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Direct Action and Civil Disobedience

Free Red Fawn - Donate! - Learn more about Red Fawn - Sign this petition

Red Fawn has become a political prisoner of Standing Rock. We are demanding her immediate release.

Who is Red Fawn? Red Fawn is a human rights advocate, organizer and a community leader within the Oglala Lakota Sioux.

On Oct. 27th, the police raided the 1851 Treaty Camp. More than 140 people were arrested that day. Bail was raised from $200 to $1,500 for each. All have been released except, Red Fawn. Her bail is set for $110k. That day, Red Fawn was serving as a trained medic. She was helping injured water protectors who had been sprayed with mace and hit by rubber bullets. As Red Fawn retreated from the front lines, three officers targeted, tackled and threw her to the ground. Police reports allege that one of the officers pulled his weapon and placed it against her back and that while she was pinned to the ground, shots were fired.

Red Fawn is being accused of firing a weapon. Eyewitness accounts and video show otherwise.

“Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said he couldn't confirm any shots were fired by the water protectors on Oct. 27” (Democracy Now) Red Fawn has been behind bars since that day. She is facing up to 20 years in prison.

That's why we need your support, to build up her legal defense fund. On Fridays, in a show of unity and support, we ask all water protectors to wear red in solidarity for Red Fawn until she is free.

Plutocracy I: Divide et Impera - Watch online: Plutocracy I

These films are an important account of the struggle and power of people against the ruling class. Plutocracy is the first documentary to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class. A multi-part series by filmmaker Scott Noble, Part I focuses on the the ways in which the American people have historically been divided on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex and skill level.

Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever - Watch online: Plutocracy II

Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever explores dissident movements and political repression in the United States, with the first two installments focusing primarily on the mid to late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A Civilian's Guide to DIRECT ACTION - What It Is, What It's Good For, How It Works

Direct action has a rich heritage here in North America, extending back to the Boston Tea Party and beyond. Despite this, there are many misunderstandings about it, in part due to the ways it has been misrepresented in the corporate media.

Direct action is how most major social change has been accomplished in the past. Direct action works. In the age of a Trump presidency, direct action may be the only means we have to stop Trump. All you have to do to see what Trump is all about is to look at who he has appointed to his Cabinet. Inform yourself about how direct action works by reading the linked guide to direct action.

Direct action is what they are using to block the Dakota Access Pipeline. If it was not for the brave actions of those individuals involved in direct action, oil would be flowing though the pipeline by now!

Tim DeChristopher: The Power of Civil Disobedience

In Seattle in support of the historic trial of the Delta 5, Tim DeChristopher gave this extraordinary speech the day after, summarizing the week's events and expounding on the meaning and moral implications of civil disobedience. The Pacific Northwest is fast becoming a corridor for fossil fuel development against the will of the vast majority of the population and most of their leaders. In September 2014, five citizens placed themselves in the way of that system by blocking a train carrying highly volatile crude oil from the Bakken shale, declaring it necessary to avert climate catastrophe.

What made the trial historic is that the judge allowed the defendants to use the Necessity Defense - rarely allowed in civil disobedience cases, arguing and presenting evidence that they had no choice but to break the law. The Jury found them guilty of trespassing but not guilty of blocking the train, raising questions about jury nullification, which DeChristopher also thoroughly addressed in this talk.

Tim DeChristopher became world famous December 19, 2008, when he disrupted an illegitimate BLM Oil and Gas lease auction in Utah near Canyonlands and Arches National Parks which the outgoing Bush administration had tried to slide under the radar. The auction was invalidated two months later but DeChristopher served 21 months in prison. Bidder 70, the movie about this action, won 20 international film awards. After his release, Tim entered Harvard University Divinity School to become a Unitarian Universalist minister.

Climate Disobedience Center

For 30 years environmentalists have attempted to change the United State's and world's trajectory on fossil fuel emissions through incremental reform efforts. Drawing on conventional wisdom, environmental advocates believed their efforts would lead to sufficient incremental change to avert disaster. Those efforts have failed, and in the ensuing decades the magnitude and urgency of the crisis has escalated dramatically. Drawing on current science, we recognize that what is needed is a massive, decisive end to the fossil fuel era to avert the worst cascading effects of the climate crisis.

We must move from linear change to an exponential change model. Civil disobedience is the single most effective tool for cracking the consensual climate hallucination, in the same way that the lunch counter sit-ins of the early 60's helped shatter the illusion of incremental racial progress of the post-WWII years.

The purpose of the Climate Disobedience Center is to serve as a catalyst for direct action, creating points of vivid moral clarity, emboldening both climate activists and the unlikeliest of allies, capturing the heart and soul of the climate debate.

The Climate Disobedience Center brings together an experienced team to provide logistical, legal and spiritual resources, on the ground assistance, and advice to climate activists engaged in civil disobedience across the country. The Center will deploy those assets to nurture strong, grounded communities of resistance willing to take risks of moral imagination, and is committed to supporting those who hold allegiance to a higher moral law through the legal process and consequences of action.

Standing rock resistance

On a special edition of On Contact, Chris Hedges travels to the Standing Rock encampment in North Dakota to listen to the frontline voices of those fighting to block the Dakota Access Pipeline. It's a fact that pipelines leak. See these detailed maps that show all of the leaks over the past 30 years.

#NoDAPL Solidarity

This site is dedicated to supporting the frontline, indigenous led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We hope that this site will make it easier for allies from around the world to take action against the institutions that are attempting to construct the pipeline.

They have sent out a call for your help and support!

Our planet is nearing a tipping point where there is no turning back from catastrophic climate change that will cause the extinction of most life on this planet and it's already happening. Humanity will not survive if we let these new massive pipelines go into operation. We need to keep the gas and oil in the ground.

Sacred Stone Camp - Iŋyaŋ Wakháŋagapi Othí

Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Hau we are the Inyan wakankagapi otip-Sacred Stone Camp from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. We have partnership with the Oectc Sakowin- Seven Council Fires, Indians and Cowboys and anyone who was to stand with us against the Dakota Access Pipeline. This pipeline will cross the Missouri River and Cannon Ball River which is the life line to many tribes and non native, when this pipeline leaks it will destroy the water and land. Water is life ! So this pipeline is along the Missouri River and the KL pipeline was along the Ogall aquifer both are important to save.

We are asking for financial support for water-propane - food and blankets for the camp. This is a prayer camp movement to save our sacred land and water and has been entirely supported by the people and the campers. We are in great appreciation for all you contributions....Wopila lila tanka-- we are deeply grateful for you contributions thank you!

Act Now, Cry Later: Tim DeChristopher, Aria Doe & Josh Fox on Civil Disobedience & Climate Activism

Two activists featured in Josh Fox's new documentary, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change, join us to discuss the role of direct action in fighting global warming. Aria Doe is co-founder and executive director of the Action Center for Education and Community Development in Far Rockaway, Queens, in New York City, and Tim DeChristopher founded the Climate Disobedience Center after spending 21 months in federal custody for posing as a bidder in 2008 to prevent oil and gas drilling on thousands of acres of public land in his home state of Utah. We also speak with Fox about his plans to take the film on the road and distribute it for free as a tool in the climate justice movement.

Capitalism as Sociopathology

Capitalism as Sociopathology. You really have to read this! (This is a partial transcript from a conference.)

Bernie Sanders' Socialism and Ours – Interview with Socialist Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant of Socialist Alternative

Kailyn Nicholson of #Movement4Bernie and #MillionStudentMarch interviews Seattle's Socialist City Councilmember about Bernie Sanders' and Kshama Sawant's views of democratic socialism.

350

350* is building a global grassroots climate movement that can hold our leaders accountable to the realities of science and the principles of justice.

That movement is rising from the bottom up all over the world, and is uniting to create the solutions that will ensure a better future for all. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions bring together a global network active in over 188 countries.

*The number 350 means climate safety: we must reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere from >400 parts per million to below 350.

ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)

Founded just three days after the September 11, 2001 attacks, ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) initiated the massive U.S. antiwar movement opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the months prior to March 19, 2003.

ANSWER has mobilized against the illegal coup and UN occupation of Haiti, against the illegal blockade of Cuba, and the illegal 'regime change' war on Libya.

We are actively fighting against the ongoing occupation of Afghanistan, the renewed assaults on Iraq and Syria, the drone attacks on Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia, among others.

The ANSWER Coalition demonstration of 200,000 people on October 26, 2002, in Washington, D.C. ignited a nationwide and global antiwar movement that was nearly unprecedented in history. On January 18, 2003, 500,000 people packed the Mall in Washington, D.C. under the slogan "Stop the War Before It Starts." The Washington Post described the January 18 demonstration as the largest antiwar protest since the end of the Vietnam War.

History of U.S. Military Interventions since 1890

FROM WOUNDED KNEE TO SYRIA: A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS by Dr. Zoltan Grossman

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Computer Security

(NOTE: These links are in bold for a reason. You should read them for your own protection.)

These are some of the most important activist resources on this page. Every activist should be especially concerned about computer security. These links will help keep you informed. While you are surfing the Internet, the Government and corporations will be spying on your phone, invading your privacy and spying on your computer usage. Inform yourself about their tactics and implement strategies to protect your privacy.

Keeping your computer's and device's software updated to the most current version will help protect yourself from attackers who try to penetrate your devices from the Internet. You absolutely would not believe the amount of attacks that occur each day right here against our own server. The server logs are totally filled with people trying to break in using any means possible! So, if you don't want them in your own computers and networks, be vigilant with security patches and updates!

Wikileaks - Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed - Archived copy

It is important to know the ways in which an attacker can invade your privacy. The CIA document dump Wikileaks released documents many ways that any atacker could use to surreptitiously invade your computing device. This press release is a bit long but well worth reading in its entirety. It talks about a lot of different ways attackers use to gain unauthorized access to a computing device. The more you know about these tactics you are more able to protect your own privacy while using the Internet and also during general computer usage.

Securing Your Web Browser

This article will help you configure your web browser for safer Internet surfing. It is written for home computer users, students, small business workers, and any other person who works with limited information technology (IT) support and broadband. Although the information in this document may be applicable to users with formal IT support as well, organizational IT policies should supersede these recommendations. If you are responsible for IT policies for your organization, please consider implementing these recommendations as part of your policy.

Surveillance Self-Defense - Tips, Tools and How-to's for Safer Online Communications

Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.

Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance

How-to guides and resources for protecting your privacy in the age of mass surveillance.

At Freedom of the Press Foundation, it is our mission to protect the privacy and security of 21st century journalists.

We deliver digital security trainings to news organizations, freelance and citizen journalists, and other at-risk groups. With education and advocacy, we aim to protect press freedoms through the adoption of the tools and practices included in our trainings.

The NSA is the biggest, best funded spy agency the world has ever seen. They spend billions upon billions of dollars each year doing everything they can to vacuum up the digital communications of most humans on this planet that have access to the Internet and the phone network. And as the reports in the Guardian and Washington Post show, even domestic American communications are not safe from their net.

Defending yourself against the NSA, or any other government intelligence agency, is not simple, and it's not something that can be solved just by downloading an app. But thanks to the dedicated work of civilian cryptographers and the free and open source software community, it's still possible to have privacy on the Internet, and the software to do it is freely available to everyone. This is especially important for journalists communicating with sources online.

Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You.

