Links to alternative & independent media

Video organisations

This list is for mostly non-commercial progressive media organisations.
If you would like to be added to this list please send an email to links@undercurrents.org

Sharp, witty and visually political films
http://soderberg.tv

I-contact video network Based in Bristol
http://www.icontactvideo.org/

Motivate young people to 'get involved'
http://www.truetube.co.uk

Balkans video activism
http://www.restarted.hr/

Undercurrents on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com

Undercurrents on Video Google
https://www.google.com/

Pixie Pictures Solar cinema
http://www.pixiepicturesproject.co.uk

Shooting People
Online network of documentary makers
http://shootingpeople.org

Community Channel TV
Support nonprofit uk TV. Great tips on making films.
http://www.communitychannel.org/

Clearer Channel
Best in radical online video
http://clearerchannel.org/

Green TV- Broadband telly
http://www.green.tv/

Beyond TV
International video activist festival
http://www.undercurrents.org/beyondtv

Big Picture
Online media channel that streams free video clips of global leaders in sustainability.
http://www.bigpicture.tv/

Journeyman TV
Video agency- sells undercurrents to TV worldwide
http://www.journeyman.tv/

Insight News
http://www.insightnewstv.com/

Undercurrents alternative News
http://www.undercurrents.org

Dv republic
Black filmmakers and digital films
http://www.dvrepublic.com/

Big Noise Films
Produced Fourth World War- highly recommended
http://www.bignoisefilms.com

"They call it art, we call it independence"
www.ambientTv.net

Next 5minutes media library
http://www.n5m.org/n5m4/medialibrary/index.php

Hacking into TV
http://www.live.nu/hack/

New Global Vision is a digital video archive project.
http://www.ngvision.org

Progressive Tv on the internet and cable.
http://www.freespeech.org/

GNN
http://www.gnn.tv/

Progrssive pulbications network
http://www.ippn.ws/

Working films
Mixing direct action with video in the US
http://www.workingfilms.org

Kill your TV
http://killyourtv.com/

Pirate net TV
http://www.piratetv.net
Undercurrents, Coldcut, Dreadzone, OuterBongolia, Sunday chill.
Music activism and all sorts of material.

Spanner films- makers of Mclibel
http://www.spannerfilms.net

Documentary makers group
http://www.dfglondon.com/

I-contact
Bristol based video-activists
http://www.videonetwork.org

1 GIANT LEAP
Inspiring DVD makers of a spiritual journey
www.1giantleap.com

Groovy movie picture house -solar power cinema
Get your video screened at all the major music and community festivals
They show undercurrents throughout the country. 07946520436
www.groovymovie.biz

Cultureshop
Online alternative news video purchase
www.cultureshop.org

Indymedia
Link to UK video groups

Training disadvantaged/ margianised groups around the world in photography
www.photovoice.org

Organic chaos- Dutch video activism
http://www.organicchaos.org

liquid crystal vision-multi media network
http://www.liquidcrystalvision.com/

Global insights direct action videos Australia
www.accessnews.skatv .org.au

Spectacle Films
Specifically noted for the Exodus sound system films
http://www.spectacle.co.uk/

Whispered Media
http://www.whisperedmedia.org

Working TV
A labour television program broadcast weekly on community access television in the province of British Columbia
http://workingtv.com

WITHOUT TV, a distribution/production company for video activism in Japan.
http://www.jca.apc.org/videoact/What2.html

Junk TV
Brighton based collective with a mission to de-mystify the movie making process.
http://www.buckinfudgy.com/

Direct Action Media Network:
http://www.tao.ca/earth/damn/

working films
linking education outlets with video makers
http://www.workingfilms.org/

Los Angeles Alternative Media Network:
http://home.labridge.com/~laamn/

The Global Village CAT
links to web sites to over 300 access Tv channels worldwide
www.openchannel.se/cat

Uk Screen
Non profit-making, on-line, film show case. Many films to view.
www.ukscreen.com

Channel 31,
Australia and Melbourne's free-to-air community TV station,
www.channel31.org.au

Youth Cable T.V.
links to various media outlets
http://www.ort.org/yctv/

Video activists
San Francisco based umbrella organisation for video activists this will be greatly expanded soon.
www.videoactivism.org

Video Activist page
Good page of links

PUR
A video and multimedia facility based in east London,
Will hire out DVCameras and Media 100 editing to activists.
http://www.pur-studio. freeuk.com

People's Video Network:
www.peoplesvideo.org/

Camnet (video clips):
home.earthlink.net/~camnet/

Oxford video makers- not political but good cheap video training offered
www.ofvm.org

Subvertigo - Sydney based video activists who make and perform at underground raves and other multimedia events
www.chaos.org.au/ subvertigo.asp

Local Independent Television network (LITN)
Networking Britains growing local Tv broadcasters with a view to sharing resources, programmes etc
http://www.litn.org.uk

Underground film
An online community dedicated to the moving image and a free open forum for independent filmmakers
http://www.undergroundfilm.com.

