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Alternative Media
Adbusters
All Round -- magazine for children
Alternative Family (gay-lesbian)
Alternative Radio (Heard on WERU community radio, Blue Hill, 89.9 FM Mondays 10 AM)
Alternative Tentacles Records
American Journalism Review
The American Prospect
Annotations: A Guide to the Independent Critical Press
Boston Phoenix
Brill’s Content (analysis and criticism of the media)
Bruderhof Radio
Business Ethics Magazine
Consumer Reports
Counterpunch (politics, society)
Double Take
Electronic Policy Network (economics, politics, government)
Fiction Writer (magazine for writers)
Funny Times (Political humor)
Gadfly Magazine
Gentle Spirit (magazine of self-sufficiency)
Girlfriends (Lesbian monthly)
Give and Take: A Journal on Civil Society in Eurasia
Governing Magazine
Hope magazine (social issues)
Institute for Global Ethics
LA Weekly
Light (magazine of light verse)
Lingua Franca
Mother Jones
Mountainfreak Magazine (alternative housing, organic gardening)
NACLA Report on the Americas
The Nation
National Green Pages (sustainable living)
National Radio Project/Making Contact
New Dimensions Radio
New Moon Magazine for teenage girls
Progressive Populist
Public Citizen
Radionation
Ralph Nader
San Francisco Bay Guardian
SF Weekly
Shift Magazine
www.skolnickreport.com (Online news, analysis and criticism)
Teen Voices (magazine of teen writings)
The Texas Observer (Politics, criticism and satire)
THIS Magazine
Tikkun (Alternative Press review)
Utne Reader
Washington City Paper
Whole Earth
The Witness (mag.;life, faith)
Word Dance (literature for young readers)
Yes Magazine (A magazine of new solutions)
Youth Today (Newspaper on youth work)

Animal Rights
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Armaments
Americans Against Bombing (US military intervention policy, all aspects)
Alternatives to Violence
American Friends Service Committee
Anthrax Vaccine Research (Dr.Meryl Nash)
Direct Action Network
General Electric
Just Act
Maine Council of Churches
NAACP
National Rifle Association
National Youth and Militarism Program /youthmil.htm
Pastors For Peace
Pax Christi
Peace Action Maine
Raytheon
School of the Americas Watch
Southern Poverty Law Center, Intelligence Report
Teaching Tolerance

Biotechnology
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Union of Concerned Scientists
Consumers Union
Friends of the Earth
Foundation for Economic Trends
Greenpeace
Organic Trade Association
Edmonds Institute
Ecologist Magazine
GenetiX snowball
"Mutanto"
Archer Daniels Midland
Monsanto
Monsanto U.K.
Novartis
DuPont:
Agrevo
Biotechnology Industrial Organization
Food Biotechnology Communications Network
The Grocery Manufacturers Association
National Food Processors Association
Food Marketing Institute
Missouri Botanical Gardens
US. Government Food Safety Site
Dept. of Agriculture Biotechnology Information Resource
UN Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
National Corn Growers Association
Nature Magazine
Science Magazine

Citizenship
Center for Public Integrity
“Soul of a Citizen” (by Paul Roget Loeb)

Corporations
Corporate Crime Reporter
General Electric
David Korten
Raytheon
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC)
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade
When Corporations Rule the World

Corruption
Center for Public Integrity
Granny D’s Work
Jim Hightower
Movement for Democracy and Education (dedicated to helping students build a youth movement for political empowerment)
National Rifle Association
Public Campagign
Soft Money Database

Democracy
Amnesty International
Center for Democracy and Technology
Center for Public Integrity
Cuba embargo (buy coffee - raise funds to end embargo)
Granny D’s Work
Jim Hightower
David Korten
Maine Equal Justice Project
Movement for Democracy and Education (dedicated to helping students build a youth movement for political empowerment)
NAACP
National Employment Law Project
Open Society Institute
Positive Futures Network
Public Campaign
Public Citizen
Ralph Nader
Soft Money Database
“Soul of a Citizen” (by Paul Roget Loeb)
Study Circles information
United for a Fair Economy
US network for Global Economic Justice (50 Years is enough: a coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women’s, justice, youth, labor and development organizations)
World Watch Institute

