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CLAMOR: A Loud and Continued Uproar of Many Human Voices • Number 22 • September/October 2003 PEOPLE ECONOMICS 9 Lost at Sea 44 Traveling with Light Footsteps Interview by Matthew Turissini Melanie Rubenstein 12 Travel Tale: Where you headin' man? 47 Why Shopping Locally Matters Ron Jacobs Steve Wilson 13 Oba Maja: Chicago street poet on the road to happiness 49 Outbreak: Toronto's Tourism Industry and SARS Matt Donahue Jeff Shantz 14 Hopping Freight with Avail's Tim Barry 51 Anonymous: A Word with the author of Evasion Dennis Kepic interview by Ricky Powell 17 Teach English Abroad ... Later Gavin Grant 18 Travel Tale: On the Road with my Brother SEX & GENDER Courtney E. Martin 56 Tackling Freedom Stephanie Abraham 58 Can Men Take Feminism to Bed? CULTURE Gabriel Constans 22 Holiday in Hiroshima Casey Boland 27 Passing (as a native of Xin Jiang) POLITICS Joyce Orobello 60 Should 1 Stay or Should 1 Go? 25 Heathens in the Land of Holy (ass-kicking) Monkeys Dabee Voorhees Ayun Halliday 64 David Rovics is Rousing the Rabble 29 Moments in Block and White Interview by Win Vitkowsky Danee Voorhees 31 Four Wheels Bad ... Two Wheels Good LAST PAGE interview by J Powers 66 Overheard in a Youth Hostel Joel Hanson MEDIA 36 Style Wars: 20th Anniversary Interview by Gregory Keller REVIEWS 41 Our Streets, Our Galleries 18 Dischord Music; Rebuttal The wonders of modern stenciling 46 Revolutionary Road Josh MacPhee 52 Audio Perspective 53 Suggested Sounds 59 Boys' Toys 60 Road Reading 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. Funny guy hits the toilet, or trivialized. A broader vision of family and a wid- superficially, as "a waste of time." That everything but misses the point. er concern for others is possible if we can begin we do does not have to be justified as compatible to think outside the box labeled "speciesism." For with our ideological proclivities, per se. And still Philip E. Lefebvre's "A Month Sitting" (July/August the foxes in leghold traps, the lobsters about to be be looked at by others, and ourselves, as serious thrown into boiling life in 2003) was thought provoking and funny, but I think pots, elephants serving self-sacrificing activists — something undoubtedly he ought to give us ladies a little more credit. chains in circuses, and the chickens being trucked required of us. Nobody can force us to mutilate ourselves for to slaughter, I hope we come to this conclusion "beauty," no matter how strong the media mes- sooner rather than later. Brad Wendel sages are! Being a girl, for me, is more about Mobile, AL being super smart, seeing through the bullshit, P.J.