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Manana Ruiz Indy Press Distribution Chad Jones 65 Battery St. 2nd Floor, Printed in Canada. San Francisco. CA 941 10-3131 REVIEW EDITOR [email protected] Keith McCrea UPROAR 5 Clamor Readers on Land & Geography Number Spring 2006 36 | 8 Photo Essay: Mountaintop Removal PEOPLE 12 14 Acres in South Central Los Angeles 18 Michael Ableman: Urban Farmer 20 Listen to the People: Kalamu Ya Salaam on the 3rd Migration 23 Enter the Cipher MEDIA 26 Witness to War: Unembedded Photojournalism in Iraq 31 Battle Emblems 32 From MOVE to Katrina: Covering Communities of Color in Crisis 34 Leave No Trace: We Need an Activist Travel Guide 35 Slaying Giants: Greenwald and Crew Take on Wal-Mart ECONOMICS 40 Our Food. Our Fight. Our Future 44 Your Stars Will Abandon You 45 One Neighborhood at a Time 47 Seeing With New Eyes: Justice Mapping SEX & GENDER 26 52 After the Storm: Gendering Disaster and Recovery in New Orleans 55 Resource: Third Wave Foundation 56 Gender, Sexuality, &Geography 101: A Syllabus 58 The Crisis of Crisis Pregnancy Centers CULTURE 62 Richard Pryor: An Iconoclast Remembered 65 Made Out Of Babies 67 Embracing Doikayt 68 Secret Wars: Monitoring the Military at Area 51 71 Three Cities Against The Wall POLITICS 74 Because We Have To ..