June 17, 2013 Daily Sites / Stories News

Contacts

• Call on Congress - 1-888-907-6886 - free info on your representatives, bills, elections and more

• POPVOX - tell your US representatives what you think, then share it (US)

• Taproots - social enterprise pro bono work

• National Lawyers Guild - fighting to keep the First Amendment alive in the legal arena

• Bribespot - report bribes anonymously with a cell phone app (World)

Tools

• NCDD Resources - help for civic dialogue and deliberation

NCDD Community News » What’s YOUR role in Creating Community Solutions?

• Deliberative Democracy Consortium - strengthens the field of deliberative democracy

• Points of Light Institute - civic incubator

How My Service Journey Started 2,100 Miles From Home | Points of Light

• Civic Commons - civic engagement apps

• Mashable: Social Good - technology news for activists

Voting

• US Vote - complete voter service

• Election Protection - get help for your voter registration, voting questions and problems (US)

Calendars

• Political Reform Calendar - a list of government and other calendar sites (Intl., US)

Stories

• Open Congress - bills' info and news

Follow #OpenGov Leaders on Micropublishing - Blog - OpenCongress

• Congress.org - daily political happenings in Washington, DC

• InterOccupy - Occupy movement actions

• Occupy - Occupy movement news

Two Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety | Occupy.com

Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists By TransCanada | Occupy.com

NSA Spying Extends to Contents of U.S. Phone Calls | Occupy.com

Getting Money Out Of Politics: Delaware Becomes 15th State Seeking to Overturn Citizens United | Occupy.com

Game-Changer: Could Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students" Bill Be An Economic Breakthrough? | Occupy.com

From Greenwald to Assange: Prosecuting Our Watchdogs of Democracy | Occupy.com

• Waging Nonviolence - activism analyses

• America Speaks - engaging citizens in governance

• Culture Project - Shining an artistic spotlight on injustice

Ethics

• CommonBlog - Common Cause - government and political reform

A Commissioner for the People or the Corporations? | Common Blog

• CitizenVox - Public Citizen - consumer news and corporate reform

The surprising answer from Google on its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce « CitizenVox

• PolicyShop - Demos - a public policy organization working for an America where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy

What Today's SCOTUS Ruling In Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona Means for Voting Rights | Demos

Blurring Lines in Debate Over Government | Demos

A New Alliance? Progressives and Libertarians Are Agreeing More Often | Demos

NYC's Climate Resiliency Plan Should be Funded with a Carbon Tax | Demos

LGBT Employment Rights | Demos

• U.S. PIRG - a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security, or our right to fully participate in our democratic society

• 350.org -  environmental / climate movement

• EDF Voices - Environmental Defense Fund - preserving the natural systems on which all life depends

• Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the ACLU - legal advocacy for individual liberty

Some Thoughts on DMV Image Databases and the Police | American Civil Liberties Union

Immigration Reform on the Senate Floor – A Procedural Maze and Lots of Border Talk | American Civil Liberties Union

Standing with DREAMers – from Driver’s Licenses to Immigration Reform | American Civil Liberties Union

• People's Blog for the Constitution - civil rights legal news

People's Blog for the Constitution » NSA spying: historical legal challenges and growing grassroots resistance

People's Blog for the Constitution » Could scaling back the AUMF become a justification for more surveillance?

• Arguments - Democracy: A Journal of Ideas - articles by politicians and news journalists

Democracy Journal: Arguments: Waiting for Real Reform: How Half-Way Measures Leave Immigrants in Limbo

Finance

• The Tabulation - The Concord Coalition - advocating generationally responsible fiscal policy

• POGO Blog - Project on Government Oversight - champions good government reforms

GAP Releases Statement on Snowden and the NSA

NSA Leak Prompts Talk of Limiting Contractor Access to Secrets

• Taxpayers for Common Sense - ensures that the federal government spends taxpayer dollars responsibly and operates within its means

Sushi Aid in $1 Trillion Agriculture Bill Angers Watchdogs | Taxpayers for Common Sense

Campaign Finance

• OpenSecrets Blog - candidates' campaign finance analyses

Elections

• Brennan Center for Justice - government reform legal news

• fairvote - electoral reforms advocacy

• Election Defense Alliance - United We Count - elections' analyses

Openness

• Sunlight Foundation - open government, transparency and technology news

• ScienceWonk - Federation of American Scientists (Secrecy News) - a think tank for the responsible use of technology and secrecy

Avoiding Needless Wars, Part 6: North Korea | ScienceWonkScienceWonk

Hundreds of Classified Leaks Under Review by IC Inspector General - Secrecy News

• Deeplinks - Electronic Frontier Foundation - defending your rights in a digital world

Looking Deeper into MPAA's Copyright Agenda | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Church of Scientology Lands in Takedown Hall of Shame | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dear Officials: Don’t Be Deceived by CHORUS… Adopt Real Open Access Policies | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Open Wi-Fi Comes to Tunisia: Ex-Dictator's House Turned Into "openwireless.org" Hotspot | Electronic Frontier Foundation