Chomsky.info The Noam Chomsky Website
Collect information Freedom of information guide
Eurozine Europe's leading cultural magazine at your fingertips.
Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle (Book) Complete Cinematic Works including:scripts,stills and documents.
Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle (Video) Guy Debord:Society of the Spectacle, video preview.
Index on Censorship Britain's leading organisation promoting freedom.
Interactivist Project of Interactivist & Autonomedia.
International Institute of Social History Amsterdam The International Institute of Social History is the world's largest documentation and research centre in the field of social history.
Left Turn Magazine a national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism.
Media Lens Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
News Alternative Diversify your news sources and take intellectual control
Open Guide to London London guide created by Londoners
openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.
Reporters without borders For Press freedom
Spunk Anarchist Library Collects and distributes literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues.
Statewatch Monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe
Syndicat Potentiel Association of artists, a space for meetings and experiences
Under the Carpet News stories
University Of Openess Faculty of Cartography New home page.
Urban 75 Popular e-zine
Variant Magazine The free arts and culture magazine. In-depth coverage in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues
+qtrapo Digital Magazine about music, cinema, literature, travelling and more...
Ambient TV A crucible for the conception and production of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and critical artworks, events, and tools.
Autofocus Berlin based independant video group
B'Tselem Shooting Back Project a video advocacy project focusing on the Occupied Territories
Big Noise Films A collective of media-makers dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images.
Big Picture TV Streaming free video clips of leading experts, thinkers and activists in environmental and social sustainability.
Black Chilli Productions Helping to bring issues to the wider public and decision makers.
Clearer Channel An online video project which encourages viewers to download and transmit video for social change.
Community TV Trust CTVT specialises in local media, giving training to people of all ages and abilities, facilitating vision and production.
Deptford.tv An audio-visual documentation of the regeneration process of the Deptford area.
Docs de Nuit Dedicated to those documentaries which tend to come out in the small hours. Attempting to explore the limits of the audiovisual galaxy.
Eurovision 2000 Archive Collects and show independent film and video productions based on the ongoing redefinition of Europe.
Exploding Cinema A coalition of film/video makers committed to developing new modes of exhibition for underground media.
Free Speech TV An independent, publicly-supported, non-profit TV multi-platform digital media pioneer.
iContact A non-profit making initiative set up to promote and encourage community, activist, social change orientated film making.
Indymedia A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.
Internet Archive: moving image This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
Jay's Alternative Media Links Extensive links of alternative media. Mainly North American
Nova Cinema exploring the artistic medium of cinema
Ogino Knauss An independent research group dealing with audiovisual language, urban cultures and human environment’s transformations.
One Big Torrent A new place for sharing material that deals with or is relevant to issues of social justice, progressive and radical politics, independent media, ecology.
OneWorld TV A unique public platform for filmmakers, video journalists, NGOs and just about anyone with an interest in video and a concern for a better world.
Organic Chaos Network www.antenna.nl/organicchaos
OVNI ( Ufo) archive OVNI (observatori de video no identificat). UFO (unknown frame observatory). includes video art, independent documentary, and mass media archaeology.
Platform of creativity Platform of creativity, short films and monthly video magazine.
pleinOPENair Spectacle workshop in Brussels. Does Picking Up a Camera Make a difference?
Plus-tot Te Taat A place for interventions by temporary and strategic workgroups that split up
polymorfilms A cooperative of film-makers and a registered non-profit production company.
PTTL Video Downloads Download films from Plus-tot Ta Laat
Radio panic Listen to Does Picking Up a camera make a difference? Programme
Resonance FM A radio station that makes public those artworks that have no place in traditional broadcasting. A radio station that is an archive of the new, the undiscovered, the forgotten, the impossible.
Schmovies SchNEWS goes to the movies!
Soma FM A listener-supported, commercial-free internet-only radio station
southwark.tv Southwark open access website
Transmission Video makers, programmers and web producers developing online video distribution as a tool for social justice and media democracy.
undercurrents The news you don't see on the news
V2V V2V use only open source software in order to provide free and equal access to the video source.
Vtape Offering curators, educators and students the opportunity to research our reference collection of over 1500 articles about video art and video artists.
www.karahaber.org Ankara based independent media group
AK Press A worker publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles.
cultureshop Independent distributor.
viThèque Videographe Montreal's online distribution
The Unteachables video clips Video clips from Channel 4's The Unteachables programme
7 inch cinema Firm believers in the old-fashioned communal film experience.
