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Here are some links to things I like.
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Other songwriters and performers
Most of these links are to people I know and like, people whose songs I have used for parodies or to people whose music inspired me to write songs of my own.
Music-related sites
Online magazines, folk resources and other kinds of stuff like that.
News and information sites
Indymedia and other things that seem to fit
Political and campaign sites
Would you like to guess first, or will I just tell you?
Other random stuff
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Performers
http://www.judysmall.net
Judy Small has been writing wonderful political and other heartfelt songs at least since I was a kid and really made me realise how great it is to be able to sing things I actually believe.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bolan/
Bernard Bolan is another of my childhood songwriting heroes. He writes a lot of silly songs and some serious ones too. I admire him most for his ability to tell a story in a song and make it fit the rhythm without butchering the language.
http://www.geocities.com/solidaritychoir/
The Solidarity Choir is a group of singers who sing songs of political struggle and in support of positive social change. They sing some of my songs, arranged by Miguel Heatwole.
http://www.ecopella.live.com.au
Ecopella is another Sydney choir, one who sings about environmental issues and campaigns in particular. They also sing some of my songs.
http://www.touchwoodweb.com/TWindex.htm
Touchwood are a trio in Sydney who sing interesting musical pieces extremely well. I met them through Ecopella and the Solidarity Choir. See their website for their own decsritpion of themselves.
http://triantan.tripod.com/triantan.html
Triantan A great trio in Sydney who are wonderful singers aswell as wonderful people.
http://home.austarnet.com.au/glazfolk/home.htm
Peter Hicks is an ex-Sydney, now Tasmanian songwriter who, with Geoff Francis, has written lots of extremely good political songs. The website includes a page of political songs including their own and others.
http://www.penelopeswales.com/
Penelope Swales is a singer-songwriter from Melbourne and does great stuff that's very passionate, sometimes very blatantly political and sometimes just about being alive and that sort of thing.
http://www.schumann.com.au/john
John Schumann is from the band Redgum and wrote the song "I Was Only 19" which I parodied. This is his site and is very swish.
http://www.cowswithguns.com
Cows With Guns This is the homepage of Dana Lyons, an American singer-songwriter who wrote the song "Cows with Guns" which was a hit a little while ago in Australia. He has also written a lot of other political songs, funny ones and serious too.
http://www.caseyneill.org/
Casey Neill This is his site. Casey wrote "Hooray for the Riff Raff" and "Dancing on the Ruins" (of multinational corporations).
http://www.jimlow.net/
Jim Low is a singer-songwriter from the Blue Mountains, out of Sydney.
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Music-related Sites
http://www.mudcat.org
The Mudcat Cafe is a folk music knowledge-sharing and discussion forum. The site is based in America and used by English speakers all over the place.
http://www.folkalpoint.org.uk
Folkalpoint A magazine about English and Australian folk music. All built and maintained by Mandola man, it seems.
http://folksong.org.nz
Folksong NZ A site full of great New Zealand folk artists and stuff.
http://www.amws.com.au
Australian Music Website This is a site of Australian musicians and performers, also shopping etc. It isn't political but has lots of music and artists.
http://www.singout.org
Sing Out is an American folk magazine that is also now online. They publish the songbook "Rise Up Singing".
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News and Info
http://www.indymedia.org
Indymedia is one of the networks of politically free media groups springing up all over the world. Indymedia has lots of sites in rich countries and is being taken up by people in some African, South American and West Asian places as well. It is a site where you can add your own news and read what other people have contributed and comment on what you read.
http://www.schnews.org.uk
Schnews is a small English newsletter that fits stories of direct action and global issues onto 2 A4 pages most weeks. It is very autonomous and social-change oriented and has a lot of very good links.
http://www.undercurrents.org
Undercurrents A UK activist news video production group which is also online
http://www.beyondTV.org
BeyondTV A site of all kinds of media and mixed media for culture and campaigns
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
What Really Happened a news site that describes itself as "anti-war and anti-lie".
http://www.smirkingchimp.com
SmirkingChimp.com "fair and balanced"
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk
Corporate Watch is a UK NGO compiling information on corporations and their activities throughout the world.
http://www.occupationwatch.org
Occupation Watch is a group using its foreign status in Iraq as some protection as it stands up for working people and report on the effects of the US occupation of Iraq. It is a bit trade union oriented but good.
http://www.hierarchies.org
Hierarchies.org A new-looking website starting to list hundreds of corporations and what they own and what they do in the world.
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Political and Campaign sites
Do you know, it's really hard to find good political websites for my purposes. So many of them are either too specific for a page of just things I like or they're really boring or difficult to navigate or I don't really like the politics of them that much. I found some so far that I think are good or useful though.
http://WWW.active.org.au
Active a site of social change things happening in various cities in Australia.
http://www.reclaimthestreets.net
Reclaim the Streets The site about the street parties but with good politics there too.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7579/
So many porcupines, so little time What more descripiton do you need? Actually this site seems on first inspection, to be full of intersting politics but just doesn't take itself very seriously.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws91/revolution32.html
Thinking About Anarchism One of the shorter and less boring pieces of writing in explanation of anarchist politics.
http://jeromekahn123.tripod.com/socialism/id6.html
Socialism A site that seems to be by someone called Jerome Kahn, this link is straight to an essay about what socialism is. A skim of it makes me think it might be good.
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/en/
People's Global Action A Europe based group that does acitivism on global issues and in cooperation with activists from many continents (is the way I understand it).
http://www.mondopolitico.com
Mondopolitico.com A political discussion forum which seems to have some interesting things in it.
http://www.prisonactivist.org
Prison Activist Resource Center A site forming part of a campaign against prisons. It is based in the USA but is very applicable and useful for people in lots of places.
http://www.social-ecology.org
The Social Ecology Institute A site of all kinds of writing and things about people and our relationships with the planet and each other.
http://www.virusmyth.org
Virus Myth A site compiled by a big bunch of scientists explaining that the assertion that AIDS is caused by a virus called HIV remains unproven. It includes possibilities as extreme as that the virus does not exist at all.
http://www.sheshbeshfilm.com
Hocking the tshaynik A site promoting afilm about Jewish dissent to the occupation of Palestine and with lots of links to other sites of Jewish, Palestinian and other groups in opposition to the occupation, the new apartheid wall and other things.
http://01-05-2015.freecyberzone.com
May 1st 2015 A site about global debt and a campaign to escape it.
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Other random links
http://www.collectingwords.0catch.com
Our Cycle Journey This is a site about a project I hope to do when I have some money. If you want to be involved at all, let me know.
http://www.dsl.org/copyleft/
Copyleft A site that explains the concept and development of copyleft.
http://www.killthebuddha.com
Killing the Buddha a "non-religious" religious site which uses killing the buddha as "a metaphor for moving beyond the complacency of belief..."
http://www.freewebsubmission.com
Free Web Submission I listed my site with search engines here.
