Personal Freedom
This page includes websites that defend individual rights and freedoms. These include freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from unlawful or arbitrary seizure and detention, and the right to privacy.
Privacilla - This organization works to protect the privacy of individuals from government and corporate intrusions. Its members believe that society functions best when the role of government is limited. To this end, it provides publicly-accessible information about privacy laws and personal rights.
FindHabeas.com - This organization strives to protect Americans from unlawful and indefinite detention. It members believe that the federal government is attempting to undermine the ancient protections against unreasonable detention, and that this threatens the constitution and the most basic of human rights. The FindHabeas website monitors the numerous court cases that have arisen as a result of this threat.
ACLU - This organization is one of the oldest protectors of American civil liberties. Over the years it has taken an active role in defending numerous individuals and groups from threats to their basic rights and freedoms. To many people, those threats seem to have become ever more menacing in recent years, so that the protections provided by the ACLU and similar organizations are even more important now than in the past.
The Freedom Forum - The Freedom Forum is a nonpolitical foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, the First Amendment and newsroom diversity.
http://www.infowars.com - This site reports on the growing efforts of governments and large corporations to control access to the internet, and to make it more difficult and expensive for individuals and small companies to operate websites. There are also reports on internet censorship and anti-competitive practices.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State - This non-profit organization, which was founded in 1947, is dedicated to preserving the principle of church-state separation as set forth in the First Amendment of the United States constitution. Its members believe that this is an essential requirement for protecting the religious freedom of all Americans. Its activities include court actions, lobbying of government officials, and educating the general public. It has involved itself in issues such as public funding of private religious schools, mandatory prayer in public schools, and church participation in political campaigns. The organization is funded by donations from members and supporters who believe in church-state separation.
The Young Turks - This group produces videos and podcasts that are intended to provide insights into emerging political and social trends. Typically its youtube videos receive more than 30 million views every month. According to the site, one definition of a "young turk" is someone who rebels against authority in order to bring about a better society. The individuals behind the site are especially opposed to political and financial interests who try to crush personal freedoms that stand in the way of their greedy projects.
U.S. Freedom Index - Because each state has its own laws and policies, personal rights and freedoms vary from place to place within the United States. This website provides results of an ongoing study of the individual liberties enjoyed by the citizens of each state. To obtain their results, the participants in the study examine more than two hundred current policies of each state in areas such as taxes, spending, campaign finances, voting rights, and abortion choices. An overall score is given to every state to indicate the degree of freedom allowed to its residents. This score is updated periodically as laws and policies change.
Other Categories
- Social Causes
This category is for websites that speak out for the rights of repressed minority groups or neglected segments of society. - Political Dissent
This is a list of sites that take unpopular political positions or call for radical changes to existing governmental systems. Some of these sites also push for the expansion of voting rights and greater restrictions on the activities of political lobbyists. - Anti-Corporate
These are websites that oppose the policies and practices of large corporations and institutions. Such practices might include collusion, artificial price controls, exploitation of people, lobbying for special tax benefits, unfair awarding of contracts, and exploitation of natural resources. - Religious Dissent
These websites oppose the beliefs and practices of major established religious groups, or that promote the beliefs of small lesser-known groups. - Weird Religious Beliefs
People are free to believe whatever they want, but some beliefs seem rather weird to the average person. This page includes definitions of various unusual beliefs which have been verified in different societies. Atheists and skeptics sometimes use strange beliefs in their arguments against the truth of traditional religions. - Atheist Websites
This section describes websites that express an atheist viewpoint. Many of these sites strongly oppose the beliefs and practices of traditional religions. - Nature and Environment
These are websites of organizations that fight to protect the natural world from human exploitation and encroachment. This could include the advocacy of animal rights, the protection and expansion of park lands, and opposition to commercial development of forests. - Peripheral Science
This page is a guide to websites which describe phenomena that lie outside the scope of conventional science. - Other Resources
This page lists some other useful online resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and reference materials.
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