Grassroots media in Europe (468)

cunterview.net is an inclusive project by Civil Society Organization named Expanse of Gender and Media Culture 'Common Zone', based in Zagreb, Croatia. We are giving our contribution on bridging ICT gender gap through
a) education based on skill exchange
b) technical, artistic and multimedia workshops
c) having women-made media space.
With online database of women artists and news portal (which are on cunterview.net incorporated one in another) we tend to raise visibility of women artists and participate with dynamic and diverse voice in the media map of Croatia.

Bunnies On Strike is a work in progress. And it grows! It is no longer just a zine: it's a website, it has a spoken word section, a radical cheerleading section, had a band and a more then music festival and is still growing. But we want Bunnies On Strike to grow in more aspects. We are now working on organising a festival called GENDER OUTLAW that will contain performances of bands together with other kinds of performances [think of dj's spoken word performances, reading/storytelling, games, radical cheerleading, films, foodsharing etc.]

WOMEN'S INFOTEKA (ŽENSKA INFOTEKA) is women's information and documentation center founded in Zagreb in December 1992 as the first of the sort in Croatia and Eastern Europe. The basic activities are:

* Collecting and disseminating data and information
* A lending service Library
* Publishing (books and the magazine "Bread and Roses" ("Kruh i ruže")
* Organizing of training seminars and international conferences
* Conducting researches and providing help in researches

Established 1987, unlicensed, broadcasts two months/twice each year from private home of Margaretta D'Arcy (founder). On her website several issues of the programm can be downloaded/heard; emphasis on civil society, environmental / anti-war / human rights / women's rights activism, international perspectives, etc.

HallonTV is an initiative from the Stockholm based, non-profit organization Hallongrottans vänner (Hallongrottan’s Friends). HallonTV is journalism, entertainment and culture with a focus on feminism, HBT-issues, and hence sexual politics. The programmes consist of interviews, reportages, animation, music videos, sketches, courses, documentation of direct actions, festivals and events, all tied together by a pedagogical host in form of a hand puppet.

The queer feminist magazine Femkul (since 2004) was re-launched under the new name FUL the 24th of April 2008. Important aims are to promote the work of contemporary women artists and activists, as well as building up networks between women artists in local and international contexts.

In 2009 FUL_ launched FULRADIO, a montly pod radio programme including readings, interviews, drama, debates, sound art and more.

Info:
16 issues were published; zine written by and for young women with an emphasis on topics like contraception, abortion, sexuality, lesbianism / queer issues, violence against women, women culture / music etc., skill sharing (e.g. how to form a band, a women's group etc.), racism, women's rights etc.

Outwrite newspaper, produced by a collective of women throughout the 1980s, was dedicated to offering news by women, for women. Self-defined as an ‘internationlist feminist’ publication, the paper focused on ‘the development of feminism worldwide’ and an examination of women’s oppressions ‘in the context of imperialism, racism and class divisions.’

Liberation struggles in El Salvador, South Africa and Palestine, as well
as local campaigns including those of the Southall Black Sisters, Sari
Squad and the King’s Cross Women’s Centre were regularly featured in Outwrite’s monthly reports.

LoveKills manifesto