ALTERNATIVE MEDIA

Sometimes you just aren't getting the whole story. Make sure you are getting as many perpectives as you can. Check out these sources for more information on what you may not be seeing on the nightly news. Also go to our database of organizations and initiatives for more alternative media sources.

Accuracy In Media
www.aim.org
"Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage."

Adbusters
www.adbusters.org
"A reader-supported magazine with no ads, Adbusters offers incisive philosophical articles as well as activist commentary from around the world, addressing issues ranging from genetically modified foods to media concentration. Our aim is to forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century."

Alternative Press Review
www.altpr.org
"Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream"

AlterNet
www.alternet.org
"AlterNet.org is an online magazine and information resource where pressing issues are subject to examination and debate. By providing quality journalism, dependable research, issue-focused public interest content and passionate advocacy, we believe our readers will be better equipped to make informed decisions about problems that affect us all. Overall, we seek to engage our community of readers in problem solving, community action and awareness of current events in the United States and abroad."

The American Prospect
www.prospect.org
"The aim of The American Prospect is to contribute to a renewal of America's democratic traditions by presenting a practical and convincing vision of liberal philosophy, politics, and public life. We publish articles for the general reader that attempt to break through conventional understanding and creatively reframe public questions. Ours is not a magazine of complaint, of angry gestures, or of private irritations. It is a magazine of public ideas, firmly committed -- however unfashionably -- to a belief in public improvement. America can do much good, and it can do much better." See also their online policy network for more news and resources: movingideas.or/

Bamboo Girl
www.bamboogirl.com
"Bamboo Girl Zine began in 1995, and is a twice-yearly independent zine exploring issues relevant to Filipinos, Asian & Pacific Islanders, and people of mixed Asian descent. It includes voices from various cultural/community activist levels, and people of color, feminist, and queer (lesbian/bisexual/gay/transgender) perspectives."

Bitch Magazine
www.bitchmagazine.com
"Bitch | Feminist Response to Pop Culture is a print magazine devoted to incisive commentary on our media-driven world. We feature critiques of TV, movies, magazines, advertising, and more—plus interviews with and profiles of cool, smart women in all areas of pop culture."

Common Dreams News Center
www.commondreams.org
"Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community"

CounterPunch
www.counterpunch.org
"Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints. We aren't side-line journalists here at CounterPunch. Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they've found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature."

Earth First!
www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/
"Earth First! Journal is the voice and forum of the radical, no-compromise environmental movement."

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
www.fair.org
"FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints."

Global Arcade
www.globalarcade.org
"Global Arcade is where you can play arcade games and learn about globalization and what is happening to people around the world."

Guerilla News Network
www.guerrillanews.com

Hope Magazine
www.hopemag.com
"In a world dizzy with need, hungry for solutions and overwhelmed with dismal news, we'd like to present you with-- the possibilities. Six times a year, meet the people who make the world a better place. Against the odds, in spite of the cynics. Breakthrough people in tough areas like families, health, aging, work and---yes, finding the meaning of life. Hope is not religious, new age, or preachy. It's a bi-monthly reason to laugh harder, live longer, and think larger. It is one magazine you can depend on for late breaking good news from fearless thinkers, passionate social innovators and giant local heroes."

Independent Media Center
www.indymedia.org
"Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth."

Infoshop
www.infoshop.org
"Infoshop.org has lots of information of interest to anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and other activists. Put some anarchy into your life today and learn why anarchists are trying to create a more anarchist society."

In Motion Magazine
www.inmotionmagazine.com
"In Motion Magazine ® is a multicultural, online U.S. publication about democracy"

Institute for Global Communications
www.igc.org
This site hosts PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, and AntiRacismNet and provides progressive news and advocacy tips on how non-profits can effectively use the internet.

In These Times
www.inthesetimes.com
"In These Times is a national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago. For 25 years, In These Times has provided groundbreaking coverage of the labor movement, environment, feminism, grassroots politics, minority communities and the media."

Middle East Report
www.merip.org
"MERIP provides news and perspectives about the Middle East not available from mainstream news sources. The magazine has developed a reputation for independent analysis of events and developments in the Middle East."

Monthly Review
www.monthlyreview.org
"MR speaks to workers and labor organizers no less than to academics, and against class exploitation, no less than against racial and sexual oppression. It has never been more indispensable as a guide to current realities, their historical roots and the prospects for change. It is an essential voice for today."

Mother Jones
www.mojones.com
"Founded in 1976, Mother Jones is an independent, nonprofit magazine whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first-rate investigative reporting."

The Nation
www.thenation.com
"The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred. -- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865"

OneWorld.net
www.oneworld.net
"OneWorld aims to be the online media gateway that most effectively informs a global audience about human rights and sustainable development." Specifically, check out their guides by topic: "These guides aim to start you thinking about the key topics of human rights and sustainable development. You will find here a range of views from named writers around the globe. And you may find some of the views surprising, unfashionable or unfamiliar, because OneWorld has a commitment to including points of view that are ignored by the mass media."

