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- Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!rich
- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: What is ACTIV-L? (the Activists Mailing List) (autopost)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.093005.16299@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Organization: PACH
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:30:05 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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- ACTIV-L is an electronic mailing list served by a "LIST-SERVER" which
- accepts 1-line commands via regular email...
-
- To join ACTIV-L (formerly AML, the Activists Mailing List), just send
- the 1-line message "SUB ACTIV-L <your full name>" to the address:
- LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET; joining is free, and you may unsub. any time.
-
- You should then receive a message confirming that your name has been
- added to the list. Alt. address is LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU ;
- administrator is Rich Winkel (mathrich@umcvmb...)
-
- There is also a discussion mailing list connected with ACTIV-L. To
- subscribe to it, first sub to activ-l as above, then mail the message:
- SET ACTIV-L FILES
- to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.
-
- As another step towards linking activists and empowering them with
- information, and thus generally combating the control and information
- monopoly of the handful of corporations which run the mainstream
- media, ACTIV-L launched the UseNet newsgroup misc.activism.progressive
- in the spring on 1991.
-
- ACTIV-L works in cooperation with other online activists, including
- the PROG-PUBS mailing list of/for campus PSNs (progressive student
- newspapers) and the New Liberation News Service (NLNS); PeaceNet,
- EcoNet, and their sister networks under IGC (the nonprofit Institute
- for Global Communications) and *it's* worldwide sister networks of the
- APC (Association for Progressive Communications); online peace/justice
- groups; and others.
-
- ACTIV-L's "listserver" maintains an archiver service -- send the
- 1-line message GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
- for a listing of files available, which include:
-
- -- resource file listings of alternative publications, videos, books,
- speakers, groups, audiocassettes, etc;
-
- -- Catalogs, e.g. Amnesty International's Human Rights Library
- catalog, the American Friends Service Committee's _Peace Education
- Resource Catalog_, and so on;
-
- -- Human Rights reports, information on how to use the Freedom of
- Information Act, obtaining administrative discharges from the
- military, book reviews, etc
-
- -- Articles, some footnoted, as well as full referenced backgrounders
- (see especially the "Nicaragua Library") on Foreign Policy,
- Latin/Central America, the Middle East and Gulf, the Media, the CIA/
- the "Secret Government," domestic issues (health care; reverse
- Robin-Hood economics; the death penalty), civil rights (ACLU) and
- citizen activism (Ralph Nader's Public Citizen), the Environment and
- environmental health/safety, stats on worldwide status of women, etc.
-
-