 This section sounds a bit generic, I'll admit, but I think it works, so hey, I'm keeping it. The world we live in is a big, complicated place, but hopefully the links in one of the three categories below will help to keep tabs on it.
Keep an eye on the world around you.
- Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters
- Alliance for Taiwan's Sovereignty
- American Committee for Chechnya
- American Pictures
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- Amnesty International On-Line
- Amnesty International USA
- Anarchy-Online
- Animal Concerns Community
- Anti-Racist Action
- Anti-Racist Action of Texas
- ASPCA
- Basque Red Net
- Bat Conservation International
- BlackElectorate.com
- Boycott Nike Home Page
- A Brief Catalogue of Indian Atrocities in Kashmir
- CapWeb: The Citizen's Guide to Congress
- CATS: Citizens for an Alternative Tax System
- The Center for Democracy and Technology
- The Center for Public Integrity
- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Che-Lives.com
- Chinese Embassy in Washington DC
- Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ)
- CokeSpotlight: The Coke Challenge Campaign
- Committee to Free Lori Berenson
- Common Cause
- Common Courage Press
- Counterpunch
- Covert Action Quarterly
- Cross The Border
- The Cypherpunks Home Page
- Database of Abusive Police
- Democratic Socialists of America
- The Brian Deneke Memorial Committee
- Dirty Money
- Ever curious about where our elected representatives get their funding? Look here, and be stunned and appalled.
- Don't Shoot My Brother
- DRCNet: Cops Against the Drug War
- Yes, the police do get tired of fighting a farcical "war" on drugs in this country.
- EarthWatch Institute
- Electronic Privacy Information Center - Former Secrets
- End to Global Injustice
- EnviroLink: The Online Environmental Community
- Environmental Defense Fund
- FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting)
- F.E.A.R. - Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
- FECInfo
- The Flag-Burning Page
- FlimFlam.com
- Forest Conservation Archives & Portal
- Free Mumia Coalition/ARA Ann Arbor
- Free Leonard Peltier!
- Free Speech Intenet Television
- Free Tibet Campaign
- Friends of the Earth
- Generation Fuck You!
- Global Internet Liberty Campaign
- Grassroots.com
- The Great Boycott
- GreedyTV.org
- The Green Page
- Green Party of Texas
- Greenpeace International
- Guinea Pig Zero: a journal for human research subjects
- Habitat for Humanity International
- Harris County Green Party (Houston, Texas)
- The Hate Directory
- HateWatch
- Hawai'i - Independent & Sovereign
- Bill Hicks Foundation for Wildlife Rehabilitation
- Hoax Kill
- Home Alive
- House of Crooks
- Houston Animal Rights Team
- Human Rights Emergencies
- The Human Rights Web
- The Hunger Site
- HungerWeb
- Idealist
- IKnowWhatYouDidLastElection.com
- The Independent Progressive Politics Network
- Indigenous Peoples' Literature
- Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous Peoples Survival Foundation (IPSF)
- Inequality.org
- International Federation for Alternative Trade
- International Union of Socialist Youth
- Irish Political Prisoner Information
- The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
- Jay's Leftist and 'Progressive' Internet Resources Directory
- League of Conservation Voters
- The Libertarian Party
- Liberty for the People
- Media Transparency: The Money Behind the Media
- MichaelMoore.com
- Ralph Nader for President
- The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- National Housing Institute
- The National Security Archive at Georgetown University
- Native American Resource Center
- NativeWeb
- The Nazism Exposed Project
- NetAction: Don't Be Soft On Microsoft!
- The NOTMILK! Homepage
- NoWebPatents.org
- Nukefix
- opensecrets.org
- Peacefire
- Leonard Peltier & AIM Information
- Leonard Peltier: Political Prisoner
- People For Fair Trade/Network Opposed to WTO
- PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility
- Philanthropy New Network Online
- Plaid Cymru
- The Police Complaint Center
- The Political Insider
- Geronimo Pratt
- Prison Activist Resource Center
- The Privacy Page
- Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians
- ProPoor
- Protest China's Military Aggression
- Public Agenda Online
- Public Citizen
- Reclaim The Streets!
- Redjellyfish.com
- Reef Relief: Protect Living Coral
- Refuse & Resist!
