200 John Doe's video on Headwaters Mattole Forest Massacre

Access News Australian video magazine. Screens every Monday both on Channel 31 Melbourne and on the big screen Always looking for videos!

Activist Menu Calgary (Alberta, Canada) Media Artists Respond to the 2002 G8 Summit

AK Kraak Berlin video activists

Amazon Watch

Jen Schradie / Anthill Productions Director and Producer of "The Golf War" and various documentaries on African-American/Southern Labor issues. Organizer of grassroots media distribution and freelance writer.

Autofocus "gut sortierter Videoverleih und Archiv. Mit Online-Katalog!"

BanTV.com Still under development, this site promises to "never compromise the integrity of film and video art with streaming video or ad placement before or after the piece."

Beyond TV A open publishing site for on-line video, audio, text news, positive projects, underground events - linking features to campaigns, upcoming events and current projects.

Big Noise Films Makers of Zapatista, also created segments for "Showdown in Seattle" and "Breaking the Bank"

Breaking Free video magazine Alternative media for Direct Action!

Bright Path Video The very foundation of our lives depends on the accurate discovery of the truth in all of its manifestations. Bright Path Video focuses on our need to know the truth in its political,
social and cosmic contexts. We feel that our mission is to search out the gems of truth in the realms that lie hidden beneath societal, political and even religious constrictions. To this end, the effort to
protect and propagate free speech is vital to the democratic society and the enlightenment of the populace.

California Newsreel

Candida Video Italian video collective, worked on Prague S26 video: Rebel Colors

Cascadia Media Collective Produces Cascadia Alive! in Eugene, OR, a community tv program on radical politics, patriarchy, police brutality and resistance to environmental destruction and deforestation. Also produced the "Guerrilla Video Primer

Changing America Focuses on Labor activism. Based in New York City, nationaly syndicated programs.

Chiapas Media Project Camera training, production, webcasting - on-site in Chiapas

Chicago Filmmakers

ChitraKarkhana an independent production unit, based in Mumbai, India, working with experimental video and documentaries, apart from other not-for-profit productions.Members work with Indian Peoples Media Collective. Tellavision Mumbai is a documentation of one delicately poised edge of global conflict in South Asia.

Cold Mountains Cold Rivers Video producers covering the largest roadless wilderness areas in the lower 48. Recently produced "Buffalo Nations"

Collision Course Video Productions Works with San Francisco youth. Produced Viva la Causa, 500 Years of Chicano History (versions available in both English and Spanish).

Conscious Cinema "a media/arts collective turned production company. Our broadcast standard edit suite is located in an arts co-operative in a sunny warehouse in central London.
We mix commercial editing and shooting work with projects that create greater value than money."

Cultureshop.org i-Contact Video Network's site for buying independent/radical/political issue-based videos on-line (Mainly PAL/European format)

Deepdish TV National satellite network programmed on more than 300 cable stations across the USA

Democracy University Videos of Progressive Events

Dog Eat Dog Films The online home of Michael Moore's production company

Drive-by shooting/tallstoreez productionz a three-person Australian/ German film collective, based in Adelaide, SA, and Hamburg. Founded in February 2002, their first film, Holiday Camp, documents the mandatory detention system in Australia and the Woomera detention center. "Our main agenda is to contribute a unique perspective on the international discourse about migration and the increasing border panic within the 'western world'. We have focused on the connections between dispossession, people enclosures, and the ongoing global genocide."

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) Founded in 1972. Holds over 150 free or low-cost video training workshops for more than 2,000 students a year, provides access to video equipment for some 300 community-based videographers, conducts workshops and other programs that facilitate the work of community video producers and artists. Many programs focus on needs of Latinos, Asian-Americans, and African-Americans.

dvRepublic is the web-based destination for the Black Filmmaker Foundation's (BFF) members, filmmakers and digital films. The BFF Digital Video Lab develops and commissions original programming and provides access to production funds and digital video equipment to filmmakers from diverse multi-cultural backgrounds. Through dvRepublic.com we are able to market and distribute films that are provocative, socially concerned and entertainment driven.

Earth Films North Coast Earth First! video activists, producers of Tree Sit, Luna, Fire in the Eyes, and Timber Gap. Co-producers of Showdown in Seattle and Breaking the Bank.

Eastern Quoll Media a grassroots independent media "business" in the Watagan mountains NW of Sydney (Hunter Valley), Australia; made a documentary on the large-scale logging operations plundering Papua New Guinea's forests.

