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Links

• Clare Hanrahan - www.celticwordcraft.com/
     Writer, Speaker, Author & Activist


• CodePink Women for Peace - www.codepink4peace.org/
     Women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities.


• Doris 'Granny D' Hadddock - www.grannyd.com/
     Author of "Granny D: You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell".


• Downsize DC - www.downsizedc.org/
     We believe the federal government has grown too centralized, too intrusive, and too expensive. We believe in constitutional limits, smaller government, civil liberties, federalism, and low taxes. We want to end laws and programs that don't work, cause harm, and violate the Constitution. We want to restore the full force of the 9th and 10th amendments, which reserve most social functions to the people and the states.


• Emily's List - www.emilyslist.org/
     Network of more than 100,000 Americans -- from all across the country -- committed to recruiting and funding viable women candidates; helping them build and run effective campaign organizations; training the next generation of activists; and mobilizing women voters to help elect progressive candidates across the nation


• FCC urged to use unused TV airwaves for Internet service - www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880819089
     Wally Bowen, executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network, is helping Google in a national campaign to “Free the Airwaves.”


• Feminist Majority Foundation Online - www.feminist.org/
     The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Our organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.


• Gloria Steinem Talk - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwAB_cZ1rOA
     This interesting multi-part talk by Gloria encompasses ideas about where feminism is at today.


• League of Women Voters - Asheville-Buncombe County - www.abc.nc.lwvnet.org/index.html
     The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation of citizens in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy.


• MANA, A National Latina Organization - www.hermana.org/
     Nonprofit, advocacy organization whose mission is to empower Latinas through leadership development, community service, and advocacy


• Media Matters for America - mediamatters.org/reports/radio/?src=radio-3
     Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.


• National Organization for Women - www.now.org/
     


• PeaceWomen Across the Globe - www.1000peacewomen.org/
     International network of women working in different fields of human security, in the North and in the South, who are joining forces to bring the knowledge and leadership of peacewomen to official decision making arenas and to the attention of the public.


• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan - www.rawa.org/
     Independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan.


• School of the Americas Watch - www.soaw.org/new/
     Independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.


• Women in Black - www.womeninblack.org/
     World-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence.


• Women's e-news - www.womensenews.org/