RESOURCE GUIDE
POLITICAL BOOKS
BY NOAM CHOMSKY:
American Power and the New Mandarins (New York: Pantheon, 1969)
At War with Asia (New York: Pantheon, 1970)
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures (New York: Pantheon, 1971)
For Reasons of State (New York: Pantheon, 1973)
Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood (New York: Pantheon, 1974)
Language and Responsibility (New York: Pantheon, 1979)
Radical Priorities (Montréal: Black Rose, 1981)
Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There (New York: Pantheon, 1982)
The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (Boston: South End Press • Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1983)
Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace (Boston: South End Press, 1985 • expanded edition: Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1987)
Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism and the Real World (New York: Claremont Research and Publications, 1986 • Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1987)
On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures (Boston: South End Press • Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1987) Lectures delivered at the Universidad Centroamericana, Managua, in March 1986.
The Chomsky Reader (New York: Pantheon, 1987)
The Culture of Terrorism (Boston: South End Press • Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1988)
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (Boston: South End Press • in Canada, published by Anansi Press distributed by General Publishing, 1989)
Language and Politics (Montréal: Black Rose, 1989)
Terrorizing the Neighborhood: American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (Stirling, Scotland: AK Press, 1991)
Deterring Democracy. With a new afterword (New York: Hill and Wang • Scarborough: Harper Collins Canada, 1992)
Chronicles of Dissent (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press • Vancouver: New Star Books, 1992)
What Uncle Sam Really Wants (Berkeley: Odonian Press, 1992)
Year 501: The Conquest Continues (Boston: South End Press • Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1993)
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and US. Political Culture (Boston: South End Press • Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1993)
Letters From Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1993)
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (Berkeley: Odonian Press, 1993)
Keeping the Rabble in Line (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1994)
World Orders Old and New (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)
BY NOAM CHOMSKY AND EDWARD S. HERMAN
Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda Preface by R. Falk (Andover, MA: Warner Modular Publications, 1973) Module no. 57
The Political Economy of Human Rights (2 volumes) (Boston: South End Press • Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1979)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Pantheon, 1988)
BY EDWARD S. HERMAN:
Corporate Control, Corporate Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda (Boston: South End Press • Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1982)
Demonstration Elections: U.S.-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam and El Salvador with Frank Brodhead (Boston: South End Press, 1984)
The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection with Frank Brodhead, (New York: Sheridan Square Publications, 1986)
“Gatekeeper Versus Propaganda Models: A Critical American Perspective,” in Peter Golding, Graham Murdock and Philip Schlesinger, eds., Communicating Politics: Essays in Memory of Philip Elliott (Leicester: University of Leicester Press, 1986)
“Diversity of News: ‘Marginalizing’ the Opposition,” Journal of Communications (Summer 1985)
The “Terrorism Industry”: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror with Gerry O‘Sullivan (New York: Pantheon, 1989)
“U.S. Mass Media Coverage of the U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO,” one of three chapters in Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985 with William Preston, Jr. and Herbert Schiller (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989)
Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda, With a Doublespeak Dictionary for the 1990s (Boston: South End Press • Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1992)
AN INTRODUCTION TO CHOMSKY’S LINGUISTICS WRITINGS
(Compiled and annotated by Carlos P. Otero)
Overviews:
Newmeyer, Frederick, Grammatical Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983)
Salkie, Raphael, The Chomsky Update: Linguistics and Politics (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990)
Otero, Carlos P., Chomsky’s Revolution: Cognitivism and Anarchism. Oxford: Blackwell (forthcoming), part III (and references therein)
Textbooks:
Freidin, Robert. Foundations of Generative Syntax (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992)
Cowper, Elisabeth. Introduction to Syntactic Theory (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Haegeman, Liliane, Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991) and references therein
History of Generative Grammar: Chomsky, Noam, Generative Grammar: Its Basis, Development and Prospects (Kyoto: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 1987) Studies in English Linguistics and Literature, Special Issue
Newmeyer, Frederick, Linguistic Theory in America: The First Quarter-Century of Transformational Generative Grammar (New York: Academic Press, 1980)
Revised edition, 1986
CHOMSKY’S MOST IMPORTANT LINGUISTIC STUDIES
Early Generative Grammar: Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (Master’s thesis)
(University of Pennsylvania, June 1951) Published in 1979 by Garland Publications in its series “Outstanding Dissertations.”
Elaboration of an undergraduate thesis completed in 1949, when he was 20, and revised further in late 1951. The first modern generative (but not yet transformational) grammar, and a crucial step in the path to his first master-work, a new approach to language structure. It was further elaborated in the monumental The Sound Pattern of English, which was co-authored with Morris Hall (New York: Harper & Row, 1968)
Paperback edition: (MIT Press, 1991, with a Preface dated August 1990)
The Logical Structure Of Linguistic Theory Ms, MIT, 1955-56 (close to 1,000 pages; published in part by University of Chicago Press in 1975, in paperback in 1985), technical presentation of the original theory. His first magnum opus.
Syntactic Structures
(The Hague: Mouton, 1957)
Little more than an abstract of parts of LSLT, with additional material on algebraic linguistics. This small book placed him overnight at the forefront of the field:
“[Chomsky‘s] theory proved to be a central strand in the dramatic change in perspective in the history of psychology that thirty years later was to become widely known as the’cognitive revolution‘ of the mid-1950s, the starting point of current work in the cognitive sciences. In the late 1950s Chomsky went on to become the founder of algebraic linguistics (a new branch of abstract algebra sometimes referred to as ’mathematical linguistics‘) ’and by far the best man in the exciting new field,‘” in the words of one of the most eminent practitioners, Israeli logician and mathematician Yehoshua Bar-Hillel.
Language and Information: Selected Essays on their Theory and Application
(Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1964)
(Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Academic Press, Ltd., 1964, p.16.)
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(The MIT Press, 1965)
A systematic presentation of the “standard theory,” the first thorough revision of his original theory.
Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar
(The Hague: Mouton, 1972)
A non-systematic presentation of the so-called “extended standard theory” (EST).
Essays on Form and Interpretation
(New York: North-Holland, 1977)
The “conditions framework” and other major steps towards the principles-and-parameters theory.
The Principles-and-Parameters Theory: Lectures on Government and Binding
(Dordrecht, Holland: Foris, 1981)
An extensive presentation of a much improved version of generative grammar (His second, and perhaps truly revolutionary, magnum opus.)
Barriers
(MIT Press, 1986)
A very small book (95 pages), but a major step towards the current theory.
“A minimalist program for linguistic theory,” in
The View from Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger
edited by Kenneth Hale & Samuel Jay Keyser. (MIT Press, 1953, 1-52)
A radical revision of the principles-and-parameters theory, now much simpler and deeper (if correct).
SOME SUGGESTED MAGAZINES
(For a more complete listing see the Alternative Press Index)
A*C*E, The Association of Clandestine Radio Enthusiasts
P.O. Box 1744
Wilmington, DE, USA 19899
Publishes international reports on pirate and clandestine radio.
The Activist
736 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2R4
The Activist is Ontario’s monthly peace newspaper bringing you the latest news of peace and human rights from around the world, First Nations here at home, peace campaigns, and so much more!
Adbusters Quarterly: A Magazine of Media and Environmental Strategies
The Media Foundation
1243 W. 7th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 1B7 (604) 736-9401
Detailed deconstruction of ads and media, counter-advertising strategies. Hip layout.
Afterimage
31 Prince Street
Rochester NY, USA 14607
(716) 442-8676
Theories and happenings in video and other arts.
Alternatives—Perspectives on Society, Technology and Environment
c/o Faculty of Environmental Studies
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Canada’s environmental quarterly since 1971.