The Empowerment Project Early supporters of independent video work. Excellent, award-winning videos on the U.S. military and media control

ETS Pictures Minnesota based documentary producer Matt Ehling, produced Urban Warrior about the militarization of American police forces.

Ever Wicked Digital Video news, emphasis on Open Source. (Also see: Linux Video Projects)

Fifth Sun Archive A video library of social and environmental protest in the UK, established in 1994.

Flying Focus Video Collective Video activists of Portland, Oregon

Freespeech TV Streaming great videos on the web and broadcasting via Cable Access nation-wide

Gulf Islands Film and Television School on Galiano Island, BC. Produces documentaries and runs an environmental film boot camp... (Also see: indieHUB.org)

Global Insights Australian producers of a video roundup of actions and issues "Global Insights", broadcasters of "access news" and facilitators of the ska tv youth training project

Global Justice Web Video Project a small collective of videographers from Vancouver, B.C.

Global Village CAT the most updated and comprehensive listing of community or public access tv sites in the world (500 sites). (Also see: U.S. Community Cable Access Links)

Globalvision.org Hard-hitting, analytical coverage of global human rights issues has long been a hallmark of Globalvision's film and video work, beginning with our groundbreaking anti-apartheid television series South Africa Now, which ran weekly in the United States and fifteen other countries between 1988-91, and continuing with its successor series, Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television, which aired weekly worldwide between 1992-96. Numerous documentaries -- from 1990's Nelson Mandela: Free At Last to 1996's Yellow Wasps: Anatomy of a War Crime and, most recently, Sowing Seeds, Reaping Peace -- have also arisen out of our ongoing involvement with the field of human rights.

Greenfire productions Accomplished video producers - forest issues

Groovy Movie Picture House Documenting alternative issues, lifestyles and arts using the latest in cutting edge digital technology and powered only with green energy.

Guerrilla News Network is dedicated to nurturing a collective of media revolutionaries who use the resources we have as a conscious world community to transform the planet.

Guerillavision "Troublemakers with other people's dv cameras." (Box 91, Green Leaf Bookshop, 82 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BB)

Headwaters Action Video Collective (See Earth Films, above)

High Plains Films Environmental documentary makers in Missoula, Montana

I-Contact European video activists and distributors. Includes excellent how-to guide for aspiring video activists

indieHUB.org a resource and community site for independent filmmakers, with a special emphasis on activism. Joint effort by the Access to Media Education Society and GIFTS.

Kaganovich Productions Australian producers of wide variety of environmental activist videos

KanalB.de German internet video magazine "featuring a trash videomagazine and doing documentational stuff."

Katalyytti Finnish Video Magazine which premiered in 2001.

Konscious.com dedicated to showing socially aware film/video, music and arts programming via streaming video.Our NYC-based non-profit website is a tool to amplify the voices of independent filmmakers and to link viewers to opportunities for activism and social change..

Labor Beat Labor Beat is a Chicago-based organization which develops and distributes progressive television, radio, videos, and computer communications on labor and social issues.

LaborFest Film & Video Festival

Labor Video Project Labor footage and programming from around the world. Member of the Union of Producers & Programmers Network, San Francisco.

La Lutta New Media Collective NYC

Linux Video Projects: Evolving Rapidly. "Open Source, Open Standards, Open Streaming." Try the Linux Video and DVD Project; Vorbis; MPEG4IP; OpenSource Video Streaming, Ever Wicked, The Xiph Foundation, 'Theora' (a free open-source multimedia package that includes a Server, a Player and a Personal Video Recorder for desktop users).

Media Rights Tennessee video activists based out of Sequatchie Valley Institute at Moonshadow. Produced "Invasion of the Chip Mills" about the devastating practices of large-capacity chip mills. These mega-facilities have invaded the Southeast.

Michael Moore

Michael Thomas Productions Producers of environmental justice documentary video.

Mountain Eye Media A media arts and education collective based in Western North Carolina

The Nova Brussels. A video library, which will be free access

Off Center Video affiliated with the Gray Panthers, this group recently produced, "Save the Redwoods, Boycott the GAP."

OneWorld TV "involves many layers – you can watch, explore or create stories, join the discussion forums, share ideas and tips and help build a vibrant online video community."

Open Human Minds (OHMS) an NYC media collective dedicated to making and promoting alternative documentaries.OHMS is the electrical measurement of resistance...

