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	Of and About Alternative Information
		The Alternatives in Publication Task Force of SRRT (The Social Responsibilities Round Table of The American Library Association) promotes the Alternative Press, especially in libraries.
		Some Alternative Press History, about the alternative press and social movements and the history of the Alternative Press Center and the Alternative Press Index.
		Read my Note on Alternative Literature and the "Political Spectrum".
	www.libr.org /rory/alt-lit.html (895 words)

	WU Libraries Databases - Alternative Press Index Archive
		Alternative Press Index for coverage from 1991 to the present.
		It is a comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information; coverage is international and interdisciplinary.
		Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.
	library.wustl.edu:800 /databases/about/altpressarchive.html (114 words)

	About Alternative Press Index
		Access to the Alternative Press Index is restricted to the current faculty, staff, and students at the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use.
		The Alternative Press Index is hosted on the OCLC FirstSearch interface and may be searched using basic, advanced or expert modes.
		The Alternative Press Index (API) is produced by the Alternative Press Center.
	library.usask.ca /dbs/api.html (175 words)

	The Bloomington Alternative
		The Bloomington Alternative is pleased to announce that we now publish "This Modern World," the political cartoon by Tom Tomorrow, in our print edition.
		The Bloomington Alternative is a weekly journal of news and commentary published by journalist Steven Higgs.
		The Alternative print is available at more than 100 locations in and around Bloomington.
	www.bloomingtonalternative.com (1856 words)

	Alternative Press
		Ideas, art, and writing by the young intellectuals of this time were not generally accepted in mainstream culture and so alternative or underground press and independent publishing movements, which had been in existence for many decades previously also began to flourish.
		Alternative Library Literature, and inspired a second book, Revolting Librarians Redux which was published as a follow up in 2001 and includes essays by new activist librarians as well as some thoughts from the original writers thirty years after its original publication.
		Revolting Librarians Redux, another well known activist of the time, Celeste West, comments about library school, and her life in 1968 San Francisco which at that time was still “ an epicenter of a counter-culture where political and anti-war activism were high” [
	www.slais.ubc.ca /courses/libr500/03-04-wt2/www/D_Bassett/alternative_press.html (467 words)

	Independent Media Centers: Cyber-Subversion and the Alternative Press
		Throughout American history a number of communities have established alternative news outlets, including African-American organizations, suffragette and feminist groups, immigrants, war resisters and various organizations on the left end of the political landscape [11].
		While other online alternative news sources often fill their Web pages with editorials, commentaries, and news analysis (and Indymedia often links to these and other sources), Indymedia's primary emphasis is in providing a Web outlet for filing original, first-hand coverage online through print, photos, audio, and video.
		Indymedia issued press passes to journalists who then went out to the protests and recorded what they saw with pens, paper, audio and video tape, and digital cameras.
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue7_4/hyde/index.html (3773 words)

	Alternative Press Index
		Citations are drawn from roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change.
		The Alternative Press Index is widely regarded as the leading guide to the alternative press in North America.
		For a listing of currently indexed publications including some additional titles from the Independent Press Association, visit the Alternative Press Center web site at http://www.altpress.org.
	www.lib.uconn.edu /online/databases/DatabaseInfo.cfm?ID=1150 (147 words)

	Jay's Alternative Media Links
		RedNet Press -- a news service supported by a number of Communist and workers' Parties from around the world.
		RedNet Press -- News and views from the Communist press around the world.
		Underground Online, the outsider's in site -- "Description: a non-commercial alternative arts & entertainment ezine that strives to cover both current developments in popular culture and noteworthy initiatives that are not picked up by mass media radars."
	www.neravt.com /left/directory/subjects/altmedia.htm (691 words)

	Raving Toy Maniac - The Latest News and Pictures from the World of Toys
		Jen Sorensen´s work has also appeared in several other publications, including The Big Book of the ‘70s (DC/Paradox Press), Action Girl Comics, Dignifying Science, Empty Love Stories, the EXPO anthologies, and will be featured alongside such luminaries as Matt Groening and Tom Tomorrow in Ted Rall´s upcoming book on alternative political cartoonists.
		Jeff Mason is the publisher of Alternative Comics, a company billed as "publishers of cool comic books." When Jeff is not working on Alternative Comics´ latest release, he is working diligently to protect everyone´s rights as a criminal defense lawyer in Gainesville, Florida.
		Alternative Comics is going to have a panel on Saturday from 1pm to 2pm at APE, and a Friday evening event in conjunction with APE pre-registration.
	www.toymania.com /news/messages/1540.shtml (691 words)

	Hippie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The back to the land movement, cooperative business enterprises, alternative energy, free press movement, and organic farming embraced by hippies were all political in nature at their start.
		The 1960s hippie culture evolved from the beat culture, and was greatly influenced by changing music style and the creation of rock and roll from jazz.
		In the 1940s and 1950s the terms "hipster" and "beatnik" came into usage by the American beat generation to describe jazz and swing music performers, and evolved to also describe the bohemian -like counterculture that formed around the art of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hippies (691 words)

