Links to Sites Purportedly Devoted to Literature, Democracy, and/or Dissidence
N.B.:  The editor, of course, does not necessarily agree with everything these organizations do or support. 

—American Civil Liberties Union.  This link was removed after my reading of Wendy Kaminer's Worst Instincts:  Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU.  Apparently, the ACLU has gone from a non-partisan fervent free speech advocate to a PC-partisan fervent multiculturalism-diversity advocate, at the expense of the former, of course. 

—American Library Association.  This link was removed because the ALA has proven unresponsive to my grievances regarding libraries, including a no-trespass order issued against me by Watertown Free Public Library (for a cartoon and published essay critical of the ALA, see www.theamericandissident.org/ALA.htm).

—Americans United for Separation of Church and State.  http://www.au.org/site/PageServer

—Anti Censorship Page.  cgd.best.vwh.net/home/anticens.htm
—Citizens against Government Waste (CAGW).  www.cagw.org

—Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).  www.citizensforethics.org
—Center for Individual Rights.  www.cir-usa.org/mission_new.html.
—Center for Media and Democracy.  Investigates and exposes public relations spin and propaganda.  www.prwatch.org.  

—Center For Public Integrity. www.publicintegrity.org. 
—Center for Responsive Politics.  www.opensecrets.org.
—Common Cause (Holding power accountable).  www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=186966

—Congressional Accountability Project (Working against corruption in the US Congress). www.congressproject.org

—Democracy Index. www.economist.com/media/pdf/DEMOCRACY_INDEX_2007_v3.pdf. America rates 17th, hardly first!!!

—Democracy 21.  www.democracy21.org

—First Amendment Center.  www.firstamendmentcenter.org

—Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.  www.thefire.org

—Fund For Independence in Journalism: www.tfij.org

—Free Expression Policy Project. www.fepproject.org/factsheets/politicalspeech.html

—International Free Press Society.  www.internationalfreepresssociety.org.

—Judicial Watch:  Promoting Integrity, Transparency and Accountability in Government, Politics and the Law.  www.judicialwatch.org

—Just $6 (Public campaign funding).  just6dollars.org

—National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). This link was removed because Joan Bertin, president of NCAC, proved unresponsive to my grievances of censorship.  My belief is that Bertin, Wulf (PEN), and Houlihan (Concord Poetry Center) are friends (for a cartoon on the clique, etc., see wwwtheamericandissidentorg.blogspot.com/2009/12/age-of-aberrancy-and-poets-of-moignon.html).

—National Association of Scholars www.nas.org

—National Free Press (published out of Canada) www.nationalfreepress.org. Publisher Trevor Hill has proven to be an invaluable contact. 
—National Paralegal http://nationalparalegal.edu/conLawCrimProc_Public/FreedomOfExpression/FreedomOfExpression.asp 

—PEN New England.  This link has been removed because PEN, which professes "defending freedom everywhere," won't even respond to my grievances of obstacles to my freedom in New England.  (For more, including a satirical cartoon, see www.theamericandissident.org/PEN.htm)
—Public Citizen (Protecting health, safety & democracy).  www.citizen.org

—Society of Professional Journalists.  www.spj.org/ethics.asp

—Transparency International: The Global Coalition against Corruption.  www.transparency.org
—Underground Literary Alliance.  www.literaryrevolution.com

—United Nations Human Development Index.  http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics  Whenever someone boasts America is the best country in the world, I cite this Index.  In 2008, it rated America only #12. 

Poetry Sites Linking The American Dissident
—AA Independent Press Guide.  www.thunderburst.co.uk.
—I Think Therefore Iambic. ithinkthereforeiambic.com. 
—Mad Hatters' Review.  www.madhattersreview.com.
—Pemmican Press.  www.pemmicanpress.com.

—VS., An Online Journal of Deliberative Poetry.  www.vs-poems.com. 
—Thunderburst Press.  www.thunderburst.co.uk