- Reverend Billy's Home Page
- The Revolutionary Worker
- Rice Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter
- Road to Ruin: The Fifty Most Wasteful Roads in America
- Save Our Seas
- savepacifica
- SaveRainforest.net
- School of the Americas Watch
- The Secular Web
- Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter - Houston
- The Singer Foundation
- Sinn Féin Homepage (Official)
- 6 million Human Beings
- Skeleton Closet: All of the Dirt on All of the Candidates
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Stay Free! Magazine
- Stop The Deportations
- Support Indigenous Sovereignty!
- Taxpayers for Common Sense
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Final Meal Requests
- thetruth.com
- Tibetan Government in Exile's Official Web Site
- Tibetan Resource Directory
- TimorNet
- Today'sVoter.com
- Treehuggers
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- United Animal Nations
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
- Voices in the Wilderness
- WebActive
- Welfare Watch
- Why Boycott Chinese Goods?
- The Wilderness Society
- Working Families Party
- World Wildlife Fund International
- Year Zero Magazine
- ZNet
- ZNet's Contribution to Resolving The Pacifica Crisis
Get off your ass.
- Alaska Mountain Magazine
- All Outdoors
- A nicely-done outdoors-related site, w/plenty of stuff on gear, travel, etc. Focuses a bit much on the hunting & fishing side of things for me, but hey, some people enjoy that stuff.
- Altrec.com
- I like this one, partly because "altrec.com" is just damn easy to remember... Anyway, Altrec is a decent online superstore-type thing, with stuff for all kinds of outdoor pastimes.
- American Hiking Society
- American Rivers Online
- Backpacker Magazine
- The Backpacker Network
- A very cool site, aimed at backpack-carrying travelers -- if you need to find a hostel anywhere in the world, or need advice on traveling abroad, check here.
- Backroads Online Traveler
- Online site for a tour organizer, kind of like Mountain Travel Sobek (below).
- Big Bend National Park
- BurnMagazine.com
- Campmor
- Canoe Camping
- Cave Clan Australia
- Charged
- Are you "extreme," dood? Well, personally I think the marketing jerk who came up with that one should be pumped full of Mountain Dew and left in the desert, but there's some cool stuff that's come out in the wake of all this "extreme"-ness, like this cool e-zine here...
- The Climbing Archive!
- Climbing in North America
- ClimbOn.com - The Internet Base Camp
- Coast Magazine
- Colorado Mountain Club Information Service
- Cool Works
- Not all jobs suck -- if you've gotten sick of working like a bee in your cramped little cube, try something different.
- Couloir Magazine
- DesertUSA
- Destination Outdoors
- The Eastern Waterfall Guide
- eBags
- Further proof that you really can buy anything online -- this site and ebookbags.com, below, both sell nothing but backpacks, tote bags, and the like, all at pretty good prices and with lots of details. I recommend 'em highly.
- ebookbags.com
- Eco-Challenge: The Expedition Race
- e-raft.com
- Explore.com
- GearFinder
- You can't actually buy stuff from here, but this is a great site for the competitive shopper; if you want to find out how well one water purifier (or whatever) stacks up against another, here's where to go.
- GearPro
- Gear2go.com
- GORP.com
- GORP U.S. National Forests
- Hash House Harriers History Page
- HIKENET: Virtual Trail on the Web
- Hiker Central
- Hiking and Walking Homepage
- Hooked on the Outdoors Magazine
- Houston Hash House Harriers Web
- I really can't explain hashing very well, I'm afraid. Lots of crazy, half-drunken yahoos running like mad through brambles, swamps, and construction areas; much fun.
- Houston Hash Run Locations for 1997
- Internet Hash House Harriers Homepage
- Kelty
- These folks make some damn fine packs.
- The Lampkin Phil-Pages
- LiveToPlay Auction
- L.L. Bean's Park Search
- Not as useful as the official TX State Parks pages below, but this is still a handy little deal that lets you search for parks by activity, region, and type of park.
- Mountain Gear
- Mountain Travel Sobek
- While I can't really afford to go on any of their excursions, Mountain Travel Sobek's brochures sure are cool to look at...
- Mountaineering Council of Ireland
- MountainZone.com
- If it has to do with mountains, you can find it here -- they sell stuff and do some funky auctions of mountain-related gear, but I like the news the best.
- Mountainfreak On-line Magazine
- National Forests and Grasslands in Texas
- National Forests are often overshadowed by State Parks, but don't count 'em out; there are few places left in this country where you can really camp where you like, and these are among them...
