links & resources: you radical beeyatch

GetUp! - Action for Australia

- GetUp brings together like-minded people who want to bring participation back into our democracy. GetUp.org.au members use the latest online tools to act on the most important issues facing the country. After nearly a decade of conservative government, our country has changed. Millions of Australians don't like the direction we've been heading. On 9 August 2005 the Coalition Government took control of the Senate. It now has more power than any government in a generation. The other political parties aren't providing a strong opposition, and the media is dominated by a handful of right-wing voices. People need to take politics into their own hands. GetUp provides them with a way to do this. GetUp.org.au members are building a ground-up movement of Australians who want to act, not just complain.

Anita Roddick

- Take it Personally - practical ways to make a difference. Wikipedia: Anita Roddick, Anita Roddick's Blog.

Political Blogs: a brief guide

- The best current political weblogs - from left, right and centre.

Combat Wombat

- an outspoken troupe of hip hop punks mainly located in Melbourne and have become known for their frontline activism.

Die Off

(Oil Depletion, Economic Theory, Scientific Consensus, Climate Change, Moral Theory, etc)

International Relations Centre (IRC)

- exposing the architecture of power that's changing our world.

ABC Transcript

: John Ralston Saul - Democracy and Globalisation

Ad Busters

- anti ads

Aidwatch

AID/WATCH is a not for profit activist organisation monitoring and campaigning on Australian overseas aid and trade policies and programs to ensure aid-funding reaches the right people, communities and their environments.

Alternet.org

- US independent news source.

Joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade

(reports)

Arab Media Watch

highlighting anti-Arab bias in the media

Banksy

- Artist/Cultural Jammer (creative protestor?)

Corporate Crime Reporter

highlighting connections between corporations, government and the law.

Counterpunch

- political newsletter.

Economically Sound

- Hopitality/Tourism benefit from environmentally friendly practices and procedures.

FAIR

- Fairness and accuracy in reporting.

One Free Korea

A site dedicated to human rights for North Koreans

Freepress

- Free Press is a nonpartisan organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for more democratic media.

Global Exchange

- Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice. Since our founding in 1988, we have increased the US public's global awareness while building international partnerships for peace and democracy.

The Kyoto Climate Treaty

- international breakthrough

The Idea's Festival

Brisbane Australia - The Ideas Festival is an open public event, drawing new audiences into the celebration, discussion and debate of ideas and innovation. [alternative web address]. I recommend checking out the Archives which include highlights and transcripts from previous festivals.

Jewish Voice for Peace

- is a diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights.

Let's get equal

a site dedicated to giving equal rights to both hetrosexual and homosexual people.

Panoptic World

- tracking trends in our evolving society.

Media Lens

- correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.

Michael Moore's links

- some interesting links but mostly US related

Miftah.org

- The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy

Mother Jones

- Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.

MoveOn.org

– a way for busy but concerned [American] citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media.

Multinational Monitor

- tracking and reporting on multinational corporate activity. Multinational Resource Centre

ON LINE opinion

Australia's e-journal of social and political debate.

OzProspect

- Developing new voices and fresh ideas on Australian public debate.

International Solidarity movement

- ISM is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.

The Centre for Public Integrity

- Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest.

Resistance

- Resistance is an Australia-wide organisation that organises people in struggles against war, racism, sexism, environmental destruction, attacks on workers' rights, attacks on students' rights, and every aspect of capitalist oppression.

Robert Fisk

- This Website is mainly dedicated to articles by Robert Fisk - Middle East correspondent for Independent Newspaper UK

Spare Rooms for Refugees

A site that offers information and advise on/for Refugees/Immigration. Seeking asylum in a country is legal.

the corporation

- scroll for links to resources re affects of corporations/trade

The Memory Hole

rescuing knowledge, freeing information. The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known.

thenation.com

- discussion of political and social questions.

The Yes Men

- Borrowing identities to correct world perceptions of them. (The Yes Men do the WTO: www.gatt.org)

Tikkun

- A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement

Tom Watson

allegedly the first UK politician use a weblog to talk to 'the people'.

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

A satire site that protests Intelligent Design being taught as a science. Religion is (or should be) a personal choice but the proposal to make ID a mandatory subject in public (non-religious) schools is forcing on the population the view that the world was created by a [Christian] God. If religion is taught at public schools then it should be an optional subject OR it should give equal time to all religions (including athiesm - the freedom to choose not to believe in any God - new age/spiritualism, satanism and some of the less palatable religions). If people are not comfortable with information about these perhaps less popular beliefs (or information about other religions in general) being taught to their children via the school system, then why should they think that others would want to have beliefs they don't subscribe to rammed down their childrens throats? AND if this happens, lets make it a humanities subject, NOT a science. We are living in a global environment where there are any number of religions - choosing to follow one of these religions (or none) is [still] an individual choice. If ID is forced upon students, then religion (and to a degree, the choice of religion) no longer becomes a personal choice but becomes a mandate by the Government. ID, by being sly enough not to specify which [Christian] God created the world - and by trying to identify/'market itself' as a science, is in my view a not-so-sneaky way of making Christianity mandatory. If parents would like to send their children to a school that teaches ID, perhaps an Independent School could be opened with a focus on ID. This would similar to existing independent schools that represent a single denomination, but instead of focusing on a particular denominations the focus would be ID. Choose whatever religion you like. Save your own soul and trust that others are capable of being responsible for their own soul and the consequences of their choices. Blerk. Rant over. For now.

Women for Palestine

- a network of Australian women who stand for nonviolence and human rights in the Holy Land.

Z Communications

- The spirit of resistance lives

Gush Shalom

[English] Gush Shalom is the hard core of the Israeli peace movement. Gush Shalom is an extra-parliamentary organization, independent of any party or other political grouping. Some of its activists do belong to political parties, but the Gush is not aligned to any particular party.

Margo Kingston

- Australian Political Journalist. Publishes a Webdiary that focuses on political issues. author of Not Happy, John!. Wikipedia: Margo Kingston - this entry includes links to parody websites.

Arundhati Roy

: encyclopaedia reference, Author (Booker Prize) SAWNET, Winner of the Sydney Peace Prize 2004 [full speech]

Center for Media and Democracy

PR Watch is dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. It serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices.

Columbia Journalism Review

- CJR Daily - Real-time media criticism.

Electronic Frontier Organisations/Associations

Australia, Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom, more...

SpyChips.com

(aka RFID nineteen eighty-four) - How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

HIV/AIDS Awareness

- World Aids Day, A Positive View: Images of HIV and AIDS in South Africa - A Positive View is a photographic exhibition.

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Behind the Homefront - daily chronicle of news in homeland security and military operations affecting newsgathering, access to information and the public's right to know.

Vandana Shiva, Environmental/Seed activist

: interview, key note address, ZNet, third world traveller