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The links below represent some of Whispered Media's special interests and affiliations. There are many more links on the Video Activist Network site
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®TMark Spectacle disturbance ideas for corporate culture. Big Noise Films Makers of Zapatista, also created segments for Showdown in Seattle. Cascadia Media Collective Produces Cascadia Alive! in Eugene, OR, a community tv program on radical politics, patriarchy, police brutality and resistance to environmental destruction and deforestation
Cold Mountains Cold Rivers Video producers covering the largest roadless wilderness areas in the lower 48. Recently produced "Buffalo Nations." Eastern Quoll Media grassroots independent oz media / great new video about the forests of Papua New Guinea Deepdish tv National satellite network programmed on more than 300 cable stations across the USA. Freespeech TV Streaming great videos on the web and broadcasting via cable access nation-wide. 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. Headwaters Action Video Collective North Coast Earth First! video activists, producers of LUNA, FIRE IN THE EYES, TREE SIT and TIMBER GAP. Paper Tiger tv Seminal and still very active video activists. Pickaxe Productions Among Oregon's finest video producers, focus on direct action, forest preservation and anarchism. Sleeping Giant Up and coming video activists of San Francisco ... central to the production of great collaborative videos, screenings, promotion and great projects on toxics, labor, housing, progressive politices and more. 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. The Video Activist Network A loose network of videographers dedicated to promoting social justice and economic sustainability with the use of video. Site contains screenings information, many more links, videos and resources pertaining to video activism.
Alternative Media/Media ActivismAK Press Great online source of print, audio and video Alternative Tentacles Early Indy label and punk producers Artists Television Accesscat@lyst A Temporary Autonomous Zone created for the free exchange of information. Low tech grass roots net access for real people. Pedestrians, public transport and pushbikes on the information super hypeway. Fairness and Acuracy in Reporting Free Radio Berkeley Original micropower broadcastors in Berkeley - workshops and info on microtransmission Free Radio - from around the world Independent Media Center The Independent Media Center is 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. Independent Media Center - San Francisco Bay Area The SF Bay IMC is a growing nexus for bay area independent media makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of the global indymedia (IMC) network. Infoshop Incredible source of information and healthy culture Media Alliance Training and resources for media workers and activists The Media Channel Excellent mass media analysis New Society Publishing New Book, Global Urprising, will be reviewed on this site in the near future. PirateTV.net Blending music and video in seemless digital productions for the web. The UK-based, Cold Cut, features great beats and multisource sampling, melodically and rthymicly edited (sometimes in video formats) like the edit, "Timber," on Let Us Play. Ninjatune is an experiemental label producing lots of great music and digital media . . . Proactivist.com Great posting on photojournalism . . . many issues, many images Rainforest Action Network's page on media skills and funding RegenerationTV Streaming progressive videos on the web Save Pacifica Restore the great radio network to its former integritiy and help save stations like KPFA Environmental and Social Justice GroupsBig Mountain Dineh Resisters of Relocation. Biotic Baking Brigade The Vanguard of the Global Pastry Uprising. Also, one videoactivist's view of the Need for Pie. ... other culture jamming ideas Coalition on Homelessness Based in San Francisco, the coalition empowers the homeless to advocate for themselves, witnesses what is occuring as gentrification plagues the city's working class and fights for the homeless in courts and legislative chambers. 1999 was a leading year in the number of evictions and homeless deaths - despite all the reporting about the "economic boom." Cove/Mallard Coalition Big defense of the big wild (Northern Rockies). Critical Mass Bikes are cleaner, quieter and safer . . . can't our society make room for them? EZLN Homepage Indegenous resistance to globalization in Chiapas Green Action Organizing community members - around toxics, ward valley, environmental justice Bay Area Housing Issues organizing and information Housing Issues Organizers key Bay Area groups listed Industrial Workers of the World Prison Activist Resource Center and their page on the links of youth organizing Wild Rockies The grassroots activist website for the wild rockies bioregion.
Anti-Fascism, Anti- Nazismhttp://www.anti-fascism.org/ Anti-Racist Action The largest anti-racist youth movement in North America. ARA has a 15-year history of successfully exposing, opposing and confronting racists, sexists and homophobes in cities all across the continent. Anti-Racist Action Store ARA is entirely self-funding Aryan Nations News Spokesman Review Articles in Idaho Remember.org Remember the Holocaust shares art, discussion, photos, poems, and facts to preserve powerful memories. Southern Poverty Law Center Recently won a lawsuit against the Aryan Nations Spitfire - Distributor of Dave Emory's anti-fascist radio series
AnarchismAnarchism in Action Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas by shawn@wilshire.net Anarchy? What do you mean by that? Anarchists' Info Clearinghouse Bikisha Media Collective South African anarchists fighting racism. Economic Globalization - WTO, IMF, World Bank, FTAA, G8World Bank back in DC Sept. 26 through Oct. 1 Adbusters' page on the WTO An interesting page that raises key questions. Chemical Cops People often ask about the nature of the "tear gas" and other chemical weapons used by modern american police against nonviolent protestors. This posting by In These Times is very informative. Food First Questions of food production and food distribution were very much on the table in Seattle - and have yet to be decided. The Institute for Food and Development Policy, FOOD FIRST - takes on issues of genetic engineering, overuse of pesticides, the fallacies of "high-yield" varities and explores truly sustainable and equitable options. They were very active in Seattle with their Policy Director, Anuradha Mittal, giving statements to the mainstream and alternative press and their members standing in among the human-chain that prevented delegates from entering the WTO meetings Global ActionThis group looks unflinchingly at the real issues surrounding the top-down, centralized, eurocentric ways of treating the world that the WTO represents and makes the case for a variety of tactics when confronting unaccountable corporate power. Plus, it features a great graphic, "Greetings from Seattle." Get ready for May Day 2000 Global Arcade The "Virtual Empowerment Center": an innovative site combining entertaining shockwave video games and engaging articles to deftly illustrate issues of corporate globalization. Global Exchange's page on the Global Economy The Independant Media Center (IMC) first created to cover events in Seattle (related to the proposed WTO meeting there) - the IMC continues to be a great source for all things global and some local International Forum on Globalization (IFG) The (IFG) was among the first organizations to warn of the dangers of corporate globalization. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Members of the ILWU shut down the major ports all along the West Coast on November 30 - an injury to one is an injury to all. National Lawyer's Guild Guild lawyers were present in Seattle (and at many big demos before and since.) They provide invaluable advice and services to protesters and onlookers. Regeneration TV , Freespeech TV , and the Video Activists Watch Videos page for realvideo about the WTO, the IMF and World Bank and many other related issues Stop the "Free Trade Area of the Americas" United Steelworkers of America (USWA) Do you remember reading about the Boston Tea Party? The Steelworkers were very instrumental in helping to facilitate a huge labor presence, in Seattle, to object to the WTO's horrible record on labor issues. An excerpt from their website, "Hundreds of Steelworkers were joined by more than a thousand student protesters at the port of Seattle yesterday where they dumped mock steel I-beams into the water in a demonstration aimed at dramatizing the continuing crisis of foreign steel being dumped on the American market. Human rights, environmental and student activists joined trade union protests throughout the week in what is a growing and broad-based coalition in opposition to the unfair trade practices advanced by the World Trade Organization (WTO)." Yet Another WTO homepage? you decide News Scanning, Research Aids and Video Archives
VAN resources for videography and media work
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