"Micah," the email read, "I'm a friend. I need to get information securely to Laura Poitras."

Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email. It was encrypted, and sent from the sort of anonymous email service that smart people use when they want to hide their identity. Sitting at the kitchen table in the small cottage where I lived in Berkeley with my wife and two cats, I decrypted it.

DuckDuckGo - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Take back your privacy! Switch to the search engine that doesn't track you. What you search for is your own business and we'd like to keep it that way. That's why we don't collect any personal information and therefore, have none to share.

Get tips to reduce your footprint even more. Sign up for our privacy tips at the bottom of this page.

Example privacy tip:

Unless you use a private search engine, like DuckDuckGo, then your search engine still likely has a copy of everything you've ever searched. Let's take Google for example. Check out your Google Search History. Searches, locations, interests. They've recorded it all. Put simply, Google isn't a search company, they're an advertising company. Deleting your Google search history will prevent it from being used by the highest bidder on the millions of sites and apps that use Google's advertising networks. To delete the results you can click on the dots on the top-right hand of the page and select "Delete Activity By.." then, select "All Time" and hit delete. At DuckDuckGo, we believe in privacy by default. In fact, we protect your search history from everyone -- even us!

Privacy Badger - EFF.org

Highly recommended! EFF launched Privacy Badger, a browser extension that discovers and blocks creepy third party trackers that record your online browsing. Privacy Badger stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple web sites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.

HTTPS Everywhere - EFF.org

Highly recommended! HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major web sites, making your browsing more secure. Encrypt the web: Install HTTPS Everywhere today. HTTPS Everywhere is produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by using clever technology to rewrite requests to these sites to HTTPS.

CCleaner

CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your PC. It protects your privacy and makes your computer faster and more secure. This tool erases cookies as well as flash cookies and more. Click the link and read all about what this tool does. Protect your privacy and get the free version. You can always upgrade later if you want.

Electronic Frontier Foundation - EFF.org

EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world. There is an amazing amount of computer security information here. Similar to how a software bug collection site helps keep your software secure, the EFF helps with the human side of things so that Congress and corporations are not undermining your Internet liberties. It is a constant struggle. Show them some love and make a donation. After all, they are fighting for your online rights. The DEEPLINKS Blog is especially interesting.

Security Now! Episode Archive - Watch on YouTube

Hosted by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte, Security Now! is our weekly Internet security column and podcast. We take 30 to 90 minutes near the end of each week to discuss important issues of personal computer security. Sometimes we'll discuss something that just happened. Sometimes we'll talk about long-standing problems, concerns, or solutions. Either way, every week we endeavor to produce something interesting and important for every personal computer user. This show has embedded commercials for products, however, the content of this program is unmatched. Steve Gibson is one in a billion with his incredible knowledge of computer issues. GRC also has a plethora of information that you should read about keeping your computer secure. One of the most important things to know about is ARP CACHE POISONING. Also check the menu's at the top of the GRC.COM website for lots of great free online services to help with your security needs!

Communication Security Riseup.net

Why security matters: The increasing importance of information and communication has brought with it another phenomenon: the rise of a surveillance society. You can think of surveillance as an attempt by the powerful to maintain their dominance by asserting control over communication. Nation states have responded to new communications technology by pursuing an infrastructure that can easily be re-purposed for total social control.

Riseup.net secure email service

Riseup.net offers secure email services to socially conscious individuals.

Tor, the Onion Router - torproject.org

Like a VPN, but your traffic is bounced around the Internet to many nodes to make it much more anonymous. A free software implementation of second-generation onion routing, a system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet. Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy. Using Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as "traffic analysis." Traffic analysis can be used to infer who is talking to whom over a public network. Knowing the source and destination of your Internet traffic allows others to track your behavior and interests. This can impact your checkbook if, for example, an e-commerce site uses price discrimination based on your country or institution of origin. It can even threaten your job and physical safety by revealing who and where you are. For example, if you're traveling abroad and you connect to your employer's computers to check or send mail, you can inadvertently reveal your national origin and professional affiliation to anyone observing the network, even if the connection is encrypted.

SecurityFocus

SecurityFocus is designed to facilitate discussion on computer security related topics, create computer security awareness, and to provide the Internet's largest and most comprehensive database of computer security knowledge and resources to the public. It also hosts the BUGTRAQ mailing list.

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Independent News (Local Olympia, Washington)

Works In Progress

Works In Progress is a free, volunteer-operated progressive community newspaper based in Olympia, Washington. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Works In Progress and are solely those of the authors.

OlyBlog | 'We Are the Media'

OlyBlog is devoted to citizen journalism, including hyperlocal news and discussion specifically about Olympia, Washington. If you care about this community and are tired of corporate media, then this is the place for you.

South Sound Green Pages
South Puget Environmental Education Clearinghouse (SPEECH)

Green Pages is a newspaper serving people and organizations in the South Sound area who are concerned about environmental issues. We publish Quarterly, four times a year. Our goal is to provide news coverage and thoughtful commentary. Articles reflect the judgment of individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial staff or SPEECH.

Olympia Power & Light

Real local news for Olympia, Washington. Olympia Power & Light is an independent newspaper dedicated to all things Olympia, Washington. We write about local news, local art, local politics, local music, local businesses, local people, local community groups... you get the idea. We publish every two weeks, on Wednesday, and distribute copies for free at coffee shops, bars, bakeries, libraries, cafeterias, college campuses, theaters, cool stores, and more -- over 70 places in all throughout greater Olympia.

Media Island International

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The truth is getting harder to hide. Media Island International is a resource and networking center for individuals, organizations, and movements working on Social Justice, Economic Democracy, Ecological Sustainability, and Peace. We gather, evaluate, and distribute underpublished information on critical issues at strategic times.

Olympia Workers Resource

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This website is an educational resource for working people in the Olympia Washington area featuring local and international labor news.

South Puget Sound Indymedia - southpugetsoundimc.org

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Olympia & South Puget Sound Independent Media Center ((( i )))

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Independent News (worldwide)

Wood Duck Live Radio - Roku channel

Wood Duck Live Radio features high quality Pacifica and community radio stations. These stations feature award winning news programs that cover what the mainstream media omits. You will find diverse programming that gives voice to individuals, organizations and movements working for social justice, economic democracy, ecological sustainability and peace. Totally free with no commercial advertising.

All of the live streaming channels featured on this Roku channel are listed below. However, if you listen to them on your Roku, you don't have to use a power hungry computing device in order to listen and you don't have to drain your phone's battery.

If you have a Roku, you can also subscribe to some of the channels listed below.

The Intercept

The Intercept is dedicated to producing fearless, adversarial journalism. We believe journalism should bring transparency and accountability to powerful governmental and corporate institutions, and our journalists have the editorial freedom and legal support to pursue this mission.

Common Dreams

One of the very best progressive news and current events sites. Frequently updated. Common Dreams is a nonprofit, progressive, nonpartisan citizens' organization. We are a powerful online voice for change. With millions of monthly readers around the world, we have become one of the most read progressive websites.

The Global Critical Media Literacy Project - GCMLP

In 2015, The Global Critical Media Literacy Project (GCMLP) was created under the Media Freedom Foundation's non-profit umbrella by Project Censored, the Action Coalition For Media Education, and Sacred Heart University's Media Literacy and Digital Culture graduate program. The GCMLP provides pedagogy and curricular models for educators working in a variety of disciplines. The GCMLP, which will be housed on participating campuses, empowers and engages students with meaningful learning and an educational pathway from junior college to graduate school and an opportunity for civic engagement in their communities.

Independent Media Center - indymedia ((( i )))

The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate telling of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.

It's Going Down

We are a network of friends and comrades across so-called North America that seeks to provide news and analysis of when it goes down: riots, strikes, sabotage, occupations, expropriations, rebellion, revolt, insurrection, whether together or alone – we support liberatory revolt. You get the point.

Radio Havana Cuba - International News

Cuban reporting of International news.

Truthdig - Drilling Beneath the Headlines

The purpose of our news Web site is to provide you with insightful and accurate reporting on current subjects and on issues that need to be brought to your attention. We want to challenge conventional wisdom. We seek to offer a solid and reliable resource for those of you who want to explore particular topics by drilling deeply. In addition, it is our mission to create a home for thoughtful, provocative ideas from talented contributors and editors.

Truthout

Fearless, Independent News and Opinion. Truthout works to broaden and diversify the political discussion by introducing independent voices and focusing on under-covered issues and unconventional thinking. Harnessing the expanding power of the Internet, we work to spread reliable information, critical thought and progressive ideas.

The Electronic Intifada

The Electronic Intifada is an independent online news publication focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world. Founded in 2001, The Electronic Intifada has won awards and earned widespread recognition for publishing original, high-quality news and analysis, and first-person accounts and reviews. The Electronic Intifada's writers and reporters include Palestinians and others living inside Palestine and everywhere else that news about Palestine and Palestinians is made.

Shadowproof

Shadowproof is a press organization driven to expose systemic abuses of power in business and government while at the same time developing a model for independent journalism that supports a diverse range of young freelance writers and contributors. It is intrinsically committed to elevating voices from marginalized communities, as well as dissenting perspectives which deserve greater attention.

Shadowproof pledges to remain ambitiously committed to cultivating an ideal press organization that is strengthened by the communities it works to serve and constantly influenced by the vision those communities have for what journalism can and should be.

Shadowproof believes that direct action and civil disobedience by citizens, including boycotts, divestment, freedom rides, sit-ins or strikes, represent the acts that have historically made transformation possible and changed society. That reality will be reflected in the journalism and writing published here.

naked capitalism - Finance, economics, politics, power

Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and power. Naked Capitalism is not for the fainthearted. With the help of an active and informed commentariat, we are shedding light on the dark and seamy corners of finance. We hope you'll join us in this effort.

John Pilger Articles and Films

The films and journalism of John Pilger. Read the biography of this incredible journalist.

World Socialist Web Site

The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the leadership of the world socialist movement, the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938.

The WSWS aims to meet the need, felt widely today, for an intelligent appraisal of the problems of contemporary society. It addresses itself to the masses of people who are dissatisfied with the present state of social life, as well as its cynical and reactionary treatment by the establishment media.

Our web site provides a source of political perspective to those troubled by the monstrous level of social inequality, which has produced an ever-widening chasm between the wealthy few and the mass of the world's people. As great events, from financial crises to eruptions of militarism and war, break up the present state of class relations, the WSWS will provide a political orientation for the growing ranks of working people thrown into struggle.

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organization dedicated to bringing important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for independent sources around the world to leak information to our journalists. We publish material of ethical, political and historical significance while keeping the identity of our sources anonymous, thus providing a universal way for the revealing of suppressed and censored injustices.

PR Watch

Reporting on spin and disinformation since 1994. PRWatch was a quarterly print publication from 1993 through 2009, when it migrated to a fully online publication with a biweekly electronic report.

SourceWatch

'The Center for Media and Democracy publishes SourceWatch, this collaborative resource for citizens and journalists looking for documented information about the corporations, industries, and people trying to influence public policy and public opinion. We believe in telling the truth about the most powerful interests in society--not just relating their self-serving press releases or letting real facts be bleached away by spin. SourceWatch focuses on the for-profit corporations, non-profit corporate front groups, PR teams, and so-called "experts" trying to influence public opinion on behalf of global corporations and the government agencies they have captured. -Lisa Graves, Executive Director'

Greg Palast - Investigative Reporter

Greg Palast has been called the "most important investigative reporter of our time – up there with Woodward and Bernstein" (The Guardian). Palast has broken front-page stories for BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, Nation Magazine and now Rolling Stone Magazine.

