Online Resources

TRGGR Media Group is a meeting ground of grassroots hip hop culture, music and politics. Instead of its common association with guns and violence, TRGGR uses the term to connote the sparking of ideas or new ways of thoughts and being. They seek to TRGGR discussions with topics that speak to conditions that the global hip hop generation finds themselves in. It is a celebration of our rebellious spirits, our dedication to struggle and our commitment to bridging the gaps between and within our communities. http://trggradio.org/

Education Radio airs on Valley Free Radio, WXOJ-LP 103.3 in Northampton, Massachusetts and is available on the web as well as to stations throughout the Pacifica Radio Network. Content focuses on issues and events related to fighting for equity in public education. http://education-radio.blogspot.com/

Change.org is an online activism platform for social change that raises awareness about important causes and connects people to opportunities for powerful action. We work with more than 1000 of the largest organizations in the world, support a rapidly expanding global network of organizing teams, and empower millions of people each month to make a difference.http://www.change.org/

The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media. http://www.mediaed.org/

In The Life Media produces change through innovative media that exposes social injustice by chronicling lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender life. Show archives are currently housed at UCLA and available via this link

Ill Doctrine is a video blog hosted by Jay Smooth, founder of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI’s Underground Railroad. http://www.illdoctrine.com/

Theater of the Oppressed uses theater as means of knowledge and transformation of reality. The audience actively participates to explore, show, analyze and transform the reality in which they are living. This kind of ‘real life’ grassroots liberatory theater was popularized by Augusto Boal, a Brazilian theater practitioner. Marie-Claire Picher is a co-founder (1989) of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) and has worked and collaborated closely with Augusto Boal until his death in 2009. One of the most experienced TO practitioners in North America, she has presented thousands of hours of TO facilitation training in New York and throughout the United States, as well as in Chiapas, Tabasco, Mexico City, Guatemala and Cuba. She runs the closest national location for theatre of the oppressed training in New York City.http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php?nodeID=1 and http://www.toplab.org/

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. http://www.democracynow.org/