ONE :: The Campaign to make Poverty History
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http://www.one.org
ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE believes that allocating an additional ONE percent of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries.

American Civil Liberties Union
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http://www.aclu.org
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is America’s guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in the U.S.A by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

WITNESS
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http://www.witness.org
WITNESS, founded by Peter Gabriel partners with human rights defenders, training them to use video to document abuse and create change.

GNN.tv -- Guerilla News Network
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http://www.gnn.tv
Guerrilla News Network is an independent news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming.

Weapoons of Misdirection
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http://www.dvrepublic.org/radio/foreign_relations/main.cfm
Webby award winner in the Politics category. Just check it out.

The New York Model: Indymedia and the Text Message Jihad
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http://www.democracynow.org/static/ny_model.shtml
Text messaging and other technologies used to support direct action, live, mobile and in the streets.

Adbusters
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http://www.adbusters.org
Brilliantly turns mass culture apparatus, particularly media and advertisting, into tools for dissent, while reflexively commenting on their subversive nature.

Independent Media Center (Indymedia)
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http://www.indymedia.org
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. Indymedia sites around the world also provide event calendars and other local resources.

Civil Disobedience
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http://www.civildisobedience.org.uk/
Dedicated to direct action: the what, why and how of civil disobedience.

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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http://www.wagingpeace.org
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, to use technology responsibly and sustainably, and to empower youth to create a more peaceful world.

Notes on Wallace Shawn's The Fever
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http://www.graphesthesia.com/eb/prose/fever.html
The Fever was performed in November of 1998 by Kairos Theatre Company at Washington Square United Methodist Church, directed by Lori Baur. Eli Bishop was assistant director. These are Eli Bishop's comments on the play, which do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Lori Baur or Wallace Shawn.

The Criminalization of Dissent
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http://www.rumbonews.com/RUMBO%20MAY%2015%202003/criminalization_of_dissent.htm
A good alternative press article (Rumbo News) outlining the history of dissent in the United States and the repression of it by American governments throughout that history.

Katharine Gun
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http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/Contact/viewtopic.php?t=376
A message forum thread concerning Katharine Gun, the British whistle-blower currently going to trial, basically for treason.