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OH [PEOPLE] [MEDIA] 11 Active Youth in South America 44 Challenging Representation Chris Strohm La Lutta New Media Collective 15 Growing Up Locked-Up An Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio Mario Rocha Rachael Rakes 17 My Wonderful, Doomed Daughter 47 Youth Seize Power and Technology Rob Los Ricos Kan Lydersen 50 Black Hawk Down [CULTURE] American Intervention Through a Celluloid Filter Marshall Beggs 20 Antibalas La Orquestra De Afrobeat Inteiview by Andrew and Alex Anon [ECONOMICS] 25 The Beat Within 54 Heir to the Holocaust Listening to the Voices of Incarcerated Youth Prescott Bush, 1.5 Million Dollars, and Auschwitz: David Inocencio and The Beat Within Writers How the Bush Family Wealth is Linked to the Jewish Holocaust 30 Songs for Emma Toby Rogers Interview by Richard Oilman Opalsky 60 Couch Space 34 Making Innocence Look Evil Sean Carswell The Harry Potter Incident 62 The Spirit of Seattle: Felizon Vidad The General Strike of 1919 Madeleine Baran [SEX AND GENDER] 65 Sustainable Frugality Chris Dodge 40 In Defense of Foreskin by Jeff Frank [POLITICS] 68 Western Sahara A Peace Corps Volunteer's Perspective Jacob A. Mundy 72 The Hearing That Wasn't Eco-Terrorism Hearing Sends Message to Activists on the cover: Joseph M, Smith Anonymous activist in Argentina is photographed by Andrew Stern (see article on p. 11) ^«£»^^-§|l^ l&y Dear Clamor know that material poverty equals misery. It is an ab- revolutionary propaganda for one person may be mean- I'm writing in reference to the piece from your surd, ridiculous statement. Our intention was to shock ingless or even insulting to another. Please remember March/April 2002 issue, "Middle Class Dominance and people — not activists, who already are working out their that we are your comrades and are doing our damnedest ttie Negation of Class Struggle." in which the author own values, but others who accept the assumptions of to help fight the class war. even when we take a differ- charges our collective with fetishizing poverty. the status quo — and encourage them to think about ent approach than you do. We consider the author a comrade in the anti-capi- these assumptions. talist struggle, and we believe that a diversity of tactics Fetishizing poverty and lack of social status is in- In solidarity, is essential to the success of this struggle; so what I deed a form of middle class rebellion — when one wants The Crimethlnc. Workers' Collective hope to do here is to help us all understand the particu- to rebel but has not yet developed one's own values, one Atlanta. GA lar tactics we are applying and why we have chosen them. simply inverts the values of authority. Of course simply The misunderstanding here is not surprising: af- removing oneself from the cycle of consumption and ter all, the back of a book we've published does read wage labor does nothing to change the system. We agree Clamor, "Poverty. Unemployment. Homelessness. If you're not absolutely with the author of the critique when he ar- I love your magazine! It's great to see how far having fun, you're not doing it right " The statement is gues that theft and dumpstering is a neofra/ action, one you've come since you started up.