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Undocumented Immigration Why Support the President?

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The Yeti Collective: Brett Ader Alisha Buckman Ed Caddell Danny Clifton Anne S. Dunlop R. R. Jenkins James N. McKay

Contributors: Alexis Baden-Mayer Stephanie Brandt Jenna Citron Kyle DeVries Spencer Greene Heather Hawkins Virginia Howard Sean Johnson Allen Joseph Daniel Kavanagh David Russ Jason Velazquez Yarma Velazquez-Vargas Advisor: Paul Rutkovsky Cover Art: Danny Clifton Back Art: Jeremy Waltman

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Contents Ghetto Deliveries :: 3 Headlines :: 3 Democratic Peace Theory :: 4 Green Business :: 6 Undocumented Immigration :: 7 Why Support the President? :: 8 Jailed in Mississippi :: 10 Reader Poetry :: 11 The Estate Tax :: 12 Join the Hemp Revolution! :: 18 Hemp is Hip, Hot and Happening :: 20 I Love Hemp Like McAdams Loves Gosling! :: 21

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Ghetto Deliveries

by James N. McKay

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It is that scent...of Frying bacon, thick and pale yellow heavy Motor oil oozing like puss from dilapidated Oldsmobiles, of dog shit and diapers And decomposing garbage Moldy curtains reaching out for me And sickly sweet Phillies dangling from Snarled mouths as hood rats amble past...

Of dozens of tiny twodimensional treesCardboard potency Dangling proud as phalluses from rear view mirrors.

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Welcome to this polarized world I park my truck, grab what little mail there was for these unfortunate souls, and begin to walk my route west from Ford Avenue - the stinking, decrepit ghettoes of the Southwest side of Rochester, NY. Forging my way deeper into the wild unknown of this village of the damned, avoiding crack head zombies who wander about in circles in parking lots, or teeter and jerk their ghostly way through eerie blue neon ceiling lights in sordid cornerstores, with their throbbing bloodshot and pale-glazed eyes seeing through everything and their flaring red nostrils detecting none of the surrounding fetid stench. Little kids playing with water guns, and bigger kids who show me their real guns tucked into their pants by casually pulling up their shirts to scratch their chests - a tacit warning not to step out of line in their ‘hood. Sweet

old African-American ladies offer me lemonade; a withered little old German-American woman is delighted to give me some stale chocolates.

Older gangsters not on watch duty pass blunts and 40 ounces, and even offer them to me on occasion, as I deliver the welfare and social security checks, bills and debt collection notices. Some of the more desperately hungry and strung out come up the block and shout hoarsely at me, “WHERE MY CHECK AT? GIMME MY CHECK!” It is rare indeed for me to deliver a personal letter, and I find this to be the most depressing aspect of the whole experience.

This hood is a land of extremes with nothing in between. The hopelessly impoverished, and the ostentatious wealth of drug lords and pimps... as a whole, the most friendly and generous people I have ever encountered in America living alongside or with the most hostile and vicious ones.

I zigzag my way through this chaotic labyrinth of poverty, avoiding the drunks and junkies and keeping all senses acutely scanning for any sign of a Pit Bull or Rottweiler. Despite a massive police crackdown on several underground dog fighting rings during the early 1990’s, these indiscriminately lethal animals are still the security system of choice. If I am lucky, their lethal capacity has been restrained to a by chains as see delivery on 13

Headlines

Retired General: US Military in “Strategic Peril” in Iraq Reports of violence come as a new Pentagon assessment based on interviews with senior US commanders says the US military is in “strategic peril.” The assessment is authored by Retired General Barry McCaffrey. He writes: “The population is in despair. Life in many of the urban areas is now desperate.”

Senate Passes Amendment for Non-Binding Iraq Withdrawal On Capitol Hill, the Senate has narrowly voted to keep an amendment calling for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by March of

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Democratic Peace Theory

by R. R. Jenkins

Even those American citizens who are firm in their dislike of the U.S. must admit that they live in a particularly privileged society.

