News you won't find in the daily papers or on TV
Coolwomen: Canadian Herstory site and virtual women's museum
WomensEnews: News as if women mattered; started under the auspices of the National Organization of Women Legal Defense Fund
The Feminist Majority Foundation online: news, global reports, and mail-order women's mysteries too!
Status of Women Canada: Canadian statistics about women, Parliamentary links
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women: Post-Beijing follow-up, database of Canadian feminist researchers
WWWomen: Tons and tons and TONS of lists and links, plus a search engine
Policy, Action, Research - List (PAR-L): Home page for the PARL mailing list
Journalism and Writing Links
JournalismNet
: online newspapers,
search engines, tutorials, links
to professional organizations, and much more.
MegaSources: sources for just about any topic under the sun.
Canadian Association of Journalists
JAWS: Journalism and Women Symposium
The Writers' Union of Canada: national organization for book authors
FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, news media critiques
Workingforchange.com Online radio advocating for social change. Laura Flanders, who founded the Women's Desk at FAIR, has her own daily show.
Strain Injury Links
The RSI Page by Paul Marxhausen, with reading lists and FindADoc lists of patient recommendations, sorted by location.
The Typing Injury FAQ created by Dan Wallach and expanded by Scott Wright: especially strong on rating computer accessories and addresses for support groups; houses the RSI Network Newsletter and its archives.
Sorehand FAQ by Deanna McHugh, introduction to electronic mailing list of more than 750 Sorehanders worldwide. Lists recommended books and websites for more information.
It's
Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome:
RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals,
by Suprana Damanay and Jack Bellis.
An essential read, especially for anyone whose doctor has recommended surgery.
European campaign against strain injuries: European Trade Union Congress year-long continent-wide campaign to protect workers from musculoskeletal disorders
The LA RSI Support Group Home Page: A pick-me-up for lonely nights when pain prevents sleep: success stories from people who have recovered, plus a batch of home remedies.
Canadian
Injured Workers Alliance: addresses of local support and lobbying
groups
PubMed: Free public Medline searches of medical journals.
International
RSI Awareness Day the last day of every February.
Peace and Justice Resources
The
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia site profiles each nation and province
of the world. There are over
1,400 pages of written text on the nations. You
can view maps, flags, world weather
or listen to national anthems. This site is better
than an atlas for locating countries
on a map and reading up on their governments
and customs. Dedicated to building
world peace through cultural awareness.
Project Ploughshares: World leader in analyzing and developing ways for humanity to break the addiction to deadly weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction.
Amnesty International: Working to protect Human Rights worldwide
Calgary Community Conferencing: Restorative Justice program for youth in conflict with the law, which not only gets troubled youth back on track, but also helps the people they've hurt, to regain control of their lives.
Centre for Social Justice: Challenges conventional political wisdom, using original research
Benton Foundation: Online resources for non-profits, non-government, public interest and social change organizations
Parkland Institute: Alberta's left-of-centre thinktank: excerpts from the Parkland Post, and announcements of publications, conferences and authors' readings
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: issues frequent reports on economic and social justice issues.
Indymedia:Independent
reports from independent reporters on the scene at protests against globalization
as promoted by the WTO and IMF.
News you won't find in the daily papers or on TV
Straightgoods.com Consumer-oriented Canadian forum.
rabble.ca "News for the rest of us", original news stories plus news releases and reports from organizations that support rabble.ca.
Alternet: US-based news site with a progressive point of view.
Common Dreams: News and opinion pieces from a social justice perspective.
Tom Paine: "A public interest journal." Tom Paine actually takes out full page ads in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, so that their readers get to see a different point of view.
Cursor: Bountiful site overflowing with story headers and links.
PRWatch: Website, journal and books all monitor the PR industry, pinpointing egregious examples of spin.
Workingforchange.org The publication arm of Working Assets long-distance system in the US. Features Laura Flanders and Geov Parrish.
The Public I Center for Public Integrity, an independent investigative journalism agency based in Washington, DC (where there is lots to investigate).
In These Times Online version of the Chicago-based news weekly, strong on analysis.
Mother Jones Corporate-investigations magazine, named after a union organizer ("I'm a hellraiser," she said) based in San Francisco.
Village Voice Quirky, sexy Greenwich Village weekly also features some serious investigations as well as columnists like Nat Hentoff.
Dollars and Sense Economics from a leftist perspective.
Miscellaneous
AllthewebGoogle's great, but there is more than one search engine on the Web.
Web tools Software links for browsers, email, fighting spam and spyware, and much more.
Hallmark E-Cards Classy cards at no cost.
Feminist Heritage Greeting Cards Original cards from Womenspace
Canadian Unitarian Council Find Unitarian Churches across Canada.
Cozumel.net: Cozumel, Mexico -- surf, sun, snorkeling, and relaxation
Click
on HungerSite once a day to donate free food to hungry people.