InfoShops

• 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.
• Civic Media Center
  Located in Gainesville, Florida, this InfoShop has lots of content for you to view on their web site.
• Independent Publishing Resource Center
  Located in Portland, Oregon, the IPRC facilitates creative expression and identity by providing individual access to the resources and tools for the creation of independently published media and art..
• 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.

Labor Resources

• Center for Labor Studies
  The Center for Labor Studies supports research, teaching and community outreach, all focusing on labor's contribution to society.
• Holt Labor Library
  One of the major resources for labor studies and radical history. Makes available to working people, activists, and scholars the theoretical, historical, and experiential dimensions of the class struggle in the advanced industrialized world in the 19th and especially 20th centuries.
• LaborNet
  Labor news, links to unions and other workers' organizations, and information about scheduled activism.
• Labor Notes
  Activist trade union newspaper advocating grassroots democracy within and radicalization of the trade union movement in the United States.
• Labor Online
  News, analysis, and resources about the labor movement.
• Labor Start
  "Where trade unionists start their day on the net." International union news, constantly updated. Also includes links, forums, books, and a calendar of events.
• Michael Moore.com
  Website of the anti-corporate crusading filmmaker includes weekly messages from Moore on the issues of the day, Cracker's Corporate Crook of the Week, Moore's radio commentaries and excerpts from various books, films and tv shows by Moore.
• Sweat Shop Watch
  Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.
• IWW
  The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is an international organization which aims to organize all workers into one big union to abolish captialism.

Left Libertarian/Civil Liberties

• American Civil Liberties Union
  The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.
• People for the American Way
  People For the American Way is committed to building a national community that offers opportunity, respect and hope to all its citizens.

Librarianship/Information Studies

• American Radicalism Collection
  The American Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University holds over 17,000 items. It includes books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemeral material covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues in America. The emphasis in the collection is on materials produced by radical groups - both left and right.
• Anarchist Librarians Web
  Provides information and links to radical resources and intellectual freedom material.
• Bibliographic Tools for the Alternative Press
  A great resource for locating information on collecting alternative literature and resources.
• Counterpoise
  Counterpoise is an alternative review journal published quarterly. It is edited by Charles Willett and an international group of librarians and subject specialists. Each issue contains essays and reviews about alternative publications and independent media from around the world; letters and editorial comment; author, title, subject and publisher indexes; and a special section of current "Bibliographic Tools for the Alternative Press."
• Holt Labor Library
  Established in 1992 to provide a working library for labor and progressive studies accessible to the general public. Our collections and services are geared to labor and community activists as well as to students, researchers and anyone else interested in our materials. Because a significant part of our collection consists of out-of-print and hard to find materials, items do not circulate.
• Labadie Collection
  Established in 1911 when Joseph Labadie, a prominent Detroit anarchist, donated his library to the University of Michigan. In addition to anarchism, the Collection's strengths include: civil liberties (with an emphases on racial minorities), socialism, communism, colonialism and imperialism, American labor history through the 1930s, the IWW, the Spanish Civil War, sexual freedom, women's liberation, gay liberation, the underground press, and student protest.
• Library Juice
  Library Juice is a news digest for librarians, library and information science students, and other interested people. It includes announcements, many web resources, calls for papers, and news affecting the library world. Much of the material has a social-responsibilities or intellectual freedom focus.
• Librarian.Net
  Daily library news and views from funky librarian Jessamyn West.
• Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library for Social Research
  A unique collection of archival material relating to the history of radical politics, the labor and trade unions movements, and struggles for racial, national and sexual equality.
• Progressive Librarian
  A journal offering critical perspectives on librarianship. Contains selected full-text articles.
• Progressive Librarians Guild
  Progressive Librarians Guild, an affiliate organization of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, was formed in January 1990 by a group of librarians concerned with the profession's rapid drift into dubious alliances with business and the information industry, and into complacent acceptance of service to the political, economic and cultural status quo.
• Street Librarian
  Links to zines, the alternative press and other seditious stuff.

Media/News

• A-Infos Radio Project
  The A-Infos Radio Project was formed by grassroots broadcasters, free radio journalists and cyber-activists to provide ourselves with the means to share our radio programs via the Internet. Their goal is to support and expand the movement for democratic communications worldwide.
• Alternative Media On Google
  A wealth of links to alternative media resources from Google. Provides access to all kinds of alternative media resources on the web.
• AlterNet
  News service of alternative press. Syndication service with online articles.
• Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom
  An independent voice for media reform. CPBF works to promote policies for a diverse, democratic and accountable media.
• Consortium News
  Founded in 1995 as a home for investigative journalism. Has produced more than 200 original stories on topics ranging from national security to the environment, from politics to foreign affairs.
• Common Dreams News Center
  A national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997.
• Direct Action Media Network
  A multimedia news service focusing on protests, marches, strikes and other direct actions taken by progressive groups and individuals.
• FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
  FAIR is the national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. FAIR seeks to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press. FAIR scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.
• Guerrilla News Network
  An underground news organization with headquaters in New York City. Their mission is to expose people to important global issues through guerilla programing on the web and television.
• Independent Media Center
  News from an independent non-corporate perspective. Independent media centers have been set up in cities around the county to provide journalist a place to publish stories that cannot get published in the corporate controlled media. Includes print, audio and video news stories. Also check out the Twin Cities Independent Media Center
• Media Channel
  A large site with in-depth articles on topics related to the media and society. Also includes a Media Ownership Chart which details which corporations own and control the mass media.
• Media Lens
  Applies the propaganda model of the media developed by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. The web site contains articles, commentary, and media alerts.
• Michael Moore.com
  Website of the anti-corporate crusading filmmaker includes weekly messages from Moore on the issues of the day, Cracker's Corporate Crook of the Week, Moore's radio commentaries and excerpts from various books, films and tv shows by Moore.
• MoJo Wire
  Investigative journalism with a progressive orientation. Affiliated with Mother Jones magazine.
• Native American Public Telecommunications
  The mission of Native American Public Telecommunications is to inform, educate and encourage the awareness of tribal histories, cultures, languages, opportunities and aspirations through the fullest participation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in creating and employing all forms of educational and public telecommunications programs and services, thereby supporting tribal sovereignty.
• New Pages
  News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.
• Nygaard Notes
  An independent weekly newsletter written and published by Jeff Nygaard of Minneapolis. Nygaard Notes is concerned with a broad range of issues and ideas, using humor and plain language to reach out to anyone who believes in the values of solidarity, justice, compassion, and democracy.
• One World Daily
  International news and resources from a social-justice perspective.
• Z Net
  The online extension of Z Magazine. Z Net provides a wealth of information about participatory economics and politics. You will also find information about current issues from a radical left perspective. In addition, Z Net provides online conversation spaces commentaries to those who join the Z Net Sustainer Program.