The cultural foundation of alternative media use by civil society involves many struggles of overcoming barriers and inequities posed by bureaucracies, monopolies, and institutions modeling social injustice. Alternative media, in its earliest forms, might have been displayed in the actions of iconoclasts who protested ancient civil orders through various radical activities and self-produced media in town square rallies and demonstrations (Elsner, Nelson, & Olin, 2003). John Downing (2002) points out that “Histories of alternative media are…few and far between, though a real history of the labor movement, of the movements for black and Latino and women’s empowerment, and of similar struggles, ends up somewhat unreal if the communications and media dimensions of these movements are left out” (p. xi). Formally, the hard-to-find history of alternative and community media is one that highlights praxis and activism that aligns with such resistance or solidarity movements, most often paralleling the powerchallenging activist movements of the late 19th or 20th centuries.