More Greens

• Illinois Green Party

• Green Parties of North America

• Prairie Greens East Central Illinois Green Party covering Champaign, Urbana and thereabouts. Check out their excellent info page on the state of the petition drive in Illinois.

• Oak Park Greens for Oak Park and surrounding communities.

• Synthesis/Regeneration a magazine of Green Social thought.

• Maxwood Co-op Reuse and Reforestation

Media

• IMC/Independent Media Center of Chicago http://www.chicago.indymedia.org Real reporting comes to Chicago! Be a part of it!

• Independent Media Center of Philadelphia: http://www.phillyimc.org Go here to read the truth! This site is fantastic. What happened in Philadelphia during the Repub convention is chilling—but this site's people reporting was knock-out.

• Common Dreams Newswire: Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community

• For more real news check out TomPaine.commonsense

Energy

• NEIS: Nuclear Energy Information Service: provides information on nuclear power issues and safe alternative energy resources. Check out NEIS's current campaigns and alerts.

• Illinois Renewable Energy Association [IREA] is a network for sharing ideas, resources and information with individuals, businesses, and communities to promote a resilient future through renewable energy, energy efficiency, and earth-friendly technology.

Organic Standards, Food Issues, GMO Information

• BioDemocracy and Organic Consumers Association includes current information, actions and alerts. Watch out when giving this link out, add an "s" to purefood to make purefoods and you'll reach an anti-organic site. So make people aware of that, when you share the link with anyone.

• Campaign to Keep "Organic" Organic very good timetable-style history of agricultural industrialization in the United States, issue backgrounders, actions, alerts and more links.

• Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural & Environmental Policy at Winrock International [formerly the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture], a research and education organization established in 1983 to encourage and facilitate the adoption of low-cost, resource-conserving, and environmentally sound farming systems

• National Organic Program [NOP] proposed organic standards and comments at the USDA's site

• Seeding the Future by Christina Waters: a short introduction to heirloom seeds with an interesting paragraph on the heroic sacrifices of N.I. Vavilov's staff during the seige of Leningrad [WWII]—selfless sacrifices resulting in the greatest preservation of biodiversity ever realized or likely to be realized on this planet.

Health

• Universal Health Care Campaign 2000—[U2K] is a national grassroots campaign to move the US towards the goal of national healthcare by increasing the visibility of the issue and to build coalitions to increase support for universal health care in the next Congress.

• Physicians for a National Health Program advocates universal, comprehensive, single-payer national health care. With over 9,000 members, PNHP has chapters throughout the United States. Please join your voice with theirs in insisting that health care is a right, not a privilege.

• Doctors for Global Health [DGH] is a private, not-for-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. DCH practices Liberation Medicine: the conscious, conscientious use of medicine to promote human dignity and social justice.

Housing

• Chicago's Coalition to Protect Public Housing check out Juneteenth under Upcoming Events!

• Save Maxwell Street! Check out the Preserve Maxwell Street and Save Maxwell Street websites for a little history and information on how you can help.

Human Rights

• Just Earth! is an Amnesty International coalition with the Sierra Club to protect environmentalists around the globe —Help defend those who defend the Earth!

• Rain Forest Action: U'Wa Campaign: Help prevent human rights abuses and environmental destruction. Write to Vice President Gore whose has consideredably stock and other family ties to Oxy Petroleum. Shell/Royal Dutch withdrew from the project much earlier— citing human rights and public relations. The US has just voted a military (terror) aid package to Columbia. Check out RAN's site for more information and if you're near Chicago, check our calendar for July 18th for additional information and a local talk by U'wa leader Roberto Cobaria.

Humor & Horror

• Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)> bucks out their tush. Need we say more?

• Dear Dr. Laura: sometimes the only way to combat truly twisted logic is a good poke in the proverbial ribs. For a more serious look and a way to halt the hate, check out Stop Dr. Laura: a coalition against hate for ways to help—ways to take action.

• Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels because Extinction Stinks! Why are these dinos on bicycles? Well, our veloped friends to the North, just don't want you to be a fossil fool!

Labor

• Nikewages.org: Olympic Living Wage Project , sponsored by Press for Change, and done in collaboration with the Nicaraguan Solidarity Committee, NikeWatch, and Call to Action USA, is an international human rights project focusing on the lives of sweatshop workers in Nike’s Indonesian shoe factories. The he two project participants, Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu, will adopt the lifestyle, diet, customs and culture of the factory workers and live on their prevailing wages over approximately a two-month period. Follow their journeys.

• SEIU: Service Employees International Union Check out Justice for Janitors!

• Labor in Illinois Today . . . Yesterday: a project of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. What didn't you learn in school today?

Grabbag

• Community Legislative Information Service of Illinois for your information.

• Illinois Peace Action: the state's largest peace and disarmament organization. [Includes 1999 voting records]

• The Independent Progressive Politics Network Building a unified, independent, progressive alternative to the corporate-controlled Democratic/Republican political/economic system.

• The following Voting and Electoral issue discussion lists are available on eGroups. You may find some of these ideas particularly interesting in light of the November 2000 Presidential election standoff.
  Click to subscribe to instantrunoff
  Click to subscribe to Drive2Revive
  You'll find background information at Illinois Citizen's for Proportional Representation site
  as well as some helpful notes on campaign finance reform and abolishing the
  electoral college at the League of Women Voters home page.

• Pilsen Books Online bookstore and Chicago Greens supporter.

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