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A Call for Economic Justice |
USA based] Labor Party's manifesto calling for guaranteed
living wages; the rights to organize, bargain and strike;
elimination of bigotry; universal health care; equal access
to education; elimination of corporate abuse of trade, to
name but a few of the stands. http://www.igc.apc.org/lpa/documents/program.html AdBusters | "A global network of people who want to launch the new social activist movement of the information age. To galvanize resistance against those who would destroy the environment, pollute our minds and diminish our lives." http://www.adbusters.org Cornell University / Legal Information Institute | No subscription fee limits access to LII services. They are not cluttered with commercial messages or banner advertising. supported by grants, gifts from individuals, firms, and other sponsors. To carry out applied research on the use of digital information technology in the distribution of legal information the delivery of legal education, and the practice of law. To make law more accessible not only to U.S. legal professionals but to students, teachers, and the general public in the USA and abroad. http://www.law.cornell.edu/ ENRON's Corporate Site | Not to be outdone, and to let the world know that Chutzpah has no bounds, ENRON still provides "services" to the global market. It still bills itself as "...one of the world's leading energy, commodities and services companies. Revenues were $101 billion in 2000." As recently as 27 Feb 2002, still offered financial management services (down now, can't imagine why). The site also alerts the reader to ENRON's committment to Corporate Responsibility and respect for Human Rights. Cheeky, eh? http://www.enron.com/corp/ Free Speech Internet TV | a [USA based] platform for voices traditionally absent from mainstream media. Working with activists and artists, FSTV uses television to expose social and environmental injustices - to help build community, to teach tolerance, to encourage personal creativity and stand for non-violent social action. http://www.freespeech.org Global Issues | This web site looks into global issues that affect everyone and aims to show how most issues are inter-related. The issue categories range from trade, poverty and globalization, to human rights, geopolitics and the environment. http://www.globalissues.org/ Grey Literature Report | A great resource for unpublished public research documents. If this seems a bit off topic, don't be dissuaded. You may be pleasantly surprised http://www.nyam.org/library/greylit/glrv4n1.shtml Jay's Leftist and "Progressive" Resource Directory | A Web Portal for all Good People around Planet Earth who are anti-War, anti-Imperialist, anti-Racist, anti-Sexist, and anti-Homophobic and who want to Fight Back and build together a Better World http://www.neravt.com/left/frontpage.html Law Guru's Treaties & International Law pages | Started by the US House of Representatives when their mission included providing the public with access to the law; now maintained by Law Guru and others. http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/89.htm Low Bandwidth | "getting the information you want, when you want it" without corporate fluff or puff pieces or blow dried "news" anchorettes to distract you http://www.disobey.com/low/ Mother Jones.com | "working to educate and empower people through media to work toward social justice" http://www.motherjones.com/index.html The Politics of Ignorance and Self-Interest | Scott Bidstrup's essay on contradictions inherent between American Political Conservatism's stated beliefs and the actions of those who espouse them http://www.bidstrup.com/politics.htm Project Censored | News and views you'll never hear on the corporate mainstream bandwidths http://www.projectcensored.org/default.html Scruffy's State Statues | [USA based] You never know when you need to know what the law reads and how it's written http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm Trade Observatory | Keeping track of actions of the WTO and staying informed of other organizations and groups interested in democratization of economic decision-making http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm Universal Declaration of Human Rights | The United Nations document available in over 300 languages from this site http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/index.htm World Trade Organization | Not to be unfair, here's the homepage for the WTO. When first going there it only asked to plant one cookie. I suppose that's more than enough. http://www.wto.org/ |
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