Resources for activism and indep. journalism

This list proposes groups or networks that offer resources or tools for activism.

Action Critique Médias (FR)
Observatoire_des_médias : "... rechercher et établir les convergences entre les acteurs (professionnels ou non)
des médias, les usagers et les chercheurs concernés - entre tous ceux qui souvent remplissent à la fois cette triple fonction."


Adbusters (CAN-INT)
We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.


L'Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec (AJIQ) (QUE)
L'Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec (AJIQ) est la seule organisation au Québec qui s'intéresse aux problèmes et à
l'avenir des journalistes à statut précaire, les pigistes, les contractuels et les surnuméraires.


L'Association Mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires (AMARC) (INT - cas. ; fra. ; eng.)
L'AMARC est une organisation non gouvernementale internationale au service du mouvement de la radio communautaire, composée d'environ
3000 membres de 110 pays.Elle tient lieu de réseau d'échange et de solidarité entre les radiodiffuseurs communautaires, et vise principalement à coordonner et à faciliter la coopération etl'échange entre ces derniers.


L'Association des médias écrits communautaires du Québec (AMECQ) (QUE)
L'Association des médias écrits communautaires du Québec a pour but de fournir des services de soutien et de formation à ses journaux
communautaires membres, de les regrouper et de les représenter pour que ceux-ci puissent remplir leur rôle et leur mission fondamentale.


Asociación para el Progresso de las Comunicaciones (U.S.-INT / eng. ; cas.)
La Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones (APC) es una red internacional de organizaciones cívicas que empoderan y asisten
a grupos y particulares que trabajan por la paz, los derechos humanos, el desarrollo y la protección del medio ambienta, a través del uso estratégico de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TIC), incluida Internet. -

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to
empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologie(ICTs), including the Internet.


L’Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec (ARCQ) (QUE)
L’Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec (ARCQ) est une organisation sans but lucratif regroupant des radiodiffuseurs
communautaires opérant sur le territoire québécois.


Calendrier de la démocratie en action: activités et événements engagés, démocratiques ou progressistes de Québec & Chaudière-Appalaches (QUE)
Calendrier en ligne qui diffuse tout événement démocratique ou progressiste de Québec, un peu de Chaudière-Appalaches et parfois nationaux. Ouvert à toute personne voulant informer les gens d'une activité ou d'un événement de solidarité locale ou internationale ou démocratique.


Center for Digital Democracy (U.S.)
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.


Le Centre d'études sur les médias de l'Université Laval (QUE)
Le Centre d'études sur les médias, un organisme sans but lucratif fondé en 1992, est un lieu de recherche, mais il est également un agent de concertation entre les entreprises de communication, les milieux gouvernementaux et universitaires.


Chiapas Media Project (MEX-U.S.)
The Chiapas Media Project (CMP) is a bi-national partnership that provides video equipment, computers and training, enabling marginalized indigenous and campesino communities in Southern Mexico create their own media. Since 1998, CMP instructors have worked in close collaboration with autonomous Zapatista communities.


Colombia Journalism Review (U.S.)
The Columbia Journalism Review is recognized throughout the world as America's premiere media monitor—a watchdog of the press in all its forms, from newspapers and magazines to radio, television, and cable to the wire services and the Web. Founded in 1961 under the auspices of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, CJR examines not only day-to-day press performance but also the many forces—political, economic, technological, social, legal, and more—that affect that performance for better or worse.


Comitee to Protect Journalists (U.S.-INT)
The Committee to Protect Journalists is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to monitor abuses against the press and promote press freedom around the world.


Congrès Mondial des réseaux citoyens de l'Ère Numérique (QUE-INT)
La coalition internationale GlobalCN et le Carrefour mondial de l'Internet citoyen sont les maîtres d'oeuvre de la Plateforme des réseaux citoyens.


Coordination Permanente des Médias Libres (FR)
Parce que nous croyons à l'absolue nécessité du débat démocratique, parce que nous sommes conscients du rôle que nous avons à jouer dans un monde où la liberté d'expression et le pluralisme se heurtent à une logique de marché de plus en plus hégémonique, nous entendons continuer à exercer et à développer un contre-pouvoir critique, nécessaire à toute information et à tout débat d'idées.


CORE - Consumo Responsabile (ITA)
In Italia la democrazia, oggi, e' gravemente minacciata dall'enorme concentrazione di poteri plitici, economici e mediatici nelle mani dell'attuale presidente del consiglio. Questa situazione, cecondo noi, e' assolutamente inaccettabile ed e' dovere di ogni cittadanoche creda nella democrazia darsi da fare per spingere Silvio Berlusconi, il protagonista di questo conflitto di interessi, a risolvere in modo serio il problema.


CRIS - Communication Rights in the Information Society (U.K./ eng. ; cas. ; rus.)
Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) is a campaign to ensure that communication rights are central to the information society and to the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The campaign is sponsored and supported by the Platform for Communication Rights, a group of NGOs involved in media and communication projects around the world.


