California on-line activist / alternative / progressive newsletters / newspapers
[ limited to those sites where newsletter content may be viewed without subscribing. ]
(c) 2001, Mike Barkley

• Arcata & beyond - Auto-Free Times, Alliance for a Paving Moratorium , Sustainable Energy Institute , "We demonstrate alternatives to sprawl and petroleum dependence while fighting new road construction".
  
  
• Arcata - North Coast Journal
  
  
• Artois (Glenn County) - , The Sacramento Valley Mirror , widely-quoted newspaper from Tim Crews, roguescribe@thegrid.net ? , Valley Mirror, 2990 County Rd JJ, Artois, CA 95913 , (530) 934-9511
  
  
• Berkeley & beyond - Moxie "inspires women to live boldly, pursue adventures, take risks, and provide others with vibrant role models in the process."
  
  
• Bolinas - Coastal Post
  
  
• Chico - Chico Examiner, "progressive weekly paper covering Chico, California politics, culture, and history."
  
  
• Chico - chicopolitics.com "Independent investigative reporting & Original political commentary"
  
  
• Costa Mesa - OC WEEKLY
  
  
• Emeryville - Eastbay Express
  
  
• Livermore - Tri-Valley CAREs Citizen Watch Newsletters "All the Lab enviro-foibles and misdeeds that are fit to print!"
  
  
• Los Angeles & beyond - Press Releases - The Open Forum "is our quarterly newsletter" - American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California
  
  
• Los Angeles - ActionLA, Events and background
  
  
• Los Angeles & beyond - The Advocate - "The National Gay and Lesbian newsmagazine web site"
  
  
• Los Angeles & beyond - Black Journalists Association of Southern California Newsletters
  
  
• Los Angeles - Change Links, "Progressive Newspaper and Calendar"
  
  
• Los Angeles - LA Weekly
  
  
• Los Angeles & Worldwide - The Political Information Center Network
  
  
• Modesto - Stanislaus Connections , "Working For Peace, Justice, and A Sustainable Environment"
  
  
• Mono Lake - Mono Lake Newsletter
  
  
• Monterey County - Coast Weekly
  
  
• Oakland & beyond - California Oak Foundation Newsletter ; Current Issues, and The California Oak Report
  
  
• Oakland & beyond - ColorLines "The nation's leading magazine on race, culture, and organizing"
  
  
• Oakland & beyond - Left Curve "is an artist-produced critical magazine that addresses the problem(s) of cultural forms emerging from the crises of modernity that strive to be independent from the control of dominant institutions and free from the shackles of instrumental rationality... "
  
  
• Oakland - Oakland News, "News & Opinion Covering Politics, City Hall, Neighborhoods and the Port"
  
  
• Oakland and beyond - No More [Airport] Noise, "A Coalition Opposing Expansion of Air Cargo Traffic at Oakland International Airport" [extensive news, cases, links to other airport noise sites]
  
  
• Palo Alto - Palo Alto Weekly
  
  
• Pasadena & way beyond - The Friends of Tuva newsletter
  
  
• Pleasanton - Pleasanton Weekly
  
  
• Red Bluff - http://www.nobadcops.org/nobadcops/pages/news.htm and http://www.nobadcops.org/nobadcops/ - Chronology of Tehama County law enforcement mischief ? - last updated on December 3, 2000 ? The author died ? Other links at http://www.nobadcops.org/ , http://www.peterkasler.com/nobadcops/ , http://www.nobadcops.org/nobadcops/pages/issues.htm and so on - the links among these pages are confusing, but they all seem to have the same origin....
  
  
• Sacramento - Capitol Action Weekly "is the FREE weekly newsletter of Capitol Enquiry. It is sent via e-mail to subscribers every Monday. Capitol Action Weekly contains weekly commentary and analysis highlighting pertinent issues involving the state government. After four years of uninterrupted service, Capitol Action Weekly has (for now) ceased publication -- as of March 5, 2001. Thank you to all our dedicated readers. And stay tuned for a possible reincarnation."
  
  
• Sacramento - (Capitol Alert) Political Pulse - "The Newsletter of California Politics and Government"
  
  
• Sacramento - "California Capitol Week" - KVIE, Sacramento, includes transcripts, "California CapitolWeek is where we come together as a culture on 10 Public Television stations from San Diego in the South to Eureka in the North. We tell our stories, celebrate our accomplishments and solve problems."
  
  
• Sacramento & beyond - California First Amendment Coalition FLASH News Archives, "These reports cover issues dealing with the public's right of access to information held by government agencies and courts, at the federal, state and local level."
  
  
• Sacramento - Sacramento News & Review
  
  
• Sacramento - Rough & Tumble , "A daily snapshot of California public policy and politics"
  
  
• San Diego & Beyond - News Releases/Opinion Articles - ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties
  
  
• San Francisco & beyond - American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California - ACLU-NC Press Releases and News - Archive of the ACLU News
  
  
• San Francisco - American Civil Liberties Union San Francisco Chapter - Articles from Past Newsletters
  
  
• San Francisco & beyond - Curve, "The best-selling lesbian magazine."
  
  
• San Francisco & beyond - Earth Island Journal - from the Earth Island Institute
  
  
• San Francisco & beyond - Mother Jones, 'Celebrating 25 years of raising hell" - "Mother Jones isn't just a magazine anymore. It's a many-faceted media organization. The non-profit Foundation for National Progress, which has been publishing Mother Jones magazine since 1976, now also produces this Web site...."
  
  
• San Francisco & beyond - Pacific News Service, "More Than One Lens to View the World"
  
  
• San Francisco & beyond - PANNA Times, Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA),
  
  
• San Francisco - "Web site of the San Francisco Bay Guardian"
  
  
• San Francisco - Peter Byrne's "The San Francisco Investigator", "for those who don't trust City Hall"
  
  
• San Francisco & beyond - Tweak Magazine -"The press is the evil principle of the modern world,...What we are is a group of writers and artists and geeks who believe the media is on shaky ground...."
  
  
• San Luis Obispo - New Times Magazine
  
  
• San Rafael & beyond - Whole Earth: Access to tools, ideas, and practices
  
  
• Santa Barbara - The Santa Barbara Independent
  
  
• Santa Maria - Santa Maria Sun
  
  
• Sonoma County - ACLU Sonoma County
  
  
• Sonoma County - "Our larger mission is to publish the ALBION MONITOR on-line newspaper , Available FREE to Monitor users, we bring you commentary and news not found anywhere else on the Internet, including ALL columns from favorite writers like Molly Ivins and Alexander Cockburn"
  
  
• Southern California - The Armenian Sentinel , "Southern California's Armenian-American Political Newsletter"
  
  
• Southern California - Indymedia "...is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth."
  
  
• Stockton - Connections, but not the current issues? "We publish: Connections, a progressive monthly newspaper (circulation 8000+) in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California since 1986."
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• Statewide - California Voter Online! from The League of Women Voters of California , discontinued?
  
  
• Statewide - Common Cause California newsletters - discontinued?
  
  
• Statewide - desertsloth.com - somewhat irreverent review and discussion of interesting California Court cases, emphasizing those correcting or producing a patent injustice.
  
  
• Statewide - California Council for the Humanities , Humanities Network, "the Council's quarterly newsletter, contains features on Council programs and grants, news about local and national humanities topics, and calendars of humanities exhibits and events in California."
  
  
• Statewide - Native Americans And The Environment - California
  
  
• Statewide - News from Native California, "...California's only quarterly magazine devoted entirely to the state's Native people."
  
  
• Statewide & beyond - Sierra Magazine, the Sierra Club.

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