- National Outdoor Leadership School
- National Park Foundation
- The North Face Store
- OLN Adventure TV
- Outdoor Canada
- Outdoor Outlet
- OutdoorPlaces.Com
- OutdoorReview.com
- Outside Online
- One of my favorite online magazines of all time; check out their Bookstore, too, for cool outdoors-related books.
- PARKNET: The National Park Service on the Web
- Peak to Peak Trail and Wilderness Links
- PlanetOutdoors.com
- PurSite
- REI
- Roadfood
- Rock & Ice
- Russagh Mill Hostel & Adventure Center
- Sierra Club
- Skeeter's Camping Guide
- Not particularly pretty, I must admit, but there's some good info here, esp. on sanitation and health problems in the outdoors.
- soulgear
- Space City Hash Web
- Summit Hut
- Swell
- TheTentStore.com
- Texas Rock Gym
- Quite a place, especially if you live somewhere completely fucking flat, like I do...
- Texas State Parks and Historic Sites
- TopoZone
- Trailmonkey
- Trails Illustrated
- Well, I thought for some reason that this was a magazine of some kind, but I guess not -- turns out it's actually National Geographic's line of maps.
- Trails.com
- TrailWorks.com
- Tricks of the Trail: A Guide to Backpacking
- The Troop 806 Philmont Photo-Journal
- USDA Forest Service
- Yes, I know it's very odd, but it's true -- the USDA, the same people that put their stamp on the food you eat, also oversee U.S. National Forests. I dunno why, but I think it's been like that since Herbert Hoover's time...
- Wildernet
- World Wide Wilderness Directory
- Yellowstone Journal Online
Escape your town.
- About.com: Adventure Travel
- AdventureSeek
- Air Courier Association
- Got more time on your hands than money? Don't mind sitting on planes or in airports for long periods of time? This may be the way to go, then.
- The Air Traveler's Handbook
- Airtravel Network, Inc.
- Flights for cheap. These folks aren't bad, price-wise, but they don't seem to have stuff very far in advance.
- All-Abroad - The Magazine for the Virtual Traveller
- Amtrak Reservations
- ase.net - Accomodation Search Engine Network
- Atlantic Explorer TravelMag
- Atlantic Unbound - Travels
- Babylon Travel Magazine
- Backpack Europe on Budget
- A very cool site for those interested in backpacking & hostelling in Europe. The writer offers some especially good tips on getting there without spending a ton of money.
- Backpacker HQ
- Best Fares Discount Travel Magazine
- Kind of a weird little deal -- this is more of a travel club than a magazine (although you get the magazine if you join). It's maybe a bit pricey to join (and I remember reading some funny small print about having to pay more to leave, but I'm not sure about that), but it can definitely be worth it, 'cause they've got plenty of great travel deals.
- BID1travel
- Yep, you can bid for anything these days, and that includes airplane tickets. Haven't tried this yet, but it's part of 1travel, and it looks like you can find some good bargains (Iceland for $81, anyone?).
- Big World Magazine
- Biztravel.com
- BLUE Magazine
- blvd.org
- BootsnAll.com: The Ultimate Resource for the Independent Traveller
- Bord Failte Ireland (Irish Tourist Board)
- BritRail Ltd
- Victoria Brooks Greatest Escapes
- The Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in Airports
- Bus Éireann - National Bus Company of Ireland
- Business Traveler Online
- Cheap Tickets
- The Compleat Carry-On Traveler
- Concierge.com
- The Connected Traveler
- TheDailyAuction
- deckchair.com
- Desteo
- Devil's Elbow Online
- Discount Travel
- Discount Travel Wholesalers
- EarthRoamer.com
- The Educated Traveler
- eGO Travel Guides
- Escape Magazine
- EscapeArtist
- Escaperoutes.com
- Europe by Eurail
- Eurotrip - Backpacking in Europe
- Excite Travel
- Excursia
- Expedia.com
- Fine Travel
- Follow the Rabbit!