Briarpatch
2138 McIntyre Street
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4P 2R7
The nuclear industry, aboriginal rights, unemployment, progressive social policy, agriculture, and rural issues: 10 times a year.
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
3239 9th Street
Boulder, CO, USA 80304
Canadian Dimension
707-228 Notre Dame Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1N7 Published 8 times a year. An independent journal of the Left commenting on issues of labor, trade, peace movements, politics, US policies, daycare and aboriginal rights.
Counterpunch
1601 Connecticutt Avenue NW
Washington, DC USA 20009
(202) 234-9382
Investigative newsletter edited by Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn.
Covert Action Information Bulletin
1500 Massachusetts Avenue
Room 732
Washington, D.C., USA 20005
Straight information on disinformation.
Drop Out Magazine
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94110
“The 100 percent true ‘zine for indie mediamakers”
Extra!
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
130 W. 25th Street
New York City, NY, USA 10001
(212) 633-6700
See listing under organizations: 8 issues per year.
Felix
published by the Standby Program
P.O. Box 184 Prince Street Stn.
New York, NY, USA 10012
(212) 219-0951
Video art and theory, often with political angles
Grand Street
50 Riverside Drive
New York City, NY, USA 10024
Distributed by:
B.DeBoer, Inc
113 E. Center Street
Nutley, N.J., USA 07110
Green Anarchist
P.O. Box H
34 Cowley Road
Oxford, England, UK OX4
Best British left Green periodical.
Ideas and Actions
P.O. Box 40400
San Francisco, CA, USA 94140
Anarcho-syndicalist periodical.
The Independent
625 Broadway, 9th Floor
New York, NY, USA 10012
(212) 473-3400
Published by AIVF, includes articles and listings on independent film and video.
Index on Censorship
39 Islington High St.
London, England, UK N1 9LH
071-278-2313
Underreported, censored; the news behind the news.
In These Times
P.O. Box 1912
Mount Morris, IL, USA 61054
1-800-827-0270 / (312)772-0100
Editorial Offices
2040 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL, USA 60647
Popular socialist periodical
The LPTV Report
P.O. Box 25510
Milwaukee WI, USA 53225
(414) 781-0188
Reports on legal and business issues with
some technical information.
Left Business Observer
250 West 85th St.
New York, NY USA 10024
(212) 874-4020
Lies Of Our Times
Institute of Media Analysis
145 W 4th Street
New York City, NY, USA 10012
(212) 254-1061 Fax: (212) 254-9598
For description, see page 56.
Love and Rage
P.O. Box 853
Stuyvesant Station
New York City, NY, USA 10009
(212) 60-8390
Spanish/English revolutionary anarchist paper.
Magicamerica
Videoteca del Sur
P.O. Box 20068
New York, NY, USA 10009
Newsletter on popular video movement in Latin America. In Spanish.
Media Culture Review
100 East 85th St.
New York, NY, USA 10028
(212) 799-4822
Middle East Report
1500 Massachusetts Ave. Ste 119
Washington, DC USA 20005
(202) 223-3677
Excellent source of info and analysis on the region 6 times a year.
NACLA Report on the Americas
475 Riverside Drive
Room 454
New York, NY, USA 10115
(212) 870-3146
Excellent periodical reports on and analyzes Central American and Latin American affairs.
The Nation
72 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY, USA 10011
(212) 242-8400
Longest established U.S. progressive weekly.
The New Internationalist
55 Rectory Road
Oxford, England, UK OX4 1BW
Reports on world poverty and inequality campaigns for radical change.
Third World Resurgence
P.O. Box 680
Manzanita, OR USA 97130
Terrific source of information about the Third World written by Third Worlders themselves.
Our Generation
C.P. 1258, Succ. Place du Pare
Montréal, Quebec, Canada H2W 2R3
(514) 844-4076
The theory and practice of contemporary anarchism and libertarian socialism.
Open Magazine Pamphlet Series
P.O. Box 2726
Westfield, NJ, USA 07091
(908) 789-9608
Speeches by progressive thinkers in print.
Peace Magazine
736 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2R4
Published 6 times a year. Reports on efforts to find non-violent resolutions of conflicts; examines violence in the media, reform of the UN, militarism, the environment, and disarmament.
Peace News
55 Dawes Street
London, England, UK SE17
The oldest radical pacifist periodical in Britain.
Processed World
41 Sutter Street, Suite 1829
San Francisco, CA, USA 94104
(415) 626-2979
Fax: 626-2685
Cheerfully vicious view of what it’s like inside the information industry workworld. Includes great graphics.
The Progressive
409 East Main Street
Madison, WI, USA 53703
(608) 257-4626
Left-leaning liberal periodical.
Propaganda Review
Media Alliance, Building D
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA, USA 94123
Analysis of media manipulations and ideology.
Radical Philosophy
John Fawel
Faculty of Mathematics
Open University
Milton Keynes, England, UK MK7 6AA
Release Print
Film Arts Foundation
346 9th St., 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA, USA 94103
(415) 552-87b0
Published by Film Arts Foundation, essential for West Coast independent producers!
Social Alternatives
Department of Government
University of Queensland
St. Lucia QLD, Australia
Libertarian New Left periodical.
Solidarity
123 Lathom Road
London, England, UK E6
Libertarian New Left periodical.
Third Text
303 Finchley Road
London, England, UK NW3 6DT
Critical articles on culture and media by critics and artists from developing nations, the UK and the US.
This Magazine
16 Skey Lane
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 3S4
A lively left look at Canadian politics and culture, published 8 times a year.
Utne Reader
1624 Harmon Place
Suite 330
Minneapolis, MN, USA 55403
(612) 338-5040
E-mail: editor@utnereader.com
The Reader’s Digest of the alternative press.
Video Networks
1111 17th Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94107
(415) 861-3282
Published by the Bay Area Video Coalition, very helpful listings of festivals, distributors, funders, etc., for independent producers.
Wired
544 Second Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94107-1427
1-800-SO WIRED
(415) 904-0660 Fax: (415) 904-0669
E-mail: editor@wired.com
The definitive resource for cutting-edge technologies.
Z Magazine
116 St. Botolph St.
Boston, MA, USA 02115
(617) 787-4531
See page 198
MEDIA LITERACY BOOKS
Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film Douglas Kellner and Michael Ryan (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988)
CENSORED: The News That Didn’t Make the News and Why Project Censored (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Shelburne Press) Project Censored selects the top 25 underreported stories of the year. For a free pamphlet listing the top 25 stories, send SASE to: Project Censored
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, California, USA 94928
Critical Theory and Society: A Reader Co-edited by Douglas Kellner and Steve Best (Macmillan and Guilford Press, 1991)
Dangerous Assignments (A Study Guide) The Committee to Protect Journalists 16 East 42nd Street, Third Floor
New York City, NY, USA 10017
(212) 983-5355 Fax:(212) 867-1830
Inventing Reality Michael Parenti (St. Martin’s Press, 2nd Edition, 1993)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1988)
Mass Media and Popular Culture Barry Duncan (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988) Textbook by the president of the Association for Media Literacy.
