Thanks to Rob Aken, Jesse Fox, students in CJT 719 and 419 Spring 2000, and all students over the years who have contributed to VAMP because they studied and understood its importance.

Please note: Journals listed in VAMP often point to a page that gives you limited access to the full-text of that publication. For more complete online access to the full-text of these publications, please consult the E-Journals Database (full-text restricted to UK on campus access or proxy access off-campus).

New in January

• Watching America, reflects global opinion about the United States by providing news and views about the United States published in other countries.

• Social Criticism Review, selected readings in social criticism. Reading Material for Those Who Wish to Gain Advanced Knowledge Skills in Media and Other Social Literacies.

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• Accuracy In Media (AIM), provides media analysis and investigation from a radical right perspective.

• Ad Busters, a magazine of media and environmental strategies.

• Advocate, The, national gay and lesbian news magazine.

• AIDS/HIV Resources from Healthopedia.com

• AIDS Info. NYC, provides an overview of AIDS treatment in clinical trial and new, as well as general, medical treatment information.

• Albion Monitor, publication offering selected stories on human rights, politics and environmental news.

• Alliance for Community Media, journal covering such topics as: community, censorship, legal, technical, professional advocacy for cable access, Internet and electronic media.

• Alternative Media Links, from The Progressive Populist.

• Alternative Resources on the U.S. "War Against Terrorism," from International Responsibilities Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association.

• Alternet (Institute For Alternative Journalism), a news service for the alternative press.

• Alt-Press Watch, full-text database of approximately 175 newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses. Restricted to two simultaneous users. Available on-campus or off-campus via EZProxy.

• Amazon Watch, Keeps an eye on projects such as deforestation, mining, oil pipelines, and transportation that are threatening the ecosystem and indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin.

• American Association of University Women, provides fact sheets, information, and asserted positions on several issues critical to women. Information about grants and fellowships is available. The Member Center allows women to discuss issues, organize events, or make contacts across the nation.

• American Civil Liberties Union

• American Society of Newspaper Editors

• American Hellenic Media Project, a grassroots, not-for-profit think tank created to educate the media regarding American-Hellenic issues.

• American Journalism Review, reviews and reports on American journalism and provides information for professional journalists.

• American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom, organized to educate librarians and the general public about the nature and importance of intellectual freedom in libraries.

• American Lawyer, The, a weekly legal newspaper.

• American Prospect, bi-monthly publication covering political, social, and cultural issues.

• American Society of Journalists and Authors, a membership directory, including a list of non-fiction freelance writers.

• Arab American News, nationally circulated, bilingual weekly newspaper serving Arab Americans.

• Arms Sale Monitoring Project, highlights U.S. government policies on arms exports and conventional weapons proliferation.

• Asian American Journalists Association, committed to insuring diversity in American journalism and expressing the Asian-American perspective.

• Association Of Alternative Newsweeklies, a coordinating and administrative organization for alternative newsweeklies in the U.S. and Canada.

• Association of American Publishers, a national trade association dedicated to protection of intellectual property rights and defense of free expression.

• Audubon Advisory, free environmental policy e-mail list, with updates on legislation and our conservation campaigns. Sent out every other Friday when Congress is in session.

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• BLK, resources for the African-American lesbian and gay community.

• Brazzil Magazine, articles dealing with politics, economy, behavior, ecology, tourism, literature, arts, and culture.

• Broadcasting and Cable, a newsweekly on broadcasting and cable issues.

• Broken Pencil, reprints of the underground press and original features.

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, covers international security, military affairs and nuclear issues.

• Business Ethics, a publication to promote ethical business practices.

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• California First Amendment Coalition, offers details about laws and challenges to journalistic freedoms and provides information from California's First Amendment Assembly.

• Campus Alternative Journalism Project, supports the work of campus progressive activists who make their own print media.

• Center for Asian American Media, nonprofit media arts organization dedicated to informing and educating the general public about the Asian American experience through film and public television, advocating for increasing the presence of Asian Americans and the accuracy of the portrayals of them in mainstream media, exhibiting Asian American films and videos on public television and during our annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, funding Asian American projects and filmmakers, and distributing their work to schools, universities, libraries and community groups around the country.

• Center for Integration and Improvement Of Journalism, a series of model programs designed to bring ethnic diversity to the country's newsrooms and promote fair and balanced coverage of our multicultural society.

• Center For Media And Democracy, spotlighting corporate and government propaganda.

