ACTIVISM AND INFORMATION
Alternative News Sources
With the number of companies who control our media on the steady decline, it makes sense to check out alternative sources of news to get a balanced viewpoint on current issues. Here are a few we like:
TV/VIDEO
Free Speech TV
Fuse TV
Jon Stewart
Link TV
The Colbert Report
Living With Ed
RADIO
Air America Radio
Democracy Now!
NPR
Prometheus Radio Project
Pacifica Radio
NEWS AND INFORMATION WEBSITES
Altercation
Realclearpolitics
Al Jazeera
AlterNet
AntiWar.com U.S. Body Count
BBC World Service
Corp Watch
Drudge Report
Guerilla News Network
Iraq Body Count
Military Free Zone
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
The National Security Archive
The Onion
Open Democracy
Pitchfork Media
Salon
Wonkette.com
Open Secrets
Grist
Treehugger
Plenty Magazine
Adbusters
BLOGS
blogger.com
Daily Kos
Pesky Facts
Take Back the Media
Talking Points Memo
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
Technorati
The War in Context
Eco Talk
BOOKS AND PUBLISHING COMPANIES
America (The Book) - A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum
Our Media, Not Theirs – The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media
Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Poor Workers' Unions - Rebuilding Labor from Below
Vanessa Tait
Ideas for Action - Relevant Theory for Radical Change
Cynthia Kaufman
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
Arundhati Roy
Democracy Matters
Cornell West
McSweeney’s Publishing
South End Press
Listening to the Land
Derrick Jensen
DOCUMENTARIES/MOVIES
Body Of War
The Third Wave
Born Into Brothels
Bush's Brain
Control Room
The Corporation
The Day My God Died
Get Up! Stand Up! The Story of Pop and Protest
Hotel Rwanda
Independent Media in a Time of War
Outfoxed
Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
What the Bleep do We Know!?
After Innocence
Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2
30 Days
Everything's Cool
Manufactured Landscapes