1. An Action a Day
   Keeps Global Capitalism Away
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   
2. Alternative media
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
3. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   
4. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. Alternative Press Center
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
6. Alternative Press Center's Directory of Alternative & Radical Publications 1989-90 edition
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1989
   
7. 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.
8. 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.
   
9. Alternatives in Print
   Resource Type: Book
   Similar to Books in Print.
10. AlterNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    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.
11. Anecdotes Tell Dramatic Story of British Underground Press
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Review of Underground: The London Alternative Press, 1966-74, by Nigel Fountain. A frank look back at what made the British underground press tick.
12. Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. The Black Dwarf
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political and cultural newspaper published between May 1968 and 1972 by a collective of socialists in the United Kingdom.
17. 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.
18. Canadian Dimension Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1963
    We are a magazine which shows there is an alternative to the corporate agenda and the dictates of the global market; that the dream of a better society is still alive. It provides a forum for debate, where red meets green, feminists take on socialists, socialists take on social democrats, whites hear from aboriginals, activists report from all corners of Canada, trade unionists report from the front lines, campaigns make connections, and the latest books, films, web sites, CDs, and videos are radically reviewed.
19. Chomsky in Mexico
    La Jornada at 25
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
20. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
21. 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.
    
22. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    
23. Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
24. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
25. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
26. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
27. Connexions Selected Links & Resources: Media Links: Periodicals & Broadcast Media Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A selection of progressive media websites.
28. Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
29. Countercurrents
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    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!"
    
30. Counterpunch 
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
31. Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
    Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
32. Dada World Data
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    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.
33. 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.
34. Directory of Alternative & Radical Publications
    1989-90 - Periodical profile published 1990
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
    
35. Factsheet Five
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Guide to zines and alternative publishing.
36. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
37. From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
38. Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
    Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
39. 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.
    
40. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Winners of the 3rd annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
41. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Winners of the 4th annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
42. Green Left Weekly
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    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.
43. Helping you reach the media 
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
44. How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
45. I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    
46. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
47. 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.
48. In These Times
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web site of the progressive American newsmagazines, featuring article excerpts.
49. Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
50. Information Clearing House
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    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.
51. 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.
52. Is the Media Your Message?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Mainstream media are good for getting exposure, but for social change activists they may not be the best avenue.
53. Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
54. Liberation News Service
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
55. Listing of Progressive Periodicals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Listing of progressive and alternative periodicals, many that are financially wanting and deserve support.
56. Media for Social Change
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    
57. The MoJo Wire
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Mother Jones website.
58. The Nation Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from current and past issues of The Nation, the progressive weekly U.S. magazine.
59. New Pages Guide to Alternative periodicals 1980-1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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
60. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
61. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    
62. Progressive magazine
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A leading voice for peace and social justice since 1909.
63. Progressive Periodicals Directory
    Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
64. Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    Radio in action in Italy.
65. 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.
    
66. '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.
    
67. 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".
68. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
69. The Straight Goods
    Canadians Informing Canadians
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1999
    A daily Internet news and feature publication featuring investigative reports, columns, and a variety of features.
70. Swans Commentary: Ideas, opinions, thoughts... and a flock of Swans
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    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.
71. truthout, News Politics
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Online news site.
72. The Tyee
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Independent alternative daily newspaper reaching every corner of B.C. and beyond.
73. 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.
74. Underground press
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations.
75. Underground Press Syndicate
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
76. Underground--The London Alternative Press, 1966-74
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
77. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
78. Utne Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Alternative coverage of politics, culture, and new ideas.
79. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    
80. Web Networks
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web Networks is the online home of many non-profit and social change groups in Canada.
81. ZNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Extensive collection of articles and links compiled by the publishers of Z Magazine.
82. ZNet Israel-Palestine Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Progressive Web site with extensive coverage of Israel-Palestine.

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