MediaChannel Affiliates
Working with Community Media

Access News
http://accessnews.skatv.org.au Weekly alternative TV news program, broadcast free-to-air on community television (channel 31) in Melbourne, Australia. Focus is on grass-roots community activism — issues range from indigenous sovereignty to transgender activism.

Alliance for Community Media
http://www.alliancecm.org
25-year-old non-profit membership organization that educates and advocates on behalf of Public, Educational and Government access television.

Allston-Brighton Free Radio
http://www.abfreeradio.org
The first public access AM radio station in the United States, we are a platform for all voices in the community, especially those such as the elderly, youth and non-English.

Association Mondiale des Radiodiffeuseurs Communautaires
http://www.amarc.org/europe
The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters is an international grassroots network of more than 1000 community and free radio stations and federations. AMARC aims to support, promote and defend the interests of community broadcasters.

Bristle
http://www.bristle.org.uk
Community is what it is all about. Bristle is Bristol and Southwest Englands radical news and view magazine (Internet and paper edititons).

Cable Advisory Council Area 2
http://fairfieldweb.net/area2cc
Facilitators of community access channels — public, government and education — and quality access programming created by motivated consumers of cable television.

Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media
http://www.farmedia.org
CAAM was established in December 2000 to focus on various aspects related to farmer friendly communication system. It has a website www.farmedia.org It releases CAAM-Net, an email bulletin.

Centre for Media Alternatives — Quebec
http://www.cmaq.net
CMAQ is a platform for local and independent media makers to upload their material in English, French and Spanish for the general public to see and comment on. It is a place to read, spread information that you will not find in the mainstream media.

Chiapas Media Project
http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org
The Chiapas Media Project is a bi-national collaboration that provides video and computer equipment and training to indigenous communities in Southern Mexico.

Committee on Democratic Communications of the National Lawyers Guild
http://www.nlgcdc.org
The work of CDC focuses on the rights of all peoples to a system of media and communications based upon the principle of democracy and cultural and informational self-determination.

Community Media Network
http://www.audiophile.com/dma
The main objective of the DMA is to make an intervention into the kind of journalism currently practiced by community media in South Africa. We aim to make community journalism lively, relevant, grassroots-oriented and socially committed.

Earth On-the-Air Independent Media
http://www.speakeasy.org/eoaim
Earth On-the-Air Independent Media believes that access to the global discourse and the ability to participate in the free exchange of ideas are fundamental to achieving whole individuals, sustainable communities and a healthy planet.

Free Speech TV
http://www.freespeech.org
Free Speech Internet Television is the first audio/video hub on the web created and defined by the people who use it.

HarlemLive
http://www.harlemlive.org
HarlemLive is an online magazine produced by teens throughout New York City in Harlem.

HugeCaster.Com
http://www.hugecaster.com
HugeCaster.Com promotes collaboration in networked media production, and decentralized media distribution.

i-Contact Video Network
http://www.videonetwork.org
We are a non-profit initiative set up to provide support for those using video for positive change.

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.

Independent Media Center — Israel
http://www.indymedia.org.il
IMC-Israel works to create a multimedia platform and critical voice for groups and issues from this region, which have not been given the proper level of publicity in the corporate, and national media outlets.

Independent Media Center — Ontario
http://ontario.indymedia.org
IMC-Ontario works to create a multimedia platform and critical voice for groups and issues from this region that have not been given the proper level of publicity in the corporate and national media outlets.

Independent Media Center — Seattle
http://seattle.indymedia.org
The Independent Media Center is a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social and economic justice. Through this work, we seek to further the self-determination of under-represented people.

Also see:

Why We Need Community Media, by Dee Dee Halleck
Issue Guide: Broadcasting for Social Change
Share and discuss public media projects and models in the Forum.
MediaChannel Affiliate Spotlights: Media from Botswana, Kenya, South and Southern Africa and Youth Making Media
MediaChannel Affiliates Working with African Media
The Alphabetical Affiliate Directory

Korea Public Access Festival
http://www.publicaccess.or.kr
To inform the concept of public access and expand citizens use and participation in production of video and media programs. KPAF is being supported by CCDM (Citizens' Coalition for Democratic Media).

Listen Up!
http://www.listenup.org
Listen Up! is a network of youth media producers who are contributing messages for a public service campaign. Since January 1999, Listen Up! has engaged youth from diverse backgrounds in the researching, writing, production, editing & broadcasting.

Media Access Project
http://www.media-alliance.org
Media Alliance: A San Francisco-based training & resource center for media workers, political activists & community organizations. Promotes diverse, accountable & ethical media. Offers media activism, journalism skills & computer classes; job listings.

Micro Radio Dot Net
http://www.microradio.net
MicroRadio.NET is a growing network of micro-media activists, independent journalists, MP3 Internet audio streamers, and Community, Micro and Pirate Radio Stations working together to smash through the Corporate Mega-Media's information blockade.

National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
http://www.namac.org
NAMAC is a non-profit association composed of diverse member organizations that are dedicated to encouraging film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts, and to promoting the cultural contributions of individual media artists.

National Association of Open Channels
http://www.openchannel.se
Network Open Channels — the national association for public access television channels in Sweden, reaching 940,000 cable households in eight cities.

New York Free Media Alliance
http://artcon.rutgers.edu/papertiger/nyfma
The New York Free Media Alliance is a regional coalition working to increase democracy and public space in local and national media.

Philadelphia Community Access Coalition
http://www.libertynet.org/pcac
A grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations working together through outreach, organizing and advocacy for the establishment of public access community television in Philadelphia.

Phillips Community Television
http://www.youthmedia.tv
We are a youth development agency working in the fields of media production, media literacy education, and community capacity building.

PhotoVoice
http://www.photovoice.org
PhotoVoice is a non-profit organization based in the UK providing training in photography and documentary for groups of people around the world who have little chance of representing themselves.

POOR Magazine Inc.
http://www.poornewsnetwork.com
PoorNewsNetwork is a multi-media access project of POOR Magazine, dedicated to reframing the news, issues and solutions from low and no income communities, as well as providing society with a perspective usually not seen within the mainstream media.

Rabble
http://www.rabble.ca
Canada's rabble.ca: news, ideas, babble and attitude. It's an interactive online magazine for the rest of us.

Radio Free Allston
http://www.radfrall.org
We are a non-commercial community radio station, providing a broad, open platform for the people of our community to communicate information, ideas and culture and to express their personal creativity however they see fit.

Radio Free Nashville
http://www.rfnash.org
Radio Free Nashville is an activist, multi-media organization. We are committed to being a voice for those left out by the corporate media: labor, environmentalists, women, minorities, consumers, students, the poor, the young.

Radio Rookies — a project of WNYC Radio
http://www.radiorookies.org
Radio Rookies teaches teenagers the basics of radio journalism. Each Rookie produces a radio feature for WNYC Radio.

Sound Partners for Community Health
http://www.soundAffiliates.org
Increases awareness of health issues via Affiliateships between broadcasters and local organizations.

The A-Infos Radio Project
http://www.radio4all.net
The A-Infos Radio Project goal is to enable grassroots radio by sharing programs over the Net. Participation is open to all.

UNESCO — Communication, Information and Informatics Sector
http://www.unesco.org/webworld
The mission of UNESCO's Communication, Information and Informatics Sector is to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image, a wider and better balanced dissemination of all forms of information contributing to the advancement of societies.

Whispered Media
http://www.whisperedmedia.org
Whispered Media offers video witnessing, support and training, collects archival footage, and produces video works about specific grassroots campaigns and organizations. Whispered Media is one cell is a rapidly growing grassroots media movement.

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