Resources
Essential resources for a global community.
2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR)
A US HUD report to Congress that provides nationwide estimates of homelessness, including information about the demographic characteristics of homeless persons, service use patterns, and the capacity to house homeless persons. The report is based on Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) data about home-bound people who experience homelessness during a 12-month period, point-in-time counts of people experiencing homelessness on one day in January, and data about the inventory of shelter and housing available in a community.
5 Calls
5 Calls is an easy and effective way to make your views heard by the public employees elected to represent you in the U.S. Congress.
Agenda for Action
The Agenda for Action (AFA) is a call to action for people throughout Sonoma County to come together to invest sustainably in protecting and supporting the wellbeing of the community, and specifically the community members who have been most impacted by an interlocking ecosystem of systemic inequities. The AFA aims to mobilize multi-stakeholder collaboration among governments, funders, public and private sectors, and other community partners to transform access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunities, and to ensure people across Sonoma County have the resources to thrive and reach their full potential.
Al Jazeera
Independent new source from Doha, Qatar, with an emphasis on current events in the Arab World.
Americans Who Tell The Truth
Using the power of art to illuminate the ongoing struggle to realize [U.S.] America's democratic ideals and model the commitment to act for the common good.
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Supporting Political Prisoners since 1994. The Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty.
Birth Control Pharmacist
Your pharmacist can help you find the best – and most affordable – birth control option to fit your individual preferences. Going to the pharmacy directly for your birth control can be helpful if you live in a region with inadequate health insurance rights.
Black Agenda Report
Insightful news and analysis from a Black US American perspective. Covers topics and events that are often missing from the corporate press,
Catholic Charities of the Diocese: Homeless Services Center and Family Support Center
Resources, counseling, intake for shelters, showers, laundry, telephone, and mail services. Emergency homeless shelter for families.
Center for Humane Technology
The Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that today’s most consequential technologies, such as AI and social media, actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.
Change.org
Start an online campaigns, mobilize supporters, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.
City of Santa Rosa Government Services
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Santa Rosa, CA.
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a moral duty to avoid allowing a government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his disgust with the U.S. system of enslavement and the illegal land grab commonly referred to in the U.S. as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention into Mexico).
Climate Action Tracker
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C." A collaboration of two organizations, Climate Analytics and NewClimate Institute, the CAT has been providing this independent analysis to policymakers since 2009.
Climate Analytics
Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. Given its funders such the World Bank, it’s reports must be read carefully. For example individual country contributions to global warming are compared without reference to per capital rates. This favors relatively high polluting, low population countries, such as the U.S.
CODEPINK
CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. warfare and imperialism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming* programs. Join us! Life-affirming programs are investments in social programs that uplift human dignity instead of tear it down. We believe universal health care must include the right to an abortion, access to education must not be determined by income bracket, and housing is a human right.
Community Action Partnership
Housing assistance, financial assistance and crisis support, community resource, health and wellbeing, community engagement and education.
Daily Acts
To survive climate change, we must focus on the solutions that help reduce it as well as adapt to changes that are already happening. Daily Acts connects people and builds community through education, action, and policy change that address the climate crisis to create a livable future for all.
DemocracyNow!
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. The reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.
Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres
Every day, Doctors Without Borders teams deliver emergency medical aid to people in crisis, with humanitarian projects in more than 75 countries.
Earth.com
Earth.com is for those who care about our planet and environment and want to make a difference.
Earthquake Country Alliance
The Earthquake Country Alliance is a public-private-grassroots partnership of people, organizations, and regional alliances throughout California that work together to improve earthquake and tsunami preparedness, mitigation and resiliency.
Effective Collective
Kavana Tree Bressen’s group facilitation site for helping groups of people function well together
Eisenhower Media Network
The Eisenhower Media Network (EMN) is an organization of expert former military, intelligence, and civilian national security officials. Their experts offer credible, independent, and critical analysis grounded in real-world practitioner experience and years of sustained study and scholarship. EMN seeks to reach broad, cross-partisan audiences in diverse media outlets and among the US population – who increasingly sense that US foreign policy today is not making them, or the world, safer.
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California
Provides free comprehensive fair housing counseling, complaint investigation, and assistance in filing housing discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH). FHANC is a HUD certified to offer pre-purchase counseling and education programs, as well as foreclosure prevention counseling and workshops.
Federation of American Scientists
After the devastating U.S. bombings on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of atomic researchers, deeply concerned about the use of science for malice, created an organization committed to using science and technology to benefit humanity.
Films for Action
Films For Action is a community-powered, digital library for people who want to change the world. Their mission is to provide citizens with the knowledge and perspectives essential to creating a more beautiful, just, sustainable, and democratic society.
Food Not Bombs -- Petaluma
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement that provides free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
Food Not Bombs -- Santa Rosa
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement that provides free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
Geopolitical Economy Report
Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet dedicated to producing investigative journalism and original analysis to understand the changing world. It was founded by journalist Ben Norton in 2022. It has no institutional support or large donors. Their work is funded entirely by small donations from individual supporters. The choice of topics and analysis are not confined by western corporate gatekeepers, thus providing important perspectives that are largely unavailable in corporate echo chambers.
