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Agrariana - From Pixie Poppins, urging us along to a future of sustainable food. Not An Alternative Collective - The Change You Want To See" is a model for the future of activism. These Williamsburg Brooklyn activists are both in the neighborhood, and in cyberspace, in City Hall and at the party. They have worked with puppeteers, with musicians and dancers and fi Stop Global Warming Virtual March - Over 500,000 participants and counting Video: OTL Takes on Sponsored Theater - It's a PartyPoker apocalypse when OTL takes a shot at a crass coporate sponsor of a Montreal theater festival. Center For Public Integrity: Media Ownership Tracker - Enter your location or call sign of a broadcaster and find out who owns the media around you Jack's Stir Brew Coffee, NYC - Organic, Fair Trade, Shade Grown Coffee in New York City UNITE HERE! - The union represents more than 450,000 active members and more than 400,000 retirees throughout North America. The mebership represents diverse backgrounds, and the majority are women. Wooster Collective - an amazing and constantly updated series of street art visions, the best museum in the world, just right there Stop Big Media - Take Action To Stop Big Media: Send Your Comments to the FCC One Dress For a Year - One woman stops her fashion shopping by living, working and performing in one brown dress for 365 days Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn - Bruce Ratner's destructive plans to litter Brooklyn with skyscrapers Brooklyn are opposed by local heroes like Daniel Goldstein and Lucy Koteen. Save The Bellevue Sobriety Garden! - The Bellevue Sobriety Garden is slated to be turned into a parking lot. Bulldozers are scheduled for July. Time is short. This is a call to action to prevent the destruction of a priceless resource. iSweatshop - Inside Apple's iPod factories - On iPod factories in China. Cory Doctorow remarks this is also applicable to Powerbooks, Linksys Routers, Nokia phones, Thinkpads and other consumer tech. $50 a month for 15 hours days, no visitors to the compound and enforced dormitory life. Black Gold Movie : UK Film About Coffee Fair Trade - Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 75,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find bu :: TAMRAVE :: Creator of "From Rats To Roses - Ms. Raven has created a film, now distributed by the Sierra Club, which brings back the defense of the Esperanza Garden on 9th St and Ave C in the village - an event that was a great marker in the opposition to the gentrification of New York. Save South Central Farmers - It's a familiar scene: a sweetheart deal between a mayor and Devil-oper will displace a garden that enriches life in a community. In this case the garden is 14 acres and divided into 360 plots that feed families in a healthy, sustainable and dignified man Support Fair Share for Health Care - Working Families Party - This bill sets a minimum amount that large businesses must spend on employee health benefits. This page describes the provisions of the bill and its impact on health care and the economy. Church of Stop Shopping on Village Voice - TV - Rev and Choir perform "George Bush Does Not Return To Ground Zero", August 2004 Starbucks shareholder describes the difficulty of making a corporation live up to its word - This article sums up the tragedy of Starbucks about as clearly as, well it's just painful. We witness first hand the decision by Howard Schultz to shut down any possibility of sharing the wealth with the folks who bring him his coffee. Sacred Cows Online - Coming out of a conservative evangelical background as a minister, I've come to see the New Thought movement as one of the brightest spiritual lights in this world. NOTHING - What You've been looking for! - NOTHING is a revolutionary product, 100% nontoxic, sweatshop labor-free, and guaranteed not to put you in debt! Not available in malls (in fact, one mall has actually banned its promotion!) Jack Chernos and the Department of Justice -- political punk/folk banjo - Jack Chernos and the Department of Justice -- political punk/folk banjo Souldish | A nexus for integrated living - Tuning your spirit, mind and body with interviews, essays and reviews on holistic health, sustainability and participatory culture YouTube - Sister Rosetta Tharpe Singing Down By the Riverside - This is amazing. Chris Spill passed it to us. My god, her voice. And the way she leads the throng of men in immaculate suits behind her. Then she cuts loose a Chuck Berry-style guitar solo before a smashing finish. Grandmothers for Peace International - The famous radical elders. From their website: "In most cultures around the world, grandmothers are revered as the ??keepers of the peace.? We are inspired and motivated by that fact, but realize that in today's dangerous world we can no longer kee Street Art of Marztek - Marztek is an more of an IDEA than a group. Marztek is Unity, Freedom and Creativity. We use the mediums of Comics and Street art to promote creativity, Unity and freedom. We want people to wake up from the nightmare they've been forced to live in. I want a Freeware Utility to ... 