Drugs
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
Family Council on Drug Awareness
Human Rights and the Drug War
Lindesmith Center
November Coalition
Prison Activist Resource Center

Economy
Berkeley Regional Exchange and Development
Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce
Electronic Policy Network
Institute for International Economics
Ithaca Dollars Homepage
David Korten (the indigenous economy of the U’wa)
Public Citizen
Ralph Nader
United for a Fair Economy
World Watch Institute

Energy and Environment
Alliance to Save Energy
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (offers consumer guide for home energy savings)
American Forests (greenhouse gas reductions)
California Energy Commission/ Energy Quest (download educational games)
Car-free Cities
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST)
Center for Science and the Environment (international policies)
Climate Solutions (what you can do to stop global warming)
David Suzuki Foundation (solutions to global warming)
Earth Day Network
Energy Information Clearinghouse (California)
Energy Star (lists and rates the most energy-efficient products)
EPA Global Warming Website
Global Cities Project (handbooks, case studies, tech. assist.)
Global Commons Institute (international policy analysis) .uk
Greenpeace (updates, action-alerts)
Hotearth.net (free fax to legislators; global warming news by e-mail)
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
National Center for Bicycling and Walking
National Wildlife Federation
Natural Resources Defense Council (info. on carbon producers; reforms)
Natural Step (corporate/ institutional environmental systems)
Ozone Action (divest from companies in the Global Climate Coalition idustry group)
Pembina Institute (teaching climate change awareness) /edu/overview.htm
Rainforest Action Network (save rainforests worldwide)
Real Goods (solar energy products)
Rocky Mountain Institute (green development services)
Sierra Club Global Warming and Energy Team
Stonyfield Farm Environmental Cookbook
United States Green Building Council
Urban Consortium Energy Task Force/ Public Technology, Inc. (Energy management; community scale energy)
World Corps (help regreen the planet)
World Watch Institute
World Wildlife Fund (information on climate-change effects) /climate
Zapworld.com (electric bikes and other vehicles)

Ethics
Institute for Global Ethics
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC)

Families
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
National Partnership for Women and Families

Farming
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Organic Consumers Association
Rural Advancement Foundation International

Food
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Union of Concerned Scientists
Consumers Union
Friends of the Earth
Foundation for Economic Trends
Greenpeace
Organic Trade Association
Edmonds Institute
Ecologist Magazine
GenetiX snowball
"Mutanto"
Archer Daniels Midland
Monsanto
Monsanto U.K.
Novartis
DuPont
Agrevo
Biotechnology Industrial Organization
Food Biotechnology Communications Network
The Grocery Manufacturers Association
National Food Processors Association
Food Marketing Institute
Missouri Botanical Gardens
US. Government Food Safety Site
Dept. of Agriculture Biotechnology Information Resource
UN Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
National Corn Growers Association
Nature Magazine
Science Magazine
Equal Exchange
“Free advice from real people”
Consumer Reports
United Kingdom
U of Va
The Hunger Site (each time you hit on this site they provide a basic meal for someone -- call them daily!)
Institute for Food and Development Policy
Maine Coalition for Food Security
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Mothers for Natural Law
Organic Consumers Association
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Rural Advancement Foundation International

Gays and Lesbians
Alternative Family (gay-lesbian magazine)
Girlfriends (Lesbian monthly)

Globalization
Corporations
Business Ethics Magazine bizethics@aol.com
Corporate Crime Reporter
General Electric
David Korten http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/
Raytheon
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC)
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade
When Corporations Rule the World http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/

Economy
Berkeley Regional Exchange and Development
Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce
Electronic Policy Network
Institute for International Economics
Ithaca Dollars Homepage
David Korten http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/
Public Citizen
Ralph Nader
United for a Fair Economy
World Watch Institute

