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Paul Loeb Media ResourcesSome media resources I find particularly useful for social change.
Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/
[federation of city weeklies, post interesting articles from different alternative sources ]Alternative Press Center
www.altpress.org/newdir.htm
[comprehensive listing of progressive magazines and zines]Alternative Radio
[Hour-long alternative radio program featuring leading radical thinkers and activists]
http://www.alternativeradio.org/
Campaign for America's Future
http://www.ourfuture.org/
[Brings together lots of good perspectives and organizations for a progressive agenda]
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/
[Most thoughtful international coverage of any US newspaper, and good domestic coverage as well. Much more critical of state and corporate power than the New York Times or Washington Post. They run more of my op-ed articles than any other newspaper in the country.]Common Language Project
http://commonlanguageproject.net
[Interesting project using local reporters and service learning participants to report on global issues]
Democrats.com
http://www.democrats.com/
[An unofficial (non party-linked) site which posts and sends out daily digests with links to articles blasting Bush administration actions. Their tone can be a bit over the top and they send out too many items, but steered me to lots of good sources and it's nice to see people who call themselves Democrats actually standing for something]Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/
Founded during the Seattle WTO protests, provides excellent breaking coverage of major national and international demonstrations, including eye-witness reports and videos. Reports tend to be pretty subjective, so need to be taken with a grain of salt, but there's no better place to get a sense of breaking protests worldwide.Institute for Public Accuracy
http://www.accuracy.org/
[Wonderful news source on breaking news. Lists alternative experts with concise perspectives on the issues of the day]In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/
[good radical politics, labor coverage]
International Alternative Media Links
http://www.ippn.ws/
Media Channel
http://www.mediachannel.org/
[Excellent international reporting on media issues]Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/
[strong alternative investigative reporting]Ms. Magazine
http://www.msmagazine.com/
[leading feminist magazine]The Nation
ww.thenation.com/
[longtime liberal-radical weekly]National Catholic Reporter
www.natcath.com/
[core resource for progressive Catholics]New Dimensions Radio
www.newdimensions.org/
[excellent alternative radio program focusing on spirit and environmental and social responsibility. Also produces a magazine]The Other Side
www.theotherside.org/
[social justice religious magazine]The Progressive
http://www.progressive.org/
[long-time progressive monthly]Tom Paine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/
[Excellent on-line magazine focusing on the environment, money in politics, and the media]
Sojourners
http://www.sojourners.com/
[probably my favorite magazine, wonderfully humane and radical religious magazine]Teaching Tolerance
www.splcenter.org/teachingtolerance.htm
[good teaching resource]Tikkun
www.tikkun.org
[progressive Jewish magazine]Utne Reader
http://www.utne.com/
[terrific alternative press digest]
Workingforchange.org
Produced by the alternative long distance and credit card company Working Assets, includes excellent daily commentaries, plus ways to take action
http://www.workingforchange.org/
Yes Magazine
http://www.yesmagazine.org/
[wonderful hopeful alternatives]ZNET/Z Magazine
http://www.zmag.org/
[Good magazine with excellent on-line discussions of progressive political activism.And here are some other useful books that have come out since Soul of a Citizen and therefore aren't listed in my bibliography:
Making a Difference College Guide & Making a Difference Scholarships for a Better World
Miriam Weinstein, New Society Publishers
http://www.making-a-difference.com/
[Good listings of alternative college programs]
[One great new program is Antioch New England's Master's degree in environmental advocacy and organizing--see www.antiochne.edu/prospects/esm/advocacy/default.htmlAntioch also has a new PhD program in social change. See http://www.phd.antioch.edu/
Coalitions Across the Class Divide
By Fred Rose, Cornell University Press
[Wonderful book on how working class labor activists can work together with predominantly middle class environmental and peace activists]Bridging the Class Divide
By Linda Stout, Beacon Press
[Almost the same title, but a good complement--excellent memoir of a low income North Carolina woman organizing in her home community]e-nonprofit guide
www.compasspoint.org/enonprofit
[A guide to online software tools available for non-profits, technical but quite useful and co-written by Michael Stein, who designed the templates for this website. Available for free download]Global Uprising
By Neva Welton and Linda Wolf
New Society Press
[Good interviews with young activists involved around issues of globalization]
Doing Democracy
Bill Moyer
New Society Press
[Moyer (not to be confused with the equally wonderful Bill Moyers) is one of the finest strategists on the cycles social movements go through in trying to make change. This sums up his theories with useful examples]New Society Publishers
http://www.newsociety.com/
Has all sorts of wonderful social change books.
Other good alternative presses areBeacon Press
http://www.beacon.org/home.htmlCommon Courage
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/South End Press
www.southendpress.org
Some lighter political humor http://www.whitehouse.org/