	Some newspapers skipping 'Doonesbury' strip for language this week
		About a dozen newspapers have complained, and some told Universal Press Syndicate that they wouldn't run the comic or were printing an edited version.
		But, the syndicator didn't offer alternative strips to use, as it's done in the past when there's controversial content.
		Universal Press says the complaints aren't a surprise.
	www.wkbt.com /global/story.asp?s=3642273&ClientType=Printable (691 words)

	Project Syndicate
		In recent weeks, thirty-six human rights activists, members of the alternative press, and representatives of the emerging civil rights movement have been imprisoned and may be tried.
		Ordinary citizens want to own a modest business, have access to a free press, organize political parties, re-make society, and liberate prisoners.
		We can all agree that human beings are not duty-bound to live according to one master or philosophy; that individuals must live freely, enjoying the right to a bountiful and joyful existence among family and friends.
	www.project-syndicate.org /commentaries/commentary_text.php4?id=874&m=commentary (691 words)

	20 Papers Have Problem with Saturday's 'Doonesbury'
		Editors told Universal Press Syndicate, the comic strip's distributor, that if their reporters aren't allowed to use profanity in stories, they don't think "Doonesbury" should, either.
		Salem said no changes -- such as offering an alternative strip for the day -- have been planned as a result of complaints from the newspapers, which are scattered across the country.
		A spokesman for Kansas City-based Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes "Doonesbury," said at least 20 newspapers have contacted the company to complain about the cartoon for Saturday editions.
	www.editorandpublisher.com /eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000694836 (691 words)

	Philm Freax: Friends/Frendz magazine & Jonathon Green's Days in the Life
		Political motivations varied but most of the "alternative" press then tried to be much more than just the entertainment oriented music/culture magazines and papers of today.
		Jonathon Green collected these first hand stories and memories for his book on the alternative scene, Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961-1971.
		Published by Alan Marcuson until it became Frendz, Friends was more immediately connected with the UK underground media such as OZ, IT and Time Out and in some cases folks like Philm worked for or with more than one of these publications.
	www.ibiblio.org /mal/MO/philm/friends (691 words)

	The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
		In the 1970s he served on the boards of the Underground Press Syndicate and the Alternative Press Syndicate.
		Berlet is co–author, with Matthew N. Lyons, of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, (Guilford Press, 2000), which was one of twelve books to receive the Gustavus Myers Center Award for outstanding scholarship on the subject of human rights and intolerance in North America.
		Linda Kintz and Julia Lesage, (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), and “Following the Threads: A Work in Progress” in Unraveling the Right: The New Conservatism in American Thought and Politics, ed.
	www.publiceye.org /berlet/berlet_bio.html (691 words)

	Alternative Resources on the U.S. War Against Terrorism
		Alternative Press Center: Alternative Viewpoints on the Internet "Links to other alternative Internet resources compiled by the Alternative Press Center." The APC is "a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press."
		Independent Media Center's Terrorism Page "Indymedia is a collective of independent and alternative media activists and organizations offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of important social and political issues." The list is separated into three categories: links to pages of links, links to news and commentary, and links to specific articles.
		The Alternative Information Center "The AIC is a Palestinian-Israeli organization which disseminates information, research and political analysis on Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
	www.pitt.edu /~ttwiss/irtf/Alternative.html (691 words)

	American Alternative Journalism
		Looking back over a century of alternative journalism, one can see its resilience in the face of political and economic pressures.
		The period from 1975 to the present saw a maturation of the alternative press, as it struggled to stay relevant in yet another conservative age.
		The alternative press is heading into the Twenty-First Century bloodied but unbowed.
	www.brasscheck.com /seldes/history.html (3082 words)

	Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2004 US elections
		The Socialist Equality Party is intervening in the 2004 elections to initiate a new mass political movement for a socialist alternative to the reactionary and bankrupt parties of corporate America.
		The SEP is running Bill Van Auken for president and Jim Lawrence for vice president, as well as candidates for Congress and state legislature, to offer a political alternative for working people and to prepare for the struggles that must ensue after the election.
		The goal of this movement must be to end the political domination of the capitalist class and establish a workers government, which will represent the economic and social interests of working people and vastly expand their democratic control over the decisions that affect their lives.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/sep2004/prog-s20.shtml (3082 words)

	Houston Press - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Houston Press is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Houston, Texas.
		The Press is one of the few alternatives to the mainstream Houston Chronicle.
		The Press took some knocks for the dismissal of longtime political reporter Tim Fleck, and struggles to maintain hard-earned credibility for political journalism not found in other local media sources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Houston_Press (148 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Media Circus
		As a journalist long associated with the alternative press, what struck me was their (read our) overriding preoccupation with the public realm -- politics, corporate America, the civic culture -- and our sense that the best way to attain social change is to keep things the same.
		While the alternatives' front political sections invariably depict a country polarized by racial tensions, their back pages sizzle with an array of intimate fantasies, a curiosity about "the other," that transgresses every border.
		The danger for the alternatives is that, increasingly fearful of where the cultural energies of the country are moving, we will forget to read our own sex ads, much less take our political cues from them.
	www.salon.com /media/media960606.html (148 words)

