| Allied
Media Conference
Yearly gathering celebrates and strategizes about making independent
media, not just talking about the need to change the media landscape.
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.
Stop
IBOC Now!
A growing coalition of broadcast professionals and listeners unhappy with HD
Radio as radio's default digital protocol.
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)
MAG.net:
Media Action Grassroots Network
A growing coalition of groups fighting for media justice.
LPAM.WS
REC Networks repository of FCC information and database tools on low power
AM broadcasting.
LPFM.WS
REC Networks repository of FCC information and database tools on low power
AM broadcasting.
Radio
for People
A coalition dedicated to helping organizations prepare to file for new non-commercial
FM station applications.
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."
FOIArequest.org
Makes filing a FOIA request as easy as filling out a web form; courtesy
of People for the American Way.
Expand
LPFM
Collecting signatures to push for Congressional passage of the Local Community
Radio Act.
The
Amherst Alliance
Net-roots coalition needles the FCC to expand community radio opportunities.
SWLfest.com
Home site for the annual winter gathering of shortwave pirate enthusiasts.
Common
Frequency Radio Project
Working to assist groups to apply for scarce full-power noncommercial FM station
construction permits.
No
Hate Radio
Shining light on and speaking out about Clear Channel's penchant
for potentially criminal deviance.
WNFC: Radio
Free Ferndale
"Demonstration" (unlicensed) LPFM station in development for
a suburb of Detroit.
Community
Media Association
Non-profit organization devoted to expanding public access to media as
producers in the UK.
Indymedia
Solidarity Petition
In support of the IMC network in the wake of seizure of one of its servers; includes
updates to the case as they unfold.
RHZ Amateur
Radio Net
Testing the linking of AM microtransmitters for saturation effectiveness.
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.
neuroTransmitter
Backpack-powered mosquito fleet designed to provide street-level microbroadcast
services.
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."
Association
of Micro-Power Broadcasters
Publishers of the AMPB Report (site under development).
Indymedia.org
Widely-known gathering place where anyone is a journalist through
open publishing; incubator of several innovative DIY-media projects.
National
Audio Theatre Festivals
Yearly convergences where the art of radio drama is explored and expanded.
RadioX:
Home Page
The online nexus for the collective of microbroadcasters
practicing tactical
communications in Seattle.
Free
Radio Berkeley
Home of Stephen Dunifer, still active in the kit building business.
Reclaim
the Media
Major information nexus in the slowly-growing fight for media democracy.
Part15.US
Community of unlicensed, but legal, broadcasters sharing tips and tricks for
making the most of micro-wattage.
Media
Consolidation Activist Toolkit
Info and agitprop designed to spread the word about the need for media
reform; courtesy of Reclaim the Media!
Boston
Coalition for Independent Media
"Fight the corporate grab for public radio frequencies in Massachusetts."
About-Face
Combating the distorted images of women in media. Media
Alliance
Training and resources to empower media workers as well as media education
and training for interested activists.
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.
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.
Expanding
Christian Low Power FM Radio!
Prometheus Radio Project reaches out to the god squad in its drive to convince
Congress to expand LPFM.
Radiophony
"Radiophony exists to research, develop
and implement affordable access. We work to benefit people who do not
have the means, either financial or physical, to use traditional telecommunication
and electronic tools."
Hams
for Action
Organization dedicated to turning back overly-restrictive residential antenna
restrictions.
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.
Fox
News Boycott
From infoshop.org: "Join the campaign against right wing TV."
Radio
Re-volt: One Person.00One Watt
Resident exhibition at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center uses microtransmitters
to symbolize the importance of community media.
Media
Democracy Day
Home base for coordination of the October holiday dedicated to taking back the
public voice.
Media
Tools for Activists
If you're not comfortable with
the idea of becoming the media, this helpful page gives
lots of great tips on
how
to entice the mainstream media into covering your cause -
a great PR primer for activists.
Contempl8
T-Shirts
Agitprop you can wear: my favorite is, "TOM BROKAW IS FULL OF SHIT."
Regulations.gov
A
one-stop shop where American citizens can find and speak out about
various regulatory proceedings wending through the federal maze. Handy!
Next
5 Minutes
An international collaboration involving the establishment and
development of "tactical media labs" that culminates in a media
festival.
Seattle
Micro Radio Communications Commission (SMRCC)
Helps to coordinate microbroadcasting activity in and around the
Seattle metropolitan area.
NOT BAD
This
clever acronym stands for "Nevadans Organized to Better Address
Diversity," group works with active microradio stations in the
state on media access issues.
World
Radio Forum
"Broadcasters, producers, journalists,
trainers & facilitators in radio programming made for, with, and by
children and youth."
Media
emergenC
Protest at the NAB 2004 Radio Show. |
