CHANGING MINDS

Selling your own ideas or shopping for better ones? Listen! Even when you don't agree, take other people's cockamamie concerns as seriously/lightly as your own.

1Your Own
"Why Prevent Crime?"
Crime Prevention International's
digest of crime prevention successes

PAVNET Online
600 descriptions of promising programs to prevent or combat violence (bland, text-y but data-rich!)

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
archived reports

The Corporate Accountability Project
a corporate crime control resource page

The Public Interest Research Group
lists citizen actions against corporate crime

Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
keep government honest

Fraudulent Schemes
keep from being conned

And, of course, bone up on crime by reading through VAGUE.

2Using the Web
Electronic Activism
and Part I and Part II
take a No-Doz© and prepare to have allof your questions about electronic activism answered!

3 Talking to friends and relatives
This is one of the most effective kinds of political action there is. The trick is to remember how much you like someone even while they're saying something absolutely heinous, and to come up with lawyer jokes instead of whipping out the tar and feathers.

4 Other media
To send letters to papers and magazines, see The Giant E-Mail List.

Gals! Peeps of color! Libs! Rads!
Cyns! Anarchs! Absurdists!
Don't let adorable angry white males have all the fun, visit the kings of cant:
Rush
and Stern
and Drudge
grab a few tips on attention-grabbing antics