• Center For Media And Public Affairs

• Center For Media Literacy, encouraging critical thinking in academic environments with videos and books that focus on democratic processes.

• Center for Neighborhood Technology, show urban communities locally and all across the country how to develop more sustainability.

• Center For Public Integrity, coverage of important national issues by journalists published in full form.

• Christian Science Monitor, newspaper covering international and national news.

• Chronicle of Higher Education, The, a news source for college and university faculty.

• CISPES: Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.

• Citizens For Media Literacy, provides assistance to citizen activists and journalists on issues related to the Freedom of Information Act and Open Records Law.

• Colorlines, a magazine which focuses on race, culture, and organizing within communities of color.

• Columbia Journalism Review, a journal which assesses the performance of journalism.

• Committee To Protect Journalists, monitors violations of press freedom and of journalists' human rights both nationally and internationally.

• Communication Initiative has the following goals:
  1. Improve strategic communication thinking on development issues.
  2. Advance the extent and quality of communication for change information.
  3. Effectively advocate the effectiveness of communication for sustainable development.
  4. Expand dialogue, debate and review of key communication issues and programmes.

• Community Media Workshop, provides the link between the news media and community and civic groups.

• Conscious Choice, journal promoting sustainable patterns of living, environmental issues and natural alternatives.

• Consortiumnews.com

• Consumer Project On Technology, organization that is active in intellectual property, telecommunications, privacy and electronic commerce issues.

• Consumer Reports, Consumers Union is a non-profit organization that has been testing products on behalf of consumers for more than 60 years.

• Co-op America, teaches consumers how to use their spending power to support socially and environmentally responsible businesses and promote social and economic justice.

• Counterpoise, for social responsibilities, liberty and dissent. Project of the Civic Media Center.

• Counterpunch, Washington DC-based investigative newsletter on power and evil in the nation's capital.

• Cousteau Society and Environmental Protection, focused on the protection and improvement of the quality of life for future generations.

• Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging, grassroots publication that challenges the stereotypes by living authentically.

• Cultural Survival Quarterly, world report on the rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities.

• Culture of Peace, a multilingual website for UNESCO's promotion of a Culture of Peace.

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• Deep Dish TV, a national satellite network, linking access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and people who support a progressive television network.

• Defense Monitor, from the Center for Defense Information. Opposes policies that increase the danger of war.

• Democracy and the Media Left, an article by Greg Guma on democracy and the media.

• Democratic Left, a quarterly review of socialist issues and activities.

• Dissent Magazine, quarterly magazine on democratic socialist and left liberal arguments.

• DIVA-TV, (Damned Infernal Video Activists) progressive video producers.

• Dollars and Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice, reports on issues of social justice and economic policy.

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• E: the Environmental Magazine, independent national environmental magazine.

• EnviroLink, "the online environmental community." Non-profit organization that provides access to thousands of online environmental resources.

• Earth Island Journal, international environmental news magazine focusing on socio-economic and political issues affecting Earth's ecosystem.

• Earth Line, directory of a number of environmental web resources, including education sites, organizational sites, and links to eco-friendly companies and products for the ecologically-minded consumer.

• Ecologist, The, covers ecological issues and supports small-scale agriculture and democratized political power.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties organization devoted to maintaining the Internet as a global vehicle for free speech.

• EnviroLink, "the online environmental community." Non-profit organization that provides access to thousands of online environmental resources.

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• FactNet Newsletter, protecting freedom of mind by exposing cults and mind control.

• Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, national media watchdog group that fosters public awareness of corporate ownership of the press.

• Fellowship of Reconciliation: Peace, Justice and Nonviolence,. seeks to replace violence, war and racism with nonviolence, peace and justice.

• Feminist Majority Foundation, news and reports on politics, culture, women's health, reproduction rights and the nature of feminism.

• Feminists For Free Expression, national organization of people who share a commitment both to gender equality and to preserving the individual's right to read, rent or purchase media materials of their choice.

• Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy, analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.

• Free Inquiry, a quarterly magazine that celebrates reason and humanity. From the Council for Secular Humanism.

• Free Speech TV (FSTV), national network offering progressive programming.

• Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit.

• Freedom of Information Center, collects and indexes materials relating to controls on the flow and content of information to research free-press issues. From the Missouri School of Journalism.

• Frontiers Magazine, for and about gay/lesbian issues and rights.

