Medical Freedom, Human
Rights, Environmental, Political Action Links and Resources
Thinktwice
Global Vaccine Institute
http://www.thinktwice.com
They offer the world's largest selection of uncensored information on
childhood shots and other immunizations. Because this is such an important
topic, they believe that parents are entitled to full disclosure of all
pertinent data, and the freedom to choose whether or not to vaccinate
their children. They update this website regularly.
The Chemical
Scorecard
www.scorecard.org
Created by the Environmental Defense Fund. Allows users to insert a zip
code to find out which chemicals are affecting their communities.
Doing the Right
Thing - The Ethics Connection
www.scu.edu/ethics
This site does not tell visitors what opinion to have on any given topic.
But it does help them consider "what to think about in making ethical
decisions." The California-based Markkula Center for Applied Ehtics,
which runs the site, hopes to create a dialogue between scholars and everyday
folks who face ethical questions in their daily lives.
Government
and politics:
1999
- 2000 legislative session chart
20/20
Vision Tips on using the media effectively
Piper
Resources' state and local government links
State laws and legislatures.
Project
Vote Smart
Links to everything imaginable having to do with federal and state government
and politics.
The
Electronic Activist
Email addresses for government contacts.
Child Welfare
League of America
www.cwla.org
CWLA is predominantly a service provider, but advocacy opportunities exist
here through an action alert area that lists current legislation with
details on who to call and what to say.
Kickbutt.org
www.kickbutt.org
Lists current legislation and both government and media contacts. If you
join them (free of charge and confidential), they'll email your messages
to Congress and the media for you.
20/20 Vision
www.2020vision.org
This organization's offline efforts are focused on making activism easy
and effective. Their "Tools for Grassroots Activists," is a good collection
of resources.
Corporate Watch
www.corpwatch.org
This site collects action alerts created by other groups, offers a unique
campaign (called the Greenwash Awards) that exposes environmentally unsound
practices of corporations hiding behind "green" PR, and provides information
on how to research companies yourself.
Ask Dr. Stoll
http://ben.net/~stoll/index.html
Dr. Stoll's site contains pages on Health Freedom Issues.
Institute for
Alernative Journalism
www.alternet.org
Features stories from alternative newsweeklies, magazines and web publications
from across the country, invaluble resources and national employment listings.
Environmental
Working Group
www.ewg.org
A wealth of well-researched, heavy-hitting reports to help anyone's environmental
advocacy efforts.
NetAction www.netaction.org
Tools for organizing in cyberspace, current action issues, pointers to
other online activism resources.
Pacific Center
for Violence Prevention
www.pcvp.org
Lots of well-researched data with which to arm advocates and activists:
fact sheets, policy briefs, violence statistics, alerts, legislation,
funding, profiles of advocates.
Brahma
Kumaris World Spiritual University http://www.bkwsu.com//bkun/wit/rights1.html
"The future of mankind depends on us, on each of us, each in our
own way. It is our shared and individual responsibility, yours and mine.
Indeed, it is only with the assistance of everyone, the support of everyone,
each of us working in our own way in accordance with our means and potential
that such a huge task can be accomplished. Peace is neither an unattainable
ideal nor an abstract concept. It is very tangible: it is above all a
right, the legitimate right of every individual to be able to develop,
free from the threat of destruction, in harmony and justice, with self-respect
and respect for others."
(Ambassador Jan Matenson, former Director of the UN Centre for Human Rights,
Geneva.
