 Oppose and resist the murder of innocent people, whether by individual violence, organized terrorism, or state-incited war. An abused child, a New York stockbroker, and an Iraqi grandmother are all equal victims when killed.Respect the civil liberties and rights of all Americans and their guests, regardless of ethnic origin. Protect America's freedom to speak out against evil, no matter who perpetrates it! |
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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CANADA: Citizenship & Immigration Canada Immigration.ca NEW ZEALAND: Immigration New Zealand NZ Immigration AUSTRALIA: Australian Govt. Dept. of Immigration About Immigration Issues (Australia) |
A Primer on draft resistance |
Selective Service Draft Registration Freeze Initiative |
In 1789, crewmembers of HMS Bounty, led by Masters Mate Fletcher Christian and Midshipman Ned Young, mutinied against the command of Lt. William Bligh. Bligh and his supporters were set adrift in the ship's launch, and against all odds, Bligh led them over 3,000 miles to safety in Batavia (now Djakarta, Indonesia). The mutineers returned to Tahiti, where some stayed and were later captured. A handful of the mutineers along with their Tahitian consorts sailed the ship to Pitcairn Island where their descendants live today. This web site will tell you much about this famous event in maritime history, about which 6 movies, 1 play, and over 2,000 books and articles have been written.
Located nearly 1,000 miles from the nearest inhabited place, Pitcairn is home to 40 descendants of the Mutiny on the Bounty crewmembers and their consorts. This community, one of the most isolated in the Pacific, has lived here since 1789. This web site will tell you of Pitcairn Island itself, and the history, culture, and day-to-day life of its wonderful people. Included is a directory of residents, a "virtual shopping mall" where you can purchase their hand-made carvings, and information about contacting the Pitcairners.
- Pitcairn Island Virtual Shopping Mall (A place to view and purchase handmade Pitcairn crafts, products and other Bounty-related items)
Information about the family trees we are actively researching, including downloadable GEDCOM's of some of our English, Scottish, French, German, Polish, Canadian, and American lines, along with the ancestry, descendants, and cousins of the HMS Bounty crewmembers. Come and connect your roots to ours.
An encyclopedia of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1830-1850. Information about the persons and places that played a part in the local history of the earliest days in the life of the capital city of Minnesota. Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant, a bootlegger and retired fur trader, was St. Paul's first resident.
It is obvious from my travels around the Internet that it is very difficult to find graphics of any kind that depict people with disabilities and objects of particular interest to the disabled community. If the disabled are to be included in web page pictures and in document illustrations along with the rest of society, someone has to start creating those graphics.
The fantasy world of Drak is a wonderful place for storytellers, PBEM campaigners, and role-playing fans who happen also to be cat-lovers! Along with the normal cast of citizens (humans, dwarves, elves, and orcs), felines make up 1/3 of the population. There are also new races ... spirits, vespers, phantoms, felesprits, and catlings (halflings). Drop by and see if you are as captivated as we are. And while you're there, say hello to our friends, Minet, Muette, Eike, Kjekk, and many others. And the Dragoncats? All the races there are Dragoncats, as they all descended from that stalwart race who colonized the planet eons ago.
- Minet's Chronicles of a Wandering Mind (The Writings and Adventures of Minet and his friends)
Over the Edge© is a role-playing game (RPG) and On the Edge© is a collectible card game (CCG) created by Trident Inc. and Atlas Games. They are award-winning games, and although they have been overshadowed by other more widely advertised games, they are games worth noticing and promoting. Players play the parts of conspirators seeking power and influence among the strange beings who inhabit both the official power structure and the shadowy underground on the fictional (thank heavens!) Mediterranian Island of Al Amarja.
- On the Brink of The Edge (A Home Page for both games)
- The Center for Al Amarjan Culture (About the Island and its People)
Some Favorite Links
| The White House (satire) | Doesn't beat around the Bush. Warning: May be dangerous to your blind patriotism and corporate loyalty! |
| Choose the Blue (and) Buy Blue |
 Corporations have the right of free speech as to where they place their political contributions, and individuals have the right to choose which to patronize. |
| Minnesota Campaign Report | A well-done, well-edited and comprehensive blog about Minnesota Political Activities. There is a lot to read here, especially relevant for political insiders! |
| Minnesota DFL Political Party | The DFL Party (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) is not only the best political party anywhere, it is the ONLY political party worth mentioning. More liberal than national Democrats, it represents people who care about people. |
| Green Party of Minnesota | The Green Party of Minnesota is a grassroots organization dedicated to the values of the international Green movement. The movement is inspired by the four pillars: ecology, nonviolence, social and economic justice, and grassroots democracy. |
| Northern Sun | The best source for controversial and socially responsible buttons, bumperstickers, and liberal ideas. |
| Mindy Greiling, MN Legislator |  Mindy Greiling is the State Legislator representing Minnesota House District 54-A, including Roseville and Lauderdale. She is endorsed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, and is a great person and wonderful representative.
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| Bev Scalze, MN Legislator |  Bev Scalze is the State Legislator representing Minnesota House District 54-B, including Little Canada, Vadnais Heights, Shoreview, Roseville, and Gem Lake. She is endorsed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, and is a great person and wonderful representative.
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| John Marty, MN State Senator |  John Marty is the State Senator representing Minnesota Senate District 54, including Roseville, Lauderdale, Little Canada, Vadnais Heights, Shoreview, Roseville, and Gem Lake. He is endorsed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, and is a great person and wonderful senator.