Environment
Rainforest Action Network (save rainforests worldwide)
World Watch Institute

Ethics
Business Ethics Magazine bizethics@aol.com
Institute for Global Ethics
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC)

Farming
Equal Exchange
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Organic Consumers Association
Rural Advancement Foundation International

Socially responsibe investing
Calvert Group
Citizens Funds
Domini Social Investments
Genesis Community Loan Fund
Parnassus Fund
Pax World fund
Trillium Asset Management
Working Assets

Third World
Alternative Information and Development Center (S.Africa)
International Development Exchange
Jubilee 2000 movement (more than 40 national organizations working to cancel the debts of poor Third World countries) (British)
(US)
Third World Network ( North-South development and Third World issues)
US network for Global Economic Justice (50 Years is enough: a coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women’s, justice, youth, labor and development organizations)

Trade
Center for the study of Globalization and Regionalization
Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce
Equal Exchange
“Free advice from real people”
International Development Exchange
International Forum on Globalization (San Francisco-based alliance of activists and writers)
David Korten http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/
Public Citizen
Ralph Nader
Tradewatch (Public Citizen’s division dealing with trade and investment policies)
United for a Fair Economy
United Students Against Sweatshops (An international coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor worldwide)
US network for Global Economic Justice (50 Years is enough: a coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women’s, justice, youth, labor and development organizations)
U.S.Trade (pro-free-trade site offering daily updates on trade news)
(research guide for GATT and the WTO)
When Corporations Rule the World http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/

World Trade Organization
Center for Campus Organizing (national group that supports campus activism)
Center for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick, Britain
50 Years Is Enough: US Network for Global Economic Justice (a coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women's, justice, youth, labor and development organizations)
GATT (text of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
GATT & WTO research guide
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (provided a twenty-four hour feed from the Seattle WTO meeting at this site)
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Britain
Institute for International Economics (devoted to the study of international economic policy)
International Forum on Globalization (a San Francisco-based alliance of activists and writers)
Jubilee 2000 (movement in more than forty countries to cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries)
Movement for Democracy and Education (dedicated to helping students build a youth movement for political empowerment)
Office of the US Trade Representative
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Preamble (a research organization of academics, policy professionals and community leaders
Public Citizen division, international trade and investment policies
Rainforest Action Network (an education and action organization working to save rainforests worldwide)
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (seeks to make corporations more socially and environmentally responsible)
Third World Network (involved in North/South, development and Third World issues)
United Students Against Sweatshops (an inter- national coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor worldwide)
(pro-free trade site offering daily updates on trade news)
World Trade Organization website

Independent Publishers
Alternative Tentacles Records (CDs)
Basic Books
Beacon Press
Common Courage Press
Greenleaf Publishing
Guilford Publications
New Press
New Society Publishers
Pluto Press
Redland Press
Routledge
Rowman & Littlefield
St. Martin’s Press
South End Press
Verso

University presses
Columbia U. Press
Miami U. Press
Penn State Press
Princeton University Press
Souther Illinois U. Press
Temple U. Press
Univ. Of California Press
Univ. Of Minnesota Press
Univ. Of North Carolina Press
Univ. Of Chicago Press
Wayne State U. Press

Justice
Amnesty International
Cuba embargo (buy coffee - raise funds to end embargo)
Maine Equal Justice Project
NAACP
National Employment Law Project
Public Citizen
Ralph Nader
US network for Global Economic Justice (50 Years is enough: a coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women’s, justice, youth, labor and development organizations)
World Watch Institute

Militarism
American Friends Service Committee
Anthrax Vaccine Research (Dr.Meryl Nash)
General Electric
National Rifle Association
National Youth and Militarism Program /youthmil.htm
Raytheon
School of the Americas Watch

Organic
Kalani Organica (org. coffe and tea)
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Mountainfreak Magazine (alternative housing, organic gardening)
Organic Consumers Association
Rural advancement

Organizations
American Friends Service Committee
Amnesty International
Direct Action Network
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organziation
Just Act
Maine Council of Churches
NAACP
Open Society Institute
Pastors For Peace
Pax Christi
School of the Americas Watch
Study Circles Resource Center
United Nations