CUTV - Concordia University Television
The station is essentially a media hub, providing students avenues to create and distribute video-based programming, artistic content and short films. In addition to this website, CUTV broadcasts throughout the Hall building via a network of monitors and occasionally screens content at pubs and community centres in and around the city.


DAMN - Direct Action Media Network (INT)
The Direct Action Media Network (DAMN!) is a multi-media news service that covers direct actions that progressive organizations and individuals take to attain a peaceful, open and enlightened society.


Entrée Libre - Portail (FR)
Entrée libre se veut un lieu de partage et d'expression pour ceux qui espèrent ou proposent une alternative à l'idéologie dominante.
(Publication ouverte)


Exploding Cinema (U.K)
The EXPLODING CINEMA is a coalition of film/video makers committed to developing new modes of exhibition for underground media; from DIY screenings in all kinds of venues to low/no budget film tours, cable T.V. and the internet.


FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (U.S.)
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.
As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.


Free Media Network (U.S.)
The Free Media Network exists to provide radical and cohesive media and news coverage of the growing global movement against capitalism and non-democratic governments. We are a cooperatively run group of media activists rooted in the principles of direct democracy. Our goal is to build a permanent and diverse media network representative of the growing communication and cooperation that has made recent opposition to the WTO possible in Seattle and around the world. The Free Media Network is committed to contextualizing the many struggles against oppression with the explicit purpose of building a revolutionary movement of social and political change against all forms of hierarchy and domination, and for a truly ecological and egalitarian society.


Headwaters Action Video Collective (U.S.)
Educational video & media project that specializes in environmental & social issue documentaries.


I-Contact Video Network (U.K)
We are a non-profit making initiative set up to provide support for those using video for Positive Change. This includes Progressive,
Alternative and Independent Video Makers and Video Activists.


IMPACS - Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (CAN)
IMPACS is a young and dynamic registered Canadian charity, filling an important niche in civil society. We work to strengthen communications between not-for-profit organizations, government and the media, both in Canada and internationally.


Institute for Global Communications (U.S.INT)
Beginning in 1987, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, conflict resolution and worker rights.


Free Speech TV (U.S.)
Working with activists and artists, Free Speech TV uses television to cultivate an informed and active citizenry in order to advance progressive social change. FSTV airs primarily social, political, cultural, and environmental documentaries acquired from independent producers, and we are beginning to produce and commission original content.


Free.The.Media - Free Media Foundation (U.S.)
Free.The.Media is a convergence of artists, activists and technnologists working collectively to create autonomous self- sustainable infrastructures and open source software tools that enbale access and the free exchange of information in the digital world.


Itrain Online (INT / fr. ; cas. ; eng.)
L'initiative ItrainOnline cherche à aider les organisations de la société civile (OSC) et les autres acteurs sociaux des pays en développement à relever les défis posés par les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC). Réduire les disparités en termes de capacité en d'action permet de mettre en liaison les personnes et les compétences avec les besoins des apprenants et des formateurs en TIC.


La Neta (MEX-INT)
LaNeta es una organización civil creada en 1991 como un servicio de comunicación electrónica para organismos no gubernamentales, otras
organizaciones sin fines de lucro y agencias vinculadas al trabajo de éstas. La experiencia de LaNeta se centra en el sector no gubernamental. La mayoría de sus 1,300 usuarios son organismos sin fines de lucro.


L'Agora_Liens (QUE)
Liens sur les aspects philosophiques politiques sociaux éthiques culturels des inforoutes.


Le Réseau Éducation-Médias - Media Awareness (CAN)
Le Réseau Éducation-Médias est le seul organisme national sur Internet consacré à l'éducation aux médias et à leur influence sur les enfants. Il a été créé pour permettre aux Canadiens intéressés par l'éducation aux médias de trouver des informations pertinentes, de communiquer entre eux et d'échanger des idées.


Le Réseau Voltaire (FR-INT)
Le Réseau Voltaire est une association à but non lucratif qui rassemble des personnes et des organisations engagées dans la défense des libertés et de la laïcité. Une cellule d'analyse et de synthèse traite les informations recueillies par les membres du réseau, effectue des recherches documentaires et des études sur les sujets déterminés par le Conseil d'administration, et diffuse ses travaux.

Les Casseurs de Pub (FR)
Crée en 1999, Casseurs de pub est une association dont l'objectif est de promouvoir la création graphique et artistique basée sur la critique de la société de consommation et la promotion d'alternatives.

Media Channel (U.S.-INT)
MediaChannel is a media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of organizations worldwide. As the media watch the world, we watch the media.


Media Democracy Day(INT)
Media Democracy Day promotes a mass media system that informs and empowers all members of society. Media Democracy Day connects existing critical and creative media with active social movements, creating a coherent message for public attention and local and global action.


Media Tank (U.S.)
Media Tank is an innovative non-profit organization working to bring together media arts, education and activism to build broader awareness and support for media as a vital civic, cultural and communications resource.


