Abortion: issues and groups

Educational and informational sites

• Abortion Law Homepage--background and links to related legal material.
• Virtual Congress: Partial Birth Abortion Ban--Policy.com

  Pro-life groups and sites

• National Right to Life--site dedicated to the spread of pro-life information, facts about abortion, and abortion alternatives
• Prolife.org--"supporting the right to live"
• Right to Life--Catholic Information Center on Internet

  Pro-choice groups and sites

• Abortion--personal pro-choice site; includes Frequently Stated Reasons for Abortion vs. Reasons Against
• The Abortion Rights Activist--Adam Guasch-Melendez--personal pro-choice site
• NARAL--National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League--leading political force dedicated to securing the freedom to choose.
• National Abortion Federation--the voice of abortion providers
• National Organization for Women (NOW)--NOW and Abortion Rights/ Reproductive Issues--reports and actions on abortion issues.
• Planned Parenthood--online source for sexual and reproductive health information.
• Refuse and Resist!--Abortion on Demand and Without Apology
• Related Links: Pro-Choice--California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League--comprehensive index to links to both sides of the issue
• Voters For Choice--pro-choice political action committee

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Abortion
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Abortion
• Yahoo!: Health: Reproductive Health: Abortion Top Stories: Abortion Rights Debate (news stories, magazine articles, and web sites)

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  09/11/00

Affirmative Action: issues and groups

Government information

• Affirmative Action--Grace York, Univ. of Michigan
• Affirmative Action Fact Sheet (Executive Order 11246)--Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), Employment Standards Admin., Dept. of Labor
• Affirmative Action Review--Report to the President, July 19, 1995
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities--includes Affirmative Action and People with Disabilities and Developing an Affirmative Action Program.

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Society: Work: Workplace Discrimination: Affirmative Action
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Affirmative Action
• Yahoo! Issues and Causes: Affirmative Action

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  07/25/00

Aging: issues and groups

Government information

• The Administration on Aging--U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
• Health Care Financing Administration--Medicare and Medicaid
• Social Security Administration

  Interest-group and other political sites

• AARP--American Association of Retired Persons
• National Council on the Aging

  Educational and informational sites

• National Center for Policy Analysis, Social Security--a collection of tracts and debates on topics dealing with social security

  Indexes

• Advocacy: Links to Other Useful Sites [Related to Aging]--National Council on the Aging--aging organizations, agencies on aging, think tanks and policy websites, health and medicine, personal finance, social security, and other links
• Age Specific Resources--Univ. of Maryland Diversity Database
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Health: Aging Medical Specialties: Geriatrics Society: Seniors
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Seniors / Social Security
• Yahoo!: Cultures and Groups: Seniors Health: Aging Health: Geriatrics

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  09/11/00

Air Pollution: issues and groups

Government information

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Air Now--EPA's Office of Air and Radiation (OAR)--monitors outdoor air that we all breathe and which can cause health and other environmental concerns
  • EPA Global Warming Site--A definition and history of the green house effect
  • EPA: Ozone Depletion--Information about the science of ozone depletion
  • The Plain English Guide To The Clean Air Act--Guide to the 1990 Clean Air Act

  Interest-group and other political sites

• American Lung Assoc.--Clean Air Is Up To You!--with links to Asthma, lung disease, and tobacco
• NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)--sections include air/energy, global warming, water, wildlife and fish, parks, toxic chemicals, nuclear weapons and waste, cities and green living, and legislation
• Ozone Action--non-profit public interest organization focused on global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion

  Educational and informational sites

• Air Pollution--Univ. of California, San Diego.
• Air Pollution--EnviroInfo (Univ. of Miinho, Portugal)
• Air Pollution--Environment Canada--covers acid rain, air quality, greenhouse gases, ozone layer, smog, and related topics
• Air Pollution--Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
• Health Effects of Air Pollution--World Resources Institute
• How can we prevent the damaging effects of air pollution?--Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) in Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Indoor Air Pollution--Mayo Clinic--article about radon, carbon monoxide, and tobacco smoke in the home.
• Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry--York Univ. (Canada)--links to global warming, ozone, and related problems and an introduction to the field.
• Outdoor Air Pollution & Lung Disease--LungNet (Australian Lung Foundation)
• Overview of Ozone Depletion--Mike Pluth (personal page)
• Urban Air Pollution home page--Bartlett School of Architecture, Univ. College London--carbon monoxide, monitoring, visualisation, modelling, Streetbox, housing condition, health, space syntax.

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Air Quality Pollution Prevention and Recycling
• Yahoo!: Environment and Nature: Pollution: Air World Full Coverage: Global Warming Science Full Coverage: Ozone Hole

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  07/25/00

Alcoholism

Government information

• U.S. Dept. of Human Services
  • National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)--National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Admin.
• Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention--Education Development Center/U.S. Dept. of Education

  Interest-group and other political sites

• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
• CSPI's Alcohol Policies Project--Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)--BoozeNews--alerts, fact sheets, issues, links
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)--focus on finding effective solutions to the drunk driving and underage drinking problems
• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD)

  Educational and informational sites

• Alcoholism Links--About.com
• Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS)

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Alcohol: Drunk Driving Health: Substance Abuse: Alcoholism

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  07/19/00

Animal rights: issues and groups

Government information

• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service--U. S. Dept. of Agriculture--includes Humane Care of Animals
• Animal Health Institute--trade association of manufacturers drugs, vaccines, feed additives, and veterinary medicines
• Animal Welfare Information Center--U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
• Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM)--U. S. Food and Drug Admin.--includes Green Book, the FDA-approved animal drug list
• Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare--U.S. National Institutes of Health--oversight of Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals involved in research conducted or supported by any component of the Public Health Service

  Interest-group and other political sites

• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
• Animal Welfare Institute--goal is to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans, including humane treatment of laboratory animals and the development and use of non-animal testing methods, preservation of species, reform of cruel treatment of farm animals, such as intensive confinement in animal factories, and ban on steel jaw leghold traps.
• Americans for Medical Progress--provides information to the public on the benefits of animal research
• Fund for Animals--animal protection organization
• Humane Society of the United States
• National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR)--advocates "sound public policy that recognizes the vital role of humane animal use in biomedical research, higher education and product safety testing
• PETA Online--People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine--includes Research Controversies and Issues about animal experimentation and related issues
• Society for Animal Protective Legislation

  Indexes

• Animal Rights Resource Site--EnviroLink
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Animal Welfare
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Animal
• Yahoo! Animal Rights

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  07/26/00

Automobile safety: issues and groups

Government information

• Federal Highway Admin.--U.S. Dept. of Transportation--includes Highway Safety.
• National Highway Traffic Safety Admin.--U.S. Dept. of Transportation--includes information on Air Bags, Child Passenger Safety, and Cellular Phones (Safety Implications).

  Interest-group and other political sites

• Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
  
  
• American Automobile Association--AAA Newsroom: Traffic Safety, including Graduated Driver Licensing.
  
  
• Center for Auto Safety (CAS)--founded by Consumers Union and Ralph Nader to provide consumers a voice for auto safety and quality
  
  

  Educational and informational sites

• AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety--"mission is to research why motor vehicle crashes happen and educate the public about how to avoid problems on the road"
  
  
• [Air Bags and Infants]--Kid Source Online
  
  
• The Electronic Highway Safety Library--Larry D. Preston & Yanming Xu, Center for Public Safety and Injury Prevention, Univ. at Albany
• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety / Highway Loss Data Institute--"dedicated to reducing highway crash deaths, injuries and property losses"--includes Highway Safety Topics--airbags, alcohol, safety belts, speed, teenagers, and other topics
  
  
• Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)--including traffic calming.
  
  
• National Safety Council (NSC)--including Safety Agenda for the Nation - On The Road.
  
  

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Alcohol: Drunk Driving Issues: Autos: Driving and Safety
• Yahoo! Driving Safety
  
• Go to links about drunk driving.

