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Like most Americans, we're about to start gorging ourselves on MEDIA EDITOR holiday cookies and getting (and giving) gifts we don't want and can't afford, and by New Catherine Komp PROOFREADERS Year's Day we'll have just about forgotten the credit card debt we rack up. That is, until the MikeMcHone, Knsten PEOPLE EDITOR Schmidt, Hal Hixson bills start coming in. Jessica Hoffman Elliot Adams The New York Times and PBS reported last year that, "According to the Federal Reserve, SEX &GENDER EDITOR JnfoSHOP workhorse the total amount of outstanding revolving consumer credit reached billion this Brian Bergen-Aurand Evan Morrison S743 year, nearly nine times the amount recorded 20 years ago." They went on to report that according POLITICS EDITORS COVER THIS ISSUE to Fair Isaac, a company that helps banks assess credit risk, the average credit card bal- Chad Jones William Francis ance is $8,000, and that on average, today's consumer has a total of 1 1 credit obligations on & Mariana Ruiz drudgery.org record at a credit bureau; including department store charge cards, bank cards, mortgages, REVIEW EDITOR and student loans. Keith McCrea LAYOUT & DESIGN So what is it that causes many of us to live beyond our means? We're not all so easily wooed Jason Kucsma by crass consumerism that we run up our credit cards for the latest fashions and electronic gadgets, are we? No. Many of us HAVE to live beyond our means because our means aren't TOOLS enough. Like many people working on projects with social justice missions, the folks here at Thanks to a generous donation, Clamor is designed using licensed Adobe software. Clamor HQ are experts at dealing with limited resources. We have credit cards, and we use them. Why? Because we're desperate. Well, not really, but more and more Amehcans are ADVERTISING putting basic needs, such as food, on their credit cards instead of paying for them with cash. Rates and deadlines available upon request. all of is nicely - Please call 419-255-3020 or visit So this excess balanced out quite by scarcity not enough money or resources wwwclamQrmagazine.org/advertise to go around. Compound that with things like Katrina, economic depression in the rust belt, outsourcing, NAFTA/CAFTA, health care costs, an obscenely low Federal minimum wage, PRINTING and, well, you get the picture. Westcan Printing Group Winnipeg. Manitoba, Canada Phone:866-669-9914 We chose to cover "excess" and "scarcity" together because they're inextricably bound. People n in Africa are fighting the privatization of water to simply get enough water to keep themselves Clamor is a bi-monthly magazine. Single copies are $4.50 ppd and 6 issue subscriptions are $18 alive. They're forced to fight because of the disproportionate distribution of water to the rich ppd in the US (Outside of the US single issues and poor. The timeless "haves" live in excess while the "have-nots" struggle for life on a day- are $6 and a 6-i5Sue subscription is $25 in US to-day basis. Meanwhile, artists in San Francisco are creating art out of trash. Reverend Billy Funds). Checks may be made payable to Become The Media. is busy calling out the corporations, and citizens in Philadelphia are fighting eminent domain to keep their homes. BACK ISSUES Available at www.infoshopnow.com In this issue you'll find examples of people making do with scarce resources to create vibrant DISTRIBUTION democratic communities, challenging the powerful to distribute excess to the people who need Clamor is distributed to stores and distributors more, or simply navigating the space between too much and not enough. These people are by IPA/Big Top Newsstand Services, 65 Battery your neighbors. Your family. We hope you learn as much from them as we have. St. 2nd Floor. San Francisco, CA 94 1 1 [email protected] Thanks for reading, Clamor is also available through these fine distribution outlets: AK Press. Armadillo, Doormouse, Gordon & Gotch, Ingram, IPD, Kent News, Last Gasp, Media Solutions, Milligan, One Source, Small Changes, Stickfigure. Tower, and Ubiquity Clamor (ISSN 15-34-9489) is published six times PS: As we might have expected, we had too many articles for this excess/scarcity issue, and a year (Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr, May/Jun, Jul/Aug, Sept/ had to postpone the letters and uproar sections this issue. You can send your letters to the Oct, Nov/Dec) ©2005 in the US by editor to: letters(gclamormagazine.org. Become The Media Incorporated I PO Box 20128 Toledo. OH 43610 1 Phone: 419.255.3020. Postmaster Send address changes to; Clamor Magazine [iiiiaiiiK^i[i]ii PO Box 20128 format Clamor 's mission is to provide a media outlet that reflects the reality of alternative politics and culture m a Toledo, OH 43610. that is accessible to people from a variety of backgrounds Clamor exists to fill the voids left by mainstream media. We recognize and celebrate the fact that each of us can and should participate in media, politics, and culture. We Periodicals postage paid at Toledo, OH. publish writing and art that exemplify the value we place on autonomy, creativity, exploration, and cooperation. Clamor is an advocate of progressive social change through active creation of political and cultural alternatives. @ r^ Number 35 I November./December 2005 POLITICS 04 Cuban, American, AND Progressive by Remy Kharbanda & Nadia Gonzalez 09 A Prescription for Torture by Marie-Jo Proulx 10 David Enders: Inside Baghdad interview by Emily Schmall <:py £. RFWnFR 14 Tweaked: Crystal Meth, Sex, and HIV byTara Lohan 1 8 You Can't Take This Away From Us by Maura Ryan 21 Reproductive Self-Care: Menstrual Extraction by Laurel Hara PEOPLE 24 Burning Down Babylon: Ricanstruction's Not4Prophet interview byAri Paul 28 Moving Through Spaces in a Stratified World by Jennifer Ashley 31 Conversations with Dean Spade by Izzy Klatzker a.k.a.