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Useful Links

 

Politics & Activism

Change This
Thoughtful, rational, constructive arguments about important issues.

NOW
National Organization for Women and Legislatlive Action Center.

Women's E-News
Women's perspectives on public policy.

ForaTV
Unfiltered discourse, discussions, and debates on the world’s political, social, and cultural issues that allows viewers to join the conversation.

National Priorities Project
Analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent.

Freedom from religion foundation
Protecting the constitutional principal of the separation of church and state.

 

Media

PRI's the World
International news from the BBC

National Public Radio
NPR is a producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. NPR.org offers hourly newscasts, special features and ten years of archived audio and information.

Current TV
Current is the world’s first and only peer-to-peer news and information network dedicated to young adults. They start with a social news feed featuring our young adult audience’s top stories and videos from around the web and add the best of Current every day.

Adbusters
Dedicated to examining the relationship between human beings and their physical and mental environment, exploring corporate disinformation, injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons.

Truthout
Education aimed at perpetuating and strengthening our American Democracy

Think Progress
Daily newspaper featuring hard hitting research and analysis

Mother Jones
Smart, fearless journalism

Common Dreams
Breaking news and views for the Progressive community

Free Press
National nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will provide a more competitive and public interest oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector

 

Government

State of Oregon
• Governor Ted Kulongoski
• Senator Ron Wyden
• Senator Gordon Smith
• Representative David Wu (CD 1)
• Representative Greg Walden (CD 2)
• Representative Earl Blumenauer (CD 3)
• Representative Peter DeFazio (CD 4)
• Representative Darlene Hooley (CD 5)

 

Health and Medicine

No Free Lunch
Mission is to encourage health care providers to practice medicine on the basis of scientific evidence rather than on the basis of pharmaceutical promotion. Their goal is to improve patient care.

Center for Medical Consumers
Provides access to accurate science-based information so that consumers can participate more meaningfully in medical decisions that often have profound effects upon their health.

Oregonians for Health Security
Uniting working families, small business owners, senior, health care workers, community leaders and policy makers to fight for quality, affordable and secure health care that we can count on.

Healthy Skepticism
Improving health by reducing harm from misleading drug promotion

 

New Urbanism

Project for Public Spaces
A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public places that build communities

Congress for the New Urbanism
The leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. CNU takes a proactive, multi-disciplinary approach to restoring our communities

Better Together

Bowling Alone
A book by Robert Putum

 

Resources for Nonprofits

Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms THEY want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

 

Environmental

Scorecard
Gives a report card on the air, water and chemical pollution in any county in the USA.

 

Just for Fun

10x10
Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time.

Oceans Live
Live, interactive video feeds that support distance learning programs, exhibits in aquaria and visitor centers, and Web-based learning tools. Using underwater cameras, the site enables audiences to remotely control an underwater vehicle tethered in 50 feet of water.

The World Clock
Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.

eBlogger
Start your own blog with this free eBlogger tool from Google

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
A HUGE collection of movie information cataloging every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web.