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Visit www.clamormagazine.org to link to a growing catalog of independent magazines, zines, books, audiotapes, videotapes, music and art created to inspire you to participate rather than consume. £ The original idea for the focus of this issue have EDITORS was to people talk about the various ways that Jen Angel Jason Kucsma thought, action and free will are criminalized in America, In other words, we wanted this issue to examine the ways that perfectly legal activities are criminalized in one way or another because they PROOFREADERS challenge the status quo. W/hy is an assembly of people considered legal in one sense, while another Yael Grauer, Hal Hixson. Phil Motion gathering is targeted by police and results in arrests, injuries and drawn-out legal battles? Why do Sickness, Scott Puckett, Gabby Resch, we consider state-sanctioned drugs to be more acceptable, yet criminalize the casual user of Martha Riecks. Kristen Schmidt. Mike recreational "illegal" drugs? Why is free speech protected as long as it is non-threatening or popular, Wendling but often suppressed when it becomes critical? And why is it perfectly acceptable for corporations to LAYOUT & DESIGN float freely back and forth across the borders of this continent, but we imprison people for doing the Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma same thing? So when we considered these and other rhetorical questions, we recognized that the focus of COVER PHOTO this issue deals not only with criminalizing free will and action, but it also touches on the various Jose Palafox ways that a population can be controlled without thinking it is controlled. Of course it helped that we started to get some really great contributions early on, like the interview with author Christian Parenti ADVERTISING about his book Lockdown America. Freja Joslin does a great job of putting this book in context and rates and deadlines available upon asking some poignant questions. That, along with Jose Palafox's article on the militarization of the request, please call 419-353-7035 U.S. - Mexico border, convinced us that we were headed in the right direction. PRINTING: However, this focus, or "theme" if you will, is not limited to prisons and the police. By focusing Dartmouth Printing Co.. Hanover. NH on "Policing The People." we also wanted to consider other, more subtle ways that thoughts and P; 603-643-2220 /F: 603-643-5408 actions are controlled. Good examples of these would be Andrew Hartman's experience as an unorthodox teacher, and C. Thomsen's expose of Phillip Morns' outlandish (yet common) advertising philosophy. WEB DESIGN: These things, just like prisons, are accepted as commonplace or necessary in America and it is easy Derek Hogue to think of them as such. However, it is important examine and understand the long term effects of MISC ILLUSTRATIONS: prisons, police repression, media & advertising, etc. on our culture. Alx Alvarez. George Hughes, Nate Powell. As usual, this wouldn't be an issue of clamor without a lot of other topics thrown in the mix - JT Yost variety is the spice of life, right' Whether it be coffee enemas (yes. for real. See page 88) or hitchhiking, the most imporlant part of clamor is printing your ideas, thoughts and experiences, whether or not CLAMOR is a bi-monthly magazine. Single they fit into our idea of a theme or focus. As always, we hope you enjoy this issue and would love to copies are $4 ppd and 6 issue subscrip- hear any comments you might have, tions are $18 ppd in the US (Outside ot the US single issues are $6 and 6-issue subscription is $25 in US Funds). Checks Thanks for reading, may be made payable to Become The Media. BACK ISSUES are available for the standard single copy rate. ^00^^ YVjl- DISTRIBUTION: CLAMOR is distributed to stores and distributors by Big Top Newsstand Services. 2729 Mission Street Suite 201. San Francisco. 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Lool(ing for Part 2 of The Siege of Toledo? Many of you read "The Siege of Toledo" (April/May 2001) and may be looking for the conclusion to Pavlito Geshos' essay that called for a protracted struggle against "vulnerable, non-moving ClAMOR IS published sii timn a yu< (Jin/leb Mar/Api. May/ lun lul/Aug Scpt/OcI Nov/DkI 0?OOI m the US by Be- capitalist targets" like DaimlerChrysler in Toledo. Ohio. Due to space limitations, we are not able to come Ihe Media ipvo'por^tH Pfl fkn l??*! Bowling Green, second half of the in have published the essay in its OM4340? leleph include the essay this issue. However, we Poslmastn Sen i 'n Clamof Magaiine. PC entirety online at www.clamormagazine.org. B<Bl2?i. Bowlint Pwioditals poslaie pendmt at Bmling Green OH —4 t.^- I [PLACES] [MEDIA] [ECONOMICS] 9 Inside Pelican Bay State Prison 38 Targets of Repression 70 Lockdown: An Interview With Christian Rahula Janowski Independent l^edia Centers Parenti 14 The Space Between The Past and 44 Political Public Art in the 21^' Freja Josim The Present: Am Difranco's Reveling/ Century 74 Review: Lockdown America Reckoning Kan Lydersen Jenny Conathan. GeertDhondt. FrejaJoslin Hal Hixson 49 Irony Kills Love 76 Infiltrating Big Tobacco: 16 Resisting the Militarization of Place niliema e Inside Phillip Morris and "Relationship and the Enforcement of Global Marketing" C. Ttiomsen Apartheid [POLITICS] Jnse Pa la fox 78 Camp Dignity 16 Un paso detras: Siguiendo la Portland's Homeless Community Fights marcha del EZLN 52 Talking Politics With Myselves To Improve Their Living Conditions Theodore Hennessey Looking Into the Past to Learn About the Pete Lewis Cincinnati On Fire! Future 20 Cincinnati: Poster Child For A Bigot Andrew McLeod America? 55 Review: One Market Under God [CULTURE] Candi Lace Aaron Albelo 23 Rebellion m Cincinnati: But Where are 56 Imprisoned Women 82 Censoring Creativity: All The Radicals and Anarchists^ fieather Haddon The Queens Theatre In The Park Gallery J-Upnsing Devises a Promising Solution To 24 DSLR: Reclaiming the Manipulative City Censorship Accusation Department of Space and Land [SEXUAUT^&REU^TIONSKIPS] Greg Fuchs Reclamation 88 Muddy Waters Run Deep 60 We Bleed! Talking Coffee Enemas [PEOPLE] Countering Menstruation Taboos With Nate Dogg Vique Martm Nate Dogg 63 Four Paragraphs on Androgyny/Ambi 26 Warning: The State May Record This sexuality Call ms/z Marty Frankel Calls Me From Prison 64 More Than The Myths Pavlito Geshos The Work of Planned Parenthood Ohio 31 Radical Repression Stephanee Lewis Wohler A Personal Narrative by Andrew 66 Review: Breeder Hartman, Radical Teacher Jessica Mills Andrew Hartman 67 Hip Mama Interview 33 Where You Headed? Kaile Adny Sera Bilezikyan please address any correspondence to [email protected] or via USPS at PO Box 1225 Bowling Green. OH 43402 Dear Editor: easy, quick and you can do this everyday, or Dear Clamor Magazine. With regard to Nate Dogg's article "Oh once a week, or once a month, on your sched- I recently recei\ed my frist issue of Canada!" (April May 2001), the honourary ule, by phone, email or snailmail. 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