Gimp (Graphic Image Manipulation Program)
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.The software is developed under the GNU General Public License, which maximizes your freedoms.
Green Science Policy Institute
The Green Science Policy Institute’s mission is to facilitate safer use of chemicals to protect human and ecological health. They educate and build partnerships among government, business, academia, and public interest groups to develop innovative solutions for reducing harmful chemicals in products.
Higher Ed Immigration Portal
A digital platform that integrates data, policies, and resources about DACA and undocumented, refugee, other immigrant, and international students to support federal immigration reform, fuel change at the state and campus level, and build a diverse movement of partners and stakeholders advocating alongside these students.
HOME- Eviction Defense and Tenant Stabilization Program
Helps low-income tenants with eviction defense, Section 8 issues, mobile home park issues, habitability problems and price gouging.
Homeless Action!
Homeless Action! Sonoma County is an all-volunteer run and the only local independent homeless advocacy organization in Sonoma County which is not beholden to funders. They are responsible only to the homeless people in our community. Their members, both housed and unsheltered, have life experiences that bring passion and dedication to tbeir work.
HowardZinn.org
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of countless people.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
In the film “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” Baldwin traveled south to find out what really became of Black Americans after the protest movements of the nineteen-sixties.
ICE Raid Tracker
Monitoring immigration enforcement, deportations, and ICE activities across the United States to keep communities informed and protected.
ICE Shootings Tracker
See where and when people were shot or injured in ICE raids related to Trump’s reckless deployment of poorly-trained, masked people into U.S. cities.
Immigrant Legal Resources Center (ILRC)
Working with and educating immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
Indivisible Healdsburg
INDIVISIBLE HEALDSBURG is a community of more than 400 members who are engaged for the long term to promote progressive values and preserve democracy for generations to come. They embrace Abraham Lincoln’s model: “Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Indivisible Sonoma County
Indivisible Sonoma County was established in 2017, along with thousands of other Indivisible chapters, in response to the 2016 electoral selection of Donald Trump. This national, grassroots movement is based on the vision of a real democracy – of, by, and for the people. Indivisible Sonoma County is led by a team of volunteers, some with decades of political experience and others who have skills from various fields that help to support the organization’s efforts.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists tells stories that punch through the noise, showing how the world really works, triggering positive change. The ICIJ is driven by the belief that citizens have the right to be better informed, that access to independently-sourced facts is not only essential for democracy but is also a fundamental human right.
James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
A classic debate between a fearless fighter for universal beauty, justice and truth, and an articulate and outspoken racist.
Jewish Council of Australia
The Jewish Council of Australia is an organization of Jewish people in Australia who are committed to the Jewish values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), calling out injustice, challenging assumptions and promoting debate. They work towards ending antisemitism and all forms of racism and support Palestinian freedom and justice.
KPFA Radio
Founded in 1949 by pacifist-poet-journalist Lewis Hill, KPFA was the first community-supported radio station in the United States. Much of their programming is local, original, and eclectic, with a well-produced mix of news and in-depth public affairs; an ongoing drama, literature, and performance series; as well as interviews and reviews. Music ranges from folk to hip hop and from Bach to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice. It’s compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organization.
Lifeboat
Volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts, which had set out from Libya, in the middle of the night.
Living on Shaky Ground
The Living on Shaky Ground handbook explains how to prepare for, survive, and recover from earthquakes and tsunamis. It also describes what you can do today to save lives, reduce injuries, and minimize damage. Lots more information on this website.
Long Time No See, Wuhan: Post Pandemic Wuhan Through the Lens of a Japanese Director
Japanese documentary director Takeuchi Ryo and his team went to Wuhan after the COVID-19 pandemic lock down had been lifted. Through the stories of several families in Wuhan, China, we see what it was like during the lock down, what Wuhan is really like now, and how life has changed forever for Wuhan’s millions of residents.
Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. In the Middle East, MECA provides humanitarian aid, partners with community organizations to run projects for children, and supports income-generation projects. In the US and internationally, MECA raises awareness about the lives of children in the region and encourages meaningful action.
NAACP -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Seeks to eliminate racial hatred, racial profiling and discrimination.
NAACP of Sonoma County
The mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination. We are committed to a world without racism where Black people enjoy equitable opportunities in thriving communities.
Napa County Fire Incident Map
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones for Napa County.
Nation's Finest: Santa Rosa
With 30 locations in 15 mostly rural communities in California, Arizona, and Nevada, providing critical services and support to more than 6,800 Veterans annually.
National Women’s History Project
coordinates observances of Women’s History month around the country.
Native Land Digital
Mapping indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and the present day. They hope to strengthen the spiritual bonds that people have with the land, its people, and its meaning.
NorCal Public Media
Northern California Public Media is dedicated to utilizing media for inspiration, education, and connection in the region.
North Bay Rapid Response Network
The Rapid Response Network provides a way for people to respond to fear and anxiety in our community as a result of the increase in immigration enforcement, ICE raids and other attacks against our communities.
North Coast Coalition for Palestine
Brings greater awareness to the plight of the Palestinian people and works to end US military support for Israel.
