Counterpoise is an alternative review journal based in Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...

 (USA). It was founded in 1997 by Charles Willett, as a project of the AIP Task Force of the American Library Association

American Library Association

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's Social Responsibilities Round Table. In January 2001, Counterpoise became a project of the Civic Media Center

Civic Media Center

The Civic Media Center is a grassroots, community-based radical infoshop, an alternative library and reading room in Gainesville, Florida, United States...

 (an alternative library also located in Gainesville, Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

). Counterpoise magazine focuses on marginalized publications—books, magazines, and films on controversial topics or viewpoints that are not adequately represented in American mainstream press. The magazine is released on a quarterly basis; one issue each year is a double issue.

Counterpoise is a collective

Collective

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, wherein all members participate in the process of creating and publishing the magazine. The Collective is composed of volunteers and student interns from the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

 and Florida State University

Florida State University

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. The magazine is distributed throughout the US, Canada

Canada

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, Great Britain

Great Britain

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, and Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

; subscribers and contributors come from a wide range of fields and include historians, journalists, librarians, teachers, and activists of all stripes. Both the CMC and Counterpoise are non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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s.

The volunteers at Counterpoise are contributing a weekly talk radio show for Gainesville's low power FM station WGOT-LP

WGOT-LP

WGOT-LP is a low power FM radio station that broadcasts from Gainesville, Florida, United States. WGOT-LP is operated as a community radio station by the Civic Media Center, a non-profit library in Gainesville....

 94.7, which began broadcasting in January 2008. The show (Counterpoise Radio) airs locally on Mondays at 3pm.

External links

• Homepage
• Counterpoise at Myspace
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• American Library Association
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• Northland Poster Collective
• Sanford Berman
• Art by Drooker
• The Iguana
• Zine
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