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Recommended sites Are you looking for Burnhams or Meddletons on the Web? Try here. Amnesty International works for prisoners of conscience and against torture and the death penalty all over the world. Mines Advisory Group: a charity working to remove the curse of land mines. Charter 88 presses for a new constitutional settlement in the United Kingdom, one in which citizens' rights and freedoms are guaranteed by law, voting is by proportional representation and power is decentralised. Republic stands for an elected head of state for the U.K. The McLibel pages that were born out of the case in which the $30 billion hamburger chain sued two penniless vegetarian for libel: although they won on a few technical points, they were the real losers. A splendid example of how the Internet can be an information resource to help ordianry people against unjust power. Here is another one: a central resource for information on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which governments tried to slip through unnoticed by the press. The main resource for bisexual people on the Web. The comedian Mark Thomas's flights over Menwith Hill, the huge US communications spy station in Yorkshire, England.

Updated: 5 March 1999

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