Peace Alliance
Educate, advocate, and mobilize people into action to transform systems and public policy toward a culture of peace.
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
A community-based, non-profit meeting space hosting a wide variety of services for restorative education, engaged citizenship and nonviolent action.
Peace Roots Alliance
We seek to create a peaceful, just and sustainable world for future generations.
Petaluma People Services Center
Petaluma Homelessness Prevention One-time grants for residents of Petaluma, providing rental assistance.
Petaluma Progressives
Grassroots, political education and action group. Producers of the Progressive Festival.
Physicians for a National Health Program, Sonoma County (PNHP).
In support of single payer health insurance.
Praxis Peace Institute
Uniting theory and practice, Praxis Peace Institute is a non-profit organization located in the city of Sonoma, California. It is dedicated to systemic peace, social and economic justice, environmental sustainability, and informed civic participation.
Princeton University Press
Founded in 1905, Princeton University Press is a nonprofit publisher with close connections to Princeton University. The Press brings influential voices and ideas to the world stage through their academic scholarship, advancing the frontiers of scholarly knowledge and promoting the human conversation.
Prison Radio
Prison Radio is an independent multimedia production studio producing content that challenges unjust police and prosecutorial practices which result in mass incarceration, racism and gender discrimination.
Progressive Sonoma
Progressive Sonoma, an affiliate of the Peaceful Resistance Network, is a group of local, concerned citizens, organizing for progressive political action. Members are from varying backgrounds and affiliations, but first and foremost we are individuals that love [US] America and hold themselves and their people to the highest expectations. They do not condone the scapegoating of minorities, misogyny, racism, homophobia, islamophobia, or any other attack on civil liberties, nor violence or the destruction of property. They are a peaceful resistance.
Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation
Project Censored’s mission is to promote critical media literacy, independent journalism, and democracy. They educate students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. Censorship undermines democracy. Project Censored expose and oppose news censorship and promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking.
Purple Air
Hyper-local, Real-time air quality monitoring for everyone. PurpleAir sensors measure airborne particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter describes solid particles suspended in air; this includes dust, smoke, and other organic and inorganic particles.
Racial Disparities Dashboard
An online dashboard displaying disparities between people in the U.S. who are identified as being either Black or white (using the specific racist categories peculiar to the U.S. settler-colonial form of division.)
Racket News
The Racket News mission is to bring old-school journalistic standards to a new-school media environment. They want to give their audience relief from today’s noisy media landscape.
Radio OpenSource
Open Source is as a North American conversation with global attitude. Christopher Lydon recorded the original podcast in 2003 with Dave Winer. The rest is history in the making.
Radio Resistance
Radio Resistance, hosted by the intrepid Rebel Fagin, features interviews with activists, artists, and union organizers on the plight of the unhoused, climate change, trans rights, and the struggles of immigrants.
Reach for Home
Provide opportunities and support for participants to work toward self-sufficiency, independence, and permanent housing.
Redwood Gospel Mission
Emergency shelter 365 days a year. Intakes for men – Mon-Fri at 11am, for women Mon-Fri at 11am and Sat-Sun at 1pm, ID required.
Restorative Justice Process
Restorative justice is based on ancient and indigenous practices found in cultures worldwide. These documents provide an overview of the process and suggestions for getting started.
Roll Call
Roll Call is a source of timely news, facts, analysis, and coverage of US elections and the politics of US legislation.
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a ‘better’ life for indigenous children.
Seeds for Change
The people of Seeds for Change believe that to create real change, we need to come together to fight injustice and win. They support groups who share their core values of equality, freedom and solidarity. They are a workers’ co-op of experienced campaigners, who offer training, facilitation, online resources and other support for campaigns, community groups and co-operatives.
SHEERPOST
An award-winning, independent news organization that focuses on progressive politics and human rights issues that the mainstream media miss or decline to cover.
Silent Spring Institute
Silent Spring Institute is the leading scientific research organization dedicated to uncovering the links between chemicals in our everyday environment and women’s health, with a focus on breast cancer prevention.
Skä•noñh Center
The Skä•noñh – Great Law of Peace Center is a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Cultural Center focused on telling the story of the native peoples of central New York. The history is told through the lens of the Onondaga Nation and covers topics such as Creation, European Contact, The Great Law of Peace, and more. The Onondagas, or People of the Hills, are the keepers of the Central Fire and are the spiritual and political center of the Haudenosaunee.
Songs of Hope and Resistance
A few songs of hope and resistance for those who still care despite the odds (which were never good).
Sonoma County Black Forum
The mission is to lead, serve, and thrive, by promoting positive community and youth engagement events. Monthly meetings.
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!)
Groups and individuals working address and reverse climate change. Meet in months with a 5th Monday, 7-9 PM at the PJC.
Sonoma County for Palestine
Local Sonoma County group working to defend the human rights of Palestinians. Join them weekly in Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA to protest (Weekly since October of 2023!).
Sonoma County Government Services
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Sonoma County, CA.
Sonoma County Housing Authority
Local public agency that provides safe, decent and quality affordable housing and supportive services to eligible persons with limited incomes.