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  07/26/00

Campaign finance: issues and groups

Government information

• U.S. Federal Election Commission--campaign laws; financial information about candidates, parties, & political action committees; federal elections & voting statistics, other services
  • FEC Electronic Publication List--U.S. Federal Election Commission--federal campaign finance law for citizens, corporations, & organizations
  • FECInfo--U.S. Federal Election Commission--non-partisan federal candidate campaign money page: 1997-98, 1995-96, and 1993-94 political-action-committees and individual contributor by candidate
  • Federal Elections and Voting Statistics--U.S. Federal Election Commission--official 1996 Presidential primary and general election results, voter registration and turnout

  Educational and political sites

• Brookings Institution--Campaign Finance
• Destination Democracy--Money: Democracy's Fuel or Democracy's Roadblock?
• Frontline--PBS and WGBH--"So You Want to Buy a President?"
• Mother Jones, Foundation for National Progress--"The Mother Jones 400"--searchable profiles of top contributors to political parties
• opensecrets.org--Center For Responsive Politics--online source for money in politics data
  • Publications--"Cashing In" industry reports, background on money in politics, election law and its enforcement, recent election cycles, and other reports
    
• Public Campaign--non-profit organization geared toward eliminating the influence of special interest money
• Sierra Club--Policy on Campaign Finance Reform
• The Struggle for Campaign Finance Reform--Stephanie T. Godfrey (private site)--comprehensive report explaining campaign finance
• 28thAmen.org--proposal for limiting campaign funds

  Indexes

• Idea Central: Issues in Depth--Electronic Policy Network (EPN)--Campaign Finance Reform
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Campaign Finance Campaigns and Elections
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Campaign Finance
• Yahoo! Political Issues: Campaign Finance Reform

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Censorship: issues and groups

Interest-group and other political sites

• ACLU--American Civil Liberties Union
• Directors Guild of America--"V-Chipping Away at the First Amendment?"--article by Gene Reynolds about society and the V-chip
• Freedom of Expression-- Julie Van Camp, California State Univ., Long Beach--controversy over the National Endowment for the Arts
• Home Recording Rights Coalition--"dedicated to preserving your right to purchase and use home audio and video recording products for noncommercial purposes"
• Institute for First Amendment Studies--founded "to expose and counter the political activities of the Religious Right"
• National Political Index--"Contacting Political Activist Groups"--Censorship and the Media
• People For the American Way--free speech, equal rights, education, religious liberty, choice, & the religious right
• V-Chip--Federal Communications Commission--information on the V-chip and TV censorship

  Educational and informational sites

• American Library Association--Banned Books Week
• First Amendment Handbook--Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press--legal information on the first amendment
• Freedom Forum--focused exclusively on fostering First Amendment freedoms--free speech & free press. See also its First Amendment page.
• TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board--TV Parental Guidelines--TV rating system

  Indexes

• Ed Flixman's Free Speech Links (private site)--censorship links
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Censorship Debate
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Arts, Humanities, and Public Broadcasting Funding
• See/Hear/Speak No Evil (private site)--free speech issues, news, and opinion
• Yahoo!: The Arts and Censorship Banned Books Censorship

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  07/28/00

Children: issues and groups

Government information

• Admin. for Children and Families--U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services--includes The Children's Bureau and Head Start
• Children and Youth Policy--U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services--child care and child development, child welfare, child abuse and neglect, family preservation, foster care and adoption, teen pregnancy, and Trends in Well-Being of America's Children
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)--U.S. National Institutes of Health
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention--U.S. Dept. of Justice
• UNICEF--United Nations Children's Fund
• Welfare of Children & Families--U.S. Admin. for Children & Families (ACF)

  Interest-group and other political sites

• ABA Center on Children and the Law--American Bar Assoc.--extensive site on children's rights
• Alliance for Children and Families--represents more than 350 child- and family-serving organizations
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)--Issues: Students' Rights
• Child Welfare League of America
• Children Now--children's issues
• Children's Defense Fund--to educate the nation about the needs of children and encourage preventive investment in children, paying particular attention to the needs of poor, minority, and disabled children
• Children's Rights Law Materials--Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
• Council on Adoptable Children--a non-profit adoption services agency
• Covenant House--largest privately-funded child care agency
• FosterLove--a foster care and adoptive parent resource
• National Assoc. of Child Advocates (NACA)
• National Center for Children in Poverty--its mission is to identify and promote strategies that reduce the incidence of young child poverty in the United States
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• National Child Support Enforcement Assoc. (NCSEA)
• National Head Start Assoc. (NHSA)
• National Network for Youth--works to empower youth, strengthen families, support diversity, and encourage community-based services; includes focus on runaway and homeless youth
• National PTA--the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States--speaks on behalf of children and youth in the schools and encourages parent and public involvement in public schools
• National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP)--provides community- based services for troubled and needy youth who would otherwise have been institutionalized or incarcerated and for their families
• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)--The Five Worst Environmental Threats To Children's Health--the worst environmental threats to children's health are lead, air pollution, pesticides, environmental tobacco smoke, and drinking water contamination
• Results--private group that seeks solutions to hunger and poverty
• Save the Children--United Kingdom's leading international children's charity

  Indexes

• ABA Center on Children and the Law--American Bar Assoc.--"Links of Interest to Child Advocates"
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Children--advocacy groups, charities, child abduction, child abuse, child labor, children's rights, child support, custody, parent's rights
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Family / Children
• Yahoo!: Child Support Children Children: Organizations Issues and Causes: Poverty: Homeless: Children Teenagers
• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
  
• See also links about school choice and vouchers.
  
• See also links about school prayer.
  
• See also links about school violence.
  
• See also links about teenage drinking.
  
• See also links about television violence.
  
• See also links about youth pregnancy.
  
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Civil and human rights: issues and groups

Government information

• Civil Rights Division--U.S. Dept. of Justice
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe--clearinghouse for human rights information in Eastern and Western Europe.
• United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices--U.S. Dept. of State--covers internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights in each foreign country. Alternative site--United States Information Service Stockholm
• Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor--U.S. Dept. of State--includes Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, fact sheets, statements, speeches, testimony, press releases, and reports on human rights abroad, covering religious freedom, racism, intolerance, slavery, torture, children's rights, and women's rights.

  Educational and informational sites

• Amnesty International USA
• Center for Human Rights--Washington College of Law, American Univ.
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Web
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

  Indexes

• Institute for Global Communication (IGC)--Human Rights Links
• Project Vote Smart: Terrorism
• Yahoo!: Human Rights Terrorism

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  08/02/00

Crime and justice: issues and groups

Government information

• U.S. Dept. of Justice--click on its agencies, including
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)--crime and justice statistics
  • Drug Enforcement Admin. (DEA)--Congressional testimony, media releases, demand reduction, & trends & statistics
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)--most-wanted lists, overview, history, employment opportunities, major investigations, Congressional affairs, public affairs, law enforcement support; and Uniform Crime Reports
  • Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
  • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
  • Violence Against Women Office (VAWO)
• Justice Information Center--U.S. National Criminal Justice Reference Service--corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminal justice statistics, drugs, drug policy, gangs, international resources, juvenile justice, law enforcement, research & evaluation, & victims
• Justice statistics
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics--"Justice Statistics"
  • Fedstats / Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy--"Crime and Justice Statistics"--links to statistics and information produced by federal agencies
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)--"Uniform Crime reports"Statistics--crime and justice statistics
  • Social Statistics Briefing Room--White HouseWeb--"Crime"
• U.S. National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information (NCADI)--U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• National Drug Control Policy --Office of National Drug Control Policy, White House Web Server--goals and objectives, drug facts and stats, performance measures of effectiveness, policy papers, drug abuse treatment and prevention, other resources; includes latest National Drug Control Strategy
• U.S. Office of Government Ethics
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics--Univ. at Albany for the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics--characteristics of the criminal justice systems, public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice-related topics, nature and distribution of known offenses, characteristics and distribution of persons arrested, judicial processing of defendants, and persons under correctional supervision
• Uniform Crime Reports, 1995 to present--Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)--provides data (down to county level and towns over 10,000) on known includes offenses and arrests for murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson and arrests for forgery, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug and alcohol abuse violations, gambling, vagrancy, curfew violations, and runaways; requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view in Portable Document Format (PDF). See also Uniform Crime Reports, 1990-1995--Patrick Yott, Univ. of Virginia.

  Interest-group and other political sites

• American Civil Liberties Union
  • Issues: Criminal Justice--includes ACLU "bust card," racial profiling, abuses and reform, due process, equal treatment, and search and seizure
  • Issues: Prisoners' Rights
• Human Rights Watch--includes Shielded from Justice : Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States, which examines common obstacles to accountability for police abuse in fourteen large cities representing most regions of the nation
• The Libertarian Party's Legislative Program--Violence, Crime, and Drugs
• NORML--National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
• National Rifle Association--includes Institute for Legislative Action News.

