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By Kim Gandy
Using a combination of shell-game math and "the sky is falling" rhetoric, proponents of Social Security privatization are trying to frighten us into giving up the only guaranteed family safety and retirement insurance that this country provides, while wooing our support for private accounts with visions of big bucks from playing the stock market.
The mission of the Alliance for Retired Americans is to ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, personal and family fulfillment and security.
Provides information and studies on issues such as the phony studies cited by the government to promote tort reform. An interesting site for all people committed to protecting access to justice for all Americans.
Americans United protects separation of church and state by working on a wide range of pressing political and social issues
This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, greens, and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism.
Tracking the Bush administration's environmental misdeeds
A project of Public Citizen, it offers information on Bush's secrecy policies.
A Saving Endangered Wild Places
By Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher
President Bush called on Congress last night to curtail future Social Security benefits for all but low-income retirees in an urgent new effort to address the popular program's shaky finances.
With virtually every Democrat, as well as many Republicans, opposed to his plan for private investment accounts, Bush sought to shift the focus of the Social Security debate to a new proposal that would reduce benefits more as workers' incomes rise.
A super-progressive website with news stories by progressive authors.
No explanation necessary, we hope!
Political Action for Environmental Protection
The Core Purpose of the California Retired Teachers Association is to enhance and protect the benefits of retired educators.
Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
Because wise voters are the heartbeat of Democracy
a political network for pro-choice democratic women
By Jonathan Weisman and Jim VandeHei
With the Senate Finance Committee at an impasse on Social Security and House leaders anxious about moving forward, Republican congressional leaders have told the White House in recent days that it is time to look for an escape route.
To see fair planning practices instituted in the Fallbrook area, and to see that our current rural setting is neither attacked nor destroyed.
Dedicated to preserving and enhancing the rural lifestyle and natural beauty of Fallbrook.
For local arts news
Prepares a newsletter digesting breaking news and updated information relating to secrecy.
Free Press is a nonpartisan organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for more democratic media.
Provides resources on national security policy, including secrecy.
Families of soldiers who have died as a result of war are organizing to be a positive force in our world to bring our country's sons and daughters home from Iraq.
Citizens for Global Solutions envisions a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone.
Dedicated to preserving and enhancing the rural lifestyle and natural beauty of Fallbrook.
by David R. Francis
By historical standards, the economic recovery in the United States has been unfair. It has devoted too big a share of income growth to corporate profits, too little to workers.
News from Pro-choice Democratic Women
Veterans committed to saving lives and ending the violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces.
Great action-oriented site
The average fuel economy of Ford's fleet is "last among the top six automakers" according to the EPA
Dedicated to reducing homophobia, inequality, hate crimes and discrimination by encouraging self-acceptance, cooperation and non-violence.
The Political Voice of the Environmental Movement
Jesus was an extraordinary friend of the downtrodden, definitely a Liberal, whose advocacy so infuriated the ultra-conservative leaders of his day that they had him killed
a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology
A nonprofit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Ignore the marketing gunk and enjoy the good source of news.
Support our troops; bring them home now!
Democracy in action.
Making Democracy work since 1909.
Issues-oriented abortion rights advocacy, with links to state chapters.
To promote visibility for feminist research and analysis and build stronger links between research, policy, action, and the media
Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women.
To preserve the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters needed to survive.
A grassroots organization dedicated to finding peaceful solutions to national and global conflicts.
A nonprofit government watchdog organization located in Washington, D.C. Their mission is to promote open government, accountability and citizen participation.
The ONE Campaign is a new effort to rally Americans to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. Each ONE of us can make a difference. Together as ONE we can change the world.
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Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections
We are the voice of the troops, a non-partisan group created to help them share stories of life on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are also working to help veterans get the support they need.
Population Connection educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources.
To strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.
Supporting the Progressive Vote
Still working on content.
Promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights, with links to local chapters.
A good portal to reproductive healthcare, education, and advocacy information.
A great source of information for pro-choice advocates.
A journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad.
A North County Caucus for Progressives
Seeking Change
Undertakes independent investigations to promote openness and government accountability.
A non-profit advocacy organization established to oppose the White House's effort to dismantle Social Security, the most successful retirement and anti-poverty program in our nation's history.
A national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971, Public Citizen represent consumer interests in Congress, the federal branch and the courts.
Campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through grassroots organizing, education and non-violent direct action
An alternative news nexus that selects stories intriguing to an audience seeking news underplayed by the mainstream media.
Watches government secrecy issues, and provides comprehensive studies that can be downloaded. Its "Behind the Home Front" provides daily chronicles of news about homeland security and military operations affecting newsgathering, access to information and the public's right to know.
Mission: To stand up for the rest of us against special interests by promoting fairness and accountability in a government where the majority rules
Part political brawl. Part secular prayer.
A group of distinguished scholars and researchers working to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable and humane society.
San Diego Earth Times presents articles covering a wide variety of local, national and international environmental topics.
San Diego EarthWorks is a committed network of volunteers in service for a healthy, prosperous and sustainable future for all living things.
An organization of vets and other people; we work with active duty folks and their families who are having problems within the Military.
619-692-3686
Help battle the war on reproductive rights.
Explore, enjoy and protect
the planet.
First launched in 1997, the Social Security Network has served as an important resource for information and research on the Social Security program and the debate about its future. Featuring research conducted by The Century Foundation on Social Security as well as broader issues of retirement security, the site strives to present the best facts and analysis available to academics, policymakers, journalists, and the public.
Associated with the brady campaign to prevent gun violence
The Take Back America Conference brings thousands of progressive activists, thinkers and leaders together to discuss our vision, unite our groups and train our campaign organizers.
Affiliated with Planned Parenthood, this is a wealth of information about teen sexuality.
By Greg Anrig Jr., The Century Foundation
January 25,2005
The current debate over privatizing Social Security has been marred by numerous myths perpetuated by both privatization's advocates and the media. The Century Foundation looks at 10 commonly accepted assertions and points out why each has little to do with reality.
Read it at the link above or download the PDF.
Collects and publishes elusive records and documents that have been withdrawn from the public domain.
The best progressive insight and action. All day.
Our vision is to create awareness that there is a majority of people in this country who support the idea and find it patriotic that our troops come home as soon as possible. We need a clear vision for the future of how and when our troops will come home.
Great culling of daily news of interest to progressives
UCS is an independent nonprofit alliance of more than 100,000 concerned citizens and scientists. We augment rigorous scientific analysis with innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world.
VerifiedVoting.org champions reliable and publicly verifiable elections in the United States.
Support the Troops, Oppose the Policy
Veterans Working Together for Peace & Justice Through Non-violence. Wage Peace! San Diego
County chapter An independent and interactive web news and information source for San Diego
Vote.com is a fully interactive web site designed to give Internet users a voice on important public issues and other topics. Vote.com is the brainchild of Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The funding of the site comes from Dick Scruggs and Steve Bozeman.
Washington DC scrutinized by the Public Broadcasting
An Internet-based tool connecting the natural resource workforce, scientists, educators, and the public to their wilderness heritage through ready access to wilderness information.
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