The Media Monopoly Ben Bagdikian, (Beacon Press, 4th edition, 1992)
Necessary Illusions Noam Chomsky (Boston: South End Press, 1989)
Networks of Power Dennis Mazzocco (Boston: South End Press, 1994)
The Persian Gulf TV War Douglas Kellner (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)
Prime-Time Activism: Media Strategies for Organizing Charlotte Ryan (Boston: South End Press, 1991)
Television and the Crisis of Democracy D. Kellner (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990)
Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon (New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990)
PUBLISHING HOUSES
AK Press
P.O. Box 40682
San Francisco, CA 94140-0682
(415) 923-1429
Between the Lines
394 Euclid Avenue, Suite 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6G 2S9
(41) 925-8260
Black Rose Books
C.P.125, Succ. Place du Parc
Montréal, Quebec, Canada H2W 2R3
(514) 844-4076 Fax: (514) 849-1956
U.S.A: 340 Nagel Drive
Cheektowaga, NY, USA 14225
(716) 683-4547
Europe: 99 Wallis Road
London, England, UK E95LN
(081) 986-4854 Fax: (081) 533-5821
Common Courage Press
P.O. Box 702
Monroe, ME, USA 04951
1-800-497-3207
Monthly Review Foundation
122 West 27th Street
New York, NY, USA 10001
(212) 691-2555
The New Catalyst
P.O. Box 189
Gabriola Island, BC, Canada VOR 1X0
New Society Publishers
New Society Educational Foundation
4527 Springfield Avenue
Philadelphia, PA, USA 19143
1-800-333-9093
New Star
2504 York Avenue
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6K 1E3
(604) 738-9429
Odonian Press
P.O. Box 32375
Tucson, AZ USA 85751
(602) 269-4056
Pluto Press
345 Archway Road
London, England, UK N6 5AA
(081) 348-2724
South End Press
116 Saint Botolph Street
Boston, MA, USA 02115
1-800-533-8478
Verso
6 Meard Street
London, England, UK W1V 3HR
(071) 734-0059
Westview Press
5500 Central Avenue
Boulder, Colorado, USA 80301-2877
Zed Books
57 Caledonian Road
London, England, UK N1 9BU
(071) 837-4014
WIRE SERVICE
New Liberation News Service
PO Box 325
Kendall Square Branch
Cambridge, MA, USA 021442
(617) 492-8316
NLNS is a radical news service providing stories and graphics to over 200 student and alternative papers across the US every month.
Alternet/Institute for Alternative Journalism
77 Federal Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94107
(415) 284-1420 fax: (415) 284-1414
Compuserve: 71362.27@compuserve.com
A project of IAJ, Alternet is an alternative news syndication service. See Organizations.
ACTIVISM AND THE INTERNET
Progressive activism is one of the thousands of topics discussed every day on the Internet, which itself is probably the only functioning anarchy on the planet. There are basically three forms of net communication: public (newsgroups), semi-private (mailing lists) and private (e-mail).
The extent of government surveillance of any of these three levels is unknown, and those who feel their discourse is sensitive might want to investigate the possibilities of PGP encryption, which was invented by a freelance hacker and is, to date, unbreakable. More information on it can be found on the newsgroup alt.security.pgp.
The newsgroup misc.activism.progressive is a repository of announcements, book lists, and similar information pointing the reader to related data on the net and in other media. There are over 4,000 newsgroups currently available in English, so a search of the list for keywords such as “politics” will turn up many others. A list of related mailing lists, is periodically posted to misc.activism.progressive.
Access to the net depends on one’s geographical location and occupation. Many university students can get an account on a host machine for the asking. In some areas freenets have been established, providing mail and news access for a small donation, and some local BBSs have begun offering newsgroups and mail. The quality of modem and computer necessary to use the net is not high.
If it seems irritating that you can’t just phone a 1-800 number and give them your credit card number, remember that this is because the net isn’t a centralized corporation. There is no net headquarters anywhere, no board of directors, no CEO. If you disagree with something, you are free to speak up at anytime, but there is no “management” to listen to your complaints.
—Kate McDonnell
Left On Line (LBBS)
18 Millfield St.
Woods Hole, MA 02543
(508) 548-9063
Information highway of the Left. Chomsky, Ehrenreich et al on line. Forums. Libraries. On line university courses with Chomsky and others.
Peacenet
18 DeBoom Street,
San Francisco, CA, USA 94107
(415) 442-0220
Runs great on-line BBS for activists of all types
SOME RADIO AND AUDIO SOURCES
Alternative Radio
David Barsamian
2129 Mapleton
Boulder, CO, USA 80304
(303) 444-8788
A weekly, internationally syndicated one-hour radio program. Extensive catalogue of Chomsky lectures and interviews plus many other progressive speakers.
AMARC
World Association of Community Broadcasters Head office 3575 Blvd. St. Laurent, Suite 704 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2X 2T7 (514) 982-0351 Fax: (514) 849-7129
AMARC is an international organization serving the community radio movement. It is a network for exchange and solidarity among community broadcasters and its work involves consulting, coordinating and facilitating cooperation and exchange among community radio broadcasters worldwide.
AMARC Latin America
c/o CEPES
818 Avenida Salaberry
Jesus Maria
Lima, Peru
Tel: (51) 14-237-884 Fax: (51) 14-331-744
AMARC Africa
c/o CIERRO
B.P. 358
Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso
Tel: (226) 30-66-86 Fax: (226) 31-28-66
Counterspin
c/o FAIR
130 W. 25th Street
New York, NY, USA 10001
(212) 633-6700
Nationally syndicated weekly radio program
Feminist International Radio Endeavor
(FIRE)
c/o WINGS
P.O. Box 33220
Austin, TX, USA 78764-0220
(512) 416-9000
IDEAS
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
P.O. Box 500
Station A
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5W 1E6 Some of the most thoughtful radio programs in the world. Ask for a schedule & catalogue.
National Federation of Community
Broadcasters
666 11th Street NW
Washington, DC, USA 20001
(202) 393-2355
Pacifica Radio Archive
3729 Cahuenga Boulevard West
North Hollywood, CA, USA 91604
(818) 506-1077
Pacifica Radio National Office
1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 843-0130
People’s Video
P.O. Box 99514
Seattle, WA, USA 98199
Michael Parenti audio & video tapes & books.
Radio for Peace International
Apartado 88,
Santa Ana, Costa Rica
(506) 49-1821
Shortwave radio programming at 0600 and 0030 UTC/15.030 MHz, 13.630 MHz and 7.375 MHz. In Spanish and English
Radio Free Maine
Roger Leisner
P.O. Box 2705
Augusta, ME USA 04338
(207) 622-6629
Wide assortment of progressive speakers, always up to date.
FILM/VIDEO SOURCES AND SOME OF THEIR PRODUCTS
ALTERNATIVE VIEWS
P.O. Box 7279
Austin, TX, USA 78713
(512) 918-3386
Since 1978, Drs. Frank Morrow and Doug Kellner have produced, hosted, edited, and distributed more than 380 editions of Alternative Views, a vehicle for informing the TV viewing public of news and views not seen on mainstream media. It provides interviews, documentaries and news from alternative sources. It is the longest-running public-access program in America and is distributed to more than 55 cable systems, serving 270 cities and more than 4 million households. In 1989, it won the coveted George Stoney Award in Humanistic Communications. Why not bring Alternative Views to your community?
AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF
THE FACTUAL FILM
The Parks Library, Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, USA 50011-2140
Journalism 1940, Vocational Guidance Films Inc. American Archive of the Factual Film has hundreds of enlightening movies like this.
APPALSHOP
306 Madison Street
Whitesburg, KY, USA 41858
(606) 633-0108
Produces documentaries on history, culture, and social issues of Appalachia.
BULLFROG FILMS
Oley, PA, USA 19547
1-800-543-FROG
In Search of the Edge
26 minutes, 1990
Scott Barrie
Presents the argument that the earth is flat from a well researched point of view. The film and accompanying study guide are designed as an educational tool to help young people become critical viewers.
CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
149 Ninth Street/420
San Francisco, CA, USA 94103
(415) 621-6196
Color Adjustment
87 minutes, 1991
Marlon Riggs
This exceptional film traces over 40 years of race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment. Interviews with black actors, producers and scholars reveal how deep-seated racial conflict was absorbed into the familiar, non-threatening formats of the prime time series.
