Links

We provide this link page in order to reflect our store’s role in our community. Rainbow is more than a bookstore, we are also a community center, home to meetings and events, discussions and information. We hope that the websites below (we have let the sites describe themselves) will serve for you, as they have for us, as vital alternative information centers and resources for activism and knowledge-building beyond the world of books.

Enjoy!

• Current events
• (Inter)national groups
• Madison Area News and Community Groups
• Periodicals
• Publishers
• Cartoons

*New Links:

• Community Pharmacy Your friendly neighborhood source health care source, right downtown.. and a co-op to boot!
• Madison Community Co-op Co-operative Housing in Madison
• R.E.A.P., runs annual food for thought festival.
• Gaylord Nelson Inst. for Environmental Studies, check out gaylord/enviro event calendar!!!
• MCCCA, Madison Center for Creative & Cultural Arts.
• Centro Hispano, building and preserving latino culture.
• Community Car, member-based car sharing service.
• Power Play: The Game, "...because our ignorance is their power" *Produced locally in Madison!

 

Current Events

• Alternative News Sources—Long list of alternative news sources (including local ones) via Madison Area Peace Coalition
• Alternet.org—Excellent clearinghouse of left articles from across the web, with some original material.
• The American Prospect Online
• Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
• Common Dreams Newscenter—Collected progressive articles from various news sources, updated daily, enormous archive. Always interesting.
• Directory of Newspapers Worldwide—Listing a ton of newspaper sites worldwide—41 countries, various languages
• Democracy Now!—What we fondly refer to here in the store as “the Amy Goodman show”
• ElectronicIraq.Net—"A news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by respected Middle East alternative news publishers, The Electronic Intifada (EI) and incorporating on the ground reports from veteran anti-war campaigners Voices in the Wilderness."
• Guardian Unlimited—London's left daily paper, great investigative reporting especially on American foreign policy
• Independent Media Center Palestine aka Jerusalen Indymedia
• The Palestine Chronicle—Respected news & opinion journal with prominent Palestinian, Israeli and international contributors
• World Newspapers Links via The Internet Public Library
• Znet—Collected articles from various news sources. Updated daily, enormous archive, other features. Somewhat more radical assemblage and more international outlook than Common Dreams.

(Inter)National Groups

• B'Tselem—Israeli human rights organization
• Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN)—In Spanish only
• The Housing and Community Development KnowledgePlex—Great search engine on housing issues
• Inequality.org—Great resource site for issues on economic inequality
• Green Party of the United States
• International Solidarity Movement—ISM is a "Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and International activists working to raise awareness of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and an end to Israeli occupation. We utilize nonviolent, direct-action methods of resistance to confront and challenge illegal Israeli occupation forces and policies."
• Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)—Since 1905 the IWW has organized workers industrially (instead of by craft or job site) across all lines of nationality, gender, ethnicity, race, etc. The IWW organizes for workers' solidarity and fights for workers' rights in the short term, with the long term goal to "take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth."
• Labor Notes
• The Northeastern Federation Of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)—Well-organized, intelligent group
• Solidarity—Socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization. Active in many US cities including a large branch in Madison.
• Ta'ayush (Arabic for "life in common") is "a grassroots movement of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel working to break down the walls of racism and segregation by constructing a true Arab-Jewish partnership. A future of equality, justice and peace begins today, between us, through concrete, daily actions of solidarity to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and to achieve full civil equality for all Israeli citizens."
• The Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), a Tanzanian non governmental organization focusing on the practical promotion and application of gender equality and equity objectives through policy advocacy and mainstreaming of gender and pro-poor perspectives at all levels in the Tanzanian society.

Madison, Wisconsin Area News and Community Groups

• Infoshop—Calendar of local meetings, events, activism compiled by John Peck (amongst other goodies at the infoshop)
• The Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Sociology—We collaborate with them on Radfest and some visiting leftist scholars.
• Madison Area Peace Coalition—"The mission of the Madison Area Peace Coalition(MAPC) is to organize a broad-based movement to inform public opinion and promote US government policies that truly further peace, justice, and freedom in the world. These values are manifest in our three core principles—1. Peace and justice, not war and revenge. 2. Unity and respect for diversity—stop scapegoating and harassment. 3. Protect human rights and civil liberties at home and abroad. We employ non-violent strategies of communications, outreach, legislative initiatives, and direct action to promote our core principles and to further our goals." The website contains info about the coalition, its past & planned activities, and how to get involved.
• Madison Independent Media Center aka Madison Indymedia
• madpoetry.org—Madison's poetry scene (quite a bit of it is radical)
• Outreach - Madison's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center
• Progressive Dane
• Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore—Rainbow's neighbor and ally! 307 W. Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53703, telephone 608-257-7888, fax 608-257-7457
• Teaching Assistants' Association, UW-Madison (AFT local 3220) —One of the most radical and active unions in Madison!
• Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
• WCCN - Central Wisconsin Independent Radio Station
• WORT—Madison’s community radio station

Periodicals

Some of the periodicals we carry also have great sites—

• Bitch Magazine
• CounterPunch
• In These Times
• LIP Magazine
• Progressive Magazine—Madison’s Own!
• Social Nerve, radical book/zine distributor and resource.  "Social Nerve is about being angry and tired and seizing the moment of fury."  
• The Nation

 

Publishers

Some of our favorite publishers—

• AK Press - a worker run book publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles
• Charles H. Kerr - "Subversive literature for the whole family since 1886"
• Cleis Press - publishers of books in the areas of sexuality, gay and lesbian studies, erotica, gender studies, fiction, and human rights
• Consortium - distributor for over 90 independent publishers from the United States, Canada, Europe, India, and Australia
• International Publishers - books by Marx and Engels, and selected books by Lenin and other Marxist scholars and activists
• Labor Notes - since 1979, Labor Notes has been the voice of union activists who want to "put the movement back in the labor movement"
• Monthly Review - books on Labor and Capitalism, History and Social Movements, Feminism and Gender Politics, Race, Culture, and Class Struggle, Environment, Technology, etc.
• Pathfinder - socialist publisher's complete catalogue
• Pluto Press - one of the world's leading publishers of left and labour books
• Routledge - publishes in the social science and humanities subject areas
• Seal - "More than 25 years of publishing groundbreaking books.  By women. For women."
• Seven Stories - an independent book publisher based in New York City
• South End Press - a nonprofit, collectively run book publisher committed to, the politics of radical social change
• Verso - the largest English-language radical publisher in the world

Cartoons

• Get Your War On—by David Rees