(Boondocks, hinterland, remote and underdeveloped area. From Tagalog "bundok," meaning mountain.)  A broad compilation of articles written by scholars and community activists from both the Philippines and the United States.

This site aims to consciously and consistently articulate, link and develop greater coherence between local community-based and national, regional and global paradigms of change.

Works with GABRIELA Philippines -- the country's most militant women's alliance -- on issues arising from U.S. policy decisions, which impact negatively on the women and children of the Philippines.

Suggested readings from this site:

1)  Justice, no vengeance; peace not war, civil liberties & human rights, not fascism

2)  Filipinas not for Sale

Exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice.  It needs solutions.  It needs change.  It needs action.  An independent organization campaigning to ensure a just, peaceful, sustainable environment for future generations.

Suggested readings from this site:

1)  Introduction to the Land-based Part of the Proposed Star Wars System

2)  Tactical Victory for US and the Oil Industry: Greenpeace Calls on Scientific Community to Rise Above Politics

3)  Incinerators:  Exposing the Myths

Counters corporate-led globalization through education and activism.  Works to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization -- a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.

Suggested readings from this site:

1) Grassroots Globalization

2) Building Grassroots Globalization

3) Corporate-Free UN

4)  USA:  Military Seeks Exemptions from Environmental Laws

5)  Oil, Gas & Coal

6)  BioTechnology: The Third Generation

A national non-profit organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for American's future.  Committed to being on the cutting edge of using the Internet as a political organizing tool and creating new models for internet activism.

Suggested readings from this site:

1) President Bush and the Middle East

2) The Fish Rots from the Head

3) A Silent Revolution is Underway in Human Rights

4) Media and the Hazards of Political Faith

5) The U.S. Can No Longer Claim to being the Land of Opportunity

FILIPINO/AMERICAN COALITION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS.  Committed to seeking U.S. responsibility for its toxic legacy at former U.S. military bases in the Philippines, and to raising funds to address the needs of toxic waste victims.

Suggested readings from this site:

1) FACES' Response to U.S. Troops in the Philippines

2) U.S. Churches Join Environmentalists to Press for Clean-up of Former Bases in the Philippines

3) Greenpeace Takes Action on Toxic Wastes Left by the U.S.

4) Seven Things You can do to Support the Philippine Struggle for Bases Clean-up

5) An Environmental and Health Impact Report

The first Internet-based human rights organization.  Its purpose is to work for the promotion and respect of human rights all over the world, for the right to privacy and against impunity for human rights violators.

Suggested readings from this site:

1) Covert Operations and the CIA's Hidden History in the Philippines

2) U.S. Executive Order on Military Trials for People Accused of Terrorism

3) WTO: An Illegal Organization that Violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

For stories that corporate press never prints.  Aims to make its newsletter useful to its readers' battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature.

Suggested readings from this site:

1) Corporate America and the Israeli Occupation

2) BioWarface, Terror Weapons and the U.S.: Home Brew?

3) U.S. Media Interests: Champions of Profit, Propaganda and Puffery

Conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, education technology, information technology, energy and environment.  A privately-funded non-profit 501c3 organization whose Board of Sponsors include 58 of America's Nobel laureates in the sciences.

Suggested readings from this site:

1) Dirty Bombs: The Fear of Radiation

2) Strategy and Weaponry

3) FAS President Testifies on Nuclear Terrorism Threat

4) Military Analysis

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Transnational Institute

www.ichrp.org

www.rrojasdatabank.org

www.ilps2001.com

www.marxists.org

www.billboardliberation.com 

www.island.net/~pcdsres/

 www.peacedepot.org

www.filipinasmag.com

www.tehelka.com

www.onlinejournal.com

www.ippnw.org

www.merip.org

www.parc-jp.org/parc_e/index.html

ARENA Online

Asian Peace Alliance (APA)

ILPS Online

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