Greg Palast has just released his new movie: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the sequel of his New York Times bestselling book with the same title.

He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures' Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review.

FAIR, Fairness and accuracy in Reporting - fair.org

FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. FAIR 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. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.

Salon

In-depth news, politics, business, technology & culture

Salon Media Group has driven the national conversation since 1995 through its fearless journalism and, more recently, original video, distributed across Salon.com, social media, mobile devices, and wearable apps. Salon's award-winning content reaches an audience of approximately 20 million monthly unique visitors.

Centre for Research on Globalization

The Global Research website publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focusing on social, economic, strategic and environmental processes.

Occupy.com

Occupy.com is a News and media channel amplifying the voices of the global 99%. We use news, analyses, music, video, photography and graphics to heighten awareness and inspire engagement for social, economic and environmental justice.

We are an open invitation to creators of every type: journalists, musicians, photographers, painters, filmmakers, poets, designers, developers, cartoonists, podcasters – every genre, form and style is welcome.

CounterPunch

America's Best Political Newsletter: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

AlterNet

AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of 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 more. AlterNet publishes grassroots success stories and inspirational narratives alongside hard-hitting critiques of policies, investigative reports and expert analysis. AlterNet receives more than 1.5 million unique monthly visitors and more than 7.5 million monthly page views.

Information Clearing House - News, Commentary & Insight

Not For Profit - For Global Justice - Since 2001

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President - 1797 - 1801

Crooks and Liars

Progressive news and media coverage

The Raw Story

The Raw Story is an investigative news nexus that highlights under reported news and rejects the traditional media narratives of power and influence. Founded in Boston in 2004, Raw Story has grown from a pure play political news site to a collaborative, investigative powerhouse that reaches more than 1.6 million readers per month. We're a big believer in transparency and the power of information to change lives. We also hold that telling the stories of those disenfranchised by popular media enriches our ability to understand and solve complex global challenges.

ThinkProgress

ThinkProgress is a news site dedicated to providing our readers with rigorous reporting and analysis from a progressive perspective. Founded in 2005, ThinkProgress is an editorially independent project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Over the past decade, the site has evolved from a small rapid response blog to a newsroom of reporters and editors covering the intersections between politics, policy, culture, and social justice.

Cryptome

Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance -- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those.

Indybay

The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center ((( i ))) is a non-commercial, democratic collective of bay area independent media makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of the global Indymedia network. Mission Statement: To encourage a world where globalization is not about homogeneity and exploitation, but rather, about diversity and cooperation. To cover local events that are ignored or poorly covered by corporate media. To provide edited audio, video, and print stories of the above on the Internet for independent media outlets and the general public. To facilitate the networking and coordination for the coverage of local events as well as gather information about events to cover. To provide links to alternative media, activist, and research groups. To seek out and provide coverage underscoring the global nature of people's struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice directly from their perspective. To offer community classes for training in Internet and media skills. To encourage, facilitate, and support the creation of independent news gathering and organizations.

Cindy Sheehans Soapbox

My latest blogs, radio show news, and activism updates!

War Is A Crime .org - (formerly AfterDowningStreet.org)

"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations." -- UN Charter

"all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land." -- US Constitution.

War Is A Crime .org is a nonpartisan coalition working to expose the lies that create and sustain wars and occupations and to hold accountable those responsible.

Alternative Information Center

The Alternative Information Center (AIC) was established in 1984 by Palestinian and Israeli grassroots activists as a bi-national organization to promote the human and national rights of the Palestinian people and a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis based on progressive principles and respect for international law.

SOA Watch - Close the School of the Americas

SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.

SOA/WHINSEC Grads in the News

Our SOA Graduates Database contains more than 60,000 entries. SOA Graduates Database

Quixote Center - Come Dream With Us

The Quixote Center is a faith-based, social justice center working with people who have few resources for their struggles. We strive to make our world, our nation, and our church more just, peaceful and equitable in their policies and practices.

North American Congress on Latin America - NACLA

The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 that works toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are free from oppression and injustice, and enjoy a relationship with the United States based on mutual respect, free from economic and political subordination. To that end, our mission is to provide information and analysis on the region, and on its complex and changing relationship with the United States, as tools for education and advocacy - to foster knowledge beyond borders.

Venezuelanalysis - Venezuela News, Views, and Analysis

Venezuelanalysis.com is an independent website produced by individuals who are dedicated to disseminating news and analysis about the current political situation in Venezuela. The site's aim is to provide on-going news about developments in Venezuela, as well as to contextualize this news with in-depth analysis and background information. The site is targeted towards academics, journalists, intellectuals, policy makers from different countries, and the general public.

Center for International Policy

Plan Colombia and Beyond is produced by the Center for International Policy's Latin America Demilitarization Project, which includes CIP's Colombia Program and – together with the Latin America Working Group Education Fund and the Washington Office on Latin America – the "Just the Facts" regional military assistance-monitoring database.

TransBorder Project

The TransBorder Project, directed by Tom Barry, is a program of the Center for International Policy. As a senior analyst at CIP, Barry specializes in immigration policy, U.S.-Mexico border issues, and homeland security. He writes for CIP's Americas Program.

CIP Americas - The Americas Program

With more than 30 years of experience in Latin American news and analysis, the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy is a leading source of information for activists, academics and citizens concerned about US foreign policy toward Latin America and movements for social justice within the hemisphere. The CIP Americas Program has been documenting and linking up movements for social justice in the region for a decade now. Through our network of writers in countries throughout the hemisphere, we've traced the rise and travails of social movements and taken a hard look at the too-often negative role of U.S. foreign policy. In our writings, public speaking, media interviews and multimedia production, we have built up North-South dialog and helped inform and broaden networks to strengthen each others efforts.

uruknet.info

News from the middle east.

International Palestinian Solidarity Movement

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli apartheid in Palestine by using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded by a small group of primarily Palestinian and Israeli activists in August, 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by providing the Palestinian people with two resources, international solidarity and an international voice with which to nonviolently resist an overwhelming military occupation force.

The Free Gaza movement

The Free Gaza movement is a human rights group that, since August 2008, has traveled nine times to Gaza by sea to break Israel's illegal stranglehold on 1.5 million Palestinian civilians. We entered Gaza successfully five times in 2008; however, we have been violently intercepted on the past four voyages, including Israel's MAY 31, 2010 lethal attack on our Freedom Flotilla, when nine of our colleagues were killed and many more injured by Israeli commandos. The Free Gaza movement and its coalition partners, the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza; IHH -- the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights, Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief; the International Committee to End the Siege on Gaza; Ship to Gaza Sweden and Ship to Gaza Greece are the only organizations that have sent boats directly to Gaza in defiance of Israel's criminal closure of the Gaza Strip. We sail as an expression of citizen nonviolent, direct action, confronting Israel's ongoing abuses of Palestinian human and political rights.

Anarchists Against The Wall

Reports from activist in Israel and Palestine who are trying to stop Israel's illegal occupation, colonialization and blockade of Palestine.

Anarkismo

Anarkismo.net is the product of international co-operation between anarchist organizations and individuals who agree with our Editorial Statement. It is intended to further communication, discussion and debate within the global anarchist movement.

Americas Mexico Blog

The Americas MexicoBlog of the CIP Americas Program chronicles and analyzes, in English, the latest developments in the U.S. and the consequences in Mexico of U.S. policies in the War on Drugs, Immigration and Globalization, together with the related political dynamics in both countries.

Infoshop News

Anarchist news, opinion and much more. An independent news service since 1997. "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

Anarchist News

The goal of anarchistnews.org is to provide a non-sectarian source for news about and of concern to anarchists. It is also to provide a location for discussion about such news. Everything has bias. The bias of this site is to promote an anarchist culture by providing a source of news and commentary of interest to and about anarchists. The goal is not to advocate for a particular anarchist practice but to serve a general anarchist need.

Wallwritings

News analysis of politics, cinema, modern culture and the ambiguity of human existence addressed from a religious perspective.

Just Foreign Policy

Just Foreign Policy is an independent and non-partisan membership organization dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy by mobilizing and organizing the broad majority of Americans who want a foreign policy based on diplomacy, law and cooperation. Although Just Foreign Policy will focus exclusively on foreign policy, we appeal directly to Americans for whom foreign policy is not a primary concern.

www.humanrights.de - Human Rights Server

'Until the Lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter'. As the world is driving towards war it is important to bring out the truth in our countries. The server gives voice to the victims of war and oppression and it brings out the stories of courageous resistance and the desire for peace with justice.

www.humanrights-server.org - Archived site - Human Rights Server

This website is run by the International Human Rights Association Bremen. As a group that has been formed through the self organization of refugees in Germany, the International Human Rights Association has worked together with the Tamil exile community for many years to highlight the persecution and discrimination of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka and to confront the problems that Tamils are subjected to in Germany.

Enlaces America

When we launched the Enlaces America project in 2002, we hoped that our efforts as adviser, facilitator, and support center for Latino immigrant organizations might someday culminate in a vibrant transnational network of Latino immigrants. We also dreamed of creating an international space where immigrant leaders could exchange ideas and learn from one another. Although these seemed like distant dreams six years ago, I am delighted to report that they both have come true.
(NOTE: This site is only available on Archive.org)

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Multimedia and Podcasts

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Wood Duck Live Radio - Roku channel

Wood Duck Live Radio features high quality Pacifica and community radio stations. These stations feature award winning news programs that cover what the mainstream media omits. You will find diverse programming that gives voice to individuals, organizations and movements working for social justice, economic democracy, ecological sustainability and peace. Totally free with no commercial advertising.

All of the live streaming channels featured on this Roku channel are listed below. However, if you listen to them on your Roku, you don't have to use a power hungry computing device in order to listen and you don't have to drain your phone's battery.

If you have a Roku, you can also subscribe to some of the channels listed below.

Democracy Now!

A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 900 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the United States.

Rising Up With Sonali

Rising Up with Sonali is an all-women run Radio and Television show that brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience. The radio program airs on Pacifica stations KPFA and KPFK, and several affiliate stations. The television show is airing on Free Speech TV (Dish Network, DirecTV, Roku). Hear a fantastic new show each weekday.

On Contact with Chris Hedges

Author and social critic Chris Hedges hosts a weekly interview show called 'On Contact,' which will air "dissident voices" currently missing from the mainstream media. Hedges interviews the black sheep of the establishment, leading discussions that can't be heard anywhere else.

The Empire Files - Watch on YouTube

From inside history's biggest empire: Files logged by Abby Martin recording a world shaped by war and inequality. Airs Fridays, 9pmEST on teleSUR English. Abby Martin is the host of The Empire Files on Telesur and former host of RT's "Breaking The Set." The Empire Files is a thorough examination of US imperialism, its corporations, its attrocities at home, and its designs for global hegemony.

MEDIA ROOTS - Reporting From Outside Party Lines

The root system of a tree is five times more extensive than the tree itself, and reaches far underground to form a solid base for growth and nourishment. Just as this root system is integral to the survival of the tree, media is integral to the foundation and survival of a democracy.

