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[Just a prefatory note:  I do not necessarily agree with everything presented in all of these sites.  I have included them because I think they have useful material to stimulate thinking about economic justice issues.]

• Political philosopher David Schweickart (Loyola University Chicago) has recently published After Capitalism (New Critical Theory). This is an excellent resource for visualizing in concrete terms how the economy could be structured in a more humane way (an economic system Schweickart calls Economic Democracy) and how we might get from here to there. Margaret Thatcher's mantra was TINA -- There Is No Alternative (to capitalism). This book gives a clear presentation of one alternative.

• The Progressive Portal offers both informative articles and easy opportunities for online activism on a range of peace and justice issues. Their readers generate several thousand letters per day to members of Congress, the administration, and other decision-makers.

• Other sites that use graphics to make the truth visible:

  • Alternate graphics illustrating income, wealth, and tax distribution, and another site

  • Graphs of Unemployment, Stock Prices, and Budget Surplus/Deficit over three presidential administrations.

  • Graphs of approval ratings for the current administration and comparisons with previous administrations back to Eisenhower.

  • World Clock: Running statistics of many significant issues
    

• "The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy."

• United for a Fair Economy is an independent, nonpartisan organization whose goal is
  to revitalize America through a more fair distribution of wealth.

• Extra, a publication and web site operated by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).  I find their e-mail listserve particularly informative, well researched, and clear-thinking.

• Dollars and Sense Magazine, Left Business Observer: Excellent progressive economic reporting and commentary

• The Institute for Economic Democracy  is "a nonprofit/educational Foundation established primarily to research a worldwide sustainable development policy."  The web site has much thought-provoking material.

• Michael Moore.  By now everyone has heard of Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, etc.). If you haven't seen his debut piece, Roger and Me, it's about time you did.  It probes the conscious economic destruction of the film-maker's home town: Flint Michigan.

• The Participatory Economics Project, hosted by Z Magazine.

• The Economic Democracy Information Network has a web page with an excellent directory of organizations, magazines, and online resources.

• Some focused pages: Sweatshop Watch, The Wisdom Council

• A few years ago I wrote a pair of articles about the L-Curve for a small local newspaper, the Tule River Times, a shorter version for the Porterville Recorder, and another for the Friends Bulletin.  (A reader of the Friends Bulletin article used it as the basis for a letter to Senator Kyl of Arizona.  Senator Kyl's response is what I would consider a typical example of obfuscation.)  These articles are not the last word on the subject...just a first attempt to deal with the issues. 

• Some of my other writings, many of them on social justice issues.

• The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, have long been in the forefront of activism for social justice.  Quaker.org is an inelegant, but nearly comprehensive list of links to all things Quaker.   Specific Quaker organizations relevant to socio-economic issues are the Friends Committee on National Legislation and the American Friends Service Committee.

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