Even as FSTV and Indymedia adjust to today’s cultural, political, and economic times, they work towards modeling a Tocquevillian-style civil society that encourages interactive social learning in Habermas’ (1974) public sphere, that accomplishes Gramsci’s (Calabrese, 1999) war of position, and that uses Buckingham’s (2003) form of preparation in terms of attaining media literacy. The main purpose of these organizations is to empower the citizenry, but as anyone working in either formal or non-traditional education knows, this is no easy task. The so-called walls of the alternative media classroom are much wider and lower than normal, conducive to more socially interactive and even radical forms of education, and this encourages student voice and political involvement. Some of the learning can be accumulated serendipitously and via happenstance, and for students with experiential learning preferences and activists, this is appealing.