Progressive Musings

Here's a few interesting sites I've run across lately...

The Center for American Progress has just launched a new site:  the American Progress Action Fund.  This partner site has a lot of the same look and feel of the old CAP site, including the Daily Progress Report, but is geared more towards taking action on issues, writing your elected representatives, protesting, registering to vote, linking to the campaigns at other websites.
The crisis in Sudan is at the top of the agenda now.  They are linking to a protest scheduled later today in Washington D.C. to call attention to the genocide.  It's a "Die-In" -- 1000 people will lie down in front of the White House to represent the 1000 who die each day in Darfur.  They also have one of those handy fill-in-the-blank forms for contacting your congressperson and senators.

Two blogs explore the world of cable news.  CableNewser explores Faux, CNN and MSNBC and why they matter from all aspects.  News Hounds takes Faux to task for their right-wing propaganda.  I love their motto:  "We watch Fox so you don't have to."

ProgressivePunch is "a searchable database of Congressional voting records from a Progressive perspective."  Find out how your reps and others are voting on progressive issues.  Search by name or issue (or subissues.)

I guess you've all seen one or more of those annoying Hot Or Not-type sites.  This one is a little more intriguing:  Am I Annoying?  One celebrity after another (some with barely 15 minutes of fame under their belts) and you get to decide if they're annoying or not.  Begin the voting with President Bush or Senator Kerry.

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• #1 Comment from musenla 
  7/27/04 1:44 AM | Permalink

  More interesting links, thanks.  I'm a big fan of the Center for American Progress, I think they do excellent work.  I can't seem to get the News Hounds link to work though...