300+ common problems solved : eConsultant - Freeware or Open Source applications for almost anything you need to do with a computer. Stop Shopping for software, children! Redirect funds away from Gates and into the gift economy! Getcha Grub On - The Grub People Have a Book! - I've been meaning to attend a GRUB in Brooklyn for sometime. The potlucks are legendary for good food and company. Now the GRUB people are going global with a new book to spread the good word (and good eating). This is their blog, so you can stay on top o Cornucopia Institute Rates Organic Milk Providers - Via the FEED newsletter, this chart rates organic milk providers based on whether they give cows access to pasture, rear their own replacement cows, and control of their milk. How does your brand rate? Trader Joe's is disappointing. Sonybrook Farms, what San Francisco Compact: They've Stopped Their Shopping! - These San Franciscans have pledged to refrain from buying new products except for safety supplies and underwear, reduce their waste, and buy food from local sources! Change-a-lujah! S.P.A.Z. :: Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone - Dark overlords of Amerikka's unemployed and shifty youth army, building a fleet of indestructable and well lubricated motorcoaches to ferry the faithfull to a place where there is definitely nothing for sale...... Wal-Mart You Don't Know - he giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line? frontline: is wal-mart good for america? | PBS - In Circleville, Ohio, population 13,000, the local RCA television-manufacturing plant was once a source of good jobs with good pay and benefits. But in late 2003, RCA's owner, Thomson Consumer Electronics, lost a sizeable portion of its production orders Walmart Class Action Suit - If you worked for Wal-Mart at any time since December 26, 1998, you may have legal claims in a class action sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart. Learn more! Wal-Mart Targets Organics - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is throwing its weight behind organic products, a move that experts say could have the same lasting effect on environmental practices that Wal-Mart has had on prices by forcing suppliers and competitors to keep up. Sierra Club executi The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart - In 2002, Jim Wier's company, Simplicity, was buying Snapper, a complementary company with a 50-year heritage of making high-quality residential and commercial lawn equipment. Wier had studied his new acquisition enough to conclude that continuing to sell Walmart Workers Canada - A second BC Wal-Mart location goes union with UFCW Canada Wal-Mart Turns in Student's Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him | The Progressive - Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students. Wal-Mart Loves Unions (In China) - Up to now America's largest employer has opposed every effort of its employees to form a union. Wal-Mart doesn't recognize unions; it doesn't even recognize "employees." The proper Wal-Mart name for its workers is "associates," a term that connotes higher Dating At Wal-Mart: Everyday Low Standards - NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Just when you thought you'd heard it all from the king of discount shopping, Wal-Mart is now pitching itself as the new dating hot spot -- with everyday low prices to boot. In fact, the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer's been playin The Trouble with Wal-Mart: Liza Featherstone interview - If there is one chain that stands above all others in deserving your wrath it is Wal-Mart. The most successful retailer in the world is, not coincidentally, a pioneer of some of the shadiest business practices imaginable. I'm not just talking about reckl Business Week - The Two Faces of Wal-Mart - Loved for its low prices, the retail behemoth could become the object of scorn, thanks to a growing list labor-relations woes. Sam's Club Anti-Union Campaign - Through the many NLRB trials that have been or will be held, the world will get a close, hard look at how Wal-Mart conducts its ruthless anti-union campaign. By looking at what happened at Sam's Club 6382 in Las Vegas, we can see a summary of most of Wal Study - Hidden Cost Of Wal-Mart Jobs - We estimate that Wal-Mart workers in California earn on average 31 percent less than workers employed in large retail as a whole, receiving an average wage of $9.70 per hour compared to the $14.01 average hourly earnings for employees in large retail (fir Big Box Mart - A JibJab.com Movie - It's hilarious and sad at the same time. WakeUpWalMart.com - WakeUpWalMart.com is about giving Americans the tools to empower themselves to change the world's largest employer. We are Wal-Mart's customers and we have the power to make Wal-Mart live up to its responsibility to its employees, our families, our co Pixie Poppins organic entrepreneurs - At the Church of Stop Shopping we just want you to go back to indy shops, products that are not violent - and Pixie Poppins teaches us how. Fight To Survive - These are the foot soldiers