Many community media activists go to commercial websites like www.iol.com to collect their news. Here are some alternative sites that can provide news and views from a community perspective:

• News feed from SA’s social movements: www.shackdwellers.org
• South African Civil Society Information Service: www.sacsis.org.za
• News and perspectives from the AIDC: www.amandla.org.za
• Press statements from COSATU unions: http://tiny.cc/d0yjG
• News and view from across Africa: www.pambazuka.org
• IPS Africa newswire: http://ipsnews.net/africa
• Workers news from around the world: www.labourstart.org
• Indymedia, stories from activists around the world: http://tiny.cc/8S0z7
• Daily headlines from Democracy Now! In the USA: www.democracynow.org/
• News from America and Europe: www.alternet.org
• International news & perspectives from Z-Net: http://www.zmag.org/znet/recent

Community Radio producers with broadband can also down load great audio feeds at 

www.pambazuka.org/en/broadcasts, www.uprisingradio.org, and www.democracynow.org.