Media And Communications LinksAlterNet
AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and
supporting independent and alternative journalism.
This part of Alternet's online magazine provides a
mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects relating to globalization.
The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000
stories from over 200 sources.
Choike
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, organized in line with the perspective of Southern civil society.
Choike at the World Social Forum
The fifth edition of the World Social Forum took place once again in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from January 26 to 31, 2005.
It was opened to organisations and individuals and a new perspective and methodological approach was adopted to increase collaboration and dialogue during the event. The goal was to avoid repetitive activities on similar issues that were developed independently of each other. This initiative started from the premise that it is not possible to build another world without combining efforts, building alternatives and interlinking common actions and campaigns.
Those who participated in the previous WSFs have contributed to create a new type of organisation, which is more a process than an institution. While being extraordinarily ambitious in its diversity, in the wide range of topics it deals with and in the activities it holds, the Forum is also consciously modest with regard to its role: its Charter of Principles clearly specifies that it is not the only space of convergence.
This is just one more space within a broader process of global struggles and its function is to offer a way by means of which people who share common concerns and believe that "another world is possible" could jump over geographic, cultural and political differences and could freely develop new plans, strategies, initiatives and organisations.
It is a space for democratic debate of ideas, reflective thinking, formulation of proposals, exchange of experiences and interlinking of social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations. After the first world meeting held in 2001, it became a permanent process of seeking and building alternatives to neoliberal policies.
The International Council of the Forum has decided that next year's editon will be realized in a spread out manner, in different places in the world. With this, the WSF ensures it's commitment with it's Letter of Priciples, seeking for a permanet process of searching and building new alternatives, which are not limited to the events proposed.
In [the reports at this link] we offer articles, discussions from previous regional forums, news, debates and background information on the World Social Forum 2005. Coverage was also provided during the development of this event.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
CEO is an Amsterdam-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch
CorpWatch counters corporate led globalization with organizing, information and networking. We work to hold corporations acountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We
work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that
marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories
and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately
needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit
sources of information.
Global Issues in a Changing World
A new series from Zed Books of short, accessible think pieces deals with leading global issues of relevance to humanity.
Independent Media Center
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. "Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth."
Institute for Public Accuracy
As a nationwide consortium of policy researchers, the Institute
for Public Accuracy seeks to broaden public discourse by
gaining media access for those whose perspectives are
commonly drowned out by corporate-backed think tanks and
other influential institutions.
Jessica Matthews
DevNetJobs.org brings together job opportunities in the area of International Development, including NGOs, Foundations, UN agencies on one platform. Over 1200 recruiters currently post on the website. DevNetJobs.org runs a free Jobs Newsletter which goes to over 45,000 colleagues and could be subscribed by sending a blank email to developmentjobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
mediachannel.org
MediaChannel.org is a nonprofit, public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from our international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff.
Rethinking Globalization
This comprehensive new book from Rethinking Schools -- more than 400 pages -- helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.
Social Criticism Review
An outstanding selection of 1,000 online readings on the crisis of modernity: progress, science for sale, megatechnology, third world debt, counterproductive economy, globalization, corporate rule, anti-democratic media, advertising consumerism, environmental destruction, genetic manipulation, sustainable development, human rights, ethics, responsibility, citizenship, community building, arms race, war on terrorism, and much more. A useful resource for a unified protest movement.
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excellent references for SCR: www.socialcritic.org/ref.htm
Third World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit
international network of organizations and individuals involved
in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-
South issues.
Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social
and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish
books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars;
and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern
interests and perspectives at international fora such as the
UN conferences and processes.
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