of the resistance to this American culture from the doorway into the Wal-Mart that most violent. We thank them and hope that we can save lives ourselves by their example. Let's all of us return from the more everyday frontlin Save St. Brigids in the East Village, NYC - We must save this important landmark public gathering place, and holy place, and church and school, from demolition by developers who simply don't imagine the magic and history of this old building. Independent America Film - INDEPENDENT AMERICA uncovers a growing discontent and militancy in Americans against big corporate America. Their winding route through the heartland makes stops at several cities and towns where open battles against big box retail have split communities. Wal-Mart Free NYC - Working toward a Wal-Martless NYC United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) - Organizing campuses across the world to support workers' rights. Recent campaigns include the designated supplier program, which asks Universities to only buy apparel from factories with good labor reputations. Duke and Indiana have already signed on. THIS IS HELL - WNUR 89.3 Chicago - Politics, news and fun from many perspectives on non-commercial radio station WNUR. Streamed and archived online, with a podcast. Whole Foods Workers Unite! | Whole Foods Workers Union - Workers at the Whole Foods in Madison Wisconsin where for two years they had the only union in the Yuppie Emporiums, which is now a $4.6 billion company. This is meaningful forStop Shopping faithful because of similar to our great liar devil, Starbucks, Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Resources for Educators - A web page designed for K-12 educators who want to: Ginny Dougary :: Award-winning journalist and writer - Ginny Dougary writes for the London Times, and her site features a thorough, searchable archive of her work. In October of 2005 she interviewed Reverend Billy Nothing - There is only Nothing appearing. All that manifests is always and only the appearance of Nothing??the apparent universe, the world, the life story, the body-mind, feelings, the sense of separation, and the search for enlightenment. It is all the one appe Have a Nice Death - satirical/anti-consumerism short film - A satire on the drive for materialism and the false comfort it offers when facing the taboo topic of death. Guillermo Gomez Pena - Guillermo Gomez-Pena - He's so taboo-popping he makes Coyote uncomfortable. Mixing tribes and genders into a stew that burns and leaves us full of radical ruminations. Truly an international art-changer, life-re-arranger, scary teacher. Open your eyes a Mac Rescue NYC - We love William. With him you can leave the wIntel reservation without getting gouged by Mac support. Apparel Agents - We are a vertical manufacturer which means we mill our own fabric, dye it, design it as well as cut and sew it. This is the best way to achieve the quality control necessary to bring a perfect garment to market. All of this takes place right here in the U Starbucks Logo Fault - Uk Artist Activist the vacuum cleaner making it clear and simple - fuck off strabucks... Foreplay to Afterglow for the Soul - Romantic, passionate and personal poetry. Experiences of love, sadness, joy and ecstasy on the road to awareness and enlightenment. IF Green Sustainable Handmade Furniture That's Hip - IF Green is furniture with a philosophy. Designer Stephen Becker, Builder Tim Tracy and Progressive Strategist Lisa Grove have created a head-turning collection that uses only sustainable or recycled materials. www.pica.ws - ICA - Peace through Interamerican Community Action - is a Bangor, Maine-based grassroots organization. Our mission is to build a global community from the bottom-up for the benefit of all people. Hell's Kitchen Online - Rights for residential tenants TenantNet - Rights for residential tenants Radio Play: Fundamentalists...IN SPACE!!! - Robert A. Heinlein's UNIVERSE, an episode of X Minus 1 from 1955 about a space ark paralyzed by fundamentalist propaganda. A podcast by SpaceshipRadio.com We're Not In Kansas Anymore, a political satire by Irving Wesley Hall - Iconoclastic humor is alive and kicking as Irving Wesley Hall's political satire takes you over the rainbow to Eternal Memory Beach, Florida. As the 2000 election approaches, a group of elderly Jewish Wizard of Oz fans mobilizes voters for the Gore-Liebe Labor and Photography - Inside "Labor Arts" is an exhibit about the IWW, the union of Joe Hill and of the struggle to organize service workers right now in such transnational unionbusting outfits as Starbucks. It is the history, but it is very much in the present - of the strugg How the Mermaid Lost Her Nipples (and other parts) - This is a history, with pictures, of the Starbucks Mermaid logo. Right Wing Super Church Serves Starbucks - In our work there is always the struggle to persuade liberals or progressives or hipsters that the touch-feely Starbucks is actually not a blue state company with some human flaws but rather a brutal Hard Right corporation that cooperates in dummy greenwa Uprising Book Store/ Info Shop - Uprising