Champ libre Montreal A nomadic electronic arts organization and research laboratory that presents in situ events, inserted in the community and putting in relation current practices of contemporary art
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival This Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme.
MadCat Womens International Film Festival MadCat seeks provocative and visionary films and videos directed or co-directed by women.
Next 5 Minutes A festival that brings together media, art and politics.
Projectile A festival of anarchist film and culture
Videoex Switzerland’s only festival dedicated to experimental film and video and is among the eight swiss film festivals supported by the Swiss Department of Culture.
Volcano No budget film and video festival events
Withoutabox The Network for Independents
akrasi Akrasi are Joyce Akrasi (singer / songwriter / film maker) and Patrick Luke (producer / musician). Akrasi perform with live and electronic instruments.
Andy Worthington Counter-cultural historian - author of books on Stonehenge and the Battle of the Beanfield
Bristol Insurgent Art Alternative art, events, screenings, exhibitions, live music, djs, claiming unused spaces in Bristol.
Brixton St. Vincents Community Centre
ByCommittee ByCommittee
CommunityWalk Build your own maps
Drone Zone Online radio station
Euro TV More than 180 European TV channels updated every day
Gracenote music database Music database
Groove salad Online radio station
Kuras and Mackenzie Happy Hydrogen Bomb
RandomArtists Claiming missused spaces in London, anti-commercial non-catalogued art. Temporary Autonomus Art, four-day quarterly event with performances, art, music and film.
Susan Stockwell Susan Stockwell is an artist who has worked in collaboration with Spectacle. See Its a Journey, Taking a Line for a Walk and Line Drawing.
UMFM Web radio Online radio stations
Whitespace design Designers of our website.
A world to win For a world without global Capital
Amnesty International UK A campaigning organisation; it's what we do. Our purpose is to protect people wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.
Avaaz.org A new global web movement with a simple democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most people everywhere want.
cageprisoners Cageprisoners Ltd is a human rights organisation that exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror.
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) (CAAT) works for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade, together with progressive demilitarisation within arms-producing countries.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives The CCPA is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice.
CIR Le CIR?- Coordination Initiatives pour et avec les R?fugi?s et des ?trangers.
London Action Resource Centre A collectively run building providing space and resources for people and groups working on self-organised, non-hierarchical projects for radical social change.
MigMap A Virtual Cartography of European Migration Policies
Money Nations For people on their way in Europe
Newham Monitoring Project An independent community-based anti-racist organisation, set up in 1980, based in the east London borough of Newham in England.
no border A network of groups struggling for the freedom of movement for all and an end to all migration controls. We call for a radical movement against the system of control.
no one is illegal A Melbourne-based collective acting to question borders in all their forms.
Reprieve Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Slave Narratives exhibit on the slave trade
Tax Justice Network We support a level playing field on tax and we oppose loopholes and distortions in tax and regulation, and the abuses that flow from them.
The Land is Ours TLIO campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them, for everyone, irrespective of race, gender or age.
The Transnational Institute Carries out cutting-edge analysis on critical global issues, builds alliances with grassroots social movements, develops proposals for a more sustainable and just world.
Abahlali baseMjondolo The largest organisation of the militant poor in post-apartheid South Africa
airoots Blog on urban forests & villages, natural cities and lost tribes
American Planning Association American Planning Association
An Architektur Magazine The exercise of discursive architectural practice.
APaNGO Advocacy, Participation and NGOs in Planning
APaNGO links APaNGO useful links
Assemblee des Voisins Gateway for Radio sites
Autonomous Geographies A two year action research project between 2005 and 2007 run jointly by geographers at the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Bruxel Glocal Conference held in 2003 on the topic of Cities, Urbanity and Urban Interventions.
Building Exploratory Helps people discover the secrets of their local area and gain a better understanding of the buildings and spaces that surround them.
City Strolls Creative Community, Urban Issues, Empowerment.
CityMined An international network of individuals and collectives involved with city and local action.
COHRE The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions Mega-events and Olympics
Constant A non-profit association, based and active in Brussels since 1997 in the fields of feminism, copyright alternatives and working through networks.
Cosmopolis A transdisciplinary research centre in urban studies, which focuses on the relationship between city, culture and society.
CUCR Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College
diffusion.org.uk A Manifesto for Black Urbanism by Paul Goodwin
Digital Urban examining the latest techniques to visualise the city scape via digital media
European Science Foundation An association of 80 member organisations devoted to scientific research in 30 European countries.
Folksonomy A structured repository of digital culture and creative practice.