Sonoma County Immigrant Community Support
Sonoma County is committed to all who are in need and are eligible for services, regardless of immigration status. All County immigrant residents, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, undocumented residents, refugees, or residents with any other immigration status, are valued and are integral members of our social, cultural, and economic fabric.
Sonoma County Nonviolence Training
Collective offers free trainings in methods and principles for progressive social change and peace.
Sonoma County Peace and Justice Events Calendar
A vital source of information on current peace and justice-related events in and around Sonoma County.
Sonoma County Peace Press
A publication of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County, an affiliate of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).
Sonoma County Primary Election Endorsements List, June 2026
A neutral and non-partisan compilation of candidates and their major endorsements.
Sonoma County Registrar of Voters
The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Office is committed to serving the voters of Sonoma County, eliminating barriers to participation in the democratic process, educating youth as to the importance of the democratic process, and providing assistance to candidates, proponents and opponents of ballot measures and political jurisdictions in a fair and unbiased manner
Sonoma Overnight Support
Information and assistance, counseling, emergency shelter. Drop In center offers use of computers, laundry, showers, and hot meals. Their services are also available to non-resident homeless.
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across Imperial America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on politics, and elect government servants who have the backbone to stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
Sunrise Movement, Sonoma County
Sunrise is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across Imperial America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on politics, and elect government servants who have the backbone to stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
The Climate Center
Since 2001, The Climate Center has been a leader in making climate solutions a reality in California at speed and scale. They are a think-tank, do-tank working to turn bold ideas into action for a climate-safe future.
The Climate Clock
The Climate Clock adds the dimension of measurement to the climate crisis debate. As well-funded fossil fuel propagandists obfuscate, the clock inexorably ticks. We now have less than five years to make drastic common sense changes before the earth’s atmosphere warms more than 1.5°C over the era of pre-industrial foolishness.
The Commons Social Change Library
The Commons has 1500+ radical, progressive and alternative educational resources in many different formats including podcasts, videos, book excerpts, articles, templates and guides.
The Consilience Project
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
The Electronic Intifada
An independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world.
The Guardian
Covering UK, European, US, Australian and international news for an online, global audience. The Guardian is renowned for the Paradise Papers investigation and other award-winning work including, the NSA revelations, Panama Papers and The Counted investigations.
The Marginalian
Marginalia on our search for meaning. Every month, Maria Popova spends hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going.
The Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an award-winning, non-profit news organization that partners with journalists and newsrooms to support in-depth reporting on critical global issues to educate the public, promote solutions, and improve lives. The video below is a quick introduction to our history and mission.
The Six Classes
The Six Classes is a program of the Green Science Policy Institute, whose aim is to reduce the use of harmful chemicals in consumer and other products. It focuses on entire classes or groups of chemicals of concern, rather than phasing out problematic chemicals one at a time.
The Spanish Flu
The US Pig Farm Flu (often misnamed The Spanish Flu), was the most deadly flu pandemic in history. It begin in dirty pig farms in Kansas, United States, spread to nearby army bases, and from there was transported with the troops around the world. Although the US government was aware of the outbreak, they kept it secret for propaganda purposes.
The Trace Atlas of [U.S.] American Gun Violence
An interactive map showing more than 441,000 incidents of gun violence in the U.S.
The War on Sensemaking
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023
This report provides an overview of U.S. foreign assistance to Israel. It includes a review of past aid programs, data on annual assistance, and analysis of current issues, including a description of key events since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel and the ensuing conflicts in Gaza and beyond. The information and foreign aid data in this report are compiled by the Congressional Research Service from a number of resources, including CRS communications with various U.S. government agencies,
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 to September 2025
An overview of U.S. military aid and arms transfers to Israel from October 2023 to September 2025.
Ukes4Peace
The Healdsburg Ukulele Club has kick-started a grassroots movement called ‘Ukes4Peace’. Twenty six ukulele clubs are hosting six Ukes4Peace jams to play music from a common songbook to promote peace, harmony and love in this fraught political environment.
UN Global Issues: Climate Action
The science is clear: to avert the worst impacts of climate change and preserve a liveable planet, global warming needs to be limited as much as possible and as a matter of urgency. (IPCC)
UN Global Issues: Climate Change
Climate Change is one of the defining issues of our time and we are at a pivotal moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. Taking decisive action today will make adapting to these impacts in the future more effective and less costly.
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights.
UN World Meteorological Organization
The WMO is the United Nations system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
Understanding Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to favor a specific political party or group. This practice can distort the democratic process by allowing politicians to choose their voters rather than the other way around.
Undocufund
The UndocuFund is a collective local effort to ensure that undocumented individuals and families displaced by the fires and impacted by disasters (like the coronavirus pandemic) have the support and resources necessary to recover and rebuild their lives in Sonoma County, where many have put down deep roots. Affected immigrants include our friends, neighbors, coworkers, and fellow students. Many care for our children and elderly parents; clean our homes and hotel rooms; cook and serve our restaurant meals; maintain our lawns and landscaping; and tend to and harvest the grapes that are the backbone of our County’s economy.
US Power in Freefall: The Most Dangerous Country in the World
The global economy is no longer wobbling – it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran and Russia, its economic confrontation with China, and its attempt to reassert dominance across the Western Hemisphere. The pillars that held the global system together.