THE CINEMA GUILD
1697 Broadway
New York City, NY, USA 10019
(212) 246-5522
Export TV: Anatomy of an Electronic Invasion
25 minutes, 1989
Monica Melamid
Examines TV Marti, a U.S. government broadcast service beamed into Cuba by an intricate satellite and weather balloon linkup in contravention of international law and broadcast regulations.
If It Bleeds, It Leads
14 minutes, 1986
John Adkins
Examines local TV spot news coverage of local events involving violence or death, which are frequently used as the lead story on news programs. Raises important questions about sensationalism and the ethical and professional considerations of broadcast journalists.
Making the News Fit
28 minutes, 1986
Beth Sanders
Examines American media coverage of the war in El Salvador and how TV and print journalists cover a war in which the U.S. is deeply involved. Provides viewers with basic background information about the conflict, then analyzes media treatment of major issues such as the 1982 elections and the alleged arms flow from Nicaragua to El Salvador.
COLLISION COURSE VIDEO PRODUC-
TIONS
P.O. Box 347383
San Francisco, CA, USA 94134-7378
Producer/Distributor of activist video
DEEP DISH TV
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY, USA 10012
(212) 473-8933
As part of the grassroots community-television movement, Deep Dish TV links community producers, programmers, activists and community members in order to address issues seldom represented in broadcast television. It produces and distributes programs on a range of social issues, often focusing on analysis of the mainstream media. Deep Dish is carried on more than 300 cable systems nationwide. There is no cost to downlink the programs for nonprofit, noncommercial use.
DESPITE TV
178 Whitechapel Road
London, England E1 IBJ
(071) 377-0737
Community producers from London’s East End who chronicle urban developments, media misrepresentations, and cultural events.
DIRECT IMPACT
P.O. Box 423
Athens, GA, USA 30603
Makes PSAs for social change.
DIVA-TV
c/o ACT-UP
135 W. 29th Street, No. 10
New York, NY, USA 10001
(212) 564-2437
Video activists documenting the struggle against AIDS, particularly on the political front
DRIFT DISTRIBUTION
219 East 2nd Street SE
New York City, NY, USA 10009
(212) 254-4118
Fax: (212) 254-3154
The Machine that Killed Bad People
120 minutes, 1990
Steve Fagin
Playing with television forms such as the news broadcast, mini-series and the Home Shopping Network, this piece looks at recent events in the Philippines and examines the role of spectacle in the way people learn to see the world.
8mm NEWS COLLECTIVE
c/o Squeaky Wheel
372 Connecticut Street
Buffalo, NY, USA 14213
(716) 884-7172
Producers of “The News Diaries” who utilize an eclectic, confrontational style to challenge the way the news gets reported.
THE EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
3403 Hwy 54 West
Chapel Hill, NC USA 27516
(919) 967-1963
The Panama Deception
90 minutes, 1992
Barbara Trent
The alarming, untold story of the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, one of the Bush administration’s major foreign policy disasters and public-relations successes. Explains how and why the U.S. media collaborated with the Bush administration to censor information and deceive the American public.
EQUINOX FILMS
200 West 72nd Street
Room 46, 4th Floor
New York City, NY, USA 10023
(212) 799-1515 Fax: (212) 799-1517
The Human Language
Excellent film series features Noam Chomsky and 50 other linguists, plus authors, comedians, Australian aborigines, actors, philosophers, former head hunters in Papua New Guinea, evolutionists, Innu, a cartoonist, a clown, baseball players, dogs and many, many children. These entertaining films “explain” language in a way that intelligent laypeople will understand and enjoy.
FULL FRAME
394 Euclid Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, M6G 2S9
Tel: (416) 925-9338 Fax: 324-8268
Distributes independently produced social and political films and documentaries
FLYING FOCUS VIDEO Collective
2306 N.W. Kearney, No. 231
Portland, OR, USA 97210
(503) 321-5051
Volunteer group that came together to contest Gulf War coverage. Now producing in other areas as well.
GLOBALVISION
1600 Broadway
Suite 700
New York City, NY, USA
(212) 246-0202
Rights and Wrongs
Regular TV program about human rights issues worldwide.
IDERA
200-2673 West Broadway
Vancouver, B.C., CANADA, V6K 2G3
(604) 738-8815
Non-profit distributor, specializes in Latin America & the Caribbean, Asia, Africa (largest collection on Southern Africa in Canada), Film Studies, Women & Development, Peace & Disarmament, International Economics, and Economics and Labour.
LABOR AT THE CROSSROADS
c/o Hunter College, Room 340
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY, USA 10021
(212) 772-4129
“Sweat TV” by workers and students.
LABOR BEAT
37 S. Ashland Avenue
Chicago IL, USA 60607
(312) 226-3330
Public access series on labor issues; shown in 12 cities and counting.
LABOR VIDEO PROJECT
P.O. Box 425584
San Francisco, CA, USA 94142
Produces public-access program on rank-andfile labor issues.
MEDIA COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE
RIGHTS
c/o Squeaky Wheel/Heather Connor
372 Connecticut Street
Buffalo, NY, USA 14213
(716) 884-7172
Access producers responding to blockades of abortion clinics.
MEDIA NETWORK
39 West 14th Street
Suite 403
New York City, NY, USA
(212) 929-2663
Media Network is a national (US) membership organization linking independent media producers with audiences who seek alternative points of view on the issues affecting their lives. Helped produce Manufacturing Consent.
MISSION CREEK VIDEO
P.O. Box 411271
San Francisco, CA, USA 94141-1271
Produces independent documentaries as well as public-access program Mission Creek Presents. Offers video classes.
NATIVE AMERICAN PUBLIC BROAD-
CASTING CONSORTIUM
P.O. Box 83111
Lincoln, NE 68501-3111
(402) 472-3522 Fax: (402) 472-1758
Images of Indians
5 parts, 30 minutes each, 1980
Robert Hagopian & Phil Lucas for KCTS/9, Seattle
Five-part series examines stereotypes drawn by Hollywood movies and the effect these images have on Native Americans’ self-image.
NECESSARY ILLUSIONS
24 Mount Royal West #1008
Montréal, Québec, Canada, H2T 2S2
(514) 287-7337 Fax: 287-7620
Co-produced Manufacturing Consent. See profile, objectives on page 15. Always seeking projects to develop and support.
NEW DAY FILM AND VIDEO
121 West 27 Street
New York City, NY, USA 10001
(212) 645-8548 Fax: 212-645-8652
Current Events 56 minutes, 1991
Ralph Arlyck
This film looks at our society, overwhelmed and numbed by a ceaseless stream of media images, examining how we respond—or don’t respond—to the news.
NOT CHANNEL ZERO
P.O. Box 805
Bronx, NY, USA 10466
(212) 966-4510
Documentary forum that shows events in black and Hispanic communities from an Afrocentric perspective.
One For All
c/o Erin O‘Meara
3925 N. Downer Avenue
Milwaukee, WI, USA 53211
(414) 963-4833
Viewer-participatory public-access series on community activism.
PBS VIDEO
1320 Braddock Place
Alexandria, VA, USA
1-800-344-3337
Fax: (703) 739-5269
The Agony of Decision: The Media and the Military
90 minutes, 1991
Fred W. Friendly
Focusing on media coverage of the Gulf War, this program is one in a series of roundtable discussions of media issues, hosted by Fred Friendly for PBS. Panelists typically include key players in the formation of U.S. policy. Contact PBS for other programs in this series.