• Fund For Investigative Journalism, gives grants to journalists seeking help for investigative news pieces.

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• GeneWatch UK, not-for-profit group that monitors developments in genetic technologies from a public interest, environmental protection and animal welfare perspective.

• Global Eco-Communications Mother Page, University of Kentucky's Dr. Ramona R. Rush provides links and information on many global and ecological issues.

• Global Exchange, membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.

• Global Issues That Affect Everyone, provides basic information about ecological issues such as global warming, conservation, and genetically engineered food.

• Guild Notes, newsletter of the National Lawyers Guild.

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• Ha!, a 'zine which is a venue for women's voices and self-expression. From the Lilith Collective.

• Healthopedia.com

• High Country News, bi-weekly tabloid covering natural resource and community challenge issues in the western United States.

• Hightower Radio, Jim Hightower's progressive-populist national radio network.

• Hip Mama, a 'zine for progressive families covering the culture and politics of parenting.

• Huck Boyd National Center For Community Media, helping create stronger communities by strengthening local media.

• Human Rights Internet, dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society.

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• In These Times, provides independent news and views on politics.

• Independent Media Center

• Independent Press Association, a membership-based association to promote and support independent publications committed to social justice and a free press.

• Independent Television Service, produces independent television programs for underserved populations and audiences.

• Indian Country Today, one of the most widely read Native American newspapers in the United States.

• Insight, independent magazine "following political stories others don't."

• Institute for Global Communications, includes PeaceNet, Econet, WomensNet, and AntiRacismNet.

• Institute For Media Policy And Civil Society (IMPACS), providing training and education to Canadian civil society organizations.

• Institute For Policy Studies, a progressive think-tank dedicated to strengthening our country's important social movements.

• Institute For Public Accuracy, serves a nationwide consortium of policy researchers, scholars and activists.

• Intelligence Report, reports on white supremacist organizations and extreme anti-government groups. From the Southern Poverty Law Center.

• Intentional Community, inclusive term for ecovillages, co-housing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision.

• International Action Center, coordinates international meetings and teach-ins, holds demonstrations, publishes news releases, and produces documentaries.

• International Brotherhood of Teamsters

• International Campaign for Tibet

• International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists, sponsors investigations into pressing issues which transcend national borders.

• International Women's Media Foundation, reports on its current activities and accomplishments by women journalists. The IWMF Wire publication offers a number of articles on pioneering female journalists, the adversities faced by women in the field, and the struggle of international women journalists.

• Investigative Reporters and Editors, offers assistance to investigative reporters in the pursuit of their stories.

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• Journal of Prisoners on Prison, a journal composed of contributions by prisoners and former prisoners.

• Just Think Foundation, teaches media educators how to integrate curriculum into classrooms.

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• Kill Your Television, informs the viewer of the dangers of television and its role in the manipulation of society.

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• Left Business Observer, a journal of news and analysis.

• Left Curve, an artist-produced magazine addressing problems of cultural forms emerging from problems of modernity.

• LM Magazine, a free speech magazine which dares to publish stories which other news sources fear.

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• Mainstream Media, explore corporate ownership of the mass media.

• Media Access Project, promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media.

• Media Alliance, review and analysis of San Francisco Bay Area media issues.

• Media Channel, this site features hundreds of links and an extensive directory of organization sites.

• Media Coalition, defending the American public's First Amendment right to have access to the broadest possible range of entertainment and opinion.

• Media Education Foundation, The, founded to produce and distribute educational videotapes with critical media perspectives.

• Media Watch, working to challenge media bias through education and action.

• MidEast News Source

• Middle East Report, a journal offering an independent critical voice on the Middle East.

• Military Toxics Project: Networking for Environmental Justice. Provides information, education, networking and organizing resources so as to serve as a bridge and facilitator for organizations concerned with military pollution issues.

• MonkeyFist Collective: Essays, Argument, Politics, Technology, Culture.

• Mother Jones, the magazine of investigative journalism.

• Moving On, created by and for young adults with parents who joined the religious organization The Family / Children of God.

• Ms. Magazine, the founding magazine of the feminist movement, focusing on issues affecting women.

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• NACLA Reports on the Americas, from North American Congress on Latin America. NACLA analyzes the major political, social and economic trends in Latin America.

• Nation, The, investigative journalism and leading forum of leftist debate.

• National Academies: "Advisors to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine." Covering all areas of science, technology, health, and related policy issues in the United States.