- Fodors.com
- FrequentFlier.com
- Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Online
- Geographia
- Get Lost Magazine
- GoAbroad.com
- Gypsy Journal
- High on Adventure Travel Magazine
- Historic Traveler
- HistoryTravel.com
- Holiday Ireland
- Hostels.com: The Complete Hostelling and Budget Travel Resource
- HotelsTravel.com
- How to See the World: The Art of Travel
- Idyll Untours
- IgoUgo
- Independent Traveler
- Irish Ferries
- ISLANDS Magazine
- iTravelSyndicate
- IYHF - Hostelling International
- Izon's Backpacker News Wire
- JohnnyJet's Travel News and Tips
- Journeywoman - An Online Travel Magazine Just For Women
- Kasbah: The Travel Search Engine
- Steve Kropla's Help for World Travelers
- Literary Traveler
- Lonely Planet Online
- Another absolutely great series of guides. Their Kenya guide is unbelievably detailed, and written by people with practical experience who have a lot of good advice. Besides that, they probably think a lot more like you & me than some loser sitting in an office somewhere (cool idea from these folks: line the shoulder strap of your bag with an old guitar string to keep it safe - because while a thief may have a knife, chances are he won't have wire-cutters). Oh yeah, and these're the same people who do the awesome "Lonely Planet" show on the Travel Channel, too...
- Long Trip Tips
- Lowestfare.com
- Magellan's Travel Supplies
- Can't find the perfect shirt for that trip to the Australian Outback in your local outdoor store? Want a suitcase that you need a jackhammer to get into, but they don't have it at the mall? Well, this one's a pretty good alternative -- fancy traveling gear galore, from lightweight shirts to reading lights, and they've even got a real-live "travel gear specialist" to talk to you online. A little on the pricey side for me, but I have the sinking feeling I'll be back when I can't find just the right travel organizer...
- MapQuest
- To be honest, I can't claim to've ever used MapQuest while traveling. I have, however, had to consult it a good dozen times just trying to navigate around the city I live in...
- MedicinePlanet.com
- Monk.com
- Mysterious World
- New Traveler Online
- Nomads Backpackers
- An interesting little hostel chain, with hostels in Australia, NZ, Vietnam, Fiji, and (I think) South Africa. Never tried 'em, but they look pretty good.
- 0171 is London
- 100% New Zealand
- 1travel.com
- Onroute.com
- The Opinionated Traveler
- Outpost Magazine
- Passionfruit: A Women's Travel Journal
- PhotoSecrets: Photo Guides for Travel and Outdoor Photography
- PlacesToStay.com
- planET
- PlanetRider: Internet Travel Resources
- Rec.Travel Library
- Roadside America
- I like this place muchly. Anybody who's driven cross-country across the U.S. will have seen signs and roadside attractions like the ones featured here -- they've got everything from giant food to museums about angels, all right off the side of the highway. If it's near the interstate, and it's kitschy, well, it's probably here.
- Room12
- Rough Guides To Travel
- Round-The-World Travel Guide
- Shoestring Travel E-zine
- Sights Magazine
- The Skyrage Foundation
- Smarter Living
- South American Explorers
- Splitnews
- Teachers' Travel Web
- TerraQuest: Virtual Expeditions on the World Wide Web
- TICKED.COM: The Ticked-Off Traveler
- Time Out.com: The World's Living Guide
- TNT Magazine
- The TouristGuide
- The Travel Clinic
- Travel Impulse
- Travel & Leisure
- The Travel Year
- Travelago
- Traveldish
- TravelFood.com
- The Travelite.FAQ : Packing Tips for CarryOn-Only Trips
- The Travellers Lounge
- TRAVEL.ORG - The Directory for Travel
- Travelocity.com
- Travelroads - Adventure Travel Directory
- Travelscape.com
- Travelsites.com
- TravelTrade.com
- Travel-Travel-Travel
- Travelwise Online
- The Travelzine.com Noncommercial Travelogues Home Page
- Travelzoo
- TRIP.com
- Trippin' Out Magazine
- trips magazine
- TuDots: The Ultimate Directory of Travel Sites
- 21st Century Adventures
- The Universal Packing List
- U.S. State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs
- Vacations Magazine
- Vagabunda!
- Vapor Trails
- VIP Backpackers Resorts
- VirtualTourist.com - The Original Travel Community
- WebFlyer: The Web's Frequent Flyer Authority
- Web Travel Review
- Web Surfer Travel Journal
- What's Going On - Events, Festivals and Destinations
- Where in the World
- WorldTravelGuide.Net
- Yahoo! Travel
- Youtrek.com
- ZingAlbum: Traveler Connection!
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