Media Roots is a citizen journalism project that reports the news from outside of party lines while providing a collaborative forum for conscious citizens, artists and activists to unite.

The Real News

Independent Video News, Blogs and Editorials - The Real News Network is a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism. Our staff, in collaboration with courageous journalists around the globe, will investigate report and debate stories on the critical issues of our times. We are viewer supported and do not accept advertising, government or corporate funding.

Economic Update - Watch on YouTube

Economic Update is a weekly program hosted by Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics. Begun on a single Pacifica station in March 2011, it is now regularly played on nearly 60 stations nationwide. Wolff's specialty on this program is to take complex economic issues and make them understandable, empowering listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program explores alternative ways to organize markets, and government policies.

Black Agenda Report

News, information and analysis from the black left. An example critique:

The capitalist ruling class is frightened, for good reason: the empire cannot peacefully contain the rising economic powers of the South and East. "The Lords of Capital know there is no future for them in a world where the dollar is not supreme and where Wall Street's stocks, bonds and derivatives are not backed by the full weight of unchallenged empire." War is the only card they have left to play - and Hillary Clinton is their favored dealer.

UNICORN RIOT

Unicorn Riot is a volunteer-operated decentralized media collective comprised of multimedia artists and journalists. Born from the Internet in 2015, we operate non-hierarchically, independent of corporate and government funding. Our non-profit media organization currently spans across multiple US cities including Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, and New York City.

Unicorn Riot's purpose is to amplify the voices of people who might otherwise go unheard, and broadcast the stories that might otherwise go untold, as we further understanding of dynamic social struggles. We are committed to producing media that exposes root causes of social conflict and explores sustainable alternatives in today's globalized world.

Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio

Every Sunday at 6 pm Eastern Time, Derrick Jensen will interview a great writer or activist who is working toward the revolution in values we so desperately need if we are to stop this culture from killing the planet. The program, called Resistance Radio, is on the Progressive Radio Network. If you miss it you can always listen to it in the Deep Green Resistance Blog archives, at the Deep Green Resistance Youtube channel, or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Act Out! - Watch on YouTube

Act Out! is an absolutely incredible fresh look at the current events going on in the world today with a bit of good poetry thrown in! This is a most excellent source of information that you will not get from corporate controlled media outlets. Act Out! is also broadcast on Free Speech TV.

The Laura Flanders Show

"The LF Show covers the critical stories around racism and sexism, but even better, it brings an intersectional lens to all its reporting." - Professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Director, The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy studies at Columbia Law School

"Laura is enabling people to see the true value of what they are doing and the very real possibility of transformative change." - Stacy Mitchell, Executive Director, The Institute for Local Self Reliance

"Flanders doesn't just talk about the problems... she broadcasts the actions that communities are taking to craft the solutions." - Gopal Dayaneni, Executive Director Movement Generation

Seattle Pirate Television - Watch on YouTube or Free Speech TV - Our Wikipedia page

Challenging the Corporate Media Blockade! The Pirate Television Production Company was started in 1997 and produces an award winning weekly 58 minute cable television series. Pirate TV is also broadcast on Free Speech TV and provides audio for David Barsamian's outstanding Alternative Radio and KEXP Mind Over Matters 90.3 FM Seattle. Pirate TV challenges the Media Blockade, bringing you independent voices, information and programming unavailable on the Corporate Sponsor-Ship. The show features talks, interviews and documentaries. The series, originally called "Crack the CIA" focused on exposing the secret foreign policy of the United States and the phony drug war but as the subject matter of the program expanded it was decided to drop the "Crack the CIA" moniker and just call the show "Pirate Television". A weekly one-hour program which is broadcast on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. on Seattle Community Media which broadcasts in the greater Seattle area on Comcast Channel 77 and Broadstripe Channel 23 and simulcast on www.seattlecommunitymedia.org. Broadcast times may be subject to change. So, check the broadcast schedule at Seattle Community Media if there is a problem viewing the show.

Talking Stick TV

KEXP DJ Mike McCormicks alternative public affairs media archive. A weekly one-hour program which is broadcast on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. on Seattle Community Media which broadcasts in the greater Seattle area on Comcast Channel 77 and Broadstripe Channel 23. The show is also simulcast on www.seattlecommunitymedia.org. Broadcast times may be subject to change. So, check the broadcast schedule at Seattle Community Media if there is a problem viewing the show.

RT News

With its first international news channel launched in December 2005, RT television network now consists of three round-the-clock news channels broadcasting in English, Arabic and Spanish, RT America airing from a Washington, DC studio, RT UK broadcasting from London, documentary channel RTDoc in English and Russian, online news platforms in Russian, German and French, and video news agency RUPTLY. Today RT is available to 700 million people in more than 100 countries across 5 continents.

RT covers major issues of our time for viewers wanting to Question More and delivers stories overlooked by the mainstream media to create news with an edge. RT provides an alternative perspective on major global events, and acquaints an international audience with a Russian viewpoint.

Link TV

Link TV broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. Founded in 1999, Link TV provides a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the US media. We connect American viewers with people at the heart of breaking events, organizations in the forefront of social change and the cultures of an increasingly global community.

radio.indymedia.org - Independent Media Center ((( i ))) Podcasts

radio.indymedia.org is the Indymedia network's global radio site. Here you can find links to grassroots independent radio projects around the world, a live internet radio directory, an aggregated listing of sound files published to Indymedia sites around the world, and open publishing of radio news and content.

The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann

The hottest political show in the US finds new home with RT. The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann tackles the latest in political news, debates, commentary and more. From local, to national and international nothing will escape Thom Hartmann's view. Thom Hartmann is a NY Times bestselling and 4-times project Censored winning author of over twenty books and America's #1 progressive radio host. His program is heard daily on hundreds of stations; including SiriusXM, DirectTV, Dish Network, Dial-Global, Pacifica, and Free Speech TV, broadcast live from the US and on five continents. Watch The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann on RT America weeknights at 7:00pm and 10:00pm Eastern Time.

Alternative Radio - David Barsamian Podcasts

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Our program is carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. Our headquarters, with three paid staff, are located in Boulder, Colorado.

Maria Gilardin's TUC Radio

TUC aka Time of useful consciousness in an aeronautical term. The time between the onset of oxygen deficiency and the loss of consciousness, the brief moments in which a pilot may save the plane. Maria Gilardin learned radio in the KPFA news department in 1980 and was one of the founders of the women's department. She co-wrote the GATT Guide for the Earth Summit in Rio, was founding producer of the national weekly public-affairs show Making Contact, and is a member of the International Forum on Globalization. Since 1993, Maria has written and produced radio on global trade and great ideas of local resistance to globalization.

Shortwave Report

The Shortwave Report Is a 30 minute review of news stories recorded from a shortwave radio. Times and frequencies for English-language programs are included to encourage you to listen on your own. It's easy. There is a new show posted every Friday morning, record it in mono!

CounterSpin - fair.org

CounterSpin is FAIR's weekly radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson. CounterSpin is heard on more than 130 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage.

John Pilger media

The films and journalism of John Pilger. Read the biography of this incredible journalist.

Flashpoints - kpfa.org

Flashpoints strives to provide the information needed to make informed judgments about the nature of specific violent political conflicts, the aspirations of the adversaries and the prospects for intervention or resolution. Above all, we try to remain impartial and present alternative viewpoints in the hopes of stimulating critical thought and informed debate.

Making Contact - kpfa.org

Covering the movements and organizations fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosts Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Laura Flynn, and Jasmín López work with a team of community storytelling fellows and freelancers from around the world to produce nuanced, finely crafted radio that looks beyond the headlines with an emphasis on intersectional analysis, grassroots community building and elevating marginalized voices.

Project Censored - kpfa.org

The Project Censored Show is a weekly public affairs program that airs Fridays from 1-2 PM Pacific time on KPFA Pacifica Radio. The program is an extension of the work Project Censored began in 1976 celebrating independent journalism while fighting media censorship and supporting a truly free press. The program focuses on The News That Didn't Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. The program began broadcasting in 2010 and is nationally syndicated on over 20 stations.

The Ralph Nader Radio Hour - kpfa.org

Ralph Nader talks about what's happening in America, what's happening around the world, and most importantly what's happening underneath it all.

Mind Over Matters - KEXP.org

Tune in to the broadcast or listen live via the Internet stream. The Sustainability Segment presents one-on-one interviews with inspiring leaders and grass roots activists on a variety of environmental, social, and economic issues affecting life and the future of our planet. The Sustainability Segment is also available in the podcast archive.

Guns and Butter

A program that investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Guns & Butter: The Economics of Politics reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state. Produced and hosted by Bonnie Faulkner.

A-Infos Radio Project

The A-Infos Radio Project: Broadcast Quality Programming via the Internet. This is a place where anyone can post their own radio programs. You can post a link to your content or upload it directly to their site. Be the media!

Resonance: An Anarchist Audio Distro

We are recording anarchist and related texts and distributing them in audio form. In this way we hope to make anarchist ideas more accessible, and anarchist practice more informed. We may not agree with every word of every text we record, but we hope that the distribution of these texts in audio form continues lively anarchist discussions - and ultimately we hope that those discussions lead us into the streets.

Global Research TV

The CRG is a fully independent research and media group of writers, scholars, journalists, filmmakers and activists. It publishes a webpage at www.globalresearch.ca containing news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focusing on social, economic, strategic and environmental processes.

subMedia

subMedia is an independent multimedia production company that regularly produces a show called It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine and a 'zine called Molotov. They have also produced several feature length documentaries, including END:CIV, which is available as a free download.

UNWELCOME GUESTS

The Unwelcome Guests Collective is a group of broadcasters who produce a weekly public domain 2 hour talk radio show on a range of topics. We aim to provoke and stimulate the listener, showing that a radically different world is not only possible, but is the only feasible choice.

Between The Lines

Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis. Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour news magazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues. Because Between The Lines is independent of all publications, media networks or political parties, we are able to bring a diversity of voices to the airwaves. This award-winning program provides a platform for individuals and organizations generally ignored or marginalized in corporate media.

Bill Moyers Journal - PBS

Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal, a weekly program of interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media, the economy, and issues facing democracy.

¡Presente! - Videos | SOA Watch: Close the School of the Americas

The School of the Americas (renamed to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) is a U.S. military training school for Latin American soldiers. Its graduates are consistently involved in the most heinous human rights abuses throughout the Americas. Since the truth about the school became known and the Pentagon was forced to release torture manuals that were used at the school, a human rights movement emerged to call for the closure of the SOA/WHINSEC. We are engaged in nonviolent direct action, media and legislative work and popular education.

FORA.tv - Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the World

FORA.tv presents the web's largest collection of videos drawn from live events, lectures, interviews, and debates going on all the time at top universities, public forums, think tanks and conferences.

INSUBORDINATION Photo-Journalism

Featuring work by independent multi-media journalist Hans Bennett. Be it the war at home or abroad, the corporate media serves to protect the gangsters & terrorists in power. INSUBORDINATION is dedicated to using independent media for challenging all forms of illegitimate authority and oppression: white supremacy, sexism, heterosexism, capitalism, ableism, militarism, mass incarceration, and all other "might makes right" bullying.

