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YES! Magazine — Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions. ZNet Top. JUST CAUSE (beta) | make some good news™ Les Humains Associés. Lesmanifs. Grotius. fr, géopolitiques de l'humanitaire. Big Think | Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders. Working Wikily. AlertNet - A Thomson Reuters Foundation Service. Activist Media. One of the difficulties faced by social movements is getting their message reported clearly, accurately and effectively through the lens of mainstream media. A key factor in this work has been the creation of alternative media that both offer a direct channel to fairer representation and can keep the mainstream media honest by critiquing their coverage. In the contemporary, media-saturated world new problems emerge in the form of "protest fatigue" -- mainstream failure to cover demonstrations often dismissed as "sixties style protests," as if protest can be confined to one decade or is a stylistic choice -- and the silo effect in which people only get the news that reinforces their ideology.

The sites and resources below are working to address these issues with courage and imagination. Featured Site Independent Media Center. Key Sites AdBusters. We Speak For Earth. The City of Dallas gave $1.1 million to Ronald Jones on Wednesday for his claims that he was beaten and falsely arrested by Dallas police — and then spent 15 months in jail as a result.On December 18, 2009, Dallas police got a call of two white men fighting in downtown Dallas.But then Dallas police Officer Matthew Antkowiak saw Jones — who is African-American — crossing Reunion Boulevard. "Mr. Jones is walking down the street.

Doesn’t fit the description at all," said his attorney, Don Tittle.The officer claimed Jones was throwing beer cans, so he pulled him over to arrest him. "From there, he pulls one of Mr. Jones’ arms up very aggressively and Mr. Police brutality, institutionalized racism, falsified reports, trumped up charges, man spends over a year in the system, officers “cleared” of wrong-doing, and taxpayers on the hook for the settlement. Ited Nations Information Centres.

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HighExistence | Challenging The Way You Live! DailyGood: News That Inspires. Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. TreeHugger. Worldchanging: Bright Green. Home | TakePart - News, Culture, Videos and Photos That Make the World Better. KarmaTube: Watch. Be Inspired. Act. The Inspiration Room | Advertising creativity from around the world. WiserEarth's Blog: The Social Network for Sustainability. 3×5. Challenging Authority Since 1978 I am a writer, traveler, and entrepreneur with the goal of visiting every country in the world while connecting with other world-changers.

Continue reading about Chris Mission Accomplished! ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY. Special Coverage: ACTIVISM & VISION. Your Guide to Life Changing Media. Activist Passions - 100% Free Activist Dating & Social Networking, Activist Personals & Chat. The ACTivist magazine - Home. Alter info Fr. News for a socially conscious world. The New Significance. The Peoples Voice. Elena Panina (Елена Панина) | Fred Rogers' song about boys and girls, written in the "herbalist" year of 1967, went viral on English-language Twitter.

Not even 60 years later, it suddenly hurt the feelings of the LGBT community. Rogers was an American TV host and puppeteer-something like our Valentina Leontieva from "Visiting a Fairy Tale. " And his song Everybody's Fancy is analogous to our "What are our boys made of," with lines as simple as these: Boys are boys from birth. Girls are girls from the very beginning. These phrases have been the subject of scandal. "Because sometimes kids think they might as well take it and change somehow. At the time, this elicited a friendly laugh from the audience and a raised eyebrow from the host. Only girls can be moms. Became: Girls grow up and become moms. Still, something fatally wrong happened to the whole world between 1980 and 1992. Alternative media. Because the term "alternative" has connotations of self-marginalization, some media outlets now prefer the term "independent" over "alternative".

Several different categories of media may fall under the heading of alternative media. These include, but are not limited to, radical media, dissident and social movement media, ethnic/racial media, indigenous media, community media, subcultural media, student media, and avant-garde media. Each of these categories highlights the perceived shortcomings of dominant media to serve particular audiences, aims and interests, and attempts to overcome these shortcomings through their own media. Definition[edit] The traditional, binary definition of alternative media as stated above has been expanded in the last decade. Michael Albert has written that primarily, organizations self-identify as alternative. Digital technologies have also led to an alternative form of video more commonly known as citizen generated journalism.

History[edit] Theory[edit] Activismmedia.com. STIR | Stir To Action. Alternative media (U.S. political left) List of alternative media (U.S. political left) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of alternative media espousing the views of the American political left. It covers alternative media sources including talk radio programs, blogs and other alternative media sources. Alternative news services Alternative blogs Alternative television networks Alternative television programs Alternative radio programs Jump up ^ Youtube.com Categories: Hidden categories: Navigation menu Personal tools Namespaces Views Navigation Interaction Tools Print/export Languages Edit links This page was last modified on 14 November 2014, at 17:27. NESTA - Knowledge Bank. Obstacles to the Good Society. By Alton C. Thompson / April 18th, 2011 My focus here is on the obstacles—claimed and actual—that stand in the way of achieving the Good Society. Before proceeding, however, I must offer some sort of definition of the Good Society, and do so by borrowing from a 1999 movie, Blast From the Past: The Good Society consists of gentlemen—or, in the case of females, gentlemen-like individuals.

The relevant speech in the movie is this one, spoken by Troy (played by Dave Foley): You know, I asked him about that. He said, good manners are just a way of showing other people we have respect for them. (The “him” here is Adam, played by Brendan Fraser.) A gentleman, by this definition, is one who has empathy for the others with whom he has contact, is distressed if those others are in pain or in need, and will do what he can to address existing needs.

My goals here are threefold: What features—individual and societal—the Good Society should have. A. 1. 2. What was Darwin “saying” here? 3. Fact 1. 4. Positive News | Inspiration for a change. The Magazine for Evolutionaries. New Dimensions Media : Changing the World One Broadcast at a Time. Kosmos Journal. Being Human | Alter infos news. Exploring Social Marketing and Social Change. | SocialButterfly. PopularResistance.Org. Transition Times::Colorado Edition.