• National Association of Black Journalists, strengthening ties among African-American journalists, promoting diversity in the newsroom and recruiting activities.

• National Association of Hispanic Journalists, dedicated to recognition and professional advancement of Hispanics in the news industry.

• National Catholic Reporter, an independent Catholic newsweekly covering events related to the church.

• National Coalition Against Censorship, information and discussion about freedom of expression issues.

• National Conference of Editorial Writers, dedicated to the purpose of stimulating the conscience and quality of the editorial.

• National Education Association, provides insights on educational challenges facing the U.S. today.

• National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association

• National Green Pages, a directory of responsible businesses, products and services.

• National Gulf War Resource Center

• National Institute For Computer-Assisted Reporting, trains investigative reporters on how to use various databases for investigative purposes.

• National Lesbian and Gay Journalists, works from within the industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of gay and lesbian issues.

• National Telemedia Council's Telemedium, non-profit educational organization that promotes media literacy education with a positive, non-judgmental philosophy.

• National Writers Union, tracks developments in the media/information industry and the labor movement that concerns working writers.

• Neighborhood Works, The, a bimonthly magazine that seeks out those people, projects and issues that demonstrate substantial principles at work in urban areas.

• New American Dream, covers a wide range of topics such as commercial culture, population, environment, justice, and community via articles, comics, action tips, audio clips, even anti-consumerism song lyrics.

• New America Media, collaboration of ethnic news organizations.

• New Democracy, site created to shape the world with anti-capitalist values of solidarity, equality, and democracy.

• New Mexico Media Literacy Project, promotes and implements media literacy in education.

• New Party, grassroots-based democratic political party.

• New Republic, The, weekly journal of political opinion.

• New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), an educational and advocacy site for artists, art organizations, and concerned citizens.

• Newspaper Guild, The, newsletter for the Newspaper Guild-CWA's (Communications Workers of America) 30,000 members in the United States and Canada.

• Nonviolence.org

• Nuclear Information and Resource Service & World Information Service on Energy

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• Objector, The, site of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors.

• Office for Intellectual Freedom, part of the American Libraries Association.

• OMB Watch, nonprofit government watchdog organization located in D.C. Promotes open government, accountability and citizen participation.

• OnEarth Magazine, independent publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

• Opensecrects.org, covers money-in-politics at the federal, state and local levels.

• OpentheGovernment, a coalition of Americans fighting government secrecy.

• Our Times, Canada's Independent Labour Magazine. Focuses on social change through unionism and democratic socialism.

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• Paper Tiger TV, alternative/progressive television production.

• Paul Robeson Fund For Independent Media, supports media activism and grassroots organizing by local, state, national, and international organizations by funding radio, film, and video productions.

• Peace Brigades International

• Peace Magazine, issues and activities of movements for peace and nonviolence around the world.

• PeaceNet, Econet, WomensNet, AntiRacismNet, information for progressive activists. Units of the Institute for Global Communications.

• PeaceWork: Global Thought and Local Action for Nonviolent Social Change. Published by the New England Regional Office of the American Friends Service Committee.

• People's News Agency, news service and free reprints for progressive publications.

• People's Video Network, films, important progressive events and speeches for rebroadcasting.

• Pesticide Action Network North America, advances alternatives to pesticides worldwide.

• POGO: Project on Government Oversight.

• POZ Magazine, focusing on quality of life issues for anyone impacted by AIDS and HIV.

• PR Watch, investigates corporate and government propaganda.

• Prison Activist Resource Center

• Prison Legal News, reports court rulings involving prisoners' rights as well as providing news and commentary on criminal justice issues.

• Progressive, The, discusses peace, politics, social justice, and environmental concerns from a liberal point of view.

• Progressive Librarian, a journal for critical studies and progressive politics.

• Progressive Populist, The, promotes the idea that people are more important than corporations.

• Progressive Review, The, provides populist perspectives on Washington.

• Project Censored: The News that Didn't Make the News. Faculty/student media research project dedicated to building free democratic news systems.

• Project on Government Secrecy, from the Federation of American Scientists. Works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight.

• Public Citizen, national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts.

• Public Eye, The, quarterly newsletter featuring in-depth analysis and critique of issues pertaining to the U.S. political right wing.

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• Quill, a national magazine that reports on journalism. From the Society of Professional Journalists.

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• Rachel's Democracy and Health News

• Rachel's Precaution Reporter, "Foresight and Precaution in the News and in the World."

