Seek out campaigns, context and investigations that you're unlikely to find in the mass media in our pick of the best independent publications
… the term ‘mass media’, and the monoculture of news, stories and events it represents. Pretty … neighbourhood comes to us via our exposure to newspapers, news magazines, radio and TV. It is a lifeline …
Top tips on getting and sustaining media attention for your campaign, from one of the leading campaigners around...
… a close relationship. Too much focus on news though, is a bad thing. News can report conflict beautifully, but it … how to deal with the media machine. The news media presents a version of reality. From …
If you have bought bananas or pineapples in a supermarket recently did you know that many of the workers that plant, pack and grow them live in poverty?
… everyday, both in the UK and internationally NEWS ANALYSIS Special report Milk: why the … where the principal ingredients come from? NEWS ANALYSIS News investigation Coca Cola challenged over …
Established in 1994 in response to Michael Howards' draconian Criminal Justice Act targeting activists, the Brighton-based SchNEWS has become integral to the UK - and global - protest movement, say Richard Purssell & Jan Goodey
… SchNEWS: how road protesters, ravers and GM … July 2011 Activism Campaigning: The Basics SchNEWS Alternative Media Activism Environmental … targeting activists, the Brighton-based SchNEWS has become integral to the UK - and …
Sarah Bentley reports on the UK radical media conference asking what's next for the non-corporate press
… Media Activism Noam Chomsky John Pilger SchNEWS Campaigning: The Basics … leading alternative press collectives Peace News, Ceasefire, Red Pepper, Undercurrents TV … spoken word. Milan Rai, co-editor of Peace News noted, 'For a lot of attendees it was …
A bill to quadruple the UK's aid funding to a profit-driven 'private equity' company owned by the government comes before MPs today for its third reading, writes Global Justice Now. Trouble is the investments do little or nothing for the poor, and instead entrench corporate power in health, education and infrastructure. Parliament should seize this last chance to reject the new law.
… on a briefing by Global Justice Now with news updates by The Ecologist. References 1. … November 2016, http://www.cdcgroup.com/Media/News/NewsNew-CDC-Bill-our-briefing/#sthas… 14. …
Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media
… or ignored in the frantic search for headline news. Documentary series are capable of … in a different, more profound way, creating news of another order entirely. Helen Iles of … message. She has worked with the alternative news service for 13 years, a documentary-maker …
As part of the Ecologist's special investigation into the hidden costs of tea, milk and sugar, here's how to get involved in cleaning up your cuppa
… to wipe out factory farming. READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Special report PG Tips and … Verity Largo visits Kenya to investigate NEWS ANALYSIS Special report Revealed: the … Sam Campbell reports from Phnom Penh NEWS ANALYSIS Special report Milk: why the …
Activists from Climate Rush this week occupied the oil aisle at a London Waitrose to protest against the 'ethical' supermarket's partnership with Shell
… on the group’s website . READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Activists target 'ethical' … a protest outside a Waitrose store in London NEWS BP and Shell face new shareholder revolt … damaging extraction of oil from tar sands NEWS Shell should clean up 'oil exploited' …
Rob Drake-Knight reports on a unique collaboration between an environmental organisation and an eco-fashion label who together aim to raise greater awareness of the plight of bees.....
… use of Neonicotinoids for two years - great news you might think. A solution to the … to support this campaign. READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Bee protection: US in spotlight … for the sake of both humans and bees....... NEWS ANALYSIS Frontline Online: What's killing …
Greenpeace are calling for a curb on Arctic oil exploration in order to save this fragile wilderness
… far, each one has turned up dry. This is good news, but only for now. Cairn show no sign of … future drilling licences. READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Arctic special Putin’s Russia … oil and gas reserves. Tom Levitt reports NEWS ANALYSIS Arctic special How oil and …
A day of action is planned this Saturday to highlight the destructive impact of Canada's tar sands industry. In London, this includes a demo-fest at the Canadian High Commission
… campaign against tar sands. READ MORE... NEWS VIDEO: why tar sands activists took on BP … be a small group of First Nations people... NEWS ANALYSIS Madagascar fears repeat of … adequate environmental controls or regulation NEWS ANALYSIS Barclays, HSBC and RBS linked to …
The 25 TB-infected hounds of the Kimblewick hunt, all put down, remind us that the lot of hunting dogs is not a happy one, writes Lesley Docksey. Unloved and at constant risk of slaughter, they are prone to a host of diseases, from bovine TB to brucellosis, neospora and botulism, which they can pass on to farm stock, humans and other dogs. They deserve better!
