Wisconsin Independent News Distributors (WIND) was an alternative left-wing news distributor founded in 1971 in Madison, Wisconsin by Jack Dunn, Roger Metcalf, Bill Morris, and Roney Sorenson.
WIND was also among the first select groups to distribute Prairie Fire, the manifesto of the Weather Underground.
In years subsequent to the operation of WIND as a political collective, it was learned the organization had been under routine surveillance by law enforcement agencies.
[citation needed] WIND enjoyed a multi-year run in its original incarnation until a waning of left-wing political activity brought change to the general culture.
Initially absorbed by a counterpart organization, the Detroit-based Big Rapids Distribution, which went bankrupt in 1980, its surviving elements provided a starting point for Capital City Distribution,[1] a large comic book distributor operated for many years by two late-arriving members of the original WIND collective, Milton Griepp and John Davis.