US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll and injuries live tracker
Live updates of death and injury counts resulting from the illegal attack by actors in the U.S., Israeli and aligned authoritarian regimes upon the people of Iran.
VIDAS - Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy and Services
An affiliated organization with the Immigration Law & Justice Network (ILJN). The ILJ network provides support services, at no cost, to 19 affiliated organizations across the country that deliver immigration legal services for low-income immigrants.
Waging Nonviolence
Waging Nonviolence is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world. With a commitment to accuracy, transparency and editorial independence, they examine today’s most crucial issues by shining a light on those who are organizing for just and peaceful solutions.
Windy
One of the better apps for observing realtime weather patterns, including wind speed and direction, satellite radar data, humidity, pollution, and other weather patterns.
Yale Experts Explain PFAS Forever Chemicals
The Yale School of Public Health is researching the human health impacts of PFAS by analyzing their role in cancer cell migration, liver damage, and pregnancy loss. The Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is developing technologies to separate and destroy PFAS at water treatment facilities and other locations.
Agenda for Action
The Agenda for Action (AFA) is a call to action for people throughout Sonoma County to come together to invest sustainably in protecting and supporting the wellbeing of the community, and specifically the community members who have been most impacted by an interlocking ecosystem of systemic inequities. The AFA aims to mobilize multi-stakeholder collaboration among governments, funders, public and private sectors, and other community partners to transform access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunities, and to ensure people across Sonoma County have the resources to thrive and reach their full potential.
City of Santa Rosa Government Services
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Santa Rosa, CA.
Daily Acts
To survive climate change, we must focus on the solutions that help reduce it as well as adapt to changes that are already happening. Daily Acts connects people and builds community through education, action, and policy change that address the climate crisis to create a livable future for all.
Food Not Bombs -- Petaluma
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement that provides free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
Food Not Bombs -- Santa Rosa
Food Not Bombs is a decentralized, grassroots movement that provides free vegan meals, free groceries to take home, and related educational materials.
Homeless Action!
Homeless Action! Sonoma County is an all-volunteer run and the only local independent homeless advocacy organization in Sonoma County which is not beholden to funders. They are responsible only to the homeless people in our community. Their members, both housed and unsheltered, have life experiences that bring passion and dedication to tbeir work.
Indivisible Healdsburg
INDIVISIBLE HEALDSBURG is a community of more than 400 members who are engaged for the long term to promote progressive values and preserve democracy for generations to come. They embrace Abraham Lincoln’s model: “Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Indivisible Sonoma County
Indivisible Sonoma County was established in 2017, along with thousands of other Indivisible chapters, in response to the 2016 electoral selection of Donald Trump. This national, grassroots movement is based on the vision of a real democracy – of, by, and for the people. Indivisible Sonoma County is led by a team of volunteers, some with decades of political experience and others who have skills from various fields that help to support the organization’s efforts.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice. It’s compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organization.
NAACP -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Seeks to eliminate racial hatred, racial profiling and discrimination.
NAACP of Sonoma County
The mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination. We are committed to a world without racism where Black people enjoy equitable opportunities in thriving communities.
Napa County Fire Incident Map
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones for Napa County.
North Coast Coalition for Palestine
Brings greater awareness to the plight of the Palestinian people and works to end US military support for Israel.
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
A community-based, non-profit meeting space hosting a wide variety of services for restorative education, engaged citizenship and nonviolent action.
Peace Roots Alliance
We seek to create a peaceful, just and sustainable world for future generations.
Petaluma Progressives
Grassroots, political education and action group. Producers of the Progressive Festival.
Physicians for a National Health Program, Sonoma County (PNHP).
In support of single payer health insurance.
Praxis Peace Institute
Uniting theory and practice, Praxis Peace Institute is a non-profit organization located in the city of Sonoma, California. It is dedicated to systemic peace, social and economic justice, environmental sustainability, and informed civic participation.
Progressive Sonoma
Progressive Sonoma, an affiliate of the Peaceful Resistance Network, is a group of local, concerned citizens, organizing for progressive political action. Members are from varying backgrounds and affiliations, but first and foremost we are individuals that love [US] America and hold themselves and their people to the highest expectations. They do not condone the scapegoating of minorities, misogyny, racism, homophobia, islamophobia, or any other attack on civil liberties, nor violence or the destruction of property. They are a peaceful resistance.
Radio Resistance
Radio Resistance, hosted by the intrepid Rebel Fagin, features interviews with activists, artists, and union organizers on the plight of the unhoused, climate change, trans rights, and the struggles of immigrants.
Reach for Home
Provide opportunities and support for participants to work toward self-sufficiency, independence, and permanent housing.
Restorative Justice Process
Restorative justice is based on ancient and indigenous practices found in cultures worldwide. These documents provide an overview of the process and suggestions for getting started.
Songs of Hope and Resistance
A few songs of hope and resistance for those who still care despite the odds (which were never good).
Sonoma County Black Forum
The mission is to lead, serve, and thrive, by promoting positive community and youth engagement events. Monthly meetings.
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!)
Groups and individuals working address and reverse climate change. Meet in months with a 5th Monday, 7-9 PM at the PJC.
