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CONTENTS:
*General Info
*US Government
*Party Politics
*The Right (Radical and Otherwise)
*The Left
*Washington State
*Queer Politics
GENERAL INFO:
- Yahoo's Politics directory
American Politics
Resources: "A guide to American government and politics resources on
the Internet"
- Making a Difference
(Or: Becoming an Activist For Your Cause): how to become an activist!
- Gallup Polls
- What is your political "type"? Answer a few questions and see if
you're one of Pew Research's
ten political types:Enterprisers: Moralists: Libertarians: New Economy
Independents: Bystanders: The Embittered: Seculars: New Democrats: New
Dealers: Partisan Poor
- Project Vote Smart: a
terrific resource for information on members of Congress (and
Governors), including special interest ratings, a survey of their
stands on issues, campaign finance, and voting record
- Vote.com: "a fully
interactive web site designed to give Internet users a voice on important
public issues and other topics...When you vote on a topic listed on our
site, we'll send an immediate e-mail to significant decision makers like
your congressional representative, your Senators, and the President
telling them how you feel... When the polls close, we will send each a
tally of the votes in his district. Then, when your congressional
representative votes on the issue, we will e-mail you to tell you how he
or she voted. Right before election day, we'll send you a report card
listing how they voted on all the topics you voted on -- so you can see if
they agree with you..."
- Voter.Com: customizable site with info on
candidates, issues, and political news
- Rock the Vote: political issues
of importance, for youth
- "MCI and Rock The Vote are making it possible for people to use the
World Wide Web to submit voter
registrations for their home state and receive back a pre-stamped,
addressed and completed voter registration form for mailing."
- Politics of
Cartoon Characters: Is Daffy Duck a Republican?
- United Nations
- Amnesty
International: Annual Report Index Page
- Contemporary women
world
leaders: also past ones
- CNN - Election
Watch: follow elections worldwide
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT:
- The
Constitution of the United States
- Searchable index of
the US Constitution
- White House Web site: Find out
what our next President (and Bill) is up to
- Presidents
Lists: sorted dozens of ways, including some unexpected ones:
By month and day of birth * By principal profession * Who were related *
By height * Who were bearded * Who were left-handed * By First Lady * By
years married * Defeated before becoming President * Who were never
elected President * By length of Inaugural Speech * By number of vetoes *
and many more!
- Don't know who represents
you? If you know your zip code, use Congress.ORG: enter
zip code/find out the address of & other info on your federal representatives
- Clickable House
and Congressional E-mail Addresses: Write your representatives NOW
Congressional E-Mail Directories
-
Congressional E-Mail Directories from the Library of Congress
- Congressional Directory
- US Congress: visit Thomas,
courtesy of the Newt; find bills, read the Congressional Record, visit
the C-SPAN gopher
- US House of Representatives WWW site
- Fed World: how to
contact all sorts of government agencies, including a subject index
- First Monday in October...U.S.
Supreme Court: let's hear it for the Supremes! Romer v. Evans!!!
- Roe
v. Wade: the Supreme Court's 1973 landmark decision guaranteeing a
woman's right to a legal abortion
- FIRST AMENDMENT AND SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE:
- NASA's Astro-2 home page
- Check out our United Stated
Intelligence Community, including the CIA, DIA, NSA, FBI, Army, Navy,
Marines, Air Force, Depts of State and Treasury:
- FOIA:
Freedom of Information Act materials
- POPClock Projection: the population of the US at this very second!
- Curious what your money is spent on? Here are Federal budget; find US Federal
Budge sites in Yahoo here
- Missing a missile? Need a tank? Get Government surplus stuff cheap!
-
PARTY POLITICS:
RadicalReligiousRight
page at the QRD: a wealth of information about the anti-queer Right
- Our
Christian Buddies such as...* Royal Rangers--a ministry to
boys; * Christian Clipart Images of those wacky xtians in WPG, PCX and
CGM formats; * Focus on the Family (James Dobson's Colorado-based group of Xian
bigots) * Assemblies of God * Chick Tracts (Official home of
those wacky yet frightening little comic things you used to
find in bus stations) * Dial-The-Truth Ministries * AND...those who keep
an eye on them
- Christian Coalition: drop in and skew
a poll!
- CC
Watch: monitoring the Christian Coalition
- The Vatican's WWW site
- The Right Side of the Web,
containing a large variety of conservative and right-wing sites and
resources
- Hate Groups on the Internet
- 700 Club: It's PAT!!!
- Rush Limbaugh: the way
things AREN'T, dittohead
- Promise Keepers
- What the enemy thinks: Family Research
Council
- The American Family Association
(AFA): "Take a look at their boycott information and take the time to
send letters of support to those companies which they are boycotting.
Disney and Levi Strauss are on their list of companies who should be
boycotted because they support gay their gay employees. It's very
important that we make our appreciation heard because those companies are
receiving A LOT more negative comments ... Also, check out their crap
called "The Myths of Homosexuality" if you want your blood to boil."
