May/June 2006

Links

Fellowship’s editorial collective and friends highlight some of our favorite lesser-known and unique informational sources, from a wide range of political perspectives, as suggestions for our readers. Please find the names and Web links, with occasional commentary, below:

Magazines & Newspapers:

• The Abolitionist: www.criticalresistance.org (published by the Oakland chapter of Critical Resistance, all writing is by prisoners and former prisoners)
• The American Conservative: www.amconmag.com (Pat Buchanan’s publication – “to his credit, he opposed the Iraq war from the start”)
• ColorLines: www.colorlines.com (a bimonthly magazine on race, politics, and culture – one of our favorites)
• Hip Mama: www.hipmama.com (“the parenting ‘zine”)
• Left Turn: www.leftturn.org
• Metagrid: www.metagrid.com
• Mothering: www.mothering.com (“the birthplace of natural family lifestyle”)
• The Onion: www.theonion.com
• Qalandar: www.islaminterfaith.org (a monthly magazine on interreligious affairs out of the Subcontinent)
• The Witness: www.thewitness.org

News services, analysis, and activism:

• AlterNet: www.alternet.org
• Americans Against World Empire: www.conservativesforpeace.com
• Antiwar.com: www.antiwar.com (the premier libertarian/conservative anti-war site)
• Common Dreams: www.commondreams.org
• Independent.org: www.independent.org
• International Crisis Group: www.crisisgroup.org (“Working to Prevent Conflict Worldwide”)
• Institute on Race Relations: www.irr.org.uk (provides a weekly news digest on racist and anti-racist incidents; and publishes the journal Race and Class and other resources)
• Portside: www.portside.org (sends a daily e-mail message with five top selected progressive articles and stories)
• Power and Interest News Report: www.pinr.com (a policy think-tank)
• Project Censored: www.projectcensored.org
• They Rule: www.theyrule.net
• TruthOut: www.truthout.org
• South Asian Media Net: www.southasianmedia.net (“A News and Views Web site of South Asian Free Media Association”)

Blogs & Multimedia:

• Antiwar League: www.antiwarleague.net/blog/ (Doug Fuda, a military veteran, from a largely Libertarian perspective)
• Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches: www.dahrjamailiraq.com
• Electronic Intifada: www.electronicintifada.net (together with its sister sites, Electronic Iraq and Electronic Iran, it provides historical documentation on events in the Middle East as well as contemporary reports from a wide variety of sources)
• Friendster: friendster.com and MySpace: myspace.com (these Web sites might seem like they are for dating and gossip between friends, but savvy youth activists are using them to spread information quickly. Recent high school walkouts in San Diego in protest of HR-4437 were organized almost completely through MySpace.)
• Happening-Here?: http://happening-here.blogspot.com/ (Jan Adams, a long-time progressive activist who has co-founded numerous peace and justice publications)
• Informed Comment: www.juancole.com (Prof. Juan Cole’s “Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion”)
• Islamicate: http://islamicate.typepad.com/ (high Muslim hipness!)
• Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr.: www.lewrockwell.com (a Libertarian anti-war political commentator and author)
• Radio Active San Diego: www.radioactiveradio.org (a pirate internet radio station that offers radical music and perspectives from people dedicated to anti-racism and feminism)

Fellowship thanks Nico Amador, Ludovic Blain, Maryrose Dolezal, Anita Fee, Murray Polner, and Elizabeth Robinson for their invaluable input into this collection.

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