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Connexions Archive seeks a new home2009-11-18
Connexions Information Sharing Services
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
Grassroots Archives: Preservation as subversion?2012-10-08
Ulli Diemer of Connexions, a social justice library and archive - www.connexions.org - discusses problems facing grassroots archives at a talk sponsored by the Humanist Association of Toronto (HAT).
Leftwords Festival of Books and Ideas2012-05-05
Leftwords
LeftWords is a free public event that celebrates and promotes the work of progressive Canadian and international writers and thinkers whose works appear in books and magazines by Canadian independent ...
Shifting the frame – and getting our message out2011-09-06
Beit Zatoun
Beit Zatoun offers two workshops to help progressive communities and organizations better develop and communicate their message using the general media. Sat. Sept 24 & Sat. Oct. 29, 2011.
Sources Select Resources
Activist archiving in TorontoLithgow, Michael
Article
2013
Alternative Archive
People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
Alternative MediaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Alternative MediaIntroduction to the November 27, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2016
Connexions
It's no wonder that the mainstream media are widely distrusted, and even held in contempt, by many people. They are seen, rightly, as part of the neoliberal system people are increasingly rejecting. O...
Alternative Media is an Absolute Necessity!!Zacherydtaylor
Article
2012
Open Salon
By now most people that have been paying close attention to the traditional media and made some attempt to look at other sources know that the traditional media is controlled by corporate interests an...
An alternative media listGetting the news - and getting behind the news
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2014
Connexions
A selective list of English-language alternative media.
Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American JournalismRaimondo, Justin
Article
2017
Antiwar.com
What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the...
Authentic journalism: weapon of the peopleGiordano, Al
Article
2010
openDemocracy
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed CountryOstergaard, Anders
Film/Video
Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB mem...
The Case for Grassroots ArchivesDiemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie...
Changing MediaPublic Interest Policies for the Digital Age
Turner, Derek et. all
Article
2009
Free Press
Includes groundbreaking research and analysis on achieving universal, affordable Internet access, answering the crisis in journalism and building a world-class public media system.
Citizen mediaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The term citizen media refers to forms of content produced by private citizens who are otherwise not professional journalists.
Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News SourcePearson, Tamara
Article
2016
Counterpunch
In first world countries, Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the main places where people come across their news -- ahead of television and news sites. "Success" is becoming about the number of re...
Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture FocusWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
Connexions Library: Organizing Focus PageWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
Content Magazine - Number 18April 1972
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1972
Content Magazine
Content Magazine - Number 19May 1972
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1972
Content Magazine
Content Magazine - Number 36October 1973
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1973
Content Magazine - Number 53July 1975
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1975
Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?Fillmore, Nick
Article
2010
Connexions
A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by AlgorithmsSonnenblume, Kollibri terre
Article
2017
CounterPunch
An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cu...
Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge BreakthroughPart 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
Fillmore, Nick
Article
2010
Connexions
Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The NationProyect, Louis
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking pl...
For an international coalition to fight Internet censorshipArticle
2018
World Socialist Web Site
In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
Frequently Asked Questions about SourcesArticle
2009
Sources
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, c...
From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark AgesCook, Jonathan
Article
2017
CounterPunch
Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their...
From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic NewsGiordano, Al
Article
2009
Narco News
Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from belo...
Frontier FilmsArticle
2015
Frontier films Inc. was a non-profit organization formed in March 1938 out of the Worker's Film and Photo League and Nykino, meant to continue the tradition of producing films for social change in a d...
Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest ActivitiesPart 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
Fillmore, Nick
Article
2010
Connexions Information Sharing Services
A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project - or raises money for just about any public-interest activity - will probably have success in fundraising if it does the pro...
Getting your story into the mediaArticle
2009
Sources
Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people w...
Helping you reach the mediaHow Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Article
2009
Sources
Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity ...
How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The MainstreamKeeble, Richard
Article
2010
Medialens
The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex....
How I Became a "Recovering Documentary Filmmaker" and Learned to Reach a Wider PublicThe School of Authentic Journalism Saved My Life: Your Donations Make It Possible
Berger, Gregory
Article
2012
Narco News
A look into the way that the The School of Authentic Journalism guides journalists and organizers to reach wider audiences.
I.F. Stone: A Wonderful PariahZwicker, Barrie
Article
1989
Canadian Dimension
I.F. Stone's WeeklyStone, I.F.
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1953
I.f. Stone
Weekly newsletter published by I.F. Stone from 1953 to 1971. All issues between January 17, 1953 and December 1, 1971 are online.