Sonoma County for Palestine
Local Sonoma County group working to defend the human rights of Palestinians. Join them weekly in Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA to protest (Weekly since October of 2023!).
Sonoma County Government Services
The services provided by public servants hired by the people of Sonoma County, CA.
Sonoma County Immigrant Community Support
Sonoma County is committed to all who are in need and are eligible for services, regardless of immigration status. All County immigrant residents, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, undocumented residents, refugees, or residents with any other immigration status, are valued and are integral members of our social, cultural, and economic fabric.
Sonoma County Nonviolence Training
Collective offers free trainings in methods and principles for progressive social change and peace.
Sonoma County Peace and Justice Events Calendar
A vital source of information on current peace and justice-related events in and around Sonoma County.
Sonoma County Peace Press
A publication of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County, an affiliate of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).
Sonoma County Primary Election Endorsements List, June 2026
A neutral and non-partisan compilation of candidates and their major endorsements.
Sonoma County Registrar of Voters
The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Office is committed to serving the voters of Sonoma County, eliminating barriers to participation in the democratic process, educating youth as to the importance of the democratic process, and providing assistance to candidates, proponents and opponents of ballot measures and political jurisdictions in a fair and unbiased manner
Ukes4Peace
The Healdsburg Ukulele Club has kick-started a grassroots movement called ‘Ukes4Peace’. Twenty six ukulele clubs are hosting six Ukes4Peace jams to play music from a common songbook to promote peace, harmony and love in this fraught political environment.
Undocufund
The UndocuFund is a collective local effort to ensure that undocumented individuals and families displaced by the fires and impacted by disasters (like the coronavirus pandemic) have the support and resources necessary to recover and rebuild their lives in Sonoma County, where many have put down deep roots. Affected immigrants include our friends, neighbors, coworkers, and fellow students. Many care for our children and elderly parents; clean our homes and hotel rooms; cook and serve our restaurant meals; maintain our lawns and landscaping; and tend to and harvest the grapes that are the backbone of our County’s economy.
VIDAS - Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy and Services
An affiliated organization with the Immigration Law & Justice Network (ILJN). The ILJ network provides support services, at no cost, to 19 affiliated organizations across the country that deliver immigration legal services for low-income immigrants.
Earthquake Country Alliance
The Earthquake Country Alliance is a public-private-grassroots partnership of people, organizations, and regional alliances throughout California that work together to improve earthquake and tsunami preparedness, mitigation and resiliency.
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California
Provides free comprehensive fair housing counseling, complaint investigation, and assistance in filing housing discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH). FHANC is a HUD certified to offer pre-purchase counseling and education programs, as well as foreclosure prevention counseling and workshops.
Green Science Policy Institute
The Green Science Policy Institute’s mission is to facilitate safer use of chemicals to protect human and ecological health. They educate and build partnerships among government, business, academia, and public interest groups to develop innovative solutions for reducing harmful chemicals in products.
KPFA Radio
Founded in 1949 by pacifist-poet-journalist Lewis Hill, KPFA was the first community-supported radio station in the United States. Much of their programming is local, original, and eclectic, with a well-produced mix of news and in-depth public affairs; an ongoing drama, literature, and performance series; as well as interviews and reviews. Music ranges from folk to hip hop and from Bach to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Living on Shaky Ground
The Living on Shaky Ground handbook explains how to prepare for, survive, and recover from earthquakes and tsunamis. It also describes what you can do today to save lives, reduce injuries, and minimize damage. Lots more information on this website.
Nation's Finest: Santa Rosa
With 30 locations in 15 mostly rural communities in California, Arizona, and Nevada, providing critical services and support to more than 6,800 Veterans annually.
NorCal Public Media
Northern California Public Media is dedicated to utilizing media for inspiration, education, and connection in the region.
North Bay Rapid Response Network
The Rapid Response Network provides a way for people to respond to fear and anxiety in our community as a result of the increase in immigration enforcement, ICE raids and other attacks against our communities.
The Climate Center
Since 2001, The Climate Center has been a leader in making climate solutions a reality in California at speed and scale. They are a think-tank, do-tank working to turn bold ideas into action for a climate-safe future.
5 Calls
5 Calls is an easy and effective way to make your views heard by the public employees elected to represent you in the U.S. Congress.
Al Jazeera
Independent new source from Doha, Qatar, with an emphasis on current events in the Arab World.
Americans Who Tell The Truth
Using the power of art to illuminate the ongoing struggle to realize [U.S.] America's democratic ideals and model the commitment to act for the common good.
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Supporting Political Prisoners since 1994. The Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty.
Birth Control Pharmacist
Your pharmacist can help you find the best – and most affordable – birth control option to fit your individual preferences. Going to the pharmacy directly for your birth control can be helpful if you live in a region with inadequate health insurance rights.
Black Agenda Report
Insightful news and analysis from a Black US American perspective. Covers topics and events that are often missing from the corporate press,
Center for Humane Technology
The Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that today’s most consequential technologies, such as AI and social media, actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.
Change.org
Start an online campaigns, mobilize supporters, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a moral duty to avoid allowing a government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his disgust with the U.S. system of enslavement and the illegal land grab commonly referred to in the U.S. as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention into Mexico).
