POLITICS Links

Politics, Activism, Government, Law, Legal Issues, and Military

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43 Alumni for America
Above the Law – behind-the-scenes look at the world of law
Adam Smith Works – John Templeton Foundation
Administrative Law by Jacob A. Stein; Glenn A. Mitchell; Basil J. Mezines
AFP Fact Check
After Action TV show on PBS – Veterans share their experiences around military training, deployment and, life “after action.”
AK Press – Anarchist publishing and distribution since 1990
Al Jazeera الجزيرة – Arabic news from Qatar
Al Masry Al Youm المصري اليوم – Arabic news from Egypt
alpr.watch – scans for meetings on automated surveillance resistance
alternet.org – strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism
American Bar Association
American Civil Liberties Union ACLU
American Constitution Society
American Enterprise Institute
American Friends Service Committee
American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC
American Legion – Worlds Largest Veterans Organization. For God and Country.
American Prospect
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Amnesty International
Ancient Order of Hibernians in America
Arab American News
Artificial Lawyer – Legal Tech & AI News and Views
Asexual Visibility and Education Network – people that do not experience sexual attraction
Assafir Al-Arabi (AsA) السفير العربي – independent media on the “Arab World”
Association of the United States Army
Attaallah, Najlaa ( نجلاء عطا الله ) – Palestinian author, architect, and feminist activist, born in Gaza City
Avalon Project at Yale Law School – Documents in Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government
Ballotpedia – nonpartisan digital encyclopedia of American politics
Balls and Strikes – interpreting the law is an inherently political act
Barnicle, Mike
BDS – Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions – a Palestinian-led movement for freedom
Bender’s forms of discovery : an exhaustive compilation of interrogatoriese…essential to adequate preparation for trial
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
Bernie Sanders
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Bill OReilly – News and politics commentator.
Black Lives Matter
Black’s Law Dictionary
blogger – Push-button publishing for the people.
Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
Boston Review – a political and literary forum
Boston Speakers Series at Symphony Hall
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU – nonpartisan law and policy institute
British Journal of Politics
Bulwark, The – a disruptive conservative publication
C-Span
Cambridge Forum
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Capitol Steps
Caselaw Access Project – Harvard Law School
Catholic Worker Movement – Protesting injustice, war, racism, and violence since 1933.
Cato Institute, The
Center for American Progress
Center for Democracy and Technology
Center for Public Integrity – Watchdog in the corridors of power
Cherokee Nation
Citizen Lab – Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
CodePink – A group of women for peace and justice.
Columbia Law Review
Common Cause – upholding core values of American democracy
Common Dreams
Common Notions – “Revolutionary Dispatches from the World of Everything for Everyone”
Computer Law & Security Review journal
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Constitution of the USA
Cook Political Report – edited by Amy Walter
Corpus Juris Secundum
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Council on Foreign Relations
CounterPunch – A bi-weekly muckraking newsletter.
Courage Foundation, The – supporting those who risk life and liberty to be journalists, whistleblowers, and truth tellers
Courthouse News Service
Crimethinc – Crimethink is everything that evades control
Crowd Counting Consortium – Harvard Kennedy School and University of Connecticut
Current Affairs – A Magazine of Politics and Culture. Leftist and Socialist perspectives
Daily Kos
Daily Yomiuri 読売 – Largest newspaper in Japan.
Data for Progress – a think tank that leverages data for progressive causes
#DefendResearch – a scholarly communication community resisting the censorship of knowledge & research in the United States
DefenseNews
DeFlock – open-source project mapping automated license plate readers
Democracy Now! – A national, daily, independent, award-winning TV/radio news program.
Democratization journal
Department of Veterans Affairs
DigitalCourage — advocates for a critical mindset of technology and fundamental rights, privacy and protecting personal data
Direct Relief International – Providing assistance with food, clothing, and medicine to those affected by disaster.
Dissent Magazine
Doctors Without Borders – Medecins Sans Frontieres
Duke Law Journal – open access
electoral-vote.com
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Elizabeth Freeman Center – for victims of abuse and violence in Berkshire County, Mass.
EMILYs List – Grassroots political network for women.
