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Links —American Library Association. Although the editor has been battling the local libraries for the right to disseminate ideas, the ALA does have a good site on freedom... perhaps lofty in word and not applied, but of interest nonetheless. In its own words, "Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas." www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/librarybillrights.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 for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington (CREW).
www.citizensforethics.org
—Center
For Public Integrity.
www.publicintegrity.org —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 —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). www.ncac.org
—National
Association of Scholars
www.nas.org —Society of Professional Journalists. www.spj.org/ethics.asp
—Transparency International: The
Global Coalition against Corruption.
www.transparency.org —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
—VS., An Online Journal of Deliberative Poetry.
www.vs-poems.com.
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