LINKS.
These are some of the points on the
Internet that make the whole thing seem worthwhile.
Iraq Veterans Against the War
(IVAW)
Often the most eloquent and moving voices against a war are those of the
warriors themselves. Like their predecessors in the Vietnam war, these brave
souls are telling their stories through Winter
Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan. Go there, hear the testimony, and find
out how you can help.
Uri
Avnery
Longtime Israeli peace activist, journalist, commentator, and (in my opinion)
one of the most cogent and inspiring voices coming out of that part of the
world. Check it out.
A project of Gold Star Families, Bring Them Home Now comprises the loved ones of military personnel currently deployed in Iraq (including modern-day saint Cindy Sheehan). Their message is clear and unapologetic.. Take a closer look...and get involved.
A project of The Nation Institute run by Tom Englehardt, this online column offers a thoughtful review of political and foreign affairs with some great guest columns. Valuable.
The English language site for this UAE-based news network, now officially banned from Dubya's Iraq, as well as numerous other countries. Hey -- any media outlet that makes this many enemies must have something going for them. Judge for yourself.
Check out the latest dispatches from this independent journalist, one of the only ones operating in occupied Iraq, unembedded and unashamed.
Useful insights on Iraq and other foreign policy matters from Juan Cole, author and professor of history at the University of Michigan. Good stuff.
Set up by Global Exchange, this is a good place to start your search for online resources related to war resistance on the web. Join the virtual protest...let your fingers do the marching. (To start with, at least.) Find news of demos in your area, etc.
Ta'ayush is an Arab-Jewish partnership that works on the ground in the occupied territories to provide aid and non-violent support to the victims of Israel's oppressive military policies. These people are brave beyond belief and well worthy of your support. Take a look. (Note: Use Netscape on this site, as Explorer tends to crap out on it.)
Okay, so the chief witness for his complicity in the Sabra Shatila massacre was mysteriously car-bombed shortly before he was scheduled to testify to the war crimes tribunal, and now the accused is in a coma. Probably wouldn't hurt to try him in absentia, just to get the facts back into the public discourse. Check this site out and see if you agree.
This is a tremendous resource for anyone seeking to understand the level of distortion characterizing American media reports of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. Propaganda debunked, facts on the conflict reported...it's all here in this very accessible, media-savvy site. The editors have also launched an excellent site in partnership with Voices in the Wilderness called Electronic Iraq which covers the Iraq crisis with equal skill, subtlety, and humanity...and Electronic Lebanon, a similar venture. Bookmark it!
This very useful site offers excellent commentary on issues relating to race, politics, economics, foreign policy. It's a great place to go for insightful analysis from an African American perspective -- one virtually never heard in the mainstream media.
An unauthorized but useful collection of writings from this great Palestinian scholar and Columbia University professor, now sadly departed from this joyous world of ours. Read the thoughts of someone whose commitment to an egalitarian society in Israel/Palestine is remarkable and enormously refreshing. If more people would listen to this guy....
Hey, we still need to laugh, right? Why not laugh at this stupid "war"? Check out www.whitehouse.org and www.smirkingchimp.com (not so funny, but true enough) for an entertaining and oddly informative overview of the way things are.
Excellent British daily and home of groundbreaking journalism by Robert Fisk, Justin Huggler, Patrick Cockburn, and others. Their funky web site is one of the places we go to every day to get news...try it, mate.
Want to know what deadly industrial toxins have been profitably spewed into your hometown? Just key in your zip code at this useful site, and you'll get the sometimes surprising answer.
The home of Amy Goodman's excellent radio news program, now back on the Pacifica network (which had fallen into the hands of cartoon pirates for a time). Absolutely vital listening for anyone tired of the usual claptrap...real alternative POV delivered by one of the world's great journalists. Listen up!
Homepage for filmaker and Flint native Michael Moore, who has something interesting to say about a good many things...including the mess we're in right now!
A useful web portal for activities and information in support of efforts to oppose the establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Americas -- another investors rights agreement masquerading as "Free Trade." Go there. Fight back.
An extremely active, outside-the-beltway environmental organization that fights the good fight without a lot of sanctimonious claptrap and political compromising.
The great bi-weekly political newsletter, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair. Essential, informative, entertaining, and wholly unanswerable to corporate paymasters and other unsavory types (like us). Their web site is a rich resource of articles wholly in addition to those published in the newsletter, with new postings every day by some of the best writers going. Indispensible.
Monthly magazine chronicles activism, human & economic rights issues, and quite a bit more. Great way to keep up (and keep yourself up at night, as well).
A compilation of articles, audio clips, and more from the great linguist/activist/philosopher, available at www.chomsky.info. Check it.
Take a look at some of this stuff. Be afraid. Get mad. Demand better. Stick a carrot up your nose and call your Congressperson.
Want to see your US tax dollars at work?
Visit CSN, and learn about life on the frontlines of our holy war against Communism
... I mean, drugs. Or is it independent development? Surf over and see.
And who trains the killers in Central America? Check out what's being done to close down this longstanding terror training ground at Fort Benning, Georgia. Then call your Congressperson. Again. And again.
The lively group behind much of the direct action in Seattle during the WTO Conference, as chronicled by Counterpunch's Jeff St. Clair (see above).
Online version of an inmate-produced newspaper that provides a voice to those on the inside of the US prison-industrial complex, as well as a sobering glimpse of its injustices for the rest of us.
United Students Against Sweatshops
Students organizing against exploitative labor conditions employed by big name/big logo companies (Nike, etc.) all over the world. Right on.
Adbusters Media Foundation, based in Vancouver, BC, takes the tools of the ad industry and turns it back upon them and their patrons. A pappy-slapping good browse.
The home page of singer/songwriter and
Big Green friend Mark Sherwood (alias "Wood") who's clearly halfway to
the moon, spacecraft or no. Go there for his latest MP3 downloads.
Leif Zurmuhlen, Photographer
Longtime friend of Big Green (a.k.a. Drumbo) and world-class photographer. Go
take a look at what he can do at www.leifz.com.