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{{Short description|An Anarchist alternative media project}}
The '''Alternative Media Project''' is a [[non-profit organization]] that promotes alternative and independent media. Its projects include [[Infoshop.org]], [[Practical Anarchy]] magazine, Breaking Glass Press, and Radical Street Distro.<ref name="Universal texts."/><ref name="Treasuring the West Coast's anarchic history"/> It was founded by a group that included [[anarchist]] [[Chuck Munson]].
The '''Alternative Media Project''' was a [[non-profit organization]] that promoted anarchist media.{{r|pymm}}{{r|hawthorn}}

Breaking Glass Press publishes pamphlets such as "Cop Watch 101" and the "Infoshop Guide to Grand Jury Investigations", and plans to publish the revised edition of the Black Bloc Papers in 2006.


== Infoshop.org ==
== Infoshop.org ==
'''Infoshop.org''' was founded in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop. Infoshop was established as a general resource on [[anarchism]], moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998.<ref name=owens>{{cite journal|last1=Owens|first1=Lynn|last2=Palmer|first2=L. Kendall|year=2003|title=Making the News: Anarchist Counter-Public Relations on the World Wide Web|journal=Critical Studies in Media Communication|volume=20|issue=4|pages=335–361|doi=10.1080/0739318032000142007|citeseerx=10.1.1.530.1176}}</ref> According to its website, "[t]he Infoshop project is run by a collective of anarchists, anti-authoritarians, socialists and people of other political stripes. We don't adhere to a specific flavor of anarchism or libertarianism, but we've often been called 'big tent anarchists.' We take that to mean that we provide a wide range of anarchist news, opinion and information with the idea that our readers and users have the freedom to make use of that info as they see fit."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infoshop.org/about-us/|title=About Us|publisher=Infoshop|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304071058/http://www.infoshop.org/about-us/|archive-date=4 March 2020|url-status=dead|access-date=4 October 2020}}</ref>


A prominent feature of the site is Infoshop News, an open publishing newswire similar to that of [[Indymedia]].<ref name=owens/>
'''Infoshop.org''' was founded in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop by Chuck Munson.<ref name=alas/> Having previously co-founded an online archive of anarchist texts, the [[Spunk Library]], in 1992, Munson established Infoshop as a general resource on anarchism, moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998.<ref name=alas/> Munson reorganized the website as a collective project in 2001, and by November 2008, it is run by a core of nine people, supplemented by regular writers and volunteers.<ref name=alas/> Having previously being involved in publishing ''[[Practical Anarchy]]'' magazine, the collective announced plans on launching a quarterly magazine titled ''Infoshop News & Views'' to go "head-to-head against other American leftist magazines".<ref name=alas/>

A prominent feature of the site is Infoshop News, an open publishing newswire similar to that of [[Indymedia]].<ref name=owens/> Initiated in 1997, the news service is one of several thousand [[English language]] publishers carried by [[Google News]]. The site has a number of other sections, including forums, and wikis. In April 2008, a link aggregator, Infoshop Links was launched, using software based on popular [[social bookmarking]] service [[Digg]].<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2008infoshop-links
|title=Infoshop Launches New Link Aggregator Service
|publisher=Infoshop.org
|accessdate=2008-04-09
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</ref> The site also mirrors the anarchist-written [[FAQ]] "[[An Anarchist FAQ]]". A 2003 academic study of anarchist websites found that Infoshop was "the key anarchist site" and the only core anarchist site to closely cover the contemporary anarchist movement in addition to [[anarchist theory]].<ref name=owens>{{Cite journal
| last = Owens | first = Lynn
|author2=L. Kendall Palmer
| year = 2003
| title = Making the News: Anarchist Counter-Public Relations on the World Wide Web
| journal = Critical Studies in Media Communication
| volume = 20
|issue=4
| pages = 335–361
| doi = 10.1080/0739318032000142007
}}</ref>

== ''Practical Anarchy'' ==

{{Infobox magazine
| title = Practical Anarchy
| publisher = Alternative Media Project
| founded = 1991
| lastdate = 2007
| country = USA
| based = Madison, Wisconsin
| oclc = 27432305
}}

