Adbusters
The Adbusters Media Foundation publishes one of the best magazines ever. Since their beginning they have never taken money from any grants, or any ad revenue, either. Home of the Blackspot Collective and seminal to the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon, Adbusters continues to produce most excellent media, from their fake ads spoofing corporatist propaganda to sharp, informative and witty articles to their fascinating videos.
Archive dot Org
If the Internet Archive isn't the largest collection of libraries on this planet I don't know which is. Surf ancient web sites with the Wayback Machine, choose from zillions of articles, books and other literature to read, listen to Old Time Radio shows, concerts from the Live Music archive (or other audio collections), or watch cartoons, TV shows movies, and music videos from your choice of video collections. Any into retro gaming maqy find the software archive of interest while people who like browsing images may find the image collections fun indeed.
Equal Rights Amendment a.k.a. The ERA
If anybody needed proof that dollars outvote the populace in Uncle Sugar's US of A the Equal Rights Amendment is a prime example. Although many states ratified this amendment in the early 70s, far too many still have not. In addition to a lot of historical info about this amendmeent the ERA site has a handy page to check the status for your state.
InnerPeace
Inner Peace has a lot to offer, from a Webmaster's Toolkit to a series of self-help mental exercises that run in your browser and are free to download and forever free for perusal offline. From their site: Inner Peace software is BrowserBased. Nothing you enter is sent over the internet or recorded anywhere. Inner Peace writes no cookies on your computer. Nothing is written to or read from your computer files.
Take a virtual walkabout or pop in as a new user to get started right away. Or just do an excercise to quiet the monkey mind if you'd like to keep it from interrupting your meditations for awhile.
LibriVox
For over 1.5 decades now the volunteers at LibriVox have been reading literature in the public domain into audio books that are also, you guessed it, all in the public domain.
As with any volunteer effort people's hearts are in the right place whether their audio engineering skills are or not. Most recordings are pretty darned good and spread across a plethora of genres.
No log-ins are required for access to thousands of free audio books and story collections. LibriVox is a great resource for everyone, from kids in need of someone to read them a story, to busy commuters on their ways to and fro, to old beans for whom the print seems to get smaller every year. Teachers may find it handy for exposing students to The Classics in Literature and getting many of the ideas in them into their students' heads.
A few volunteers are reading as promotion of their web sites, but most are taking time for it out of the goodness of their hearts. Either way, so can you!
Move To Amend
Their web site sums it up best:
"On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions."
"We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights."
As that one wise snark-ass once said, "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one!"
Open Debates
Many MAGAts, Red and Blue, simply don't want to hear how both major parties got together to create the Commission on Presidential Debates so it could kick the League of Woment Voters to the curb and wrest management of those debates from them. Since then, no Presidential candidate who is not running as a Dem or a Repub is not only NOT allowed on that debate stage, but not even on the property as well.
Ubu Web
Along about 1996 a bunch of sound poets actualized Ubu Web, which has grown into an amazing avant-garde archive of media materials you will not find thusly aggregated anywhere else in the universe. It is so avant-garde it is redefining the meaning of the very term itself.
From the site's About page: UbuWeb’s large, boundary-blurring archive of the avant-garde necessarily alters what is meant by avant-garde, a term saddled with the legacies of patriarchy, hegemony, imperialism, colonization, and militarization. Giving voice to these concerns, the poet and critic Dick Higgins wrote, "The very concept of an avant-garde, which relates to the military metaphor of advance troops coming before the main body, is masculine. The avant-garde theater scholar Kimberly Jannarone concurs: The term ‘avant-garde’—coming to us from the military and first applied to the arts around World War I—is heavily weighted by historical and political critical baggage.… Indeed, the historical avant-garde often relied on sexist, racist, primitivist, and imperialist notions."
WholeWashington
The very foundation upon which any nation's security is built is the health of its populace. ~ Tek Vahana
The amazing ladies who started Whole Washington to work towards medicare for everyone in their state are shining examples of what people tending to their own knitting can do!
They knitted red berets to sell to raise funds for their activities to raise awareness about the need for better health care for everyone in their state whether there's a world wide pandemic going on at the time or not.
Whole Washington Supports Legislation and Campaigns That Are…
- Universal/Accessible – Can everyone enroll?
- Affordable – Does it remove all financial barriers from seeking care?
- Non-Profit, Publicly-Funded – Does a government entity reimburse providers directly without contracting with private insurers?
- Comprehensive – Does coverage include essential benefits such as dental, vision, audiology, and mental health services?
- Fully Realized Legislation – Does it create an implementable program within a determined timeline while meeting the first four filters?
I am placing this link here because I think they are shining samples of exemplary suchness and a great example for folks in other states who dare to dream of medical equality for all.