This is a list of friends, allies, & seemingly like-minded individuals & communities. Please let us know if you find any dead links or if you have any recommendations for new links. everybody[at]dodiy[dot]org
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All-Ages Movement Project
http://allagesmovementproject.org
A network of community-based organizations that connect young people through independent music and art.
Anarchist news dot org
http://www.anarchistnews.org
A non-sectarian source for news about and of concern to anarchists.
anarkismo.net
http://www.anarkismo.net
Intended to further communciation, discussion and debate within the global anarchist movement.
Appropedia
http://www.appropedia.org
The site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development.
Art Threat
http://artthreat.net
A leading media outlet devoted solely to political art and cultural policy.
Book Your Own Fuckin' Life
http://www.byofl.org
Database of venues, people, bands, shows, labels, zines, etc. Add & Edit your listing yourself.
Collective Autonomy
http://www.collectiveautonomy.net
Everyone's network to discover and develop the means to collectively take care of each other.
Collective Zine
http://www.collective-zine.co.uk
Their forum is great for connecting with DIY-minded individuals in the UK.
CouchSurfing
http://www.couchsurfing.org
A worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.
DIYcity
http://diycity.org
Can we, working together, define and build a version 1.0 of the Do-It-Yourself City, a city that operates on open data flowing through decentralized, open source tools, that actively engages residents not only as users but as participants and owners of the system?
diyPunks.com
http://www.diypunks.com
Resources for Hardcore / Crust / Grindcore / Thrash bands, promoters, venues, zines, labels, distros, links, shows, news, writing, etc. in North America.
E.I.Y.
http://www.earnityourself.com
Earn It Yourself: An all-encompassing philosophy that allows a band, company, or person to set his/her own goals and reach whatever level of success he/she desires, so long as they have achieved their success by sticking to their values and learning what it takes to reach their goals through a hands-on, do-it-yourself approach.
FatCat DIY Resource
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/DIY
For artists & labels: A forum of information, ideas and resources that will help to dymystify the process of getting started.
Food Not Bombs
http://foodnotbombs.net
Shares free vegan and vegetarian meals with the hungry in over 1,000 cities around the world every week to protest war, poverty and the destruction of the environment.
freegan.info
http://freegan.info
Strategies for sustainable living beyond capitalism.
Great Transition Initiative
http://www.gtinitiative.org
A growing international network of scholars and activists that analyzes alternative scenarios and charts a path to a hopeful future.
House Show Database
http://www.houseshowdatabase.com
Index of alternative venues for live music and other performance.
Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org
A democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
Infoshop.org
http://www.infoshop.org
An online resource for news, opinion and information.
Intentional Community
http://www.ic.org
An inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, intentional living, alternative communities, cooperative living, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision.
Kroonos
http://www.kroonos.com
A social network based on barter that allows people to find help for free.
libcom.org
http://libcom.org
A resource for all people who wish to fight to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions.
mutualaid.org
http://www.mutualaid.org
Providing Internet services to the radical and progressive communities.
Riotfolk
http://riotfolk.org
An anti-profit mutual-aid collective of radical artists and musicians.
riseup.net
http://www.riseup.net
Provides mail, lists, and hosting for those working on liberatory social change.
Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone
http://www.spaz.org
A community that's doing their best to be autonomous from authority structures.
Slingshot
http://slingshot.tao.ca
A quarterly, independent, radical, newspaper.
Stillepost.ca
http://www.stillepost.ca
Canada-wide independent-arts message boards and show calendars.
Venue Review
http://venuereview.wordpress.com
We hope to better the experience of booking a tour and playing shows away from home by giving touring musicians an idea of what they are in for at each venue they are booking.
The Venus Project
http://www.thevenusproject.com
Offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.
Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org
The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
World Food Garden
http://www.worldfoodgarden.org
Individuals empowering themselves and each other to grow small food gardens worldwide.
Z Communications
http://www.zcommunications.org
Founded to raise consciousness about class, gender, race, and power and to provide information, analysis, and vision to help activism.
The Zeitgeist Movement
http://thezeitgeistmovement.com
This movement is about awareness, in avocation of a fluid evolutionary progress, both personal, social, technological and spiritual.