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  1. An Action a Day
    Keeps Global Capitalism Away
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  2. Alternative and Activist New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk back to, or confront dominant media culture. Today, a lively and contentious cycle of capture, cooptation, and subversion of information, content, and system design marks the relationship between the mainstream ‘center’ and the interactive, participatory ‘edges’ of media culture. Five principal forms of alternative and activist new media projects are introduced, including the characteristics that make them different from more conventional media forms and content. The book traces the historical roots of these projects in alternative media, social movements, and activist art, including analyses of key case studies and links to relevant electronic resources.
  3. Alternative media
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
  4. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
    Resource Type: Book
  5. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  6. Alternatives in Print
    Resource Type: Book
    Similar to Books in Print.
  7. Anecdotes Tell Dramatic Story of British Underground Press
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Review of Underground: The London Alternative Press, 1966-74, by Nigel Fountain. A frank look back at what made the British underground press tick.
  8. Anecdotes tell dramatic story of British underground press (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1988
  9. Autonomous Media
    Activating Resistance & Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
  10. The Barefoot Channel
    Community Television as a Tool for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
  11. Beyond the Echo Chamber
    Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    According to the authors, a new breed of networked progressive media are informing and engaging millions. By harnessing a participatory media environment, they have succeeded in influencing political campaigns, public debates, and policymaking.
  12. The Black Dwarf
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political and cultural newspaper published between May 1968 and 1972 by a collective of socialists in the United Kingdom.
  13. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
  14. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  15. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  16. Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    The established wisdom has it that the media are neutral purveyors of news and entertainment, while the arts are about individual creativity and cultural values untainted by the vulgar concerns of politics and economics.
  17. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  18. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  19. Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
  20. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
  21. The Empire of Mind
    Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Strangelove believes the Internet is a dire threat to capitalism.
  22. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
  23. Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
    Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project # or raises money for just about any public-interest activity # will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
  24. Getting the Goods
    Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
  25. Getting your story into the media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
    For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
  26. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Winners of the 3rd annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
  27. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Winners of the 4th annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
  28. Green Isle in the Sea; an informal history of the alternative press.
    An Informal History of the Alternative Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  29. Helping you reach the media
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
  30. HitGrab Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  31. I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
  32. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  33. Imagine Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  34. Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
  35. International Socialist Review
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
  36. Inventing Reality
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
  37. Is the Media Your Message?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Mainstream media are good for getting exposure, but for social change activists they may not be the best avenue.
  38. Liberation News Service
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
  39. Listing of Progressive Periodicals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    Listing of progressive and alternative periodicals, many that are financially wanting and deserve support.
  40. Media for Social Change
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
  41. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  42. Progressive Periodicals Directory
    Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  43. Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    Radio in action in Italy.
  44. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  45. Shifting the frame – and getting our message out
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2011
    Beit Zatoun offers two workshops to help progressive communities and organizations better develop and communicate their message using the general media. Sat. Sept 24 & Sat. Oct. 29, 2011.
  46. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  47. Social Media Group
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  48. Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
  49. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  50. The Straight Goods
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  51. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  52. Underground press
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations.
  53. Underground Press Syndicate
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
  54. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  55. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  56. Barrie Zwicker
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
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