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC):
http://www.bavc.org/

Artists Television Access:
http://www.atasite.org/

RadiX Video Archive for Direct Action
collects and loans out videos of eco and social justice actions.
www.enviroweb.org/radix

Organic Chaos Productions
Dutch video activists
http://www.organicchaos.org/

Vrije Keyser TV
www.xs4all.nl/~vktv/
Dutch alternative broadcasting organisation

www.zalea.org
Paris Based local French TV

Independent Media Center USA
http://www.indymedia.org

ZNet
ZNet Watch Sites: http://www.zmag.org/watchsites.html
Alternative Media Watch: http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm

Radio for Peace International (RFPI)
P.O. Box 88-6150, Santa Ana, Costa Rica
Website: http://www.rfpi.org

Pacifica Radio Network
c/o Pacifica Foundation, 2390 Champlain St- NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA
Main Website: http://www.pacifica.org
Democracy Now/Amy Goodman: http://www.democracynow.org

Media Channel
http://www.mediachannel.org

Statewatch
http://www.statewatch.org

Alternative Information Center
(Israel/ Palestine)
http://www.alternativenews.org

Paper Tiger Television
http://www.papertiger.org/

Deep Dish TV
http://www.igc.org/deepdish

New Internationalist
http://www.newint.org

One World News Service
http://www.oneworld.net

Archive Images

Archive of WW2
http://www.footagefarm.com

Public Domain
http://www.archive.org

On-line Independent Media

Radical research and Publishing group, aiming to support activism against large corporations.
New mag out now, plus loads of juicy info on the companies involved in Genetic Engineering.
http://www.corporatewatch.org

Breaking Alternative News & Media: New Forums Online
www.rinf.com

Offline TV
Peer to Peer video from undercurrents. Join the Beta testing during 2007
http://www.offlinetv.org

Great writer about counter culture, stonehenge
http://andyworthington.co.uk/

The Canandian
Canada progress Newspaper
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/

Delve Media ltd
Mike approached undercurrents in 2003 as a Swansea based business start up interested in producing graphics and artwork for the Undercurrents website. Over the past 3 years this work has increased to cover advertising including the BeyondTV film festival, DVD and film based graphcs. His company Delve Media ltd is dedicated to ethical business and environmental design.... for more information go to www.delveonline.co.uk, as a rule don't mention clowns.

SchNews weekly news sheet
invaluable weekly update on the "real" news
http://www.schnews.org.uk

SQUALL activist news magazine
The new A5 16 page monthly 'SQUALL Download'
http://www.squall.co.uk/

New York based site, News on Media with an alternative focus. Search Over 370 Affiliate Media Issues Groups Worldwide:
http://www.mediachannel.org

Indymedia -There is one near you so log on, tune in and be the media
http://uk.indymedia.org

Splice:
www.geneticsforum.org.uk

Direct action news, pioneering new media, comimg straight out of Brixton. Yippie!
http://www.urban75.com

New Internationalist
Iinformation and top magazine
http://www.newint.org

Nick Cobbing
Photographer of protest and nature extraordinaire
www.nickcobbing.co.uk

Press Wise Trust
The on line version of the magazine looking a global issues from a social justice standpoint.
http://www.presswise.org.uk/index.htm

International Progressive Publications Network
Putting you in touch with the media of the world
www.ippn.ws

Global vision
Aims to be a one stop shop for all progressive media
www.globalvision.org/

The Next 5 Minutes
Debate about the future of progressive /alternative media
http://www.n5m.org

Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
http://www.cpbf.org.uk/

Social Criticism Review - Achieving goodness in a complex world.
www.socialcritic.org

Irish grassroots news
emc23.net

Translations of over 200 graffiti from the Paris May 1968 revolt
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/ CF/graffiti.htm

Portobello Film & Video Festival website
www.massivevideo.demon.uk

Hackers unite!
E-mail list to allow activists and computer hackers of all persuasions to discuss what the word 'hacktivism' actually means and the issues surrounding it.
http://lists.tao.ca

Anti TV?
http://www.ntk.net/tvgohome/

Noam Chomsky
Media Guru (say hi from undercurrents)
<chomsky@MIT.EDU>

Adbusters
Canadian advert subverters and media activists
www.adbusters.org

'International Progressive Publications
Network (IPPN)'
www.ippn.ws

Insitute for Alternative Journalism:
http://www.alternet.org/

A-infos email news service
http://www.ainfos.ca/

Check the ethical stance of Sony and other camcorder makers?
www.ethicalconsumer.org

AgendaDP
is based in Amsterdam, for distribution
http://www.agendadp.com/

The Big ISSUE- Homeless support magazine
www.bigissuesouthwest.co.uk

Brussels: The Nova
The video-library
http://www.nova-cinema.com

http://www.alternet.org
Online magazine and syndication service featuring news and information from the independent press.

The Surveillance camera players.
http://www.notbored.org

Free Info network
www.guilfin.net

loesje
Dutch inspired media activists
http://www.loesje.org/

KUD Anarhiv
Slovenian Radikalna Infoteka
http://mila.ljudmila.org/anarhiv/

National Union of Journalists
http://www.nuj.org.uk/

Indymedia
http://uk.indymedia.org/

The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
http://www.cpbf.demon.co.uk/

UK privacy law and press freedom in Britain.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/hamlyn/princess.htm

Stories not in the media
http://www.spiked-online.com

Other Types of Media
Anarcho Comedy Theatre
http://www.komedykollective.com

Mark Thomas
Comedian and activist
http://www.mtcp.co.uk

E-books to download
Australia Rave culture
http://www.undergrowth.org/free_nrg_notes_from_the_edge_of_the_dancefloor