Focus on Women: Good 'Ol Boys (and Girls)

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• Alternet - www.alternet.org
     AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues.


• Blogher Election 2008 Section - www.blogher.com/special-events/election-2008
     


• Center for Women's Global Leadership - http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/
     The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.


• 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.


• Feminist Election Surivival Tips - www.thenation.com/blogs/passingthrough/?pid=269508
     From: The Nation


• feministing.com - feministing.com/
     Young women are rarely given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures. Feministing provides a platform for us to comment, analyze and influence.


• Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign - http://gear.groupsite.com/main/summary
     Building a united nations that really works for all women.


• Get In Touch With Your Feminist Side - www.feminist.org/research/
     The website www.feminist.org has a research center that will help you get connected to Women's Studies Programs, University Women's Centers, Feminist Majority Foundation Publications, a Daily Feminist Newswire, Feminist Journals, Feminist Magazines, Women's History, Women's Research Centers, Feminist Books, and Government Resources and References. Click on the link to start getting in touch with your feminist side.


• 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.


• 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.


• Scrutiny Hooligans - scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=6200
     With an opening quote from Samuel Adams, this Buncombe County political blog has much more useful information than the League of Women Voters.


• SheSource.org - Closing the Gender Gap in News Media - http://www.shesource.org/shesource/index.php
     SheSource.org is an online braintrust of female experts on diverse topics designed to serve journalists, producers and bookers who need female guests and sources. SheSource.org includes spokeswomen from a variety of backgrounds, representing demographic and ethnic diversity as well as expertise in areas, ranging from security, the economy, and politics to law, peacekeeping, humanitarian crisis, and more.


• Sister Toldjah - www.sistertoldjah.com/
     Feminist political blog from a native North Carolinian


• The Capitol Steps - www.capsteps.com/
     For when it all gets just a little too grim....


• The Feminist Bloggers Network - blogsheroes.com/
     


• The Huffington Post on Feminism - www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/feminism
     Topical comments


• Women Impacting Public Policy, Inc. - www.wipp.org/
     Women Impacting Public Policy, Inc. is a national bipartisan public policy organization that advocates for and on behalf of women and minorities in business, strengthening their sphere of influence in the legislative process of our nation, creating economic opportunities and building bridges and alliances to other small business organizations. Through WIPP, our collective voice makes a powerful impact on Capitol Hill and with the Administration.


• Women's Environment and Development Organization - http://www.wedo.org/
     for a healthy and peaceful planet, economic and social justice, and human rights for all


• Women's Media Center - www.womensmediacenter.com
     The Women's Media Center (WMC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan organization making women visible and powerful in the media. Through our website, media training programs, and advocacy work, the WMC ensures that women are represented as they are: powerful newsmakers, informed experts, and sought-after media professionals.