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American Civil Liberties Union

50 Books That'll Boost Your Civil Liberties Savvy

http://www.aclu.org/freedomwire/books/booklist.htm

The ACLU Freedom Files TV Series Now on 2-Disc Set at Retail Outlets

http://www.aclu.org/multimedia/freedomfiles/26221res20060725.html

RECENT EPISODES
> Drug Wars
> Youth Speak
> Gay and Lesbian Rights

INTERACTIVE FEATURES
> The Drug War Clock: See What the War on Drugs Is Costing You
> Survey: What Age Is Considered "Adult" in America?
> Justice Match: Learn How Your Views Align With the U.S. Supreme Court Justices

Gov Docs on Torture

http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/search/search.html

Tell Your Member of Congress to Stop Torture

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?alertId=323&pg=makeACall

NOT JUST PIZZA:

http://www.aclu.org/pizza/

Authorities Target Political Groups

http://www.aclu.org/spyfiles

Audio: ACLU v. NSA

James Bamford, Journalist/Author

stream or download (mp3) http://www.aclu.org/multimedia/james_bamford.mp3

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, ACLU

stream or download (mp3) http://www.aclu.org/multimedia/anthony_romero.mp3

https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=0623_HouseParty_Signup

ACTIVIST TOOLKIT

http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AP_effective_activism

Amnesty International

Ceasefire: No More War Crimes

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/lebanonisrael-action-eng

Stop torture and ill-treatment in the 'war on terror'

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-index-eng

Latest Reports from AI:

http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-recent/reports

LIBRARY

http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex

The arms trade is out of control.

Worldwide, arms are fueling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses.

http://www.controlarms.org

EPIC

Medical Privacy Petition

http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/petition

FACIAL RECOGNITION AND PRIVACY

http://www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/1105/

EPIC PRIVACY.ORG

http://www.privacy.org/

DoD Recruiting Database

http://www.epic.org/privacy/student/doddatabase.html

GREENPEACE

The Month in Pictures

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/slideshows/month-in-pictures-july-2006

GE Corn in France is Top Secret

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/crop-circle-270706

Where Have all the Tuna Gone?

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/where-have-all-the-tuna-gone.pdf

VIDEO: The Hidden Dirty Side of the Mexican Electronics Industry

Quicktime http://www.greenpeace.org/download/quicktime/international/photosvideos/videos/mexicanelectronicsproductiontoxics/electronics_mexico_shorter.mov

Real Player

http://www.greenpeace.org/download/realplayer/international/photosvideos/videos/mexicanelectronicsproductiontoxics/electronics_mexico_shorter.rmvb

Windows Media

mms://a416.v90022.c9002.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/416/9002/7d68215c24/www.greenpeace.org/download/windowsmedia/international/photosvideos/videos/mexicanelectronicsproductiontoxics/electronics_mexico_shorter.wmv

PODCAST: Whales and U.S. Military Sonar Noise Pollution

Listen

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/raw/content/en/photo-audio-video/audio-files/ocean-defenders-audio-podcast

Glaciers Melting at Alarming Rate:

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/greenlandmelting170206

Eco Headlines by email

News-headlines Archives.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/subscribe3

NATO Big Brother House

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/nato-big-brother-house

Human Rights Watch Reports

HRW 2006 report

http://www.hrw.org/wr2k6/

Global Campaigns:

World AIDS Day 2005
The Campaign to Ban Landmines
Women's Property Rights
Stop the Use of Child Soldiers!

Stop Violence Against Children Worldwide
Torture and Abuse
Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls

Human Rights in the U.S.

http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa&c=usdom

The Global Scandal of Violence Against Children

http://www.hrw.org/children/

Promises Broken

Every recognized country in the world, except for the United States and the collapsed state of Somalia, has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, pledging to uphold its protections for children. Today the convention stands as the single most widely ratified treaty in existence.

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/promises/

IRIN NEWS Reports

Lebanon Crisis Update

http://www.irinnews.org/lebanon-crisis.asp

Irin Photo Gallery

http://www.irinnews.org/photogallery/iringallery.asp

Minorities Under Siege
Pygmies today in Africa IRIN In-Depth

http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/pygmy/default.asp

Latest Audio Programs IRIN RADIO

http://www.irinnews.org/radio/default.asp

STOP BIG TOBACCO

Urge US advancement of the global tobacco treaty

Countries around the world are moving swiftly to ratify the global tobacco treaty—a treaty that will save millions of lives and change the way Big Tobacco operates. But the US has yet to ratify this lifesaving treaty!

http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/campaign/globaltobaccotreaty112005

Standards of Political Conduct for Corporations

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/files/pdfs/Corporate%20Accountability%20International%20Standards%20of%20Political%20Conduct%20for%20Corporations.pdf

CORRUPTION AFFECTS YOU

Public contracting is one way in which public policy is implemented, and it is an enormous and lucrative area of business. Think of pharmaceutical companies vying to supply a government vaccination programme, the privatisation of a government-owned telecommunications company, or the awarding of contracts to reconstruct destroyed infrastructure in Iraq. Most of these contracts are meant to buy or produce goods or services that should benefit citizens directly, like the construction of a road or a sewage system. Others should benefit citizens indirectly, by contributing to a more efficient or effective delivery of a specific service or good, and prudently investing or increasing public funds. The key question is whether genuine efforts to serve the public interest motivate the contracting decisions being made. http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/public_contracting

