INDYMEDIA NEWSREAL, a monthly television series, brings progressive grassroots organizing, going on in your backyard, to a national television audience.

Each program covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to address critical issues like air and water pollution, reproductive rights, homelessness, for-profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more.
 

Here's how you can watch Newsreal.
Watch NEWSREAL to find out how you can take part in local organizing efforts.

But don't just watch.
Get involved.
You're also encouraged to become a NEWSREAL producer, and/or host a NEWSREAL screening in your home town.

NEWSREAL's goals are to embolden the global movement for social, environmental, and economic justice, strengthen non-corporate communication networks, and to encourage authentic participatory democracy, one community at a time.

Use this site to find listings for NEWSREAL satellite, cable and internet broadcasts, screening venues, posters and other promotional materials and information on how you can get a free satellite dish and receiver to downlink NEWSREAL. 

Please join the effort, and let us know what you think: 
newsreal@indymedia.org

In the latest edition of his groundbreaking book THE MEDIA MONOPOLY (Beacon Press, 2000), Ben Bagdikian reports that six multi-national conglomerates now dominate all media in the U.S. INDYMEDIA NEWSREAL hopes to turn the current TV info-tainment paradigm on its head.

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news.

The European Newsreal is an independent media network of regional production and screening groups for the European wide distribution of videos covering issues ignored or distorted by the corporate media.

Click here to find showtimes for Newsreal on Free Speech TV.