Websites to Get You Started Being an Activist!

http://www.seniornet.com Over 100 million people over 50 are online in North America. This website has a wealth of information on news, volunteering, on-line courses to make you more web-savvy, and activist/volunteer projects in which you can participate.

http://www.seniors.org This website is the Congress of California Seniors, but they have great resources and information that can be applied anywhere.

http://www.suddenlysenior.com “A place for everyone who’s become a senior before their time,” as they bill themselves. This site’s best resource is a button taking you to the 222 best senior links, but it has stuff on travel, and humor.

http://www.grannyvoter.org Like we discussed, this is an activist site for people 55+ who care about the kind of world we leave our grandchildren, whether it has to do with education, healthcare, the environment, budget deficits, civil rights, or peace. It gives great guidelines for taking action.

http://www.google.com Go to Google and search for “grassroots activism,” seniors and activism”, “senior power”, and “save the world.”

http://findarticles.com You can search for social activism articles or others and specify “free articles only” that you can download.

http://www.amazon.com This popular bookseller has a search function you can use to search, for instance, in “books” for “grassroots activism” (1321 results) and find books, review them, and if you don’t want to buy them, check them out of your library.