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or example, just south of the border, in Mexico, 40% of the population lives below the poverty line. Even the poorest Americans are richer by leaps and bounds than the world’s poorest. Fully one billion people worldwide live on less than one dollar a day. Another two billion live on twice that.

That’s one half of the world’s entire population, one out of every two people on this planet, living on two dollars per day or less. Thirty thousand children die every day from preventable diseases like dehydration and diarrhea.

We should be thankful.

Though I was once an ardent socialist, more extreme than I am now, I have come to realize that capitalism is responsible for the astronomical standard of living that the “comfortable” in America enjoy. Those who would smile upon our free market, however, must understand that they have not it alone to thank, but its inherent exploitation and waged enslavement of the worldwide masses. We should not be so quick to lovingly endorse our own institutions.

Which leads me, in an admittedly roundabout way, to my real point. Some of our neighbors and fellows, ever blind in their patriotism, chalk up American success and prosperity to its myriad domestic

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institutions. This is a terrible mistake. It’s not easy to say that, because we have institutions X, Y, and Z, and because we have attitudes and practices A, B, and C, that America is successful.

The particular target of my article is the notion that democracy as a form of government has as a necessary consequence sustained peacefulness. Though I haven’t taken an hour of social science or international affairs classes, I can tell you intuitively that a single institution (such as democracy) cannot account entirely for the behaviors and attitudes of millions of people.

This should be readily apparent.

So, I take aim at “democratic peace theory,” a hypothesis in international affairs and politics that says that democratic countries are less likely to – or never do – go to war with one another. Simply: “no democracy has ever declared war on another democracy,” or “democracies never go to war.”

The idea proves popular from our university Ivory Towers all the way down to the common man, whose faith in democracy is unerring, and even further down to President Bush, who counts this theory as a reason for his obsession with ‘spreading democracy.’

Immanuel Kant was an early proponent of a similar idea. In his book, Perpetual Peace, he argued that, if all nations of the world were democracies, the result would be, you guessed it, perpetual peace. His reasoning was that no country would vote to send its children off to die.

Give Kant some credit, for he was alive before the Weimar Republic, one of the most

liberal democracies the world has seen, gave rise to Hitler’s Germany. Liberalism and democracy are, in my mind, no surefire guarantee for peace and prosperity.

Yet the idea of democratic peace remains oft-cited. Such a popular theory, with such implications as justifying regime change over nearly half of the world, demands serious critical consideration.

Let us consider the strong claim that a democratic government always leads to peace. At least, that there is always peace between democracies. It should take only

Such a popular theory, with such implications as justifying regime change over nearly half of the world, demands serious critical consideration. one counterexample to refute this. Do we have any? Yes, we have several.

Consider the War of 1812, in which the United States declared war on England, which was ruled by a king as well as Parliament. Consider the Civil War, in which the United States declared war on the Confederate States, both of which were democratic. Consider lastly the recent Israel-Lebanon conflict, in which the two democratic

governments fired multiple salvos over their border over the course of about a month.

Democratic peace theorists are not daunted, and have come up with numerous qualifications to refute these examples. One skeptic, Peter Singer, dismissed democratic peace theory by saying that it depends on how one defines “democracy” and “war.” Indeed, he is exactly right.

Defenders of the theory require that democracies are ‘established’ (at least three years old), and that the population is enfranchised (that is, at least 2/3 of adult males can vote).

Assumably, their election processes must as well be legitimate, they must have a competitive multiparty system, and the atmosphere is free from persecution and coercion.

Defenders of the theory qualify war by requiring 1,000 combat deaths between both sides.

The War of 1812 is no longer a valid exception because England had poor electoral representation. The Civil War is no good because the C.S.A. was a young democracy. And the recent Israel-Lebanon conflict fails because Israel was fighting Hezbollah, and was not technically at war with the army of Lebanon. (Each of these examples is arguably invalid for additional reasons, but the ones I have listed are good enough to discredit them.)