CODEPINK
CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. warfare and imperialism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming* programs. Join us! Life-affirming programs are investments in social programs that uplift human dignity instead of tear it down. We believe universal health care must include the right to an abortion, access to education must not be determined by income bracket, and housing is a human right.
DemocracyNow!
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. The reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.
Earth.com
Earth.com is for those who care about our planet and environment and want to make a difference.
Effective Collective
Kavana Tree Bressen’s group facilitation site for helping groups of people function well together
Eisenhower Media Network
The Eisenhower Media Network (EMN) is an organization of expert former military, intelligence, and civilian national security officials. Their experts offer credible, independent, and critical analysis grounded in real-world practitioner experience and years of sustained study and scholarship. EMN seeks to reach broad, cross-partisan audiences in diverse media outlets and among the US population – who increasingly sense that US foreign policy today is not making them, or the world, safer.
Federation of American Scientists
After the devastating U.S. bombings on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of atomic researchers, deeply concerned about the use of science for malice, created an organization committed to using science and technology to benefit humanity.
Films for Action
Films For Action is a community-powered, digital library for people who want to change the world. Their mission is to provide citizens with the knowledge and perspectives essential to creating a more beautiful, just, sustainable, and democratic society.
Higher Ed Immigration Portal
A digital platform that integrates data, policies, and resources about DACA and undocumented, refugee, other immigrant, and international students to support federal immigration reform, fuel change at the state and campus level, and build a diverse movement of partners and stakeholders advocating alongside these students.
HowardZinn.org
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of countless people.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
In the film “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” Baldwin traveled south to find out what really became of Black Americans after the protest movements of the nineteen-sixties.
ICE Raid Tracker
Monitoring immigration enforcement, deportations, and ICE activities across the United States to keep communities informed and protected.
ICE Shootings Tracker
See where and when people were shot or injured in ICE raids related to Trump’s reckless deployment of poorly-trained, masked people into U.S. cities.
Immigrant Legal Resources Center (ILRC)
Working with and educating immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
A classic debate between a fearless fighter for universal beauty, justice and truth, and an articulate and outspoken racist.
Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. In the Middle East, MECA provides humanitarian aid, partners with community organizations to run projects for children, and supports income-generation projects. In the US and internationally, MECA raises awareness about the lives of children in the region and encourages meaningful action.
National Women’s History Project
coordinates observances of Women’s History month around the country.
Native Land Digital
Mapping indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and the present day. They hope to strengthen the spiritual bonds that people have with the land, its people, and its meaning.
Peace Alliance
Educate, advocate, and mobilize people into action to transform systems and public policy toward a culture of peace.
Princeton University Press
Founded in 1905, Princeton University Press is a nonprofit publisher with close connections to Princeton University. The Press brings influential voices and ideas to the world stage through their academic scholarship, advancing the frontiers of scholarly knowledge and promoting the human conversation.
Racial Disparities Dashboard
An online dashboard displaying disparities between people in the U.S. who are identified as being either Black or white (using the specific racist categories peculiar to the U.S. settler-colonial form of division.)
Racket News
The Racket News mission is to bring old-school journalistic standards to a new-school media environment. They want to give their audience relief from today’s noisy media landscape.
Radio OpenSource
Open Source is as a North American conversation with global attitude. Christopher Lydon recorded the original podcast in 2003 with Dave Winer. The rest is history in the making.
Roll Call
Roll Call is a source of timely news, facts, analysis, and coverage of US elections and the politics of US legislation.
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a ‘better’ life for indigenous children.
Seeds for Change
The people of Seeds for Change believe that to create real change, we need to come together to fight injustice and win. They support groups who share their core values of equality, freedom and solidarity. They are a workers’ co-op of experienced campaigners, who offer training, facilitation, online resources and other support for campaigns, community groups and co-operatives.
SHEERPOST
An award-winning, independent news organization that focuses on progressive politics and human rights issues that the mainstream media miss or decline to cover.
Silent Spring Institute
Silent Spring Institute is the leading scientific research organization dedicated to uncovering the links between chemicals in our everyday environment and women’s health, with a focus on breast cancer prevention.
Skä•noñh Center
The Skä•noñh – Great Law of Peace Center is a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Cultural Center focused on telling the story of the native peoples of central New York. The history is told through the lens of the Onondaga Nation and covers topics such as Creation, European Contact, The Great Law of Peace, and more. The Onondagas, or People of the Hills, are the keepers of the Central Fire and are the spiritual and political center of the Haudenosaunee.
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across Imperial America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on politics, and elect government servants who have the backbone to stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
The Commons Social Change Library
The Commons has 1500+ radical, progressive and alternative educational resources in many different formats including podcasts, videos, book excerpts, articles, templates and guides.
The Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an award-winning, non-profit news organization that partners with journalists and newsrooms to support in-depth reporting on critical global issues to educate the public, promote solutions, and improve lives. The video below is a quick introduction to our history and mission.
The Six Classes
The Six Classes is a program of the Green Science Policy Institute, whose aim is to reduce the use of harmful chemicals in consumer and other products. It focuses on entire classes or groups of chemicals of concern, rather than phasing out problematic chemicals one at a time.
