Chomsky 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
LonelyPlanet Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world. Extensively and useful. Find here the Lonely Planet of London.
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 OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world, 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
Tehelka India's independent weekly news magazine
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism A not-for-profit organisation based at City University, London, that bolsters original journalism by producing high-quality investigations for press and broadcast media
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 offering in-depth coverage in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues
+qtrapo Digital magazine about music, cinema, literature, traveling and more
Ambient TV A crucible for the conception and production of collaborative, interdisciplinary and critical artworks, events and tools
Autofocus Berlin based independent 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 and 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
Cine Insurgente Alternative practices and movements of denunciation of the mass media in Argentina
Clearer Channel An online video project which encourages viewers to download and transmit video for social change
Community TV Trust Specialising 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 An online service that allows people to visit archived versions of web sites
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 from North America
Money Nations TV Discusses Western Europe’s restrictive border politics toward Central and Southeastern Europe, the heightened increase in discrimination against non-Europeans
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 Offering short films and a 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?
Resonance FM A radio station that makes public those artworks that have no place in traditional broadcasting
Schmovies SchNEWS goes to the movies!
Soma FM A listener-supported, commercial-free internet-only radio station
southwark.tv Southwark open access website
Stadtlabor A German planning and consulting agency for the city
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
Active Distribution Active Distribution is a voluntary not-for-profit organisation that distributes a variety of independent films
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
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 independent film makers and screen writers
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 An arts-orientated community centre providing a base for local groups, which hires space for rehearsals, workshops, evening classes, children's parties and meetings
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 mis-used spaces in London, anti-commercial non-catalogued art
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
The Capital Community Foundation Supporting community based action that improves the lives of London's most disadvantaged
The Wakefield & Tetley Trust An independent charitable trust providing grants to support charitable and voluntary activity in the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Southwark and the City of London
UMFM Web radio Online radio stations
Whitespace design The designers of our website
A world to win For a world without global capital
Amnesty International UK A campaigning organisation whose 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 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) Working for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade, together with progressive demilitarisation within arms-producing countries
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives An independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice
CIRÉ Coordination Initiatives for and with refugees and foreigners
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 and based in the east London borough of Newham
no border A network of groups struggling for the freedom of movement for all and an end to all migration controls
no one is illegal A Melbourne-based collective acting to question borders in all their forms
No Racism Politics and everyday life and its consequences in Austria
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 Supporting a level playing field on tax and opposing loopholes and distortions in tax and regulation and the abuses that flow from them
The Land is Ours 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 and develops proposals for a more sustainable and just world
World cant wait Organises people living in the United States against fascist tendencies of the government
Abahlali baseMjondolo The largest organisation of the militant poor in post-apartheid South Africa
airoots A 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
Building Exploratory Helping people discover the secrets of their local area and gain a better understanding of the buildings and spaces that surround them
Cartografia Resistente Italian laboratory of urban exploration
City Strolls Creative communities, Urban Issues and 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 the 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 focusing on the relationship between city, culture and society
CUCR Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College
Derive A journal of urban research
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
eauwaterzone An exhibition that offers opportunities
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 myths about the London Olympics
Habitat International Coalition HIC is a global network of peoples' organisations 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 Article by Marvi Maggio
King's Cross Railway Lands Group A core tenet of the Group is to represent both Camden and Islington residents in talks and debates on British Rail's plans to build a second Channel Tunnel Terminal at King's Cross
KraftWerk1 An approach to a civilisation beyond Work
Krax Investigates, connects and empowers urban creativity that responds on 'cracks' in the city
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 the Olympic site
Marsh Farm Outreach A grassroots community group made up of volunteers living on the Marsh Farm Estate in Luton, Bedfordshire
Metrozones A German center for urban affairs
Michael Edwards Photos On Flickr
National Campaign for Affordable House Prices The only group campaigning for first time buyers and cheaper housing
Nomades Established in 1990, Ateliers Nomades was innovative in its teaching of computer graphics and computer-assisted architectural drawing
Operation City A series of events that summarises 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 is one of the most beautiful places in Hamburg, at St.Paul's harbour wall.
Participatory Geographies Research Group A research group of the Royal Geographical Society (together with the Institute of British Geographers)
PEPRAV European platform for alternative practice and research on the city
PLaNET A 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 A USA planner's 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 Privatising 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 urbanisation and globalization
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 the public on 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 Concentrating 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 A radical journal of theory and action providing a space to reflect on the state of political organising in Canada
Urban Age A worldwide series of conferences investigating the future of cities
Urban ecology Montreal's urban ecology centre
Urban Encounters Dialogue and practice of visual urbanism
Urban Forum A national charity and membership organisation that supports communities in having a greater say over decisions that affect them
urban tactics A collective platform which conducts explorations, actions and research concerning urban mutations and cultural, social and political emerging practices in the contemporary city
Urbanist A multidisciplinary web review on "the city" with contributions from students, professors and practitioners
Urbanology A think & action tank active in the fields of urban development, design, architecture and new media
Urbanology-Internet Geographical Information System New York's Times Square
Urbz Facilitates the exchange of information, knowledge, ideas and practices towards better cities for all
Volresource Information for voluntary and community organisations on housing, Planning and regeneration concerns
What is a charette? Master Planning's Description of a Charette
videolan.org Free and open source cross-platform media player