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Copyright and Patents
- The Copy South
Research Group - The Copy South Research Group was established
in December 2004. It is a loosley-affiliated group of researchers
based in a number of countries across the South and the North who
seek to research the inner workings of the global copyright system
and its largely negative effects on the global South.
Corporate and Global Trade Issues
- Public Citizen - Public
Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded
in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive
branch and the courts.
- CorporateWatch - CorporateWatch
monitors the various multinationals.
- The EBLIDA Position
Paper on International Trade Agreements.
- How much
is that worth today? Very interesting site where you can compare
the value of money from one year to another going back to the 1200s.
- GATS and Public Libraries -
Links to readings about the likely effects of the GATS on libraries.
- GatsWatch
- General site dealing with the GATs issue and latest news.
- Maine Fairtrade
- The Maine Fair Trade Campaign is a group of individuals and organizations,
including labor, international solidarity, peace and justice, and
environmental groups. Our goals are: Doing widespread education about
the impacts of free trade & corporate globalization and fair trade
alternatives. Building a strong, long-term statewide fair trade coalition.
Developing a positive vision of fair trade alternatives to corporate
globalization.
Environmental Issues
- Climate
Camp - Activist movement on global warming, includes events to
raise awareness and campaigns etc.
Journals / E-Journals & Newspapers
- Ethical Space
- The International Journal of Communication Ethics. Also see http://www.communication-ethics.org.uk/
- Green Left
Weekly - Australia's radical weekly newspaper. In these days of
growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent
voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental
sustainability, democracy and equality. By printing the news and ideas
the mainstream media won't, Green Left Weekly exposes the lies and
distortions of the power brokers and helps us to better understand
the world around us.
- The Freethinker - "Over
the years the magazine has vigorously campaigned against all forms
of censorship, and wants to see the common law of blasphemy abolished."
- The futures of learning - Journal centered on the theme "The Futures of Learning" with contributions from many leading scholars from an extensive range of fields.
- Information, Society and Justice - An inter-disciplinary electronic journal - Information, Society and Justice is a peer-review, open-access electronic journal based in the Department of Applied Social Sciences (DASS) at the London Metropolitan University. The journal is governed by an Editorial Board drawn from UK and overseas. It seeks to provide a proactive space for critical discussion of the linkages between social information, justice and democracy. It will focus on issues of equality, human rights, social inclusion, economic justice, and struggles for liberation and democratic expansion.
- InterActions:
UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies - A peer-reviewed
electronic journal that is committed to the promotion of scholarly
work that examines areas of education and information studies via
interdisciplinary and critical frameworks. A critical framework is
any approach that expands our notion of traditional analyses of problems
and issues. The journal seeks to link diverse theoretical and practical
projects, as well as provides a space to record the voices of emerging
scholars (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows), activists,
and practitioners.
- Journal of the Canadian Association for School Libraries
- Labourstart
- E-zine providing coverage of world social issues in a number of
languages but mainly reporting on labour union issues around the world.
- Library Juice - Weekly email
digest and newsletter by Rory Litwin.
- The Morning Star
- British Marxist newspaper.
- The
Network - monthly newsletter
- newsletter of The
Network - tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums, archives
and galleries a network of cultural and other organisations working
towards social justice.
- Pambazuka News (Pambazuka
means arise or awaken in Kiswahili) - a tool for progressive social
change in Africa. Pambazuka News is produced by Fahamu, an organisation
that uses information and communication technologies to serve the
needs of organisations and social movements that aspire to progressive
social change.
- Peace News - The Radical
Pacifist Newspaper. Founded in 1936.
- Progressive Librarian - An international
organization for librarians on the left based in the USA.
- Schnews
- Alternative News from grassroots activists. This website also contains
activist yellow pages, which lists many campaigning organizations,
& alternative media – distributors and publishers.
- Socialist Worker - Socialist Worker is published weekly by the International Socialist Organization. The ISO has branches and members in about 40 cities across the U.S.
Library and Information Groups / Organisations
- AKRIBIE
- Arbeitskreis Kritischer BibliothekarInnen - "Working Group
of Critical Librarians", Germany
- BiS - Bibliotek i Samhälle
- Swedish radical librarian's group.
- Cuban Libraries Support Group
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- EBLIDA - The European Bureau
of Library, Information and Documentation Associations - an independent
umbrella association of national library, information, documentation
and archive associations and institutions in Europe.
- IEPS
(Institute for Education Policy Studies) - The Institute
for Education Policy Studies is an independent Radical Left/ Socialist/
Marxist institute for developing analysis of education policy. It
also seeks to develop Marxist education theory, analysis and policy.
