Amnesty
International
http://www.organic.com/Non.profits/Amnesty/index.html
"If you think virtual reality is interesting, try reality," says Amnesty International, global crusaders for human rights. Discover how you can help in its battles against militant regimes and injustice.
Australian
Political Parties
http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2gjenki/democrafts.html
Liberal, National, Labour, and Democrat parties' sites respectively, with news, history, politics and contacts (although few by email). Expect a flurry of fresh content as elections loom.
Black
Information Network
This non-profit organisation concerned with promoting educational, recreational, social, and supportive communication within the African-American community has produced a very pretty and polished but somewhat staid site.
Bosnia
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~bosnia/bosnia.html
Details, pictures, and maps of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia from a Bosnia-Herzegovinan angle. unsurprisingly, the list of war criminals and suspects are all Siberian, but if you pursue the provided links elsewhere, you'll get a more balanced view.
British
Political Parties
http://www.poptel.org.uk/labour-party/
"New Labour" shows it's not techno-shy by offering it's members cheap Net access via the Poptel BBS. While you can't actually join its ranks online (they need your signature), you can order the necessary form or print one from this page. The site also details who's who or print one and the latest news and policies, such as its white paper on the, ahem, Information Super Highway. The Libdem's site is even more informative. You'll probably learn more about the Liberal Democrat Party from spending a few minutes here than from half-listening to years of hustings' static. Read its history, policies, and how it intends to reform Britain's place in the European union. But before you sign your life away online, why email your gripes to Paddy Ashdown direct? And see what response you get.
Noam
Chomsky Archive
http://www.lbbs.org/archive/index.html
Oodles of highly controversial articles on, interviews with, lectures by, quotes from, and literary reviews of Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor of Lighuistics at MIT and outspoken critic of US foreign policy. He can change the way you read the world.
DeathNet
http://www.islandnet.com/~deathnet/open.html
A side-effect of DeathNet's' euthanasia campaign was the media's predictable focus on the Net as a medium for encouraging suicide. consequently a large slab of this "right to die" library is dedicated to examples of the press's propensity to dramatise.
Feminist
Activist Resources
http://www.igc.apc.org/women/feminist.html
Hundreds of links to feminist forums, articles, political action groups, legal documents, news items, women's organisations, counselling services, and spare-rib tickling.
Free
Burma
A good example of the kind of international campaigns that the Net can promulgate. And there are few better causes than this punch against Burma's tyrannical military government.
Friends
of the Earth
Find out about Friends of the Earth's latest campaign, your nearest group, results of environment studies, or how to join forces. Plus plenty of links to other environment resources and groups.
The
Gallup Organisation
About 20% of Gallup's online visitors fill out the questionnaires and opinion polls. Not a bad response compared to say, Barclays' callers requiting credit card lyres. It also supplies results of past surveys, so you can keep up to date with trends and ratings such as the fickle swings of Slick Willy's popularity.
Gay
and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
http://www.datalounge.com/glaad/glaad.html
Campaigning against homophobia in the media and beyond.
Greenpeace
International
Details of Greenpeace's carious environmental campaign and operations, plus links to like mindsets.
Intelligence Watch Report
Brief updates on political disturbances, terrorism, and subterfuge world-wide, plus intelligence directories and jobs. And a mirror of the Secrecy and Government Bulletin, published by the Federation of American Scientists, which challenges excessive gouvernment secrecy on the US. But maybe it's just a diversion.
MIT Students for Free Expression
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/safe/home.html
According to these MIT students, the Net recognises censorship as damage and routes around it. Find out what's being done to protect the Net's freedom of speech and link to controversial sites that certain groups would like to ban.
Newtwatch
ht5tp://www.newtwatch.org/
A full frontal assault on Newt Gingrich. And to keep in fair, links to supporters, as well.
One World
This is one of the best conceived sites on the Web - an umbrella for 60-plus non-governmental organisations and charities, who provide news stories (very different stories, oddly enough, to those you get in the newspapers) on areas or crisis, plus details on what they're doing to help. There is excellent archive materiel, too, from New Internationalist and Index In Censorship, and the site is building links with third-world partners and trying to address the problems of the Net's elitist access, while much of the world's population has no telephone or electricity.
Spunck Press
http://www.cwi.nl/people/Jack.Jansen/spunk/Spunk_Home.html
Spunk Press, and electronic publisher of anarchist literature, provides a fulsome index to anarchist resources around the Web. It's a little paradoxical to find anarchists so well organised and authoritative, but much of the writhing here is either juvenile mischief or far left.
Trinity Aramaic Test Site
http://www.environlink.org/issues/nuketesting/
Trinity, site of the first atomic test in 1945, celebrated its 50th anniversary Bu opening its gates to the public. Here's where to find the photos, videos, maps, and details of all the action, plus links to archives of high-energy weapon testing, including commentary on French and Chinese efforts.
United Nations Development Programme
Daily news of the United Nations' involvement in international affairs.
US Party politics
http://www.digitals.erg/digitals/
The Digital Democrats link to a couple of dozen senators, and other party strands. You can't actually register to vote online, but you can order the paperwork. The Republican Townhall - the sassiest, dirties Republican site - is a pretty fascinating meeting place for Newt's own party reptiles.
