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"Tell me what you need that you have got Feinin' on power will make your blood clot It starts with the C.R.E.A.M. and goes all wrong That's why we can't all just get along We're all linked together like a lego set One equals one together like a croquette"
-Beastie Boys
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AdBusters - We want to change the way information flows, the way institutions wield power, the way TV stations are run, the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music and culture industries set their agendas. Above all, we want to change the way we interact with the mass media and the way in which meaning is produced in our society.
Citizen Works - Citizen Works is a nonprofit organization founded by Ralph Nader to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation in power. We give people the tools and opportunities to build democracy.
CorpWatch.org - CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization--a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
Corporate Crime Reporter - A legal newsletter in it's 17th year of publication delivering a steady stream of information about corporate crime.
CorporateWatch - UK - A radical research and publishing group, based in Oxford, UK supporting grassroots and direct activism against large corporations.
Counterpunch - CounterPunch is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints. We aren't side-line journalists here at CounterPunch. Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they've found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature.
Democratic Underground - Democratic Underground provides political satire and commentary for Democrats. Home of the Top Ten Conservative Idiots. Plus a great Discussion Forum.
Green Party US - The political party voted most likely to care if corporations are screwing up your world. News on Green Party candidates, election results, the party platform and latest developments.
Guerilla News - Guerrilla News Network is an underground news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through guerrilla programming on the web and on television.
IWW - the official website of the Industrial Workers of the World. Here you'll find just about everything you'll need to join the IWW and begin organizing your workplace and building the One Big Union in your community.
IndiMedia - The Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed throughout the United States to public access stations.
International Rivers - IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
McSPOTLIGHT - McDonald's spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the world. This is a small space for alternatives to be heard.
Michael Moore - The website of the famous filmmaker, author and documentarian Michael Moore.
Organic Consumers - Organic Consumers Association is a consumer advocate for labeling of genetically engineered food. We promote organic food and sustainable agriculture. Watchdog group to monitor biotech, irradiated food, mad cow disease, gmo and rBGH. We want pesticide reduction, permaculture, biodynamic and sustainable farming.
PRWatch.org - PRWatch offers investigative reporting on the Public Relations Industry. We help the public realize the manipulative and misleading PR practices by exposing the activities of secretive, little-known propaganda-for-hire firms that work to control political debates and public opinion.
Population Connection - Population Connection is a national nonprofit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance between the Earth's people and its resources. We seek to protect the environment and ensure a high quality of life for present and future generations. Population Connection's education and advocacy programs aim to influence public policies, attitudes, and behavior on national and global population issues and related concerns.
Reclaim Democracy - ReclaimDemocracy.org is dedicated to restoring democratic authority over corporations, reviving grassroots democracy, and revoking the power of money and corporations to control government and civic society.
The Corporate Library - The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness.
Tradewatch.org - GTW was created in 1995 to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena.
Tyranny Inc. - Raising awareness that people need to take back their democracy from the corporations.
ZNet! - an independent monthly of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the U.S. Z Magazine is available in print and online.
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AlterNet - AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism
Ariana Online - Politics, Wit & Unconventional Wisdom
Bretton Woods Project - A networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton Woods Update, it monitors projects, policy reforms and the overall management of the Bretton Woods institutions with special emphasis on environmental and social concerns.
Common Dreams - Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997, we are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism.
Company Ethics - Coporations are greedy, profit-driven and not sensitive to our environment. Cast the green vote with your consumer dollars on eco-friendly, recycled, organic, natural and humane products and services.
Coop.org - Information about co-operatives (cooperatives), business co-operative worldwide and from all sectors of the economy, and the International Co-operative Alliance.
Coopamerica.org - Co-op America: green, environmentally, socially responsible, consumer products, investments, services, and business. Creating an ecological, sustainable, progressive, democratic and healthy society.
Corporate Predators - A book all about the hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy
Critical Media Studies - provides resource links for conducting critical research in Media Studies and American Studies.
Culture Change - Most mainstream environmental organizations do not quite tell it like it is or offer a realistic vision of what a sustainable society must start with. We look at the big picture and do not pursue inadequate reforms. People are bombarded by minutiae, despair and false hope, which the corporate media add to as they distract the public from making connections between today's crises.
David Rovics - David Rovics sings songs of social significance. His website includes a frequently-updated list of upcoming gigs, an extensive collection of MP3 files, lyrics, links to other activist-oriented musicians, CD and performance reviews, a downloadable poster, and more.
Disinfopedia - A collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and experts for hire that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.
EnviroLink - The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991
Environmental News Network - ENN offers a variety of online services including daily feature stories, environmental news published throughout the day seven days per week, live chats with top environmental authors and panelists, weekly polls and daily streaming webcasts.
Essential.org - Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. We are involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities.
Freespeech.org - Working with activists and artists, Free Speech TV uses television to cultivate an informed and active citizenry in order to advance progressive social change. FSTV airs primarily social, political, cultural, and environmental documentaries acquired from independent producers, and we are beginning to produce and commission original content.
GlobalizeTHIS.org - The demands of the Mobilization for Global Justice envision another world where the World Bank and IMF are open to scrutiny, poor countries are debt-free, the Bank and IMF policies no longer hinder access to basic human needs and rights and an end to socially and environmentally destructive policies.
Greens: Planet Earth - Green Parties all over the world.
Mark Fiore - Brilliant political cartoonist Mark Fiore provides you with an opportunity to laugh at the state of the world. A nice change of pace for when you're tired of crying about it.