is a non-profit, volunteer-run, independent, radical, Anarchist book store/ info shop located in Kensington Market in Toronto, Canaduh. Starving but genius french musician - Visit my site, for no charge you can spend a good time having orgasmic ear experiences, this guy plays lurvely music, believe it visit his demo page containing funk, hip hop, his own soul and some house music of course, has collaborated with Jocelyn brown Stay Free! - Stay Free! is a Brooklyn-based magazine that explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American culture. We also run a blog, curate the Illegal Art Exhibit, and offer a media literacy curriculum (for high school and college teachers). The Delocator - Finds alternatives to Starbucks. Born of the need to find a good coffee in Astor Place - can we say "Mud Cafe? The Heifer Project - Farmer families across the world are by the Heifer Foundation Two All-Beef Patties Special Sauce Lettuce Cheese Pickles Onion on a Sesame Seed LIE! - A multi-media article that chronicles the ills of McDonald's commericals. Blessed_Watchdogs Goofy Fucks Snow White Underground - This article about the culture and mores of Disneyland is as sad as it is funny as it is corporate. The Magic Kingdom's a seamy, eccentric culture where sex, drugs and other anti-Disney escapades rage just beneath the surface of the fake world -- in 1.5 m-space - Flash app makes surreal cityscape stencils. With tanks and Giant Robots. Archinect - Making Architecture More Connected (since 1997) - Architecture geeks plumbing weirdness in design Version - Chicago-based culture and cityspace lab, navigating emerging cultures Infringement Festival and Optative Theatrical Laboratories - The tradition of resistance -- like trying to contain a wurlitzer in a fish bowl. But this festival renews itself with the vast Canadian slant. Montrealers invite us to gather and learn from each other, and then kick ass. WILLIAMSBURG WARRIORS UNITE!!! - Does the inevitable land grab continue in New York. Do we have to go from hipsville to hipsville, chased by developers as the last place we lived gets turned into another Soho? They want 40 story condos now in Wmsburg and opposition by many community gro Corporate Critic - Welcome - The editors and writers of Ethical Consumer have this convenient reference which we can use to reward to punish the corporations who hope to get our bucks and pounds. Way Out In Idaho - Rosalie Sorrel's Official Site - Welcome Page - the voice of a canyon full of flowers planted by her grandmother by a mountain outside of Boise Idaho -- her famous voice makes you have all sorts of memories, heartfelt contradictions, love and crazy nights on the road. My favorite singer. HOMEPAGE of IFCO, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, Pastors for Peace - This famous, brave group carries medical and other humane aid to Cuba, to Chiapis and raises funds for people in need, in Africa especially. The caravans are public journeys to help those in need. Reverend Lucius Walker is based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Welcome to Complacent - Somewhere between apathy and inspiration is the Complacent Organization. Gurilla media, videos, stunts and parties... animana > home/about - the story of us, of human beings and the remarkable left turn we took about 12,000 years ago that has it in its strange momentum now, at the point that its almost too late. A way of looking at what we're doing is called socioecology. Redefining Progress - shows the ecological footprint of each quiztaker in global equity terms; it scores by the number of planets it would require to sustain us all at the quiztaker's lifestyle level. YouAreBeautiful - Spreads the message "You Are Beautiful" to all passers by. An art group with great intentions. Diary of a trash worship ritual - a friend of our Stop Shopping Church, one might say that we are in the same fellowship. The are among the most creative of the anti-consumerists -- they are positive and their rituals change us. Galactic Messenger - 'WORLD WIDE BUYERS STRIKE/ WORK STOPPAGE-Karma Yoga Exercise'...let's shut down the "dragon"(FRS-IMF) and the "beast"(cia-pentagon)! We plan a time when people all around the world refuse to go to work,pay their bills and taxes and agree to only operate a New American Dream Home - helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life and promote social justice Steal This Book - This is the Bible. Those resisting consumerism who know in their bones that such resistance includes knowing when to laugh... Abbie, our brother and leader. No Sweat -- Union-Made Sweatshop-Free Casual Apparel - defining a market for goods that support independent trade unions - the only historically proven solution to sweatshops. We market direct to consumers, relying primarily on internet sales for distribution. The savings in advertising offset our higher labo Help Ashraf - a Muslim from Yemen. Arrested near his home in Kent-Ohio based on suspicion of "Al Queda links," he has been imprisoned since 2002 without charge. His wife Michele Swensen is a part of the "Under Attack" CD put out by Not In Our Name. Global