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With this magazine we are try mg to impress upon vou a general attitude, a more comprehensive critique or our socictv and our lives We hope that Vique Martin's trip to Africa and the accounts of the DNCand RNC" protests inspire vou to action and to follow vour dreams We hope that the story of Andrew Mel cod's vasectomy and Richard ("nlman-OpaUkv s marriage encourage you to question tradition and societal expectations We hope the inter- views with Aaron Rose and Martin Sonendcguv will remind vou how important it is to gain inspiration from others We hope all the articles we select, each in their own way, embody this attitude... and we hope vou come away ^ith a glimpse ofjit Thanks for CLAMOR MAGAZINE reading, r Post Office Box 1225 Bowling Green OH 43402 [email protected] www.clamormagazine.org 419-353-7035/419-353-9266 Copyright © 2000 Become The Media g Alive in Africa Vique martin 15 Zagreb To The Adriatic Sea: A Hitchhiking Journey Jane Graham 19 Life In Attica Kevin P. Q. Phelan 24 Lavender Lake: Not Exactly America's Vacationland! Fred Argoff 26 Wash That Mouth out With Soap! My Stint as a Phone Sex Operator Erin McWilliams 29 The Big Snip: Frank Talk About Reproduction, Male Genitalia, ISSUE Fl and Life Altering Decisions Andrew McLeod 33 Alternatives To Monogamy 2 Jen Angel and Jason Kucsma Where Do We Go From Here? 64 A Conversation with Martin Sorrendeguy John Gerken 37 Fear, Loathing, and Laughing @ R2K The Wake 68 Casey Boland Al Burian 40 I Went To the DNC Green Card Blues: 71 and All I Got Was A Lousy Sunburn A Not-so-quaint Tale of Love, Law. and Bureaucracy Matt Average Michael D. Amitin 42 In Our Name: Yesterday 73 Suffering and Death by Sanctions in Iraq Ben Fogelson Seth Adam Price 45 Clinton Must Make Demands of Fujimori Craig Butler Food Not Bombs Turns 20 76 46 A Big Piece is Missing in this "Peace" and Soupstock Turns Out 15,000 Loolwa Khazzoom Lauren Rosa and Chris Crass The Underground Publishing Conference 78 Jason Kucsma 53 Living On Luck and Interstate 90 Mike Delach 56 A Conversation With NYC Artist and Free Trade Doesn't Mean Free Food 82 Gallery Owner Seed Patents, Frankenfoods, and The Terminator Gene: Aaron Rose of The Alleged Gallery Agribusiness Around The World Cynthia Connolly Casey_ Boland 61 A Rabbi And A Punk: Service or Intimidation? 86 Thoughts On Marriage and Religion Bank Fingerprinting Richard Gilman Opalsky J.