- National Rifle Association: guns
don't kill people, um... well, they do, actually... but... um, that's
what makes America great, buddy
- Superpatriots, armed to the teeth, who care so deeply about
America, they'd like to bring down our democratically elected government:
Militia Watch-Dog
- Rutherford Institute:
check out the hijinks of the Right; not for the faint of heart
AND ON THE LEFT...
- There is hope! How
to Win: A Practical Guide to Defeating the Radical Right
- Turn
Left...the home of Liberalism
- Liberalism
Resurgent: "a response to the Right"; also here
- Politix Page: leftist
politics resource site, including the Poking Phun at Politicians site
- Defending the constitution: American
Civil Liberties Union: protecting cyber-liberties; lesbian/gay
rights; religious freedom; student's rights; death with dignity; police
practices; youth rights; reproductive freedom; free speech;
privacy...
- The American Civil Liberties Union is organizing the "Take Back Your Data"
campaign. The basic theme of this effort, is that all people should be
respected as having a basic right to privacy, which includes ownership
over personal medical records and other kinds of personal information. At
their web page, the ACLU provides the ability to for you to directly lobby
your respective Senators and House member.
- People for the American Way
- Institute for First
Amendment Studies: "Founded in 1984, IFAS is a non-profit educational
and research organization focusing solely on the activities of the radical
Religious Right. Our home page contains a wealth of information on the
Religious Right. Whether your focus is on reproductive rights, gay rights,
censorship, education, law, politics, religion, televangelists,
church/state issues you'll find it on the IFAS home page."
- The Feminist Majority Online
- National Organization for Women
- EMILY's List:
organization for "pro-choice Democratic women"
- Amnesty International defending
human rights around the world; find your local chapter or read individual
country reports
- NAACP: National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People, founded in Boston
- National Campaign for Freedom
of Expression: "an education and advocacy network of artists (and)
arts organizations...founded to fight censorship and to protect...freedom
of artistic expression"; also here
- Working Assets Long
Distance (my long-distance carrier): all sorts of feature articles,
and opinion pieces by Mario Cuomo, Suzanne Pharr, Deb Price, Jesse Jackson
and others
- Mother Jones,
a left-leaning publication, expert in exposing the dark side of the Newt
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: a
non-profit civil liberties organization, protecting privacy, free
expression, and access to online resources
- Handgun Control
- We're
Right, They're Wrong: the book by James Carville, Clinton's 1992
campaign manaager; this site includes other juicy bits such as:
- The Office of Senator Edward
Kennedy : liberal stalwart from my homestate of Massachusetts; scion
of American "royalty" and thorn in the side of the Right
- 4th District of
Massachusetts - Congressman Barney Frank; another liberal stalwart
from my homestate (and one of two --of three-- openly gay federal
representatives Massachusetts has sent to Washington)! Go Barney!
- Critiques of
Libertarianism
WASHINGTON STATE:
Home Page Washington, a Washington State
Government Information Guide, providing public access to information
created by government agencies. These pages point to a wide variety of
Washington information maintained by both public and private organizations.
[*] Business and Commerce
[*] Education
[*] Employment
[*] Environment and Natural Resources
[*] Government
[*] Recreation
[*] Social and Health Services
[*] Technology
[*] Transportation
- The Revised Code of
Washington State, i.e. our laws
- Washington State Legislative Info
- Legislative District Lookup and
Maps
- VOTER REGISTRATION
FORM for Washington residents; you'll need Acrobat to see this file,
but if you do, you can fill out this form on the computer, as long as you
print it out, sign it and mail it in! (from the Sec'y of State's office)
- Secretary of State: voters'
guides and election rules and results
- Public Disclosure
Commission
- King County: stretches from
Elliot Bay to Snoqualmie Pass and contains 50% of Washington's population
and 2 of its 4 largest cities (Seattle (1) and Bellevue (4))...
- Seattle City
Government: access to city officials and departments including the Ethics
and Elections Commission, health, education and other community
resources
- Voter's Guide
- Washington State ACLU
- Washington State Democrats
Home Page
- The Seattle Greens,
an
environmental movement for this ostensibly Emerald City
- My congressman: Rep. Jim
McDermott (D-7): one of the most liberal representatives in the US, he
was recently re-elected with over 80% of the vote
- King
County Elected Officials: Frank Chopp * Jennifer Dunn * Nick Licata *
Paul Schell * Ron Sims
- Municipal League of King
County
- The Democracy Network:
Washington
- Peace &
Justice Calendar: speeches, protests, activist projects, etc., updated
at least weekly by Jean Buskin
- ACLU
REPORT ON WTO CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
- NATL
LAWYERS GUILD REPORT OF WTO EXCESSES
- SeattleWeekly's WTO
Special Coverage
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