… and other dogs. They deserve better! The news that a major outbreak of bovine Tb had … think twice." Bovine TB is very much in the news these days, but there have been other … up the story. Did the government sit on the news? Bovine TB - responsible for the …
Despite campaigning to reduce child labour internationally, the US is home to at least 230,000 child labourers toiling in the fields to pick blueberries, tomatoes or cotton
… an end to this inequality’. READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS News investigation Scandal of the 'tomato … reports from Basilicata, southern Italy NEWS ANALYSIS Chemical warfare: the horrific …
The Red Squirrel Appeal aims to raise money to develop a vaccine for a deadly disease that is quickly destroying the remaining population
… the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates NEWS ANALYSIS News investigation Scandal of the 'tomato … reports from Basilicata, southern Italy NEWS ANALYSIS Export of Zimbabwean diamonds …
Responsible for one of the worst industrial accidents in the world, Dow Chemical's toxic legacy threatens the reputation of the London Olympics
… to The Bhopal Medical Appeal READ MORE... NEWS Fatal Bhopal pesticide plant disaster … - but what's next, asks Sarah Bentley? NEWS Bhopal chemical poisoning continuing 25 … a 'second Bhopal disaster', say campaigners NEWS ANALYSIS Monsanto, Bayer and Dow face …
Ahead of next week's budget, the RSPB is calling on you to remind the Chancellor not to forsake the environment on the road to economic recovery
… to our economic recovery. READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Zero carbon Britain: how to get … up of offshore wind reports Tom Levitt NEWS ANALYSIS Durban climate change … us more able to cope with today's problems NEWS UK budget avoids decision on new aviation …
Their parodies of Dow Chemicals, Halliburton and the US Chamber of Commerce have propelled activist duo Andy Michlbaum and Mike Bonanno into the spotlight. They've gotten under the skin of corporate America - but what's next, asks Sarah Bentley?
… of their actions provide the press with a news hook to cover important issues. After the … invited to explain his motives on Channel 4 news and the action was covered in over 600 US … number that were actually those of TV news desks and the story was quickly seized by …
Join the growing chorus of individuals and organisations demanding the right to know what's in their food... all GM foods should be labelled, say Just Label It campaigners
… UK Food Group and advisor to Practical Action NEWS ANALYSIS Public sector should develop GM … he is in favour of an expansion in GM crops NEWS Worldwatch report attacks criminalising … climate change, and strengthen city farming NEWS Revealed: how seed market is controlled …
Some 60 million people depend on the Mekong River for their livelihoods but sea level rise and severe weather puts the area at risk, as Gratianne Quade's unique film shows
… of millions. Brendan Brady reports from Laos NEWS Three Gorges Dam 'a model for disaster' … and infuriating by turns, says Jeff Holman NEWS ANALYSIS China exports its environmental … its natural resources and the planet NEWS Resettlement fears over China's …
Solar could provide one third of the UK's electricity demand. So why has the government recently slashed the feed in tariff?
… Henry Gass weighs up the options NEWS ANALYSIS Solar power: a niche or serious … cent of the UK's electricity needs by 2020 NEWS ANALYSIS Revealed: how your country … forms of renewable energy in the past year NEWS ANALYSIS AUDIO: What does the new Feed-in …
As indigenous activists opposing hydropower dams on their territories gather this weekend in the rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysia, they have good news to celebrate, writes Rod Harbinson: a giant dam on the Baram river has been put on hold. But the forests are still being logged, local people have been stripped of land rights, and a programme of 12 giant dams is still official policy.
… of Sarawak, Malaysia, they have good news to celebrate, writes Rod Harbinson: a … people and submerge their lands. So good news, certainly. But despite the moratorium, … which have been well documented by the news media: "If the dams, especially Baram and …
As the nuclear juggernaut drives the destruction of the Cumbria coast at Sellafield with nuclear waste dumps, boreholes, dredged-out rivers and a massive new nuclear power station, Marianne Birkby recalls ancient legends of the Woodwose, the Green Man, and the Beast of Beckermet. Can these forces of untamed nature be called upon to combat the growing nuclear menace?
… nuclear menace? Readers of the Whitehaven News were told a spooky tale via a letter … crosses and stone circles. The Whitehaven News letter writer referred to Nursery Woods … former Deputy Editor of the Whitehaven News (one of the founding members of ASSAP and …