Indybay is a network of activist groups, and what the site aims to do is to provide an independent source of news for the San Francisco Bay Area, which fosters freedom and diversity. That’s for the big words; for the smaller ones, Indybay.org is a news portal that presents bits and pieces of news that you hardly come across in the larger media, but the kind of news you’d get from a local blogger with some social outlook. One of the greatest advantages about this site is that all the news are neatly categorized into topics, so that you can comfortably browse over the gender, animals, anti-war, environment, education, racial justice news mainstream media so adequately ignores. Like in traditional media, Indybay.org’s news coverage includes text, images and videos, and users are encouraged to submit their own materials to the site. Also very interesting about this site is the huge index of links to related independent media and activism initiatives around the world, so if you are interested in any kind of project and you need a little help from some friends, try this site as a starting point: it’s bound to take you places you probably haven’t heard of.