MediaGeek (U.S.)
A medigeek is someone who, like a computer geek, delves into the inner working of media both to understand it and to hack it. A mediageek doesn't accept the rules and restrictions of the mainstream media, circumventing and jamming them by doing it him or herself.
This site will serve as a guide for mediageeks, looking at how the media works, both systemically--the political economy of the mainstream, indpendent and underground media--and practically--how you can put media making tools to work.


MediaRights.org (U.S.)
MediaRights.org, a nonprofit organization, helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage
action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.


MediaWatch.ca - Évaluation Médias (CAN)
Évaluation-Médias est un organisme féministe bénévole qui œuvre à l'échelle nationale à l'élimination du sexisme dans les médias.
Nous cherchons à transformer le monde des médias afin qu'il ne soit plus un environnement où la femme est soit non représentée, soit
représentée par des stéréotypes, mais bien un environnement où la femme est représentée de façon équitable et réaliste, en respectant
toute la diversité physique, économique, raciale et culturelle qui la caractérise.


Méta Média (QUE)
Site francophone destiné à l'analyse, la critique et la recherche relativement aux pratiques journalistiques.


NetAction (U.S.)
NetAction is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting use of the Internet for effective grassroots citizen action campaigns, and to educating the public, policy makers, and the media about technology policy issues.


New Media & Society (U.K.)
New Media & Society is an international journal designed to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change. New Media & Society plans to engage in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.


NoLogo.org (CAN)
This site functions as a forum for discussion and debate, and for sharing information, strategies of subversion and creative alternatives. It is also intended to keep you abreast of news about the politics of brand hegemony and corporate power, and of acts of organized and disorganized resistance from all over the world.


Pour Lire Pas Lu (FR)
Un bimestriel sardonique contre les organes du spectacle de l'ordre mondial capitaliste.


Project Censored (U.S.-INT)
The Primary Objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another. Thereby, the project hopes to stimulate responsible journalists to provide more mass media coverage of those issues and to encourage the general public to demand mass media coverage of those issues or to seek information from other sources.


ProtestNet (U.S.-INT)
Protest.Net is a collective of activists who are working together to create our own media. By publishing a public record of our political activities on the web we are taking a stand against the established media.


Reclaim the Media (U.S.)
The Cascadia Media Alliance is a coalition of independent journalists, media activists and community organizers in the Pacific Northwest, promoting press freedom and community media access as prerequisites for a functioning democracy. We believe that the centralized domination of the current media landscape by a handful of powerful business concerns fails to provide the diverse viewpoints, local accountability and easy access to high-quality information which are demanded by the public interest.


Reporters Sans Frontières(INT)
Reporters sans frontières, une association reconnue d'utilité publique. Alors que plus d'un tiers de la population mondiale vit dans un pays où il n'existe aucune liberté de la presse, Reporters sans frontières œuvre au quotidien pour que l'information reprenne ses droits. Parce qu'emprisonner ou tuer un journaliste, c'est éliminer un témoin essentiel et menacer le droit de chacun à l'information, Reporters sans frontières mène son combat depuis plus de 17 ans.


Tao Communications (CAN-INT)
Tao Communications is a regional federation comprised of local autonomous collectives and individuals. We organize networks in order to defend and expand public space and the right to self-determination. We create knowledge through independent public interest research, and distribute it freely through participatory education.


Undercurrents - News & Video Activism (U.K.)
Britains longest running alternative news service on video cassette and internet.


uZine (FR)
uZine est un espace d'expression, d'information, d'échange et de pédagogie autour des enjeux de l'internet. Créé par des militants du Web indépendant, il fonctionne pour et grâce à la participation des utilisateurs.


WebActive (U.S.)
WebActive is a site designed to offer progressive activists an up-to-date resource on the World Wide Web to find other organizations and individuals with similar values and interests.


The Ruckus Society (U.S.-INT)
Working with a broad range of communities, organizations, and movements - from high school students to professional organizations - Ruckus facilitates the sharing of information and expertise that strengthens the capacity to change our relationship with the environment and each other.

Ceci est un média alternatif de publication ouverte. Le collectif CMAQ, qui gère la validation des contributions sur le Indymedia-Québec, n'endosse aucunement les propos et ne juge pas de la véracité des informations. Ce sont les commentaires des Internautes, comme vous, qui servent à évaluer la qualité de l'information. Nous avons néanmoins une Politique éditoriale , qui essentiellement demande que les contributions portent sur une question d'émancipation et ne proviennent pas de médias commerciaux.

This is an alternative media using open publishing. The CMAQ collective, who validates the posts submitted on the Indymedia-Quebec, does not endorse in any way the opinions and statements and does not judge if the information is correct or true. The quality of the information is evaluated by the comments from Internet surfers, like yourself. We nonetheless have an Editorial Policy , which essentially requires that posts be related to questions of emancipation and does not come from a commercial media.