Organizations, independent news sources, and people who support the cause.
Key organizations
MoveOn is an organization working to bring ordinary people back into politics. Their international network of more than 2,000,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today.
The American Civil Liberties Union is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights gauranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
Independent news sources
Aimed at journalists, this MoveOn site provides a daily chronicle mis-representations, distortions and misleading statements by the Bush Administration.
Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice, implemented through first rate investigative reporting.
BuzzFlash provides headlines, news, and commentary for a geographically-diverse, politically-savvy, pro-democracy, anti-hypocrisy Web audience, reaching 2.5 million visitors a month and growing.
Democracy Now! is a national,
daily, award-winning news program. Airing
on over 140 stations in North America,
Democracy Now!
offers trustworthy independent news and
perspectives rarely heard
in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media.
Indymedia is a collective
of independent media organizations
and hundreds of journalists offering
grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet
for the creation of radical,
accurate, and passionate tellings of
truth. Don't miss Indymedia sites
for specific cities such as San
Francisco, Chicago, and New York.
Online version of Independent Newspaper UK.
Voices
Ivins is a nationally syndicated columnist who writes about Texas, national politics, and other bizarre happenings; she is the author of two popular books on George W. Bush, including “Bushwhacked.”
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, author, and publisher of The Hightower Lowdown.
The comedian/author who should, perhaps, be running for president. His current bestselling book is “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them—A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.”
Joe Conason writes a daily journal for Salon and a weekly column for the New York Observer. His newest book is “Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth.”
Specific Issues & Causes
David L. Dill, a professor at Stanford University, runs this site devoted to the problems with relying on electronic voting machines to record and count our votes, without the backup of a voter-verifiable audit trail. The site discusses reasonable solutions, and provides a list of actions voters can take.
Yes, someone really is counting — not only American deaths, which are soaring, but also Iraqi casualties, which far outnumber the official Pentagon estimates.
Everything you need to know about the Patriot Act. If this doesn’t make you join the ACLU immediately, what will?
The site of the National Student Action to Oppose the Patriot Act, which started at the ACLU National Membership Conference’s youth summit.
Declare Yourself is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign to energize and empower a new movement of young voters to participate in the 2004 presidential election. Founded by TV producer and philanthropist Norman Lear.
Physicians for a National Health Program
A not-for-profit organization of physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals who support a national health insurance program as a solution to solving the United States’ many health care problems.
2004 democratic Presidential Candidates
Ms. Moseley Braun has served her country as a United States Senator (1992-98), U.S. Ambassador (1999-2001), as well as County Executive Officer, State Representative, and Assistant United States Attorney.
General Wesley K. Clark is one of the nation's most distinguished retired military officers. During his thirty four years of service in the United States Army, he held numerous staff and command positions, rising to the rank of 4-star general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander.
Governor Dean is a physician who previously shared a medical practice with his wife. He served in the Vermont House from 1982 to 1986, was elected lieutenant governor in 1986, and became governor in 1991 with the death of then-Governor Richard Snelling.
John Edwards of North Carolina has served as his state's Senator since 1998. As a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Edwards has worked tirelessly for a strong national defense and to strengthen the security of our homeland. He has authored key pieces of legislation on cyber, bio, and port security.
After 26 years in the U.S. Congress, Dick Gephardt is an accopmlished lawmaker and leader in the Democratic Party. In 1989, Gephardt was elected House Democratic Leader. Among his most notable accomplishments was House passage of President Clinton's economic plan to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families and ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.
After serving in the U.S. Navy and working as a Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry of Massachusetts was elected to serve in the United States Senate in 1984. Kerry came to the Senate with a reputation for independence, and is now serving his fourth term.
US Representative Dennis
J. Kucinich first came to national
prominence in
1977 when he was elected mayor of Cleveland
at age 31. 1994, Kucinich won
election to the Ohio Senate. Congressman
Kucinich
serves as chairman
of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
and has been recognized for his
advocacy of human rights in Burma,
Nigeria and East Timor and as a tireless
advocate for the social and economic
interests of his community.
Joe Lieberman began serving the people of Connecticut in the State Senate in 1971. He then worked as Connecticut's Attorney General from 1983 to 1988 before serving 14 years in the United States Senate.
Alfred (Al) Sharpton, Jr. , was ordained as a Pentecostal minister in 1964 at the age of 10. A political and civil rights activist, Sharpton has made a career of placing himself at the front line of the struggle against injustice by lower and middle-income African Americans. Sharpton formally entered politics in 1978 as the first African American to run for a seat in the New York State Senate.