OpenDemocracy
www.opendemocracy.net
"OpenDemocracy is a channel for knowledge, learning, participation and understanding that is not owned by a media corporation, does not serve a special interest and does not adhere to a single ideological position. With enough readers and members it will be a true arena for democratic change, for closing the distance between people and power, influencing global policy and will also be an enjoyable experience that shares knowledge across borders and differences."

Pacific News Service
www.pacificnews.org
Pacific News Service is an international network of writers, journalists, and scholars. They are a daily newswire. PNS's home is San Francisco, where Europe and Africa meet Asia and Latin America. "Our special interests are people, trends and ideas often far off the public radar screen... global migrants, new religious faiths, survival economies, post-minority cultures, the tenor of citizenship in a global age. We look for the unasked question, the unheard voices and conversations."

The Progressive
www.progressive.org
"The mission of The Progressive is to be a journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad. The magazine, its affiliates, and its staff steadfastly oppose militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, the disenfranchisement of the citizenry, poverty, and prejudice in all its guises. We champion peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy."

Service Magazine
www.service-magazine.com
"Service aims to be the premier community service magazine for college students nationwide. Published biannually, Service chronicles community service heroes, best practices and innovations by America's college students doing projects around the country and around the globe. Service Online provides an interactive forum for the discussion of community issues, and is a perfect complement to the print edition."

She Thinks
www.shethinks.org
"SheThinks.Org is a webzine by and for young women and men. SheThinks.Org dares to challenge conventional wisdom on what young people want, and investigate where they are. It features articles, news, bulletin boards and reader feedback on everything from dating and courtship, to academia and politics. Independent, strong, curious, eclectic -- these words describe the SheThinks reader."

SpeakOut.com
speakout.com/activism/issues
"Thirty-second news stories don't give enough information. Newspapers and magazines can give you too much data on subjects you don't care about. SpeakOut.com solves both problems by providing the entire range of information in one place. Even better, we organize our information into topics and sub-topics, and provide links to give you even more information. "

TomDispatch.com
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/
"Tomdispatch.com is researched, written and edited by Tom Engelhardt, a fellow at the Nation Institute, for anyone in despair over post-September 11th US mainstream media coverage of our world and ourselves. The service is intended to introduce you to voices from elsewhere (even when the elsewhere is here) who might offer a clearer sense of how this imperial globe of ours actually works."

TomPaine.com
www.tompaine.com
"TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public issues by featuring the ideas, opinions, and analyses too often overlooked by the mainstream media."

Town Hall
www.townhall.com
"Town Hall is a one-stop mall of ideas in which people congregate to exchange, discuss and disseminate the latest news and information from the conservative movement. Town Hall is committed to inform, educate and empower the public through this emerging electronic medium."

Toward Freedom
www.towardfreedom.com
"A progressive perspective on world events"

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

WireTap Magazine
www.wiretapmag.org
"WireTap is the independent information source by and for socially conscious youth. We showcase investigative news articles, personal essays and opinions, artwork and activism resources that challenge stereotypes, inspire creativity, foster dialogue and give young people a voice in the media. The WireTap Web portal provides a new generation of writers, artists and activists a space to network, organize and mobilize."

Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures
www.futurenet.org
Published by the Positive Futures Network: "Our award-winning quarterly magazine invites the reader to be part of a global community of change makers. Each issue focuses on a theme, showing the possibilities and practical steps that can lead us all to a more positive future. Readers tell us that our consistent message of realistic hope clarifies their thinking and encourages their active engagement in change."

Z Magazine
www.zmag.org
"Z is an independent political magazine of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States. It sees the racial, sexual, political, and class dimensions of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances and it aims to assist activist efforts to attain a better future."

AK Press
www.akpress.org
"Our goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world. The sorts of books we stock are less and less available from the corporate publishers, booksellers & websites."

Common Courage Press
www.commoncouragepress.com
"Common Courage Press was founded in 1991 and publishes books for social justice on race, gender, feminism, economics, ecology, labor and U.S. domestic and foreign policy. The Press seeks to provide an analysis of problems from a range of perspectives, and to aid activists and others in developing strategies for action."

Monthly Review Press
www.monthlyreview.org/mrpress.htm
See above for information on the Monthly Review

Seven Stories Press
www.sevenstories.com
"Last year, Seven Stories was named the fastest growing independent publisher in America by Publishers Weekly."

South End Press
www.southendpress.org
"A nonprofit, collectively run book publisher with more than 200 titles in print. Since our founding in 1977, we have tried to meet the needs of readers who are exploring, or are already committed to, the politics of radical social change. Our goal is to publish books that encourage critical thinking and constructive action on the key political, cultural, social, economic, and ecological issues shaping life in the United States and in the world."

Verso Books
www.versobooks.com
"Commissioning intelligent, critical works located at the intersection of the academic and trade markets, Verso's list of writers in English has come to include many key authors in the social sciences and humanities, with particular strength in politics, cultural studies, history, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism."

Zed Books
www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk
"Academic publishers of books that matter."

Al-Ahram Weekly Online
www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/
Largest English-language weekly in the Arab world.

Dawn
www.dawn.com
Pakistan's largest English-language daily.

The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk

Michael Moore's alternative media links page: www.michaelmoore.com/news/links/index.php

Why we must learn to support our alternative media
www.undercurrents.org/whywe.htm