Currently LAVA is housing and controlled by:

ACT UP Philadelphia
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power has been doing succesfull direct action based campaigns for people with AIDS for well over a decade in Philadelphia.

Independent Media Center of Philadelphia
A democratic alternative to the mainstream media empire. Their website's newswire covers a range of local and international struggles. Philly Indymedia is part of what has become an international movement of independent media workers.

the defenestrator
A bimonthly anarchist newspaper which agitates for a social transformation to end all coercive power.

LAVA library
A radical library just inside the 1st floor door.

Food Not Bombs
Currently building a kitchen in the back to fight global empire and war by giving away meals and groceries in the neighborhood.

Alpha Labs - a free and public computer lab on our 2nd floor.
email: alpha@phillyimc.org

Radio Volta
The Philly IMC's internet radio station.

The Green Party
What better place to casually run into Ralph Nader himself. Damn if he'd only get off his lazy ass and move a desk in there ....