 
http://www.asijalumni.net -- Jin Roy Ryu '77 has offered the American School in Japan $2 million dollars for purchasing lights for the football field. Mr Ryu is the CEO of Poongsan Corporation which manufactures cluster bombs so there's blood all over this money. The money is earmarked for lights for the football field, NOT FOR ANYTHING ELSE, and it has been suggested that the lights are going to be built by a subsidiary of Poongsan Corporation. We are all familiar with the school motto: 'Educating Learners Prepared for Global Responsibility.' This would seem to suggest that the school is interested in preparing its students to take on issues of global importance: that it is interested in giving them the courage, compassion, and integrity that is necessary for taking on such issues. To preach the values of international understanding to students, and then turn around and accept money made from a munitions manufacturer, seems a little two-faced.
http://www.non-specialist.net -- The relationship between aesthetics and politics has been a dominant theme in various trajectories of philosophy, critical theory and art theory and praxis. Of escalating frequency and urgency, questions contemplating the place of art in politics and politics in art have been influencing discourses intent on re-evaluating the efficacy of alternative artistic and political critique in promoting wider public participation and awareness and prompting socio-cultural and institutional change.
http://www.cultofbutler.com -- Chris Butler (Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa) founded the Science of Identity Foundation in 1977. His thousands of followers from around the world, who worship him as if he is God, are willing to engage in any illegal or immoral activity in "devotional service" to him. Certain that they alone know the "Absolute Truth" through Chris Butler they have nothing but contempt for those outside the alterate reality he creates for them. With a belief system based on hate, violence, greed and hypocrisy Science of Identity is a dangerous cult. The greatest power that Science of Identity has is secrecy. This website is dedicated to exposing the truth that Chris Butler is determined you do not have a right to know.
http://www.uterusliberationfront.org -- The Uterus Liberation Front is a group based in Rapid City, South Dakota that is fighting for reproductive rights. Primary goals include a library / infoshop type thing as well as a fund to provide transportation to abortion clinics, etc. Even though abortion is still legal in South Dakota, glaringly relegated circumstances make it so there is only one clinic available in the entire state (and it is only open one day a week). The ULF is an attempt to confront and improve upon these impoverished conditions.
http://www.pygmalionbooks.org -- Pygmalion Books is a non-profit publishing house that would like to produce your work and distribute it for free via at-cost-shipping mail order.
http://www.punamust.org -- Anarhistlik Liikumine PunaMust ("Anarchist Movement Red'n'Black") is the first ever anarchist movement to appear in the country of Estonia -- an emerging spotlight of dissent surrounded by the fog of the old world.
http://www.electricretard.com -- Electric Retard is the caffeine -- possibly the "Venom Hyperdrive 3.0" -- of the proletarian avant-garde (in the Malevichian "eternal peasant" sort of way... maybe). If André Breton once mentioned in The Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1929) that, "The simplest Surrealist act consists in dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd" and that "Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd, with his belly at barrel level," then Electric Retard is the purest possible visual expression of this thought that modern technology can offer.
http://auskadi.mjzhosting.com -- Martin Hardie would like to talk with you about bikes (lots of bikes) and possibly ways of working around creative license fetishism. You might see his name in relation to various articles published in cycling magazines, the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Mute magazine, and Sarai etc.
http://www.theyesmen.mb.ca -- Coming soon (check this out for now)!
http://www.lenbracken.com -- Len Bracken is an author working out of Washington, DC. During the 2000 election campaign, Bracken was a partisan of the Campaign for Nobody, and on September 11, 2001 he was in Riga, Latvia as part of the citywide Untitled anti-consumerist exhibition. His subsequent pamphlet, Dialectical Hedonism, posits pain and pleasure in rest and movement as the essential categories of existence. And as the translator of Paul Lafargue's Right to Be Lazy and writer-director of the film The Lazy Ones, Bracken hopes that through the pleasures of resisting work and the commodity economy people will successfully oppose the strategy of tension. Failure do so runs the risk of martial law and forced labor in detention camps similar to those described in his feature essay New China Syndrome. Bracken's works have been reviewed by the Associated Press, the Washington Post, and Washington City Paper, as well as many small journals.
http://www.libresociety.org -- Libre Society is an assemblage of the creative multitude who are concerned with exploring the intersections between critical thought, technology, art and transformative practice. The Libre Society provides a shared socio-technical field for artistic, cultural, intellectual and political production that is free for use and reuse (copyleft). Critical of Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons monolith (and its fetishistic admirers) which can be viewed as a watered down "solution" to intellectual property law, the LS brings to the table non-legal licenses for common networks of creative production that are radically democratic in form. As a research collective, the LS has contributed their fair share of works to online publications such as First Monday, Free Software Magazine and Noema and is in the process of producing a book entitled Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Open Source.
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