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Grassroots Media in Europe (405)

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Women Against War (Magazine)

Location

Jug Bogdanova Belgrade , 11 000
Serbia
44° 49' 24.96" N, 20° 27' 1.08" E

WE CHOOSE ANTIMILITARISM

Antimilitarism and non-violence are our spiritual orientation and our political choice. We reject military power and the production of arms for the killing of people, of human working nature, and for the domination of one sex, nation, or state over another.

We speak out for recognition of difference, reciprocity, respect for nature, and for development in accordance with the needs of the civil population, and not the civil and military oligarchy and their national interests.

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Radio Pirate Woman

Location

Galway
Ireland
53° 16' 14.0124" N, 9° 3' 24.0048" W

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.

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radiOrakel

Location

radiOrakel fm 99,3
St. Olavs plass Blitzhuset
Oslo, 0166
Norway
59° 55' 4.278" N, 10° 44' 7.7244" E

radiOrakel was started in 1982 when authorities allowed for local radio stations to operate. Money was then collected at a women’s cultural festival to start up the world’s first women’s radio station. On 16th October 1982 radiOrakel was founded. Rita Westvik was the first editor in chief. In the early days the station’s headquarters were at Karsgata 5 but moved together with AKKS (Aksjon Kvinne Kultur Senter- Women’s Cultural Action Centre) to the loft at the Blitz house at Pilestredet.

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Princess Hijab: Hijabizing Advertising

Location

France

Princess Hijab, born in 1988, is an unseen character. The young artist behind her wishes to remain anonymous. Since 2006, the Princess, who has begun a movement (Hijabism) based on the subverting of advertisements (Hijabizing) veils faces on billboards using a black marker pen.The black hijab encompasses every existing form of distinction. PH also operates on the Internet by creating animated gifs.
She initiated the hijab_ad collective.

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Hallon TV

Location

Hallongrottan
Bergsundsgatan 25
Stockholm, 117 37
Sweden
59° 18' 56.9196" N, 18° 1' 46.92" E

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.

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FUL (Magazine, Radio)

Location

Ful
Birger Jarlsgatan 18 A, 4 tr c/o Nya Kontoret
Stockholm, 114 34
Sweden

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.

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Shocking Pink (Magazine, 1981-1982 and 1987-1992)

Location

United Kingdom

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.

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Outwrite (Newspaper, 1982-1988)

Location

United Kingdom

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.

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an.schläge (magazine)

Location

Austria

Though the content of women in mainstream journalism has found acceptance and is recognized as a real perspective, feminist positions are still marginalized. This is the important fact: the vast majority of departmental leaders are males and thus the most journalistically processed information reflects male experiences and perceptions.

The project of an.schläge is a comprehensive news magazine from a feminist perspective. We are concerned with making visible women's realities and experiences in a (male-dominated media) world, to the breaking of patriarchal structures and the making of a feminist counter-public. The principle of collective editorial staff here is just as important as the openness to diverse feminist perspectives and lifestyles of women.

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