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  1. An Action a Day
    Keeps Global Capitalism Away

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
  2. Activist archiving in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
  3. Alternative media
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
  4. Alternative Media is an Absolute Necessity!!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    By now most people that have been paying close attention to the traditional media and made some attempt to look at other sources know that the traditional media is controlled by corporate interests and they’re financed by commercials that create a strong bias not to expose the corruption of those that advertise with them.
  5. An alternative media list
    Getting the news - and getting behind the news

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014   Published: 2017
    A selective list of English-language alternative media.
  6. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  7. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  8. Alternative Press Center
    Resource Type: Organization
    Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
  9. Alternative Press Center's Directory of Alternative & Radical Publications 1989-90 edition
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  10. Alternative Press Index 
    An index to alternative and radical periodicals

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1996
    An index to alternative and radical publications, published quarterly in print and also available on CD-ROM.
  11. Alternative Publications
    A Guide to Directories, Indexes, Bibliographies and other Sources

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    A listing of bibliographies, indexes, review journals, directories and other sources about the alternative or small press world.
  12. Alternatives in Print
    Resource Type: Book
    Similar to Books in Print.
  13. AlterNet
    Resource Type: Website
    Online news magazine and community featuring original journalism as well as material from many other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and other issues.
  14. Anecdotes Tell Dramatic Story of British Underground Press
    Resource Type: Article
    Review of Underground: The London Alternative Press, 1966-74, by Nigel Fountain. A frank look back at what made the British underground press tick.
  15. Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag – in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isn’t defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And that’s the problem.
  16. Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
  17. Autonomous Media
    Activating Resistance & Dissent

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
  18. The Barefoot Channel
    Community Television as a Tool for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
  19. Beyond the Echo Chamber
    Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  20. The Black Dwarf
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A political and cultural newspaper published between May 1968 and 1972 by a collective of socialists in the United Kingdom.
  21. Black and White
    Images from the Archives of Liberation News Service Photographer Howard Epstein, 1968-1974

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    Black and White is a book of 32 evocative images of political conflict and confrontations in the streets taken by Howard Epstein when he was a photographer for Liberation News Service.
  22. 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.
  23. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
  24. Chomsky in Mexico
    La Jornada at 25

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    September has been a big month for La Jornada. To celebrate its 25th birthday, the National Lottery offered a commemorative ticket as did the Mexico City Metro subway system, rare mainstream honors for a lefty rag, and notorious U.S. rabble rouser Noam Chomsky came to town to help cut the cake - along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez (a founding investor) and the much-lauded Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. The Jornada was founded in 1984 by itinerant journalists who had bounced from one short-lived left periodical to the next.
  25. Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News Source
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In first world countries, Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the main places where people come across their news -- ahead of television and news sites. "Success" is becoming about the number of reads, shares, likes, upvotes, and re-tweets -- making it easy to lose sight of what really defines the usefulness of an article: political impact.
  26. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
  27. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  28. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
  29. Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   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.
  30. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   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.
  31. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  32. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  33. Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
  34. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  35. Connexions Selected Links & Resources: Media Links: Periodicals & Broadcast Media Online
    Resource Type: Website
    A selection of progressive media websites.
  36. Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  37. Countercurrents
    Resource Type: Website
    An alternative news site based in India. "We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!"
  38. Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed.
    The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions:
    * Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can.
    * Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it.
    * Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources.
    * Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing.
    * Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.
  39. Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
    Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
  40. Dada World Data
    Resource Type: Website
    Dada World Data is a multi-media production house that makes content for TV, Internet, radio and movie screens as well as material for educational purposes. DWD also specializes in the production of festivals and events. In all of its activities, DWD's goal is to foster diversity, give voice to those left voiceless, and stimulate people into being active participants, rather than passive spectators.
  41. Democracy's Oxygen 
    How Corporations Control the News

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  42. The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The Nation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking place. After taking out a subscription to I.F. Stone’s Weekly that an old friend had recommended, the scales began to fall from my eyes.
  43. Directory of Alternative & Radical Publications
    1989-90 - Periodical profile published 1990

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
  44. Factsheet Five
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Guide to zines and alternative publishing.
  45. Field Guide to Alternative Media
    A Directory to Reference & Selection Tools Useful in Accessing Small & Alternative Press Publications and Independently Produced Media

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    A listing of tools that list, index or review primarily small and alternative press publications and independently-produced media. The Field Guide is divided into four sections: Subject and Trade Directories, Indices and Subject Bibliographies, Trade and Review Media, and Bookstore and Distributor catalogues.
  46. For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
  47. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  48. From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
  49. From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don't mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
  50. Frontier Films
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Frontier films Inc. was a non-profit organization formed in March 1938 out of the Worker's Film and Photo League and Nykino, meant to continue the tradition of producing films for social change in a documentary format.
  51. Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
    Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis

    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  52. Getting the Goods
    Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
  53. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Winners of the 3rd annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
  54. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Winners of the 4th annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
  55. Green Left Weekly
    Resource Type: Website
    Independent Australian publication and Web site committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality, providing local, national and international news, analysis, and discussion and debate to strengthen the anti-capitalist movements.
  56. Helping you reach the media 
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage

    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  57. How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex. Yet within advanced capitalist economies, the contradictions and complexities of corporate media have provided certain spaces for progressive journalism.
  58. How I Became a "Recovering Documentary Filmmaker" and Learned to Reach a Wider Public
    The School of Authentic Journalism Saved My Life: Your Donations Make It Possible