The Ecologist - Videos

Environment & Climate Change news & features plus green living advice

Internet Archive and Wayback Machine

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages. Archive.org allows for uploading multiple, unlimited length media files that can each be up to 10 gigabytes in size. Once uploaded, the media is automatically converted into multiple formats of varying quality. They also allow for everyone to easily download all of the media (including the original) at high speeds or to simply view it online. The Wayback Machine allows viewing older versions of web pages. It is a handy tool for viewing now defunct websites.

Internet Archive News & Public Affairs media collection

An analysis of news and public affairs independent from traditional corporate media is available from this diverse video library. From Democracy Now's daily news program, to three days of TV news coverage following the 911 attacks, to Mosaic's timely clips of Middle East newscasts, to UCSF's Tobacco Industry Videos: These collections offer an alternative way to view and interpret current news and public affairs. Many of these videos are available for free download.

Alternative Views is especially good. If you only watch one episode of Alternative Views then watch Alternative Views #048: JOHN STOCKWELL AND THE CIA.

Redacted Tonight

With reality now seeming like a Shakespearean comedy, perhaps only comedy can truly bring truth to the people. DC-born comedian Lee Camp and a talented cast do just that with RT America's first comedy show - Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp. This is not your grandparents' satire program. Every week Redacted Tonight will provide comedy news with a punch. This weekly satire show tackles all the real news stories the mainstream media failed to mention and provides new angles on the ones they do.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

If you don't subscribe to HBO, you can Watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on YouTube.Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents a half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events. An Emmy®- and Writer's Guild Award-winning writer, John Oliver was previously a correspondent for 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,' joining the show in 2006. He first came to prominence as a cutting-edge political stand-up performer in the UK with a string of TV appearances and sold-out solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival. Oliver won the Breakout Award at the Aspen Comedy Festival in 2007 and went on to write and star in the Comedy Central stand-up special 'John Oliver: Terrifying Times,' followed by the series 'John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show,' which he has hosted for four seasons. With longtime collaborator Andy Zaltzman, Oliver co-writes and co-presents the popular weekly satirical podcast The Bugle, which currently receives more than 500,000 downloads a month. He also has a recurring role on the comedy series 'Community.' In the summer of 2013, Oliver's tenure as guest host on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' earned strong critical reviews.

VICE News Tonight

Winner of the 2014 Emmy® for Outstanding Informational Series or Special, HBO's VICE returns for its fourth season, with 18 new editions hosted by Shane Smith: co-founder of the taboo-breaking multimedia company VICE. Editions of VICE generally focus on two 15-minute stories, though "special editions" may encompass a single theme and run longer. As fans of the first three seasons can attest, some of the most compelling, important news stories go unreported by mainstream media outlets -- but not by VICE and its intrepid team of correspondents, who deliver hard-hitting stories from around the world, from the U.S. and Mexico to Jordan, Afghanistan and beyond.

Paper Tiger | PTTV

Paper Tiger has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media since 1981! The programs produced at PTTV have inspired media-savvy community productions and activism around the world. Our archive includes shows that provide critical analysis of media, educate about the communications industry and highlight issues that are absent from mainstream information sources. Through the distribution of our short documentary programs, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy, PTTV works to expose and challenge the corporate control of media. Because of the bias and misrepresentation of issues in mainstream media it is critical to include diverse perspectives in the process of making media. PTTV strives to increase awareness of how media can be used to affect social change. A public that can strategically and creatively use the media is necessary for a more equitable and healthy democracy.

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Live Streaming Multimedia

See the Multimedia Software section for good software to play these.

Wood Duck Live Radio - Roku channel

Wood Duck Live Radio features high quality Pacifica and community radio stations. These stations feature award winning news programs that cover what the mainstream media omits. You will find diverse programming that gives voice to individuals, organizations and movements working for social justice, economic democracy, ecological sustainability and peace. Totally free with no commercial advertising.

All of the live streaming channels featured on this Roku channel are listed below. However, if you listen to them on your Roku, you don't have to use a power hungry computing device in order to listen and you don't have to drain your phone's battery.

If you have a Roku, you can also subscribe to some of the channels listed below.

KOWA 106.5 FM, Olympia, Washington - The BEST news radio!

Listen to us online! KOWA 106.5 LP FM plays a wide variety of independent news and public affairs shows. 106.5 KOWA is a fully licensed low power FM radio station in Olympia, WA. We are a non-profit radio station whose mission is to give voice to individuals, organizations and movements working for social justice, economic democracy, ecological sustainability and peace. We are a Pacifica Network affiliate and play many amazing programs from across the country including the daily news programs Democracy Now, Hard Knock Radio, Uprising, Sojourner Truth, Informativo Pacifica, Native American Calling and others. We syndicate other shows that focus on environmental, indigenous and labor issues as well as social justice, media literacy, feminist and LGBTQ programing.

Berkeley Liberation Radio - Listen online: Stream 1 - Stream 2

Berkeley Liberation Radio exists to provide a voice for the diverse community in the greater Berkeley/Oakland area. Further, it is a vehicle and a means by which to bring about radical social change. Consistent with a vision of creating an alternative, diverse, vibrant society and community that respects the right to be free of sexism, racism, homophobia and all other forms of oppression, our programming will reflect those goals and ideals.

Free Speech TV - FSTV

Free Speech TV is a national, independent news network committed to advancing progressive social change. As the alternative to television networks owned by billionaires, governments and corporations, our network amplifies underrepresented voices and those working on the front lines of social, economic and environmental justice. Reaching over 40 million US television households, we bring our viewers an array of daily news programs, independent documentaries and special events coverage. Launched in 1995, Free Speech TV is an independent, publicly-supported, non-profit TV multi-platform digital media pioneer. Using both television and the Internet, Free Speech TV inspires viewers to become civically engaged to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable society. Free Speech TV is owned and operated by Public Communicators, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization, founded in 1974. Free Speech TV is based in Denver, CO.

RT America

With its first international news channel launched in December 2005, RT television network now consists of three round-the-clock news channels broadcasting in English, Arabic and Spanish, RT America airing from a Washington, DC studio, RT UK broadcasting from London, documentary channel RTDoc in English and Russian, online news platforms in Russian, German and French, and video news agency RUPTLY. Today RT is available to 700 million people in more than 100 countries across 5 continents.

RT covers major issues of our time for viewers wanting to Question More and delivers stories overlooked by the mainstream media to create news with an edge. RT provides an alternative perspective on major global events, and acquaints international audience with a Russian viewpoint.

France 24 - International News 24/7

France 24 consists of three separate TV channels which broadcast in French, English and Arabic 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They share the same mission of providing a global public service and a common editorial stance. The website is also available in three languages. The journalists from the three channels work together, pooling their expertise.

Al Jazeera English

Watch the live English language version of Al Jazeera. Trusted. Respected. Valued. At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people, and the events that impact their lives. We bring topics to light that often go underreported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.' Reaching more than 270 million households in over 140 countries across the globe, our viewers trust us to keep them informed, inspired, and entertained. Our impartial, fact-based reporting wins worldwide praise and respect. It is our unique brand of journalism that the world has come to rely on. We are reshaping global media and constantly working to strengthen our reputation as one of the world's most respected news and current affairs channels.

PressTV

PressTV Watch Live. Press TV takes revolutionary steps as the first Iranian international news network, broadcasting in English on a round-the-clock basis. Our global Tehran-based headquarters is staffed with outstanding Iranian and foreign media professionals. Press TV is extensively networked with bureaus located in the world's most strategic cities. Heeding the often neglected voices and perspectives of a great portion of the world; Embracing and building bridges of cultural understanding; Encouraging human beings of different nationalities, races and creeds to identify with one another; Bringing to light untold and overlooked stories of individuals who have experienced the vitality and versatility of political and cultural divides firsthand.

Radio Havana Cuba

This is live radio from Havana, Cuba. If you do not have a radio that can tune shortwave frequencies, then you have to use an online shortwave receiver to listen to these stations. You can use receivers at SDR.hu or at GlobalTuners (GlobalTuners demo). Try to find a receiver that is somewhat near to the broadcast location as listed in the frequency guide. Depending on the antenna, the receiver can be thousands of miles away from the broadcast location and still work fine. 6000 KHz seems to come in fairly well on receivers located in North America.

Here's a brief explanation of how to use the SDR.hu receivers. Click on a receiver from the list. When you open up the receiver page, there will be a box in the lower right hand side of the screen. You will see a number in the top left portion of this box. This is where you enter the frequency you wish to tune. Consult the linked Radio Havana Cuba frequency list for frequencies in the language sections and enter one of them into the box on the receiver screen. You may have to try several different receivers and frequencies to get a good signal. If you close a receivers web page, you might not be able to reopen that receivers page for a few minutes. Some receivers at SDR.hu seem to have a timeout after about 20 minutes.

Free Radio Santa Cruz

Free Radio Santa Cruz has been on the air for over twelve years without a license. We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, in defiance of federal regulations. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is charged with regulating the airwaves in the public interest. We believe that it has failed to do so and has proved itself to be controlled by monied interests. We go on the air to protest corporate control of the airwaves, to bring local control and local accountability to our community media, to produce and broadcast a diversity of programs that are simply unavailable on corporate controlled stations. We do not air advertisements, we do not do pledge drives, we do not have sponsors or underwriters. Plays with VLC, etc.

KBOO 90.7 FM Portland, Oregon

We are Volunteer-Powered, Non-Commercial, Listener-Sponsored, Full-Strength Community Radio for Portland, Oregon, Cascadia and the World!

KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles - Pacifica Radio

Pacifica Radio for Southern California

Pacifica Foundation Radio (Pacifica) was born in the late 1940's out of the (now nearly forgotten) peace movement surrounding World War Two. Lewis Hill, a conscientious objector and Washington, D.C. newsman, was fired from his mainstream reporting job when he refused to misrepresent the facts.

This was a time when the idea of a listener-sponsored radio station was a new one which had never been implemented. Many people doubted the viability of a broadcast model which didn't rely on some kind of corporate or government funding. But the idea was too compelling for Hill and others who agreed with him. Pacifica was born and in 1949 KPFA went on the air from Berkeley, California.

KPFK, in Los Angeles, was the second of what would eventually become five Pacifica Stations to go on the air. It was 1959 and Terry Drinkwater was the first General Manager. Blessed with an enormous transmitter in a prime location, KPFK is the most powerful of the Pacifica stations and indeed is the most powerful public radio station in the Western United States.

KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley - Pacifica Radio

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.

WBAI 99.5 FM NYC - Pacifica Radio

Free Speech Radio 99.5fm Pacifica Radio in New York City - Progressive and Independent News, Arts and Music

KPFT 90.1 FM Houston - Pacifica Radio

KPFT has a mission in which it is devoted to education through media. Since 1970, KPFT has provided a forum for the arts, music, culture, ideas and more.

WPFW 89.3 FM Washington, DC - Pacifica Radio

WPFW-FM provides outlets for the creative skills and energies of the community, contributes to a lasting understanding between all individuals of all nations, and promotes the full distribution of public information.

KRFP 90.3 FM Moscow, Idaho

Radio Free Moscow is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the progressive values of peace, justice, democracy, human rights, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and freedom of expression.

KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia, Washington - Live From The Evergreen State College

KAOS is a non-commercial community/college radio station broadcasting from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.

