Communicating
with other FeministsAnother good guide, which lists many of the mailing lists in addition to some explanations of Internet resources is Laura Hunt's Guide (about 73K)
Soc.feminism is a moderated Usenet group with a lot of good information and discussion.
Search the sources for soc.feminism for keywords.
Talk.abortion is the place to go if you want to argue about abortion.
Some
Current Feminist IssuesThe Women's Studies collection at the University of Maryland has a number of the laws and court cases involving reproductive rights.
The National Organization for Women has information about current actions and the historical fight for reproductive rights.
There is a good repository of Pro-Choice information, including the Electronic newsletter Choice-Net , from the NARAL affiliate California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL), although now it is dated to November 1994. You can view the CARAL Web Page, access their menu-based listing, or do a full-text search on the information. The Web Page includes clinic violence information, and links to anti-choice pages.
Body Politic is a monthly pro-choice news magazine "focusing on people and events involved in the continuing struggle over reproductive freedom." Its table of contents and some articles are available on-line, as well as information about subscribing.
The Pro-Choice page at Carnegie-Mellon University has an interesting collection of pro-choice documents.
This explanation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) of 1994 explains the act and provides the full text of the Act along with current information on legal challenges. (60K).
Connect to Specific Organizations on this page for more reproductive rights groups.
The text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is available in hypertext form.
There is a thorough repository of information on the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in September 1994 at the International Institute of Sustainable Development in Canada.
Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace mainly defines "sexual harassment".
The Women's Studies' collection at the University of Maryland has sexual harassment information, including EEOC information, the testimony of Anita Hill, and the Merit Systems Protection Board Report.
Judith Weiss has a complete set of information on her Assault Prevention Information Network.
Domestic Violence Training Materials information is available at the archive of the "Family-L" mailing list.
Boston University has information on domestic violence, particularly related to Massachusetts laws and dating violence.
The University of Minnesota lists diverse resources for domestic violence survivors and others in the Twin Cities area.
Information about the Chicana-Latina Research Center is available at UCLA's Chicano/LatinoNet.
The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center works on education, health, leadership, and other issues.
Women for Women in Bosnia, a part of the Electronic Embassy project, link women to women in the former Yugoslavia through financial support and correspondence.
Information Bank on African Development Studies (IBADS) has a gopher site with documents on development for the women of Africa.
WEDO, the Women's Environment and Development Organization, seeks "...to transform women's concerns about the environment, development, population and gender equity into actions, programs and policies...". They also have information about the Fourth World Conference on Women.
The United Nations' gopher includes material about the Fourth World Conference on Women, the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
Equal Pay information from the US Department of Labor was written in 1992.
The Women's Bean Project of Colorado was "created to provide an environment in which women who are homeless or living in poverty can choose to maximize their personal economic and/ or social potential."
A list of women's professional organizations is found at CMU.
A fact sheet on Women and Work was gathered by the Ms. Foundation for Women.
Dataline is an organization which works on glass-ceiling cases.
A good starting place for women's health is another one of those good guides from the University of Michigan, Tricia A. Segal and Julie J. Lea's Women's Health Resources on the Internet.
Feminist
and Women's Organizations The resources file for soc.feminism lists many feminist organizations. The file is approximately 67 K. You can search this and other soc.feminism files for text.
IGC has a list of the international women's groups on the IGC system. E-mail addresses are included, and some have gophers.
Global Fund for Women is an international grantmaking organization.
You can connect to Yahoo's list of League of Women Voters chapters online.
Betsy Shore's page on Mass Choice
The Ms. Foundation for Women sponsors "Take Our Daughters to Work", among other projects.
The National Organization for Women (NOW) has a home page with a lot of information, including their newsletter.
Rock for Choice is raising money for pro-choice organizations at Lollopalooza.
WEDO is the Women's Environment and Development Organization.
WHAM!, the Women's Health and Action Mobilization group, is a direct action group committed to demanding, securing and defending absolute reproductive freedom and quality health care for all women.
The Women Leaders Online (formerly the Women's Leadership Network) is a new group dedicated to stopping the Radical Right agenda.
Zero Population Growth advocates population stabilization, both in the United States and worldwide.
Feminist
Resources Carnegie Mellon's "English-Server" has two good home pages, concentrating on feminism and on gender and sexuality.
Internet Resources for Women's Legal and Public Policy Information is well-organized, and descriptive.
The Queer Resources Directory is a complete archive of lesbian, bisexual, and gay information.
CPSR's Gender Issues page particularily specializes in women and computer networks .
The Institute for Global Communications has an international focus in its information for women.
Virtual Sisterhood is dedicated to increasing women's access to and effective use of electronic communications.
Martin Ramsch's Frauen in Gesellschaft und Studium is helpful even if you don't speak German.
Women's Resources on the Internet is found at the University of North Carolina, and has links to many women's colleges.
Check out Jim Mansfield's list of Feminist Resources.
Laurie Mann's Abortion Rights and Other Feminist Issues Web links to numerous online feminist publications.
The Political Woman Hotline is a new online briefing from the Women's Leadership Network, with an activist bent.
ON THE ISSUES The Progressive Women's Quarterly , a "a feminist, humanist magazine of critical thinking, dedicated to fostering collective responsibility for positive social change," puts sample articles on their web site.
The San Francisco Examiner has a page called Women's Web, which includes news about women's issues, but hasn't been updated in a while.
If your system carries them, the ClariNet news groups has the AP and Reuters stories about women's issues in clari.news.women.
The National NOW Times is available at the National Organization for Women's Web site, and contains many articles about feminist actions and issues.
Subscription information for the Women's Feature Service, a daily women's news feature service written by women in all regions of the world, with a particular emphasis on developing countries can be found here. You can subscribe for a fee through your Internet account or read it on IGC.
General Resources for Political Activists
Executive Branch information is available at the Library of Congress, and Fedworld, maintained by NTIS.
Library of Congress's home page on Congress connects you to partisan and non-partisan sources.
The Congressional Quarterly has a Gopher with some of the information from their publications.
Look up Congressional bills using Congress's service Thomas or Will T. Bill from Unipress.
Look up the Congressional committee assignments.
Menu-based Supreme Court Decisions are available at Project Hermes in a number of file formats.
Misc.activism.progressive is a Usenet news group which has information from many progressive groups with an activist focus. There is some overlap with IGC's news.
GNN has a page on Government page and one on Politics.
The EINet page on Politics is very extensive.
There is a list of non-profits on the Internet maintained by Ellen Spertus. If your network connection is slow, you can get a icon-free version here.
The Internet Non-Profit Center.has lists of non-profits, with donation and volunteer information.
Connect to Kathy Watkins' Activist's Oasis for other great Internet tools for activists, especially media ones.
Check out Mother Jones's Internet site, with articles like "The Choices" (alternatives to surgical abortions) or Woman Warrior, on Karen Nussbaum's fight for working women's rights.
Finally, don't forget you can search the rest of the Web with Yahoo or the AliWeb database.
Feminist Activist
Calendar
TAKE ACTION Extensive information about Dr. Henry Foster has been prepared by the People for the American Way Action Fund and Planned Parenthood.
WHAM! has put together a good page of information, actions, and local contacts for getting involved in this issue.
Feminist Fun and Games Ellen Spertus has a page about the sometimes humorous side of being a woman in computing.
Laura Marie Doyle has collected information about Feminist Science Fiction.
Feminist Film Reviews are available at the University of Maryland.
WWW space provided by the Institute for Global Communications.
Last updated on June 10th, 1995.
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