Resources: Internet

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News Sources

http://www.americanfreepress.net/ American Free Press, an uncensored weekly newspaper.

http://www.americanprogress.org/ Center for American Progress, insightful, progressive think tank; it comments on daily news events in all areas, has policy and opinion papers on domestic & foreign issues, with action items that people can take part in.

http://www.coffeeshoptimes.com/ The Coffee Shop Times, an excellent cultural magazine.

http://www.commondreams.org/ Common Dreams, an excellent source of news throughout the world.

http://www.c-span.org/ Find out what your government is doing. Tune in to C-Spans coverage of the federal government. This is also available on a cable television channel.

http://www.democracynow.org/ Independent news show that hits on many topics you will not see broadcast on mainstream American news programs. Whereas Fox News makes money biasing news, DN does it the old fashioned journalistic way.

http://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation Defending Freedom in the Digital World

http://www.fair.org/ Offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. FAIR works to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalizes public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/index.php Intervention Magazine, war, politics, and culture.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/ Founded in 1976 and dedicated to informing & analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice while providing a forum for discussing the politics that shape our lives. A well made magazine.

http://mediamatters.org This is David Brock's web site; he is concerned with current news items and their factualness/objectiveness.

http://www.morningsedition.com/ Air America Radio, interesting progressive show that is not broadcast in Central Florida, only one Miami station carries it.

http://www.neravt.com/left/ Jay's Leftist and Progressive Internet Resources, lots of links to articles.

http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/ The Global Beat: Resources for the Global Journalist, thoughts and trends on ethnic wars, economic globalization, proliferating weapons, global crime and corruption, refugees and migration, the rise of NGOs, and more.

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/page_one/index.php USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, excellent news.

http://www.progressive.org The Progressive, a journalistic voice for peace and social justice.

http://www.roadtopeace.org Roadtopeace, an excellent resource to understand complicated issues.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ This is a blog by Josh Marshall; opinion and comments on current news items, primarily politics, culture and foreign affairs.

http://www.thenation.com/ The Nation, Unconventional wisdom, since 1865.

http://thinkprogress.org/ News Blog.

http://www.tompaine.com/ Each day, tompaine, scours the country—from Capitol Hill to newspapers to think tanks and activist groups—and highlight the news, ideas and actions that you need to stay fully informed. Thanks, Dutton Ashcraft and Derrie Frost.

http://www.workingforchange.com/index.cfm Working for Change, a good progressive news journal.

http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm Znet, a community of people committed to social change.

Relating to the 02/03/08 talk, see: Meet Marc Adams website and HeartStrong, Inc..

General

Alan Nordstrum Blog Alan is an English professor at Rollins College and an occassional speaker at the Triple U. On his blog, Alan has posted some of his latest writings.

The Prometheus Project As outlined by John Scolaro of Valencia Community College, the Prometheus Project uses the humanities to enrich the life of the poor.

Orlando Insight Meditation Group Peter Carlson is the founder of the Orlando Insight Meditation Group. Peter spoke to the Triple U for a second time on June 1st, 2008. The Orlando Insight Meditation Group is a non-profit organization formed to support the practice of insight (vipassana) meditation in the Orlando area.

Sheila T. Harty Sheila has given many intellectually stimulating talks at the Triple U. Ms. Harty's experience and education have taken her around the world, giving her a first-hand view of the political arena and a rich perspective on life. In her theological studies, she majored in Catholicism, minored in Islam, and wrote her thesis in Scriptural Judaism. Her two decades as a writer and editor in Washington, DC, began with winning the "George Orwell Award for Honesty and Clarity in Public Language" for her first book, Hucksters in the Classroom. Her political experience includes ten years with Ralph Nader at his Center for Study of Responsive Law as well as work with former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Her academic experience includes a sabbatical year as lecturer in "Business Ethics" at University College Cork, Ireland.

Eco-Action is a wonderful group of volunteers who have made an effort to cleanup Central Florida's waterways using canoes. Beth Hollenbeck is a founding member of this group, and our contact person. This group is great to donate either your time or money to help them in their efforts to help clean our waterways of trash that not only takes away from its natural beauty but is detrimental to wildlife.

Science

http://www.sciencedaily.com/ Science Daily has a good collection of news articles from various sources.

http://www.sciencenews.org/ Science News is a high quality weekly science site and magazine.

http://www.sciam.com/ Scientific American

http://www.sciencemag.org/ Science Magazine limits content and charges extra to view articles.

http://www.nature.com/ Not recommended. They limit content and charge a premium to view articles.

Talk Reason: Web site presents a collection of articles which aim to defend genuine science from numerous attempts by the new crop of creationists to replace it with theistic pseudo-science under various disguises and names.

Merck online manual of medical information Explains disorders, symptoms, how they're diagnosed, how they might be prevented. Provided free of charge on the Internet by Merck & Co., Inc., as a public service on a non-profit basis-- thanks Dutton Ashcraft.

Institute of Medicine is a nonprofit created to provide science based advice on matters of biomedical science, medicine, and health.

http://www.supplementwatch.com/supatoz/ Good for general health info

References

Wikipedia is an excellent free online encyclopedia.

Merriam-Webster Online is a free online dictionary and thesaurus.

Bartleby.com is a free online reference of great books.

http://www.citizen.org/ Public Citizen Public Interest Group, with assorted divisions

The Barnes Review Excellent historical site with an emphasis on truth.

Organizations

Lifelong Learning Institute is an outreach of the Winter Park Library and offers many excellent seminars, workshops, and courses for free or at a nominal cost.

September Eleventh Families For Peaceful Tomorrows Interesting website.

Amnesty International A worldwide movement for internationally recognized human rights.

Peace Quotes - collected quotations comprised of wisdom from the ages.