Political problems are often overwhelming.

So what can we individuals really do?

External Links That May Be Helpful

• 2014 National Climate Assesment
• CA Environmental Scorecard
• Go Green Become an Everyday Environmentalist
• Find Congressional Environmental Scorecard
• Fracking: and earthquakes
• Fracking: and Water Pollution
• Fracking: What Is Fracking and Why Should It Be Banned?
• Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
• Org: CAVU
• Org: Food & Water Watch

• ALIC: a Progressive version of ALEC
• Amazon shopping? Use this link to benefit the Progressive Change Campaign Committee .
• Congress: Bernie Sanders (VT) – a Progressive model
• Congress: Elizabeth Warren (MA) – advocate for middle class
• Education: Jesse Hagopian’s Lesson Plan for Liberation / Movement to reclaim public education
• List: Progressive Organizations
• Magazines: Mother Jones magazine web site
• Magazines: The Nation magazine web site
• Org: 350.org
• Org: Citizens for Tax Justice
• Org: EarthJustice – Because the Earch Needs a Good Lawyer
• Org: Green Army
• Org: Move to Amend (Corps are not people)
• Org: Oxfam (The power of people against poverty)
• Org: People For the American Way
• Org: Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth or ZPG)
• Org: Public Citizen
• Org: Rebuild The Dream
• Org: Reset the NET
• Org: United Nations Development Programme- Millennium Development Goals
• Org: Working Families
• Org: World Beyond War
• The Progressive Honor Roll of 2013
• Unions: 36 Ways Unions Have Improved Your Life
• Unions: Buy books from a union bookstore
• Unions: If you don't like inequality, support them
• Unions: Jobs With Justice
• Voting: smart-voter.org

• Doomsday Clock
• 2014 National Climate Assesment
• Congressional Scorecard – Blue vs Red
• Democracy: Once a comforting fiction, has Democracy become an uninhabitable one?
• Discussion: The Vile Maxims of the Masters of Mankind
• ECON: Myth of the Free Market
• Everyday Democracy – Why We Get the Politicians We Deserve
• GOV & DEM: Capitalism vs Democracy
• GOV & DEM: Democracy and Capitalism
• GOV & DEM: Harvard Business Review calls bullshit on today's "capitalists"
• GOV & DEM: How Capitalism is Killing Democracy (need FP account)
• GOV & DEM: US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy
• List: Progressive Organizations
• List: Religions and Spiritual Traditions
• Org: Citizens for Tax Justice
• Taxes: CA's Prop 13
• Why we are not good at "Democracy"
• What is Neoliberalism?
• Neoliberalism / a discussion
• Prop 13's Corp Loophole (Evolve CA)

• Capitalism – a video by Joseph Stiglitz
• Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality
• Media: Tree Media
• Noam Chomsky: "How to Ruin an Economy; Some Simple Ways (2014)"
• Noam Chomsky: "The Emerging, New, World Order, its roots, our leg
• Robert Reich: 7 Biggest Economic Lies Debunked
• Robert Reich: Globaloney: The Dangerous Myths of Globalization
• Robert Reich: America Has a Koch Problem
• Robert Reich: Property 13 Analysis (YouTube)
• Stephen Colbert: on our failure to take action on climate change
• Story Corps – Short inspirational stories and animations
• CA Single Payer - Short add promoting Healthy California #SB562

• Constitution of USA
• Contact / Find your state legislator
• Contacting Congress & Congressional Info
• Courage Score for CA Representatives
• FACTS – Factcheck.org
• FACTS – Politifact.com
• Find Congressional Environmental Scorecard
• Find out candidate positions on Move To Amend Pledge
• Glossary: of Political Terms
• List: Conservative Organizations
• List: Political Magazines
• List: Progressive Organizations
• List: Religions and Spiritual Traditions
• List: Types of Governments
• List: Union Finder & Info
• Minimum Wage Tracker
• Progressive / Liberal Rankings – House of Representatives
• Progressive / Liberal Rankings – Senate
• Sceptical Science
• Voting record of your congressional representatives on globally important issues.