  Educational and informational sites

• Active Most Wanted and Criminal Investigations--Gunny Ragg--links to most wanted sites
• Criminal Justice Issues--Mennonite Central Committee
• Criminal Justice Links--Cecil Greek, Florida State Univ.--juvenile delinquency; drug and alcohol info; prisons & the death penalty; obscenity, censorship & the Communications Decency Act; & related topics
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data--Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)--browsing and downloading access to most of 500 data collections relating to criminal justice
• The Sentencing Project--a national leader in developing alternative sentencing programs and in the reform of criminal justice policy. Includes policy report summaries and publications; briefing/fact sheets (with statistics about prisons and prisoners); and current related news articles
• Violence and the Public Schools--Hal Burbach (Curry School of Education)--the problem of violence in the public schools
• Violence Prevention and Criminal Justice--Education Center Develpoment--topics by keyword or search

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Crime Prevention Domestic Violence Issues: Crime and Justice Issues: Family Violence Top: News: Current Events: Crime and Violence
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Crime Illegal Drugs
• Yahoo! Crime: crime prevention criminal justice domestic violence juvenile crime organized crime violence U.S. War on Drugs
• Yahoo! Crime: Death Penalty: Opposing Views Supporting Views
• See also links about death penalty.
  
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• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
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Death penalty: issues and groups

Interest-group and other political sites

• American Civil Liberties Union--Issues: Death penalty--anti death penalty page
• Critical Criminology Division, American Society of Criminology
  • Death Penalty and Resources--information and statistics
  • Links to Death Penalty Information--links to numerous (mostly anti-) death penalty pages
• Death Penalty Information Center--issues concerning the death penalty (anti-death penalty)
• Prodeathpenalty.com--pro death penalty page

  Educational and informational sites

• Logos Christian Resource Pages--"The Bible's Teaching on Capital Punishment"--pro death penalty page
• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance--"Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty"--religious views on the subject

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Death Penalty
• Yahoo! Crime: Death Penalty: Opposing Views Supporting Views

  Personal sites

• Death Penalty USA Pages--number of people executed each year; click on year for a list of people executed that year; click on the name of each person to find information about the crime that person committed

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  03/03/00

Disability: issues and groups

Government information

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Home Page--U.S. Dept. of Justice
• disAbility.gov--one-stop directory of federal programs, services, and resources for Americans with disabilities and their families.
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
• President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities

  Interest-group and other political sites

• American Association of People with Disabilities
• American Civil Liberties Union--Issues: Disability Rights
• American Council of the Blind
• American Foundation for the Blind
• Deaf World Web
• Disability Specific Resources--Univ. of Maryland Diversity Database
• The Disability Rights Activist--information on the rights of the disabled
• Disability Rights Advocates--non profit corporation
• National Association of the Deaf
• National Center on Accessibility--designing accessible areas for the disabled
• National Federation of the Blind
• National Organization on Disability
• People with Disabilities--Institute for Global Communications (IGC)

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Consumer Support Groups: Disability
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Blindness Deafness Issues: Disabilities
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Disabilities
• United States: National Organizations--Deaf World Web
• Yahoo! Disabilities: Blindness Deafness Disabilities: Organizations

  Personal sites

• Jillene's Disabilities Resource Page--Jillene Haas--a list of (primarily educational) resources for learning-disabled children, compiled by a teacher of students with disabilities

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Diversity: general issues and groups

Interest-group and other political sites

• CLNet Diversity--General diversity site with links to major areas of interest
• DiversityWeb--Association of American Colleges and Universities and the University of Maryland, College Park--a "resource hub" with information about diversity in higher education
• Human rights information on the Internet, including relief and humanitarian aid efforts--Institute for Global Communication (IGC)
• Human Rights Interactive Network--"your gateway to international human rights and humanitarian assistance"
• Issue-Specific Diversity Resources--Univ. Maryland Diversity Database--resources focusing on aging, class, disability, gender, race & ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation
• Resources for Diversity--Inter-Links--African-Americans, Disability, Feminists, Gays/Lesbians, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Women

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues Gender Race and Ethnicity Yahoo! Diversity

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  01/24/00

Domestic Violence and child abuse: issues and groups

Government information

• Admin. for Children and Families--U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services--includes The Children's Bureau--how to report child abuse and child mistreatment report
• Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section--Criminal Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice--includes how to report child pornography on the Internet, child exploitation crimes, child support, shild abuse, and international child abduction
• National Domestic Violence Hotline--Q & A about the nationwide, 24-hour toll-free domestic violence hotline.
• Violence Against Women Office--U.S. Dept. of Justice--includes full text of Violence Against Women Act 1994

  Educational and informational sites

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--Child Abuse--The Hidden Bruises (Facts for Families Series)
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--Child Sexual Abuse (Facts for Families Series)
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--Responding to Child Sexual Abuse (Facts for Families Series)
• Child Abuse Prevention Network--extensive site
• Child Sexual Abuse--Linda Cain (personal page)
• Domestic Violence Commission--Research and programs from the American Bar Association
• Domestic Violence Handbook--Creative Communications Group--contains information on how to recognize, prevent and seek help for domestic violence.
• Family Violence Prevention Fund (FUND)--focuses on domestic violence education, prevention and public policy reform
• Healthgrrl: Violence Resources for Women--domestic violence resources and statistics; dated but useful.
• Husband Battering--World Wide Web Virtual Library--articles, bibliography, notes and citations.
• Men and Women Against Domestic Violence--Men and Women Against Domestic Violence is an Internet-based coalition of men and women working to address the issue of domestic violence. Includes information about rape.
• Metro Nashville Domestic Violence Division--Metropolitan Nashville (TN) Police Department--detailed information on domestic abuse, a domestic violence policy, and a 211-page PDF model lesson plan on domestic violence investigation for officers
• National District Attorneys Assoc., American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI)--includes National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse and violence Against women pages under construction
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence--national organization of grassroots shelter and service programs for battered women
• No Safe Place--interviews conducted for the PBS television program, a teachers' study guide, and a checklist for identifying potentially dangerous relationships.
• Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN)--what to do if asaulted, statistics, counseling centers, and more
• Seattle Public Access Network--"What is Domestic Violence?"
• 911 for Women: Domestic Violence--resource for hotlines, clinics, help organizations and more.

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Domestic Violence Issues: Child Abuse Issues: Family Violence
• Yahoo!: Child Abuse Domestic Violence Top Stories: Domestic Violence

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  06/06/00

Drugs, legalized: issues and groups

Government information

• Drug Enforcement Admin.--U.S. Department of Justice
  • Drugs of Concern
  • Legalization Issues--DEA publications about legalization and myths of marijuana
• The Office of National Drug Control Policy--White House Web Server--drug abuse treatment & prevention, domestic law, and interdiction & international drug trade
• United Nations International Drug Control Programme--United Nations drug resolutions

  Interest-group and other political sites

• American Civil Liberties Union--Issues: Drug Policy
• Cannabis Dependence--Internet Mental Health--anti-legalization site
• Cannabis Vault--Erowid--history, culture, research studies, traditonal and spiritual use, and research studies of marijuana
• Chico Cannabis Coalition--anti-prohibition organization
• DRCNet--The Drug Reform Coordination Network
• Drug Sense--organization working for sensible drug control policies
• Hemp.Net--a variety of Internet services for the "hemp community," especially dealing with hemp legislation
• Marijuana as Medicine--CNN Interactive--debate over legalization
• Marijuana, Cannabis and Hemp--Cannabis.com--site devoted to providing accurate information about marijuana use to the public
• Marijuana Policy Project--making medicinal marijuana legal
• Marijuana Website--Marijuana.com Freedom Coalition--news, discussions, fact sheets. Includes Marijuananews.com--Richard Cowan
• National Families in Action (NFIA)--drug abuse and anti-legalization site
• National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)--working to reform marijuana laws
• Partnership for Drug Free America--article providing excellent background information about marijuana as well as a list of slang names
• Politics--Cannabis.com--many links

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Drugs, including Anti-Legalization and Pro-Legalization
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Illegal Drugs
• Yahoo! Marijuana: Drug Policy