Environment Magazine
fatherhood.org – National Fatherhood Initiative
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federalist Society – A Group of Conservatives
Federation of American Scientists
FindLaw – Law, Lawyers, Attorneys, and Legal Resources
Florida Law Review
Flyers for Falastin – call on people to stand in solidarity with Palestine through the power of free visual art
Foreign Law guide, US Library of Congress
Foreign Law Guide, Brill
Free Law Project – making the legal system more equitable
Free Speech TV
Fresh Air Fund – Free summer vacations for disadvantaged kids from New York City.
GLAD – GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders
Global Voices
Gooya News from Iran گویا نیوز
Greenpeace
Harari, Yuval Noah – professor and international Jewish thought leader
Hartmann, Thom
Harvard Law Review
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society – Rescue, Reunion, and Resettlement
Heritage Foundation
Hoover Institution – Stanford University
Hopi Tribe
Human Rights Foundation – “singular focus on authoritarian regimes”
Human Rights Law Centre, Australia
Human Rights Watch
Humanity United
ICEBlock – crowdsource ICE activity
idealist.org – Action without borders. Volunteer and nonprofit resources.
In These Times – publication to inform and critically analyze movements on the American Left
indymedia.org – Independent Media Center: a democratic newswire
Innocence Project
InSight Crime – think tank about crime in the Americas
Institute for Psychohistory, The
Intellectual Freedom Blog – American Library Association
Interfax Интерфакс – largest non-governmental Russian news agency
International Criminal Court
International Crisis Group
International Spy Museum, Washington, DC
InternetLab – an independent think tank focused on human rights and digital technologies based in São Paulo, Brasil (um think tank independente focado em direitos humanos e tecnologias digitais)
Intersex Campaign for Equality
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation from Cornell Law School
January 6th Project by LawFare
Jewish Agency for Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jim Hightower – American Populist
John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought
John Birch Society – Ultraconservative Libertarian group.
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Judicial Watch – Ethical and legal “watchdog”
Jurist – law students reporting on the rule of law in crisis
Justia – open and free access to the law
Lakota People’s Law Project
Lambda Legal – legal representation or advocacy for LGBTQ+
Law and Crime TV network
Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project
Law Atlas – Temple U. Beasley School of Law public health policy project
Law Stack Exchange – sharing Law knowledge collectively
Law360 – legal news and information
Law.com
LawFare – Hard National Security Choices
LawHub – Law School information and LSAT practice tests
LawInfo.com – An online resource for lawyers and the public.
LegalCommunityMENA – Legal community Middle East North Africa
Legal Information Institute – Cornell U.
Legal Innovation & Technology Lab at Suffolk Law School, Boston
Legalize Dancing NYC
Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib)
Lincoln Project, The
Mapping Police Violence
Maddow, Rachel
Maryknoll Sisters – A group of US Catholic sisters dedicated to justice overseas.
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education MCLE
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) – poverty law and policy center
Me Too Movement
Media Matters
Mescalero Apache Tribe
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
MichaelMoore.com – Official site of Michael Moore
Military.com – Largest online military destination.
MilkenInstitute.org – A nonprofit economic think tank.
Miller Center – nonpartisan institution at the University of Virginia researching the American presidency with scholars and US presidents
MIT Center for International Studies
Modern Military Association – LGBTQ+ Military and Veteran Community
Monthly Review – an independent socialist magazine
Mother Jones
MoveOn – Working to bring ordinary people back into politics.
NAACP – Distinguished assocation of Black Americans
National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Coalition for the Homeless
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy – A national watchdog, research and advocacy organization.
National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
National Employment Law Project – Policy and legal advocacy group for low-wage and unemployed workers.
National Housing Law Project
National Judicial College, The
National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Organization for Women – NOW
National Review
National Rifle Association
National Right to Life
National Security Agency
National Urban League
Native American Rights Fund
Navajo Nation
New America
New England Journal of Public Policy
No Labels
Noema Magazine
nolo.com – Everyday law for everyday people. Self-help legal guide.
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Onion, The – Award-winning news satire.