Exchange - Building People-to-People Ties - 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 partnerships. Don't Buy In - part of a web of wisdom that will inspire people to slow up, think it over, take it easy, and, whenever possible, make the decision for less, for simplicity, for small, for sustainable, for an ecologically balanced planet. Oppositional Television, Sitcoms and Social Change, a course at San Francisco State University - Using Marxist, Gramscian, Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies theory to study the relationship between corporate- owned mass media and capitalist idealogy. (from Rev: This professor is a member of SUV, or Sheep United 4 Victory, who stood up fully wooly Starbucks Workers Organize - The Wobblies, summing up the struggle going back generations to the dockworkers but going forward with to the verge of the first Starbucks union shop, then stopped by Bushies and Howard Schultz, but the heroes among those of us trying to bring this slick I Am SuperTan - A right on gal dealing with the fall of the Berkeley Empire. Politics,art,gender,and most of all humor. Global Village School for Peace and Diversity Studies ?? an International K-12 Homeschool Diploma Program - non-profit, distance-learning K-12 school. They offer a full diploma program, college preparatory classes and college counseling. To accomplish their vision a dedicated team of staff and volunteers created a quality educational program that integrates pea Callout for euromayday parade 2004 - BARCELONA - This is for New Yorkers to study as we approach the Republican National Convention. Joy plus discipline plus humour plus history. Detour's UrbanSource - A great publisher of works devoted to urbn studies, social justice and ecological balance Counter-Ads - how to eliminate a number of ads in there own lives (i.e. ways to eliminate SPAM, JunkMail, Banner ads while surfing, and TV commericals) I also created a few story board counter-ads for consumer products like (alcohol, tobacco and SUVs) Billboard Liberation Front Creative Group - One of the originators of culture jamming and reclaiming public space Travesty Theater - dedicated to exploring and experimenting with art in a variety of contexts. Our mandate is to create a spectacle that produces in its audience a state of revolution, fear, lust, pain, beauty, as well as exorcise our most personal and dangerous demons. Reduce, Reuse, Revolt! - SCRAP--The School and Community Reuse Action Project--is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that collects reuseable items from local businesses and distributes them to educators, artists, families and kids. NATO NORTHERN ARTS TACTICAL OFFENSIVE NATO - Purveyors of fine radical political street art from Manchester, UK. The Yes Men - This is the art that art would be if art still mattered. The Yes Men are the Crazy Horses of now, flying through all the bullets and standing on the stage of mainstream events, invading the fake theater of the predator class. Hilarious and hair-raising. I New York Surveillance Camera Players - A group of artists/activists dedicated to disrupting the growing grasp of Big Brother. BRIAN ULRICH : NOT IF BUT WHEN : PHOTOGRAPHS - Amazing photos of the consumers being consumers. Down in the heart of evil with a comic wink. Mezmerizing. Popaganda, The Art and Subversion of Ron English - Tossing pop culture icons into the cyclotron, tube-feeding the results into your brain. Mayor Mockus turns city into a social experiment - Using street theater in special ways. ...a new hero for us all. Playloud Productions - The talented people who produced Reverend Billy's first documentary. Northland Poster Collective - dedicated to promoting a socially just world through the use of art. We create, find, distribute and encourage art that will make a positive contribution. new world disorder - open, collaborative and loose multi media art initiative. Riot-Folk! - a collective of radical musicians who make folk a threat again through music that teaches, provokes, and inspires. REPOhistory - For the past ten years REPOhistory's goal has been "To retrieve and relocate absent historical narratives at specific locations in the New York City area through counter-monuments, actions, and events". Art of Tamara Wyndham - Paintings, sculptures, environments and more VoxPop: Books, Coffee, Democracy - Vox Pop is a coffee-house, a bookstore and a publishing company. We are a community-empowering, retail-revolution, live-event-loving, info-shop dedicated to "vox pop," Latin shorthand for "voice of the people. The Foundry Theater - This is an creator of scary theater and compassionate spectacle. I just think that this community, led by Melanie Joseph, is the kind of thing that will rise against the murderous theocracy if anything manages to. Intelligent, arresting, loving -- the Fou Are You Generic? - This is an creator of scary theater and compassionate spectacle. I just think that this community, led by Melanie Joseph, is the kind of thing that will rise against the murderous theocracy if anything manages to. Intelligent, arresting, loving -- the Fou Still