Wilderness Connections Inc. Presents

Altera Vista is a one-hour program that can be seen on community television channels at various times during the week (see schedule)

Because of deregulation and consolidation of ownership of all forms of media, there are few mainstream media sources that provide a true balanced view of the issues that are of vital importance to people today. Some vital issues are not covered at all.

Altera Vista has been created to provide another alternative source of news and views.

• To broaden the range of public discussion on issues of environmental and social justice, as well as technological issues, through interviews, reports, documentaries, and demonstrations not commonly available on public or private networks
  
• To present "the other side" of issues often narrowly defined by governments and corporate think tanks
  
• To give people working in alternative life-style technologies and people working for peace and justice a venue for airing and explaining their work and concerns
  
• To facilitate the understanding of interconnections between issues and topics of public concern
  
• To make information usable, by putting it into a context
  

Altera Vista's Programming

The programs selected for taping and/or airing on Altera Vista are those that:

• Are on topics that are in the news or that the volunteers creating Altera Vista believe should be in the news.
• Have viewpoints that are not being covered by the mass media
  
• Are about community efforts to solve social, political, environmental, or technological problems, which efforts are not being given any or much coverage by the mainstream media.
  
• Raise questions about the assumptions underlying the American lifestyle, how problems are defined, and what solutions are offered
  
• Can put many different issues into a unifying context.

Who Are We?

Producer

Wilderness Connections, Inc., was organized as a nonprofit in 1998 to help restore connections between people and nature and to encourage lifestyle change. It has engaged people in preserving and restoring habitat on a large acreage in Wisconsin and has conducted in-city programs and activities devoted to connectional issues between lifestyle and environment. The Altera Vista program is an extension of that education about connections to include the social and the political as well as the environmental, in order to further the same goal of enabling the lifestyle changes that are needed to restore community and a healthy environment.

Staff

The "staff" of Altera Vista consists of volunteers--the board of Wilderness Connections and others from different walks of life. Some are people of faith working to protect and restore the creation. Others are committed to working for peace and justice from a secular viewpoint. Some enjoy the technical aspects of video production. Others like to do research on issues of social concern, to interview, or to create programs. Altera Vista encourages new volunteers to join it.

Who Pays For These Programs?

Altera Vista has a very small budget. It is financed by donations from individuals, other nonprofits, and funding by small neighborhood-type businesses. It does not accept contributions from large corporations. It does not carry advertising. It does list funders in its list of credits at the end of its programs.

Altera Vista has received grants from Headwaters Fund and donations from the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, Minnesota Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Minnesota Metro Branch.

Links To Other Useful Sites

www.justicevision.org
www.circlevision.org
www.indymedia.org

Wilderness Connections, Inc.

651-633-4410
alteravista@earthlink.net
www.alteravista.org

© 2001-06 Wilderness Connections Inc.