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Box 434] [Toledo, OH 43697-0434] [Phone: (419) 726-3930] [Fax: (419) 726-3935] [E-mail: [email protected]] [On The World Wide Web: www.lumberjack-online.com] 10 Alternatives to the Big Two Casey Boland 13 The Pen Voting Party Reginald Sinclair Lewis AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2000 15 On Anti-democratic Voting Richard Gilman-Opatsky 16 My Vote on Voting The Rescue Rush 51 Beth Barnett True stones of Animal Rescue 17 Sensible Civics Larry Nocella On Kids and Chaos 57 Eric Meisberger Reflections of a Daycare Worker 18 Support the Anti-Voting League Scott Carrick Kevin Zeiko Living with Endometriosis 59 Tracy Bosworth 19 Mr. Death An interview with Documentary Filmmaker Erroll Morris Kenya 64 Peter Werbe Vique Martin 22 Transgressive Dance The Changing Face of Richmond 69 The Detroit Electronic Music Festival Greg Wells Spike 23 Select Media Oh Baby! 71 reviews of independent media Part 3: The Birth Story 26 Reclaiming Radical History Jessica Mills in the Labadie Collection Performing Violence 75 Andrew Cornell A Critical Theory of Masculinity Eric Boehme 29 Documenting The Margins The (False) Priority of Orgasm 76 Photographer Charles Gatewood A Review by Robyn Marasco Eric Zassenhaus 37 Oreo Cookie Feminists David vs. Goliath in the Northwoods 79 Loolwa Khazzoom Daniel Gatewood and Rico Myszewski 42 The Life Story of an Advertisement Adult Liberation and the Meaning of Work 83 J. Gerlach An Interview with Michael Fogler 43 Taking It To The Streets! Basil Elias Art Cars m America Matthew A. Donohue 47 Institutionalized Subversion at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Stewart Varner EDITORS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE BACK ISSUES are available for the standard single Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma Jim Engel, Pete Menchetti, Brian Edge. Paul copy rate. Kucsma, Keith Myers and Advertisers PROOFREADERS DISTRIBUTION: Joshua Liner, Kristen Schmidt, Fred Wright PRINTING: Clamor is distributed to stores and distributors by Dartmouth Printing Company, Hanover, NH Big Top Newsstand Services, 2729 Mission Street LAYOUT & DESIGN P: 603-643-2220 /F: 603-643-5408 Suite 201, San Francisco, CA 94110-3131 Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma [email protected] WEBMASTER: COVER ILLUSTRATION Keith Myers CLAMOR MAGAZINE Theodore Hennessy ([email protected]) Post Office Box 1225 CLAMOR is a bi-monthly magazine. Single Bowling Green OH 43402 ADVERTISING copies are $4 ppd and 6 issue subscriptions are [email protected] rates and deadlines available upon request, please $20 ppd in the US (Outside of the US single www.clamormagazine.org call 419-353-7035 issues are $6 and 6-issue subscription is $30 in 419-353-9266/419-353-7035 US Funds). Checks may be made payable to Become The Media. Copyright © 2000 Become The Media from the editors Well it's been about a year since clamor magazine was first conceived, so to speak. Sometime last summer, after attending two independent media conferences, we decided that we wanted to put our own skills to work to start a magazine. We wanted a magazine that would get some of the thought-provoking and inspiring ideas out of the underground and into the hands and heads of those who would be less likely to come in contact with them. At the same time, we thought clamor should also be a magazine that served to connect all sorts of people who, for what- ever reason, have found little solace in the status quo. A friend suggested that we're not just creating a magazine, but we're build- ing a community. And while it is too early to suggest clamor is changing the face of culture and politics in the new millennium (though it is fun to entertain such a notion!), the response from readers all over the world suggests that we are heading in the right direction. This issue is the "over the hump" issue that marks a half a year of publishing this magazine behind us. We're learning the ropes of editing, designing and financially operating this maga- zine, and we've managed to put out a bunch of good issues in the meantime. We're learning a lot and making some mistakes, but most of all we're discovering that publishing this magazine is very rewarding. In all our years of independent, small-press publishing, this is something new that we've never done, and it brings a whole different dimension to what we've been doing all along. We're able to reach and connect more people, more of- ten, on a larger scale than we ever would have dreamed of a few years ago. This issue is also a bit of an experiment. Here, we spend the entire "Politics" section talking about one topic —electoral politics. We feel that this topic is especially pertinent as the presidential election approaches and we are inundated with me- dia that not only tells us we should vote, but assumes that voting \ is our utmost civic duty. Assumptions like this ser\e to discredit other actions that might equally foster a vibrant democratic so- ciety, from grassroots community organizing to something as simple as sharing stories with each other. One of the main reasons we publish clamor is to help give a voice to those who are excluded from the usual avenues of pub- lic discussion, meaning those media resources which are the most pervasive and accepted in our society, like television, magazines, newspapers, etc. You may have heard this argument before, but one of the ways we're trying to accomplish this is by publishing the real stories of peoples' lives, ideas, and inspirations. In such an infonnation-based society we are somehow more and more alienated from one another, and we hope that clamor w ill help counter that trend by connecting people with each other. With thai in mind, please remember that clamor is built from the ground up, by contributors, readers, and supporters. If you feel you have something to contribute to clamor, whether it be stories, artwork, or financial assistance, we'd love to hear from you. \ ) please address any correspondence to [email protected] or via USPS at PO Box 1225 Bowlmg Green. OH 43402 clamor. "What's their message? What's the protest some or all of this letter in the next ish of clamor. Hey, I just got the new ish of clamor, and about?" It really showed that she was an ex-TV That would be an honor You guys ROCK! read a couple articles. Wanted to give ya some news producer: she just had to package the thing feedback. in a neat little phrase. Larty Nocella 1. The design of the mag is EXCELLENT. But that can't be done and still con\ey the Collegeville, PA Very clear, and hip. Perfect. In past issues, 1 think story even close to accurately. These protests the design was a little rushed, but this time it's (among many other things) are a revolution razor-sharp! against labels, against demographics: their indc- clamor. 2. 1 like the article on drug testing ("Chemi- fmability is their strength. It's a clamorous There are accented names in my article about cal McCarthyism," June July). It made me hate screaming, "We are not numbers that can easily Mirbeau ("Cclestine Dismembered." June/July), this practice all the more. Who cares if someone be sorted!" You want to know what the protest is including the oft-repeated Cclestine. The second smokes a J in their apartment? It's obscene and about, you have to ask each person and they're letter of her name is an "e" with an acute accent, Evan Endicott did an excellent job of document- all right. It's a serious culture-jam against the but sometimes, when this is emailed on English ing and articulating why the Ritual of Pissing is quantizing mentality of demographics! (Ha! speaking computers, it comes out as a different wrong. The fear tactic definitely works. The pho- You'd never know I was a proud college dropout letter All of the times in the article, it's come out tos were cool, too.