"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

The most obvious is the EFF, defenders of freedom, privacy and free speech :-)

Most other similar groups are linked to from the EFF site.

Open source projects needing support are:
Ogg Vorbis, GNU lossy audio compression intended to replace MP3.
Audacity, a GNU audio editor. Works with WAV, AIF, AU, SND. Opens but wont save MP3. Saves but wont yet open OGG.
The real Java Produced by sun. I quite like a platform-independant language, but im not so much for this as against microsofts version. Windows XP SP1 includes a java VM, but it doesn't fully conform to java standards, so programs which work fine under windows wont work under anything else. This one is the standard implimentation. All Java programers should test their programs and applets work under this implimentation.
RIAA boycott. The problem with boycotts is they only work is a lot of people join them. So join this one. We need you.

Programs I would like someone to write:
A CD ripper capable of produceing wave files from protected CDs. Idealy this would read the CD, byte by byte if nessicary, and emulate a CD player, so no protection system could stop it. :-). I suggest writeing this under linux because it is easy to access the CD at a low level under linux, while windows only allows access through its APIs, which probably arn't compatable with protected CDs.

A crack for the CPRM protection system. This is one of three key technologys in CPSA. If all three of these are cracked CPSA will become completly usless. The others are CSS (cracked, many times) and DTCP. The CPRM crack would allow people to use their DVD recorders properly.