Activist Resources

• Adbusters
  A global network of artists, writers, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to launch the new social activist movement of the information age. Their goal is to galvanize resistance against those who would destroy the environment, pollute our minds and diminish peoples lives. To this end, Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine, operates this web site and offers its creative services through PowerShift, their advocacy advertising agency. The MCTC library subscribes to Adbusters Magazine.
• Arise! Bookstore and Resource Center
  Known as an activist information hub for the Twin Cities for nearly ten years, the Arise! Collective provides works of resistance by Marx and Engels to Audre Lorde, John Zerzan to bell hooks, Annie Sprinkle to Noam Chomsky. Arise! also sells Zines.
• Direct Action Media Network
  A multimedia news service focusing on protests, marches, strikes and other direct actions taken by progressive groups and individuals.
• George Monbiot
  Activism from a British perspective. George Monbiot was born in 1963. He's the author of Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. The site contains articles on a wide range of topics.
• National Radio Project
  The National Radio Project heightens public consciousness, broadens public debate on critical social issues and encourages civic participation by giving voice to diverse perspectives and opinions not typically heard on mass media. You can listen to broadcasts online with RealAudio. MCTC also owns many of the broadcasts on tape. Simply search the library catalof using a Title Search for "Making Contact" to locate all the audio tapes in the series.
• PEN
  A clearinghouse of information on domestic and global inequities, including those in education, ecology, health, employment, criminal justice, and national defense. PEN is a collective project joined by people who gather and distribute little-known information to their communities.
• Protest Net
  Protest.Net is a community of activists who are working together to create our own media. By publishing a public record of our political activities on the web we are taking a stand against the established media. We are standing up and showing that serious activism is alive and well at the dawn of the 21st century.
• Refuse & Resist
  Refuse & Resist! was formed in 1987 by artists, lawyers, activists and others who saw an alarming trend in the U.S. toward greater state control and repression. R&R! builds and encourages many forces of resistance: speaking out in schools, communities and in the media; organizing forums and meetings; demonstrating in the streets; creating and performing cultural works; and contributing financially.
• Ruckus Society
  Provides training in the skills of non-violent civil disobedience to help environmental and human rights organizations achieve their goals.
• Urban Think Tank
  Urban Think Tank, Inc. is a community-based home for a body of thinkers, committed to repositioning Hip Hop culture by providing platforms that encourage public discourse, which uses multimedia strategies to influence public policy in the areas of politics, economics and culture.
• World Revolution
  A large-scale activist social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era.
• Z Net
  Founded by Z Magazine, the Z Net web site provides a wealth of information for people interested in progressive social change. It is organized into topical areas and provides access to published articles as well as interactive discussion forums.

African-American/Black Resources

• Afrikan Net
  This site is devoted to news stories about African Americans and oppression of black people worldwide.
• Harlem Live
  An internet publication written, created, presented and represented by teens in Harlem and throughout New York City. Its core purpose is to empower youth of color to be productive, creative and thoughful leaders who will be responsible caretakers of their future.
• Minnesota Spokesman Recorder
  Minnesota's African-American Community Newspaper
• Skanner Online
  Online Edition of African American Newspaper published in Seattle, WA and Portland, OR. Covers local, regional, and national issues relating to the African American community.
• Urban League-Minneapolis
  The Mission of the Minneapolis Urban League is to provide human services and advocacy that will enable African Americans and other minority group members residing in the Greater Minneapolis Metropolitan Area to cultivate and develop their individual and group potential on a par with all other Minnesotans.
• Urban League-National
  Founded in 1910, the National Urban League is the premier social service and civil rights organization in America. The League is a nonprofit, community-based organization headquartered in New York City, with 115 affiliates in 34 states and the District of Columbia.

Alternative Spirituality/Religion

• Aethyr X: Alternative Spirituality
  A collection of links to pagan, occult, gnostic, esoteric christian, buddhist, hindu, and other non-mainstream religious resources.
• Catholic Worker Movement
  Includes the Catholic Worker Roundtable, the Dorothy Day Library on the Web, and the Catholic Worker Home Page.
• Secular Web
  The Secular Web is the product of Internet Infidels, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information over the Internet about the existence of a god, church/state separation, the possibility of life after death, mysticism and the paranormal, and the interface between science and religion.
• Tony Gosling's Homepage
  A fascinating mix of progressive left politics and apocalyptic Christianity with a Quaker slant. Not often do you see Noam Chomsky and the Christian New Testament quoted extensively on the same web site. A wonderful example of freedom of thought in action.

Anarchist Resources

• A-Infos Project
  The A-Infos Project is coordinated by an international collective of revolutionary anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist activists, involved with class struggle. A-Infos is organized by people who feel anarchism is a social theory, and that a revolution is necessary to bring about the new class-less social order, and that this revolution can only be made by the vast majority of the working people.
• Anarchist Librarians Web
  Provides information and links to radical resources and intellectual freedom material.
• Anarchy Now!
  Through links to articles, this site provides an overview of the anarchist movement of the 20th century. Topics include anarchist people, theory, history, action and discussion.
• Free Speech Movement
  A web site dedicated to the Free Speech Movement. Includes a great collection of comments, images, links and contributions from FSM veterans and visitors.
• Mid-Atlantic InfoShop
  The Mid-Atlantic Infoshop has lots of stuff of interest to anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and other activists. Put some anarchy into your life today and learn why anarchists are trying to create a more anarchist society.
• Minnesota Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians
  The purpose of this site is to spread and promote the ideas, values, and projects of anarchists and anti-authoritarians in Minnesota.
• Red & Black Revolution
  An anarchist theory and history magazine produced in Ireland. Publishes regular analysis of struggles and campaigns taking place in Ireland alongside news and reports from the international anarchist movement.
• Spunk Library: An Online Archive of Anarchist and Alternative Material
  The Spunk Library collects and distributes literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues.

Community Resources

• Center for Neighborhood Technology
  Creative strategies for making cities and their surrounding areas work for everyone, environmentally and economically.
• Intentional Communities
  Serves the growing communities movement. Provides important information and access to crucial resources for seekers of community, existing and forming communities, and other friends of community.
• PEN
  A clearinghouse of information on domestic and global inequities, including those in education, ecology, health, employment, criminal justice, and national defense. PEN is a collective project joined by people who gather and distribute little-known information to their communities.
• Sustainable Communities Network
  Connects citizens with resources to implement innovative processes and programs to restore the economic, environmental, and social health and vitality of their communities. Creating communities, smart growth, growing a sustainable economy, protecting natural resources, living sustainably, and governing communities. Case studies, resources, Web links, events calendars, and suggested reading.
• Twin Cities FreeNet
  Twin Cities Free-Net helps build community within the Twin Cities metropolitan area by promoting dialog and information sharing, without regard to social or economic status, through the use of information technologies. Provides links to Twin Cities neighborhood resources.