POLITICALLY-RELATED RESOURCES

This is a site for information about Lori Berenson, currently imprisoned in Peru on a life sentence for subversion despite very strong evidence that her trial was unfair. Prison conditions in Peru are notoriously grim. This is a person who needs help from concerned citizens willing to write Congresspersons and other potentially influential people who allege their deep and abiding concern for the safety of Americans abroad. (North Korea is not the only country that imprisons Americans.)

General political sites

• A cat-happy librarian named Rosemary Allen Little (Public Administration, Politics, and Law Librarian at Princeton University) has developed a wonderfully informative site for information resources in this field.

• American Civil Liberties Union

• American Political Science Association

• BillMandel.net

• Center for Responsive Politics

• Common Cause

• DemocraticUnderground.com
  . . . and be sure to see The Top 10 Conservative Idiots (updated weekly)

• The Feminist Majority

• IWW website

• Left on Line is now ZNet

• Left-Wing Lingo

• Marxism websites; see also The Marx/Engels Archive

• Communist History Network Newsletter (CHNN)

• National Organization of Women

• The New Party, which also provides some very interesting and useful related links

• People for the American Way

• Progressive Labor Party

• Radical Films

• RightPolitics.net, for those interested in what the terminally brain dead are up to -- with links to such wonders of the western world as Luciane.com, the site established by book agent extraordinaire Lucianne Goldberg

• Turn Left: The Home of Liberalism on the Web

• WebActive (links to a variety of progressive sites, articles, and links)


By Ben Shahn

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Journals and other political media

• The Black and Blue ("a publication dedicated to fighting the corporatization of the university and the rightwing onslaught in society-at-large" and published at the University of Pennsylvania)

• The Boston Review

• Journal of Cold War Studies

• The Thomas Nast Homepage; see also Mary Kay Duggan's Images of American Culture in the 1870s (University of California, Berkeley) and Thomas Nast and Grant

• Tom Tomorrow, "This Modern World"

• Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall and Doonesbury

• Jules Feiffer

• Conservatively Incorrect

• Dissent

• The Economist

• Foreign Affairs

• Green Left Weekly

• Intellectual Capital.com

• Liberal Avenger

• Monthly Review

• Mother Jones

• The Nation

• New Left Review

• The New Republic

• ZNET and Z magazine

• More or less unclassifiable is The Hunger Site

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Other politically amusing things



Dmitry Moor (1919), "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"

The Chairman Smiles--Posters from the Soviet Union, Cuba and China

For the terminally optimistic--those who not only believe they will read your mail but also that, at least in most cases, they can do so should they so choose--here are websites through which you can reach members of the United States's:

• House of Representatives; and its
• Senate

It might be worth writing to them about Lori Berenson (at the top of this page).

On 23 December 1996, Traister wrote here that "it might also amuse you to contact them about such ethereal matters as the--can you believe this word?--'ethics' of Newt Gingrich and his rights to retain the Speakership of the House of Representatives. (Where is Jim Wright now that we need him?)"--thus demonstrating, backhandedly, his own unquenchably stupid optimism. Voting to retain The Honorable Mr. Gingrich as Speaker was Traister's very own Representative, The Honorable Mr. John Fox (R-PA), a person once distinguished by The Chicago Tribune--and rightly, since surely he can be distinguished for nothing else, unless Sander Gilman's eye should happen to fall upon him as he prepares a second edition of his recent publication, Smart Jews--as the proud possessor of the worst hairpiece in American politics.