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Clamor Magazine That IS Accessible to People from a Variety of Backgrounds vashing i ion on TV I Re-Organized Labor 9 • BiliiiB 1 r iM; May/June 2005 • Issue 32 I uia: L ,»- «' i •• • iTcHU^^^ *-- i $4.50 us/ $6.95 Canada &t^??^'^:>rx 06 > Radical publisliers AK Press celebrate M»>* '252 74 "96769" r their 15th anniversary this year. ' ' ^n' I mr^^^w BRIGHT EYES petforming songs from DIGini UH IN A DIGini URN t THE miNT VISIT SADDLE-CREEK.COM FOR TOUR DATES eoMwi; soo/v - MAm TAKoe- tt:fr-epoc(rMAf24 • books, zines, CDs, DVDs, posters, gear, and much more • secure online ordering • fast shipping • new titles weekly • independent as fuck ! M I just a few of the items available at: CldlTIOr www.clamormagazJne.org/infGSHOP : EOlTORyPUBLISHERS Jen Angel & Jason Kucsma from your editors CULTURE EDITOR WEB DESIGN Eric Zassenhaus Derek Hogue Fuck tradition. It's the sort of thing that jails us and keeps us from moving forward — it ties ECONOMICS EDITOR INTERNS our hands with convention. It keeps from earning they deserve. It Arthur Stamoulis Melissa Cubria women what keeps people Dan Gordon of color shut out from resources they need to survive. Mainstream convention tells us that MEDIA EDITOR we need to adhere to tradition to maintain our roots, but what traditions are we encouraged Catherine Komp VOLUNTEERS Mike McHone to adhere toi* Traditions that keep certain people in power while others are left to fend for PEOPLE EDITOR Sheryl Siegenthaier themselvesJ* What about the traditions of resistance that encourage us to continue fighting Keidra Chaney PROOFREADERS for a better world for all of us? Noam Chomsky once suggested that "intellectual tradition is SEX &GENDER EDITOR Mike McHone. Kristen one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself." Being ashamed Brian Bergen-Aurand Schmidt. Hal Hixson of ourselves is not something we're good at, and neither are Clamor readers. So we're bring- Elliot Adams, Scott POLITICS EDITORS Puckett ing this issue to you to remind us all that we have a rich tradition (both ancient and newly Madeleine Baran established) of resistance to injustice. We're building traditions from the fires of inspiration & Amanda Luker infoSHOP workhorse Evan Morrison we get from those who came before us on the ashes of outmoded mindsets that encourage us REVIEW EDITOR to just "trust the experts and everything will be okay." Keith McCrea COVER THIS ISSUE by Josh Warren-White UYOUT & DESIGN artistic and technical When we're looking for traditions, we needn't look any furthur than Oakland, where AK Press is Jason Kucsma assistance by Tlteodore celebrating 15 years of anarchist publishing this year (p. 14). But if we did want to look fur- Hennessy. ther, this year's gathering of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (pp. 30 and 63) illustrates TOOLS how a relatively recent tradition can challenge the powers of the elitist World Economic Forum Thanks to a generous donation. Clamor is and its counterparts. Keidra Chaney also talked with people from the U.S. and beyond to find designed using licensed Adobe software. out how people are responding to the changes in their communities (p. 22). Ken Allen and ADVERTISING Don Mcintosh recently debated the past and future of organized labor in the U.S. in an effort Rates and deadlines available upon request find worked for the working class in hopes of moving forward with a Please call 419-255-3020 or visit to what has and hasn't www.clamormagazine.org/advertise better. 