The Alternative Press Center

The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world.

The APC Blog

Wednesday, 04 March 2009

APC Blog on yoga in the classroom, Iran

New York public schools discover the benefits of yoga classes for special ed students: The advantages of yoga for healthy people are well-documented: increased strength, flexibility and relaxation. But for the child with developmental disabilities, the benefits are perhaps greater. Heightened sensory awareness, vocalization skills and breathing capacity are just a few.

For Peace blogs about Iranian vets meeting people from Hiroshima: I hope all people reading this blog will contact President Obama and their Members of Congress and encourage them to move away from confrontation and threats against Iran and to a commitment to resolve all our differences through diplomacy, negotiation and real respect for one another.
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Sunday, 01 March 2009

Rebellion in Greece

Articles by Valia Kaimaki, Ilias Ziogas, Akis Gavrilidis, and Takis Fotopoulos on the rebellion of youth in Greece.More

Friday, 27 February 2009

News about the news

With more newspapers scaling back print operations, who's going to report the news? Matthew Brian Hersh, associate editor of Shelterforce, published by the National Housing Institute, asks at the Rooflines blog.

In Atlanta, Political Affairs reports on "a month-old online news service…called GONSO, founded by veteran corporate journalists, is tied to a controversial public relations firm, Alisias, which, among other things, has put a positive spin on the mass displacement of public housing residents and mass demolition of [Atlanta] public housing"

Defense Department reverses bans on photographs of returning war coffins, Informed Comment's Juan Cole explains the implications : "the American public saw a sanitized Iraq war, certainly compared to what was visible [...]More

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Baby blog

The alternate realities of childbearing and child rearing:

As a young mother she [Bristol Palin] takes on adult responsibility. Conversely, lack of responsibility and self-regulation infantilizes adults … The produce department is stocked with misted bins laden with baby carrots, baby spinach, baby arugula, baby brussel sprouts. They should call the produce department "the nursery." — The Progressive's Kate Clinton

I was married at 15 and pregnant at 17. Unfortunately, that first baby died through lack of assistance. It was only on the third day of labour that the baby came into the world lifeless. At the end of my second pregnancy I ended up with fistula because no-one helped me during birth. — Mariama Boubacar, 25, from the west of Niger tells her story to New Internationalist.
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Friday, 20 February 2009

US Campus Roundup

In Ohio, those on the meal plan at a private liberal arts college are not insulated from skyrocketing food prices. Students start Food Justice group; Monthly Review blogs it.

Editor of the ecosocialist journal Capitalism Nature Socialism, Joel Kovel fired from Bard for anti-Zionism.

Student occupation at New York University!
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