Surf these sites: All in a Day''s Damage Control -- How a big-shot magazine editor and her lawyers lost their sense of humor and then found it again, and how an internet service provider lost its backbone and then magically rediscovered it. Ancient redwood tree -- Julia Butterfly sat atop an ancient redwood named Luna from December 1997 to 1999 and the tree is to be saved now. California. Antenna -- "Progress not Profit" is motto of Antenna Organization with links to various information and problem solving approaches on progressive issues. Audio of N.P.R. on Monsanto''s increasing control of Agriculture -- NOTE: Site requires Real Audio "plug in" to hear this National Public Radio tape about Monsanto who has hired private investigators who go around and spray poison on crops they suspect have actually saved Monsanto''s altered seed and used it to grow soybeans. Ohio legislature appears ready to help Monsanto. The "test" by using poison permits seeing a few days later if the soybeans die or not. If they live, they are likely Monsanto''s offspring seed. Audio piece is balanced yet reveals complex, contradictory issues. taped at Oak Harbor, Ohio in March, 1999. Blue Information Systems Home -- This brilliantly crafted, state of the art communication network in Western Maine enables local free speech, literacy training, and empowerment to individuals. Exemplary model of community building where high technology is the tool, not the goal of the work. Buy Nothing Week -- Will the US consumers "Give it a rest?" Feb 7, 2000 is Buy Nothing Week." Example of planned, multimedia event maximally using free speech rights (Adbusters) Civil Liberties -- from About.com Guide Controversies reviewed -- Northwest University reviews controversial issues fundamental to exercise of free speech. CyberSpace Law -- for Non-Lawyers Dr. Marc Lappé on Ethics -- Neither we nor the plants and animals we value most in our biosphere have the genetic repertoire to adapt to the extraordinarily rapid introduction of novel toxic substances. Evolution Project''s Quote File -- Remarkable quotations which transcend time and place many on progressive issues . Fiji Islands replacing Official Secrets Act with information act -- Old British colonial secrets act is likely to be replaced with freed of information act in Fiji Islands in early 1999. Free Speech -- University of Missouri paper debating limitations of free speech. Homelessness -- Tedrico gives voice to homeless people. This highly creative site reminds readers about poverty and related issues. Howard Lyman: Mad Cowboy -- For over 200 hundred years, our country''s legal systems have refused to recognize "product libel." Yet now big corporations are trying to supress allegations that meat products are hazadous to health and the environment - could it be because these criticisms are correct? Judy Rebick -- Weekly column by writer and speaker in Canada. Linux and Free Speech -- Linux Festival. Why Linux and Free Speech? The limitations browsers put on one''s home "portal" are subtle but pervasive. Alternate Operating System (OS) enables freedom from such influences in a myriad of ways. (Analogous to removing ''blinders.'' Margaret Chase Smith -- One of the strongest voices in the U.S. Senate from the late 1940''s to mid 1970''s, Margaret Chase Smith stood up to the witch hunter, McCarthy in her famous (June 1, 1950) speech entitled "A Declaration of Conscience." She attacked Wisconsin''s Joe McCarthy (without referring to him by name) for using congressional immunity to make unproved charges that defamed innocent Americans. National Association of Scholars (NAS) -- Based at Princeton University but joined by academic scholars, worldwide, site is devoted to improving and maintaining free speech in academic settings. Frequently updated. Quest International Home Page -- Focus on teaching children to be able to discern what is right and fair in the world so that they may think and act in a way to support sustainability, human justice and continued free speech. Series of in depth reviews of free speech in cyber law -- David Post''s Writings include brilliant analyses of legal precedents and cases in free speech concerning the internet. Smarter Searches -- Jesse Burst gives logic and links to finding what you need to maintain your free speech rights (well to maintain whatever you want) on the internet. The Free Speech Rulebook -- Jonathon Blumen provides thoughtful discussion about roots and current status of free speech. Tim Berners-Lee -- The man who made the web, says in 500 words or less, where it''s been: A short history of web development Zondervan Publishing -- Free Speech carries responsibilies - green ribbon decency program acknowledges importance and rights of liberty
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