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American Civil Liberties Union

http://www.aclu.org/

Provides information on every front at which the ACLU is battling, including Net censorship, separation of church and state, abortion rights, the death penalty, and immigrant rights. Closely follows the ACLU v Reno anti-CDA trial and rightfully argues against anti-terrorism legislation resulting from the Oklahoma bombing.

American Civil Rights Review

http://webusers.anet-stl.com/~civil/index.html

Civil rights and the constitution explored and presented at this extremely active site. Articles for and against current thinking on diversity and multiculturalism, subsidized housing, immigration, bussing, slavery, and much more. Stimulating discussion at a site with a lot going on.

Amnesty International Online

http://www.amnesty.org/

Human rights defenders go online to provide information about rights violations and what you can do to help. Topics include China and women.

Center for Democracy and Technology

http://www.cdt.org/

Links to a host of issues concerning civil liberties. Includes updated headlines of articles regarding the Internet, with further links to the events that caused issues to come to the forefront of the public’s attention.

Cohousing Network

http://www.cohousing.org/

This group developed in response to the impersonal living experienced in many suburbs in America. It provides links to a state-by-state list of communities throughout the country that have adopted this manner of living, and it explains the benefits of the lifestyle.

Cornucopia of Disability Information Gopher Server

gopher://val-dor.cc.buffalo.edu/1

With links to sites pertaining to disability issues from a local to an international level, this site is not just for the disabled, but also for people who provide them with services.

Eco-Village Information Service

http://www.gaia.org/

Eco-villages are primarily concerned with integrating comfortable living spaces with their surroundings. This site provides background and links to successful communities.

Fair Housing Institute, Inc.

http://www.mindspring.com/~fairhous/index.html

Consulting company offering services and information about U.S. housing laws. A good place for anyone concerned with fair housing. Property owners and managers, landlords, tenants, and others can read newsletter articles and pick up helpful advice.

FearForfeiture Endangers American Rights

http://www.fear.org/

Dedicated to reforming the country's recent, unconstitutional forfeiture laws that impose double jeopardy on undeserving defendants by taking property without a hearing, while convicting the person to jail and heavy fines.

Fellowship for Intentional Community

http://www.well.com/user/cmty/fic/

Promoting the ideals of cooperative living, this page is a springboard to help you find communities throughout the country, as well as links to places that will assist you if you’re already living in a cooperative.

Global Vision The Other Network…Rights & Wrongs

http://www.igc.apc.org/globalvision/

Gopher links to areas throughout the world keep you updated on current events in human rights. Lists shows pertaining to the issues covered in the page and where they can be viewed, as well as the transcripts from previous shows.

Human Rights Web

http://www.traveller.com/~hrweb/hrweb.html

A globally comprehensive list of links for information about human rights, who’s trying to violate them, and what you can do to protect them.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Directory

http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/King/index.html

Maintained by the MLK Center in Atlanta, this site is the storehouse for all of the Reverend’s papers, speeches, and history.

NAACP

http://www.nvi.net/naacp_washington_bureau/

Home page for the well-known National Association for the Advancement of Colored People civil rights organization. Statement of objective and toll free telephone number given. Also links to Voter Empowerment Project and Environmental Justice Project, among others.

Vision of Sanctuary

http://www.newciv.org/millennium_matters/vision.html

Full of deeply nested links and going off the fundamental belief that we need to simplify our lives, these pages explore the background of cooperative living and expand on some of the shared ideas within particular communities.