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Refugee Council Online: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
Amnesty International: www.amnesty.org.uk/action/camp/refugees/

Stop the War: www.StopWar.org.uk
CND: www.cnduk.org
Women in Black: www.womeninblack.net
Women in Black Cambridge (useful for UK links): www.camwib.org.uk
Very useful linking site from University of Central London: http://www.kioni.u-net.com

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation: www.unesco.org/education/index.shtml

contact Women's Aid on www.womensaid.org.uk
International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse, at Sunderland University, England: www.sunderland.ac.uk/icva/
US based site with global links: www.feminist.com/antiviolence

Shelter: www.shelter.org.uk
Info on Squatting: www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
read: Squatting: The Real Story online at www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/story/contents.htm
Diggers and Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living in Britain www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk

for links to global ecofeminist resources, try www.ecofeminism.net
Friends of the Earth on www.foe.co.uk
for a Local Yorkshire resource try the Alternative Technology Centre at Hebden Bridge, http://www.alternativetechnology.org.uk

Jubilee Research: Supporting Economic Justice Campaigns Worldwide www.jubilee2000uk.org

Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty by Anne Herbert and Margaret M. Pavel (Berkeley, Whole Earth Review)
check out the origins at
http://home.att.net/~talk2perry/kindness.htm

Equal Opportunities Commission: www.eoc.org.uk
Fawcett Society www.fawcettsociety.org.uk

Carers support mailing list (UK based): www.carer.org

Daycare Trust: The National Childcare Campaign: www.daycaretrust.org.uk

The Centre for Women's Studies has a full run of Spare Rib, due largely to a generous donation from the (now defunct) York Women's Centre. Copies are not yet catalogued.
Also check out the Spare Rib Reader, ed Marsha Rowe (Penguin, 1982)

for dreaming: Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time originally 1976, now available in many editions
for networking: ZNET A Community of People Committed to Social Change http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm

IMC: Independent Media Centre http://uk.indymedia.org (links to world-wide alternative media)

Adbusters: http://adbusters.org A Canadian-based extensive site of campaigns, articles and witty comment. "Our language is culture jamming: the new activism."

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