Organic Chaos Network A website about this network of video-activists based in the Netherlands. Produces Trojan TV. Part of Federation Collective Rampenplan

Oregon Department of Kick ASS

OzNetTV free streaming media made by Jackal Media, an independent non-mainstream media unit.

Paper Tiger TV Archetypal video activists. A diversity of producers creating videos on many topics, often for NYC cable access.

People's Video Network a group of media activists with more than 50 public access shows across the country and hundreds of videos documenting the struggle.

Pickaxe Productions Among Oregon's finest video producers, focus on direct action, forest preservation and anarchism.

Prolefeed Studios Links

RadiX RadiX international lends out videos about direct action and other protest in order to inform, educate and empower people to be active themselves.

Real2Reel new video collective

Resources for video activists

Rights and Wrongs: Human Rights Television Half-hour weekly series about international human rights issues broadcast on dozens of international television systems as well as on more than 150 U.S. public television stations.

Rockhopper Productions "was formed in 1996 in Melbourne. Utilising digital technology we make documentaries for video and the web, primarily on issues concerning human rights and the environment. We also provide editing and videography for documentary and other productions." Work includes Fight For Country - The Story of the Jabiluka Blockade about the fight to stop the building of a second uranium mine within Kakadu National Park, Australia.

Satan Macnuggit Distribution includes video clips, reviews, and a catalogue of hard to find titles.

Scared Sacred The home site of Velcro Ripper - accomplished co-producer of Bones of the Forest ... now collaborating with Reel Myth Productions

Scenic Verve "An independent video company working with cutting edge documentarians, international independent journalist and grassroots organizations throughout the world to provide news and information on progressive topics to our audience."

Sleeping Giant Video collective based in San Francisco, major contributers to both "Showdown in Seattle" and "Breaking the Bank"

Spectacle UK-based indie video distribution

Studio 220 Film Collective is a new media collective dedicated to gathering film footage of events, actions, drama, productions and other creative expressions related to the new social justice movement.

SunMt Video

Surveillance Camera Players "Only someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras." - NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir, 27 July 1999. Also see: On Being Watched

Termite TV a Philadelphia-based video collective founded in 1992 which produces the television series "This is only a Test". Termites are hard at work in Philadelphia, India, Los Angeles, Berlin, Germany and where you least expect them.

The Light Surgeons London based "Audio-Visual Architects"

Third Cinema Lives! Third Cinema was a manifesto by "Third World" filmmakers that tried to link film production with the collective struggles for self-determination in the "Third World".

Third World Majority (TWM) "a Bay Area-based multimedia training and production resource center dedicated to the pursuit of social and economic justice. Run by a collective of women of color and our allies, we are artists, writers, filmmakers, techies, violence prevention advocates, and organizers in our own communities."

Third World Newsreel Founded in 1967, one of the oldest alternative media arts organizations in the United States. Committed to the creation and appreciation of independent and social issue media by and about people of color, and the peoples of developing countries around the world.

Toronto Video Activist Collective (TVAC) TVAC was created to shamelessly promote social and environmental justice issues through the production and distribution of activist videos under no mask of "journalistic objectivity"

Turn Off Your TV Articles on issues such as the role of advertisers, corporate ownership of mass media, and the potential effects of images on children.

TVE acts as a catalyst for the production and distribution of films on environment, development, health and human rights issues.

TV STOP Danish radio & television content providers: "a serious alternative to the established press with a fascinating way of showing news and experimental television"

Undercurrents Talented UK-based video activists. Ordering info for hard-hitting video magazines, Undercurrents 1-10, and the Video Activist Handbook, excellent resource for video activists

Union of Producers & Programmers Network (UPPNET) is an international organization of producers of union television and radio programming.

Videazimut an international non-governmental coalition promoting audiovisual communication for development and democracy.

Video Machete is a Chicago non-profit collective of youth and adults who are students, artists, activists, and cultural workers. Their digital media projects explore, document, and celebrate the struggles, perspectives, and organizing strategies of marginalized communities working towards progressive social change.

Video Teppista Producers of a film about the refugee situation in Australia called "Waking Up The Nation"

Vrije Keyser TV Dutch alternative broadcasting organisation.

Whispered Media a video activist collective based in San Francisco.

White Dot International campaign against television.

