1. Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   
2. Autonomous Media
   Activating Resistance & Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
3. If I Can't Dance ....
   Why is the Left So Boring?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
   
4. Insurgency Online
   Web Activism and Global Conflict
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
5. Movements and Messages
   Media and Radical Politics on Quebec
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1984
   A study of the attempt by social and political movements in Quebec to shape their own communication strategies in oppostion to the power of the state and the mainstream media.
6. Radical Newspapers
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1979
   A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
7. Uncovering the Sixties
   Life and Times of the Undergound Press
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1985
   A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.

Experts on Activism/Radicalism in the Sources Directory

1. Michael Riordon