Public Mind
60 minutes per segment, 1989
Alvin Perlmutter & Public Affairs TV
In this excellent four-part documentary, Bill Moyers explores the impact on democracy of a mass culture whose basic information comes from image-making, the media, public opinion polls, public relations and propaganda.
PACIFIC NATIONAL NEWS BUREAU
702 H. Street NW
Washington, DC, USA 20001
(202) 783-1620
News for Pacifica radio stations.
PAPER TIGER TV
339 Lafayette Street
New York City, NY, USA 10012
(212) 420-9045
CBS Tries the NY3
30 minutes, 1988
Paper Tiger TV
Safya Bukhari-Alston and Brinn Glick discuss the CBS docudrama Badge of the Assassin, looking at the Black Panthers, COINTELIPRO and racism on TV. Bukhari-Alston is an activist and Glick is a lawyer for the New York Three.
Lines in the Sand
28 minutes, 1992
Gulf Crisis TV Project
One in a series of 10 highly-recommended tapes from the Gulf Crisis TV Project that debunk media coverage of the conflict. Images from Iraq and a Middle East history lesson are combined, challenging the lack of information about the Gulf War.
PAPER TIGER TELEVISION/WEST
P.O. Box 411271
San Francisco, CA, USA 94141-1271
(415) 552 PTTV Fax: 695-0916
West Coast Paper Tiger Collective, also produces progressive news program “Finally Got the News”.
PEOPLE’S VIDEO
P.O. Box 99514
Seattle, WA, USA 98199
(206) 789-5371
Video (or audio) of Michael Parenti’s enlightening political talks.
POV
330 W. 58th Street, Suite 3A
New York, NY, USA 10019
(212) 397-0970
PBS series featuring U.S. indie documentaries.
REPROVISION
P.O. Box 2026
New York, NY, USA 10009
(212) 529-3287
Collective that produces tapes on reproductive rights.
SAWED ON TV
c/o Rob Danielson
2075 S. 13th Street
Milwaukee, WI, USA 53204
(414) 384-7083
Public-access shows available on mining, Native American, environmental and other issues.
SHERMAN GRINBERG FILM LIBRARIES
(212) 765-5170
Fax: (212) 262-1532
For ABC, Pathe News and Paramount News clips.
DAVID SHULMAN
594 Broadway #908
New York, NY, USA 10012
(212) 431-7781
Counterfeit Coverage
27 minutes, 1992
David Shulman and Karen Branan In the tense days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, stories of Iraqi atrocities—in particular the removal of 312 babies from life-giving incubators in Kuwaiti hospitals by Iraqi soldiers—helped fuel public pressure on the governments of the West to go to war in the Gulf. That story was almost certainly false: this video investigates how and why it was spread and believed by practically everyone, including the United Nations.
TESTING THE LIMITS COLLECTIVE
31 W. 26th Street, 4th Floor
New York NY, USA 10010
(212) 545-7120
Documents the rising activism regarding AIDS, reproductive rights, and lesbian and gay issues
THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL
335 West 38th Street
5th Floor
New York City, NY, USA 10018
Tel: (212) 947-9277 Fax: (212) 594-6417
Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (Introduction to the end of an argument) Speaking for oneself...Speaking for others...
45 minutes, 1990
Elia Suleiman and Jayce Salloum
Combining clips from feature films, documentaries, and news coverage with excerpts of live footage shot in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, this video critiques representation of the Middle East, Arab culture and the Palestinian people by the West.
Panic Is The Enemy
10 minutes, 1986
Third World Newsreel Workshop
This short video examines the press attention showered on Bernhard Goetz after he shot four youths, allegedly in self-defense, in a NYC subway car. Through-on-the street interviews, the video also examines the racist Goetz’s form of panic.
THROUGH OUR EYES VIDEO &
HISTORY PROJECT
c/o Pam Sporn
3341 Reservoir Oval, No. 6C
Bronx, NY, USA 10467
(212) 542-2700
Bronx teenagers take on the media.
TORRICE PRODUCTIONS
1230 Market Street #123
San Francisco, CA, USA 94103
(415) 826-0128
Peril or Pleasure
29 minutes, 1990
Andrea Torrice
This video explores the ongoing feminist debate about pornography: Can performing in or producing sexually explicit films and magazines be an act of liberation in which women take control of their sexuality? Or is all pornography destructive, objectifying women and playing to men’s worst stereotypes? Representatives from both sides are featured, including producers Candida Royalle and Annie Sprinkle and spokeswomen from the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force and Women Against Pornography.
UNION PRODUCERS NETWORK (UPNET)
c/o Fred Carroll
UFCW Local 1142
P.O. Box 1750
Santa Monica, CA, USA 90406
(213) 395-9977
Distributes work on labor issues.
VIDÉAZIMUT
An international Coalition for
the Right to Communicate
3680 Jeanne-Mance
Montréal, Quebec, Canada H2X 2K5
(514) 982-6660 Fax: (514) 982-6122
This coalition brings together independent producers and nonprofit video collectives from around the world to devise and implement strategies to promote recognition and respect of the right to communicate. They produced a book: Video the Changing World, edited by Nancy Thede and Alain Ambrosi (Montréal: Black Rose). It covers the experience in many countries of associations active with Vidéazimut and Video Tiers-monde.
V TAPE
183 Bathurst Street Suite 3
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 2R7
Tel: (416) 863-9879 Fax: (416) 360-0781
Distributor of independently produced films and videos. Publishes Catalogue of Catalogues, an extensively cross-referenced listing of videotapes and Canadian video distributors. See East Timor: Betrayed but not Beaten in East Timor Resource section.
VIDEO DATA BANK
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL, USA 60603
(312) 899-5192
Fax: (312) 236-0141
Behold the Promised Land
23 minutes, 1991
Ardele Lister
Mixes interviews gathered from Brooklyn, Boston and San Francisco on July 4, 1989, with American “educational” and “promotional” films of the late forties and early fifties to examine the long-term effects of media on a cross-section of Americans.
Everyone’s Channel
60 minutes, 1992
David Shulman
Combining archival footage from the early days of cable, rediscovered footage from the 1/2“ portapak era, and interviews with access pioneers, this tape provides an illuminating overview of the people, ideas, and technological developments that helped make cableaccess TV a reality.
30 minutes, 1989
Norman Cowie
This tape articulates network TV’s account of and relationship to the Reagan/Bush years (particularly Reagan’s televisual crusade against the government of Nicaragua), appropriating and rebuilding media images and slogans to politicize their meanings.
VIDEO OUT
1102 Homer Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
V6B 2X6
(604) 688-4336
New Years, Part I and 11
10 minutes, 1987
Valerie Soe
This film explores the conflict of a child caught between her Chinese-American heritage, and the stereotypes and expectations perpetuated by mainstream American film and television images.
‘Out’ Takes
13 minutes, 1989
John C. Goss
Through the juxtaposition of scenes from two television shows: Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Maido Osawage Seshumasu, a prime-time sitcom from Japan, this video outlines the presence of homophobia and gender roles on broadcast television. Rex Reed’s critique of Pee Wee (Paul Reubens) highlights the selfperpetuating closet of Hollywood and the perceived subversive threat of the show’s gay subtexts. Reed’s opposition to Pee Wee and Reubens’s own technique of innuendo and gender-switching both appear equally repressed compared to the explicit frankness of the Japanese series.
THE VIDEO PROJECT
5332 College Avenue
Suite 101
Oakland, CA, USA 94618
1-800-4-PLANET
Nowhere to Hide
28 minutes, 1991
Lon Alpert
At the height of the aerial bombing of Iraq, newsman Lon Alpert, a long-time contributor to NBC News, shot the only footage of the war’s impact not censored by either Iraq or the U.S. This tape shows a far different reality than what most Americans saw on the nightly news. Although several networks expressed interest in the footage, all declined to air it, and NBC ended its long affiliation with Alpert, a seven-time Emmy winner.
