LISTED BELOW ARE VARIOUS LINKS of interest to division members and beyond, roughly categorized into:

If you know of more that are not listed here or find broken links, please e-mail the Web address and title to Susan Brockus (sbrockus(AT)csuchico.edu).

Academic/teaching resources

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Progressive media clearinghouses

  • ACLU
  • Center for International Media Action. A nonprofit organization created to strengthen connections among grassroots organizers, public-interest advocates, activists and researchers focused on media policy and social justice. Seeks to increase the efficacy of organizing and activism around media issues by providing tools and services to help groups share knowledge, build relationships and utilize existing resources.
  • Media Literacy Clearing House. Background, articles, lesson plans and more.
  • Open Communication Project. An information clearinghouse and contact directory for people working toward worldwide freedom of communication.
  • Social Justice Connections
  • The Center for Voting and Democracy
  • The Progressive Information Network. Brings together the collective voice of over 600 progressive scholars, activists, and teachers. Recognizing the importance of impacting community debate, the network supplies information packets for use in local newspapers, bulletin boards, radio talk shows, and public events.

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Progressive media organizations

  • Alt Media Watch A compendium of resources hosted by ZNet.
  • Alternative Radio 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.
  • AlterNet.org A project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. First launched in 1998, AlterNetâ?(TM)s online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate, sexual politics and health issues. The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources.
  • American Indian Film Institute. A non-profit media arts center founded in 1979 to foster understanding of the culture, traditions and issues of contemporary Native Americans
  • Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall a gallery of graffiti art from cities around the world. As of April 1999 Art Crimes has more than 3000 images from 205 cities, 43 countries and 6 continents.
  • BU Underground
  • Center for Public Integrity. The center aims to produce high-quality, well-documented, investigative research resulting in a better-informed citizenry that demands a higher level of accountability from its government and elected leaders. The center also extends globally its style of watchdog journalism in the public interest through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Created in 1997, ICIJ includes more than 80 leading investigative reporters and editors in over 40 countries. Since opening its doors in downtown Washington, D.C. in 1990, the Center has released more than 100 investigative studies including 10 books.
  • City Lore
  • Common Dreams News Center. Breaking news and views for the progressive community.
  • Common-Forum Project A new mass deliberation system currently in its first stages of development. The goal of the project is to build an ideal technology for civil discussion and democratic discourse.
  • Community Film Workshop of Chicago
  • Counterpunch
  • Deep Dish TV
  • Direct Action Media Network
  • Grade the News (at Stanford University). A media research project focusing on the quality of the news media in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are affiliated with and based at Stanford University's Graduate Program in Journalism.We aim to provide timely critiques and in-depth, systematic analyses that allow the public to compare newspapers and local television news broadcasts on equal footing. Our mission is to help Bay Area residents recognize their dependence on news -- democracy's most essential commodity,
    assess news organizations' success in meeting those ends, and
    secure quality news across the region's diverse communities.
  • Guerrilla News Network
  • How to be A Radio Pirate Home Page
  • Independent Media Center -
  • Institute for Public Accuracy. A nationwide consortium of policy researchers. Seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out by corporate-backed think tanks and other influential institutions.
  • IPA NY Home
  • IWW Radio Network
  • Konscious. Dedicated to showing socially aware film/video, music and arts programming. Our non-profit website is a tool to amplify the voices of independent filmmakers and to link viewers to opportunities for activism and social change.
  • The Memory Hole. Launched 10 July 2002. Exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known. This includes: „ Government files „ Corporate memos „ Court documents (incl. lawsuits and transcripts) „ Police reports and eyewitness statements „ Congressional testimony „ Reports (governmental and non-governmental) „ Maps, patents, Web pages „ Photographs, video, and sound recordings „ News articles „ Books (and portions of books).
  • Multinational Monitor. Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
  • New American Radio Home Page
  • New Orleans Video Access Center
  • Northwest Film Center
  • OneWorld Radio
  • openDemocracy Strands homepage
  • Pacifica News
  • Paper Tiger Television
  • Progressive Populist.
  • Project Censored. The primary objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
  • Radio for Peace International. A shortwave radio station located in Costa Rica, Central America.
  • Reverend Billy & the Church of Stop Shopping
  • SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER. A Philadelphia-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1982 as a place where people could work together and gain skills in media making. Scribe Video Center seeks to explore, develop and advance the use of video as an artistic medium and as a tool for progressive social change.
  • The Nation
  • The Web Inquirer; An International Investigative Magazine
  • Z Magazine/ZNet

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Media-activist organizations

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Activist-link clearinghouses