Politics
Center for Public Integrity
Electronic Policy Network
Jim Hightower
Open Society Institute
Soft Money Database

Poverty
The Hunger Site (each time you hit on this site they provide a basic meal for someone -- call them daily!)
Maine Coalition for Food Security
Maine Equal Justice Project

Prejudice
NAACP
Southern Poverty Law Center and Intelligence Report
Teaching Tolerance

Prisons
Amnesty International
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
Human Rights and the Drug War
Prison Activist Resource Center

Propaganda
Adbusters
Center for Media and Democracy
Council of Public Relations Firms

Racism
NAACP
Southern Poverty Law Center and Intelligence Report
Teaching Tolerance

Simple Living
Berkeley Regional Exchange and Development
Ithaca Dollars Homepage
David Korten http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/

Socially Responsible Investing
Calvert Group
Citizens Funds
Domini Social Investments
Genesis Community Loan Fund
Parnassus Fund
Pax World fund
Trillium Asset Management
Working Assets

Study Circles
Study Circles Resource Center

Technology
Center for Democracy and Technology

Third World
Alternative Information and Development Center (S.Africa)
International Development Exchange
Jubilee 2000 movement (more than 40 national organizations working to cancel the debts of poor Third World countries)(British)(US)
Third World Network ( North-South development and Third World issues)
US network for Global Economic Justice (50 Years is enough: a coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women’s, justice, youth, labor and development organizations)

Trade
Center for the study of Globalization and Regionalization
Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce
Equal Exchange
“Free advice from real people”
International Development Exchange
International Forum on Globalization (San Francisco-based alliance of activists and writers)
David Korten http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/
Public Citizen
Ralph Nader
Tradewatch (Public Citizen’s division dealing with trade and investment policies)
United for a Fair Economy
United Students Against Sweatshops (An international coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor worldwide)
US network for Global Economic Justice (50 Years is enough: a coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women’s, justice, youth, labor and development organizations)
U.S.Trade (pro-free-trade site offering daily updates on trade news)

Violence
Alternatives to Violence
American Friends Service Committee
General Electric
National Rifle Association
Raytheon
School of the Americas Watch
Southern Poverty Law Center, Intelligence Report
Teaching Tolerance

World News
Give and Take: A Journal on Civil Society in Eurasia
NACLA Report on the Americas (click on links)
The New Internationalist
United Nations ,

World Trade Organization
Center for Campus Organizing (national group that supports campus activism)
Center for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick, Britain
50 Years Is Enough: US Network for Global Economic Justice (a coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women's, justice, youth, labor and development organizations)
GATT (text of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
GATT & WTO research guide
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (provided a twenty-four hour feed from the Seattle WTO meeting at this site)
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Britain
Institute for International Economics (devoted to the study of international economic policy)
International Forum on Globalization (a San Francisco-based alliance of activists and writers)
Jubilee 2000 (movement in more than forty countries to cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries)
Movement for Democracy and Education (dedicated to helping students build a youth movement for political empowerment)
Office of the US Trade Representative
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(Preamble (a research organization of academics, policy professionals and community leaders)
Public Citizen division, international trade and investment policies
Rainforest Action Network (an education and action organization working to save rainforests worldwide)
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (seeks to make corporations more socially and environmentally responsible)
Third World Network (involved in North/South, development and Third World issues)
United Students Against Sweatshops (an inter- national coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor worldwide)
(pro-free trade site offering daily updates on trade news)
World Trade Organization website

Youth
All Round -- magazine for children
American Friends Service Committee
Center for Campus Organizing (national group supporting campus activism)
National Youth and Militarism Program
New Moon Magazine for teenage girls
Power to the Youth (Bill Wetzel) (“Inspire young people to take charge of their schools”)
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC)
Teen Voices (Magazine of teen writings)
Word Dance (literary magazine for young readers)
Youth Today (Newspaper on youth work)