A most enjoyable way to support the peace movement:  Amaze Me: Songs in the key of peace is a compilation CD of songs for peace, all by independent female musicians from across the US (including Holly Near, Tret Fure and Natalia Zukerman). 100% of the album proceeds will be donated to peace efforts, including Women Against Military Madness , DemocracyNow , Veterans for Peace (Twin Cities Chapter)  and CodePINK

Many years ago I was involved in the People's Music Network for Songs of Freedom and Struggle, and I'm happy to see they're still going strong.    
See esp.  "10 Ways for Socially Conscious Musicians to Get the Word Out," in last fall's issue of Sassafrass, PMN/SFS's newsletter. 
You can also link from the PMN site to other sites related to culture in progressive movements. 

Trying to simplify your life?  Don't add to landfill to do it - try Freecycling.  Your trash might be someone else's treasure. 

The Refuser Solidarity Network is seeking donations and hosts for refuseniks who are touring to speak about the refuser movement in Israel. 

Add your name to the War Resisters Support Campaign. 

Check out Justice Through Music. 

In the We Knew That Dept:  US report finds that Iraq had "essentially destroyed" its weapons capability by the end of 1991.    (see related editorial)

How "free" are Afghan women after the war? Here's Nicholas D. Kristof's take.

Read a review of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine . You can see an excerpt from it at 

This article on indigenous health and human rights may ring a bell with Canadians!   

Read Amnesty International's report on violence against indigenous women in Canada. 

Also from The Lancet , an article on violence and mortality in Darfur. 

Human Rights Watch has reported the murder of FannyAnn Eddy, founder of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association. 

Who benefits from investing in poor countries?  Read the North-South Institute's, Canadian Development Report 2004. 

Scientists say a change in diets may be needed to enable developing countries to feed their people: ""Western diets, which depend largely on meat, are already putting great pressures on the environment. Meat-eaters consume the equivalent of about 5,000 litres [1,100 gallons] of water a day compared to the 1,000-2,000 litres used by people on vegetarian diets in developing countries. " 

Joy Harjo is one of my favourite poets - I didn't know she also played the sax! 

Peace, Salaam, Shalom.  Music and lyrics to a round. 

Chumbawumba, "Jacob's Ladder - Not in My Name." 

And how about a Peace Jukebox! 

Naomi Klein:  "You can't bomb beliefs." 

Joan Vennochi tells John Kerry, "It's the wrong time for reticence." 

Linda McQuaig on homelessness. 

What's the League of Pissed Off Voters? 

Desmond Tutu on the continuing detention of Burmese opposition leader (and Tutu's fellow Nobel Peace laureate) Aung San Suu Kyi. 

The US is "riven on almost every axis possible."  

Worth a thousand words.