VIDEO TIERS-MONDE
3680 Jeanne-Mance
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2X 2K5
(514) 982-6660
Video Tiers-monde provides support to groups in Southern countries using video on an independent basis for informational and educational purposes. With its partner organizations in Africa and Latin America, VTM mobilizes the resources necessary to support video projects. It designs educational material, recruits and trains facilitators and organizes regional training programs in the South. VTM is actively involved in South-South and South-North networks for exchange and distribution of independent video production.
WALL TO WALL TELEVISION
Elephant House
35 Hawley Crescent
London, England, UK NWI 8NP
(071) 485-7424
The Media Show-Red Hot and Blue
38 minutes, 1990
This edition of an arts and media documentary series charts the making of the International Television AIDS benefit Red Hot and Blue. Analyzes the media’s role in reaching the masses and the censorship mentality that rules network television.
We Do the Work
1250 Addison St., No. 213A
Berkeley, CA, USA 94702
(510) 549-0775
The only consistent voice of working people on PBS.
WILLIAM GREAVES PRODUCTIONS
230 West 55th Street
26th floor
New York City, NY, USA 10019
1-800-874-8314
Fax: 212-315-0027
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
53 minutes, 1990
William Greaves and Louise Archambault Documents the life and times of Ida B. Wells, the African-American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An excellent profile of an early pioneer of advocacy journalism.
YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Manuscripts and Archives
New Haven, CT, USA 06520-7429
Firing Line Video and transcripts available.
SOME CHOMSKY-SPECIFIC FILM/VIDEO/AUDIO SOURCES:
An ever-expanding catalogue of videotapes, audiotapes and transcripts of lectures by Noam Chomsky and others can be donated to or ordered from:
Radio Free Maine (audio/video)
Roger Leisner
P.O. Box 2705
Augusta, Maine, USA 04338
(207) 622-6629
Alternative Radio (audio/transcripts)
David Barsamian
2129 Mapleton
Boulder, CO, USA 80304
(303) 444-8788
OF SPECIAL NOTE:
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
P.O. Box 6100
Station A
Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3H5
Tel: (514) 283-9409 Fax: (514) 496-2573
Toll Free 1-800-267-7710 (Canada only)
In the U.S., call the NFB’s New York office:
(212) 596-1770
Today, in Canada, only one institution possesses all the resources to produce a rich variety of world-class films from initial script to final print—the National Film Board of Canada—the co-production partner, with Necessary Illusions, of Manufacturing Consent.
Founded in 1939 by John Grierson, the NFB has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a two-room operation. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, since 1956, it has evolved into a sophisticated fullservice film arts production complex where 700 staff producers, technicians, administrators and directors join free-lancers to perfect state-of-the-art “live action” media, and develop cutting-edge animation.
Often acting in concert with independent production houses, NFB productions and coproductions range from verité documentaries to experimental theatrical shorts; from TV vignettes to fiction features. Acting as its own educational distributor, the NFB also offers a pan-Canadian distribution and information network for their own and other independently produced Canadian work.
What sets the NFB apart from a modern commercial studio is its mandate. As an agency funded by the Canadian people through their Parliament, the Board’s primary responsibility is to make movies that probe the history, politics and social realities of Canada. It also turns its cameras outward, capturing engaging international stories as well.
The resulting oeuvre contains some of the world’s finest films. The NFB enjoys an “arm’s length” relationship with the Canadian government, giving the NFB complete control over its programs and their content.
Few institutions are as sensitive and responsive to the many perspectives found in society. The NFB’s creation of the world’s only allwomen film-making unit in 1974, for example, stands as an historic initiative. With the aim of achieving social justice and equality, the NFB often gives voice to the dissension and conflicts present in Canada and abroad.
Ultimately, the NFB’s role in popular education extends far beyond the classroom, television set, or screen. Community and cultural groups regularly turn to NFB libraries for materials which will engender discussion and debate around topics ranging from disarmament to media literacy to incest survival.
Here are three of their 6,500 titles:
The Constructing Reality package
The package includes nine hours of film and video selections drawn from 34 productions, and a resource book. Sources include complete productions, excerpts, interviews with film-makers and two original productions. The package is not a course on documentary nor a selection of all-time “greats”; rather, it provides an opportunity to consider some critical concepts that an encounter with a passionate, playful or provocative exploration of “real life” can engender. Such concepts include: the relationship between fact and fiction; objectivity; truth; point of view; voice; and the construction of reality.
Distress Signals
An investigation of global television
Dir.: John Walker
54.33 min.
Two thirds of the world have never been to America, but they have seen Dallas. America’s number one export isn’t steel or lumber. Its’s entertainment. Shot in North America, Europe and Africa, Distress Signals probes the frontiers of television’s brave new globalised world. From the world’s largest TV show market place on the Riviera to a penetrating behind-the scenes look at CNN, the film explores the forces at work shaping what audiences around the world see on their TV sets.
The World is Watching
Dir.: Peter Raymont
60 mins. and 30 mins versions
The World is Watching vividly answers the question: “Who decides what’s news?” by focusing on several journalists working in Nicaragua during the negotiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987. The film-makers won unprecedented access to film inside ABC TV News—following a news crew on the ground in Nicaragua while simultaneously documenting the editorial process in the ABC newsroom in New York City. (Peter Raymont, Harold Crooks, who wrote the film with him, Mr. Jennings, and the legal staff at ABC made it possible for outtakes from this footage to be used in Manufacturing Consent.) Available in the US through:
Icarus Films
200 Park Ave. S.
New York, NY, USA 10003
Tel: (212) 674-3375
ORGAN ZATIONS
Alternative Media Infformation Center
(Media Network)
39 W. 14th Street
Suite 403
New York, NY, USA 10011
(212) 929-2663 Fax: 929-2732
Networks to assist social-issue media producers and activists and educators interested in such work. Serves as non-profit sponsor for individuals. (Media Network helped make Manufacturing Consent a reality.)
Alternative Press Network
Alternative Press Center
P.O. Box 33109,
Baltimore, MD, USA 21218
(301) 243-2471
Lists multitude of social issue publications. Mailing list available on labels for good price.
Alliance for Cultural Democracy
P.O. Box 2478
Champaign, IL, USA 61820
(617) 423-3711
Nationwide organization of community-based arts programs.
Artists Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94110
Exhibits lots of independent media, has cheap editing facilities.
Asian Cinevision
32 E. Broadway
New York, NY, USA 10002
(212) 925-8685
Promotes Asian and Asian-American films and videos. Organizes annual festival.
Association of Independent Video and
Filmmakers (AIVF)
625 Broadway
New York, NY, USA 10012
(212) 473-3400
Advocacy and informational group for indies. Publishes The Independent.
Bay Area Center for Art & Technology
1095 Market Street, Suite 209
San Francisco, CA, USA 94103
Provides non-profit status (not funding) for California projects. Don t be scared by the name: they’re into low-tech, too.
Center for Media and Values
1962 South Shenandoah
Los Angeles, CA, USA 90034
(310) 559-2944 or 202-1936
A nonprofit membership organization that produces resources for teaching critical awareness about media. Also analyzes trends in television, video, film, radio, advertising and print media publishes a magazine.
Center for War, Peace and the News Media
New York University
10 Washington Place
New York, NY, USA 10003
(212) 998-7960
Tracks portrayals of Cold War issues, effect of government and corporate policies on media.
