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

AK Kraak Berlin video activists

Amazon Watch

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

Archive.org Giant online archive of video, images and music.

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

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

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

Breaking Free video magazine Alternative media for Direct Action!

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

California Newsreel

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

Chicago Filmmakers

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

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

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

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

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

Democracy University Videos of Progressive Events ( old website )

Director General Films An independent production company based in Edmonton, Canada. We produce films that light up larger social issues by telling the stories of everyday people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flying Focus Video Collective Video activists of Portland, Oregon

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

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

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

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

Global Village CAT the most updated and comprehensive listing of community or public access tv sites in the world (500 sites).

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

Greenfire productions Accomplished video producers - forest issues

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

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

Headwaters Action Video Collective (See Earth Films, above)

High Plains Films Environmental documentary makers in Missoula, Montana

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

indieHUB.org a resource and community site for independent filmmakers, with a special emphasis on activism.

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

Katalyytti Finnish Video Magazine which premiered in 2001.

LaborFest Film & Video Festival

LaborNet Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement.

La Lutta New Media Collective NYC

Linux Video Projects: Evolving Rapidly. "Open Source, Open Standards, Open Streaming." Try the Linux Video and DVD Project; Vorbis; MPEG4IP; OpenSource Video Streaming or The Xiph Foundation.

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

Michael Moore

MTPVideo Producers and distributors of educational and informative film.

Mountain Eye Media a video production company in North Carolina

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

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

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

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

Organic Chaos Network consist of several video collectives based in the Netherlands including Trojan TV (see below). Part of Federation Collective Rampenplan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spectacle UK-based indie video distribution

SunMt Video

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

The Light Surgeons London based "Audio-Visual Architects"

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

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

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

Trojan TV is a collective of video activists from Germany and the Netherlands and part of
the Organic Chaos Network. With its videos, trojan tv contributes to actual political discussions, e.g. about migration, security and environment. Video activism means not only making videos to inform people, but also to motivate and activate them. Trojan tv works on a non-commercial basis and distributes its videos under copy-left. This means that they can be copied freely for non-commercial purpose. Email

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whispered Media a video activist collective based in San Francisco.

White Dot International campaign against television.

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

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

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

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

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Independent Media & Design

2600 the Hacker quarterly

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

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

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

Adbusters

AK Press Great online source of print, audio and video.

Alternative Press Center

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

Alternet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources.

®^TMark exploring the nuances of media for corporate culture.

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

Association for Progressive Communication

Autonomedia Bookstore

Blackout Books Excellent links to all kinds of indie media outlets.

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

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

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

Clamor Magazine "undisputed heavyweight champion of independent voices"

Corporate Watch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

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

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

Fairness and Acuracy in Reporting

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

Freemedia - controinformazione, Italy.

Global Village CAT the most updated and comprehensive listing of community or public access tv sites in the world (700 sites).

Global Visions Film Festival 21st Annual Celebration of Documentary Cinema, Global Awareness and Community Engagement in Edmonton, Canada.

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

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

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

Independent Media Center great alternative news websites all around the world.

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

International Progressive Publications Network (IPPN)

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

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

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

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

Love Underground Vision Radio Berkeley.

Media Access Project Helps keep programming open to independents.

Media Alliance Training and resources for media workers and activists.

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

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

Media Literacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Project Censored Researching media and censored stories for over a decade.

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

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

Radio For Peace International (RFPI) an internet radio station that broadcast on shortwave radio for many years until it was forcibly evicted from the University of Peace where it had been invited to broadcast by the United Nations and the Costa Rican Government. Excellent coverage of left wing alternative press.

Rainforest Action Network

RegenerationTV Streaming progressive videos on the web.

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

Save Pacifica Restoring Pacifica as a Forum for Independent Voices.

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

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

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

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

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

Webzine 2000 Independent Web Publishers Unite in San Francisco.

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

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

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

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Research Resources

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

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

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

The Corp Monitor at the Energy-net...

Corporate Watch "The Earth is not dying it is being killed. And those who are killing it have names and addresses." - Utah Phillips.

The Freedom of Information Act

Intellectual Property Issues

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

Major polluters in your area by zipcode.

Nolo Press - Do-It-Yourself Legal Advice

Political Research Associates

Project for Excellence in Journalism

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

Renegade faithful article server.

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

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