Bookstores: Because there’s other ways to buy books than the one-click route to enriching the scary gigantic corporation that’s undercutting not only independent bookstores but publishers and writers.

• The Green Arcade
• City Lights Bookstore
• American Booksellers Association
• Moe’s Books, Berkeley
• Book Soup, Los Angeles
• Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe
• Maple Street Books, New Orleans
• Bluestockings Books, Manhattan

Causes and Sources:

• 350.org: Because they’re my friends and they’re doing amazing things on your behalf
• And for more information on that, http://www.climatecentral.org/
• Global Exchange Chevron Program
• Mobilization for Climate Justice West
• Courage to Resist
• Common Ground Health Clinic, New Orleans
• Tomdispatch.com: The site that made a political writer out of me, the great fount of political essay-writing, the best wire service in the ether (and you can subscribe to its three essays and no solicitations per week)
• Occupy Wall Street: The mothership of anti-state
• Occupied Wall Street Journal
• Local: Occupy SF
• Even more locally, doing great work on foreclosures: http://occupybernal.org/wordpress/
• And when you need someone to explain it all to you in a very calm voice: http://www.sfzc.org/zc/