Open Secrets
Opus 2 – legal software and services
Palestine Chronicle صحيفة الكرونيكل الفلسطينية
Palestine-Israel Journal כתב העת פלסטין ישראל مجلة فلسطين-إسرائيل
Pax Christi – Catholic Peace Movement
People’s Academy of International Law
People’s World
People Over Papers ICE OUT [Site now defunct]
PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Physicians for a National Health Program
PIRG – Public Interest Research Group
Plain English for lawyers by Wydick, R at the Internet Archive
Planned Parenthood
Political Economy Research Institute at UMass Amherst
Politics War Room with James Carville and Al Hunt
Politifact – Poynter Institute
Poynter Institute, The
President Jimmy Carter Center
PRODEMINFO – Protecting the Democratic Information Space in Europe
PROPERTY RULES, LIABILITY RULES, AND INALIENABILITY: ONE VIEW OF THE CATHEDRAL, Harvard Law Review 1972
Public Citizen – Consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971.
Quinnipiac University Poll
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Rand Corporation
Reason – libertarian magazine
REPAIR – Republican Political Alliance for Integrity & Reform
Reporters without Borders – freedom of opinion and expression in the global space
Reproductive Freedom for All
Responsible Statecraft
Responsible Wealth – rich Americans concerned about economic inequality
Riseup – “liberatory social change”
Risks Associated With Publication from Digital Media Law Project at Harvard
Roll Call – The Newspaper of Capital Hill Since 1955.
Rutherford Institute, The
Sanders Institute – for progressive thinkers and advocates founded by Bernie Sanders with distinguished fellows
Sarah Malik – award winning investigative journalist
Sexual Minorities Archive
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Sources of American Law: An Introduction to Legal Research – 4th Edition textbook
Southern Environmental Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch
Stanford Law Review
Stars and Stripes – Newspaper for US Troops
STOP ICE RAIDS ALERT NETWORK
Suffolk University Political Research Center
Supreme Court of the United States
Task and Purpose – “Profiles, explainers, and other stories that dig into military history”
Texas Law Review
The Canary – radical Left publication in United Kingdom UK
The Dispatch – center-right, Never-Trump news and commentary
The Week – U.S. and International News Magazine
The Yappie – Asian American + Pacific Islander AAPI
TimeBanks.org – service rendered earns service time credit
Town Hall: Conservative News and Information
TruthOut – independent reporting
TYT – The Young Turks
United for Justice with Peace
United Nations
United Service Organizations (USO) – Serving the Men and Women Who Serve the USA.
University of Chicago Law Review
US Air Force
US Air Force Reserve
US Army
US Census Bureau
US Coast Guard
US Courts – The Federal Judiciary
US House of Representatives
US House of Representatives Internet Law Library
US Marine Corps
US Maritime Administration (MARAD)
US Naval Historical Center
US Navy
US Senate
Utne Online
Veterans for Common Sense – A group of nonpartisan veterans
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) of the United States
Votebeat
War Resisters League
we are not numbers – emerging writers from Palestine tell their stories
White House
WikiLeaks
Within Our Lifetime – United For Palestine
Women’s History Museum
Workers World
World Conferences for Research Integrity for investigators
World Decolonization Forum – decolonizing knowledge and its dissemination, and pedagogy in academia and elsewhere
World Litigation Forum
World Wildlife Fund
World Without Exploitation (WorldWE) – coalition working to end commercial sexual exploitation of children and adults
Yale “A Law Student’s Toolkit” free, online class

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• “A libertação é, portanto, um parto — e um parto doloroso.” (“Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.”) Paulo Freire. 1968. Pedagogia do Oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
• “A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.” Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). July 1878
• “Let me tell you something that I learned years ago. All politics is local.” Thomas P. O’Neill (1912-1994) U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1952-1987. Speaker of the House 1977-1987.
• “It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.” Homer. circa 700 B.C. The Iliad.
• “In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.” Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940). July 3, 1938.
• “I have not yet begun to fight!” John Paul Jones (1747-1792). September 23, 1779. Captain Jones’ response to being asked if he surrendered in his battle with Captain Richard Pearson of the HMS Serapis near Yorkshire, England.
• “Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978). 38th U.S. Vice President (1965-1969). U.S. Senator (1948-1964 and 1971-1978).
• “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) U.S. President 1953-1961. Farewell Speech January 17, 1961.

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