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A look into the way that the The School of Authentic Journalism guides journalists and organizers to reach wider audiences.
  59. I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
  60. I.F. Stone's Weekly
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1953   Published: 1971
    Weekly newsletter published by I.F. Stone from 1953 to 1971. All issues between January 17, 1953 and December 1, 1971 are online.
  61. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
  62. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  63. The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social Movements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism.
  64. In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
  65. In These Times
    Resource Type: Website
    Web site of the progressive American newsmagazines, featuring article excerpts.
  66. Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  67. Information Clearing House
    Resource Type: Website
    Described as an independent media source and as "one person's effort to correct the distorted perceptions provided by commercial media", this extensive site provides a mixed bag of news, articles, audio and video clips, ranging from the soberly analytical to off-the-wall conspiracy theories.
  68. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
  69. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
  70. Is the Media Your Message?
    Resource Type: Article
    Mainstream media are good for getting exposure, but for social change activists they may not be the best avenue.
  71. Javier Sicilia Calls Out to Alternative Media as a Force for Communication
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    At the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, a poet reviews the first year of the movement against the drug war that he inspired.
  72. KIO-Evolution of a Journal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    The current Kick It Over editors reprint an article written two years prior for readers interested in knowing how the original editors were motivated to start Kick It Over.
  73. Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Prospects for democracy are dependent upon the growth of an independent media with wide exposure in the general population comparable to that of the corporate press.
  74. Liberation News Service
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
  75. A Life of Challenge to the Dogma of "Objectivity"
    Richard Bell Is Practiced at Juggling Journalism, Advocacy and Politics

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Journalism, advocacy, politics: Are they completely different fields or aspects of the same game? Can someone actually do all three? Richard Bell has done them all and has lived to tell the tale.
  76. Listing of Progressive Periodicals
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Listing of progressive and alternative periodicals with many that are financially wanting and deserve support.
  77. Media For Social Change
    A Resource Book For Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    An aid for community groups to help them obtain greater access to mainstream media or even to create their own media.
  78. Media for Social Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
  79. The Medium is The Middleman: For a Revolution Against Media 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Media now controls a new economic order: one that has supplanted governments, churches and productive industry to impose a mediating tyranny over people and our Daily Lives.
  80. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
  81. The MoJo Wire
    Resource Type: Website
    Mother Jones website.
  82. The Nation Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from current and past issues of The Nation, the progressive weekly U.S. magazine.
  83. New Pages Guide to Alternative periodicals 1980-1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    Selective alternative periodicals. Lists 123 periodicals that provide political, social, economic and cultural alternatives. Each entry includes subscription information, bookstore rates and a superb annotation opposite a photograph of a cover from an is
  84. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
  85. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016
    Alternative Media

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    A special issue on alternative media.
  86. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
    April 1 issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
  87. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
    Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
  88. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
    Their Interent or Ours?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
  89. Our Times
    Periodical profile published 1983

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    OUR TIMES is an independent quarterly journal "committed to social change through democratic pluralism."
  90. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
  91. Progressive magazine
    Resource Type: Website
    A leading voice for peace and social justice since 1909.
  92. Progressive Periodicals Directory
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    An annotated guide to some 600 progressive publications in the U.S.A.
  93. Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
  94. Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    Radio in action in Italy.
  95. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   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.
  96. Red Menace #4
    Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  97. Seven News: The Story of a Community Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years.
  98. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  99. Smoking Typewriters
    The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Describes the emergence of an underground press in the 1960s. Writers and participants reflected the spirit of cultural and political protest and encouraged the development of the New Left's highly democratic "movement culture".
  100. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
  101. The website of I.F. Stone
    Resource Type: Website
    Website devoted to the journalism and life of radical journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989).
  102. The Straight Goods
    Canadians Informing Canadians

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1999
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    A daily Internet news and feature publication featuring investigative reports, columns, and a variety of features. Ceased publication 2013.
  103. Swans Commentary: Ideas, opinions, thoughts... and a flock of Swans
    Resource Type: Website
    In a time of revisionism, faux-semblant, spinning news and skewed information, Swans is about thinking, questioning, observing, and providing ideas that are lacking in the mainstream media. Swans endeavors to bring food for thought to the readers and to provide a quality literary and political site on the Web.
  104. truthout, News Politics
    Resource Type: Website
    Online news site.
  105. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  106. Underground press
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  107. Underground Press Syndicate
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
  108. Underground--The London Alternative Press, 1966-74
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  109. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
  110. U.S. Progressive Periodicals Directory
    First Edition - 1982-1983 Edition

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
    A listing of 380 social justice magazines, newspapers, and newsletters with a national (U.S.) focus.
  111. The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
  112. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  113. We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms. This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.
  114. Web Networks
    Resource Type: Website
    Web Networks is the online home of many non-profit and social change groups in Canada.
  115. What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Having avidly consumed and helped conceive and produce alternative media for decades, I
    am tired of how vague we are on these issues.
  116. The Witch-Hunters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
  117. World Charter of Free Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A charter for the democratization of communication.
  118. ZNet
    Resource Type: Website
    Extensive collection of articles and links compiled by the publishers of Z Magazine.
  119. ZNet Israel-Palestine Watch
    Resource Type: Website
    Progressive Web site with extensive coverage of Israel-Palestine.

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