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rrick Jensen on n riJiTM rni ry/n rrrrr^ - ^ itth rriT^ irrTTi ki New Perspectives on Politics, Culture, f/ledia and Life , PRTHlilRECKER 2001 Steering wheel has a Palm Pilot with a wireless Even lower gas mileage.. Internet connection. Who says you can't eat cirink, You can afford it, talk on the phone, surf the Internet, so who cares? and drive at the same time? 'Gritted teeth grill' makes you the alpha dog on the road. Powerful headlights can be positioned to shine directly in rearview mirror of anyone who gets in your way. Intimidate other SUV's with inflatable side panels. After all, the biggest vehicle gets right of way! Extra thick rubber bumpers to ram Padded undercarriage reduces losers who observe - limits. Make your mark on the nation . injuries to pesky pedestrians speed tear up national parkland that means lower liability for you! with spiked tires. .PATHWRECK^^ THE NEUI ECONOmV* SUU 'ou rule the etock merket uhy not rule the roed? Get 1 Year for just $18 Save over 30% off the cover price. CLAMOR subscribers play an integral role in sustaining this volunteer-run magazine. If you like what you read (or have read) here in CLAMOR, please subscribe! CLAMOR subscribers not only receive a discount off the cover price, but they also receive their magazine before it hits the newsstands and they know that their subscription payment goes directly to supporting future issues of CLAMOR. Please send check or money order to: CLAMOR, PO Box 1225, Bowling Green, OH 43402 or visit us online at www.clamormagazine.org and subscribe or purchase back issues using your credit card. EDITORS Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma PROOFREADERS V\/e finalize this issue scarcely two weeks after the events of September 11, 2001. These Hal Hixson, Scott Puckett, Gabby Resch, Kristen Schmidt, Sarah Stippich, events and their implications are so overwhelming that we have decided to allow only Fred Wright minimal coverage this issue. We understand that the impact of these events is so far- reaching and as yet to be discovered. The January/February 2002 issue of CLAMOR, in LAYOUT & DESIGN addition to focusing on consumerism and consumption, will feature stories and analysis Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma of how this has affected our lives. OUTREACH Michael Szuberia The Environment. COVERS: Front: Greg Fuchs. details page 7 A clear cut is an area of forest where a logging company has gone In and cut down all of the trees. Trees, which took hundreds of years to grow, are gone, along with the wildlife ADVERTISING and undergrowth that they protected. All in the name of progress and the bottom line. Rates and deadlines available upon request. Please call 419-353-7035 The idea of a clear cut, simply put, is horrifying. A big gaping area of land where life once PRINTING: was. The fact that sustainable harvesting is possible but not used, well, that's enough to Dartmouth Printing Co,, Hanover, NH turn one into an activist. P: 603-643-2220 /F: 603-643-5408 WEB DESIGN: We have chosen to put Ecology and the Environment on the cover because this is an issue, Derek Hogue long belabored, that is still worth talking about. The fact that at this moment our forests are being cut down and our water and land is being poluted is reason enough. We have CLAMOR IS a bi-monthly magazine. Single copies are $4 ppd and 6 issue subscrip- highlighted here many people who we believe are noticing how environmental issues in of tions are $18 ppd the US (Outside affect each and every one of us and are doing something about it. From local citizens here the US single issues are $6 and a 6-issue in Bowling Green who are opposing factory farms or fighting sprawl, to people who are subscription is $25 in US Funds). Checks dedicating their lives to saving our magnificent forests like the folks at the Eagle Creek may be made payable to Become The Media. Free State in Oregon or at Sun Peaks in British Columbia. 