GET SPECIFIC:: My Lenses 

Lenses By Issue

Grassroots 2.0

Growing Your Grassroots Online. Here are some coll tools, tips and out-of-the-box ideas for spanning the activism/digital divide.

Grassroots Organizing

This lense is a little about offline organizing, How-To's and links to great organizing sites.

National Organization for Women - New Jersey

Here is a squido lense on my current activism world, NOW-New Jersey.

::TAKE ACTION 

E-Actions for the Jersey Grrl

Some of these actions are for New Jersey, some for the whole country. One email from you is worth ten people who feel that way, vote that way, and didn't send an email. You know that legislators actually have staff that count this stuph to calculate support in their districts??
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::GET TOOLS 

Especially For Rebels with a Cause and No Money

Salesforce Free for Non-Profits

Salesforce committs a certain amount of money every year to giving non-profits the tools to success. Their award winning kick butt Customer Relations Management softward, which rivals donor management software like Raisers Edge and DonorPerfect, is free for 501c3's.

BaseCamp

Basecamp provides free (and more moderately priced packages) tools to creating an online space for your activists to get organized. Its secure, and has to do lists that can be assigned, milestones, and group calendars. Its like a fisher price version of Microsoft Sharepoint or Groove.

Democracy In Action

I don't even know why PPFA and NARAL pay a gazillion dollars for GetActive anymore. The best 3rd party vendor for E-activism has got to DIA: Democracy in Action. For a fraction of the cost of GetActive, I can implement contact your legislator, letters to the editor, blogging, online fundraising, and much more at a decent cost and a huge payback. Just the customization possibilities make it worth it!

Rollyo: When you want to search Your kinds of things.

Tired of searching past xxx whenever you are looking for information on lesbian history? Try this: Create your own search roll by telling Rollyo what sites you want to limit your search to. Embed the sucker on your site, or put it in your firefox browser. Search your blogs only, or those of the organizations you love. A total must have.

::BLOG::TurnpikeFeminist 

Turnpike Feminist::Jersey Grrl in a Red State World

I am usually the youngest activist at the progressive leaders table. I muse about jersey activism, 2ndwave v. 3rd wave conflict, and random acts of right-wing rediculousness.
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::BLOG::Feministing.com 

The BEST Blog for young feminists.

Feministing.com has got to be the best feminist webstie out there tailored to young feminists. They continuously rock!
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BUY ACTIVIST ESSENTIALS 

Sport Your Statement

The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel

by Margaret Atwood

BOOK: It's like the feminist "1984". Orwellian future from a feminist take. Chilling, thrilling, and completely mid boggling. This is the future we fight to avoid. Definitely a shot in the arm to activist burnout.

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/26/2008)

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi

BOOK::Completely fantabulous. THere isnt a statement she says that isn't backed up in her fully comprehensive bibliography. It's not just commentary, its fact after chilling fact. A feminist primer that educates any activist on the exact break down of the machine and it's operators in the radical right.

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Guerilla Web Strategies: Killer Marketing Tactics to Make Your Site the Most Popular on the Web

by Vince Gelormine

BOOK: Great guide for getting press when you have no money.

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

The Handmaid's Tale

The movie inspired by the book. Chilling.

Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 07/26/2008)

Iron Jawed Angels

MOVIE:: The ultimate motivator to any feminist activist, it's the story of relatively unknown Alice Paul, one of our nation's most brilliant political minds, who pressured the government to bring the 19th amendment (women's right to vote) to vote on the legislative floor by embarking on a hungar strike after being illegally imprisoned for excercing her right to free speech. Hillary Swank is breathtaking.

Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 07/26/2008)

Not a Pretty Girl

MUSIC: This is what you play when you are getting ready for a rally.

Amazon Price: $9.98 (as of 07/26/2008)

Living in Clip

MUSIC:: Essetial feminist folk from the quentessential feminist folkster. It's the best of all Ani, and covers everyday struggles of women.

Amazon Price: $25.98 (as of 07/26/2008)

Ani DiFranco

MUSIC: Old school Ani staples.

Amazon Price: $9.98 (as of 07/26/2008)

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards

BOOK:: Brilliantly details the conflicts between veteran 2nd wave feminists and young feminists. It gives a voice to the phenomenon that pushes young talent out of the movement.

Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 07/26/2008)

How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power

Case by case study of activists acheiving campaign goals.

Amazon Price: $11.66 (as of 07/26/2008)