WEB LiNKS

Independent media

• AK Press
• http://www.akuk.com/
  Books, magazines, pamphlets, journals, t-shirts and badges.

• Arbetaren
• http://www.arbetaren.se
  Swedish syndicalist weekly newspaper. Strongly feminist.

• Consortiumnews.com
• http://www.consortiumnews.com/
  Consortiumnews.com is a product of The Consortium for Independent Journalism, Inc., a non-profit organization that relies on donations from its readers to produce these stories and keep alive this Web publication.

• Counterpunch
• http://www.counterpunch.org
  Hard-hitting political e-newspaper in the United States that served as the spirit of true resistance for American radicals during the 2004 elections -- amidst a sea of liberal hopelessness. They were NOT ABB.

• Dissident Voice
• http://www.dissidentvoice.org/
  Dissident Voice is an internet newsletter dedicated to challenging the distortions and lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves. The goal of Dissident Voice is to provide hard hitting, thought provoking and even entertaining news and commentaries on politics and culture that can serve as ammunition in struggles for peace and social justice.

• eFestivals.co.uk
• http://www.efestivals.co.uk/
  Lots of details about UK festivals. Commercial site, but useful info.

• Electronic Intifada
• http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
  EI provides a needed supplement to mainstream commercial media representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• Exploding Cinema
• http://www.explodingcinema.org/
  A coalition of film/video makers committed to developing new modes of exhibition for underground media; from DIY screenings in all kinds of venues to low/no budget film tours, cable T.V. and the internet.

• Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.
• http://www.fair.org/
  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.

• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
• http://fair.org
  National media watch group in the United States. Regularly presents extensive research-based evidence of media bias.

• Free Documentaries
• http://freedocumentaries.org/
  Excellent site with free political documentaries to stream and watch at your leisure - watch out for the 9/11 conspiracy theories, though!

• George Monbiot
• http://www.monbiot.com/
  Collection of Monbiot's journalistic work. Always interesting and enlightening to read.

• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
• http://hrw.org/iff/2004/london/schedule.html
  Brilliant human rights film festival - check it out 17 - 25 March 2004

• Independent Media Centre
• http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
  Interactive platform for activists - lots of news - read and write reports

• Independent Media TV
• http://www.independent-media.tv/
  

• Indymedia UK
• http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
  Free to publish and post on, independent media. Widest coverage of all the sites, links to sister sites across the world. Sometimes gets bogged down in sectarian rants......

• Information For Social Change
• http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html
  Activists around access to information/libraries. Latest issue dealt with impact of WTO on library services.

• Infoshop News
• http://www.infoshop.org/inews/
  Infoshop News is one of the oldest and most alternative news services on the Internet. We rely on an international network of volunteers and writers.......

• Internationalen
• http://www.internationalen.se/sp/index.htm
  Newspaper of the Swedish Socialist Party.

• Kurdish Media
• http://www.kurdishmedia.com/
  Voices the Turkish regime would like to silence.

• Kurdish Web
• http://www.KurdistanWeb.org/
  Independent information on Kurds and their heritage

• New Internationalist
• http://www.newint.org/
  A workers' co-operative that 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..................

• Pluto Books
• http://www.plutobooks.com/
  One of the UK's leading independent publishers, committed to publishing the best in critical writing across the social sciences and humanities.

• Politicsinfo.net
• http://www.politicsinfo.net/
  Info and links about politics in Belgium, Europe and worldwide. In French and Dutch.

• Protest Net
• http://www.protest.net/
  News of protests worldwide

• R??d Press
• http://www.rodpress.nu/
  Radical youth magazine published by the Swedish Young Left. Socialist and feminist perspective.

• Red Pepper
• http://www.redpepper.org.uk/
  Independent magazine of the green and radical left

• Solidarity [ Montreal ]
• http://www.tao.ca/~solidarity/
  Small collection of political writings, particularly by prisoners

• Stockholms Fria
• http://stockholms.fria.nu/
  Weekly Swedish newspaper aiming to report about that which the conventional media ignores.

• Urban 75
• http://www.urban75.org/
  Non-profit community site, check out their action page.

• Zed Books
• http://zedbooks.co.uk/
  Independent workers co-op - publishers of scholarly/critical books on a variety of issues.

• Znet
• http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm
  Massive website with articles, analysis and songs, from Chomsky to Arundhati Roy.