MediaReform.net - We are barraged with advertising. Journalism has become dumbed-down entertainment. The range of news analysis and debate is shrinking along with the diversity of media ownership, placing an extraordinary degree of economic and social power in a very few hands.
N.R.D.C. - NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 500,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
Niagara Buzz - Buzz promises its articles, columns, links and wire reports will deviate widely from mainstream habits, attracting those readers bored by market-driven community news from a corporate perspective.
Open Secrets - disclosing how much campaign money the political parties have raised and where it came from.
PopInfo - Facing the Future - A guide to population issues,impacts and solutuions including poverty, consumption, the environment, global issues, curriculum, service learning, activities and more for teachers and students
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy - We are thirteen activists who have spent the last several years researching corporate, labor and legal histories, rethinking our past organizing strategies and talking with people about democracy movements. We work in the tradition of people's struggles to replace illegitimate and tyrannical institutions with democratic ones that disperse, rather than concentrate, wealth and power.
Service Employees International Union - We are winning better wages, health care, and safer and more secure jobs for working families in communities throughout North America. By working together, we can create better lives.
Sprawl Busters - No matter what the logo on the building says--Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target, etc.--if its unwanted development, Sprawl-Busters can help you stop it. In hundreds of communities, we have helped citizens groups stop the superstores.
This Modern World - Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) is the creator of the award-winning weekly cartoon of social and political satire, This Modern World, which appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the country. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Spin, Mother Jones, The Nation, US News & World Report., Esquire , The Economist, The New Yorker, and numerous other publications.
TomPaine.com - TomPaine.com is a public interest journal inspired by the great patriot Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man. Paine was a man of humble origins and modest education, but he became a writer of extraordinary skill and passion. He used his talent to advance the cause of liberty and democracy against distant and unaccountable rulers.
You Are Worth More - A free online resource for retail workers who want a voice or have a question.
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A&F Justice - About the racial descrimination case against Abercrombie & Fitch Borders Union - Attempting to unionize Boarders Books workers Boycott the Bell - Taco Bell Boycott news and updates California 3 Strikes Bill - Statistics reveal that corporate crime and other violations are more costly to the public than crime by individuals. Yet individual crime is punished more severely than corporate crime. Some corporations repeatedly violate the law, pay relatively insignificant amounts that they pass on to the public as a cost of doing business. Clean Up GE - CleanUpGE.org is working to force General Electric to take responsibility and dredge the Hudson River of the PCB's they illegaly dumped. Commercial Alert - protecting children and communities from commercialism Conservatives Suck - An anti-conservative weblog Farmers Insurance Group Sucks - According to State Insurance Commissioner reports Farmers Insurance has the MOST COMPLAINTS in California, Washington, Texas, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Colorado and more! Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy - Author Ted Nace probes the roots of corporate power, finding answers in surprising places. Green Left - Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality. Home Depot Sucks - Home Depot is sourcing and selling old growth lumber. Home Depot sells Redwood lumber probably from the Pacific Northwest. Stop clearcutting our rainforest. Jobs With Justice - JwJ's mission is to improve working people's standard of living, fight for job security, and protect workers' right to organize. Kodak's Toxic Colors - Behind the glossy image of Kodak's film there lies one of the largest emitters of toxins in the United States. MNBA Sucks! - All about MBNA: one of the USA's creepiest multinational infestations Mitsubishi Sucks - Tracks Mitsubishi group activity related to discrimination, environmental, consumer, slave labor issues. Monsanto Lies & Crimes - Promoting concerns where Monsanto actions are detrimental to the environment, and where Monsanto tries to silence such critical exposure. Monsanto Sucks - Monsanto:- Bio-dictators and Gene Manipulators useing biotechnology to genetically engineer our food and not label it - no traceability, how smart! Not On The Box - Because what you need to know you won't get on the box... Pax Christi (globalization) - Official Globalization Statement (position paper) from Pax Christi. Pension Rights - Protecting and promoting retirement security for all Americans. Project on Government Oversight - The Project On Government Oversight is committed to exposing waste, fraud and corruption in the following areas: defense, energy & environment, contract oversight and open government. RedFlagsDaily.com - Red Flags Daily specializes in probing medical, scientific and environmental issues in a manner that one rarely encounters in mainstream news reports. SpaceChase's anti-corporate page - SpaceChase lets you know some of his opinions. Stop Fascism - A project documenting the rise of fascism/corporatism under President Bush. The Bermuda Project - Corporations using offshore tax dodges are deserting America in a time of trouble, says the Bermuda Project. As Americans prepare to pay their taxes, corporate fat cats are abandoning our country to avoid paying their fair share. The Crisis Papers - An Anthology of the Best Political Opinion and Commentary Thom Hartmann - A writer, former editor and reporter, entrepreneur, psychotherapist, and worldwide lecturer who lives in Vermont. Tyson Families Stand Up - UFCW Local 538 members in Jefferson, Wis., are standing up against Tyson Foods’ demands for a 23% wage cut, a 4-year wage freeze, elimination of pensions, cuts in health care, reductions of vacations, and less sick leave. U.N.I.T.E. - Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, AFL-CIO, CLC Union of Concerned Scientists - Report - Great Lakes Communities and Ecosystems at Risk Walmart Watch - Wal-Mart's impact on local business, employees and consumers: local community members share stories and information. Consumers,community activists, and Wal-Mart workers are encouraged to share their stories and suggestions.
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