Nonviolence Web

Discussion Board

Links

Full Listings

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War Resisters League

National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund

Fellowship of Reconciliation

Fellowship Magazine

SIPAZ

Pax Christi USA

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Private Posting Systems

NISBCO

Natl Campaign for Peace Tax Fund

SIPAZ

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Philly Young Adult Friends

NVWeb Adminstration

Putting the Nonviolence Movement online, one page at a time.

NVWeb Homepage

File Manager

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Miscellaneous

NVWeb: Search Engine

Statistics

Full Access Statistics

Graphic Web Counter

Linked Folks

This will give you a listing of every web page in Alta Vista’s directory which has a link to the Nonviolence Web.

Martin’s Homepage

Martin’s homepage

Martink Web Counts

How popular is my page? See for yourself.

Vortex Videos

Martin Kelley’s Bookmarks

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The Combined Times

Based on the idea of the CRAYON newservice,this is a frame-based compendium of mainstream news services I use.

News and Resources

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Children of the Light

a.ka. the Religious Society of Friends, a.ka. the Quakers. “Children of the Light” was an early name for the Quakes that I’m personally trying to revive.

Friends’ WWW

Quakers on the net!, oh my what would George Fox have said? Well, you don’t need to guess, since he’s online here (I kid you not).

Philly Young Adult Friends

See what we cool cat twentysomething Quakers are getting ourselves into.

PYM draft page

This is the longest-running draft page I’ve ever put together. Quaker committees can be an experience in themselves, and this Philly Yearly Meeting’s web committee barely has a pulse.

Philly Stuff

Indexes

Joe’s Links

City.Net Philadelphia

LibertyNet

Lots of good Philly groups broadcast out of LibertyNet.

Inky/Daily News

Ritz Filmbill

The two Ritz’s are the only interesting theaters left in this town which experts agree has one of the lowest theater/capita ratings in the country.

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema

City Paper

The local alternative weekly’s online. Fancy graphics (too fancy perhaps) mark this foray into cyberpublishing.

SEPTA

Public-transit authority SEPTA is the leader in ambiguous P.R. Take their shit-tank name for starters, then add their wacky slogans like “SEPTA: We’re Getting There” or “We’re Trying to Do Our Best.”

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Philly Weather

From Intellicast, a great weather site complete with forecast, synopsis and the latest radar images.

Philadelphia Radar

Miscellaneous

Crayon News Service

NY Times Quick Read

NY Times Late News Update

MSNBC

National Public Radio

Timecast: The RealAudio Guide

Library of Congress

The Library’s on line.

Switchboard (phone directory)

The WWW Purity Test

FedEx Tracking

UPS Home Page

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Amtrak Schedules

This August I took the Broadway Limited from Chicago. Now I read they’re going to cut the line from the schedule. Is this progress? This site is independent of Amtrak but has all the schedules.

Amtrak�s Station

The official Amtrak homepage has lots of interesting information about the trains, but no schedules!

Regular Checks

—Message of the Day

USENET NV Search

Check Mailing Lists

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Websites

DataRealm

—FAQs

—Mailing Lists

—Message of the Day

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Net Access

This is my service provider. Very Web friendly folks. If you’re in the Philly area, definetly consider getting an account.

–telnet

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Peacenet

–telnet

Computers

The Web is the most self-referential medium ever. Despite the corporate hype, most pages are still concerned with how to create pages, etc.

PERL/CGI

Matt’s Script Archive

Take 10 Minutes to Learn ™ — PERL

Resources for PERL

Web Development Information

Web Design

Yahoo Web Page Design

Net Access’s guide

Reference Material

Introducing HTML 3.2

Lynx Users Guide v2.3

Fill-Out Forms

iso8859‑1 table

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Justin’s Links from the Underground

This has some great, right-on manifestos about why we need to publish on the web, along with some great HTML tips and tricks.

The Kick-Ass Website Award

Web Toys

32-bit Apps Main Menu

Welcome to Vivo.Com

GIF Construction Set

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CD/Disk Problems

TOSHIBA — Disk Products Division

Setup Does Not Detect Standard IDE Drive On IBM 9353

Hardware Questions FAQ: Is there a list of CD-ROM drives that require real-mode drivers?

