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MEDIA EDITOR Jeff Nolish Catherine Komp Frankly, we could have released an entire issue of Clamor covering the things we've learned about the maga- PROOFREADERS zine publishing business that we were clueless before started. like: PEOPLE EDITOR Mike McHone. Kristen about we Things • Keidra Chaney Schmidt. Hal Hixson Your magazine is considered "successful" on the newsstand if you sell 40% of the copies you Elliot Adams. Scott put out there And yes. the rest are simply are thrown away. SEX &GENOER EDITOR Puckett • There are tens of thousands of young people out there who are hungry for a progressive/radi- Brian Bergen-Aurand infoSHOP workhorse cal political magazine that doesn't eschew the importance of culture and a radical culture Evan Morrison POLITICS EDITORS magazine that doesn't eschew politics. Jones Chad • No matter how many times you stress how important it is for people to subscribe to the & Mariana Ruiz COVER THIS ISSUE independent love, still by Victor J. 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Please call 419-255-3020 or visit We could go on, but we'll save more for our 10th anniversary issue. In the meantime, we're pleased to revisit www.clamormagazine.org/advertise the education theme with articles that shake the foundation of traditional learning environments and en- courage us all to think about education in ways we hadn't before. Jennifer Utz and her sister Lindsay travel PRINTING Westcan Printing Group to India to teach young women about how they can use new media tools to tell their stories (p. 22). Kaci Elder Winnipeg. Manitoba. Canada shares the inspiring success story of Olympia Community Free School (p. 50). and Ida Lake visits a stencil- Phone: 866-669-9914 making workshop hosted by NYC's Visual Resistance on the back page. Clamor is a bi-monthly magazine. 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OH Clamor is an advocate of progressive social change through active creation of political and cultural alternatives. rp UPROAR © 06 Where Clamor Readers Have Their Say Number 34 I September/October 2005 CULTURE 08 Under Attack: Free Speech on Campus by Justin M. Park 15 Foyer Maurice Sixto and Haiti's Restaveks by Doris Charrollais 1 7 Learning Liberation by Kat Shiftier and Patrick W. Quirk 15 Foyer Maurice Sixto and Haiti's Restaveks by Doris Charrollais 19 Professor & the Photocopy byJosh Medsker MEDIA 22 Ready. Aim. Shoot! by Jennifer utz 27 James Loewen on Sundown Towns by Edward Burch PEOPLE 32 School Of Punk Rock by Antonio Lopez 34 Katy Otto: D.C. Superhero interview by Matt Dineen 36 Kitchen of Distinction by Tess. 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DEALING WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT viable, radical means of proving the guilt or inno- as possible from both sides, as well as any practical cence of someone. This is a large step backward from evidence. From these things the folks from outside the First of all I'd like to commend the organizers of the even the current system we reject, which purports to scene should make their judgment about the guilt or Born In Flames conference (Born in Flames; May/June promote the notion of "innocent until proven guilty". innocence of the accused. 2005). Such a gathering of radicals dealing with is- What Lauren Hartley says is, of course, good for The tricky part, of course, is what to do with the exactly she social services dealing with if guilty. sues of sexual assault is a long time coming.