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Activist Media

Art Activism

• AdBusters. Includes ad parodies and a variety of tools for exposing the seamy side of the ad business, and consumer capitalism generally.
• Alternative Press Center. A guide to alternative press.
• Alternative Press Review. "Your guide beyond the mainstream."
• Bad Subjects. "Political Education for Everyday Life." An interesting new political journal out of Berkeley, CA. Bitch magazine. Its a noun, its a verb, its a feminist magazine for young women and girls. Incisive critiques and commentary on our media-driven world from feminist perspectives. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Spots and counter-attacks conservative bias in media. Mediachannel. A global network of media issues affiliates. Includes a searchable database of articles from various sites on the web. Media Rights. Utilizing unfiltered documentaries to promote social change. MediaWatch. "The Media Watchdog" website. The Monitor. Online version of an interesting progressive biweekly paper. Ms. magazine. One of the oldest and most influential feminist magazines. The Nation. Online site for America's longest-running progressive magazine. The Noam Chomsky Archive. Chomsky is a very active, prolific, progressive cultural critic and this site is information-rich. Our Media Voice. Promoting media rights and the building of a national coalition for media responsibility. Pacifica Radio. A long-standing, important activist media group in Berkeley, CA. Paper Tiger. The most important alternative TV production group. Deep Dish TV. "The first nationalgrassroots sateslite network." Radio for Peace International. Shortwave peace. Reclaim the Media. Fighting the private takeover of public broadcasting resources. Speak Out. Institute for Democratic Education and Culture. Progressive speakers and artists for campus and community events. Z(eta) Magazine: A Political Monthly. An important progressive magazine.
• The Z Media Institute. About Z Magazine’s summer Media workshops.

ART ACTIVISM

• African American Music and Culture Archive. Fine resource on jazz, blues and other African American cultural/political forms.
• Art in the Public Interest. Fine resource on community art movement(s).
• Black Cultural Studies. Compiled by Tim Haslett, Nimmy Abiaka, and Paula Lee. Includes information about Manthia Diawara, Arthur Jafa, bell hooks, Paul Gilroy, and a host of other black cultural critics.
• Black Film Center.
• Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia. Activism at its funnest; 101 ways to subvert mainstream culture.
• Chicana/o murals in LA. A site from Brown Pride. Also check out the featured site above.
• Cyber Vato: CyberSpace Conquered CyberBarrio. A performance space from Chicano political artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and friends.
• Visual AIDS: Day without Art. Art world response to AIDS death toll.
• Drawing the Line at Place: Environmental Justice Project. Fine article by Mat Schwarzman on an art project linking toxic waste and the old plantation system in Louisiana.
• EnviroArts page. Visual, verbal, and dramatic environmental arts.
• Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia. An excellent, extensive resource.
• Frameline. National organization supporting gay and lesbian filmmaking.
• Guerrilla Art. Great, imaginative site that makes Nike sweat, among other things.
• Guerilla Girls. Feminist conscience of the art world.
• Carol Simpson Design Works. Labor movement cartoons.
• Movies, Race and Ethnicity. Fine resource from UC Berkeley library.
• Names Project AIDS Quilt.
• The Praxis Group. Radical performance art.
• Refuse and Resist! Youth activist network, including text files on several current issues, an art gallery, and downloadable stickers.
• South Asian Literature Chai Room. Political and cultural studies. Interesting site on Asian and Asian American literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
• Women Artists. From the Artchive.
• Women Artists Archive. From the University of North Carolina.
• World's Women On-Line. International women's art site.

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