Wholesome Goodness Video production group focussing on issues related to food and cultural dialogue

Witness an international human rights organization co-founded in 1992 by musician Peter Gabriel and the Lawyer Committee for Human Rights and funded by Reebok Foundation. Puts video cameras in the hands of local human rights defenders and trains them to use video technology as well as computers, imaging and editing software in the fight for basic human rights. (Also see Training Materials on VAN's Resource page)

Women Make Movies National non-profit media arts organization dedicated to the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of films and videos made by and about women. Largest distributor of women's films and videos in the world.

Working TV Video Activists from Canada with a strong focus on labor issues. Features streaming video and inteactive web forum

World Harmony Unlimited New York based independent media makers. Watch their 29 minute piece from recent protests in New York, Not In Our Name

Video Activism - Individuals

Francisco Anieto produced video about the United Farm Workers.

Parvez Chowdhury Bangladesh. Documentary Maker on Social Issues. Producer at an Independent TV Station in Bangladesh.

Cotler Brothers Productions

Fred Cook / Comprehensive Communications San Francisco.

Matt Dott experienced copwatcher, works with San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.

Jesse Drew Video Production; Media Criticism; New Technologies; Labor. Works with Mission Creek Video and Paper Tiger Television

Bernie Fox video as a progressive political tool on issues of social/economic justice, I use non-linear editing at home, I am interested in working with other political video activists to share resources and skills and learn.

David Grace produces show on San Francisco Cable Ch. 53 called "Money Talks" (4th Wednesdays @ 8pm, also on Revolutionary People's Talk Show, 1st Mondays @ 11pm); labor, environment, poverty, economics & alternatives (WTO, IMF, etc).

Robin Harris Minneapolis Minnesota. Resume and references upon request. Film, video, and Sscreenwriting background. Freelance camera operator. Over the past few years have shot video and acted as a sound recordist for different projects that involved protests in LA, Wash DC and Mpls.

Lina Hoshino / Kozaru Productions Media activist. Believes in power of videos, multimedia, and the internet as effect tools to resist corporate globalization and to empower grassroots efforts and people of color. Co-produced segments for Showdown in Seattle and Breaking the Bank. Co-creator of www.whirledbank.org and www.globalarcade.org.

Mike Kavanagh / Agitspin Productions Produced "Redwood Summer" featuring the late and great EarthFirst! activist Judi Bari, and "Defend the Hood" about Gentrification in San Francisco's Mission District. Videographer at the WTO.

Gloria LaRiva Produced videos on Kosovo and US Sanctions against Iraq. Works with People's Video Network SF

Carla Leshne e-mail Homelessness, militarism, prison industry, labor history. Videos include Across from City Hall, Lies, SF Says No, Boiling Point, USA on Trial, Street Sheet, USA INCarcerated. Involved with public access cable TV, Paper Tiger TV collective, and Deepdish Television Network.

Karen Martin Police brutality, political prisoners, Latin America, etc. Also a still photographer and organizer.

Kirsten Michel / Oak5 Productions photo essay of Julia Butterfly Hill's trip to Quito, Ecuador.

Jason Meggs e-mail Bike Activist, Critical Mass videographer.

Eddy Nix Indymedia, globalization, biological models for social movements, genetics and pies. Worked on Prague IMC's video about the S26 protests in 2000 and FTAA video in Quebec 2001.

Barbara Peck Kauai News Network, produced music video called "Small World", footage of 2001 DNC protests, homeless activist Ted Hayes, more. Also runs non-profit, The Benefit Network, set up to produce and promote benefit events and projects to raise funds and consciousness for worthy causes (education thru' entertainment).

Sarina khan Reddy Explores the media’s role in the glorification of violence. She is examining the blurred boundaries between news and entertainment and how war and militarization are fueled by corporate globalization.

Alex Rivera http://invisibleamerica.com Los Cybraceros

Lisa Rudman Works with Paper Tiger Television SF. Currently works at National Radio Project's Making Contact

Chris Schafer Environment, Video Witnessing. Videographer at the WTO. Berkeley Videoagrapher and Producer of 20 minute video called "WTO Turnaround in Seattle"

Joel Schor e-mail Member of the Marine Division of the ILWU and local labor activist. Programs "Labor Ahead T.V." on Berkeley Cable Channel 25, airs live, Thursdays from 6:30 to 7pm.

Chris Shine e-mail Videographer at the WTO. Works with Michele Shine Media.

Margot Smith Off Center Video, a committee of the Berkeley Gray Panthers. Videomaker on health care, women's issues, collectives and political action.

Jeff Taylor, Video activist and primitive web designer. Site contains videos on WTO, squatting, alternative fashion shows and the politics of fear.

ten12.com a multiservice technology and design collective committed to community-based projects.

