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Freedom/Liberty News & Links
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"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
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Advocates for Self-Government
Helping individuals encounter, evaluate and embrace the ideas of liberty.
Alliance for the Separation of School and State
Argues against any interference by government in education.
Boston Tea Party
Platform: The Boston Tea Party supports reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose.
Bureaucrash
 International network of guerrilla activists dedicated to the idea of free expression, free enterprise and free thought.
Claire Wolfe
Privacy, gun-rights, simple living, integrity, dogs, writing, monkeywrenching, the general lunacy of life, the universe, and everything.
DraftResistance.org
Encourages resistance to the registration laws of the United States.
Endervidualism
Includes Ender's Review of the Web, a weekly collection of web items that might appeal to individualists.
Foundation for Economic Education
Oldest research organization promoting individual freedom, private property, limited government, and free trade.
Free-Market.net
Comprehensive source for information on liberty.
Free State Project
The Free State Project is an agreement among 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to New Hampshire, where they will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property Read more...
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Advances the libertarian philosophy by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.
International Society for Individual Liberty
A network of individuals and associations in over 80 countries dedicated to building a free and peaceful world through the ideals of free markets, social tolerance and individual responsibility.
Laissez Faire Books
The world's best selection of books on liberty.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Criminal justice professionals speaking out against the "War On Drugs."
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LewRockwell.com
The premier anti-state/pro-market site on the net.
The Libertarian
Syndicated newspaper columnist Vin Suprynowicz.
Liberteen
For thinking teens.
Liberty Book Shop
Books on privacy, liberty, freedom, gun rights, public education in America, buying coins and gold, and more.
Loompanics Unlimited
Publishing and bookselling company specializing in odd, unusual, controversial, and wild-ass books, with an emphasis on questioning authority.
New Hampshire Underground
Where liberty lovers gather.
NO2ID
 Campaigning organisation opposed to the [British] government's planned ID card and the National Identity Register. Read more...
No Force, No Fraud
Bob Smith on the soul of libertarianism.
Online Library of Liberty
To encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.
Privacy International
Human rights group formed as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Nonprofit consumer information and advocacy organization.
Rational Review
Libertarian news and commentary on politics and culture.
Reason Foundation
Explores and promotes public policies based on rationality and freedom; links to Reason, the monthly print magazine of free minds and free markets.
Reporters Without Borders
News website devoted to press freedom.
Samizdata
A bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property.
Statewatch
Encourages the publication of investigative journalism and critical research in Europe the fields of the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness.
Strike The Root
Current events and commentary from a libertarian/market anarchist perspective.
Unknown News
Freedom is the fundamental human right.
The White Rose
A student group who resisted Adolph Hitler and German National Socialism, for which several members of the group were executed.
voluntaryist.com
Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society.
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Resources
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The Memory Hole
The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known, with an emphasis is on material that exposes things that we're not supposed to know (or that we're supposed to forget).
MIT OpenCourseWare
Free and open educational resource for self-learners around the world. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is independent and privately endowed.
ReligiousTolerance.org
Exists to promote religious tolerance and freedom; to describe religious faiths in all their diversity; and to describe controversial topics from all points of view. Funded through donations and advertising and staffed by volunteers.
Snopes.com
The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. Maintained and funded (with the help of contributions and advertising) by its founders.
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Non-Institutional Education
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"What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all."
John Holt |
AHEd: Action for Home Education
Internet-based home educators group with a focus on the defence and advancement of home education rights and liberties and of fair and equal treatment of all home educators.
A to Z Home's Cool
Homeschooling community and portal site: chat, boards, events, articles, kids' sites, links to learning materials, support groups, ideas for educating teens, and laws worldwide. Also includes sample forms and transcripts.
Classical Education Links
Comprehensive list of links to books, articles, and websites about classical education. (Note that many of these links have a decidedly religious orientation, and a few of them are decidedly secular. Be advised that if you choose whether or not to click solely on that basis, you do so at your intellectual peril.)
Education Otherwise (UK)
Support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, and for those who wish to uphold the freedom of families to take proper responsibility for the education of their children.
Freedom-in-Education (UK)
Freedom-in-education is about people being able to choose what they want to learn and when they want to learn it.
F.R.E.E. in NY
FREE (Families Restoring Educational Emancipation) in NY is a diverse coalition of families who believe that it is both their responsibility and their inalienable right as parents to direct the education of their children -- FREE -- from government oversight.