Catalyst Radio

Catalyst Radio is the weekly public affairs radio program of Community Media Center, with co-hosts Michele Fife, Katie Gordon and Jessica Young. The program is a feature of WYCE and The Rapidian and includes interviews with organizations and people working on social change and community support, examines media and free speech issues, and takes a look at the behind-the-scenes of Rapidian reporting. You can catch it on air at noon every Friday on WYCE 88.1 FM or streaming on the Grand Rapids Community Media Center Website.

Icecast streaming multimedia directory

MP3 streams, web radio's, Ogg Vorbis streams... If you want to listen to music, free music, this stream directory is the right place for you. Icecast YP is just like Shoutcast.com, featuring radio listings. Plays with VLC, etc.

frolympia.org - FRO Blog - Free Radio Olympia FCC fight - Free Radio Olympia 98.5 FM

Free Radio Olympia is an unlicensed, direct action micropower radio station broadcasting at 100 watts on 98.5 FM in Olympia, Washington, Cascadia. We have been on the air since March 2001. FRO is committed to providing a service to the community by creating access to the airwaves and bringing unregulated, uncensored media to our listeners in the spirit of free speech and freedom of the press. Plays with VLC, etc.

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Women's Issues

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites is a selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program. If you're looking for sites on a specific women-focused topic, you may prefer to use the subject sections rather than scroll through the all-inclusive alphabetical listing.

Deeds Not Words

Life is hard. We get that. And it can be tough to figure out how to use your precious few spare moments of time plugging in and making a difference. That's why Deeds Not Words is here -- to make your activism a little bit easier.

For example, just a few days ago here in Texas, the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services took up three separate abortion-restricting bills. Each of these bills, in their own way, are far-reaching, extreme attacks on women's liberty and our access to safe and legal abortion.

Deeds Not Words was there to do our part. Not only did we testify, not only did we call, email and write our representatives, but we also showed you how easy it is for you to do so, too! Watch our video.

This is what we're all about. And not just in Texas! Across the country, Deeds Not Words is empowering women and training activists to take a stand and make our voices heard. We're hard at work, in fact, training the next generation of activists to take on the issues of sex-trafficking and campus sexual assault.

Life and Liberty for Women

Life and Liberty for Women is a new 501C nonprofit organization dedicated to aggressive abortion rights education. Life and Liberty for Women Proudly affirms that Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in this country, correctly and morally balanced the right to life and liberty of woman and fetus. Life and Liberty for Women believes that potential life is entitled to quality of life and it's never wrong or immoral for a woman to conclude that she can't provide that for her child or that she cannot give up her child for adoption.

NARAL Pro-Choice America

We are made up of pro-choice women and men across the United States. Together, we protect a woman's right to choose.

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

PRCH has Charity Navigator's highest rating: ★ ★ ★ ★

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Taking action for women's equality since 1966. News from NOW: stories about women and feminism, action alerts, and more

Feminist Majority Foundation

Breaking News, Feminism from Affirmative Action to Sexual Harassment to Women's Sports. The Feminist Majority Foundation works for social and political and economic equality for women by using research and education to reduce violence against women, promote abortion rights and birth control access, global women's rights. The Feminist Majority Foundation Online features daily feminist news, issues of sex discrimination, abortion and birth control, domestic violence, sexual assault, pay equity, women's equality in jobs, women's and girls' equality education, and women's and girls' equality in sports, a feminist career center.

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Indigenous Network Organizations

Free Red Fawn - Donate! - Learn more about Red Fawn - Sign this petition

Red Fawn has become a political prisoner of Standing Rock. We are demanding her immediate release.

Who is Red Fawn? Red Fawn is a human rights advocate, organizer and a community leader within the Oglala Lakota Sioux.

On Oct. 27th, the police raided the 1851 Treaty Camp. More than 140 people were arrested that day. Bail was raised from $200 to $1,500 for each. All have been released except, Red Fawn. Her bail is set for $110k. That day, Red Fawn was serving as a trained medic. She was helping injured water protectors who had been sprayed with mace and hit by rubber bullets. As Red Fawn retreated from the front lines, three officers targeted, tackled and threw her to the ground. Police reports allege that one of the officers pulled his weapon and placed it against her back and that while she was pinned to the ground, shots were fired.

Red Fawn is being accused of firing a weapon. Eyewitness accounts and video show otherwise.

“Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said he couldn't confirm any shots were fired by the water protectors on Oct. 27” (Democracy Now) Red Fawn has been behind bars since that day. She is facing up to 20 years in prison.

That's why we need your support, to build up her legal defense fund. On Fridays, in a show of unity and support, we ask all water protectors to wear red in solidarity for Red Fawn until she is free.

Intercontinental Cry

Intercontinental Cry is an indigenous rights publication. Intercontinental Cry is a network of professors, editors, journalists, researchers and thought leaders who strive to enrich the global media ecosystem, to support Indigenous Peoples, and to protect the diversity of nature through digital storytelling.

#NoDAPL Solidarity

This site is dedicated to supporting the frontline, indigenous led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We hope that this site will make it easier for allies from around the world to take action against the institutions that are attempting to construct the pipeline.

They have sent out a call for your help and support!

Our planet is nearing a tipping point where there is no turning back from catastrophic climate change that will cause the extinction of most life on this planet and it's already happening. Humanity will not survive if we let these new massive pipelines go into operation. We need to keep the gas and oil in the ground.

Sacred Stone Camp - Iŋyaŋ Wakháŋagapi Othí

Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Hau we are the Inyan wakankagapi otip-Sacred Stone Camp from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. We have partnership with the Oectc Sakowin- Seven Council Fires, Indians and Cowboys and anyone who was to stand with us against the Dakota Access Pipeline. This pipeline will cross the Missouri River and Cannon Ball River which is the life line to many tribes and non native, when this pipeline leaks it will destroy the water and land. Water is life ! So this pipeline is along the Missouri River and the KL pipeline was along the Ogall aquifer both are important to save.

We are asking for financial support for water-propane - food and blankets for the camp. This is a prayer camp movement to save our sacred land and water and has been entirely supported by the people and the campers. We are in great appreciation for all you contributions....Wopila lila tanka-- we are deeply grateful for you contributions thank you!

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

As you probably already know, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline which threatens their source of clean drinking water. If completed, the $3.8 billion pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota's Bakken oilfield to Illinois. The project has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and members of nearly 100 more tribes from across the U.S. and Canada.

Indigenous Rising Media - Facebook

We're an indigenous-led media collective launched by the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Indigenous Environmental Network

A network of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice and maintaining the Sacred Fire of our traditions.

REDOIL [Resisting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands]

Indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada and the Americas have experienced systematic and repeated violations by oil, gas, and mining industries infringing on our inherent right to protect our traditional lands and our treaty rights. These industries violate our human rights and create unconscionable destruction to traditional territories that have sustained us for time immemorial.

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.

"Big Mountain" - Black Mesa Indigenous Support!

Black Mesa Indigenous Support (BMIS) is a currently non-Native all volunteer, grassroots collective committed to working with the resistance communities of Black Mesa/Big Mountain.

The nature of colonialism is to invisibilize its modes of operating, creating the dominant narrative that Indigenous peoples are disappearing. In the case of Black Mesa there's a perception that the relocation is done. It's not. As a collective, in an effort to reveal the presence of settler colonialism and its connection to climate destabilization, we center the voices of those resisting relocation and cultural genocide. This offers up visions for a future built on respect for life, land, and, as matriarch resister Roberta Blackgoat said, "ancient Indigenous people's religion and culture".

As a collective, we prioritize direct-on-land support in order to be grounded in the daily realities of land based struggles, and to deepen relationships with members of the resistance community that form the foundation of our solidarity work. We strive for a decolonization that includes an abdication of power over Native lands by the U.S. government and corporations and a practice of solidarity which takes responsibility for our role as beneficiaries of ongoing settler colonialism in order to dismantle settler privilege.

Black Mesa Water Coalition

Black Mesa Water Coalition is dedicated to preserving and protecting Mother Earth and the integrity of Indigenous Peoples' cultures, with the vision of building sustainable and healthy communities. BMWC strives to empower young people while building sustainable communities.

Indianz.com

Your American Indian and Native American news, information, and entertainment resource. Indianz.Com provides up-to-date, relevant resources about Native American / American Indian tribes in the United States and Alaska and First Nations communities in Canada.

Indian Country Today Media Network

Native & American Indian News, Culture, Music, Art and More. Each day the Indian Country Today Media Network team will bring you essential news and information from Indian country, entertain you with new voices and cultural highlights, and give life to the most vibrant voices in the national community. We are also offering superb online services in the areas of education, business and events–everything from listings of tribal colleges to the latest pow wows.

NATIVE AMERICA CALLING

Native America Calling is a live call-in program linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together in a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Each program engages noted guests and experts with callers throughout the United States and is designed to improve the quality of life for Native Americans. Native America Calling is heard on 52 stations in the United States and in Canada by approximately 500,000 listeners each week.

Reznet News | Reporting from Native America - reznetnews.org

(Note: This is site is only available from Archive.org)
Reznet is a Native American news, information and entertainment Web site that also trains and mentors American Indian college students around the country as they prepare for journalism careers.

Honor the Earth

Honor the Earth is a Native-led organization, established by Winona LaDuke and Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, in 1993 to address the two primary needs of the Native environmental movement: the need to break the geographic and political isolation of Native communities and the need to increase financial resources for organizing and change. We believe a sustainable world is predicated on transforming economic, social, and political relationships that have been based on systems of conquest toward systems based on just relationships with each other and with the natural world. As our mission states, we are committed to restoring a paradigm that recognizes our collective humanity and our joint dependence on the Earth.

Indigenous Independent Media Action

Indigenous Action Media (IAM) was founded on August 25th, 2001 to provide strategic media support and action to directly address issues impacting Indigenous communities. IAM offers media strategy consultation and support in the face of environmental & social injustices. We do this through direct support, workshops, web and graphic design services, documentaries and youth empowerment projects.

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee - www.leonardpeltier.net

(NOTE: This site is only available on Archive.org)
"Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out & resonate in every word & every deed. Yes, become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - Leonard Peltier"

US Postal Money Orders can be sent to Leonard for his commissary account at:

Federal Bureau of Prisons
Leonard Peltier #89637-132
USP Coleman I
U.S. PENITENTIARY
P.O. BOX 1033
COLEMAN, FL 33521

freeleonard.org

We will continually keep you updated on developments regarding Leonard Peltier's FOIA requests and lawsuits.

www.humanrights.de - American Indian Page

Leonard Peltier; Native American Prisoners; Action Alerts; American Indian Sites 'n' Links

Indigenous Women for Justice

The IWJ is a unity sisterhood of women from the indigenous nations located in what is commonly called the United States and Canada. To be a member of the Indigenous Women for Justice you don't have to carry a banner, or march down Main Street, or participate in any action that creates fear of persecution or retribution; membership to the IWJ is in your heart and through your prayers.

Redwire Native Youth Media - www.redwiremag.com

(NOTE: This site is only available on Archive.org)
We are a collective of Native youth creating uncensored spaces for youth to find their own voice. All of our media projects are initiated and led by youth, inspiring creativity, confidence, motivation and action. Our journey began as Redwire Magazine; we then incorporated as Redwire Native Youth Media Society in 2002. We are a media and arts organization dedicated to the power and healing of unhindered expression. We maintain a youth staff and board fostered with the support of elders, past staff and community mentors.