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  09/22/00

Drunk driving: issues and groups

• Don't Drink and Drive--articles on teenage drinking, produced by the Illinois Dept. of Public Health
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)--focus on finding effective solutions to the drunk driving and underage drinking problems
• National Commission Against Drunk Driving--targets 21-34 Year Old Young Adults, Chronic Drunk Drivers, and Underage Drinkers. Includes [Teen] Drinking & Driving Facts
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Alcohol: Drunk Driving
• Students Against Destructive Decisions--Formerly Students against drunk driving

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  07/26/00

Economics: issues and groups

Government information

• Economic Indicators [via GPO Access]--prepared and published monthly for the Joint Economic Committee, by the Council of Economic Advisers
• Economic Report of the President--U.S. Council of Economic Advisors--enter (with quotation marks) either "Economic Report of the President" or "table of contents" to see list of chapters
• Federal Budget Publications [Online via GPO Access]--U. S. Office of Management & Budget--includes citizen's guide, supplemnts, analytical perspectives, historical tables, and appendix, as well asThe Economic Report of the President
• White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)--current statistics about output; income; employment, unemployment, and earnings; production and business activity; prices; money, credit, and securities markets; transportation; and international statistics

  Interest-group and other political sites

• American Bankers Association
• AFL-CIO Home Page--policy statements, press releases, campaigns, and boycotts
• American Insurance Association--represents more than 250 property and casualty insurance companies
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• LaborNet's Directory of Union Organizations and Resources on the Internet--Institute for Global Communications
• Manufacturing Central--National Association of Manufacturers
• The Teamsters Union Home Page
• UAW International Union--United Auto Workers
• United Steelworkers of America

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Social Sciences: Economics Top: News: Current Events: Economy and Business
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Economy Taxes
• Yahoo! Social Science: Economics

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  07/19/00

Education: issues and groups

Government information

• Ask ERIC--Syracuse Univ. for ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology
• U.S. Dept. of Education
  • Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
  • Goals 2000 Legislation and Related Items--U.S. Department of Education
  • The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1995 (proposed)
  • A Nation At Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform (April 1983)--National Commission on Excellence in Education--An Open Letter to the American People
  • U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)-- ViewPDF files of the latest versions of major NCES compendia, including The Condition of Education, Digest of Education Statistics , and Projections of Education Statistics
  • Partnership for Family Involvement in Education--U.S. Department of Education
  • Programs and Services--U.S. Dept. of Education
• Education Statistics--White House Social Statistics Briefing Room (SSBR)
• Education Statistics--Fedstats / Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy--links to statistics and information produced by federal agencies
• Learning - Education and Training--White House Web Server--Interactive Citizens' Handbook--links to government resources
• Search ERIC Database--Syracuse Univ. for ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology--databases cover 1991 through 1996
• The Student Guide: Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education

  Organizations

• College and University Home Pages--Alphabetical Listing--Christina DeMello, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• National Education Association (NEA)--covers such issues as Bilingual Education, Charter Schools, Class Size, Corporate Management of Public Schools, Safe Schools, and Vouchers.
• National Education Reform Issues--Thomas B. Fordham Foundation--charter schools, curriculum, class size, federal role, school choice, standards, teachers' unions, and other topics

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Top: Reference: Education
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Education
• Yahoo! Education
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• See also links about school vouchers.
  
• See also links about television violence.
  
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  03/03/00

Employment and labor: issues and groups

Government information

• Consumer Price Indexes--U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• U.S. Dept. of Labor--organization & agencies, information locator service (GILS), media releases, statutes & regulations, dept. programs & activities, statistics, & grant & contract information
• Employment--White House Web Server--Interactive Citizens Handbook--links to government resources
• Employment, Unemployment, and Earnings--White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)
• Labor Statistics--Fedstats / Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy--links to statistics and information produced by federal agencies
• The Minimum Wage--U.S. Dept. of Labor
• Occupational Outlook Handbook--U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)--for each occupation lists the nature of the work, working conditions, number of jobs in what industries and what areas, training, other qualifications, advancement, job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and sources of additional information
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
• Women's Bureau--U.S. Dept. of Labor--serving and promoting the interests of working women

  Interest-group and other political sites

• Labor Links--Paula Schleis, Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild--national, state, and local organizations; organizations in other countries
• LaborNet--Institute for Global Communications

  Indexes

• Idea Central: Issues in Depth--Electronic Policy Network (EPN)--The Minimum Wage Debate
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Society: Issues: Labor
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Labor / Employment--including minimum wage
• Yahoo!: Business and Economy: Labor Business Full Coverage: Labor and Union news

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  07/19/00

Environment: issues and groups

Government information

• Annual Energy Outlook 1999 with Projections to 2020--U.S. Energy Information Admin.--highlights, key assumptions, energy demand, electricity, oil, gas, coal, other topics
• Bureau of Reclamation Programs--U.S. Dept. of the Interior--Managing Water in the American West
• USDA Forest Service--U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
• U.S. Dept. of Energy--mission & organization; news & hot topics
• U.S. Energy Information Administration--Annual Energy Outlook Projections, Annual Energy Review, and other statistical information on petroleum, natural gas, coal, nuclear, renewable energy, electricity, international, multi-fuel, end-use consumption, financial information & forecasts--requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader
• Energy Statistics--Fedstats / Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy--links to statistics and information produced by federal agencies
• Environment Statistics--Fedstats / Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy--links to statistics and information produced by federal agencies
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--EPA organization, programs, & initiatives; contracts & grants; regulations & legislation; & publications; statistics, & media releases
  • Environmental Websites--search by state, full text, information type, or keyword
    
  • EPA Economy and Environment
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service--responsible for migratory birds, endangered species, certain marine mammals, freshwater and anadromous fish, the National Wildlife Refuge System, wetlands, conserving habitat, and environmental contaminants
• globalchange.gov--GCDIS: Global Change Data and Information System / U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)--covers atmospheric systems, ecological and biological systems, human dimensions of global change, ocean systems, solar influences, aquatic systems, and related topics
• U.S. Geological Survey--fact sheets, hazards, environment, publications, & data products
• U.S. National Park Service
• Terms of Environment--U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)--defines in non-technical language the more commonly used environmental terms appearing in EPA publications
• Water Resources of the United States--U.S. Geological Survey
• Weather Forecast Offices, Southern Region--National Weather Service

  Interest-group and other political sites

• Air Pollution--The Wilson Group UCSD--physical chemistry and the environment; effects, sources, and time evolution of air pollution; catalytic converters; ozone layer; and related topics
• Americans for the Environment (AFE)--helping citizen activists use the political process to solve environmental problems
• EnviroInfo--Univ. of Minho, Portugal--compilation of links to environment sites: air and water pollution, ecology, law, wastes, related topics
• EDF--Environmental Defense Fund WorldWide
• Environmental Issues Resource Center--EcoNet
• Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice--EcoNet
• Friends of the Earth--dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, & ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment & their lives
• Greenpeace International--global environmental problems
• National Audubon Society
• NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) --sections include air/energy, global warming, water, wildlife and fish, parks, toxic chemicals, nuclear weapons and waste, cities and green living, and legislation
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Politics & Our Environment--Sierra Club
• Sierra Club--promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions
• World Wildlife Fund

  Indexes

• IGC: EcoNet--Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
• Galaxy--Environment--Community
• National Political Index--"Contacting Political Activist Groups"--Ecology and the Environment
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Environment Top: News: Current Events: Environmental Issues
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Energy Environment
• Yahoo! Environment and Nature

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  03/03/00

Euthanasia: issues and groups

Interest-group and other political sites

• Choices in Dying--News and background on the right to die.
• End of Life--WELS Lutherans for Life--Bible studies, medical directives, euthanasia Q & A, and suicide.
• Euthanasia & assisted suicide around the world--Vess Fast Access
• Euthanasia World Directory--Right-to-die society listing, essays, and answers to questions frequently asked about the right to die.
• Nazi Euthanasia--The History Place--part of the Holocaust Timeline.

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Euthanasia
• Yahoo!: Death and Dying: Euthanasia Top Stories: Assisted Suicide

  Other sites

• Dutch euthanasia policy--Editorial appearing in the Detroit News
• End of Life--Online companion to NPR's year long look at Death and Dying in America.

