| About-Face
Combating the distorted images of women in media.
Allied
Media Projects
"Media strategies for a more just and creative world." Organizers of
the annual Allied Media Conference.
AMARC
- World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
A global group dedicated to fostering community radio everywhere,
lots of info to be found here on grassroots radio. Beautiful
Trouble
An activist/prankster toolbox: mental warfare tactics for the next revolution.
BIT
Radio
An automated Radio Interruption service for local area news, BIT Radio transmits
brief audio 'break-ins', for rapid news delivery to established audiences.
Center
for Media Justice
A preeminent voice for the voiceless.
Common
Frequency Radio Project
Working to assist groups to apply for scarce full-power noncommercial FM station
construction permits.
Community
FM: Towards a Toolkit for Community Radio
Archive of coverage of conference in Manchester, UK, February 2004 featuring
representatives from around the world sharing notes and exploring models. Community
Media Association
Non-profit organization devoted to expanding public access to media as producers
in the UK. Digital
Radio Mondiale North America
Advocating for the deployment of Digital Radio Mondiale in the United States;
archive for information on the DRM standard.
Fox
News Boycott
From infoshop.org: "Join the campaign against right wing TV."
Free
Press
Leaders in the fight for media policy reform.
Free
Radio Berkeley
Home of Stephen Dunifer, still active in the kit building business. Indymedia.org
Widely-known gathering place where anyone is a journalist through open
publishing; incubator of several innovative DIY-media projects.
Inspecting
Broadcasters' Public and Political Files
A handy how-to guide from Free Press. Live
Streaming 101
A handy yet comprehensive primer on providing real-time coverage from fluid protest
actions.
LPFM.WS
REC Networks repository of FCC information and database tools on low power FM
broadcasting.
May
Day Radio
NYC-based experimentation with micro-mosquito fleet street broadcasting.
Media
Access Project
"A non-profit, public interest law firm which promotes the public's First
Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow.
Media
Action Center
Campaign designed to engage the public to pressure broadcasters to operate in
the public interest, via content-watchdogging and public file inspections.
Media
Alliance
Training and resources to empower media workers as well as media education and
training for interested activists.
Media
Democracy Day
Home base for coordination of the October holiday dedicated to taking back the
public voice. Media
Mobilizing Project
Unleashing "the powerful combination of communications, media making and
organizing in order to clarify the issues at stake, document lived human realities,
and act as a tool to inspire and unite those who have a vested interest in change." Media
Policy Action Directory
The Center for International Media Action's handy guidebook to groups and projects
dedicated to media policy education and reform. (2005)
National
Audio Theatre Festivals
Yearly convergences where the art of radio drama is explored and expanded. neuroTransmitter
Backpack-powered mosquito fleet designed to provide street-level microbroadcast
services.
Next
5 Minutes
An international collaboration involving the establishment and development
of "tactical media labs" that culminates in a media festival. Part15.US
Community of unlicensed, but legal, broadcasters sharing tips and tricks for
making the most of micro-wattage.
Project
TUPA
"Transmitters Uniting the Peoples of the Americas" - helping
to organize communities to resist imperialism, one watt at a time.
Prometheus
Radio Project
Leader and supporter of fledgling LPFM stations nationwide, may
be coming to a town near you.
Public
Knowledge
"Fighting for your digital rights in Washington."
Radio
for People
A coalition dedicated to helping organizations prepare to file for new non-commercial
FM station applications.
Radio
Spark
A place where aspiring LPFM broadcasters can connect with potential station-supporters.
Reclaim
the Media
Major information nexus in the slowly-growing fight for media democracy.
Regulations.gov
A one-stop shop where American citizens can find and speak out
about various regulatory proceedings wending through the federal maze.
Handy!
Seattle
Micro Radio Communications Commission (SMRCC)
Helps to coordinate microbroadcasting activity in and around the
Seattle metropolitan area.
Stencil
Stealthily
Convert a shopping bag into a canvas for clandestine street art.
Stop
IBOC Now!
A growing coalition of broadcast professionals and listeners unhappy with HD
Radio as radio's default digital protocol.
SWLfest.com
Home site for the annual winter gathering of shortwave pirate enthusiasts.
Wave
Manual
Home to an ambitious book/zine project tying experiences of electronic civil
disobedience throughout the Americas. World
Radio Forum
"Broadcasters, producers, journalists,
trainers & facilitators in radio programming made for, with, and
by children and youth." Yahoo!
Group: Creative-Radio
"A forum for people active or interested in using radio creatively
in international public health, development and related fields. Creative
Radio tries to bridge the gap between journalism and humanitarian, post-conflict
and development activities."
The
Yes Lab for Creative Activism
The Yes Men make it easy to collectively fund and execute culture jamming. |