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| Minnesota North Star Web Site | Northstar is the official web site for the state of Minnesota. Here you can find anything you'd like to know about our great state ... sort of a citizen's operating manual. |
| The Secular Web | A gathering place in cyberspace for those of us who reject religion and religious teachings, preferring instead to follow a secular, pagan, or atheistic path. |
| Minnesota Atheists | Minnesota Atheists practices positive, active, inclusive, friendly neighborhood atheism in order to Create a community of atheists, ducate the public about atheism, and promote separation of state and church. |
| Minnesota NARAL Web Site | We strongly believe that every person has the right to control their own bodies, and that all have a right to be free from religious restrictions in which we do not believe. If you agree, you may wish to visit here, and go on to visit the National Abortion Rights Action League Site. |
| Right to Die & Physician-Assisted Suicide |
Compassion in Dying Federation World Euthanasia Directory Dr. Jack Kevorkian - Hero |
| Stop the War Coalition |  A British group organizing against Bush's murderous war of aggression against Iraq. |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | The international campaign for online freedom of expression. Censorship of ideas, not pornography, is truly obscene. Ideas are priceless when shared. Who gives anyone the right to tell anyone else what to read or think? |
| District 202 | We strongly support this organization by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender youth and their friends. |
| World Socialist Movement | Socialism means a global system of social organization based on: Common ownership of productive wealth, democratic control by everyone linked by information technology and communication, and production of what people need and want, not what builds obscene profits for corporate dictators. |
| World Socialist Web Site | News and information published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). |
| Peter Andersen's Sierra Leone Web Site | Sierra Leone, a small nation on the western coast of Africa, has suffered a turbulent and distressing history. Sierra Leoneans throughout the world look to this Minnesota-based Web Site for news of their homeland and relatives. |
| St Paul City Web Site | St. Paul, capital city of the great state of Minnesota, and one of the first U.S. cities to have a presence on the Internet. Come see why we like it here so much. |
| City of Little Canada | Little Canada, just north of St. Paul, is the town in which we live. |
| Larrau | High in the Pyrenees Mountains marking the border between southern France and northern Spain is the village of Larrau, where the Lareau family is said to have originated before 1600. |
| Virtual Hebrides | An interesting travel site among the very remote and historical islands in the northwest of Scotland, from which many of our ancestors came. |
| Kevin & Kell |  Come meet Kevin & Kell Dewclaw and their family in this online comic strip about predator and prey togetherness! |
| Bookcrossing |
Do you have books that you'd like to share with others? Release them into the wild! An international movement to make the whole world a library by creating a free book exchange of infinite proportions. You can also visit my bookcrossing bookshelf. |
| Women's Prison Book Project | Of the more than two million people confined in U.S. prisons and jails, over 150,000 are women. Women in prison have specific needs for particular kinds of information: material on families, children, women's self–help, women's health, and legal aid pertaining to women who fight back against their abusers. Want to help? |
| Favorite Books & Authors | We are very fond of SF/Fantasy and Mystery series, especially where cats are major characters: Lisanne Norman: Sholan Worlds C. J. Cherryh: The Chanur Odyssey Tanya Huff: The Seekers Carole Nelson Douglas: Midnight Louie, P.I. Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Joe Grey, P.I. |
| Esperanto.net | In the 1860's, Dr. Ludvig Zamenhof constructed a language that is astoundingly easy to learn, is as expressive as any natural language, and has a well developed literature. It could have been the logical choice for a global second language had it not been for the commercial and military power of English-speaking nations in the 19th & 20th centuries that have established the exceedingly difficult English language as the de facto language of world commerce and the Internet. |
| SilvArt2 | The Artwork of Guillermo Silva Sanz de Santamaria, a favorite artist. |
| Illo Art: James Marsh | Another favorite, illustrator James Marsh. |
| Victor Bregeda | Check out a great Russian surrealist, Victor Bregeda. |
| Kush Fine Art | ...and another, Vladimir Kush. |
| National Odd Shoe Exchange | A non-profit organization that is a source of footwear for those requiring single shoes or pairs of differing sizes. Many have this need due to injury, disease or genetic disorders. |
| Glass Bead Games | An interesting gaming concept from author Hermann Hesse: Hermann Hesse and the Glass Bead Game The Waldzell Glass Bead Game Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game |
| Messybeast Cat Resource Archive | Everything you ever wanted to know about cats. |
| Catstuff Graphics |  |
| Harold Reynolds' Humour Collection |  |
| Suncat Studio | Laurie, a former co-worker of mine, is a very talented artist. Are you an animé/manga fan? Take a look. |
| Gypsy Lynx's Lair | My favorite personal home page. Gypsy Lynx loves cats, is an actress in Renaissance Festivals, a role-playing gamer, and writes delightful stories. The Lair is a place where you could easily lose yourself for several hours. |
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| KATS-korner | Our daughter and her family. |
| KATS Kradle - Tabby's Toybox | Our granddaughters. |
| Lareau Web Parlour Southwest | My brother. |
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Paul and Beth Lareau 135 East Viking Drive #301 Little Canada MN 55117 USA paul@lareau.org beth@lareau.org |
| In response to the concerns that have been expressed by some Internet information providers, I do not claim copyright protection on the material on this series of web pages. I put information (and pictures) on the web to be used, and if the idea of sharing is abandoned because of the objections of the commercial sector, it will be a sad day for all of us. You might also be interested in reading about GNU's concept of "copyleft". |