Activist Resources
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a moral duty to avoid allowing a government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his disgust with the U.S. system of enslavement and the illegal land grab commonly referred to in the U.S. as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention in Mexico).
Democracy and Education
The seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a powerful and free office suite used by millions of people around the world.
Lifeboat
Volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts, which had set out from Libya, in the middle of the night.
Radio OpenSource
Open Source is as a North American conversation with global attitude. Christopher Lydon recorded the original podcast in 2003 with Dave Winer. The rest is history in the making.