• Religion Watch, newsletter which monitors trends in contemporary religion.

• Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free legal help to journalists and new organizations since 1970.

• Responsive Philanthropy, National Committee for, committed to making philanthropy more responsive to socially, economically, and politically disenfranchised people.

• Rethinking Schools, provides an alternative to mainstream educational materials, committed to issues of equity and social justice.

• Revolution, "Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party."

• Rocky Mountain Media Watch, promotes media literacy by analyzing the offerings of local television.

• Ryerson Review of Journalism, progressive review from Ryerson Polytechnic University in Canada.

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• Science and Environmental Health Network: Science, Ethics, and Action in the Public Interest. Brings environmental and health issues to a public interest level.

• SOA Watch, tracks and reports on activities at the School of the Americas.

• Social Criticism Review, selected readings in social criticism.

• Social Policy, magazine about social movements.

• Society Of Environmental Journalists, dedicated to supporting environmental journalists and furthering environmental journalism.

• Sojourners, a grassroots network for personal, community, and political transformation rooted in prophetic biblical tradition. From Christians for Justice and Peace.

• Solidarity, official magazine of the United Auto Workers.

• Southwest Alternative Media Project, a non-profit media center promoting the creation and appreciation of film and video for a multicultural public.

• Stay Free!, a magazine which criticizes commercialism and popular culture.

• Street Librarian, alternative news/opinion.

• Student Press Law Center News Flashes, reports on cases, controversies and legislation relating to free press rights of student journalists.

• Syracuse Alternative Media Network (SAMN), produces and distributes documentaries and educational programs which examine public policy issues.

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• TalkShowHosts.com, tools and resources for radio and TV talk show hosts.

• Teen Voices Magazine, provides an interactive, educational forum that challenges media images of young women and girls.

• Television Project is an educational organization that attempts to help parents understand how television affects their families and community and proposes alternatives that foster positive emotional, cognitive, and spiritual development within families and communities.

• Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, organization devoted to the defense of free expression in all its forms.

• Tikkun: "to heal, repair, and transform the world." Focuses on topics of particular interest to the Jewish community, including culture, politics and philosophy.

• Tolerance.org, "Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance." From the Southern Poverty Law Center.

• Toward Freedom, an international news, analysis and advocacy journal that helps to strengthen and extend human justice and liberties.

• Transcend: A Peace and Development Organisation for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means.

• Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, labels itself as "an experiment in applied peace research and global networking."

• Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, a non-sectarian magazine examining the juxtaposition of the dharma in western culture.

• TV Turnoff Network, from the Center for Screen-Time Awareness. Encourages Americans to reduce the amount of television they watch in order to promote healthier and more connected lives, families and communities.

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• Union Producers And Programmers Network, organized to promote production and use of TV and radio shows pertinent to the cause of organized labor and working people.

• United States Institute of Peace, Features news on worldwide peace efforts, archives of essays and articles, information on their educational programs, and an online library.

• University of Kentucky's E-Journals Database, the UK library's collection of journals online.

• UPPNET Newsletter, official publication of the Union Producers and Programmers Network.

• Urgent Action Newsletter, from Amnesty International's Urgent Action Program Office.

• UTNE Reader, digest of alternative ideas and material reprinted from alternative and independent media sources.

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• Vietnam Veterans of America

• Village Voice, weekly newspaper covering regional, national, and international affairs from a New York perspective.

• VOICES for Media Democracy, from the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.

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• Washington Monthly, national opinion magazine covering politics, media, and government.

• Watching America, reflects global opinion about the United States by providing news and views about the United States published in other countries.

• Women and Environments: Women, Art & Community Activism. International magazine which examines women's multiple relationships with their environment.

• Women Watch, United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality update on the conditions of women around the world.

• Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, explores ways to assure that everyone has equal access to the public, speaking for themselves, so everyone's information can be taken into account in decision-making.

• Workable Peace, site for educators and youth devoted to peacemaking and conflict resolution skills in interpersonal and global contexts.

• World Press.org: World News from World Newspapers. Digest of the global press via a sampling of newspapers from around the world.

• World Rivers Review, provides news on the world-wide movement to stop destructive dams and information about alternatives to large hydro projects.

• Worldviews, a quarterly review of resources for education and action.

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• Yes! Magazine, helps shape and support the evolution of sustainable cultures and communities.

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• ZNet, a community of people committed to social change.