OneWorld Online (http://www.xmediapartners.com ) — According to Bruce Cohen of South Africa's Weekly Mail and Guardian, there are now more than 600 newspapers on-line worldwide. Pooling the resources of the alternative media, OneWorld Online is a cyber-news partnership between broadcasters and non-government organisations focusing on global themes such as sustainable development, ecology and human rights.
Australian Conservation Foundation (http://www.peg.apc.org/~acfenv/) — The ACF is Australia's longest-established national peak environment organisation. This web site puts within easy reach the ACF's media releases (the latest available was a disappointing congratulations to the new Coalition government), contact information and the full text of all standing ACF policy documents and position statements from 1975, including those on Antarctica, Kakadu, nuclear energy, lead in petrol and the Great Barrier Reef.
Nigeria on the Internet (http://www.nigeria.com/mainmenu.htm) —
One the great potentials of the internet is the possibility of communicating directly with those involved in struggles without having to view them through the distorted lenses of the capitalist media. This site allows the Nigerian democracy movement to inform surfers of the latest news from Nigeria, to participate in soapbox discussions, and to leave messages on a special condolence book for the environmentalist and campaigner against Shell's vandalism of the Niger Delta, Ken Saro-Wiwa, murdered by the Nigerian military regime.
Bougainville Freedom Movement (http://www.wr.com.au/sashab/BFM.htm) — The long struggle of the Bougainville people can also be accessed on the net. The Bougainville Freedom Movement's site provides a comprehensive news service of developments on Bougainville, contacts for the Bougainville Freedom movement in Australia and the representatives of the Bougainville Interim Government in Australia and the Solomon Islands.
Striking dockworkers go surfing (http://www.gn.apc.org/labournet/docks) — It is not only liberation movements that are making use of the net. Locked-out dock workers in Liverpool are using the Internet to enlist support from labour organisations across the world. The 340 dockers have set up a World Wide Web site setting out their grievances and inviting donations and messages of support. The workers have been on strike since the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board sacked them last September for refusing to cross a picket line set up by colleagues protesting planned job cuts. The site carries updates on the dispute's progress and the "dockworkers' charter" which calls for the reinstatement of the strikers and a commitment by the harbour board not to use casual labour.
Irish Hungerstrike Commemoration Web Page (http://www.serve.com/rm/hungerstrike.html) — To coincide with the 15th anniversary of the start of the Irish hunger strike. On March 1, 1981, Irish Republican prisoner Bobby Sands refused all food in his denial of the criminal status forced upon him by the British government. Many more men followed his lead, and 10 of them died before the hunger strike came to an end.
The web site will continue with regular updates and additions until October 3, to coincide with the anniversary of the end of the hunger strike. On that date the web page will go black except for an announcement that the hunger strike came to an end without the regaining of political status for the Irish political prisoners. It will include the names of the 10 who died on hunger strike.
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