White Earth Land Recovery Project

The mission of the White Earth Land Recovery Project is to facilitate recovery of the original land base of the White Earth Indian Reservation, while preserving and restoring traditional practices of sound land stewardship, language fluency, community development, and strengthening our spiritual and cultural heritage.

Indigenous People's Council on Biocolonialism

The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. The IPCB provides educational and technical support to indigenous peoples in the protection of their biological resources, cultural integrity, knowledge and collective rights.

Transform Columbus Day Alliance

The Transform Columbus Day Alliance actively rejects the celebration of Christopher Columbus and his legacy of domination, oppression, and colonialism. We also reject historical misconceptions regarding Columbus and his "discovery" of the Americas.

Gwich'in Steering Committee

Gwich'in Steering Committee works to protect the coastal plain (Area 1002) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, calving ground of the Porcupine River caribou herd.

Thunder Valley — Native Youth on the Move

Empowering Lakota youth and families to improve the health, culture and environment of our community, through the healing and strengthening of cultural identity.

Drawing on Indians

The 500+ year history of our crazy culture and its unique obsession

Fourth World Center

The Fourth World Center website is no longer available. For more information, contact Glenn T. Morris at (303) 556-2850. See an archive of the site on Archive.org. Fourth World at Wikipedia.

Western Shoshone Defense Project

The Western Shoshone Defense Project was established in 1991 by the Western Shoshone National Council to provide support to Mary and Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone grandmothers faced with the confiscation of their livestock which they graze on Western Shoshone homelands. While we started as volunteers, in the last decade with the support of many individuals and foundations, we have grown into an organization with paid staff that asserts Shoshone rights against violations to Newe Sobobia.

Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE)

(Spanish language document)

Defenders of the Land - Canada

Defenders of the Land, a network of Indigenous communities and activists in land struggle across Canada, including Elders and youth, women and men, was founded at a historic meeting in Winnipeg from November 12-14, 2008. Defenders is the only organization of its kind in the territory known as Canada - Indigenous-led, free of government or corporate funding, and dedicated to building a fundamental movement for Indigenous rights. We will be holding a second gathering this year, where we will decide on collective action and a strategy to build the movement through education and organizing.

S.H.A.W.L. (Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water, Land) Society

SHAWL Society is a grassroots advocacy group, based on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Eastern Washington. The major focus of this effort involves developing community education and strategies to address impacts of radiation exposure due to 50 plus years of uranium mining and milling on this reservation.

Sustainable Nations Development

We Envision the Re-Development of Thriving, Ecologically, Culturally and Economically Sustainable Native Nations

Tonatierra

The Indigenous human rights organization. To create and sustain a Cultural Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples That will support local-global and holistic indigenous community development initiatives in education, culture, and economic development in accord with the principles of Community Ecology and Self Determination.

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Organizations We Like

National Popular Vote

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Written Explanation It has been enacted into law in 11 states with 165 electoral votes (CA, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA). It will take effect when enacted by states with 105 more electoral votes. Most recently, the bill was passed by a bipartisan 40–16 vote in the Republican-controlled Arizona House, 28–18 in Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate, 57–4 in Republican-controlled New York Senate, and 37–21 in Democratic-controlled Oregon House. It has passed on house in 12 states with 96 electoral votes (AR, AZ, CO, CT, DE, ME, MI, NC, NM, NV, OK, OR). Status in Each State

Public Citizen - Watch on YouTube

Public Citizen advocates for a healthier and more equitable world by making government work for the people and by defending democracy from corporate greed. You can help.

Corporations have their lobbyists in Washington, D.C. The people need advocates too.

Public Citizen serves as the people's voice in the nation's capital. Since our founding in 1971, we have delved into an array of areas, but our work on each issue shares an overarching goal: To ensure that all citizens are represented in the halls of power.

For four decades, we have proudly championed citizen interests before Congress, the executive branch agencies and the courts. We have successfully challenged the abusive practices of the pharmaceutical, nuclear and automobile industries, and many others. We are leading the charge against undemocratic trade agreements that advance the interests of mega-corporations at the expense of citizens worldwide.

Free Press

Free Press is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism and universal access to communications.

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. We are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations.

Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.

Iraq Veterans Against the War

We work to build a service-member and veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture and American society.

We strive for a world free of unjust war -- a world without the political and economic conditions allowing militarism to exist, and without structural forces pushing our youth, our poor and those facing incarceration into the military; We strive for a society that prioritizes care for its warriors -- where all who serve receive adequate benefits and the highest standard of compassionate care regardless of discharge status; We strive for a society that holds political leaders, profiteers, and war criminals accountable for the consequences of their actions; We strive for a political and military culture that embraces full human rights for service-members, veterans and all people; We strive for a political culture that prioritizes nonviolence, open communication, and democratic decision-making over militarism -- a culture committed to building peace and preserving life, solving international conflicts through diplomacy and alternative conflict resolution; We strive for a political culture that acknowledges our nation's moral responsibilities to the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, and all civilians adversely affected by U.S. military intervention. The United States must fully accept guidance from these affected peoples and provide support they find valuable; Finally, we endeavor for our movement to be an ally to the oppressed -- a community connected in solidarity with war torn peoples, working across differences for reconciliation, mutual healing and collective liberation.

Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ)

Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ) is a national alliance of US-based grassroots organizing (GRO) groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color. We understand that there are important connections between the local issues we work on and the global context, and we see ourselves as part of an international movement for global justice.

GGJ focuses on bringing GRO organizations into a long-term process of relationship building, political alignment and the development of transformational leadership, particularly for working and poor women and gender-oppressed people of color. The membership of GGJ adopted a framework in 2011 that calls for a holistic approach to building grassroots global justice: No War, No Warming, Build an Economy for the People and the Planet, echoing the framework of Dr. Martin Luther King's philosophy of the Triple Evils of Poverty, Racism and Militarism. We weave and bridge together US-based GRO groups and global social movements working for climate justice, an end to war, and a just transition to a new economy that is better for people and the planet.

On a Move - Website of the MOVE Organization

The MOVE Organization is a family of strong, serious, deeply committed revolutionaries founded by a wise, perceptive, strategically minded Black man named JOHN AFRICA. The principle of our belief is explained in a collection of writings we call "The Guidelines," authored by JOHN AFRICA. To honor our beloved Founder, and acknowledge the wisdom and strength He has given us, we say "LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA!"

MOVE's work is revolution. JOHN AFRICA's revolution, a revolution to stop man's system from imposing on life, to stop industry from poisoning the air, water, and soil and to put an end to the enslavement of all life. Our work is to show people how rotten and enslaving this system is and that the system is the cause of homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, alcoholism, racism, domestic abuse, AIDS, crime, war, all the problems of the world. We are working to demonstrate that people not only can fight this system, they must fight the system if they ever want to free themselves from endless suffering and oppression.

On May 13, 1985, one of the most shameful, horrific attacks ever by U.S. police took place in West Philadelphia. 11 people -- including five children -- were killed in a deliberate massacre. A racist and political attack on a radical community group known as the MOVE Organization, city and police officials were revealed to have intentionally set their home ablaze, let the fire rage, and violently kept escaping men, women and children trapped inside.

The Counted (People killed by police in the US)

The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015 and 2016, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.

The database will combine Guardian reporting with verified crowdsourced information to build a more comprehensive record of such fatalities. The Counted is the most thorough public accounting for deadly use of force in the US, but it will operate as an imperfect work in progress - and will be updated by Guardian reporters and interactive journalists as frequently and as promptly as possible.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Black Lives Matter is a chapter-based national organization working for the validity of Black life. We are working to (re)build the Black liberation movement.

This is Not a Moment, but a Movement.

#BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin's murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and dead 17-year old Trayvon was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder. Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our dehumanization, #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes.

National Public Service Council To Abolish Private Prisons

"When once a republic is corrupted there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principle" - THOMAS JEFFERSON

Rethinking Schools

In 1986, a group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision. They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public school system in the United States. Today that vision is embodied in Rethinking Schools. Rethinking Schools began as a local effort to address problems such as basal readers, standardized testing, and textbook-dominated curriculum. Since its founding, it has grown into a nationally prominent publisher of educational materials, with subscribers in all 50 states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and many other countries.

WE ARE NOT YOUR SOLDIERS!

There is an epidemic sweeping through American high schools. Youth sign up for the military by the 1000’s, feeling some sort of obligation to serve their country. 9/11 often serves as a means and justification for this feeling. We don’t have any obligation to fight in wars that began when we could barely grasp the meaning of such an act using tactics so monstrous that millions of innocent people have died. The only obligation we have is to the future of humanity. As bombs rain down on civilian populations, children are literally tortured, and Nuremberg standards identify war crimes every single day: we cannot be silent. No matter how much they try to convince us these wars belong to us, we can’t cave in. The only war we should be fighting is one against the militarization of our generation. We should fight to keep the recruiters out of our schools and neighborhoods, away from our friends and family, and most importantly entirely out of new recruits. This fight can begin right now. You can initiate it.

Jubilee USA

Joining hands to break the chains of debt. In the Jubilee Year as quoted in Leviticus, those enslaved because of debts are freed, lands lost because of debt are returned, and community is restored. Today, international debt has become a new form of slavery. Take a detailed look at what we're doing to restore right relationships and why we do it.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

History is not something that happens to people - it is the activity of people. In every moment, in every decision and gesture, we make our culture, our life stories, our world, whether we take responsibility for this ourselves or ascribe this power to executives, politicians, pop stars, economic systems, or deities.

In a society which glorifies their power and our passivity, all thought which challenges this passivity is thoughtcrime. Crimethink is the transgression without which freedom and self-determination are impossible - it is the skeleton key that unlocks the prisons of our age.

Breaking Nuke News

The NukeFree.org website serves as an information hub providing up-to-the minute news on the most important nuclear power industry battles taking place across the country. We work closely with other groups monitoring energy issues and will let you know where key battles are shaping up and how you can help stop further funding for the nuclear power industry. It is also a resource providing background and references to learn more about nukes and alternative energy technologies. NukeFree.org works with the environmental / scientific communities to keep musicians, artists and others educated about nuclear and safe energy issues, as well as advising people how they can best impact energy legislation - using their voices and resources to support positive new green proposals and fight against boondoggles like the nuke loan guarantees. Together we can make a difference!

Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice

The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice is a grassroots, 501(c)3 non-profit organization that conducts and supports programs that foster connections between people, that build understanding, respect, and appreciation for differences, and that promote cooperation within and between local and global communities. The foundation encourages and supports grassroots efforts in pursuit of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice, which we view as pre-requisites for world peace. Continuing the work begun and envisioned by our daughter, Rachel Corrie, our initial emphasis has been on Israel/Palestine.

Olympia-Rafah Mural Project

The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project began in 2006 and results from the collaborative effort of more than 150 groups and individuals –from the local to the global, from Olympia, Washington to the Americas, from Europe and Asia to Rafah, Palestine. This multi-media project builds relationships across movements, issues, cultures and great distances. It honors those who have lost their lives striving for liberation, and seeks to strengthen and make more visible the efforts of some of the many organizations and individuals who work for justice and dare to imagine a different world.

