CONNECTING WOMEN ONLINE/ALTERNATIVE NEWS
This section contains information about discussion groups/listservs/electronic mailing lists you can join, zines, and alternative news services.

Womenspace (www.womenspace.ca) is a place where women activists share stories of adventures in cyberspace and explore how the Internet is being used as a powerful tool for women. Articles are posted by contributors access to the net for women, how to use it effectively, encountering pornography on the net, activism on-line, and much much much more! The site has a Women's Internet Course (womenspace.ca/Campaign/WomensInternetCourse/intro.html) to start you out.

PAR-L (www.unb.ca/PAR-L) is an electronic network of individuals and organizations interested in women-centred policy issues in Canada. It is a tool for developing, conducting, and distributing feminist research in a multidisciplinary context and in both official languages. It is intended as a support for the community of feminist researchers and activists in Canada. PAR-L also maintains an interactive forum for exchanging information about policy, action, and research on issues of concern to women in Canada which is open to anyone who supports their goals.

Women's Enews (www.womensenews.org/subscribe) is a nonprofit independent news service covering the issues that are of particular concern to women. The site allows you to subscribe and start receiving the headlines distributed weekly over email for no charge. This is a US based organization with contributors worldwide.

News We Can Use (www.newswecanuse.com) aims give women a voice and publicize important stories that are either ignored by the mainstream press in US or don't get the attention they deserve. Subscribers can have the headlines distributed to them weekly over email for no charge.

Gender-Related Electronic Forums (research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html) is an annotated, frequently-updated listing of publicly-accessible e-mail discussion forums related to women or to women-focused gender issues.

Rural Zone (www.ruralwomyn.net) is a US based site for women living in areas where local feminist organizations are not accessible. Women communicate on-line to share experiences, politics, information and learn from one another. On this site, you will find poetry, images, stories, and calls to action around environmental issues.

NetFemmes (netfemmes.cdeacf.ca) est un réseau pour et par les femmes, mis sur pied par le Centre de documentation sur l'éducation des adultes et la condition féminine (CDÉACF), organisme à but non lucratif dont la mission est la démocratisation des savoirs et la promotion des savoirs faire des réseaux de l'éducation des adultes et de la condition féminine, et développé en étroite collaboration avec les regroupements nationaux de groupes de femmes du Québec et le Réseau Québécois de chercheuses féministes.

Women Online News (www.wwwomen.com/news/wonews.htm) provides news of interest to women as well as feminist news analysis on current events. On this site you'll find news but also trivia questions, freebies, and competitions for joke of the week.

Aviva (www.aviva.org) is a free 'Webzine' based in London, United Kingdom. They provide a free listings service for women everywhere, funded by advertising and sponsorship. On this site, you will find contributions from women all over the world and great links to organizations.

Marigold (www.marigoldzine.com) is one of Canada’s few feminist zines on-line. Anyone can contribute to it. On this site, you will find commentary, creative writing and more organized under themes such as 'Whoa Nellies!' and 'Suffragettes'.

At Soapboxgirls (www.soapboxgirls.com) a different theme is explored each month and is largely driven by reader submissions. Topics range from sexualities to war and peace. Based in Canada, the zine also attracts submissions from the US.

Quebec's Centre for Media Alternative (www.cmaq.net) is on-line in several different languages and is a meeting point and a virtual platform for independent and alternative information. Believing that information should be freed from the mass media’s rigid models, CMAQ wishes to enlarge the scope of the independent media community in Quebec. On this site you will find news on many issues including the anti-globalization movement and genetically modified foods.

Rabble.ca (www.rabble.ca) is a progressive Canadian news service for those looking for alternatives to mainstream media. On this site, you will find news, news, and more news on everything from the anti-globalization movement to Canada's latest version of the immigration and refugee protection act.

Mediachannel (www.mediachannel.org) is a not-for-profit organization operating in the public interest and is said to have been the first media and democracy supersite on the World Wide Web. On this site you will find daily news, and weekly editions of their publication.