For Immediate Release

Instead of relying solely on the mass media for information, which often presents information biased against women or ignores them completely, a group of German women have come up with a creative alternative: Initiative Frauen Presse Agentur, a women's press agency. The agency produces a 6-page bulletin each month presenting news and information about women and publicizing German women's initiatives on a variety of levels: organizing among students, housewives, minorities, within communities and trade unions political parties, changes in governmental policy affecting women, and more. The bulletin is published in German and distributed widely throughout Germany.

For more information, write:

Initiative Frauen Presse Agentur
Fraueninitiative 6. Oktober
Postfach 120 401 5300 Bonn 1
Germany
Tel. (0228) 216-913

Getting Away Together

In Zulpich, Germany, a few miles from Cologne, women gather regularly at the Holiday House for Women for periods of relaxation and exchange. There, a large house, purchased several years ago by a group of German feminists, functions both as a women's vacation resort and as a center of communication and education, with seminars offered throughout the year. The house is surrounded by green and can accommodate up to forty women. Seminars cover a variety of themes: health care; appropriate energy use and use of natural energy sources; massage techniques; methods for strengthening self awareness and artistic expression; self defense; auto mechanics and more.

At present, the seminars are conducted in German, but the organizers have indicated willingness to offer them in different languages if women outside Germany express interest.For more information or to obtain application forms, contact the group at the following address:

Frauenferienhaws Ort Fur Frauen
(Holiday House for Women)
Pralat-Franken-Str. 13
5352 Zulpich-Lovenich
Germany
Tel. (022)52-6577
Contact: Sylvia Kolk