Present Past - STILL PRESENT PASTS is a unique art and multi-media exhibit that explores the legacies of the Korean War and encourages reflection about the devastation of war for all Americans. The exhibit places video, installation and performance art created by Korean Outfitterz Store- SweatShop Free - SweatshopFree Products deviantART: WorshipGary - This is an exciting gallery of very personal, sexy, angry, beautiful oddball community-feeling art -- you feel like the most interesting people you sit near in the subway have revealed their design-selves. FuckCorporateGroceries.net - A Chicago citizen chronicles only shopping from local providers Responsible Shopper: What Does Your Shopping Support? - Research tool to see where your money is going Brooklyn Media Lab - next generation production studio - Art collective based in Brooklyn. Fashion and multimedia embracing all lifestyles. Has a blog. The Art of Mideo M. Cruz - anti establishment multi media art attack Home - Modern Times Bookstore - Welcome to Modern Times, a progressive bookstore for San Francisco's Mission District since 1971. We offer wide-ranging literature on globalization, politics and media, as well as an array of graphic novels, fiction, and criticism. We maintain informed se Mindbomb.tv - Hacks and Spoofs - Mindbomb.tv is a multimedia collaborative that repurposes mainstream commercials and reveals what messages corporations are really sending over the idiot box. Hummer, Shell, Ford and Lockheed are among the victims. . : reverend billy c wirtz online : . - Rockabilly irreverence. Hey, he gives you a link on his website! lost and frowned - Scary and true. It's not often that we are able to catch up to the absurdity and violence of these times. Art is eclipsed now so thoroughly -- but these folks are riding fast with a laugh on the sad truth of war. MediaRights - We ourselves have submitted "Something Unknown Got Into My Shopping" -- a short film that will be a part of our CD, created by the film-maker Rob VanAlkamedes, with camera work by the legendary Richard Sandler. A typical series of ecstasies and jailings o On Lisa Rein's Radar: Starbucks Freedom Tour Archives - Here's a classy lady who discoveres the outrageous identity-making sensation can attend one when your likeness is photographed in a transnationalo chain store, I. E. Starbucks. IDEA conceptie anticonceptie - IDEA network for (dutch) artists, concept & design furniture. Glimpse Culture - Julie Talen's MultiChannel Cinema 2nd Annual Festival of East Village Arts - Founded in 2002, the Federation of East Village Artists honors the historic role of the East Village as the cradle of the city's, if not the world's, counterculture. We stand on the shoulders of the gods and the ghosts that have come before us, commit Elliott Bay Book Co. - Located in the heart of the historic Pioneer Square District, Seattle's original business neighborhood, The Elliott Bay Book Company is home to over 150,000 titles, set on cedar shelves in a series of inviting, exposed-brick walled rooms. We offer a selec Critical Art Ensemble - News, art, tracts and questions from the Critical Art Ensemble Ed Barnas - SantaCon - Ed Barnas is a large man gliding quietly through the anarcho-Santas collapsed in Grand Central Station & the anit-shoppers recoiling from luxuries on 5th Ave on Buy Nothing Day. He always gets his image. Serebella: Arts, Performing Arts, Theatre, Experimental, Companies - This is an information hub, an intersection of all manner of theatrical companies, from Mabou Mines to daring new ventures like The Stolen Chair Theater. What's Wrong With the World?! - A place to point out and debate the many wrongs in our world! The New Press: Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood - This scary, almost-comic and very telling book outlines the marketing strategies against young people, and against us all. Guerrilla News Network - News reports from behind the smoke and mirrors Talk Engine - This scathing and bitterly funny site, zine-like and then thoroughly international in its scope, awarded Abu Ghraib images to George Bush on the occasion of his last birthday in the White House, this last July 6th. Spinsanity - Countering rhetoric with reason - Spinsanity, the nation's leading watchdog of manipulative political rhetoric, was founded in January 2001 by Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan and publicly launched in April 2001. RELIGIOUS TASK FORCE on Central America and Mexico - These folks have battled Starbucks, through reports of conditions on the coffee farms in Guatemala, and through threats to organize boycotts. Oppositional Television: Sitcoms and Social Change - Since the 1960s, some TV shows have attempted to pose significant challenges to cultural conventions and attitudes. At the same time, the same shows often function to preserve and promote the status quo. Can oppositional television exist today, as the sho Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data - This is an excellent source of news, reports from the field on matters of justice, war, and good works. Mostly, it is not-commercial and One World is reliable