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O Enclosed IS $18 for my subscription O Please charge my Visa/Mastercard for the above amount. exp. / (mo/vr) name address email (optional) Return this coupon tO: CLAMOR MAGAZINE PO BOX 1225 BOWUNG GREEN OH 43402 irf EDITORS Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma Hello Everyone PROOFREADERS Part of the CLAMOR mission statements says, "CLAMOR is an advocate of progressive social Hal Hixson, Rich Booher. Amy Jo Brown. change through active creation of political and cultural alternatives." Simply put. we support Catherine Phillips. Scott Komp, Gary those efforts where people are working together to make the world a better place to live. This Puckett. Kristen Schmidt goal influences almost all of the decisions we make about the magazine. Sometimes we hit it right on target. Other times it seems like we miss our mark, but it's all part of the process. 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OH cultural alternatives. [PEOPLE] [CULTURE] 9 What it Means to be Active 40 Dancing on the Ruins of Multinational Reflections on Progressive Activism Corporations: An Interview with Folk Musician Justin Ruben Casey Neill 14 Rethinking Drug Courts Cat Hemlock Melissa Hostetler 17 The Criminalization of Anarchism Part Two: Guilt by Association, Questionable [ECONOMICS] Confessions, and Mandatory Minimums Kristian Williams 48 Working Class Heroes 23 Don't Just Sit There, Do Something! Activism in the American Labor Movement Colleen McGraw Pavlito Geshos 53 Middle Class Dominance And the Negation of Class Struggle [MEDIA] Joe Levasseuer 26 The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting An Interview witti David Barsamian [POLITICS] Brian Hull 30 Monkey Obscura 58 A Radical Failure To Communicate Reporting on Primate Research Matthew Williams Ptiilip Dawdy 62 Diversity of Tactics and Democracy 34 What the Fuck Are You Saying? George Lakey How ttie Left Has Failed to Communicate its 63 The Need for Tactical Assistance Message to a Mass Audience Wade Rathke Scott Puckett 65 Combating White Privilege In the Anti-Globalization Movement Sonja Sivesind 71 Reclaiming the Streets of Argentina Next Stop: the World Kari Lydersen Beka Economopoulos, New York City activist and co-editor of Another World Is Possible: Conversations In A Time of Terror, photographed by Greg Fuchs, January 2002. Hello Jen/Jason: Clamor Folks, which the magazine seems to be targetting. they re- I I do support what you are doing but gotta tell I just wanted to write you to let you know how ally need it. you that I'm renewing my subscription "under pro- wonderful CLAMOR is. I only discovered it recently It's funny, the other day i got all of my old test" because: but it was a wonderful read — honest, intelligent, MRRs and Profane Existences from this crate i had The uncritical, fawning interview with terrorist and heartfelt. Too many at my dad's house Bill Ayers (Jan/Feb 2002), a man who, in his time, zines, especially punk and and I read most of celebrated Charles Manson while deriding Martin anarchist ones, are so them, and i was Luther King as an Uncle Tom. Bill Ayers is an insult to pretentious that it's hart amazed at the self humanity. to stomach their ideas, no destructiveness of The hate and celebration of violence expressed matter how good those the culture, i mean. by Derrick Jensen (Dec/Jan 2001) in another fawn- ideas might be. CLAMOR I remembered it. ing, uncritical interview was so refreshing — like but i didn't really I really hope that CLAMOR becomes something (I mean this in the best remember it. It was more than a preaching-to-the-converted leftist/an- possible way) a punk rock just sort of insane, I archist magazine aimed at yuppies. have no prob- Utne Reader I loved the the stuff going on lem with the interviews with folks like Derrick Jensen. articles on Faslane in the letters col- I do have a problem with uncritical interviews. If you ("Postcards from the umns you know? are going to just ask softball questions and not chal- Edge: Tales from the Anti- Kids tearing each lenge the "out there" statements, then ust give the Nuclear Movement in the other to pieces, be- person ad space but don't call if an interview.