Growing Without Schooling Archive
Growing Without Schooling was the work of John C. Holt and homeschooling's early pioneer families, now available online.
Home Education Magazine
Homeschooling information, news, and views.
Homeschooling and Its Many Faces
HUUmans On The Web
The Webpage for Unitarian Universalist Homeschoolers and Kindred Spirits.
John Holt: Teach Your Own Children...At Home
Mother Earth News interview with John Holt (1980).
Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
Neutral, non-commercial homeschooling information since 1994.
Learn in Freedom!
How and why to learn in freedom, with or without school.
National Home Education Legal Defense
Seeks to protect and defend the rights of families who wish to educate in freedom.
The Natural Child Project
Articles on Learning page.
PatFarenga.com
Unconventional ideas for teaching and learning.
Resisting the Culture of Schooling
Highlights various ways in which people are creatively struggling against dehumanizing and exploitative education and development/globalization.
Schoolhouse (Scotland)
Independent information and support for parents/carers and young people who are starting out on the home-education path, as well as those who are contemplating the idea or who just want to know more.
Unschooling.com
Articles, networking, and resources for unschoolers.
Unschooling FAQ
Unschooling Links
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Private K-12 Scholarship Organizations
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Alliance for C.H.O.I.C.E.
Portland, Oregon
Alliance for CHOICE is a School Tuition Organization providing tuition grants to poor families who desire a better school for their children to attend.
Black Student Fund
Washington D.C.
Financial assistance and support services to Washington metropolitan area African-American students, grades pre-kindergarten to 12, and their families.
Children's Scholarship Fund
Nationwide
The Children's Scholarship Fund aims to maximize educational opportunity at all income levels by offering tuition assistance for needy families and promoting a diverse and competitive educational environment.
Independent Scholarship Fund
San Francisco Bay Area
The Independent Scholarship Fund awards need- and merit-based tuition scholarships to children from low to moderate income families to attend the private or parochial school of their choice in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Información acerca del ISF en español.
Liberty Scholarship Fund
New Hampshire
The purpose of the Liberty Scholarship Fund is to significantly increase the educational opportunities available to children ages 5-18 by acquiring charitable donations and channeling those funds directly to families in New Hampshire for non-public education.
Prep For Prep
New York City
Prep for Prep seeks to identify those boys and girls who are most likely to benefit from attending academically-demanding independent schools. The Program attempts to prepare these youngsters for success at such schools and to instill in them a commitment to educational achievement as a means of developing their leadership potential.
Washington Scholarship Fund
Washington D.C.
The Washington Scholarship Fund is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to providing Washington, DC children with a quality education by enabling low-income families to make the same educational choices for their children that are available to middle class families around the nation.
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Higher Education
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Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (F.I.R.E.)
Nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom on our nation's campuses.
Goddard College Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers
The Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers at Goddard offers young people, ages 14-19, who have learned independently outside of schools, an opportunity to begin earning college credit while continuing to learn in a self-directed style.
Hillsdale College
An independent, nonsectarian institution of higher learning founded in 1844, Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex. That is, Hillsdale was the first American college to be chartered on the principle of nondiscrimination. Hillsdale's Founders shared a devotion to the principle of equality with the Founders of America who had declared in 1776 that "all men are created equal."
Because of its dedication to the principle of equality, Hillsdale became an early force for the abolition of slavery and for the education of black students; in fact, blacks were admitted immediately after the 1844 founding. The College became the second in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.
Today, Hillsdale College continues to pursue the stated object of the founders: "to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary and scientific education." In order to do this free of government interference, the college turns down federal taxpayer money (in the form of financial aid to students) to the tune of $5 million per year, which it replaces entirely with private contributions.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Free and open educational resource for self-learners around the world. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is independent and privately endowed.
National Association of Scholars
Dedicated to the restoration of intellectual substance, individual merit, and academic freedom in the university.
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Teens / Youth
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"We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world"
Joseph Chilton Pearce |
Bureaucrash
International network of guerrilla activists dedicated to the idea of free expression, free enterprise and free thought.
DraftResistance.org
Encourages resistance to the registration laws of the United States.
High School Students' Rights
(PDF file - opens in new window)
Briefly summarizes some of the First Amendment and other important rights of high school students.