2600 the Hacker quarterly

Access SF - SF Community Media San Francisco's public access television station which is operated and managed by the San Francisco Community Television Corporation (CTC), a community-based, non-profit corporation.

Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) action-oriented media education organization of well-known media educators and media reformers

A-Infos Radio Project formed in 1996 by grassroots broadcasters, free radio journalists and cyber-activists to provide ourselves with the means to share our radio programs via the Internet. Probably the first grassroots media project of it's kind on the internet...

Adbusters

AK Press Great online source of print, audio and video

Alternative Media

Alternative Press Center

Alternative Press Review Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream! Each issue is packed with creative ideas, fresh perspectives, insightful analysis and pointed humour.

American Resurrection "Fight Media Monopolies! Join the Public-Interest Angels! Enlist In Operation Media Storm..."

®^TMark exploring the nuances of media for corporate culture

Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) National, NYC-based non-profit, lots of resources and information. Publishes magazine called "The Independent Film and Video Monthly".

Association for Progressive Communication

Autonomedia Bookstore

Blackout Books Excellent links to all kinds of indie media outlets

cat@lyst A temporary autonomous zone created for the free exchange of information. Low-tech, grass-roots net access for real people

Center for Digital Storytelling a non-profit project development, training, and research organization whose focus is on developing large-scale projects for community, educational and business institutions using the methods and principles built around their Digital Storytelling Workshop. Provide a clearinghouse of information about resources on storytelling and new media.

Center for Media & Democracy a nonprofit, public interest organization in Madison, WI, funded by individuals and nonprofit foundations and dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices.Unlike advertising, public relations is often hard to recognize. "The best PR is invisible," say industry insiders. To spin the news in favor of their clients, PR firms specialize in setting up phony citizens' groups and scientific "experts" who spin out contrived research. CMD publishes PR Watch and books like "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry", and "Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future."

Clamor Magazine "undisputed heavyweight champion of independent voices"

Corporate Watch

Dark Night Press Chicago, IL Under-reported news and unheard voices from indigenous struggles worldwide

The Digital Freedom Network (DFN) promotes human rights education and activism around the world, primarily through the use of Internet technology.

Digital Sistas a non-profit organization created to promote and provide technology education and enrichment for young girls and women of color.

Disinformation.com Counter-culture, conspiracy theories, satanic cults, computer network pirates...

Do or Die Voices from the Ecological Resistance - an annual magazine crammed with reports and analysis from the world-wide ecological frontlines.

eActivist.org works to encourage electronic activism and civic participation by providing a comprehensive, issue-based collection of progressive electronic actions and tools.

Earth First! Journal Voice of the radical environmental movement containing direct action reports, articles on preservation of wild places, investigative articles, and discussions on monkeywrenching.

The Ecologist Investigative journalists, leading thinkers and campaigners are constantly rethinking the basic assumptions which underlie mankind's steady march towards self-destruction.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

Exploding Cinema "make yer own cinema!" Do-It-Yourself Super 8 Film

FACES International Women's Mailing List: activists, artists, critics, theoreticians, technicians, journalists, researchers, programmers, networkers, web designers and educators,
all women who share an interest in the media and communication arts. Requests for project participation, as well as deadlines for festivals, job opportunities, and funding are shared openly.

Fairness and Acuracy in Reporting

Film Arts Foundation SF Bay Area based film and video non-profit. Funding, information, other resources. Excellent magazine called Release Print with articles on grassroots and professional distribution, state of the media, festivals, profiles, etc.

Fimoculous.com devours the filth expunged on the mediascape.A fimoculous is a micro-organism that lives in its own excrement, oftentimes consuming it for sustenance.
Fimoculli are therefore self-perpetuating and ecological: what other organisms consume their own waste? A mono-parasite. A homo-symbiosis.

Free Radio Berkeley Original micropower broadcastors in Berkeley - workshops and info on microtransmission

Freemedia - controinformazione, Italy

Global Village CAT the most updated and comprehensive listing of community or public access tv sites in the world (500 sites). (Also see: U.S. Community Cable Access Links)

Graphic Alliance a loose alliance of graphic, web and other designers committed to social change.

Guerrilla Journalism

Hard Knock Radio is KPFA's daily drivetime Hip Hop Talk Show. It features hosts Davey D, Weyland Southon, Anita Johnson and Tsadae Abeba Neway who offer news, views, breaks, and beats. Features in-depth interviews and profiles with elected officials, community leaders, activists, Hip Hop artists and musicians.

