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(Note: The Palos Verdes Peninsula Democratic Club is not responsible for the content of any of the folowing websites, nor does its membership necessarily agree with all points of view or facts presented therein.)
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* Websites of Progressive Groups
* More Online Link Collections & Information Sources
Websites & Addresses of Left/Centrist Political Groups:"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both."
James Madison, Letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822
(quote from http://www.campaigndisclosure.org/)
MoveOn.Org:
"Democracy in Action"
A network of more than 3,000,000 online activists.
Read their informative articles about what's going on at the White House, and the current efforts and battles against the Administration's Iraq & Environmental Policies, as well as other important issues.
http://www.moveon.org
Democracy for America
Howard Dean's website
http://www.DemocracyForAmerica.com
Mother Jones Magazine Online
News Commentaries and Discussions, with a distinction made between news, research articles, and commentaries, from the publishers of the progressive magazine "Mother Jones."
http://www.motherjones.com
Pacifica Radio Website
Independent Radio Website featuring downloadable audio of their radio presentations and discussions as well as the audio of important hearings. "The Pacifica Radio Foundation. Bringing listeners alternative, community, free speech, listener sponsored radio for over 50 years."
http://www.pacifica.org/
Institute for Policy Studies - IPS:
733 15th St NW, Suite 1020
Washington DC, 20005
phone: (202) 234-9382 - fax: (202) 387-7915
Provides a large number of insightful articles about various U.S. policy issues and administration activities.
http://www.ips-dc.org/
Corporate Watch:
Articles about the activities of U.S. and Multi-National Corporations worldwide, and their local social and economic impacts.
http://www.corpwatch.org/
(Note: at times this site is very slow loading, but worthwhile.)
Rock the Vote:
Organization to Encourage Young People to Vote & Get Involved
http://www.rockthevote.com
California Voter Foundation:
-- Links to information about California Election system: http://www.calvoter.org/index.html
-- County-by-county directory of voting systems: http://www.calvoter.org/issues/votingtech/index.html
-- "Campaign Promises" made by various California candidates
http://www.calvoter.org/voter/elections/promises/index.html
For a list of contributors to campaigns:
Cal-Access - California Automated Lobbying and Campaign Contributions & Expenditure Search System:
http://dbsearch.ss.ca.gov/RecipientSearch.aspx
Go to the above page and fill in the following 2 lines:
"Name of Entity Receiving Contribution:" & use down arrow for "Contains"Amount of Contribution:" "Min." 10,000 - "Max." 999,999,999
Do not fill out any other lines. Leave pre-checked items as-is.
Scroll down to bottom of page and hit "Search" button"
Note: You can sort by Amount donated by clicking on the "Total" column heading on the results page.
Link Collections at Other Websites:(Try these if you didn't find the information link you need in our lists)
Los Angeles County Democratic Party Page:
http://www.lacdp.org/
Thomas Legislation on the Internet "Legislative Branch" links page:
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/legbranch.html
Links for Congress; Legislative Agencies & Commissions; Information Sources