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I voted for Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000. Here's why. In 2004, I voted for a major party presidential candidate for the first time in my life, and you see where that got me.

That's probably as good an introduction as any to my politics.

Once I got arrested. Here's how.

Here, in no particular order, are some other groups that do good work, some of which I am, or have been, involved with.

• United Students Against Sweatshops
• 180/Movement for Democracy and Education
• Chicago Media Action
• Killer Coke is complicit in the murder of union organizers in Colombia and poisoning land and water supplies in India: India Resource Center
• The Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty Task Force What libraries can and should do to alleviate these problems.
• Kensington Welfare Rights Union What others can and should do.
• Radical Reference Answers for those who question authority, serving activists and indpendent journalists since 2004

by Laura Crossett, 1998-2008