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Last Updated: April 8, 1996

  • Global Policy Forum monitors the activities and decisions of the United Nations.
  • Since 1982, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) has worked to document and expose the hazards of the high-tech industry and to promote environmental and economic sustainability and accountability in the electronics industry, the fastest growing manufacturing sector in the world.

  • Political Research Associates (PRA) PRA brings you ...The Public Eye: Helping you understand and challenge right wing threats to democracy and diversity. Opposing racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and all forms of supremacy. Providing reliable information on a wide range of authoritarian, xenophobic, and anti-democratic right-wing political groups and trends.

  • March 26-27, 1996: I*EARN students in the U.S. are participating in the 1996 National Education Summit, a gathering of key policy makers and business leaders from around the nation to discuss educational reform. For I*EARN students only (and participants at the summit) there will be an interactive discussion on Technology in Education, visible to the public via a web page at http://www.iearn.org/iearn/governors/.

  • WorldViews WAIS: A searchable database of 2800 records of books, periodicals, pamphlets, films, videos, CD-ROMs, and other resources relating to Third World regions, countries, and issues.

  • IGC's Asian Community Online Network (ACON). ACON is in a new partnership with IGC and the Telesis Foundation, working to empower Asian Pacific American community groups through Internet tools. ACON provides a full range of Internet services and consulting for APA groups looking to expand their online involvement and presence. Please visit the ACON homepage for more information.

  • Economics Working Group. The environment and workers are both ar risk in the present global community. EconWG's new website begins to lay out a new vision for the economy, provides resource lists under key topics and encourages feedback.

  • Nonviolence and Nonviolent Action Resources @IGC have been updated!.

  • Tibet and Tibetan Independence Resources @IGC have been extensively updated!.

  • Center for Economic Conversion is dedicated to building a sustainable peace-oriented economy. CEC works at the national, state, and local levels to reduce economic dependence on excessive military spending and reinvest resources to meet human needs and preserve and restore the environment. New WWW site!

    Announcing MISSION TO CUBA: The diary of an historic trip! Read Bobby Kennedy's daily diary from Cuba beginning 2/14, as he and a team of experts investigate the possible danger posed by a Soviet-era nuclear power plant, and other energy and environmental issues.

    Alert! Cuba Caravan Harassed and Arrested at the Border On January 31 a caravan organized by IFCO-Pastors for Peace and San Francisco based Project InfoMed were stopped by the US Government from bringing humanitarian aid across San Diego's Otay Mesa border into Mexico. The caravan's cargo of 325 used personal computers destined for Cuban medical facilities was siezed by force by the US Customs.

    Mediascope. Promoting constructive depictions of health and social issues in entertainment.

    The Okinawa Women's Peace Caravan is traveling the U.S. with a delegation of twelve Okinawan women peace activists and elected officials to discuss the militarization of Okinawa and its impact on indigenous communities, women, and the environment.

    The Labor-Community Strategy Center is a multiracial anticorporate "think-tank/act-tank" committed to building democratic internationalist social movements.

    Many organizations and individuals are tracking telecommunications legislation and controversies, including the Exon Communications Decency Amendment to the Telecommunications Bill of 1996. We point to a number of them.

    The Year of Living Dangerously is over, but Congress' assault on the environment is not. A new report by NRDC analyzes the battles of 1995 and previews the debates of 1996. Read the online summary on ASCII version of the full report.

    [PBI Logo] Peace Brigades International is a unique grassroot organization exploring and implementing nonviolent approaches to peacemaking and support for basic human rights.

    IGC's directory of Voting and Election Resources. Recently revised and expanded.

    The Millenium Institute has published the Global 2000 Revisited report that challenges us to confront the realities of overconsumption, overpopulation and other environmental degradation. Their State of the World Indicators will frighten, but motivate us to action.

    If the Millennium Institute's information shook you up, check out EcoNet's Frugal Living Page, which provides information for better, healthier, more satisfying living with less.

    International Rivers Network. International Rivers Network (IRN) is the leading organization working to halt the construction of destructive river development projects and to promote sound river management options worldwide.

    Country Connections, a publication that presents creative alternatives in the areas of lifestyle, politics, culture, ecology, and ethics.

    The Congressional Quarterly provides a link between the local newspaper and Capitol Hill, in an effort to make public opinion the only effective pressure group in the country. This web site includes many excellent resources, including a tool to see how your votes on key issues compare with your members of Congress, their votes, speeches and more.

    YO! (Youth Outlook) is a bi-monthly news-journal of youth culture produced by young people in the San Francisco Bay Area for Pacific News Service. YO! is a unique model for integrating writers, journalists and scholars with young people, especially teenagers in high risk situations. YO!'s purpose is to help young people develop a public voice and thereby a sense of connection with the larger society and with each other.


    Jinn     is Pacific News Service's biweekly online magazine, written by the most eccentric network of writers, scholars, reporters and teenagers contributing to the global media. We produce stories that give you a chicken's eyeview of the world -- from two feet off the ground, through the lens of culture rather than of politics.

    Strike Page A bi-monthly summary of work stoppages, and potential work stoppages. You can add to the page through an email to the editor.

    IUGW Washington Gas Workers Site Find out about one of the ugliest lockouts of this decade! - and how to fight back! Boycott Crestar Bank!

    Labor Art and Mural Project "Artists and Workers of the World Unite!"

    New Vision for Letter Carriers Site The NALC NEW VISION is rooted in our union's founding tradition of democracy, accountability, and solidarity. Find out about letter carriers' issues, actions, and upcoming elections.

    LA Labor News "More Labor News Than a Month of the L.A. Times." L.A. Labor News is an on-line newsletter in the Los Angeles area.

    Jobs With Justice/ Machinists Strike Support Page Some 32,000 Machinists are leading a strike against the Boeing Company, determined to stem the flow of family-wage jobs from our communities. Find out about the largest strike in the U.S. this decade, the issues that led up to it, and how you can help the IAM members win job security and a fair contract.

    ODN Overseas Development Network (ODN) ODN is a national, student-based, non-profit organization. Since its creation in 1983, it has been a forum for thousands of young people to address global issues such as hunger, poverty, and social injustice.

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