news. There is a good-heartedness with the toughness. Oilcrash.com - essays interviews and opinion pieces on peak oil Google Watch - A look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies are undermining the Web NY Jobs with Justice - These folks are forerunners in the struggle to insure safe and living-wage jobs here in NY, where, like the rest of the country, privitization and billionaire politicians will attack a family given half a chance. Fair Trade Certification - Paul Rice and friends are leading the consumer ethics movement. What we encourage in our preaching and singing is methodically pursued worldwide by the Fair Trade tradition. Dissident Voice - Dissident Voice is a newsletter dedicated to challenging the lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves. "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable." -- Raymond Williams Editor: Sunil K. Sharma COVERCO Survey of Guatemalan Coffee Workers - This is a multi-disciplinary group in Central American, monitoring conditions in factories and in the fields where products are exported. Very important work -- they know exactly what is going on as Starbucks enjoys the fruits of the worldwide coffee cris CorpWatch - The Premiere online watchdog guarding against transnational corporate raiders. City Limits Weekly - For New Yorkers who want to save the city, keep it something like a semblance of what makes it great: the neighborhoods, the culture of many people of many kinds. City Limits is always crucial in fighting for such as Charas, or gardens, or safe non- corpo Alternatives Canada - This is a great network of families and professionals and all sorts of activists engaged in the nitty gritty of changing the world. There is activism here, good reporting -- deleriously out of category and far-reaching. Women's International League For Peace and Freedom - Peace is more than the absence of war or the maintenance of order through force. WILPF believes that to achieve freedom and justice in our own country and peaceful relations with other countries we must build a non-exploitative society. We must transform WAND - Women's Action for New Directions - WAND's mission is to empower women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism, and redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs. DRAFT DISCUSSION - Memorial Day should not be forgotten event for progressive people. Those caught in the insane Iraq conflict are often there from class and race entrapment. They need our gratitude as we struggle to bring them home. VoterDrive.com - A nonpartisan voter registration project. A bus crosses the country starting July 22 till after Labor Day arriving in San Francisco, hitting a hun- dred locations en route. The Yes Men - These master international tricksters have hoodwinked the commercial media and specificly the WTO and Bush propaganda machines. The Freakiest Radio Station in the USA...FRSC!!! - Free Radio Santa Cruz is a non-commercial, unlicensed, community supported radio station operating in the greater Santa Cruz area and streaming online at our website. We play a variety of programming both locally produced in our studios and syndicated sho Starbucked.com - Consumer Activism is for Everyone - Consumer Activism if for Everyone! A fellow starbucks jammer who's had his share of run-ins with the Enron of the Bean. Space Hijackers - These are pioneer tricksters, brilliant really, in the battles for "contested space." Any transnational anywhere should be deeply afraid of these people. Sheep United 4 Victory - Sheep United 4 Victory is a San Francisco-based street-theater group that uses mock-counter-demonstrating to point out the irony of the idea that all we need to do is Baaahhh More Stuff! We flock every Buy Nothing Day, and anywhere and everywhere people n Solari :: Model for Place-Based Investment - I believe we can transform our economy, and our world. I believe we can start doing this wherever we live, beginning in our own towns, neighborhoods, and villages. We can do this by voting with our time and our money in the marketplace as well as the voti East Village Community Coalition - EVCC * * - The East Villager who are fighting the demolition of the school at 9th and B that housed so many community activities, including the Charas - El Bohio Community Center, are at the D-day moment with corrupt developer Gregg Singer. The Rev Billy group owe m RNC NOT WELCOME IN NYC! - Information center reguarding activism against the Republican National Convention. Reclaim Democracy! Revoke Corporate Corruption of American Democracy - ReclaimDemocracy.org tackles illegitimate corporate power at the roots and works for long-term structural change to restore citizen authority over corporations. Rachel Corrie in Paris - Photo of Demonstrators Calling on Rachel Corrie's Example Project L - Lü means Green in Chinese... Lü magazine is a green fashion magazine project with one foot in the East and one foot in the West, so the East can put its best green foot forward, and the West can learn some manners! POCLAD - Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy - Instigating democratic