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  07/19/00

Flag desecration: issues and groups

• ACLU: Fight for the Flag Campaign--American Civil Liberties Union--agrees with the Supreme Court that flag burning is symbolic speech and opposes a flag-protection amendment.
• Citizens' Flag Alliance, Inc.--supports the flag-protection amendment.
• Editorials about the flag amendment--American Society of Newspaper Editors--a collection of newspaper editorials organized by state.
• Flag-Burning Page--Warren S. Apel--opposes any amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would allow Congress or the States to pass laws against flag burning.
• Flag of the United States of America--Duane Streufert--history and facts about the flag, a selection of patriotic writings, and opinions on the proposed constitutional amendment
• Flag Protection Amendment Information--American Veterans Department of Alaska--includes documents and responses to Frequently Asked Questions about the Flag Desecration Amendmet
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Flag Burning
• Yahoo! Civil Rights: Flag Burning

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  09/22/00

Gambling, legalized: issues and groups

• Gambling in Canada--National Council of Welfare--report on gambling
• Interstate Gambling--bill to end Internet gambling
• National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling (NCALG)
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Compulsive Gambling
• Place Your Bets!--United Methodist Church
• United States Gambling Research Institute--objective information about legalized gambling [unavailable 10-15-00 11-27-00]
• Washington State Lottery--gambling habits
• Yahoo!: Recreation: Gambling Gambling Addiction Gambling Addiction: Organizations
  
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  03/03/00

Gangs: issues and groups

• Alliance Working for Asian Rights and Empowerment (AWARE)--incidents of police harrassment of suspected gang members
• The Coroner's Report--Steve Nawojczyk--information and resources on the gang intervention and prevention
• Gang Resources--U.S. Dept. of Justice--includes The President's Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Strategy, statistics, grants, other resources
• Juvenile Justice: Gangs--U.S. Justice Information Center--1995 National Youth Gang Survey and other files
• Mothers Against Gangs Program (MAG)--addressing the issue of crimes committed by today's youth.
• National Graffiti Information Network--includes graphs of graffiti statistics
• National Youth Gang Center (NYGC)--U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)--data collection and analysis, gang-related legislation, gang literature review, promising gang program strategies, and youth gang consortium coordination
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Gangs
• What's a Parent to Do About Gangs--U.S. National Crime Prevention Council
• Yahoo! Gangs
  
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• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
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  03/03/00

Gays in the Military: issues and groups

• Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military--Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
• "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Revisited--Prof. Gregory M. Herek, Univ. of California, Davis p>
• GAO Report Defense Force Management: DOD's Policy on Homosexuality (NSIAD-92-98S)--Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,& Transgendered Disabled Veterans of America--executive summary of report
• gaymilitary.org--links to news, articles, policies
• Gays in the Military - Now!--Tom Blair--argues that ONLY gays should serve in the military!
• Pro and Con: Gays in the Military--non-line, the Nonprofit Network
• Service Members Legal Defense Network--"sole national legal aid and watchdog organization that assists servicemembers hurt by the Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue policy"
• Yahoo! Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: Issues and Causes: Gays in the Military
• See also links about Sexual orientation and family values.

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  07/19/00

Genetics and Cloning: issues and groups

Government information

• Human Genetics Commission (UK)
• Human Genome Project information--Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U. S. Dept. of Energy--"The Science Behind the Human Genome Project: Understanding the Basics and How the HGP is Implemented." See also Primer on Molecular Genetics.
• International Bioethics Committee (UNESCO)
• National Agricultural Library (U. S. Dept. of Agriculture)--"Biotechnology: An Information Resource"
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC)--their publications include a 2-vol. June 1997 report on Cloning Human Beings.

  Educational and informational sites

• ABC News: Cloning Series (1998) and Cloning for Survival: Australian Clone Work Targets Endangered Species (2000)
• bioethics.net--Univ. of Pennsylvania Center of Bioethics
• The Gene Letter--newsletter on scientific and societal issues in genetics.
• Genetic Science Learning Center (GSLC)--covers basic genetics, genetic disorders, genetics in society, and genetic thematic units
• Genomics Lexicon--Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)--terms and definitions
• Guardian Unlimited (UK)--"The Ethics of Genetics"
• Human Genetics Advisory Commission (UK): Cloning Issues in Reproduction, Science and Medicine (Paper) and Cloning Issues in Reproduction, Science and Medicine (Report)
• New Scientist--"Cloning--a Special Report"
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America--"Genomics: A Global Resource--Cloning"--general information, news, ethical and legal issues, legislation, and a genomics directory.
• Roslin Institute Online--"Information on Cloning and Nuclear Transfer"
• Science Explained--"The Cloning of Dolly," by Dr. Jamie Love--less technical explanation of cloning.
• Scientific American: I, Clone, A Clone in Sheep's Clothing, and Cloning Hits the Big Time
• Washington Post --"Cloning Report"

  Indexes

• Michigan Electronic Library: Cloning Gene Testing, Genetic Research and Biotechnology
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Biology: Genetics Issues: Cloning
• Yahoo!: Cloning Cloning Update Genetics

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  08/01/00

Gun control: issues and groups

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--Children and Firearms (Facts for Families Series)
• Children's Defense Fund--A Safe Start means that children are safe and secure. Children need safe families, safe neighborhoods and safe schools. They also need protection from the guns that are killing one child approximately every two hours - 12 children each day.
• Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms--pro-gun organization
• Coalition to Stop Gun Violence--a coalition for gun-free homes.
• Firearms and Liberty--historical and contemporary online documents and many links. View that the Second Amendment secures all other rights retained by the individual and the states.
• Gun Control Legislation--Grace York, Univ. of Michigan
• Gun Owners of America--no-compromise gun lobby
• Gunfree--Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence--a pro-gun-control organization
• National Political Index--"Contacting Political Activist Groups"--Firearms
• NRA Home Page--National Rifle Assoc.
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Gun Control
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Gun Control / Ownership
• The SAF Website--Second Amendment Foundation--a pro-gun-rights organization
• Yahoo! Gun Control
  
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  07/24/00

Health: issues and groups

Government information

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)--"The Nation's Prevention Agency"--about the CDC, what's new, health information, travelers' health, publications & products, data & statistics, training & employment, and funding. Includes CDC National Prevention Information Network, CDC Home Travel Information Page, and TIPS: CDC's Tobacco Information & Prevention Sourcepage
• Consumer Advice--FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
• FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition--consumer advice, cosmetics, food additives, food labeling and nutrition, pesticides, women's health, etc.
• Health--White House Web Server--Interactive Citizens' Handbook--links to government resources
• Health Care Financing Administration--Medicare and Medicaid
• [Health] Online News--Healthfinder
• HHS: Dept. of Health & Human Services--news & consumer, policy, & employee information
• HHS Agencies--U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
• Health Statistics--Fedstats / Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy--links to statistics and information produced by federal agencies
• Health Statistics--White House Social Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)
• Healthfinder by Topic--a gateway consumer health information web site--selected online publications, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable health information for the public
• Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services--United States Dept. of Agriculture
• HHS Pages for Parents
• Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention--National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) (U.S.)--basic statistics, HIV/AIDS prevention, conferences, funding opportunities, HIV/AIDS information, media campaigns, other resources
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base--U.S. Bureau of the Census--information on the AIDS pandemic and on HIV infection in developing countries
• Internet FDA--U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Medicare --Publications--eligibility, managed care, benefits, parts A & B, glossary, and medical briefs
• The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information (NCADI)
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
• Office of Minority Health Resource Center-- U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services--includes Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities In Health--effort to eliminate by 2010 disparities in health access and outcomes in infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection, and child and adult immunizations
• The Office of National Drug Control Policy--White House Web Server--drug abuse treatment & prevention, domestic law, and interdiction & international drug trade
• Physical Activity and Health--A Report of the Surgeon General
• Safety--White House Web Server--Interactive Citizens' Handbook--links to government resources
• Social Security Admin. Office of Policy--statistics, including Annual Statistical Supplement
• Surgeon General's Reports [on Tobacco and Smoking]--history of 1964 report and list of later reports
• USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference--U.S. Dept. of Agriculture--search for nutrient content of over 5,600 different foods
• USDA Nutrient Values--U.S. Dept. of Agriculture--for 100 gram portions as well as two common serving sizes; also includes percent RDA for men and women
• WHO Library and Information Networks for Knowledge (LINK) Virtual Reference Desk--World Health Organization

