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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.