Hip Hop News Brought to you by Hard Knock Radio's own Davey D.

Independent Media Center great alternative news websites all around the world

Index on Censorship UK. Excellent website with deep news and a chronicle of censorship and free expression abuses in some 70 countries worldwide.

Indigenous Media Network Weaving a Global, Native Web. Advocacy Project-built network intended to train, publish and link working native journalists from far-flung, under-reported regions
around the world.

Indian Peoples Media Collective 10, Laxmi Niwas, 2nd Floor, 697, Katrak Road, Wadala, Mumbai 400031 India (anyone have an email or website for this group?)

Inkthief UK Designers committed to social and environmental justice who formed a professional design agency for socially progressive organisations.

International News Network - INN Reports Worldview - an alternative/activist news show with a surprisingly "straight" look to it! Produced five days a week, steps outside
the US media bias. (Stringers/Video/Stills, contact Paz)

Institute for Alternative Journalism

International Forum for Independent Media with links to a People's Communications Charter, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Zapatista's Declaration from the First Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism in Chiapas calling for the creation of a network of independent media, a network of information. "We need this network not only as a tool for our social movements, but for our lives: this is a project of life, of humanity, humanity which has a right to critical and truthful information." The 2nd Declaration of La Realidad

International Progressive Publications Network (IPPN)

Jay's List of Alternative Media Massive.

Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> an online, open work space to explore the free sharing of digital content - often condemned as piracy - as the net's ultimate art form. Designed to include links, objects, ideas, software, commissioned artists' projects, critical writing and online streaming media events. Considers the law and order provisions surrounding intellectual property in the context of geographical and cultural borders.

La Lutta New Media Collective a non-profit, community-based organization, is a group of activists, artists, educators and professionals united to promote a greater level of social awareness through new media.

laspirale.org French "e-zine for the digital mutants"

ListenUp.org Links to youth media organizations around the country. Provides dates on festivals, jobs and more.

Love Underground Vision Radio Berkeley

Media Access Project Helps keep programming open to independents

Media Alliance Training and resources for media workers and activists

The Media Channel Excellent mass media analysis

The Media Education Foundation a non-profit educational organization devoted to media research and production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy.

Media Island Instititue Covers key neglected issues, great resource for research and networking

Media Jump Start Progressive web design in NYC

Media Literacy

Media Mouse

Micro Radio.net Join the microradio revolution!

MediaRights.org a community Web site, helps media makers, educators, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.

Next 5 Minutes Conference in Amsterdam on art, activism, media, and the Net. Excellent Links to alternative media

National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) Part of the Ninth Street Media Arts Consortium in San Francisco. An association of organizations and individuals dedicated to building a broad voice of diversity in the media arts. their Web site includes listings of media arts centers nationwide.

National Radio Project Producers of radio content that is free, downloadable, and cutting edge

Next 5 Minutes

New York Free Media Alliance

On the Media produced by WNYC and NPR. Progressive radio coverage of the media.

Other Cinema Craig Baldwin has been pushing the boundries of film, cultural critique and radiation theory in the Bay Area for a good long time. He is the undisputed "King of found footage" . . . "Other Cinema" - you must experience it.

Peace News UK, Radical, international, antimilitarist, quarterly magazine. For nonviolent revolution. Bringing activists and campaigners together worldwide, sharing ideas, theories, and tactics.

PirateTV.net Blending music and video in seemless digital productions for the web. ColdCut collaboration project.

Poor Magazine dedicated to reframing the news, issues and solutions from low and no income communities, as well as providing society with a perspective usually not heard or seen within the mainstream media."Published Weekly.... Experienced Daily."

Proactivist.com Great posting on photojournalism . . . many issues, many images

Project Censored Researching media and censored stories for over a decade

Protest.Net A site to help progressive activists by providing a central place where the times and locations of protests and meetings can be posted.

PR Watch Excellent daily news section. Gets the dirt on the media manipulators! (See their publishers Center for Media & Democracy, above)

Radio For Peace International (RFPI) a shortwave radio station who's goal is to encourage and stimulate dialogue on issues related to peace, including peace education, environmental issues, the elimination of world hunger and the establishment of social justice. Broadcasts receivable worldwide in addition to fully archived web-site featuring. RFPI's studios and transmitters are located on the campus of the University for Peace (created by the United Nations) in Costa Rica.