  Interest-group and other political sites

• ASH - Action on Smoking and Health--fighting for the rights of nonsmokers
• American Anorexia and Bulimia Association--information on eating disorders
• American Civil Liberties Union--Issues: HIV/AIDS
• Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center--Duncan C. Kinder and the Job Accommodation Network
• FitnessLink--information on fitness and exercise, and links to other related sites
• Height & Weight Tables--Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.--choose "Fitness and Exercise" and scroll to the bottom of the screen
• National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL)--"pro-choice" group
• National Abortion Federation--The Voice of Abortion Providers
• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
• National Political Index--"Contacting Political Activist Groups"--Health Care Reform
• National Right to Life Committee--pro-life group
• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)--The Five Worst Environmental Threats To Children's Health--the worst environmental threats to children's health are lead, air pollution, pesticides, environmental tobacco smoke, and drinking water contamination
• Nursing World--American Nursing Assoc. Home Page
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• The Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List--Women and Children First/prolifeinfo.org--links to issues and to organizations that oppose abortion

  Indexes

• Health Care Reform--Grace York, Univ. of Michigan
• Idea Central--Health Policy
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Abortion Issues: Euthanasia Issues: Health Issues: Health: Conditions and Diseases Issues: Health Policy
• Top: News: Current Events: Health Care and Medical
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Abortion AIDS Health Care
• Yahoo!: Abortion Issues AIDS/HIV Euthanasia Health Health Care Policy
  
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  09/22/00

Housing and urban development: issues and groups

• About HUD--U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development--press releases, priority, annual report, mission, organization, programs, more information
• Habitat for Humanity International--organization dedicated to building houses for families in need
• U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development [HUD's Homes and Communities Page]--community plans, resources, & ideas; buying, improving, & renting homes; fair housing laws; doing business with HUD; reports, analyses, & data on housing & community trends, issues, & programs; HUD's organization & programs; & FAQs
• REIS (Regional Economic Information System), 1969-1994--Univ. of Virginia--provides local area economic data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas--produced by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis--includes personal income and earning variables, full and part employment variables, transfer payments variables, and farm income and expenses variables
• USA Counties--U.S. Bureau of the Census via Government Information Sharing Project--Oregon State Univ.
  
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  01/27/00

Hunger: issues and groups

• America's Second Harvest--domestic hunger relief organization.
• Bread For the World--A nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying the nation's decision makers
• Freedom From Hunger--Promotes self-help programs build the capacity of individuals and communities to overcome root causes of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition.
• HungerWeb--The aim of this site is to help prevent and eradicate hunger by facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes of, and solutions to, hunger.
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Hunger
• World Hunger--Nando.net article--U.N. organizes "people power" attack on world hunger
• World Hunger Year--advocates that hunger and poverty in a world of abundance are unacceptable. Their mission is to support and promote innovative, long term solutions to hunger through self-reliance, economic justice, community building and food security
• World Neighbors--A non-profit organization to eliminate hunger disease and poverty in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Contains information on their organization, sustainability, Global Environmental Problems, Maps, actual 3rd World talks, publications, partnerships.
• Yahoo! Society and Culture: Poverty: Hunger
  
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  03/22/00

Immigration: issues and groups

Government information

• INS--United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

  Interest-group and other political sites

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)--Issues: Immigrants' Rights
• American Immigration Center--information on immigration topics (including immigration law, visas, green cards), especially for immigrants
• F.A.I.R.--the Federation for American Immigration Reform--advocates a moratorium on immigration [unavailable 11-29-00]
• National Council of La Raza--civil rights organization for Latinos; policy advocacy group
• U.S. Border Control--private group established to stop illegal immigration by reforming our border and immigration policies
• U.S. English--organization trying to make English the official language

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Immigration
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Legal information: Immigration
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Immigration
• Yahoo! Law: Immigration and Naturalization
• Yahoo! Law: Immigration and Naturalization: United States
• Yahoo! Immigration Reform
• Yahoo! U.S. History: Immigration
• Yahoo! U.S. Immigration Lottery
  

  Other sites

• Against Immigration? Think Again!--private site--pro-immigration--reasons why controling immigration will hurt the U.S.
• Coming to America: Melting pot starts to boil--CNN article on immigration, 1996
• English Only--ACLU article against English only laws
• Surviving the English Only Assault: Public Attitudes and the Future of Language Education--James Crawford

  
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  09/22/00

Juvenile crime and drug use: issues and groups

Juvenile crime

• Gang Resources--U.S. Dept. of Justice--includes The President's Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Strategy, statistics, grants, other resources
• Juvenile Crime--American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) fact sheet
• Juvenile Justice--U. S. National Criminal Justice Reference Service--fact sheets, general resources, corrections, courts, delinquency prevention, gangs, missing and exploited children, violence and victimization
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention--U.S. Dept. of Justice
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Juvenile Law

  Juvenile drug use

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--Facts for Families Series. Includes Making Decisions about Substance Abuse Treatment and Teens: Alcohol and Other Drugs
• Christian Broadcasting Network--"Teenage 'Huffing'--Worse Than Cocaine"--inhalant abuse
• U. S. National Institute on Drug Abuse--"Marijuana Facts"--for teens and parents
• See also links about children.
  
• See also links about crime and justice.
  
• See also links about gangs.
  
• See also links about school choice and vouchers.
  
• See also links about school prayer.
  
• See also links about school violence.
  
• See also links about teenage drinking.
  
• See also links about television violence.
  
• See also links about youth pregnancy.
  
• See also links about youth suicide.
  

  07/28/00

Militia Movement: issues and groups

Interest-group and other political sites

• American Patriot Network--Dedicated to the U.S. Constitution and the new American Revolution that is sweeping the Union.
• Armed & Dangerous: Militias Take Aim at the Federal Government--An Anti-Defamation League Fact Finding Report
• Militia of Montana--The Militia of Montana is an educational organization dedicated to the preservation of the freedoms of ALL Citizens of the State of Montana and of the United States of America.
• Modern Militiaman--This electronic and limited print newsletter is dedicated to the modern militiamen and women of the American Resistance Movement.

  Indexes

• Militia Movement Links--Lycos list of top rated militia movement links
• Militia Watchdog--Links site devoted to monitoring far right extremism in the United States
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Militia Movement

  Other sites

• Background on Militias--Paul de Armond, Public Good Project--draft transcript of FBI undercover recording of conversations involving Washington State Militia members
• The Militia Movement in the United States--essay supporting the militia movement in the United States
• Militia Research Page--Chris Walker--documents relating to U.S. citizen militia groups.
• Militias and the Religious Right--by Kenneth S. Stern (published by Institute for First Amendment Studies)--"Hit and run tactics will be our method of fighting... We will destroy targets such as telephone relay centers, bridges, fuel storage tanks, communication towers, radio stations, airports... human targets will be engaged."
• Militias in America-- Book of readings highlighting the excellent reporting in the alternative press both before and after Oklahoma City: Gopher menu
• Texas Militia Papers--Documents on militia organization, drugs, shortwave radio and other relevant issues.
• Updates on militias in America--Updates on militia activity gathered from activists and research groups around the country.
  
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Race, national origin, and ethnicity: issues and groups

Government information

• Affirmative Action Review--Report to the President, July 19, 1995
• ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Home Page--U.S. Dept. of Justice--ADA requirements, enforcement, and technical assistance
• Civil Rights Division--U.S. Dept. of Justice
• Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities In Health--Office of Minority Health Resource Center, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services--effort to eliminate by 2010 disparities in health access and outcomes in infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection, and child and adult immunizations
• United States Commission on Civil Rights

  Interest-group and other political sites

• Anti-Defamation League--the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism
• NAACP Online--National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Urban League--a premier social service and civil rights organization

  Indexes

• Index of Native American Resources on Internet--WWW Virtual Library
• National Origin, Race, and Ethnicity Specific Resources--Univ. of Maryland Diversity Database
• Native American Resources--A listing of nation-wide events, organizations, and homepages for many tribes, on Cowboy.net
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Ethnicity
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Organizations: Ethnic
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Affirmative Action
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Race and Ethnicity
• Yahoo! Civil Rights Movement
• Yahoo! Cultures: African American
• Yahoo! Cultures and Groups: White Power
• Yahoo! Issues and Causes: Affirmative Action
• Yahoo! Issues and Causes: Civil Rights--censorship, civil liberties organizations, civil rights movement, flag burning, freedom of religion, privacy, Bill of Rights, & related issues
• Yahoo! Society and Culture: Issues and Causes: Militia Movement
  

  Other sites

• The Native American Rights Fund

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  07/24/00

Recycling: issues and groups

• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development--News, tools, and projects from the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
• Earthsystems: Educating the Earth--non-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of environmental information and education to the world community.
• The Environmental Web Directory--Don't just send stuff to landfill, take a look at this huge index of recycling worldwide [unavailable 11-29-00]
• Global Recycling Network--Covering the world of recycling including services, publications, and careers in recycling
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Waste and Recycling
• Recycling and the New York Times--Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America..." Thus wrote John Tierney, a staff writer for the New York Times in a recent Sunday magazine cover story. The article generated more mail than any piece the magazine has ever published.
  
