Clickable Causes

Click the Hunger Site link once a day and advertisers donate food to hungry people. (hint: once per browser, per day seems to double the contribution).

Home of Emily the Cow, the Pacifist Memorial, the Life Experience School, Stonewalk and, at the heart of it all, the Peace Abbey. I'm honored to be a member of its Board of Trustees.

The William Moses Kunstler Fund For Racial Justice: Kunstler courageously walked into Attica all those years ago to help with the struggle to reform the overtly racist justice and prison systems. Under the inspired direction of Randy Credico, the fight continues.

While there is a Eugene Debs page on the Internet, I am of it...

Universal health care? It'll be tough with the United States in this solar system.

The Industrial Workers of the World -- 0ne (really small) big union.

Jobs with Justice. This means everyone, not just for Kaiser Ashcroft.

No Paine, no gain. TomPaine.com is a great site in the tradition of the patriot the jingoists want you to forget.

The Super Rallies featuring Ralph Nader and more artists and activists than Kaiser Ashcroft can point a listening device at begin at Democracy Rising

Jay's Lefty Links I don't know Jay but he's got a great page.

Green links

W's dad lied and said he'd Save Boston Harbor long ago. This organization is doing it. A GREAT CAUSE.

Indian sports mascots are nothing to say "wahoo" about

Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World

The Children's Defense Fund where concern for children isn't just so much hollow rhetoric.

UNICEF'S Children's Rights page because the children should not be last.

Pissed off? So is Protest Net

If you want to do more than just talk about your commitment to the environment, the Center for a New American dream will tell you how.

Detroit Labor Information from Labor's hometown

Labor Heritage Foundation -- An organization that understands that everyone needs a living wage -- even artists!

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors

Contrary to what they are taught in boot camp, even soldiers have rights

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Have I Got News for You!

Al Giordano's NarcoNews made legal history in 2001 with its precedent-setting victory for on-line free speech. It is the first place you should check when news breaks anywhere south of Texas.

Even though they've sold my name to every mailing list in the world, The Nation still has its moments.

Two of the best weekly political forums are Radio with a View, Tuesdays 6:30-8pm, with Professors Marc Stern and Dave Goodman and No Censorship Radio, Fridays 6:30-8pm, with Chuck U. & Linda P. Both emanate from WMBR 88.1 FM, Cambridge, Mass. TUNE IN on REALAUDIO

No Censorship Radio's separate website

Radio With a View

WBAI - - The best liberated radio station in America. Topnotch news, outstanding public affairs, effervescent arts. Now back in authentic broadcasters' hands!

Danny Schechter the News Dissector and so much more at the Media Channel's essential site

FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting debunks the conventional wisdom of the corporate media. Check out their site, subscribe to their magazine, donate to the cause

The Boston Phoenix --The alternative weekly from Boston that has published me over the years.

Cursor.org is a top-notch media watchdog site.Check it out daily
Sick of economic news that matter-of-factly takes the company line-- no matter what the company does to its employees, the environment or the rest of the world? Dollars and Sense is the magazine for you. Check out the website, subscribe to the magazine.

Former Boston Phoenix columnist Dan Kennedy continues his top-notch media criticism and more.

The Independent Media Center is what it says it is -- and it's exactly what we need.

Since my friend Mary Lacroix turned me on to Monkeyfist, I regularly visit or challenging and witty analysis of all sorts of international affairs.

  Common Dreams -- A good place to find all the essays that never run on your local op/ed page.

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair still spin and state the facts.

Many people make history, very few change it. Historian Howard Zinn has done just that. Check out his semi-official site.

Order Howard Zinn's and other fine books

Project Censored uncovers the stories that the corporate media buries.

The home of Z Magazine and the indispensable ZNet

The Daily Brew isn't daily but it sure is provocative. Searing essays from a progressive vantage point.

Lagusta's personal site promotes ecofeminism, a vegan lifestyle and a whole bunch of other hip viewpoints. It uses the web for its best purpose- to express the views of someone from whom we would never hear were it up to the corporate media.

If you're looking for some genuine Texas dirt on W and more, it's the venerable Texas Observer

For unsurpassed ridicule of corporate propaganda, check out Adbusters

Low power radio to the people, right on! Allston-Brighton Free Radio webcast

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host Democracy Now's War and Peace Report Monday -Friday available on the net.

Ted Rall is not just a great political cartoonist, he also writes a terrific column. Hilarious, courageous and highly recommended.

As long as John Pilger is around there will always be plenty of good information to refute conventional wisdom. A legendary journalist and film maker.

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"W" STANDS FOR "WORST"

BartCop.com you know him and love him or chances are you're pretty slimy.

The Smirking Chimp -- named for both the facial gesture and creature most reminiscent of George W. Bush, this jumpin' site is a wonderful clearing house for stories on the sleaze that engulfs the White House. Don't miss the very active message boards that brim with insight from enlightened dissenters. Accept no substitutes!

For deep down dirt on Dubya there's no better site than the Dubya Report It's all there.


Make Them Accountable is crusader Carolyn Kay's outstanding website and she won't give up until everyone knows what an incompetent sleaze the court-appointed prez is. While you're at the site join the mailing list and get great info several times a week

The Buzzflash Report constantly updates stories on the bottomless pit of slime that is the court-appointed Bush Administration. Worth checking several times a day...

It's own quip says it best: "The site that set out to bring the media to their knees - but found they were already there"......Mediawhoresonline

Bushwatch -- it's focus means it's not a pretty site but it does a beautiful job keeping tabs on our unelected president.