Water

Corporations like Coca-Cola and Suez are aggressively turning water from a basic human right into an unaffordable luxury.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1131.cfm

Tobacco

The powerful tobacco industry led by Philip Morris/Altria is still fighting in the US and internationally to undermine the global tobacco treaty. http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1111.cfm

Food & Agribusiness

Global food and agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Monsanto and Dow increase their profits as people around the world face hunger and malnutrition. http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1132.cfm

Oil

Big Oil giants like ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco are causing permanent damage to the air we breathe and the water we drink.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1112.cfm

Organized Crime and Corruption Information:

www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/convention_corruption/signing/Convention-e.pdf

Bibliographic Database Search

Global Corruption Report 2006

special focus: Corruption and Health

Launched 1 February 2006, TI’s Global Corruption Report details how corruption deprives millions of access to essential health care and helps spawn drug – resistant strains of deadly diseases.

http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.htm

Transparency International’s Web Portal on Anti-Corruption Resources (CORIS) http://www.corisweb.org/

PREVENTING CORRUPTION ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

http://www.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases/2005/16_03_2005_construct_projects

http://www.transparency.org/tools/contracting/construction_projects

A Special Report, IPS News,

Corruption depletes national wealth. Transparency International says corruption is often to blame for already limited public resources being diverted to uneconomic high-profile projects, at the expense of less spectacular but more necessary infrastructure projects. "Corruption remains one of the greatest obstacles to economic and social development," says Helen Sutch, of the World Bank. Read IPS special coverage.

http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/corruption/index.asp

Business Principles for Countering Bribery

http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/private_sector/business_principles

Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit
emerging strategies

http://www.transparency.org/tools/e_toolkit

Anti-Corruption Handbook http://www.transparency.org/tools/a_c_handbook

National Whistleblower Center http://www.whistleblowers.org/

Govt Doctors Get Whistleblower Protection

http://www.whistleblowers.org/Govt_Doctors_Get_Whistleblower_Protection.htm

KEEPING an EYE on the most CORRUPT CONGRESS EVER

http://www.ourfuture.org/issues_and_campaigns/accountablecongress/index.cfm

Boycott Bush International Network

Nenhum dinheiro para a guerra - Boicote a Bush

Pas D'Argent pour la Guerre – Boycott Bush

Bojkott Bush

http://www.motherearth.org/USboycott/index_en.php

GARY WEBB'S DARK ALLIANCE SERIES

re-posted by NARCONEWS

GARY WEBB: In His Own Words

Tribute to the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who broke the story of the CIA’s involvement in the importation of cocaine into the US

http://www.guerrillanews.com/videos/viewer.php?id=30&spd=hi

Dark Alliance: Day One

America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras by Gary Webb

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1main.htm

Testimony links U.S. to drugs-guns trade

Dealers got their 'own little arsenal' by Gary Webb

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1list.htm

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/webintro.mov

Dark Alliance: Day Two

The Crack Epidemic's Shadowy Origins, By Gary Webb

If they'd been in a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ''Freeway Rick'' Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. This odd trio -- a smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager -- made fortunes creating the first mass market in America for a product so hellishly desirable that consumers will literally kill to get it: ''crack'' cocaine. Federal lawmen will tell you plenty about Rick Ross, mostly about the evils he visited upon black neighborhoods by spreading the crack plague in Los Angeles and cities as far east as Cincinnati. On Aug. 23, they hope, Freeway Rick will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2main.htm

Drug agent thought she was onto something big

On a November afternoon in 1981, San Francisco DEA agent Sandra Smith inadvertently uncovered the first direct link between cocaine and the secret army the Central Intelligence Agency was assembling to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.

Smith, one of the first female Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the Bay Area, was investigating rumors that a cocaine ring run by Norwin Meneses was bringing drugs into California and, for some reason, sending weapons down to Central America.

It was, she said, ''the only (case) that I ever worked, in all the time I worked there, that I thought was really big.''

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2frog.htm

Drug expert: 'Crack' born in San Francisco Bay Area in '74

Though Miami and Los Angeles are commonly regarded as the twin cradles of ''crack'' cocaine, the first government-financed study of cocaine smoking concluded that it was actually born here, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in January 1974. After comedian Richard Pryor nearly immolated himself during a cocaine-smoking binge in 1980, the National Institute on Drug Abuse hired UCLA drug expert Ronald K. Siegel to look into the then-unfamiliar practice. Siegel, the first scientist to document crack's use in the United States, traced the smoking habit back to 1930, when Colombians first started it.

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2rock.htm

Dark Alliance: Day Three

War on Drugs Has Unequal Impact on Blacks in U.S.

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day3main.htm

On PEACE:

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors:

Why Question the Military's JROTC Program?

http://www.objector.org/jrotc/why.html

Before You Enlist...

You wouldn't buy a car without looking under the hood. Don't enlist before you check out the reality of military life that lies behind the glamorous television ads and glossy brochures. http://www.objector.org/before-you-enlist.html

Get the Military Out of Our Schools

Are students getting a balanced education about the military? http://www.objector.org/

GI Rights Training

Train to Help Stop the Military Machine! Or at Least to slow it down. http://www.objector.org/gitraining060325.html

Tools for Activists

http://www.objector.org/moos/strategies.html

Other Peace Related Issues:

Children's Defense Fund

2006 Gun Report:

Protect Children not Guns

http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/gunrpt_revised06.pdf?docID=1761

Influence Peddling Laws