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Religion and state: issues and groups

Interest-group and other political sites

• Americans United for Separation of Church and State--promotes the principle of church-state separation as an essential constitutional guarantee of religious liberty
• Center for Education Reform--advocates school choice, charter schools, & similar conservative reforms
• Christian Broadcasting Network--preparing for the coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth
• CultureWatch--timely, accurate and up-to-date information on the U.S. religious right
• First Amendment Cyber-Tribune: Religious Liberty
• Freedom from Religion Foundation--organization of "Freethinkers"--secularists, agnostics, atheists, humanists, rationalists
• Freedom Forum First Amendment Center
• Institute for First Amendment Studies--founded "to expose and counter the political activities of the Religious Right"
• The Interfaith Alliance--alternative religious voice to the religious right
• National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
• People for the American Way--covers such issues as Education, Free Expression, Religious Liberty, Equality, Building Democracy, and About the Religious Right.
• Religious Diversity and Social Issues--Interfaith Working Group
• Religious Opinion on Social Issues--Interfaith Working Group--progressive views on gay rights, reproductive freedom, separation of church & state, & diversity

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Church-State Relations
• Ten Commandments in Schools--Grace York, Univ. of Michigan
• Yahoo! Civil Rights: Freedom of Religion
• Yahoo! Society and Culture: Religion: Church-State Issues

  Other sites

• Church-State Links--J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor Univ.
• Journal of Church and State--J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor Univ.
• A Parent's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools--First Amendment Center (Vanderbilt University)
• Political Science Papers Dealing with the Relationship of Church and State, and Religious Liberty--Larry Pahl--examining religious liberty, the separation of church and state, the establishment clause, school prayer and other issues
• See also the School prayer section below.

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School choice and vouchers: issues and groups

Government information

• National Center for Education Statistics--Use of school choice

  Interest-group and other political sites

• Center for Education Reform--About School Choice
• Center for Education Reform--Map showing school choice at a glance
• Children's Education Opportunity (CEO) Foundation--Putting Children First--pro-school choice organization
• heartland.org Perspectives--Heartland Institute--articles about school choice and other issues the
• Partners advancing values in education (PAVE)--A private, not-for-profit school choice program operating in Wisconsin.
• School Choices--Andrew J. Coulson--a citizen's guide to education reform
• Thomas B. Fordham Foundation--School Choice
• Vouchers--National Education Association (NEA)

  Indexes

• Idea Central: Issues in Depth--Electronic Policy Network (EPN)--School Vouchers
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): School Choice
• Yahoo! Education reform
  

  Other sites

• President Clinton's call to action--Public school choice and accountability in public education
• "Public funds to private school: A test emerges"--Christian Science Monitor article about Florida's school voucher system, including links to other stories on same topic
• School Choice, the Law , and the Constitution--A primer for parents and reformers
• School Choices--A citizen's guide to education reform
• See also links about children.
  
• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
  
• See also links about school prayer.
  
• See also links about school violence.
  
• See also links about teenage drinking.
  
• See also links about youth pregnancy.
  
• See also links about youth suicide.
  
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  06/06/00

School prayer: issues and groups

Interest-group and other political sites

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)--Constitutional Amendment on School Prayer or Moment of Silence
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State--School Prayer. See also additional press releases.
• Freedom From Religion Foundation--The Case Against School Prayer
• First Amendment Center--The law on religion in schools
• Freedom Forum--Youth Guide to the First Amendment: School Prayer
• Parent Soup Education Central--Should Our Kids Pray in School
• Religious Action Center of Reformed Judaism--Issues in Focus: School Prayer
• Truth Broadcasting--Take A Stand: Pro school-prayer

  Indexes

• Yahoo--Religion in public schools
• Yahoo --School prayer
• You Debate--School prayer debate and poll

  Other sites

• Internet Infidels--School Prayer pro and con
• The Nonprofit Network--Pro and Con of Public School Prayer
• Religious Expression in Public Schools--William D. Golden--differing views and debate
• Religious Freedom Amendment--Rep. Ernest Istook--"Bringing Prayer Back into Schools"
• See also the Religion and state section above.
• See also links about children.
  
• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
  
• See also links about school choice and vouchers.
  
• See also links about school prayer.
  
• See also links about school violence.
  
• See also links about teenage drinking.
  
• See also links about youth pregnancy.
  
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  03/03/00

School violence: issues and groups

Government information

• National Day of Concern About Young People and Gun Violence--Presidential proclamation
• U.S. Dept. of Education, including Crime and Violence in Our Schools: An Overview of Statistics

  Interest-group and other political sites

• National Alliance for Safe Schools--dedicated to making our schools safe and orderly educational environments
• National Network of Violence Prevention Practitioners
• NEA Safe Schools--National Education Association (NEA)
• School Safety--Urban Education Web (Ueweb)--dedicated to urban students, their families, and the educators who serve them
• School Violence--Center for Prevention of School Violence--statistics
• Where Youth Violence and Environment Intersect--Kids Count Missouri--poverty, gangs, media violence, substance abuse, guns, inadequate and unsafe schools

  Indexes

• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Violence: School
• School Violence--Randy Barkhouse--links
• School Violence [Links]--Education Library, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
• Yahoo! School Violence

  Other sites

• Center for the Prevention of School Violence--North Carolina State Univ.
• Center for the Study & Prevention of Violence (CSPV)--Univ. of Colorado
• Injuries in a School Environment: A Resource Guide--Education Development Center--deaths and injuries from handguns, incidents with school buses, and other causes
• New Studies of Attitudes and Behaviors and School Violence--report on survey results
• Safe and Drug-Free Schools--New York University
• Still Separate and Unequal--Rose Sanders and Wythe Holt, In Motion Magazine--public education case
• Uniforms in public schools--NandoNext editorial by Ryan Brooks--how uniforms won't fix school violence
• See also links about children.
  
• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
  
• See also links about school choice and vouchers.
  
• See also links about school prayer.
  
• See also links about teenage drinking.
  
• See also links about television violence.
  
• See also links about youth pregnancy.
  
• See also links about youth suicide.
  

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Sexual orientation and family values: issues and groups

Interest-group and other political sites

• American Civil Liberties Union

  Issues: HIV/AIDS Issues: lesbian and Gay Rights

• American Family Association--Christian group focusing on traditional family values. Includes Homosexuality in America: Exposing the Myths.
• Family Research Council--promotes the traditional family unit and Judeo-Christian values
• Focus on the Family/family.org--conservative organization dedicated to strengthening the family
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--Gay and Lesbian Adolescents (Facts for Families Series)
• GLAAD: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation--promoting fair, accurate and inclusive representation as a mean of challenging discrimination based on sexual orientation
• Human Rights Campaign--lobbies the federal government on gay, lesbian and AIDS issues and educates the general public
• Lesbian Mothers Support Society--organization for lesbian parents
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) Online--gay marriage, job discrimination, & other issues
• Servicemembers Legal Defense Network--assists men and women targeted by the military's policy on homosexuals

  Indexes

• Gay and Lesbian Politics: WWW and Internet Resources--comprehensive list at Indiana University consisting of links for news, organizations, issues, government, media, etc.
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues
• Sexual Orientation Specific Resources--Univ. of Maryland Diversity Database

  Other sites

• Domestic Partnerships and Same Sex Marriages--personal page at Carnegie Mellon University
• Gay Parent magazine--on-line magazine "for lesbians and gay men who are, or wish to be parents"
• Groups that promote hatred & homophobia under the guise of "family values"--The Bibble Pages
• See also links about Gays in the military.