Computer Stuff

McAfee antivirus FTP

Microsoft Word Software Library

Windows95 Annoyances

Tricks for getting around the annoyances, plus convincing essays which posit that Windows might just be a particularly-popular virus…

UNIX

UNIXhelp for users

DOS to UNIX Translation

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Internet Movie Database

Alta Vista

As far as I’m concerned, you can forget all the other search engines. Alta Vista is the one that passes my most important test: it has me listed the most times.

Simple Query

Advanced Query

Who’s linked into me

Music

the ultimate band list

Olga Index-MIT

Shel’s stuff

Michelle Shocked has her stuff online

Schmucks I know

Mud’s Email

Mud’s Bookmarks

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Ann Farnsworth-Alvear’s

Constance Cooper

Dan Birchall

Jacob Mattison

Jill Mulvey’s lame page

Jorj’s home-page

Kris Tapp

Michael Burke

Peter Selinger

Rafael Richards

Steve Pyne

My housemate, awwww.….

Thomas Taylor

Tom Diling

World Game Institute

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Penn Math homepages

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Discussion: “WWWBoard…”

Circa 1996, recovered via Archive.org

From 2006:

The past eleven years have seen countless internet projects burst on the scene only to wither away. Yet Nonviolence.org continues without any funding, attracting a larger audience every year. As the years have gone by and I’ve found the strength to continue it, I’ve realized more and more that this is a ministry. As a member of the Religious Society of Friends I’m committed to spreading the good news that war is unnecessary. In my personal life this is a matter of faith in the “power that takes away occassion for all war.” In my work with Nonviolence.org I also draw on all the practical and pragmatic reasons why war is wrong. For more personal motivations you can see at QuakerRanter.org, my personal blog.

A Nonviolence.org Timeline

In 1995 I was editor at an activist publisher struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing book world. Many of the independent bookstores that had always supported us were closing just as printing costs were rising. The need to re-invent activist organizing and publishing for the 1990’s became obvious and I saw the internet as a place to do that. One of the earliest manifestos and introductions to the Nonviolence Web was an essay called The Revolution Will be Online.

I began by approached leading U.S. peace groups with a crazy proposal: if they gave me their material I would put it up on the web for them for free. My goal was to live off of savings until I could raise the operating funds from foundations. “Free typesetting for the movement by the movement” was the rallying cry and I quickly brought a who’s-who of American peace groups over to Nonviolence.org. I knew that there was lots of great peace writing that wasn’t getting the distribution it deserved and with the internet I could get it out faster and more widely than with traditional media. For three years I lived off of savings, very part-time jobs and occasional small grants.

Nonviolence.org developed into a web portal for nonviolence. We would feature the most provocative and timely pieces from the NVWeb member groups on the newly-redesigned homepage, dubbed “Nonviolence Web Upfront.” A online magazine format loosely modeled on Slate and the now-defunct Feed magazine, it also contained original material and links to interesting threads on the integrated discussion board. With these popular features, Nonviolence.org attracted a growing number of regular visitors. The combined visibility for member groups was much greater than anyone could obtain alone and we earned plenty of awards and links. Some media highlights of the era included a New York Times tech profile, a featured guest Op/Ed in USA Today, and an interview on Oliver North’s nationally syndicated radio show.

But this model couldn’t last. A big problem was money: there’s were too few philanthropists for this sort of work, and established foundations didn’t even know the right questions to ask in evaluating an internet project. Nonviolence.org was kept afloat by my own dwindling personal savings, and I never did find the sort of money that could pay even poverty wages. I took more and more part-time jobs till they became the full-time ones I have today. At the same time, internet publishing was also changing. With the addition of blogging features and open-source bulletin board software, Nonviolence.org continued to evolve and stay relevant.

Through the early 2000s, Nonviolence.org continued to be one of the most highly-visible and visited peace websites, being highly ranked through the first Gulf War II, the biggest U.S. military action since the web began. This model of independent activist web publishing was still critical. The Nonviolence.org mission of featuring the best writing and analysis continued until 2008 when Martin finally mothballed the Nonviolence.org project and sold the domain.