News, Media, Activism

News Websites

The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
http://www.indymedia.org/en/

Center Common Dreams was founded in 1997, we are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism. http://www.commondreams.org/

Guerrila News Network is an independent news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform programming.
www.gnn.tv

Defense Monitor Center for Defense Information (CDI) provides expert analysis on various components of U.S. national security, international security and defense policy. CDI promotes wide-ranging discussion and debate on security issues such as nuclear weapons, space security, missile defense, small arms and military transformation.


Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
http://www.alternativeradio.org/index.shtml


Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 450 stations in North America. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Link TV ch. 375); as a "podcast," and on the internet. http://democracynow.org/index.pl

Aljazeera English, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, headquartered in Doha. Al Jazeera English is the world’s first global English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East.

Media/Activism

Hip Hop Congress uses hip hop culture to inspire social and civic action, and cultural creativity amongst young people. It does this in a variety of ways.
http://www.hiphopcongress.com/

ActForChange makes it easy for people to become online activists and speak out on behalf of progressive issues. By combining progressive news with opportunities for citizen action, ActForChange is a powerful and far-reaching catalyst for social change.
http://www.actforchange.com/

The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
Send letters to Congress, government agencies and grocery stores. Send e-mail to the media. Get updates about where your participation can make the biggest difference now.
http://www.thecampaign.org/


Magazines

Lip Magazine is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit media project, brings a unique, accessible, and well-edited mix of radical politics, culture, sex, and humor, guided by a serious structural critique of power and social change, and a gleeful engagement with pop culture.

UTNE was founded in 1984 by Eric Utne, UTNE READER reprints the best articles from over 2,000 alternative media sources bringing you the latest ideas and trends emerging in our culture... Provocative writing from diverse perspectives... Insightful analysis of art and media... Down-to-earth news and resources you can use... In-depth coverage of compelling people and issues that affect your life.
http://www.utne.com/

Orion Magazine explores an emerging alternative world view. Informed by a growing ecological awareness and the need for cultural change, it is a forum for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we might live justly, wisely, and artfully on Earth.
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index2.html

Adbusters are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
http://www.adbusters.org/home/

Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.
http://www.motherjones.com/index.html

Yes! Magazine
Positive Futures Network is an independent, nonprofit organization supporting people’s active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/

E Magazine is a bimonthly “clearinghouse” of information, news and resources for people concerned about the environment who want to know “What can I do?” to make a difference. A 13-time Independent Press Awards winner and nominee, E is chock full of everything environmental -- from recycling to rainforest's, and from the global village to our own backyards.
http://www.emagazine.com/Newspapers

Books

Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke's. Global Showdown. Toronto, Stoddart, 2001.
A clear, comprehensive explanation of the whole alphabet soup of global institutions, what's wrong with them and how people are organizing to fight them, by two of the people doing some of the most important work on the issue. Maude is head of the Council of Canadians, and a formidable thinker and writer. If you can only read one book, this is it!

Naomi Klein. No Logo. NY, Picador USA, 1999. Naomi's book details the corporatization and logoization of public and private space, from high schools with an "official soft drink" to university gyms with the Nike swoosh on the floor. It gave me a much clearer understanding of how the anti-sweatshop movement developed on college campuses, the conditions youth face today and why they're so angry. She also includes damning statistics about the reality of life in the maquiladoras and free trade zones where most of our manufactured goods are now made. Written before Seattle, it outlines the background out of which the current movement came.

Globalize This! The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule, edited by Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach, contains some of the key writings about Seattle, including my own letter, Paul Hawken's moving account of his experience, and Bettina Martinez' "Where Was the Color in Seattle?" along with other political thinkers such as Vandana Shiva, Manning Marable, Susan George, Walden Bello, and more.