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Teenage Drinking: issues and groups

• Alcohol-Free Kids--Campaign to end teenage drinking
• Alcohol-Related Injury and Violence (ARIV)--Trauma Foundation--comprehensive site that includes , Alcohol and Youth: Research Summaries, and Brief Review of the Literature on Youth and Alcohol-Related Injury and Violence
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. See CASA Publications, including the 1998 CASA National Survey of Teens, Teachers and Principals
• Century Council--Fighting alchol abuse
• Don't Drink and Drive--articles on teenage drinking, produced by the Illinois Dept. of Public Health
• MADD: Under 21--Facts about alcohol and drinking
• MADD Youth Summit--National Youth Summit to Prevent Underage Drinking
• Students Against Destructive Decisions--Formerly Students against drunk driving
• Underage Drinking--What you should know (fact sheet from the Connecticut Clearinghouse)
• Underage Drinkers--National Commission Against Drunk Driving--includes [Teen] Drinking & Driving Facts
• See also links about children.
  
• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
  
• See also links about school choice and vouchers.
  
• See also links about school prayer.
  
• See also links about school violence.
  
• See also links about youth pregnancy.
  
• See also links about youth suicide.
  

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  07/26/00

Television violence: issues and groups

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--"Children and TV Violence" (Facts for Families Series)
• Children and the Media--Children Now, including Making Television Ratings Work for Children and Families.
• TV Parental Guidelines--TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board--new TV rating system
• Federal Communications Commission--V-Chip--information on the V-chip and TV censorship
• V-Chipping Away at the First Amendment?--Directors Guild of America--article about society and the v-chip
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Violence: Media: Television

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  09/22/00

Term Limits: issues and groups

• Citizens for Term Limits--Articles about congressional term limits
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Election Reform: Term Limits
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Government Reform
• Term Limits--Are they really the answer?--Jack E. Lohman
• Term Limits--Citizens for Term Limits Home Page
• Term Limits Cartoon Gallery
• U.S. Term Limits--a pro term-limits group
• Yahoo! Political Issues: Term Limits
  
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Water Pollution: issues and groups

• Environment Canada: Fresh Water - Water Pollution--Water pollution policy and legislation in Canada
• Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia--The U.S. National Parks Service provides information on the effects of thousands of chemical compounds on fish and other aquatic life.
• Environmental Journalism: Subject Links--acid rain, air pollution, biodiversity, endangered speciers, nuclear energy, nuclear waste, pesticides, other topics
• EPA's Office of Water--Water programs and issues at the Environmental Protection Agency.
• NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) --sections include air/energy, global warming, water, wildlife and fish, parks, toxic chemicals, nuclear weapons and waste, cities and green living, and legislation
• Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans--John Ballou--this guide is intended as a brief summary of the steps needed to start a storm water pollution prevention plan, not as a manual.
• Water Pollution--Encarta(r) Concise Encyclopedia Article--Water Pollution, contamination of water by foreign matter that deteriorates the quality of the water.
• The Water Supply--The Water Supply Group set out to basically do research on the water supply system, during the Environmental Studies project. We covered the following topics during our research.
  
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  07/24/00

Welfare and poverty: issues and groups

Government information

• U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
  • Family Preservation, Child Welfare, & Child Abuse
  • Income and Poverty
  • Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement
• Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services--U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
• [The 1998 Green Book: Overview of Entitlement Programs--] House Ways and Means Committee Prints [via GPO Access]--U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means--Program descriptions and historical and current data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation; to search for documents in the 1998 Green Book, select "WMCP: 105-7--1998 Green Book" before entering your search
• Hot Topic: Welfare Reform--U.S. House Democratic Leadership
• Poverty--U.S. Bureau of the Census--poverty statistics, measurement, thresholds, and The HHS Poverty Guidelines
• Social Security Administration
• Welfare of Children & Families--U.S. Admin. for Children & Families (ACF)
• White House Social Statistics Briefing Room (SSBR)--current statistics on crime, demographics, education, and health

  Interest-group and other political sites

• National Center for Children in Poverty
• National Coalition for the Homeless--national advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness
• Results--organization working to end hunger
• The Sticky Wicket--Poverty's Home Page
• The Welfare Information Network

  Indexes

• Idea Central: Welfare and Families--The Electronic Policy Network--discussion of family issues, welfare reform, politics and policy from liberal and progressive authors.
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Poverty
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Welfare and Workfare
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Welfare, Poverty, & Homelessness
• Yahoo! Poverty
• Yahoo! Poverty: Welfare
• Yahoo! Welfare: Reform

  Other sites

• The Twentieth Century Fund--Welfare Reform--Introduction--designed to substitute facts for myth in the important public battle over welfare reform.
• Welfare Policy Center--Hudson Institute--conducts research and provides technical assistance on welfare reform.
• Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues--The Urban Institute
• Welfare Reform and the General Welfare--Institute for the Study of Civic Values
• Welfare Reform--The Claremont Institute
• Welfare Watch--a media monitoring project at the Annenberg School for Communication
• The World of Welfare--resource guide created by and for welfare workers
  
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  09/22/00

Women: issues and groups

Government information

• Federal Glass Ceiling Commission--Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
• Metro Nashville Domestic Violence Division--Metropolitan Nashville (TN) Police Department--detailed information on domestic abuse, a domestic violence policy, and a 211-page PDF model lesson plan on domestic violence investigation for officers
• Violence Against Women Office--U.S. Dept. of Justice

  Interest-group and other political sites

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)--Issues: Women's Rights
• The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy--serves as a catalyst for the participation of women from diverse social, cultural, and economic backgrounds in the political life of the nation
• Feminist Majority Foundation
• National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Women-Friendly Workplace and Campus Campaign--National Organization for Women (NOW)

  Indexes

• Directory of Women's Organizations--Feminist Majority Foundation
• Feminist Gateway--list of resources related to domestic abuse and violence against women (Feminist Majority Foundation)
• Gender Issues--Galaxy
• National Political Index--"Contacting Political Activist Groups"--Women's Issues
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Women: Issues
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Women: Politics
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Issues: Women's Rights
• Project Vote Smart Issues: Gender
• Women and Politics--Institute for Global Communications
• Women's Studies Resources--Univ. of Maryland Diversity Database
• Yahoo: Society and Culture: Women and Politics

  Other sites

• Colleen McEneany's Feminist Utopia--Colleen McEneany
• Gender, Law and Politics--Fulltext of special issue of Stanford Law and Policy, vol. 5, no. 2, Spring 1994

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Youth pregnancy: issues and groups

• Campaign for Our Children--teenage pregnancy site
• National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
• Not Me, Not Now--Monroe County (Rochester), NY, campaign against teen pregnancy
• Teen Pregnancy / Maternal & Neonatal Health--Community Outreach Health Information System (COHIS), Boston Univ. Medical Center
• Teenage Pregnancy--New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)/March of Dimes--facts and statistics
• Yahoo! [Teenage Pregnancy] Pregnancy and Birth: Teenagers
• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
  
• See also links about school choice and vouchers.
  
• See also links about school prayer.
  
• See also links about school violence.
  
• See also links about teenage drinking.
  
• See also links about youth suicide.
  

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  07/28/00

Youth suicide: issues and groups

• Gay & Bisexual Male Youth Suicidality Studies--Pierre J. Tremblay--links to research on youth suicide
• Homosexuality Factor in the Youth Suicide Problem--Pierre J. Tremblay
• Open Directory Project (Netscape): Teens: Suicide
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--"Teen Suicide" (Facts for Families Series)
• Teen Suicide--American Psychiatric Association Online Public Information
• Yahoo! Suicide: Youth: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
• Yahoo! Suicide: Youth
• Youth Depression and Suicide--The Befrienders
• Youth Suicide Prevention--Scout Assoc. of Australia--parent's guide: facts and myths, risk factors, protective factors, prevention of youth suicide, related topics
• Youth Suicide Prevention Programs--U.S National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)--resource guide
• See also links about juvenile crime and drug use.
  
• See also links about school choice and vouchers.
  
• See also links about school prayer.
  
• See also links about school violence.
  
• See also links about teenage drinking.
  
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  07/31/00

Other issues and groups

• Advocacy Organizations--Policy.com
• ABA Network--American Bar Association
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)--includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service [unavailable 11-29-00]
• American Library Association
• American Medical Association
• Friends Committee on National Legislation--works to bring Quakers' values to bear on public policy
• Hot Topics--U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leadership
• Hot Topics in RAND Research--RAND Corp.
• Issues Directory--Policy.com--the policy community online--news & events, issue of the week, issues analysis, interact, & feature event
• Lobby Groups--Univ. of Michigan Documents Center
• Project Vote Smart: Government and Politics
  
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