Games Monitor Debunking London Olympics myths
Habitat International Coalition HIC is a global network of peoples' organizations and NGOs working on housing and habitat
International Alliance of Inhabitants A global network of associations and social movements of inhabitants, cooperatives, communities, tenants, house owners, homeless, slum dwellers and people from working class neighbourhoods.
INURA International Network for Urban Research and Action
Inura Glasgow INURA in Glasgow article by Marvi Maggio
King's Cross Railway Lands Group Campaign
KraftWerk1 An Approach to a Civilisation beyond Work
Krax Investigates, connects and empowers urban creativity that responds on 'cracks' in the city.
LaPei Laboratorio di Progettazione Ecologica delgi Insediamenti. Florence
Manifesto of Possibilities Increasingly, people working in diverse aspects of contemporary urban society, from developers to park wardens, are turning to the arts for new ideas, regeneration and problem solving.
Manor Gardens Olympic Allotments Support for Manor Gardens Allotment on Olympic site
Marsh Farm Outreach A grassroots community group made up of volunteers living on the Marsh Farm Estate in Luton, Bedfordshire.
Michael Edwards Photos Flickr
National Campaign for Affordable House Prices
Operation City A series of events that summarizes joint activities of Zagreb’s independent cultural scene in fields of cultural production, urban development, spatial & cultural policy and citizen participation.
Park Fiction Park Fiction St. Pauli Hamburg
Participatory Geographies Research Group A research group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
PEPRAV European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City
PingPong Project Citymine(d)'s PingPongProject
PLaNET PlaNet Student Planning Network
PlaNetWAWA Top Down/Bottom Up
Planner Network UK PNUK is a network to support critical thinking about the current state of planning in the UK.
Planners Network U.S. Planners Network
Planum European Journal of Planning The first European and on-line journal entirely devoted to the planners and to the whole community of people involved in city development and the protection of the environment.
Policing Crowds Privatizing Security
PPS-UK PPS-UK is the UK Chapter of the international project for a participatory society.
Pukar An innovative and experimental initiative that aims to contribute to a global debate about urbanization and globalization.
Real Estate ICA Real Estate, a week of campaigning, climbing, playing and debating 23-28 August 2005
Reconstruction Community Athens based Reconstruction Community plan
Reinigungsgesellschaft Artistic venture at the point of intersection between art and society.
ROOF Housing and homeless Magazine
Sarai Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, (CSDS) one of India’s leading research institutes.
Sarcha - School of Architecture 4 all It aims to educate and activate the public regarding architecture’s impact on the formation of the ever-changing, life-shaping environment.
Subtopia: A Guide to Military Urbanism A Blog on the topic of Military Urbanism
The Annie McCall Heritage Project The 2004 project was an inter-generational community educational pilot programme based at the former Annie McCall Maternity Hospital, now Stockwell Studios.
The Development Trusts Association A network of community enterprise practitioners dedicated to helping people set up development trusts and helping existing development trusts learn from each other and work effectively.
The London Topographical Society It concentrates exclusively on publishing books and sheet material illustrating the history, growth and topography of London.
The Office for Metropolitan Alternatives
The South of the Cities Globalisation from below, international solidarity, struggles against poverty and injustice.
This is not a gateway A voluntary organisation that creates arenas/platforms for those whose point of reference is the city. Working across disciplines, TINAG encourages inter-cultural dialogue.
Towards Towards a subjective collective cartography
Transition Towns Transition to a more localised post-peak-oil future.
Ubiquitouscity Aims to consider the formative power of culture within communities and the potential of ubiquitous information technologies for facilitating public involvement and participatory planning.
UCL Urban Laboratory A university wide initiative to bring together the best urban teaching and research at UCL.
UCLA Critical Planning A journal of the UCLA department of Urban Planning
UNECE Aarhus Convention Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making & Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
Upping the Anti Journal of Theory and Action
Urban Age A worldwide series of conferences investigating the future of cities
Urban Forum A national charity and a membership organisation that supports communities to have a greater say over decisions that affect them.
Urban Typhoon Participatory Urban Design & the Future of Alternative Communities, Mumbai
Urbanology A think & action tank active in the fields of urban development, design, architecture and new media.
Urbanology-Internet Geographical Information System New York Times's Square
Urbz Facilitates the exchange of information, knowledge, ideas and practices towards better cities for all.
Volresource Housing, Planning, regeneration areas of concern information for voluntary and community organisations
What is a charette? Description of a Charette
videolan.org Free and Open Source cross-platform media player