Welcome to all radigrrrrrls and feminists!!! This site is under construction, after a loooooooooong hiatus. Please be patient. Email all info and links to the email address below...with love and thanks.
AWCNF has arrived to bring high levels of Nicaraguan feminism to your global feminist awareness. Mission Statement: This website provides access to other important links, whose purpose is to - spread information about radical women in Nicaragua.
In 1997, a small group of introductory women's studies students did a project on feminisms in developing nations, with an emphasis on the internet. So why were a bunch of North American college students putting up a web page about feminism in Nicaragua??? Here was our reasoning then:
"Well, today feminism has become recognized as a movement that, while it supports the same basic issues, is developing all over the world in different ways and by implementing diverse agenda. As first world feminists it is our responsiblity not only to be aware of what is happening in the rest of the world, but to use the resources available to us to further the causes of our sisters around the globe."
This page developed out of a research project on women on the internet. One of the problems that we encountered in 1997 was that there were very few listings for any issues involving women in Nicaragua. This, we hypothesized, was probably a result of the majority of the Nicaraguan population having no access to computers, or consequently the Internet. Furthermore, women and other feminists who do have access to Internet resources tend to be both better educated and economically better off, so the information available on the Internet doesn't necessarily reflect the true, complete nature of the work being done by women and feminists in Nicaragua. Furthermore, the information available on the web in 1997 tended to come from either educational or religious sources, only a small selection of the scholarship and organizational information avaiable in other media.
Because the process of searching the Net in 1997 (when search engines were in their infancy) was so time consuming, we realized that ANY information about this important movement that we found would be put to the best use by making it available to the rest of the electronic world. Most of the original links are now broken, and I'm going to slowly repair them. This list should by no means indicate that this is it for Nicaraguan feminist resources, however: check your local library, sign up to newsgroups, and network with other people who - like you - want to learn more. At this point, more than 6 years later, there is happily a greater amount of Nicaraguan women's, feminist, and womanist information and websources out there. So let's find them together.
And now, the roadmap of directions and links we compiled back in '97....there's no particular order; this was to insure that you learn as much as you can by checking out as many sites as possible that catch your eye:
El Boletina, an amazing Nicaraguan feminist magazine (in Spanish)
A bibliography of feminism in Nicaragua
Review of Margaret Randall's book, "Sandino's Daughters Revisited: Feminism in Nicaragua"
Nicaragua: Centroamerica May Summaries
CENIDH, Human Rights Report; May
Addresses to Architects and Planners in Support of Nicaragua (APSNICA) and other international organizations
Synopsis of "People in Power: Forging a Grassroots Democracy in Nicaragua" by G. Ruchwarger (1987)
Call for papers!!! "Sandinismo at a Crossroads." Address to send manuscripts.
Information about a three million dollar proposed loan for "institutional strengthening activities for organiaztions in the child care field" in Nicaragua.
Nicaraguan health fund. This site is not yet active, but promises to be soon; it should provide some great information!
Through the work of Lutheran World Relief, there is a loan program for women in Nicaragua who traditionally have no credit establish small businesses. About 180 women have participated in the prgram so far; their achievements are amazing!
Although this is an Australian news site, it has a fantastic directory of past news about queer issues all over the world, including Nicaragua.
Check out this site to order a video on queer folk in Nicaragua.
Article entitled "Salvador FTZ Garment Workers Need Help." A must-read for people who are interested in helping Nicaraguan working women. The AWCNF highest-priority article.
Send a message to
PeaceNet, a non-profit progressive network server.Ballots and Bullets: Elections in a Warzone, by John O'Connor. Not only focused on Nicaragua.
SpeakOut: Magda Enriquez - former editor of "Somos" and the acting representative of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) - writes an article on 'what lies ahead' for Nicaragua. Or, you can
send email to SpeakOut.Write
Rich Winkel, the moderator for the newsgroup 'misc.activism.progressive,' one of our favorites. If you can give him a subject line or date, he can probably find it in the archives - look up his article on Miriam Arguallo Morales (the Human Rights Ombudswoman for Nicaragua), for example.Foundation for Sustainable Development
Send for information on how to get
Nicaraguan development Summer InternshipsKatherine Hoyt, the 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II to Nicaragua ; a synopsis and opinions.
Tyrion Perkins's Article, "FSLN Prepares for Nicaraguan Elections." 1995.
Somewhere on the Fundacion Puntos de Encuentro page are the words 'lo personal es politico.' Rock on.
The Web Page of David Wacks contains a series of links to Latino homepages that, in turn, have links you may be interested in.
Universidad de las Mujeres (part of the Fundacion Puntos de Encuentro)
To find newsgroups (and articles of interest in newsgroups), contact DejaNews. Conduct searches under the verbatim headings of soc.culture.nicaragua; ab.politics; "Malena de Montis"; misc.activism.progressive; soc.culture.cuba, "Nicaraguan Women"; "Marilyn McAfee"; "Violeta Barrios de Chamorro"; "Magda Enriquez;" "SpeakOut;" or "Azucena Ferrey". It's sparse, but the information is there.
Other Sites of Interest.....
Poesia de Nicaragua. Las mujeres nicaraguenses en la poesia.
Homepage of Uwe Henniges
Site last updated: Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 4PM. Before that, it had not been touched since Friday, 7 March 1997; 2PM. Got it?