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ClAMCfi (ISSN 1 S-34 .9489) IS published sn times a yeai Uan/ Feb. Mar/Apr May/lun lul/Aug Sept/Oct. Nov/Decl O200I in the US by Become Ihe Media Incwpofated. PC B« \22i. emiing Green. OH 43402. Telephone 419 3S3 703S Postmaster Send address changes to Clamor Maganne. PO Ba mi. Bowling Green OH 43402 PetiodKals postage paid at Booting Gnen. OH [ECONOMICS] [PEOPLE] 11 The Eagle Creek Free State 48 Five Million Ways An Interview with an Oregon Forest Activist A Conversation with Boots Riley of The Coup 14 Practical Ecology Not4Prophet The Black Swamp Conservancy 53 Postcards from the Edge Marcus Ricci Tales from the Anti-Nuclear Movement in the UK 15 We Are Agrarian Reform Catriona The Campesmo Movement of the Aguan River Valley, Honduras 54 The Memorization of Clarity Part 2 Jeff Conant Fiction by James Marks 17 Angier Avenue and the New Corporate Enclave 56 Hiking the Turkey Mountain Savannah Jordan Green At Play in the Arena of Evolution Christopher Tracey [CULTURE] 59 Getting involved: Wood County Citizens Opposed to Factory Farms 22 Derrick Jensen: Fightmg Civilization Interview with Anesa Miller by Jen Angel Sera Bilezikyan 26 Resisting Colonization [GENDER &SEXUALITV] Photos by Chris Boarts Larson 28 Wild Magic: A Defense of Spiritual Ecology 62 No Shirt, No Shoes, No Reproduction Sunfrog Margaret Sanger and the Fraud of Eugenics 31 In Search of Jesus Tom Breen The American Passion Play 64 Real Feminists Don't Get Raped And Other Fairy Tales Karen Switzer T-Bone Kneegrabber [POLITICS] [MEDIA] 36 Another Piece In The Puzzle 68 The Crash of TWA Flight 800 Pan Puebia Panama: Mexico's Latest Assault on the Missle or Mechanical Failure? Environment and Indigenous Culture Gavin Phillips Kari Lyderson 72 The FCC Crackdown 40 Oil and War Oregon's KBOO Fights an Indecency Ruling Fragments of the Long Line from Combat to Car Catherine Komp Hal Hixson 42 Activism at Sun Peaks Thatcher Collins [PREVIEk-] 74 Vanity Kills on the ins:d'; (H" Phil LeFebvre Pathwrecker 2001 parody ad was written by Sheila Walsh and illustrated by Robert Bevans. Contact them via CLAMOR please address any correspondence to [email protected] or via USPS at PO Box 1225 Bowhng Green. OH 43402 Dear Clamor, its spontaneity and in its motivation rooted in the center of our work if we hope to establish Since the April relicllion here in Cincin- desire, not theorv. In this way. the uprising sustainable long-term relationships with com- nati, there ha.s been much discussion about was probably closer to the pure sense of anar- munities of color. Furthermore, this topic what took place and how we should move for- chy than any planned protest held thus far. needs to be discussed both in white activ ist ward. Particularly within our white, anti-au- It is when we examine our relationship circles, and more importantly with communi- thoritarian activist circles, debate has been as white activists to a primarily black uprising ties of color which we seek to establish rela- heav\ about what our roles were before and that we realize our distance from what took tionships with and learn from. Keeping this dunng the uprising. .Most miportantly, u e ha\ e place. We do not yet have significant ties discussion exclusivel) w ithin our own white struggled to understand what we could ha\e within the black community and the implica- circles not only limits our exchange of ideas been or should ha\c been doing then. Anned tions of this shortcoming are many, if those and our ability to learn from people of color, with that knowledge we ha\e moved to make connections were alreadv established, we but it perpetuates the problem of white people educated decisions about what we should be would be much closer to a place where we deciding for themselv es how they fit into com- doing now, as well as how to focus our en- would be a part of the spontaneity and desire munities of color without input from those ergy. Although there has been considerable rather than a group of people trying to simply communities. We are open to and encourage dialogue about these issues, these are our per- ride that energy. Ideallv. there would already anv and all responses and look forward to con- sonal V iew s and we do not claim to speak for be an established, sustained relationship of tinuing dialogue in the future. all activ ists in Cincinnati. trust developed between communities of color Cincinnati activists J. Uprising's article, subtitled "But where and w hite activ ists.