IFCO / Pastors for Peace

Pastors for Peace is an ecumenical agency whose mission is to help forward the struggles of oppressed peoples for justice and self-determination. Pastors for Peace is a special ministry of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, and was created in 1988 to pioneer the delivery of humanitarian aid to Latin America and the Caribbean. Many thousands of people have participated since our founding in more than 40 caravans to Mexico and Central America, 16 to Cuba and many delegations and work brigades. Join us to learn about the reality of the country, make a difference to the people there -- and to your own life!

Thurston Community Television (TCTV)

Thurston Community Television is a membership organization that provides public, educational, and government access television in greater Thurston County, Washington. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation under contract to Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater and Thurston County. TCTV provides access channel management, training and production support to local residents, groups, government agencies and educational institutions. Our programming is seen on access channels on the Comcast cable system in Thurston County. Membership is open to any Thurston County resident or non-profit organization located in Thurston County.

Olympia Food Co-Op

The purpose of the Cooperative is to contribute to the health and well being of people by providing wholesome foods and other goods and services, accessible to all, through a locally oriented, collectively managed, not-for-profit cooperative organization that relies on consensus decision making. We strive to make human effects on the earth and its inhabitants positive and renewing and to encourage economic and social justice. The Olympia Food Co-Op was the first grocery store in the United States to boycott Israeli products in protest to their illegal occupation, colonialization and blockade of Palestine.

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Periodicals

In These Times

In These Times is a nonprofit and independent news magazine committed to political and economic democracy and opposed to the dominance of transnational corporations and the tyranny of marketplace values over human values. In These Times is dedicated to reporting the news with the highest journalistic standards; to informing and analyzing movements for social, environmental and economic justice; and to providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape our future.

The Progressive

Peace and social justice since 1909. The Progressive is a monthly left wing magazine of investigative reporting, political commentary, cultural coverage, activism, interviews, poetry, and humor. It steadfastly stands against militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, and the disenfranchisement of the citizenry. It champions peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy. Its bedrock values are nonviolence and freedom of speech.

Fire This Time

Fire This Time is an independent newspaper reflecting the struggles of oppressed people for building a new world. The Fire This Time Newspaper is supported solely through the individual donations from readers and supporters. Fire This Time prints 7,000 - 10,000 copies per issue 20% of this is distributed throughout Canada, US Internationally via mail. As a result of expanding mail distribution, Fire This Time Newspaper can be found in progressive bookstores and shops in all major cities in Canada. In addition, the newspaper is available in more than 150 locations in the Lower Mainland!

YES! Magazine

YES! Magazine reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, we outline a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.

Works In Progress

Works In Progress is a free, volunteer-operated progressive community newspaper based in Olympia, Washington. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Works In Progress and are solely those of the authors.

The Nation

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

COLORLINES

Colorlines.com is produced by a multiracial team of writers whose daily reporting and analysis serves as a leading voice on a broad range of issues including politics, immigration reform, the economy and jobs. We cover pop culture and Capitol Hill with equal zeal, and we offer readers the opportunity to take action on these issues through our Action channel. Colorlines.com features dynamic, hard-hitting coverage of the day's stories as they unfold, synthesizing complicated stories with multimedia features and breaking open new conversations with investigative reporting. Colorlines.com covers stories from the perspective of community, rather than through the lens of power brokers.

Z Magazine

Z is an independent monthly magazine dedicated to resisting injustice, defending against repression, and creating liberty. It sees the racial, gender, class, and political dimensions of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances; and it aims to assist activist efforts for a better future.

Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.

Dollars & Sense: Real World Economics

Dollars & Sense publishes economic news and analysis, reports on economic justice activism, primers on economic topics, and critiques of the mainstream media's coverage of the economy. Our readers include professors, students, and activists who value our smart and accessible economic coverage.

MERIP | Middle East Research and Information Project

Middle East Report 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. Understanding of the Middle East in the United States and Europe is limited and plagued by stereotypes and misconceptions. MERIP successfully addresses these limitations by addressing a broad range of social, political and cultural issues, and by soliciting writings and views from authors from the Middle East not often read in the West.

New Internationalist

The New Internationalist workers' co-operative (NI) exists to report on the issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice.

Rethinking Schools

In 1986, a group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision. They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public school system in the United States. Today that vision is embodied in Rethinking Schools. Rethinking Schools began as a local effort to address problems such as basal readers, standardized testing, and textbook-dominated curriculum. Since its founding, it has grown into a nationally prominent publisher of educational materials, with subscribers in all 50 states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and many other countries.

Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace

Our mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.

The Ecologist

Environment & Climate Change news & features plus green living advice

Tricycle

Join an Online Community Like No Other. Buddhist Wisdom, Meditation, and Practices for Daily Life

Eat the State!

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Eat the State! is a shamelessly biased political journal. We want an end to poverty, exploitation, imperialism, militarism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, environmental destruction, television, and large ugly buildings, and we want it now. We are not affiliated with any political group or party. We publish Eat the State! as a not-for-profit way of sharing information, resources, opinions, and hopefully inspiring action in our community.

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Alternative Health

Nutrition Action Healthletter

Published 10 times a year, Nutrition Action provides honest, unbiased, science-based advice on nutrition and health. It's the world's largest-circulation nutrition newsletter -- bringing the latest nutrition news and advice to more than a million readers. Nutrition Action is totally free of advertising. So we're free to blow the whistle on products that aren't what they pretend to be -- and to applaud the good ones.

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Resource Sharing and Sustainable Living

Food Not Bombs

Food Not Bombs shares free vegan and vegetarian meals with the hungry in over 1,000 cities around the world to protest war, poverty and the destruction of the environment. With over a billion people going hungry each day how can we spend another dollar on war? Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements and is gaining momentum throughout the world. There are hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty. Food Not Bombs is not a charity. This energetic grassroots movement is active throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Food Not Bombs is organizing for peace and an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. For nearly 30 years the movement has worked to end hunger and has supported actions to stop the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people, end exploitation and the destruction of the earth.

The Really Really Free Market - on Wikipedia

You have some stuff you don't need, everyone does. Share your extra items with your local community. It can be anything that you think someone else would want. In return, maybe you will find something that you need? That, however, is just scratching the surface. Really, Really Free Market can be whatever you make it. Because there is enough for everyone; Because sharing is more fulfilling than owning; Because corporations would rather see landfills overflow than anyone get anything for free; Because scarcity is a myth constructed to keep us at the mercy of the economy; Because a sunny day outside is better than anything money can buy; Because "free trade" is a contradiction of terms; Because no one should have to do without food, shelter, entertainment, and community; Because life should be a picnic, but it only will be if we make it happen.

The Freecycle Network™

Changing the world one gift at a time. The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,965 groups with 8,584,043 members around the world. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers (them's good people). Membership is free. Olympia Freecycle

Collective Autonomy Network

(Note: This site is only available on Archive.org)
There is a movement sprouting up all around of people creating innovative ways to take care of their own needs. The Collective Autonomy Network (CAN) intends to help this movement grow by creating communal resources to help these ways be easily replicated. These communal resources include a real-world and online network, community resource maps, and seed packets that explain how to replicate these ideas in your own community.

ReUseIt Network (RIN)

The ReUseIt Network is an on-line forum that serves as a tool to make connections between community members who want to help each other, themselves, and their environment. In a disposable society where many items are discarded long before they have actually outlived their use, The ReUseIt Network helps get things from people who have them but don't want them to people who want them but don't have them. Our goal is to find new uses for unwanted items that would otherwise be thrown into the trash. The primary benefit is that it reduces the amount of reusable items that end up in the trash with a secondary benefit of reducing the overall amount of items thrown into landfills. Reusing items not only cuts down on goods in landfills, but also helps reduce the strain on our natural resources by keeping usable items in circulation, reducing the need to manufacture additional goods. The ReUseIt Network also provides an opportunity for those looking for an item to ask for it. Requests for items may jog the memory of someone who has an unused item stashed in the garage or basement waiting to be used. It is a great way to help get rid of those things which we may have forgotten, giving every member the chance to ReUseIt! All transactions must be free, legal, and family-friendly.

Free Farm Stand

The Free Farm Stand, an all-volunteer run project of the No Penny Opera (a tax exempt organization) is about sharing the wealth of urban farms and gardens. We strive to attain the following goals: help make locally grown, fresh and nutritious organic produce accessible to all, especially those families and individuals on low-incomes and tight budgets; help empower people who have the space to grow their own food and become more self-reliant; promote good nutrition and health. What we do: We grow as much food as can in San Francisco and distribute it for free at our Free Farm Stand. We act as a gathering place in the Mission to encourage community growth and involvement. This effort revolves mostly around gathering surplus food from neighborhood gardens, various farmer's markets, community gardens, public and private fruit trees, and hosting a space where this bounty can be shared with all. We also work with Produce to the People who harvests organic fruit from backyard fruit trees and public spaces and brings it to our Free Farm Stand.

Full Circles

Full Circles is a Canadian group that is designed around the circle of life, going from undeveloped simple living to the full benefits of our technological society and back to a simpler way of life, with our society going full circle. Our Mission is to reduce our individual and collective environmental footprints on our home, the Earth by actively, energetically and positively promoting values of sustainability and conservation of resources. FULL CIRCLES will offer education, opportunity, and venues for individuals and communities to learn, to interact, to collaborate and to take action.

CouchSurfing

CouchSurfing is an international non-profit network that connects travelers with locals in over 230 countries and territories around the world. Since 2004, members have been using our system to come together for cultural exchange, friendship, and learning experiences. Today, over a million people who might otherwise never meet are able to share hospitality and cultural understanding.

Warmshowers

Warmshowers is a site for reciprocal hospitality for touring bicyclists.

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Multimedia Software

Miro, the open-source media player

Miro includes a huge podcast directory that you can browse for just about any type of content including a large amount of public affairs multimedia. Miro also allows you to easily publish your media for easy access to all Miro users. Miro is one of the world's most popular free, open-source software projects. But it's more than just great software: Miro is part of a fight to keep online video open. Dozens of major corporations are trying to lock video creators and viewers into closed and proprietary distribution systems. To them, proprietary models are just a way to make money by forcing viewers and creators to use their products. But if companies act as gatekeepers deciding what people see and what they don't, free speech online is threatened. Miro is recommended by Democracy Now!.

VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. The VLC media player works well and will allow for transcoding and also saving of streaming media. The VLC media player is recommended by Democracy Now!.

Radio? Sure!

Instant access to a world of radio stations. RadioSure is a neat radio app that will open up a world of new music. This great little tool is now in its 2nd version, and it just keeps getting better! RadioSure allows you to browse through a huge variety of stations, sorting by language, country, genre and title. You can also add new stations and toggle a variety of configuration settings that run from enabling hotkey's to recording radio. There are various ways of listen to RadioSure – via the main interface, minimized to a smaller bar, or minimized completely to the task bar. The task bar option will let you carry out the majority of actions you need by right-clicking.

FFMpeg - The multimedia Swiss Army Knife

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library. Not much compares to what this multimedia utility can do!

Icecast Server

Icecast is free, open source server software for streaming multimedia.

List of video editing software

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List of audio editing software

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous links

Weather Underground - Your local weather report

Weather Underground provides weather information for worldwide locations, including current conditions, hourly forecasts, radar and satellite maps. Specialized weather products include severe weather alerts, hurricane tracking, ski and sports weather, marine and aviation weather and user-contributed photographs.

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