Committee of Correspondence
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94110
New national left grouping trying to overcome past divisions and build a national left organization.
Committee on Democratic Communications
c/o Law Offices of Peter Franck
90 New Montgomery St., 15th Floor
San Francisco, CA, USA 94105
Project of National Lawyers Guild, produces newsletter on media issues and democracy.
EI Salvador Media Project
335 W. 38th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY, USA 10018
(212) 714-9118 Fax: 594-6417
Works with guerrilla media makers in El Salvador; distributes information in U.S. about Salvadoran politics and war.
Electronic Arts Intermix
536 Broadway, 9th Floor
New York, NY, USA 10012
(212) 966-4605 Fax: 941-6118 8
Major distributor of art and non-fiction video.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
155 Second Street
Cambridge, MA, USA 02141
(617)864-0665 Fax:b17-8b4-O8bb
E-mail: eff@eff.org
A nonprofit organization founded to educate the public about the democratic potential of computer communications technology. Posts information on legal policy and technical issues and conducts on-line seminars and discussion groups on The WELL, CompuServe and other computer networks.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
130 West 25th Street
New York City, NY, USA 10001
(212) 633-6700 Fax: 212-727-7668
A national media-watch group offering welldocumented criticism in an effort to correct bias and imbalance. Through organizing projects, a monthly journal and public speaking, FAIR focuses public awareness on the narrow corporate ownership of the press, the media’s allegiance to official agendas and their insensitivity to public interest constituencies. FAIR publishes EXTRA! (listed under Publications).
Film Arts Foundation
346 9th Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA, USA 94103
(415) 552-8760
One of the greatest independent film and videomakers group the world has ever known.
GLAND (Gay&Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation)
150 West 26th Street, Suite 503
New York City, NY, USA 10001
(212) 807-1700
An advocacy group that fights for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of lesbian and gay lives. Publishes an informative bulletin on media representation of lesbian and gay people.
Global Information Network/
Inter Press Service
777 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY, USA 10017
(212) 286-0123 Fax: 818-9249
News wire on issues regarding developing nations. Many of its writers are from those countries.
Independent Media Distributors Alliance
c/o Bob Gale
P.O. Box 2154
St. Paul MN, USA 55102
(612) 298-0117
Works to improve opportunities for distribution of work by independents.
Institute for Alternative Journalism/Alternet
77 Federal Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94107
(415) 284-1420 fax: (415) 284-1414
Compuserve: 71362.27@compuserve.com
A nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the alternative press and advocating for diverse and independent media voices necessary for a healthy democracy. Alternet, a project of IAJ is an alternative news syndication service. The Institute publishes Media Culture Review. See Publications.
Instituto para America Latina
Apartado 270031,
Lima, 27, Peru
(5114) 617949
Supports and publishes information about popular video movement in Latin America.
Media Alliance
Bldg. D, Ft. Mason Ctr.
San Francisco, CA, USA 94123
Organization of media workers; publishes MediaFile newsletter.
Media Alliance Central America Committee
3891 26th Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94131
(415) 641-7271
Monitors Bay Area coverage of Central America. Has published Impress the Press, a media activism & monitoring guide ($3).
Media Democracy Project
c/o Made in USA Productions
330 W. 42nd St., Suite 1905
New York, NY, USA 10036
(212) 695-3090 Fax: 695-3086
Works to influence labor coverage in the media.
Media Foundation
1243 W. 7th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6H I B7
(604) 736-9401 Fax: (604) 737-6021
A nonprofit ad agency that provides the creative resources, technical know-how and marketing expertise to produce inexpensive TV commercials that address the concerns of organizations not normally represented by the mainstream media.
National Alliance of Media Arts Centers
(NAMAC)
1212 Broadway, Suite 816
Oakland, CA, USA
(415) 451-2717 Fax: 834-3741
Information on arts centers, many of which have video production and exhibition programs.
National Alliance of Third World Journalists
P.O. Box 43208
Washington, DC, USA 20010
(202) 462-8197
Support group fostering expansion of fair media coverage affecting people of color.
NAATA
National Asian American
Telecommunications Association
346 9th Street
San Francisco CA, USA 94103
Organization of Asian American media producers.
National Coalition of Multicultural Media
Arts
c/o Community Film Workshop
1130 S. Wabash, Suite 500
Chicago, IL, USA 60605
(312) 427-1245
Supports efforts of producers and exhibitors of multicultural video.
National Federation of Local
Cable Programmers
P.O. Box 27290
Washington, DC, USA 20028
(202) 393-2650
Support, informational, and advocacy group for access and other cable staff and volunteers.
National Institute Against Prejudice
and Violence
31 South Green Street
Baltimore, MD, USA 21201-1562
(410) 328-5170
A resource and advocacy center that also monitors the news media to correct bias and misinformation. Publishes a newsletter.
Oakland PEN
P.O. Box 70531, Station D
Oakland, CA, USA 94612
(510) 548-3306
Organizing boycott of network TV for misrepresentation of people of color.
San Francisco Community
Television Corporation
1095 Market Street, Suite 704
San Francisco, CA, USA 94103
(415) 621-4224
Non-profit organization building grassroots support for public access and plans to eventually manage public access facility in San Francisco.
Strategies for Media Literacy
1095 Market Street
San Francisco CA, USA 94103
(415) 621-2911
Develops curriculum for media literacy in the schools.
Union for Democratic Communications
c/o Karen Paulsell
5338 College, #C
Oakland, CA, USA 94618
Phone c/o Kate Caine (312) 327-1221
US and Canadian network of communication scholars and activists, fighting for democratization of media.
United Church of Christ,
Office of Communications
700 Prospect Avenue
Cleveland, OH, USA 44115
(216) 736-2222
Advocacy and informational group dealing with telecommunications issues.
Video Data Bank
37 S. Wabash
Chicago IL 60603
(313) 899-5172 and
22 Warren Street
New York NY, USA 10007
(212) 233-3441 Fax: (212) 608-5496
Major distributor of video art, documentaries, theme packages.
The Video Project
5332 College Avenue, Suite 101
Oakland, CA, USA 94618
(510) 655-9050
Non-profit distributor of educational video.
Videoteca del Sur
84 E. 3rd Street, Suite SA
New York, NY, USA 10003
(212) 477-4684
Archives and distributor of all sorts of work by indie producers from 19 Latin American countries. Publishes Magicamerica.
Visual Communications
263 S. Los Angeles Street, #307
Los Angeles, CA, USA 90012
(213) 680-4462
Asian Pacific-American arts organization dedicated to multicultural work.
Women Make Movies (Women Make
Videos)
225 Lafayette Street
New York, NY, USA 10012
(212) 925-0606
Producer and distributor of tapes by and relating to women.