Rainforest Action Network's page on media skills

Red Cursor Collective a 100% volunteer effort of activists using technology for radical social change. Provides training, web hosting, listservs, email accounts, and any kind of tech support needed by the activist community.

RegenerationTV Streaming progressive videos on the web

Save Pacifica Restoring Pacifica as a Forum for Independent Voices

scanner/pirates

Silence Speaks goal is to provide survivors, witnesses, and prevention advocates diverse in age, race/ethnicity, religion, class, ability, gender, and sexual orientation with the support, skills, and equipment they need to create original multimedia pieces about the impact that violence has had on their lives. We define violence broadly - stories created in our workshops have addressed intimate partner and family abuse; hate violence and racism; and the violence of poverty, political persecution, and war.A project of Third World Majority.

SQUALL Magazine Regularly updated online magazine presenting radical journalism, photography and culture with content.

Stage4.co.uk UK art/tech ezine and independent webcaster

Sweat Labor Magazine

Tactical Media Crew "was born to introduct in the Internet many social realities, starting from what is usually called the radical-Autonomous Movement. We would like also to transform the communication/information in the movement in Italy.We are for now concentrating our attention on what is nearer to us: Social Centers, Pirate-Comunity radios, radical syndacalism, femminist movements and many other who will and are deciding to join this project. Realizing from now means at least to conduct battles with the same weapons of the enemy: we are finding always more and more fragile parts of the modern capitalism or at least we are finding out its fragile structures...if really capitalist main forces are information', this could mean that its fragility is 'information'."

Tactical Media Network "Keep free media free!" A collective of media and political activists from the radical autonomous/anarchist scene of Rome.

Talkback 2000 "an Internet Broadcasting Network in Washington, DC. Plays jazz, oldies, gospel, and talk shows. Decided to start network as a result of many stories that went un-reported by mainstream media. Speaks about the elite, and their conscious control over anyone, regardless of race, who are poor and disenfranchised."

TechSoup.org a nonprofit technology portal with a great web building section full of useful articles, links and information that will lead you in the right direction.

TILT Youth media literacy

tropisms.org Museum Jan Cunen, the Netherlands, presents: a documentary videolog on the internet by Luuk Bouwman

The Turning Point Project a non-profit organization, formed in 1999 specifically to design and produce a series of educational advertisements concerning the major issues of the new millennium.
Signers of the ads are part of a coalition of nearly 100 non-profit organizations that favor democratic, localized, and ecologically sustainable alternatives to current practices and policies.

Underground Oddysey

urban75 "serves up a non-mainstream viewpoint on a wide range of issues including environmental action, rave culture and civil rights, as well as offering essential drug information, rave rants and resources, cartoons, short stories, a popular photo gallery and, of course, "the most useless games on the web" (US Today). Resolutely non commercial and carries no ads, banners or cheesy sponsor tie-ins."
http://www.urban75.com/Action/media.html
activists guide to exploiting the media

U.S. Community Cable Access Links (Also see Global Village CAT for International)

VideoProductionForum.com Free non-commercial and non-profit video production community site. Aimed at providing videographers and video producers a place to meet, exchange
ideas and troubleshoot problems.The board is run by a small volunteer group of videographers and video producers.

Vidville.com "a video powered message board where anyone with a webcam or DV camera can record their opinions on video and upload it directly to our site for all to see. Vidville is a free speech forum, where the voice of the people reigns supreme. We censor nothing."

Webzine 2000 Independent Web Publishers Unite in San Francisco

Women and Media Network

Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP) Works on media democracy issues and publishes the international Directory of Women's Media

Ya Basta Collective NYC media collective

Z Media Institute "exists to share knowledge, skills, and information relevant to working effectively with media and political activism in the United States. The program emphasizes the short comings of mainstream media and the possibilities of alternative media, and the many issues associated with building political activism more broadly."

Z NET Information center News search page by Z Magazine, an independent political magazine of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States. Accepts no paid advertising.

A. Analysis

Pyrotechnic Insanitarium site and THE culture jamming article by Mark Dery which is perhaps the starting point of the "official" movement from a critical analysis viewpoint:

Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia a very deep resource!

"Notes on Culture Jamming" by David Cox. Brilliant.

Peripheral Property an autobiographical piece by Molly Hankwitz emerging out of a personal interest in the latent, myriad poetries of the commercial website eBay and similar 'architectures' of things.

Sven Woodside's University of Amsterdam Thesis Page on C-jamming great index of links

B. Action

®^TMark Spectacle disturbance ideas for corporate culture. "Corporate consulting for the 21st century..."

