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PAUL LOEB'S MEDIA LINKS
Alternative magazines, radio shows, and websites


My favorite alternative media sites include:

Common Dreams.org
Gathers progressive commentaries from all over the country, updated daily. Excellent source for thoughtful perspectives on all sorts of issues.
www.commondreams.org,

Workingforchange.org
www.workingforchange.org
Produced by the alternative long distance and credit card company Working Assets, includes excellent daily commentaries, plus ways to take action. I write for them regularly.

Voices In Wartime
www.voicesinwartime.org/voicesinwartime
A website, created by some close friends of mine, that focuses on creating an online community where people can publish writing and images about how to respond to our current times. It allows people to publish their own writing and images, engage with others by viewing and commenting on their work and act to create a less violent world. The site also works to promote and distribute a powerful new documentary film, Poetry in Wartime.

PAUL LOEB'S ORGANIZATIONAL LINKS
Good community-based organizations to get involved with and information sources to promote social change
Loeb organizational links

ACTIVIST GATEWAY SITES
Here, listed below, are some key activist gateway sites, with links to lots of organizations or opportunities to get involved.

AFL-CIO
Comprehensive links on labor organizations and issues
www.aflcio.org

Campus Compact
National college and university community service network. Excellent resources on service learning courses
www.compact.org

Electronic Policy Network
Diverse links on current policy issues
www.epn.org

Idealist
Global gateway site on volunteer and nonprofit opportunities, searchable by issue, country, and organization name
www.idealist.org

Institute for Global Communications
One of the best progressive gateway sites, with alternative news stories and links to organizations and publications
www.igc.org

 

Moveon.org
The prime progressive on-line organizing network in the country. Has done an amazing job in giving over two and a half million people a way to participate electronically. They're now working to translate virtual into face to face community. No excuse for anyone not to sign up.
www.moveon.org
 

Servenet, Youth Service America
Online database of volunteer opportunities. Gives the opportunity to register your skills and be contacted by interested local groups.
http://www.servenet.org/

Volunteermatch
Interactive site on U.S. volunteer opportunities, searchable by Zip Code and kind of involvement.
http://www.volunteermatch.org/

 

LINKS TO CAMPUS-BASED GROUPS
Because so many classes are using the book, here are some links to national student organizations or groups with campus-based chapters or projects.

AFL-CIO--Union Summer Project
www.aflcio.org/unionsummer
[Summer program, aimed at students, that offers training and paid internships in union organizing campaigns]

Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org

Campus Outreach Opportunity League [COOL]
www.cool2serve.org
National organization that provides college students and their campuses with educational and leadership opportunities to strengthen communities through service and action

Democracy Matters
www.democracymatters.org
[New student-community group founded to work on real campaign finance reform, following the successful model of Maine]

NAACP
www.naacp.org
 

National Student Action Against War in Iraq
http://nowarnoway.org
[New group coordinating campus demonstrations against war in Iraq]

 Oxfam America
www.oxfamamerica.org/youth
[Wonderful hunger relief and advocacy organization--campus section]

National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness
http://www.pirg.org/nscahh/index.html

Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)
www.pirg.org/uspirg
[Campus and community-based group originally founded by Ralph Nader]

Sierra Student Coalition
www.ssc.org/index2.html
[Student arm of the Sierra Club]

Student Coalition for Action on Literacy Education [SCALE]
http://www.unc.edu/depts/scale
[They do advocacy and one-on-one projects related to literacy]

Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
www.seac.org
[Largest national network of student environmental groups]

Student Labor Action Project
www.jwj.org/slap/slap.htm
A joint project of the United States Student Association and Jobs With Justice to get students involved in economic justice issues, including around financial aid.

Tikkun Campus Net
[Magazine and organization offering a progressive Jewish alternative on issues like peace in the Middle East, with  a new campus affiliate, for faculty and students. You don't have to be Jewish to participate] http://www.tikkun.org/community/campusnet/

United States Student Organization
www.usstudents.org
[Students join through their student governments. The most effective student voice for acting on issues like federal financial aid. No excuse for your student government not to belong.]

United Students Against Sweatshops
http://www.usasnet.org
[Students working against sweatshop labor conditions, including making sure that their campus sweatshirts, T-shirts, etc. are produced in conditions that respect the workers that make them]