Liberal former Arizona talk show host Bob Witkowski (Imagine a liberal losing a talk show in Arizona!) keeps up the fight on the 'net with his site: At Wit's End -- a place W is ineligible to reach.

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Pastimes & Passions

Boston's Equinox Music Festival swings into town every September for over a week of great jazz. In addition to the fest, Equinoix produces several more dazzling events throughout the year. Check it out.

I was already a big Dar Williams fan before she asked me to open several shows for her back in the Fall of 2000. What a talent! What a wonderful person!

The Motown WebRing now if I could just find the Stax/Volt WebRing

It's not your Imagination, running away with you - - it's the official Temptations website

The website of my pal, folksinger/novelist Bill Morrissey. A folksinger's folksinger, a wordsmith's wordsmith.

It's been my great honor to appear with the legendary Utah Phillips on several occasions. Buy his records. attend his shows, visit him on the web, heed his wisdom!

Ani DiFranco's righteous babe website is home to Ani and the ultimate indy label....

Billy Bragg - - the inimitable musician/activist who defies categorization is dear pal who has dragged me all over North America with him. If he has a guest book, I want to be in it!

Ian McLagan -- If there's a rock and roll heaven, they're waiting for Mac to bring the beer. Currently playing keyboards with Billy Bragg

For sometime now whenever I have wanted to impress someone with my ability to discover great musicians, I buy them a Peter Keane CD. Now that he's becoming so damned popular I guess I won't be able to surprise many people with him anymore.

As crisp as a New Hampshire pine forest in February, as bracing as a North Atlantic breeze and he writes much better descriptions than I do. It's folksinger Cormac McCarthy!

Old friend Jackson Browne's excellent official site

An excleent page with links to a lot of other sites for Jackson Browne After playing to Jackson's crowds in 1988 I never could again handle working in comedy clubs. Listening to Late for the Sky as I type this

Patty Griffin is a great singer/songwriter I'm proud to say I knew "when". Here's a site hosted by her mailing list.

Rock and Rap Confidential -- where music and politics are entwined and the truth is unwrapped.

Joe Whiting couldn't have been more encouraging to me when I was breaking into show biz. A great singer and musician and a native of Skaneateles, New York -- 'nuff said!

Jim Infantino's smart, funny and great band is Jim's Big Ego. You never know how Jim's going to outdo himself, you just know he will. Listen to his music, enjoy his art and read his prose on one of the best websites on the net.

If you're in Cleveland and want to see great music, the Beachland Ballroom is the joint for you.

For great photography by a very talented artist and extraordinarily dear friend, please visit Lana Lawrence's site

Nick Pontikis' excellent Greek mythology site

Identity Theory is a dazzling literary site that features my buddy Robert Birnbaum's interviews with all sorts of very interesting writers (and also, for some reason, me)

Blue Ear - - interesting writing from around the world.

Jim Zwick's Mark Twain page is the perfect jumping off point to meet our friend Clemens on the net. It would be nice if some edu, org or prosperous individual would provide this great scholar a site so that all the advertising could be replaced by more Twain content.

The Twain Web is web service of the Mark Twain Forum, run by noted Twain scholar Kevin Bochynski

Author R. Kent Rasmussen knows Mark Twain A-Z and so much more. Please visit him

The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, located at Quarry farm. A tremendous resource for twain scholars.

Ray Ciccollela's New York Yankee links Ray's a fine union man who roots for the right team and designs a mean home page.

My friend Jim Box's excellent sports links pages Check out the rest of his pages as well.

Direct links to sports pages around the country. Please do not use the ones for the scab Detroit papers!

Skaneateles is an Indian word that means "beautiful lake surrounded by fascists." It's also my hometown.

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Laughable Links

Enormo Corp -- Bigger Than It Needs To Be. Formerly Enoron. Click often and consume, consume, consume!

He's had his Sixty Minutes of Fame -- Boston's sophisticate of satire and my dear pal, Jimmy Tingle

Click here or Kevin Meaney's parents will lose their house and be left with nothing but Big Pants between them and the Booty Man.

According to her website, Kate Clinton is the oldest living, continuously performing, out lesbian author/humorist in North America. According to me, she is one of the funniest and most inventive political humorists -- ever.

Producer Rick Jenkins' Comedy Studio in Harvard Square carries on the great tradition of fine comedy in Chinese Restaurants in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This Modern World -- home of Tom Tomorrow, Sparky the subversive penguin and scathing satire.

Political Cartoons-- including the latest by the great Dan Wasserman of the Boston Globe.

Lenny Bruce died for my sins - long before I ever committed them.

Hello Rangoon!! Charles Laquidara, the Boston Radio legend who used his enormously popular radio shows on WBCN and WZLX in Boston to promote a myriad of great causes is in Hawaii and funnier than ever via his Big Mattress website

Bill Hicks -- I think Bill would have a good laugh if he saw some of the people who have latched onto him in death.

Learn more about an important and overdue cause here

Louis C.K. is one of the most inventive and talented comedians working today. He is also one hell of a film-maker and a good friend. Visit his outstanding website

The fabled Thursday Night Fights at the Comedy Studio in Cambridge, Mass are just one example of the innovation and fresh wit Tim McIntire brings to the comedy scene. Get on board now so you can claim you were a fan of this brash talent while he's still just the next big thing.

NEEDED: A BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT SITE