Free Will Astrology : Collective Wisdom


	Meet the Allies: Link of the Week Wet Ink Body Politic Collective Wisdom Savvy Spirituality Total Tomfoolery Pronoiac People Rob's Summer Vacation Pagan's Progress	Collective Wisdom Organizations that you should know about, period. Eric Francis' Planet Waves Eric Francis has one of the best astrology sites on the Web. Here's the blurb I wrote for him to use on the back cover of the book he's working on: Eric is knowledgeable yet humble. I admire his ability to open my mind with his insights without having to impress me with his expertise. He's the kind of teacher I like best--specific and authoritative in communicating what he has discovered even as he pushes ahead into the unknown with relentless curiosity. Rob recommends The Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences, the only accredited institution to award higher degrees in astrology. Join the Astrology Internet Newsgroup The Global Exchange site is a great clearing-house of activism and progressive thought. The Good Spider's Tipping for Charity: A scheme brokered not-for-profit through the Bank of Ireland to help support Concern, an agency dedicated to eradicting worldwide poverty by 2015. Musicians For Peace is a small ad hoc group of artists formed after 9/11 who "aren't afraid to make noise." You can learn more about their activities by visiting their multilingual Web site. LEE suggests that if we're "circulating ways that people can help Afghan women, may I suggest getting involved with the Feminist Majority Foundation which has been working on the gender apartheid issue for a long time, or supporting the Global Fund for Women which funds grassroots women's groups around the world, including projects like clandestine schools for girls in Afghanistan." KEVIN forwards notice of the Secular Islam Web site, concerned with freeing Muslims from the strictures and misconceptions which sometimes plague an understanding of the basic tenets of Islam. The Al-Muslim organization seeks to shed light on the practices of modern-day Islam. Learn more about RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. And if you're concerned about your neighbors, follow these links for more information on preventing racial backlash and learning more about your Muslim community at these addresses: The Council on American-Islamic Relations The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee The American Friends Service Committee has a tremendous compendium of stories and links. Muslim Public Affairs Council Need a job, a friend, a place to live, something to do this Saturday night? Thank the goddess for CraigsList! The Pollock-Krasner Foundation gives grants to visual artists of all stripes. The Hunger Site reminds that just a click a day is all it takes to help feed the hungry. Pronoaic poster boy Randy Cassingham directs you this week to the good smarts of SpamCon. Learn more about keeping a sparkling fresh litter-free in-box. Support independent booksellers. Make your online lit purchases through Powell's Books. Learn more about The Disclosure Project, a grass-roots campaign to force Congress to more deeply investigate UFO sightings and other "unusual" technologies. Those of us who have wept shameful tears at AT&T soldier-homecoming ads need something like The AdMan to set us straight on the manipulative vagaries of American TV commercials. "Wish Only Well" is the slogan of the WOWzone.com, a nicely pronoaic Web site. Erowid is committed to "documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives," acting as an online library and information clearing house on these natural drugs. Media Whores Online: "Setting out to bring the media to its knees -- but found that they were already there." And don't miss the arcane and amazing at the Museum of Menstruation! Rally with the Vietnam Veterans Against War Help to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from Big Oil Give a look and a buck to any of these sites: Act Now Shop for Change Heifer International Black Radical Congress National Defense of Battered Women Planned Parenthood Africa Community Technical Service Rape Crisis Center of the Mid-Penninsula (San Francisco Bay Area) Doctors Without Borders The Abandoned Street Kids of Brasil Trust Land of the Blind, visionary rock Speak Out! Activist artists' agency HERE'S THE SKINNY on several reputable Web sites that accept donations or otherwise help to fund the hungry. Please start with our personal favorite, religious affiliations or no, Heifer.org Similarly, Freedom from Hunger works to empower families to feed themselves, concentrating on the woman's role at the kitchen fire. A click a day, that's all they ask. Why, asks the U.N.-affiliated World Hunger Year, on a good green planet so abundant, do so many still starve? The Food Research and Action Center is a public policy center that works with the U.S. government and offers a wealth of information and links. The Hunger Web is administered by Brown University and is chock o'block with links and info. Stop the Hunger concerns itself with those needlessly wasting away in the world's wealthiest nation. While "celebrating" would hardly be the correct term, the Hunger Project does at least turn 25 this year. Enjoy a pine float at the virtual cafeteria of the Congressional Hunger Center. Reduce your own meat intake by a mere 10 percent and see the tremendous difference that all of us can share. Meanwhile, World Vision attempts to directly address the concerns of those struggling to live in Afghanistan. Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation Enjoy the zine reviews offered by the Underground Press And catch up on some quick-witted Blogging The Beatrice.com Web site boasts a wonderful collection of relaxed and intimate author interviews. Maybe everyone else already knows about Beatrice.com, but we were thrilled to sidestep across it. Our fine friends at AdBusters help put things in prospective. Learn more about Feral Cheryl -- The aboriginal answer to Barbie's consumerist woes. Corporate Collapse Records, dark arty stuff and much, much more. Don't be afraid to enter Aria Lusina's gateway to the faerie. Attend the Human-Faerie Relations Congress of Washington State. The wee ones are waiting! Pixie Glamour Productions is a fledgling collective based in Boston, MA, that endeavors to awaken the "Witchiepoo Tomboy Fairy Princess within" all of us through parties, events, community meetings, and a hearty sprinkling of fun. Offering no laughs but some sadly accurate First World information is the Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children site, one dedicated to ending the endless consumer marketing and targeting of children. Remember playing outside and eating fresh apples? Your kids don't.

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