EAST TIMOR RESOURCE LIST
EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK (ETAN/US)
Publication: Network News
(Local groups in Ithaca, Los Angeles, Madison, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York City, Portland, Rhode Island, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington)
White Plains
P.O. Box 1182
White Plains, NY, USA 10602
(914) 428-7299 Fax: (914) 428-7383
E-mail: cscheiner@igc.apc.org
EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK (CANADA)
Publication: ETAN/Canada Newsletter
(Local groups in Calgary, Guelph, Hamilton,
Montréal, Windsor)
Ottawa: P.O. Box 1031, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 5R1
Toronto: P.O. Box 562, Station P
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2T1
Phone/fax: (416) 531-5850
E-mail: etantor@web.apc.org
Vancouver: 104-2120 West 44th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
V6M 2G2
phone/fax: (604) 264-9973 (604) 739-4947 for
up to the day information on East Timor
E-mail: etanvan@web.apc.org
TATA MAI LAU
Publication: Timorese Newsletter
(in English and Timorese)
13 Floor, Apartment B
Lote 38B, Edif. Lei Man
Est. Aim. Marques Esparteiro
Taipa, Macau
TAPOL (The Indonesia Human Rights Campaign)
Publication: TAPOL Bulletin
England: 111 Northwood Road
Thornton Heath
Surrey, England, UK CR7 8HW
(081) 771-2904 Fax: (081) 653-0322
Australia: P.O. Box 121
Clifton Hill
Victoria, Australia 3068
AUSTRALIA-EAST TIMOR ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 93
Fitzroy
Victoria, Australia 3065
INDONESIAN SOLIDARITY ACTION
P.O. Box 458
Broadway
N.S.W., Australia 2007
EAST TIMIOR BOOKS:
Death in Dili
Andrew McMillan (Sydney: Hodder & Stroughton, 1992)
East Timor: A Western-made Tragedy
Mark Aarons and Robert Domm (Sydney: Left Book Club, 1992)
East Timor: Nationalism and Colonialism
Jill Joliffe (University of Queensland Press, 1978)
East Timor: The Struggle Continues
Documents 40 & 50
Available from:
International Working Group for Indigenous
Affairs (IWGIA)
Foilstraede 10
DK 1171
Copenhagen, Denmark
Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor
Jose Ramos-Horta (Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, Inc., 1987)
Injustice, Persecution, Eviction: A Human Rights Update on Indonesia and East Timor
Available from: Asia Watch
485 5th Avenue
New York City, NY, USA 10017
Indonesia’s Forgotten War: The Hidden History of East Timor John Taylor (London: Zed Books, 1991)
Telling: East Timor, Personal Testimonies 1942-1992 Michele Turner (New South Wales University Press Itd., 1992)
Available from:
New South Wales University Press
P.O. Box 1
Kensington
N.S.W., Australia 2033
(02) 398-8900 Fax: (02) 398-3408)
Available in North America from:
International Specialized Book Services
Portland, Oregon, USA 97213-3640
(503) 287-3093
Fax: (503) 284-8859
The War Against East Timor
Carmel Budiardjo and Liem Soei Liong (London: Tapol, 1983)
SOME OF CHOMSKY’S WRITINGS ON EAST TIMOR
“East Timor,” The Chomsky Reader,
“The Hidden War in East Timor,” Radical Priorities, pages 85-94
“Indonesia: Mass Extermination, Investors’ Paradise,” The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, The Pohtisal Economy of Human Rights, Volume 1, pages 205-217
“The United States and East Timor”, Towards a New Cold War, pages 337-370
EAST TIMOR AUDIO/VISUAL
Aggression and Self-Determination ETAN’s 28 minute video about the U.S. role in East Timor. Available from ETAN/US.
Buried Alive
58 minutes
Film by Gil Scrine features Jose Ramos Horta and Noam Chomsky. (Several clips in Manufacturing Consent came from Buried Alive.)
Available from:
Gil Scrine Films
24 Empire Street
Heberfield
N.S.W., Australia 2045
(02) 716-6354/8266
Cold Blood: The Massacre of East Timor 55 minutes
British documentary including the November 12, 1991 massacre. Available from ETAN/US.
A 1994 documentary on East Timor by John Pilger, one of the UK’s leading journalists. Available from:
Central Productions
44-71-637-4602 Fax: 44-71-580-7780
East Timor: Betrayed but Not Beaten
(with Noam Chomsky) 30 minutes
Video by Peter Monet.
Available from:
V-Tape
183 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2R7
Informative discussion starter on Canada’s role
in East Timor.
East Timor: T urning a Blind Eye
30 minutes.
Produced by Paper Tiger Television. Focuses on U.S. policy and the role of the media. Available from ETAN/US.
Massacre: The Story of East Timor
Award-winning audio documentary, produced by Amy Goodman, who witnessed and was beaten in the Santa Cruz massacre.
Expanded, updated, 40-minute version avail-
able from:
Pacifica Radio/WBAI
505 8th Avenue
New York City, NY, USA 10018
and ETAN/US.
US and Indonesia: Partners in Genocide
Lecture by Chomsky (May 21, 1982). Audio
tape available from Alternative Radio.
October, 1994 talk with Jose Ramos Horta
also available.
Xanana
30 minutes, Australia
The human side of the imprisoned East Timor independence leader, through the eyes of people who have known him. Available from ETAN/US and ETANlVancouver.
COMPUTER/NETWORKING (E.TIMOR)
Reg. Indonesia and Reg. East Timor are available from:
Web
#104-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada V5V 3A8
(416) 596-0212
E-mail: spider@web.apc.org.
Indonesia and East Timor comprehensive electronic news feeds available from:
Indonesia Publications
7538 Newberry Lane
Lanham-Seabrook, MD, USA 20706
E-mail: apakabar@access.digex.com.
see also: Activism and the Internet, p.244
MISCELLANEOUS (E. TIMOR)
Documents on East Timor
Regular compilation averaging 100 pages of news analysis from around the globe.
Available from ETAN/US.
East Timor Photographs
Custom-printed 8 X 10s of Elaine Brière’s beautiful black and white photographs of pre-invasion East Timor can be ordered for $35 each from:
ETAN
Suite 104
2120 West 44th Avenue
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6M 2G2
(604) 264-9973
The Indonesia Kit
A study kit by Elaine Brière and Susan Gage (1993). Available from ETAN/Vancouver.
Key chains, postcards, T-shirts and buttons available from ETAN/US.
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Louisa, VA, USA 23093
Community Magazine contains complete, updated listings of intentional communities including some not included in the Directory of Intentional Communities (see below). It also covers diverse aspects of cooperative living: leadership, decision-making, economics, conflict resolution, women’s issues, new family and relationship styles etc. Quarterly, over 50 pages.
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This “bible” of intentional communities, now in it’s third edition, lists nearly 500 communities in North America, as well as offering a map locating those communities and a detailed cross-reference chart summarizing their major features. Also listed: 50 communities on other continents and over 250 alternative resources and services. Paperback, approximately 300 pages.
Growing Community
1118-NC Round Butte Dr.,
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Tel: (303) 490-1550
Growing Community Newsletter connects people with good ideas, services, and inventions, and introduces existing and newly forming intentional communities in the Western states. Practical advice from community veterans about what works and what doesn’t. Lists many other resources. Quarterly, 16 pages.
Fellowship for Intentional Community
Center for Communal Studies
8600 University Blvd.
Evansville, IN, USA 47712
(812) 464-1727
The Fellowship for Intentional Community helps to provide a sense of connectedness and cooperation among communitarians and their friends by serving as a network to facilitate trust building and information sharing between intentional communities. They also demonstrate applications of cooperative experiences to the larger society through publications, forums, workshops, and other projects. They also make referrals for individuals looking for cooperative resources or a home in an intentional community.
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267 Broadway
New York City, NY, USA 10007
(212) 227-7372
Phone order by Visa, Mastercard or American Express. For research assistance, supply a topic and they’ll tell you every related transcript they have from 20 major TV programs.
Complete set of Manufacturing Consent reviews and press clippings.
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A national progressive speakers’ bureau serving student and community groups. They list over 100 articulate women and men concerned with a broad range of issues.
FYI
The Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky Werner Cohn (New York City: Americans for a Safe Israel,1988). 114 East 28 Street, New York City, NY, USA 10016
Mémoire en defense contre ceux qui m‘accusent de falsifier l’histoire—[A statement in my defense against those who accuse me of falsifying history] Robert Faurisson (Paris: Editions La Vielle Taupe, 1980). P.P. 9805, 75224, Paris Cedex 05.
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