This section is intended to supply activists in Boston and elsewhere with a variety of online tools. If you have a suggestion for a resource that may be of use to activists, please send it to Boston Mobilization for consideration.

Elected Officials
MOBE's guide to contacting your elected officials in Massachusetts.

Organizing Guide for Housing Justice
A comprehensive guide for affordable housing campaigns; available in HTML or as a Word document .

Buying Compassion
Companies with a conscience.

Organizer's Database
The most awesome, easy to use, flexible, free Database we have ever found! Check it out! The Wainwright Bank
The only really socially responsible bank we know of. That's right folks, there really is one!!!!!

Directory for Boston Activists
Contact information for a variety of Boston groups and organizations.

Campus Activism Regional Calendar
A calendar of events for campus activists.
Events are not necessarily endorsed by Boston Mobilization.

Progressive News Outlets:
www.commondreams.org
www.indymedia.org
www.airamerica.org
www.americanprogress.org (a brilliant and serious progressive think tank)
www.craigslist.org
Truthout!
www.toplab.org (theater of the oppressed)
www.michaelmoore.com
www.workingforchange.org
www.campusactivism.org
www.palestineremembered.com (info about Palestine)

Anti-War Links
* www.why-war.com
* www.costofwar.com
* United for Peace and Justice
Boston Area: United for Justice with Peace
* Read reports from one of the only "unembedded American reporters in Iraq - Dahr Jamail's Dispatches from Iraq
* Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military.
* Iraq Veterans Against the War
* Veterans For Peace
* http://www.10reasonsbook.com

How to Contact Your Media
Congressional Media Guide (An amazing resource!)
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
Newslink
Mondotimes
Students Concerned About Mass Media (Emerson)

Staff Suggested Links:

ORGANIZERS DATABASE -
The most awesome, easy to use, flexible, free Database we have ever found! Check it out!

Media Education Foundation: www.mediaed.org

Theater of the Oppressed in New York City

Recycle your old cellphone and get cash or other good stuff! http://www.cellforcash.com/ or http://www.ripmobile.com/

How to Fight Global Warming Tips for personal energy saving and conservation.

BUY BLUE rates companies according to how much campaign contributions they gave to Democrats (blue) or Republicans (red) and also on criteria such as Labor & Human Rights and Environment. Their motto is: "Stop supporting companies that don't support your values. Reward companies that have a triple bottom line: People, Planet and Profit." and also "Vote With Your Wallet". Selective buying is a fun and easy form of activism for people

Building Movement Project - Inspiring Activism in the Nonprofit Community

Participate.net - Activist films and resources

Fight Global Warming! - Go to climatecrisis.net to see how you can help fight global warming.

United Students Against Sweatshops - find out about and get involved in current USAS campaigns

Citizen Joe - The goal of CitizenJoe is to take the spotlight off politics and politicians
and put it back on policy and the people."

The following books were chosen by Boston Mobilization interns and staff as nominees for the most essential works for activists or for that matter, any thoughtful person.
Please support your local libraries and independent bookstores.

Claudia
Colonize This!
An anthology of womyn of color writers.

Black Feminist Thought
Patricia Hill Collins
An approach to feminist theory that has race analysis at its core.

Ways of Seeing
John Berger
Essays exploring the objectification of womyn today and through history.

Sam
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder
Follow around Dr. Paul Farmer as he navigates between the world's worse public health areas and relates why they're also the poorest corners of the planet.

Melissa
Lies My Teacher Told Me
James Loewen

Caucasia
Danzy Senna

The Greatest Stories Never Told
Rick Beyer

Jamila
The Uses of Disorder
Richard Sennett

False Necessity
Roberto Unger

The following films were chosen by Boston Mobilization interns and staff as nominees for the most essential works for activists or for that matter, any thoughtful person. Please support your local libraries and independent bookstores.

Claudia
Killing Us Softly
Documentary on the way media representations of womyn lead to eating disorders.

Sam
Paradise Now (2004)
Two best friends are called on to be suicide bombers for the Palestinian cause.

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Documentary style film chronicles the Algerian resistance to their French colonizers.

Melissa
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Al Gore campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
In theaters now!

Motorcycle Diaries
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator

Syriana (2005)
A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it.