hundred consumers. The . . .
Hendrik Hertzberg: Stonewall Plus Forty
Hendrik Hertzberg Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
The most improbable of America’s mass movements for civil rights--improbable at the time, inevitable in retrospect--got its start at a most improbable hour in a most improbable place. The hour: two in the morning, forty years ago. The place: the sidewalk in front of the Stonewall Inn, a . . .

 

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Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) - Offers training in Washington, DC, on topics such as organizing, fundraising, development, and use of technology. Provides course schedule, outlines, and information on trainers.
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Activist Rights - Detailed information on rights of demonstrators and free speech participants. Most is specific to Victoria, Australia, but contains list of comparable international resources.
Meta Description: [ Activist Rights is a online resource base for activists, organisers, lawyers and legal support teams in Victoria. ]

Affero Service - Web tools and services for activists to elicit action from others through weblog, forum post, e-mail, or web pages.
Meta Description: [ Affero is a service which enables personal ratings and donations to causes on behalf of individuals who freely share with others. ]

Black Cross Health Collective - First aid training to handle typical needs at protests. Based in Portland, Oregon.
Meta Description: [ Fight the power, do no harm ]

Campus Activism - An extensive database of tools for student activists, groups, resources, and events.
Meta Description: [ Activism Tools for issues you care about. Protests. Conferences. Learn Skills. Download activist materials. ]

Center for Cooperative Research - Facilitates research on issues including the war on terrorism, United States foreign policy, and corporate power. Includes timelines.

Center For Creative Learning - Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other social threats.
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Center for Third World Organizing - A training and resource center dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color.

Citizen Science Toolbox - Australia's Coastal Cooperative Research Centre provides case studies, techniques, and bibliography of strategies to enhance meaningful stakeholder involvement in decision-making.

Collective Book on Collective Process - Handbook built on collective process for activist groups to recognize and resolve common abuses and negative group dynamics.

Community Empowerment - These collections of practical training materials for community workers mobilizing people to overcome poverty are organized by topic (such as microenterprise, evaluation, and brainstorming), and include reproducible illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography.
Meta Description: [ Raising Capacity in Low Income Neighbourhoods; Training material for mobilizers, community participation promotion, social animation, poverty elimination, gender awareness and balance, management training, capacity development, income generation, monitoring, through participatory methods, guides ... ]

Data Center - Provides social justice advocates, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills to help conduct more effective campaigns.
Meta Description: [ The DataCenter is a national nonprofit activist research and information agency providing the social justice community strategic information for effective action. ]

Democracy Center - The Center combines investigation, reporting, training in public advocacy, and international campaigns to help build a global citizenry that understands the public issues before it and is able to take effective public action. They provide a range of how-to resources.

Empowerment Resources - Contains tools for personal growth, social change, and ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale.
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Flying Fish - Provides links to alternative news and media for stories not covered in the mainstream press.
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Human Rights Tech - Non profit organization assisting and encouraging grassroots anti-poverty initiatives. Includes program history, projects, and digital divide resources.
Meta Description: [ Human Rights Tech is a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia that trains grassroots anti-poverty organizations how to use the Internet as an organizing tool. ]

Information Leaflets for Activists - A coalition of 500 European organizations working against racism has put together a series of short practical tip-sheets on Fundraising, Electronic Action (using email and the internet), Communication and Networking, and other issues of interest to grassroots organizations everywhere. Use the tip sheets online, or print out as handouts.

International Website Against Fascism and Racism - Portal and news site for antifascist and antiracist people and groups. Also a free hosting service for such groups.
Meta Description: [ Antifa.net - Antifa Network ]

404 Jury Fury - Monthly ezine and resource archive to inform and educate young activists.

Liberty Activist - Provides information and materials to grassroots and underfunded liberty organizations.

National People's Action - Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US.

NPOBLOGS - NpoBlogs aggregates socially progressive RSS and xml feeds into one portal site.

Organizers' Collaborative - A nonprofit group harnessing the collaborative potential of the Internet and working to making computers accessible as a tool in support of community-based, social change organizing.

Partners In Kindness - Contains ideas, stories, advice, and encouragement for ways to practice kindness.

Peace and Environment Resource Centre - Educates and empowers the public on peace, environment and social justice issues; supports groups, online library search of books and magazines, lots of links, discussion forum, some publications.
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PR Media Consultants - Offers training and consultancy for public-interest groups on how the media really work and how to maximise exposure in the media.
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Public Info Research Namebase - A database of articles on various political and paranormal subjects with information about their authors.

Social Criticism Review - Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific/technical complex.
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The Change Agency - Two Brisbane-based activists offer workshops, curriculum development and campaign consulting services. Their site provides extensive resources, including activism training organizations around the world, academic research, and case studies.
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The Earthwatcher's Cryptodesk - Links to tools and resources for news gathering, research, homework, activism and the alternative cyber-underground.

500 The World Revolution - An idea for a new, global grassroots social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a definitive and comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era.

Tools for Organizers, Activists, Educators, and Other Hell-Raisers - Information on activist organizing and getting people motivated on any issue.

Trade Observatory - The global information center on the WTO, trade, and sustainable development.

Vernal Education Project - An effort to create an education network that can bolster and sustain grassroots progressive social change movements in the US. Provides writings on cooperative decision-making, democratic engagement, and nonviolent action.
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World Advocacy - Comprehensive list of advocacy groups and sites.
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