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Our Nation - www.protest.org.au - Established to counter the simplistic and xenophobic views of the One Nation Party which, regrettably, our Federal Government has now adopted. Amnesty International - www.amnesty.org.au Community Aid Abroad - www.caa.org.au - An aid agency that also campaigns for a fairer world. 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - www.un.org/rights/50/decla.htm - The Australian Government has been criticized frequently by the UN over its record on Aboriginal rights. Rather than take action to rectify those shortcomings our government is, instead, doing everything in its power to undermine the UN and human rights. The Hunger Site - http://www.thehungersite.com - Simply by clicking on this site every day you help send food to the needy. The advertisers who sponsor this site donate half a US cent to the United Nations Food Programme every time someone clicks on the site (but you can't do it more than once a day). The Rainforest Site - http://www.therainforestsite.com - Runs on exactly the same priniples as the Hunger Site. Only this time you raise money to buy and protect areas of rainforest. Greenpeace - www.greenpeace.org.au Green Elvis - www.greenelvis.com -Think 'environment' and the name 'Elvis' springs to mind immediately. Well OK, not immediately - maybe not even eventually. But check out this guy's fascinating approach to spreading the environmental message. Active Sydney - www.sydney.active.org.au - "an online focus for community activism in Sydney". The Virtual Activist - www.netaction.org/training - an introduction to social activism - local or global. Internet Resources for Australian Activists - www.green.net.au/activism - a comprehensive set of links and resources covering everything from the environment to gay and lesbian issues. Electronic Frontier Foundation - www.eff.org/blueribbon.html - an organisation established to fight Internet censorship around the globe. Tourism Concern - www.tourismconcern.org.uk - tries to create awareness of the environmental and social problems caused by tourism and seeks to promote responsible tourist practices. NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby - http://home.rainbow.net.au - Gays and lesbians are but two of the groups whose rights are currently under attack by the Australian government. Black on White - http://.www.bfree.on.ca/bow/welcome.html - An online support group for writers. Bob Meyer's Compendium of Elvis Sightings - www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/1061 - speaks for itself. The Bureau of Atomic Tourism - www.atomictourist.com - the Bureau promotes tourist locations that have either been the site of atomic explosions, feature atomic devices or display the planes and missiles that carried nukes. bsy's List of Internet Accessible Coke Machines - www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/coke.html - sad but true. The Darwin Awards - www.darwinawards.com - recognizes people who have died through their own stupidity. Art Bell Chat Club - www.anw.com/ML/index.htm - any site that includes 58 Common Indicators of Alien Abduction (as a serious item) qualifies for the Ultimate Whacko Award. How to Clone a Human - www.biofact.com/cloning/human.html - everything you need to know in order to artificially create a new human life. Backpackers Ultimate Guide - www.bugeurope.com/festivals/index.html - a guide to some of the more unusual holiday destinations. The CIA Kids Page - www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html - Get 'em while they're young. |
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