'''''Practical Anarchy''''' was an [[anarchist]] [[magazine]] that was published quarterly by the Alternative Media Project.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Universal texts. |journal=The Australian Library Journal |url=http://www.articlearchives.com/reports-reviews-sections/book/980103-1.html|date=August 1, 2002|last=Pymm |first=Bob |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428201451/http://www.articlearchives.com/reports-reviews-sections/book/980103-1.html|archivedate=April 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=The Globe and Mail|date=February 10, 2008|url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/treasuring-the-west-coasts-anarchic-history/article664621/|title=Treasuring the West Coast's anarchic history|first=Tom |last=Hawthorn}}</ref> Begun in 1991 as an irregular publication, for many years it advocated anarchy as practice, such as organizing [[housing cooperative]]s, [[environmentalism]], [[wiktionary:Workplace|workplace]]s and [[DIY media]]. Its slogans were "put a little anarchy into your life" and "anarchy is everywhere". It was canceled in 2007 for the creation of a new magazine, ''Infoshop News & Views''.<ref name=alas>"[http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2008spain-interviews-chuck Alasbarricadas interviews Infoshop founder, Chuck Munson]", Infoshop.org, February 20, 2008.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of anarchist periodicals]]


== References ==
== References ==
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<ref name=hawthorn>{{cite news|last=Hawthorn|first=Tom|date=10 December 2008|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/treasuring-the-west-coasts-anarchic-history/article664621/|title=Treasuring the West Coast's anarchic history|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725050858/http://www.bcics.org/content/treasuring-west-coast039s-anarchic-history|archive-date=25 July 2011|url-status=live|access-date=4 October 2020}}</ref>
<ref name=pymm>{{cite journal|last=Pymm|first=Bob|date=August 2002|title=Universal Texts (Rev. of Alternative Library Literature, 1998–1999: A Biennial Anthology)|journal=The Australian Library Journal|volume=51|issue=3|pages=274–275|doi=10.1080/00049670.2002.10755996|issn=0004-9670|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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== Further reading ==
<ref name="Treasuring the West Coast's anarchic history">{{cite news|work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date=October 12, 2008 |url=http://www.bcics.org/content/treasuring-west-coast039s-anarchic-history |title=Treasuring the West Coast's anarchic history |first=Tom |last=Hawthorn |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5uJvpF6nc?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bcics.org%2Fcontent%2Ftreasuring-west-coast039s-anarchic-history |archivedate=2010-11-18 |deadurl=no |df= }}</ref>
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* {{cite web|last=McCullagh|first=Declan|date=9 April 2003|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-all-the-news-fit-to-post/|title=Google: Is all the news fit to post?|website=[[CNET]]|access-date=4 October 2020}}
<ref name="Universal texts.">{{Cite journal|title=Universal texts. |journal=The Australian Library Journal |url=http://au.vlex.com/vid/universal-texts-53076416|date=August 1, 2002 |last=Pymm |first=Bob|volume=51|issue=3}}</ref>
}}


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==External links==
* [http://www.infoshop.org/AMP Alternative Media Project]
* [http://www.infoshop.org Infoshop.org]


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Latest revision as of 14:43, 16 September 2022

The Alternative Media Project was a non-profit organization that promoted anarchist media.[1][2]

Infoshop.org

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Infoshop.org was founded in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop. Infoshop was established as a general resource on anarchism, moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998.[3] According to its website, "[t]he Infoshop project is run by a collective of anarchists, anti-authoritarians, socialists and people of other political stripes. We don't adhere to a specific flavor of anarchism or libertarianism, but we've often been called 'big tent anarchists.' We take that to mean that we provide a wide range of anarchist news, opinion and information with the idea that our readers and users have the freedom to make use of that info as they see fit."[4]

A prominent feature of the site is Infoshop News, an open publishing newswire similar to that of Indymedia.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Pymm, Bob (August 2002). "Universal Texts (Rev. of Alternative Library Literature, 1998–1999: A Biennial Anthology)". The Australian Library Journal. 51 (3): 274–275. doi:10.1080/00049670.2002.10755996. ISSN 0004-9670.
  2. ^ Hawthorn, Tom (10 December 2008). "Treasuring the West Coast's anarchic history". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b Owens, Lynn; Palmer, L. Kendall (2003). "Making the News: Anarchist Counter-Public Relations on the World Wide Web". Critical Studies in Media Communication. 20 (4): 335–361. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.530.1176. doi:10.1080/0739318032000142007.
  4. ^ "About Us". Infoshop. Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.

Further reading

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