conversations and actions that contest the authority of corporations to govern. Ocean Beach Grassroots Organization - This is a famous and early-in-the international struggle against the sweatshop bean. OB's experience, as a small town with eleven indy coffee establishments, is instructive for those of us who want to save our neighborhood or town from the monoculture. Th Not in Our Name Project - The key activist org has put out a CD of great importance with the cooperation of the Agape Foundation in Oakland. "Under Attack" is interviews from lawyers, friends, and partners of Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities detained by american security a Jenny's Jesus Club - A site dedicated to expanding faith options for Christians with alternative lifestyles, including homosexual and party lifestyles. Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i ))) - worldwide network of decentralised media centres. Don't hate the media BE the media Everyone is a witness everyone is a journalist everyone has a story We are all indymedia Idealist.org - Where the Nonprofit World Meets - Action Without Borders connects people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. Counter Convention - The Republicans are invading New York City and hundreds of thousands are going to fight back. CounterConvention.org provides resources and tools for the wide variety of organizations planning protests, events and actions. Consumer Support Group - This website is a part of an activist project: The Consumer Support Group is a Help Center, which offers a way to develop a satisfying life without consuming. You will find the details in the website. We are leaving the consumer support packs to Wallmarts CodePink - A grassroots activist group using humor and the use of the color PINK to express anti-war sentiment. We are ordinary women forced to behave outrageously by outrageous times. Animal Rights Voice, Minoesj - An international animal rights organisation with an active discussion forum and information about animal rights, vegetarianism, veganism, animal cruelty, religion and a chat room ACTIVE SOLIDARITY - ActiveSolidarity.Net is the new online home of the Active Solidarity Collective and Anti-Racism for Global Justice (a project of the Challenging White Supremacy Workshops). Boycott Disney -- They Love Homos (pdf) - Here we have in pure riddle form the kind of thing we have to figure out as progressive peace people. Disney should be boycotted for reasons that the Nationa Labor Committee makes clear, and yet these buffoons are asking for the same thing. Tuna Baby - Acerbic slogans on Sweatshop free tees. Based in Brooklyn. kNOw Sweat Shops and Support Global Equality - more sweatshop education Lovelyhowl sweatshopfree shopping guide - Yet Another Sweatshopfree Shopping Guide my windup bird: t*shirt - sweatshopfree tshirts from neat art Tamalpais Sustainable Furniture - Organic furniture for sustainability Union Jean and Apparel - Union/Made in USA clothes. A little isolationist for my tastes, but they are certainly sweatshop free Second World arts and music - fair trade art offerings Urban Ruby - Organic and Hemp Clothing - Natural cosmetics, sweatshop free clothing, organic materials. Outspoken Clothing: Clothing - Sweatshop-Free - Sassy threads from American Apparel stock Wear Your Conscience - Justice Clothing Company - They have *wonderful* socks. You did not know socks could be this good. Trust me. Wide selection of clothing, watch for discounts. Leaders of Apparel Industry - Organic Consumers Association - OCA's guide to organic and fair trade clothing Minawear Shop | Yoga Organic Clothing, Leggings, Blankets and Tops - Hempalujah! Organic cotton and hemp, sweatshopfree. Perfect for the yogaGod/dess in your life. No Sweat! Apparel - Union made outerwear, shoes, tees, dress shirts. They support independent trade unions overseas. They go father than American Apparel, without Dov Charney's smarminess. SweatX Clothes - Union Made Sweatshop Free Clothes - From the people who brought you Ben and Jerry's. Specialize in bulk orders. Working under a UNITE contract home-body.net - look like you care - wide selection of jewelry, clothing, books. Sweatshop-free, union made and some recycled! Co-op America's Green Pages Online - Comprehensive Guide to Goods and Services. Specialize in organics, pays attention to labor, too. welcome to caffe mobile - real coffee on the move - Fair Trade Coffee. I love the Vespacar. If only it burned veggiediesel. Dove Professional Apparel - Medical Nursing Uniforms and Scrubs | Dove Products - Union made uniforms Diamond Cut Jeans - The Best Jeans. Tough, comfortable, flattering, union made. DamFashion - Fashion with Heart - Variety of women's tees, underthings, and accessories from sweatshop-free stock Blackspot Sneaker by Adbusters - Union Made Sneaker Bad Kitty - Womens Clothing - Hip, Cute and Trendy Clothes - Uses American Apparel Stock. 3rd Wave Feminism or Objectification? Vote with your dollar. American Apparel Online - Clothes Made For a Living Wage in LA. Owner seems a bit smarmy, though. |
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