Media
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Service Organizations/Media Outlets
- Air America Radio -- Live 24 hours a day on the Web, scores of stations nationwide, and satellite radio
- AlterNet -- "finds, evaluates, aggregates and organizes links to the best journalism, policy analysis and websites on a range of pressing issues, from globalization and grassroots organizing, to the war on drugs and genetic engineering."
- ColorLines -- published quarterly by the Applied Research Center.
- CommonDreams -- The News Center provides "An eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news with an emphasis on progressive perspectives that are increasingly hard to find with our corporate-dominated media." The Progressive NewsWire "brings you the press releases and the statements from America's progressive community directly to you - no filters, no editing."
- Democracy Now! -- a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 350 radio and TV stations in North America. Transcripts and audio/video streaming online.
- Independent Media Center -- "a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings 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."
- OneWorld.net -- "spans five continents and produces content in 11 different languages, published across its international site, regional editions, and thematic channels. Many of these are produced from the South to widen the participation of the world's poorest and most marginalised peoples in the global debate."
- Orion Online -- "explores an emerging alternative world view. Informed by a growing ecological awareness and the need for cultural change, it is a forum for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we might live justly, wisely, and artfully on Earth."
- Pacifica Radio -- "Bringing listeners alternative, community, free speech, listener sponsored radio for over 50 years." Pacifica Foundation is the non-profit parent of Pacifica Radio Network, comprised of:
- Peek: best of the blogs -- On his own blog, Alternet's Evan Derkacz has a list of the "best of the blogs."
- Progress Report - A daily review of the news distributed by a new think-tank the Center for American Progress. To subscribe go to their home page click on the Sign Up button and select the Progress Report as well as any other of their more than one dozen lists that you want to receive.
- The Black Commentator -- Our "core audience is African Americans and their allies in the struggle for social and economic justice.... Our focus is commentary, analysis and investigation, elements of political dialogue that are absolutely essential to the creation of movements for social change."
- 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 - TomPaine.com -- "Each day we scour the country—from Capitol Hill to newspapers to think tanks and activist groups—and highlight the news, ideas and actions that you need to stay fully informed. Because we're based in Washington, D.C., expect us to be obsessed with the workings of the nation's capitol." A project of the Institute for America's Future.
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