The Trace Atlas of [U.S.] American Gun Violence
An interactive map showing more than 441,000 incidents of gun violence in the U.S.
U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023
This report provides an overview of U.S. foreign assistance to Israel. It includes a review of past aid programs, data on annual assistance, and analysis of current issues, including a description of key events since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel and the ensuing conflicts in Gaza and beyond. The information and foreign aid data in this report are compiled by the Congressional Research Service from a number of resources, including CRS communications with various U.S. government agencies,
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 to September 2025
An overview of U.S. military aid and arms transfers to Israel from October 2023 to September 2025.
Understanding Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to favor a specific political party or group. This practice can distort the democratic process by allowing politicians to choose their voters rather than the other way around.
US Power in Freefall: The Most Dangerous Country in the World
The global economy is no longer wobbling – it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran and Russia, its economic confrontation with China, and its attempt to reassert dominance across the Western Hemisphere. The pillars that held the global system together.
US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll and injuries live tracker
Live updates of death and injury counts resulting from the illegal attack by actors in the U.S., Israeli and aligned authoritarian regimes upon the people of Iran.
Yale Experts Explain PFAS Forever Chemicals
The Yale School of Public Health is researching the human health impacts of PFAS by analyzing their role in cancer cell migration, liver damage, and pregnancy loss. The Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is developing technologies to separate and destroy PFAS at water treatment facilities and other locations.
Climate Action Tracker
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C." A collaboration of two organizations, Climate Analytics and NewClimate Institute, the CAT has been providing this independent analysis to policymakers since 2009.
Climate Analytics
Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. Given its funders such the World Bank, it’s reports must be read carefully. For example individual country contributions to global warming are compared without reference to per capital rates. This favors relatively high polluting, low population countries, such as the U.S.
Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres
Every day, Doctors Without Borders teams deliver emergency medical aid to people in crisis, with humanitarian projects in more than 75 countries.
Geopolitical Economy Report
Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet dedicated to producing investigative journalism and original analysis to understand the changing world. It was founded by journalist Ben Norton in 2022. It has no institutional support or large donors. Their work is funded entirely by small donations from individual supporters. The choice of topics and analysis are not confined by western corporate gatekeepers, thus providing important perspectives that are largely unavailable in corporate echo chambers.
Gimp (Graphic Image Manipulation Program)
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.The software is developed under the GNU General Public License, which maximizes your freedoms.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists tells stories that punch through the noise, showing how the world really works, triggering positive change. The ICIJ is driven by the belief that citizens have the right to be better informed, that access to independently-sourced facts is not only essential for democracy but is also a fundamental human right.
Jewish Council of Australia
The Jewish Council of Australia is an organization of Jewish people in Australia who are committed to the Jewish values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), calling out injustice, challenging assumptions and promoting debate. They work towards ending antisemitism and all forms of racism and support Palestinian freedom and justice.
Lifeboat
Volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts, which had set out from Libya, in the middle of the night.
Long Time No See, Wuhan: Post Pandemic Wuhan Through the Lens of a Japanese Director
Japanese documentary director Takeuchi Ryo and his team went to Wuhan after the COVID-19 pandemic lock down had been lifted. Through the stories of several families in Wuhan, China, we see what it was like during the lock down, what Wuhan is really like now, and how life has changed forever for Wuhan’s millions of residents.
Purple Air
Hyper-local, Real-time air quality monitoring for everyone. PurpleAir sensors measure airborne particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter describes solid particles suspended in air; this includes dust, smoke, and other organic and inorganic particles.
The Climate Clock
The Climate Clock adds the dimension of measurement to the climate crisis debate. As well-funded fossil fuel propagandists obfuscate, the clock inexorably ticks. We now have less than five years to make drastic common sense changes before the earth’s atmosphere warms more than 1.5°C over the era of pre-industrial foolishness.
The Consilience Project
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
The Electronic Intifada
An independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world.
The Guardian
Covering UK, European, US, Australian and international news for an online, global audience. The Guardian is renowned for the Paradise Papers investigation and other award-winning work including, the NSA revelations, Panama Papers and The Counted investigations.
The Marginalian
Marginalia on our search for meaning. Every month, Maria Popova spends hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going.
The Spanish Flu
The US Pig Farm Flu (often misnamed The Spanish Flu), was the most deadly flu pandemic in history. It begin in dirty pig farms in Kansas, United States, spread to nearby army bases, and from there was transported with the troops around the world. Although the US government was aware of the outbreak, they kept it secret for propaganda purposes.
The War on Sensemaking
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
UN Global Issues: Climate Action
The science is clear: to avert the worst impacts of climate change and preserve a liveable planet, global warming needs to be limited as much as possible and as a matter of urgency. (IPCC)
UN Global Issues: Climate Change
Climate Change is one of the defining issues of our time and we are at a pivotal moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. Taking decisive action today will make adapting to these impacts in the future more effective and less costly.
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights.
UN World Meteorological Organization
The WMO is the United Nations system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
Windy
One of the better apps for observing realtime weather patterns, including wind speed and direction, satellite radar data, humidity, pollution, and other weather patterns.