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Reclaim The Streets (London) - UK part of the movement that seeks to dissolve power through street action, with events, ideology and how-to guide.
Citizens Connection - The UK portal for active citizens - that's people who want to change the world, or their part of it.
Globalise Resistance - Anti globalisation organisation criticises corporate power. Provides newsletter, background briefings and details of protests and action.
urban75 - UK underground ezine with reports and stories on eco-protest, rave, drugs, rave music and techno.
Positive News - Non-profit quarterly international newspaper with an emphasis on world peace, sustainability and ethics. Database of articles and subscription details.
How to Complain - A consumer campaigning community where you can complain online and learn about your rights.
LaRC (Lancaster Resource Centre) - Meeting space for people involved in all sorts of campaigns, projects and activism. Calendar of activities, listing of groups, and contact details.
Palestine Refugee Return March - London - Demonstration and rally to support the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Activism "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Activism If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Activism "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Activism We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Activism "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Activism The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Activism And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Activism Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Activism "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Activism He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Activism Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Activism A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Activism Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Activism "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Activism If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Activism Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Activism The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Activism I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Activism Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Activism May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Activism It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Activism
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