The Links Page
Resources such as Briefings and Info-sheets are available on our Resources page
Other Training Providers in the UK
 Find your local CVS - Your
local Council for Voluntary Services can often provide advice and training.
The National Association of CVS also has a trainers'
database.
Turning the
Tide - a Quaker programme promoting understanding and practice of active
nonviolence.
BLINC - The
Blatant Incitement Project lists offers of and requests for workshops and
training.
If your group is also involved in
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Co-operatives
Catalyst Collective - help set up
and register co-ops. Lots of useful and practical information on their website. Catalyst provide support for co-ops in the areas of group-work, legal structures, conflict resolution, financial viability of proposals, co-operation and meeting skills etc.
Radical Routes - a network of
grassroots housing and workers' co-ops.
Upstart Workers' Co-op
training and support for ecologically sustainable co-operatives committed to networking and mutual aid.
CDA Anywhere -
this site is intended for agencies supporting co-ops, but the factsheets are
useful.
Cooperatives UK - The apex
organisation for UK co-operative enterprise, promoting co-operative and mutual
solutions.
If your group is also involved in providing support or training to
co-operatives then please send us your
details so we can link to you.
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Information Technology
CampaignON.com provides free and easy to use tools to set
up a web site to promote small-scale local campaigns on any issue.
FreeCharity.org.uk provides free Internet and IT services to charities and the non-profit sector.
GreenNet a not for profit Internet Service
Provider for groups and individuals working for
peace, human rights and the environment. Offers support and training in IT.
NetAction's virtual activist -
guides to using emails for activism - press releasing, using the web to contact
supporters, lobby etc (also available as a pdf).
Social and Environmental Costs of Electronics
Clean up your computer - working conditions in electronics industry by CAFOD. Interviews and background to slave-like working conditions in factories owned by big name computer manufacturers.
Clean Computer Campaign by
the Silicon Valley Toxics Campaign. Comprehensive and shocking information.
have a look at their report Exporting Harm:
Technotrash to Asia, and their pages on the human health hazards.
Basel
Action Network campaign against Toxic Trade.
A readable and informative article on
Toxic PCs by Salon.com
BBC's Photo and Audio report on illegal Chinese workshops where young teenagers work long hours amid noxious fumes, recycling computers from the US and Europe.
Linux Links
Linux Cookbook - excellent and
comprehensive guide for
those wanting to find out more about their system and the commandline.
Mandriva - (used to
be called Mandrake) an impressive distribution which is very easy to
install, and is easy to maintain. Support from lots of community sites such as: MandrakeUsers.org.
Ubuntu - is becoming a very
popular distribution, and CDs can be ordered for free from the website (although
they may take a while to arrive!). Usually regarded as easy to install and
maintain, but the lack of more advanced GUI tools puts some people off.
Excellent support from many sites such as UbuntuForums and the Easylinux wiki.
Vector Linux - Peanut isn't easy to
install for newcomers to Linux, but I've mentioned it here because it's a full
distribution that is fast and fits on less than 400Mb of Hard Disk space -
excellent for older PCs that aren't too happy with heavier distros.
Linux Terminal Server Project - This is a
distribution for those wanting to set up a network using one decent computer and
lots of old computers working as 'X-terminals'. Lots of help for all sorts of terminal-server / X-server projects. Can be used anywhere, and easy to install.
LinuxIso.co.uk - download linux ISOs (images to
burn your own CDs), or get them cheaply (£4-£10) from:
 LinuxEmporium.co.uk.
LWN's list of available Linux
distributions.
DistroWatch.com and Linux.org also have good
lists.
The Free Software Movement - Anarchism in Action - very interesting discussion about the politics of Free Software - does GNU provide us with a model for social organising?
... and we also
provide GNU/Linux training and migration
support.
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