The recent weather has gotten me thinking a lot about home (Wisconsin) and I started to wonder about local independent media there. Madison is a very progressive city (they have their own local currency!), so I began my search with the capital.
I stumbled upon the Madison Independent Media Center - an outlet for "an open collective of grassroots journalists dedicated to providing an open outlet for non-corporate news and analysis." They report some national issues, but they focus on local issues like the governor, how global warming is affecting the deer population, and county air pollution.
The Madison site also provides links to a bunch of other local media, including newspapers, magazines, radio stations, websites, comics, TV stations, and film production companies.
It turns out that the site is part of a larger organization - The Independent Media Center - "a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity." There are indymedia sites of varying sizes for most states/major cites. Milwaukee also has an indymedia site, but it's not nearly as extensive as Madison's.
- Allison
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