Home Schooling: A Happy Exit from High School
Megan Moss | AlterNet.org
How Free is Your School? A Visit to the Portland Freeskool
Cody Sisco | AlterNet.org
Izzy's Guide to Starting & Running and Underground Newspaper
Made from 100% Recycled Pimply Teenager Angst.
Liberteen
For thinking teens.
Misled Youth
This is a place for squatters, skaters, graffiti writers, teen mothers, and kids who hide poetry under their mattresses; for comic book nerds, ghetto geniuses, suicidal guitarists, and queer video producers; for incarcerated visionaries, runaway breakdancers, and honest criminals; for dropouts with straight A’s in survival.
Rise Against Terrible Schools
People from all over the world who are either trying to do something to change schools for the better, or helping people to start unschooling/homeschooling.
Schooling Yourself
Elizabeth Milne Kahn | AlterNet.org
An "unschooler" writes about a growing movement of teens interested in learning outside a classroom, all the while looking closer at assumptions about learning and the politics of education.
School Survival
It's okay to hate school: There is nothing wrong with you.
Loads of links here.
The Teenage Liberation Handbook:
How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Grace Llewellyn
'Your life, time, and brain should belong to you, not an institution. This Handbook is for everyone who has ever gone to school, but it is especially a book for teenagers and people with teenagers in their lives. You'll read:
- good reasons to think about quitting school
- how to reclaim your natural ability to learn and teach yourself
- how to get your parents' support, keep your friends, and stay out of legal trouble
-how to design a personalized education you can get excited about
- how to go to college without going to high school
- how to find volunteer positions, apprenticeships, and other work opportunities
- how other unschooled teenagers live and learn.' More...
Why Nerds Are Unpopular
Paul Graham
Youth & Militarism
American Friends Service Committee
Includes information on school-based ASVAB Testing and how and why to avoid it.
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On/Of the Education Establishment
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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must taught to think."
Anne Sullivan
Education Intelligence Agency
Public Education Research, Analysis and Investigations
EducationNews.org
Education News
Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature (2004)
U.S. Department of Education
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E.G. West Centre
The Centre's mission is to develop knowledge and understanding of the role of non-state education (e.g., private, non-formal, philanthropic and public-private partnerships) in achieving "Education for All."
Keepers of the Holy Cornerstone of Democracy
The National Education Association
"believes that public education is the cornerstone of our social, economic, and political structure and is of utmost significance in the development of our moral, ethical, spiritual, and cultural values."
Student Data Handbook
National Center for Education Statistics
NCES Handbooks provide a "comprehensive listing of all data elements that might be needed for decision-making essential for managing an education system, reporting to state and federal education officials, and computing indicators of school effectiveness."
See also Early Intervention Data Handbook - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Data
Union Profile: National Education Association (NEA)
UnionFacts.org
The Underground Grammarian
Authorized page dedicated to preserving the works of Richard Mitchell, former English professor at Glassboro State (Teachers) College (now called Rowan College) and author of The Underground Grammarian newsletters and The Graves of Academe.
»Click here to read Richard Mitchell's works online.
»Click here to see books by Richard Mitchell.
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Politics & Government
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Center for Small Government
Today's Big Government is way too big, too powerful, too costly, too nosey, and too bossy. The Center for Small Government seeks to dismantle, reduce, and remove Big Government policies and programs. At all levels and layers of government: federal, state, and local.
Spinsanity.com
Countering rhetoric with reason
Now defunct, but archived at this link.
US Rep Ron Paul
Congressional representation based on the ideals of liberty, fiscal integrity, and constitutional government.
How Congress Makes Laws
The Legislative Process:
House | Senate
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
- House floor activity (current and pending)
- Bill Summary & Status (93rd-108th Congress)
- Bill Text (101st-108th)
- Public Laws (93rd-108th)
- House and Senate Roll Call Votes
- Congressional Record
- Committee Information
- House and Senate Directories
- Congressional Internet Services
- Library of Congress Links
- Summary of Congressional Activity (91st-108th)
- Presidential Nominations (100th-108th)
- Treaties (90th-108th)
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Historical Documents
(word or phrase searchable)
Includes:
- Constitution and Bill of Rights
- Broadsides from Constitutional Convention and Continental Congress
- Declaration of Independence
- Federalist Papers
- Congressional Documents & Debates (1774-1873)
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