	Mount Allison University Libraries
		Other criteria used to describe the alternative press include a publication's content, its means of production and ownership, whether or not a publication seeks social or political change, and whether or not the publication is intended to generate a profit.
		The Alternative media, on the other hand, have as their primary aim social and political action: "to change towards a more equitable social, cultural and economic whole in which the individual is not reduced to an object...
		I will mention only one of his ten points: radical alternative media serve "to express opposition vertically from subordinate quarters directly at the power structure and against its behavior;" and "to build support, solidarity, and networking laterally against policies or even against the very survival of the power structure" (xi).
	www.mta.ca /library/alternative_media.html (2069 words)

	National Alternative Party
		The National Alternative Party was created to fill the lack of a united party on the right in Canada.
		Registered with Elections Canada in February 2002, this Alma, Quebec-based party was launched on March 4, 2003 with a press conference at the Charles Lynch Press Gallery in the House of Commons by the Leader of the Party, Gilles Lavoie.
		Now that the new Conservative Party of Canada exists, the future of the National Alternative is in doubt.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/n/a/National_Alternative_Party.html (2069 words)

	Beta News Agency
		At a press conference of the Democratic Alternative party, whose leader he is, he said that such "talk and manipulation" is launched by the "advocates of war".
		Covic confirmed that authorities in Belgrade and Albanians from southern Serbia, with NATO guarantees, "will sign a ceasefire agreement around March 10," after which a dialogue should begin with political representatives of the Albanian population from the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja.
		Covic, who heads the Serbia and Yugoslav governments' coordinating body for southern Serbia, told BETA that statements made by NATO officials in New York meant that "we are together going towards stability for the entire region," by exercising patience in resolving the crisis in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja.
	www.beta-press.com /bnewsone.htm (2069 words)

	SFU Library - Alternative news sources
		Interpress Service News Agency international, non-profit organization formed of "a network of journalists in more than 100 countries....focuses its news coverage on the events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations" no national or political base and pursues the objectives of balanced geographical, ethnic and gender representation
		Alternative Press Index to find articles in a variety of alternative, radical, and left publications.
		For the purposes of this guide, "alternative" means that which does not represent society's mainstream or dominant ideology.
	www.lib.sfu.ca /researchhelp/subjectguides/cmns/alternative_media.htm (1697 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly International The Afghan killing fields
		A thorough and accomplished scholar and researcher, Herold methodically compiled and compared official Pentagon and US State Department press briefings on civilian casualties with Taliban statements, mainstream Western media reports, alternative and South Asian regional press accounts, eyewitness testimonies and health workers' reports.
		Nevertheless, the Afghan Islamic Press, the Pakistan News Service, the Frontier Post, The Guardian, the Times of India, AFP and the UN all reported that an F-18 jet had dropped a 1,000 lb cluster bomb on the 200-bed military hospital and a neighbouring mosque, missing the military barrack by 500-1,000 metres.
		Expecting the corporate-owned media and the political and military establishments to dismiss his research as faulty and inaccurate, Professor Herold went to great lengths to explain his methodology.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/570/in4.htm (1455 words)

	Philm Freax: Friends/Frendz magazine & Jonathon Green's Days in the Life
		Political motivations varied but most of the "alternative" press then tried to be much more than just the entertainment oriented music/culture magazines and papers of today.
		Jonathon Green collected these first hand stories and memories for his book on the alternative scene, Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961-1971.
		Published by Alan Marcuson until it became Frendz, Friends was more immediately connected with the UK underground media such as OZ, IT and Time Out and in some cases folks like Philm worked for or with more than one of these publications.
	www.ibiblio.org /mal/MO/philm/friends (1455 words)

	Indymedia UK - Argentina Elections: Riots or Flowers!
		After two days of analysis by its national board and provincial leaders in February, they announced preparations for “an alternative construction and a model for a different country.” The idea for a political and social movement was launched in December at the CTA’s sixth congress in Mar del Plata at which 10,000 delegates participated.
		A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.
		Alternative for a Republic of Equals (ARI), Elisa Carrio leads the presidential polls at 20 percent.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/03/56096.html (2679 words)

	Virtual Reference Collection: MIT Libraries
		Alternative Press Center Online Directory (directory of alternative and radical publications)
		Political Organization Filing and Disclosure (US Internal Revenue Service)
		Science and Technology Pocket Databook (Science Resources Studies Division, NSF)
	libraries.mit.edu /virtualref (2679 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Terrorism
		Dean employs the theory to explain why President Bush has seemed to be a different and better President since September 11 -- with his recent speech, press conference, and ground zero appearance far more effective than his performances in the three campaign debates.
		Under the act, potential September 11 plaintiffs may proceed under an alternative compensation system rather than suing the airlines.
		Hilden emphasizes the need for war reportage, but notes that we will have to lobby for it since the First Amendment is unlikely to protect this type of press access.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /terrorism.html (3874 words)

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