The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social MovementsSicilia, Javier
Article
2012
Narco News
Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism.
In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the MediaBonilla, Isadora; Giordano, Al
Article
2012
Narco News
The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
Independent media advocates must develop creative news sitesFillmore, Nick
Article
2010
Connexions
We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?Sources News Release
Article
2012
Connexions
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
It's Not All RelativeLevinovitz, Alan Jay
Article
2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Can a devotion to cultural tolerance lead to the triumph of alternative facts?
Javier Sicilia Calls Out to Alternative Media as a Force for CommunicationGarcia, Laura
Article
2012
Narco News
At the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, a poet reviews the first year of the movement against the drug war that he inspired.
Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass MediaFake, Steven
Article
2010
Ideas & Action
Prospects for democracy are dependent upon the growth of an independent media with wide exposure in the general population comparable to that of the corporate press.
Liberation News ServiceConnexipedia Article
Article
A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
A Life of Challenge to the Dogma of "Objectivity"Richard Bell Is Practiced at Juggling Journalism, Advocacy and Politics
Han, Kirsten
Article
2012
Narco News
Journalism, advocacy, politics: Are they completely different fields or aspects of the same game? Can someone actually do all three? Richard Bell has done them all and has lived to tell the tale.
The Medium is The Middleman: For a Revolution Against MediaGiordano, Al
Article
1997
Narco News
Media now controls a new economic order: one that has supplanted governments, churches and productive industry to impose a mediating tyranny over people and our Daily Lives.
Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of MemoryPreservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Article
2012
Connexions and Beit Zatoun
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). G...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Article
2014
Connexions
Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016Alternative Media
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
A special issue on alternative media.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017April 1 issue
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critica...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate chan...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018Their Interent or Ours?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
Connexions
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glo...
Red Menace #4Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1979
Libertarian Socialist Collective
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
Seven News: The Story of a Community NewspaperHorrocks, Lisa
Article
1984
An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years.
Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowdArticle
2009
Sources
An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their ...
The website of I.F. StoneStone, I.F.
Website
Website devoted to the journalism and life of radical journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989).
Underground pressConnexipedia Article
Article
Independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations.
Underground Press SyndicateConnexipedia Article
Article
A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
The War Against "Fake News" is a War on UsCook, Jonathan
Article
2018
Dissident Voice
Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that...
What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?Albert, Michael
Article
1997
Z Magazine
Having avidly consumed and helped conceive and produce alternative media for decades, I
am tired of how vague we are on these issues.
The Witch-HuntersRaimondo, Justin
Article
2016
Antiwar.com
Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
World Charter of Free MediaArticle
2015
World Forum of Free Media
A charter for the democratization of communication.
Sources Bookshelf
Alternative and Activist New MediaLievrouw, Leah A.
Book
2011
An overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views,...
Alternative Press IndexAn index to alternative and radical periodicals
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1996
An index to alternative and radical publications, published quarterly in print and also available on CD-ROM.
The Barefoot ChannelCommunity Television as a Tool for Social Change
Goldberg, Kim
Book
1990
How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
Beyond the Echo ChamberReshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media
Clark, Jessica; Van Slyke, Tracy
Book
2010
According to the authors, a new breed of networked progressive media are informing and engaging millions. By harnessing a participatory media environment, they have succeeded in influencing political ...
Communication for and Against DemocracyRaboy, Marc and Bruck, Peter A. (ed.)
Book
1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
Connexions Annual 1994A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series...
Content Magazine - Number 18April 1972
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1972
Content Magazine - Number 19May 1972
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1972
Content Magazine - Number 36October 1973
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1973
Content Magazine - Number 53July 1975
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1975
Democracy's OxygenHow Corporations Control the News
Winter, James
Book
1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture publi...
Getting the GoodsInformation in BC How to Find It, How to Use It
Oustonm, Rick
Book
1990
A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
Inventing RealityThe Politics of News Media
Parenti, Michael
Book
1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
Smoking TypewritersThe Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
McMillian, John
Book
2011
Describes the emergence of an underground press in the 1960s. Writers and participants reflected the spirit of cultural and political protest and encouraged the development of the New Left's highly de...
Uncovering the SixtiesLife and Times of the Undergound Press
Peck, Abe
Book
1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered t...
Broken PencilThe magazine of zine culture and the independent arts.
The Canadian ProgressiveThe Canadian Progressive is an activism-oriented progressive political blog. Relentless action is required to effect progressive change, to make Canada and the world a better place. It encourages Cana...
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