Society, Politics, and the Environment
I am a woman, and a feminist. I know a lot of women who are afraid to call
themselves feminists, for fear of being lumped in with the shrill "all
sex in a patriarchal society is rape" crackpots. It's very easy to make
off-the-wall arguments like that if you're willing to redefine your terms.
I'm not. I believe in respecting people for their individuality, being aware
of privileges gained unfairly and working to establish them for everyone, and
being responsible for oneself and one's society. The following collection
of links points to sites maintained by people who seem to see things similarly
to the way I do.
- A page of women's resources
on the net.
- Women's Wire.
- A page for women in
science and engineering. I'm in neither, but I thought others might find it
helpful.
- The Women in Technology page.
- The reproductive rights home
page.
- A page for feminist activists.
- Another page for
feminism and women's resources, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- Another collection of
women's resources on the Internet.
- The Feminist Annex.
- Leslie's World
o' Chicks. Go visit this page.
- References and
resources for the soc.feminism newsgroup.
- A collection of Internet resources
for abortion and
reproductive rights. Contains links to a lot of interesting sites, including
ones put together by people who, um, feel differently about these issues from the
way I do.
- The Abortion Rights Activist Home
Page.
- The
Body Politic, a pro-choice zine.
- A long text file called "Confessions
of an Abortionist," written by a doctor in 1939 when abortion was illegal.
- A page describing methods of
emergency contraception.
- The Queer Resources
Directory. The net's largest repository of information for gay men,
lesbians, bisexuals, and their supporters.
- The Bisexual Resource
List, a collection of links for people who feel that the gender of a
lover is a secondary consideration.
-
Collected Queer Information. Another set of worthwhile links.
-
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG.
- The Amnesty International
Web page, right here on Internex.
- A long and very articulate post to
a Usenet newsgroup about why welfare needs to be
there. Kathleen is one of my heroes.
Children are the most important part of society that there is, for they
are our legacy. We need to provide for them and their children even
more than we need to provide for ourselves. Whether a family is
traditional or not is less important than whether it meets a child's
needs and gives her the foundation she'll need to be a strong, happy,
healthy adult.
- The Activist's
Oasis. A progressive site put together by someone who actually has a sense
of humor.
- The Progressive Directory. Lots more links
and useful resources.
- The Progressive Page. Even
more good links.
- The Liberal Information
Page.
- The activist links
recommended by Calyx, a New York-based Internet service provider.
- The home page for Mother Jones magazine. Good
political writing, exposes, and columns by Paula Poundstone. The magazine text
is accompanied by Mother Jones Interactive, which contains links to
relevant sites and areas for discussion of controversial topics.
- A page for the Capitol Steps,
a group who writes a lot of biting musical political satire directed toward the
US government.
- An online political zine called Bad Subjects:
Political Education for Everyday Life. A lot of thought-provoking
reading.
- The geekgirl
zine. Great stuff.
- A comprehensive list of media outlets on the
Net. Express your opinion, but don't spam them.
- A home page for the Political Participation
Project. Thorough, informative, and really impressive.
- This Modern World, a
comic by Tom Tomorrow. I was very excited to find this link.
- The Secular Web. Not for the timid.
- Z Magazine now has a page. They take
contributions from people such as Noam Chomsky and Tom Tomorrow.
- Extra!, the
magazine of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy
In Reporting). Find out why Rush Limbaugh is a big sleaze.
- The
Propaganda Analysis Home Page. Important and fascinating.
- Think for Yourself: A Public
Policy Reading Room.
- The home page for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization
dedicated to preserving people's privacy. EFF maintains an Online Activism Organization List.
- The File
Room, a collection of documents describing at least 200 incidents of cultural
censorship. You can search through by date, kind of incident, area, or medium in
which the censorship occurred. Best with a graphical browser, but will work with
a text-based one.
- Project: Censored.
- A talk on sex, censorship, and the
Internet, given by Carl M. Kadie of the EFF.
- An examination of an incidence of
censorship at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Justin's Legal Beat,
an examination of the court cases and legal precedents that will control the future
of the Internet. Brought to you by the guy who writes Links from the Underground.
- Two Web servers for Greenpeace, one
in the Netherlands and the other in Canada. The Dutch one is for
Greenpeace International; the Canadian one has more information, pictures, and
links.
- The EnviroProducts
Directory, a listing of companies and products that try to have minimal
impact on the environment.
- The EnviroWeb, the largest collection of
enviromental resources on the net.
- My food and drink page. What's the deal
with food's impact on the environment, you ask? Consider this quotation from
David Siegel:
Let me put it this way. Suppose you and I lead the same lives,
environmentally, but you eat steak twice a week and I don't. I would have to leave
my kitchen tap running all the way open and my car idling 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, just to keep our environmental balance sheet even. And that's just
the beef.
Scary, huh?
- Information about the libel suit
McDonald's
has filed against two British Greenpeace activists. McDonald's isn't looking too
good.
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