It critiques global, national, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, New
Labour, Third Way, and postmodernist analyses and policy. It attempts
to develop democratic socialist/Marxist transformative policy for
schooling and education.
- Librarianactivist - This site was originally established by Danielle Dennie, a science librarian at
the Université du Québec à Montréal. She put this resource together to offer news, information, and resources to librarians who want to be active in political and social issues surrounding libraries and librarianship.
- The Network -
tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums, archives and galleries
- a network of cultural and other organisations working towards social
justice. Produces a monthly
newsletter.
- PALIACT
- The African Progressive Librarian and Information Activists’
Group (PALIAct) is an initiative of a group of progressive African
librarians and information workers.
- Progressive Librarians Guild
and their journal, Progressive Librarian
based in the USA but an international organization for librarians
on the left.
- Radical
Statistics Group - What is Radical Statistics? We believe that
statistics can be used to support
radical campaigns for progressive social change. Statistics should
inform, not drive policies. Social problems should not be disguised
by technical language.
- Social Responsibilities Round Table
of the American Library Association - SRRT is a unit within the
American Library Association. It works to make ALA more democratic
and to establish progressive priorities not only for the Association,
but also for the entire profession.
- Welcome to your library - Welcome To Your Library is a national project connecting public libraries with refugees and asylum seekers. By increasing opportunities for participation, Welcome To Your Library aims to improve access to and quality of public library services for everyone.
Personal Blogs and Web Sites
- Edgardo
Civallero website (log of a librarian) and Spanish
version.
- The Flow of Ideas - Web
site of Ruth and Glenn Rikowski: includes information about the Rikowskis'
various publications and talks and the events that they have been
involved with.
- Peter
Mclaren - Critical Pedagogy, Paulo Freire, Marxist Humanism, Eco-socialism,
Critical Social Theory and Education.
- Foibles,
Frolics and Phantasms Illustrated Poems 1995-2005 - Information
Web site concerning Paul Catherall's poetry book - Foibles, Frolics
and Phantasms Illustrated Poems 1995-2005, including some reviews,
the publisher's synopsis says: A thought-provoking collection of
highly original poems, encompassing the intellectual, the contemplative,
the weird and the macabre. Explore visions of dank, creeping natural
forces and dark, abstract reflections on urban life.
- Ruth's
Rikowski's Web log (blog) - this blog includes news updates on
Ruth Rikowski's publications and talks, and the events and campaigns
that she has been/is involved with. The primary focus is on library
and information related topics.
- Volumizer
- The Web log of Glenn Rikowski.
Political Movements and Campaigns
- Democratization of Information
with a Focus on Libraries (also see Network
Institute for Global Democratization) - This project
started in January 2004 with the successful workshop On Democratization
of Information with a Focus on Libraries at the World Social Forum
in Mumbai.
- Google Watch - Site dealing with monitoring of Google, the World's largest corporate Internet company.
- Network Institute for Global Democratization
- NIGD aims at promoting global democratization by producing and developing
emancipatory knowledge for democratic movements, organizations and
states.
- Statewatch - Statewatch
monitors state and civil liberties in the European Union.
- World Socialist Web
Site - The
International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is the
leadership of the world socialist movement, the Fourth International
founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. In all countries the sections of
the International Committee fight to unite the world working class
in a common struggle for social equality. The ICFI rests on the proud
heritage of the movement founded by Leon Trotsky, co-leader with Lenin
of the Russian Revolution.
- War
Resisters' International (WRI) - the War Resisters' International
website.
Portals and Gateways
- E-LIS -
E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents,
published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and
Technology, and related areas. E-LIS relies on the voluntary work
of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is non-commercial.
- Free Government Information.
- The International Institute of Social History (IISH) - The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded in 1935. It is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular. Most of the collections are open to the public.
- Libcom - a left
wing cultural archive and news portal.
- Libr.org - general
portal to progressive LIS related groups and Web sites.
- Librarians for
Peace - a document archive drawn from the anti-war movement.
- Anarchist
Librarians Web.
- Progressive
Librarians Around the World - A directory of organizations and
people.
- Radical Reference - Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer library workers who believe in
social justice and equality. We support activist communities, progressive
organizations, and independent journalists by providing professional research
support, education and access to information.
- Radical Reference (Alternative Libraries and Infoshops) - an index of radical librarianship zines and publication collections.
Publishers and Booksellers
Radical Libraries
- Kate Shipley
Library - The Kate Sharpley Library is dedicated to researching and restoring the
history of the anarchist movement and regularly publishes information
on lost areas of anarchist history.
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