Newest Alt. Media

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  Cohen: 35 Years Later, Looking Back at the Founding of FAIR

  One of FAIR’s main goals was to take what had been a marginalized progressive media critique and push that critique into the faces of mainstream journalists
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  Cromwell: A Remarkable Silence

  Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying
• Charnley: The working-class voices publishing against the grain

  A report on the new publishing houses getting working-class writers onto the printed page
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  Cook: What happened to Glenn Greenwald?

  Trump happened – and put the left’s priorities to the test
• Kaldveer: Protecting Pacifica

  Saving Independent Radio. Building a Progressive Movement.
• Dolack: The fight for independent, non-corporate radio flares up again

  If you are a Pacifica listener or staff member who values community radio, hearing alternative voices and democratic accountability, please vote “no” on the bylaws referendum
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  Cook: We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism

  There will always be journalists determined to find a way to peek behind the curtain to tell us what they found there
• Castellina: Il manifesto at 50: Our responsibility toward this project

  I am restless because I am aware of the dramatic nature of all the epoch-making problems we are facing and of the extreme inadequacy of our forces. But at the same time I feel that ‘the social movement is much richer in energy than the political avant-garde can express.’
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  Solomon: Reporting from Around the World, Reese Erlich Was a Beacon of Independent Journalism

  During five decades as a progressive journalist, Reese created and traveled an independent path while avoiding the comfortable ruts dug by corporate media
• Lipsyte: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever

  As Do Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death
• Paul: Fear and Celebration of Substack Are Both Misplaced

  Corporate media certainly need disruption. But it has to happen at scale, not with a few writers here and there on an open microphone
• Jay: Google Bans theAnalysis.news from Advertising on YouTube

  YouTube has censored and suppressed my report on the events of January 6th. I’d like to know why, but Google doesn’t owe me an answer. They can promote or suppress whatever they please
• International: “We demand the immediate release of Julian Assange”

  PI Council Members support the freedom of Julian Assange against the unlawful and dangerous extradition trial against him currently taking place in London.
• Hartmann: How big money controls the stories the media tells

  Investing in political media can produce a huge return on investment and transform the politics of the nation
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  Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange

  When I first met Julian Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks. He replied: “Transparency and accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism.”
• Schleuss: Publicly Fund News Media, Because Journalists Fight for Us All

  Newspapers are now furloughing or permanently laying off workers, slashing pay by up to 25 percent
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  Hochschild: When “Fake News” Was Banned

  An America Trump Might Have Loved
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  Koerner: How Global North’s Left Media Helped Pave Way for Bolivia Coup

  Progressive and alternative media in the Global North have long portrayed Bolivia’s deposed Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government as repressive, pro-capitalist and anti-environment—all in the name of “left” critique
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  Goodman: “Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media”

  Reflections on 20 Years of Indymedia, a Radical Media Movement
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  Ali: “In Defense of Julian Assange”

  Why WikiLeaks Founder’s Case Threatens Press Freedom