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We do it because our culture teaches us that consuming things Hal Hixson, Gary Phillips, Scott Puckett, makes us feel better. We don't even need to get into an in-depth analysis of consumer Gabby Resch. Kristen Schmidt, Sarah culture to understand how and when this works. The rubble from the World Trade Center Stippich, Fred Wright disaster was still smoldering when the President declared that the true way for a country LAYOUT & DESIGN like ours to heal was for everyone to go out and spend a lot of money. Never mind that even Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma with a conservative estimate, 50.000 people have lost their jobs while the government agreed that airlines deserved an immediate $15 billion dollar bail out package. Never DEVELOPMENT mind that there is a huge gap between the reality advertising creates and the one that Joshua Breitbart most of us live everyday. COVERS: A number of pieces in this issue look at life on this divide; the space where consumption Front: David Maltby Back: Diane Deaton fantasies and economic realities collide. Leading this issue is an article by Kari Lydersen about the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, a group that has employed "direct action case- ADVERTISING work" to achieve concrete results for disenfranchised people and their communities. OCAP is and available upon Rates deadlines not alone in their efforts to represent people who are continuously overlooked in favor of free request. Please call 419-353-7035 market enterprise. Mike Schade's expose on Kodak (p. 31) and the hazardous environment it has created for the communities surrounding its New York headquarters is another example PRINTING: of people working to hold corporations accountable to the communities they affect. 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