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Mar/Apr, May/Jun, Jul/Aug, Sept/ Oct, Nov/Dec). ©2005 in the US by Become The Media Incorporated I PO Box 20128 Toledo, OH 43610 I Phone: 419.243.4688. llllfllllk^^lllll Postmaster: Send address changes tO: Clamor s mission is to provide a media outlet that reflects the reality of alternative politics and culture in a format Clamor Magazine that IS accessible to people from a variety of backgrounds. Clamor exists to fill the voids left by mainstream media PO Box 20128 We recognize and celebrate the fact that each of us can and should participate in media, politics, and culture. We Toledo, OH 43610. m publish writing and art that exemplify the value we place on autonomy, creativity, exploration, and cooperation. through active creation of political and cultural alternatives. Periodicals postage paid at Toledo, OH. Clamor is an advocate of progressive social change 97 rP UPROAR @ 08 Where Clamor Readers Have Their Say Number 32 i May/June 2005 CULTURE 10 The Problem is the Solution by Jason Powers 14 AK Press: A Tradition of Resistance by Katie Renz 1 The Familiarity Factor by Megha Bahree 1 Beyond the Monoculture by Shiipa Kamat PFOPIF 22 Changing Communities. Changing Traditions edited by Keidra Chaney 26 Upholsterer for the People by Courtney Martin 27 Reflections on a Hippie Childhood by Rebecca Hartman POLITICS 30 World Social Forum 2005 by Benjamin DangI 34 A New Tradition of Texas Populism by J. D. Pleucker 35 At the Edge of America by Dan Gordon ^FY Awn nFwnFD 38 Straightwashing by Rebecca Hyman 41 Born in Flames Conference by Abby Sewell 42 Basketball, Bitch, and Beyond: Surveying the Third Wave Feminist Landscape by Courtney E. Martin 44 A Troubled Tradition by Caitiin Corrigan MEDIA 48 You Can't Do That On Television! The Conspicuous Absence of Abortion on TV by Rachel Fudge 52 Media and Tech Traditions: Old and New by Mane Lamb and Catherine Komp 54 Where are all the Environmental Stories? by Brian C. Howard ECONOMICS 58 Unite to Win! Debating Reorganizing Organized Labor by Ken Allen and Don Mcintosh 83 WSF: Past, Present, and Future by Kent L. Laudt MURMURS 67 What We're Talking About... HERE A 74 Ohio's Own BLUEPRINT by Blake Gillespie Please address letters to [email protected] or write us at PO Box 20128 Toledo, OH 43610 Letters may be edited for length. Not all letters received will be printed. We're Not All "Persians" Where's the Love for Street Papers? I received my first copy of Clamor from a friend him- I'm writing in response to your latest issue, "Mak- self closely associated with another well-respected ing the Media that Matters." I enjoyed the issue left publication who suggested that I read and per- very much, especially "Down to the wire," by Gwen The revolution won't be televised, but you can read haps write for your magazine. So it was with great Shaffer. about It. Books for a better world, by Mike Palacek, surprise that I found the article "We are Persians" in I was a little disappointed to see no mention of former federal prisoner, congressional candidate, your magazine (Clamor 30; Jan/Feb 2005), and I am the street newspaper movement in North America, or newspaper reporter. Please visit: iowapeace.com. writing to bring your attention to some of the deep throughout the world. mistakes and problems with that article. In effect, The street newspaper movement is a product EMMA GOLDMAN REVISITED: The journal Social An- the ellaboration of Iranian identity by the writer of of growing homeless population throughout the archism (publishing since 1981) presents a special that article is worthy of a neo-con publication and world, and in many communities newspapers have supplement on Red Emma in its current issue. Also not of a grassroots magazine aimed at a young al- become credible news sources, while ottering many articles on Anarchism and Human Nature (Tom ternative readership. people experiencing homelessness a small economic Martin, Lucy Parsons Park (Kathryn Rosenfeld), a To set a few points straight: there is a de- opportunity. lost (1893) essay by Voltairine DeCleyre, reviews by bate amongst the Iranian community in the US as In places like Portland, Seattle, Boston, and Richard Kostelanetz and Howard J. Ehrtich, poetry far as the use of the term "Persian." As the writer Washington D.C., just to name a few, papers are and book reviews.
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