Billboard Liberation Front builboard enhancement and culture jamming for the corporate era

BoingBoing.net a directory of wonderful things

"The Child As Audience" project

www.chillinwoman.com by Lina Hoshino

Electronic Disturbance Theater Ricardo Dominguez first introduced the Zapatista Floodnet project and has now released a virtual sit-in (denial-of-service) tool specially tailored for the World Economic Forum website.

GATT.org The World Trade Organization

www.globalarcade.org by Lina Hoshino

GlobalBS.com internet parody portal Guerrilla Media (GM)'s site "helping Vancouver Sun/Province publisher Dennis Skulsky provide a wider diversity of views to the people
of British Columbia, Canada."

GRAFFITO political satire and cultural activism

gwbush.com Ladies and Gentlemen, The President of the United States of America.

Institute for Applied Autonomy See their links page for Crtitical Arts Ensemble, Eric Paulos and the Experimental Interaction Unit and other highly effective art/technology exploration

Kill Your TV

Liberal Arts Mafia

Logo Free TV

Modern Humor

Paul Virilio a primer on his work. Looks at the high-wired world with a ten foot pole and a ferocious growl!

Reamweaver 2.0 free, open-source website parodying software created by The Yes Men. "By automating the parody process, this software scales web dissent from a small group to a global network..."

Reverend Billy

rextuff.com excellent culture jam

Stay Free

Stencil Archive.org SF based, but street stencils from far and wide.

Sticker Shock

Subvertise.org excellent political poster web site

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow

We Are Everywhere

Whirled Bank by Lina Hoshino

White Dot

The World Economic Forum

Many more Culture Jamming links here. And here.

C. Could Almost be Culture Jammers...

The Center For Consumer Freedom "is a coalition supported by restaurant operators, food and beverage companies, and concerned individuals, working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.We're opposed to actions that restrict your right to make your own choices, and to extremism that endangers businesses and individuals in the name of ideology. We speak up when any activists propose curtailing consumer freedom. What makes us different from many organizations is that we aren't afraid to take on groups that have built "good" images through slick public relations campaigns. Remember -- even an ugly baby can be named "Tiffany."" Also runs the popular Protest Cam overlooking the World Bank in Washington DC., the site of many Anti-Corporate Globalization protests.

Also see VAN's Why Videoactivism? page for more research on the media and what's so wrong with it.
Things like a printable Media Ownership Chart and the 100 Biggest Media Companies

Anti-Corporate Directory

Applied Research Center ARC is a public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change

Centre for Research on Globalisation Behind the News, Analysis, Commentary and Intelligence on the New World Order

Common Dreams Newswire great postings here ... post one yourself, email your press release to: news@newscenter.org

The Corp Monitor at the Energy-net...

How To Do Company Research "The Earth is not dying it is being killed. And those who are killing it have names and addresses." - Utah Phillips.

The Data Center

The Freedom of Information Act

Intellectual Property Issues

Just Cause Law Collective Resources for Direct Action - well organized ... awesome

Major polluters in your area by zipcode

Nolo Press - Do-It-Yourself Legal Advice

OriginalSources Commercial site for access to "cannonical" works in 8 major collections: World History, U.S. History, Science and Mathematics, Social Science, Literature, Political Science and Law, Language, and Philosophy and Religion.

Political Research Associates

Project for Excellence in Journalism

Radio-Locator most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet with links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world. (Also see: Television Stations)

Renegade faithful article server

Television Stations Quick Links from TVRundown.com. (Also see: Radio-Locator)

Archival Footage

ABC News video source Disney's corporate news source

California Newsreel Major catalog of educational videos on African American life and history, race relations, diversity training, African cinema, Media and Society, labor studies, campus life...

The Freedom Archives Over 5000 hours of audiotapes dating from the late-60s to the mid-90s, chronicling the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements.

Internet Moving Images Archive Free Downloads - the most easily available archive footage today! An incredible resource donated by Rick Prelinger...

National Archives of Film and Video US Government's vast collection

Oddball Film and Video Archive the funky shit!

Prelinger Archives Vast collection based in NYC, donated over 1000 most popular movies to archive.org (Internet Moving Images Archive)

San Francisco Media Archive a non-profit institution dedicated to the acquisition and preservation of film and related media

UC Berkeley's Media Resources Center Stock Footage Links

Vanderbilt University TV News Archive