Is this theory still intuitively acceptable? I, for one, have grown only more skeptical after the qualifications are introduced to discredit my examples. Why must a democracy be three years old? Is there not a better way of determining if it is legitimate and functioning? Why must 2/3 of males have voting rights?

Why not all males, and why not females as well? Wouldn’t that be more fair, and a better model for true democracy?

Above: The black countries are democracies, as determined by Freedom House’s 2006 Annual Report on the state of world political environments. An uncritical acceptance of democratic peace theory could give them a blank check to democratize the rest of the world.

Why must there be 1000 battle deaths between both sides? It is conceivable that a single person could die in a legitimate armed conflict. Perhaps qualifying “war” in such a way is mincing words, or just really making sure it’s a large scale conflict.

Defenders could mitigate their claim by saying that ‘most of the time’ democracies don’t go to war with one another, or that being democratic significantly lessens your chance of going to war with another democracy.

I will not consider such claims here, save to say the more extreme claim remains dubious.

So, what is the cause of peace and prosperity? In America’s case, it was likely our immense natural resources, our significant remoteness from the Old World, the Protestant work ethic, and a knack for exploiting other peoples. It cannot be said that democracy alone guarantees peace for a country: more likely it correlates with other features that, in tandem, are promising for peace.

Thomas Jefferson believed that a well-funded series of public libraries was necessary for a free and informed electorate. We should be weary

of attempts to stifle the free flow of information in this country.

I recall when Hamas won a significant portion of Lebanon’s parliament. There is no stopping, no stopping, a populous from democratically endorsing terrorism, or massive acts of violence against their ‘sworn enemies.’ (In this case, the culprit was widespread religious fundamentalism.) Proponents of democratic peace theory, and those who laud democracy alone for creating stability, are forgetting a number of other important factors: for example, the education of the masses, a high standard of living, a free press, the right to assembly, to associate and to movement are all valuable and necessary for an informed and war-fearing mass.

Indeed, we have a number of things to be thankful for here in the States. Democracy, however, is not some panacea we should wantonly prescribe for the rest of the world because of a much qualified and viciously contentious theory.

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Green Business

by Stephanie Brandt

Going green is no longer a passing trend; it has stood the test of time and is currently gaining even more steam as giant corporations such as Wal-Mart jump on the bandwagon.

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ore and more businesses are realizing that being environmentally and socially conscious will not eat away at their bottom line, and consumers are more willing than ever to make good choices

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for themselves and for the earth. But what does it mean for a business to be green?

A green business is one that is ecologically-friendly. It is not limited to any particular market — it could be any kind of product for any market.

What characterizes a green business is how it operates, working to conserve natural resources, eliminate waste and remain ecologically in balance. A green business improves employee morale & health in the workplace, holds a marketing edge over the competition, strengthens its bottom line through operating efficiencies and is recognized as an environmental leader.

In her book Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out, Jill Bamburg explains that it is possible for socially responsible businesses to grow and compete with more conventional ones.

Mama and Baby Love Yoga Studio is playing its part in creating a lighter ecological footprint. The walls of the studio were painted with milk-based paint, the floors are bamboo and all fabrics and materials are organic. They also recycle and all printed material is printed on recycled paper. All cleaning supplies are organic and non-toxic, and the retail sold up front is all organic and natural, from companies that are environmentally and socially ethical. Mama and Baby Love is also a member of the Green Yoga Association, making the decision to go green not only to protect the majority client base served (pregnant women and babies), but also to lead by example, demonstrating

that going green is not outrageously expensive to the average small business owner.

A Green Business improves employee morale, holds a marketing edge over the competition, and strengthens the bottom line through operating efficiencies For example, bamboo, which is a grass, is actually much cheaper than most types of real wood floor choices. Unlike a tree, which can take decades to grow to maturity, bamboo is ready to harvest within 4 to 5 years. It is the fastest growing canopy for the re-greening of degraded lands, and its strands release 35% more oxygen than equivalent standing trees, protecting the environment and the air we breathe.

It all comes down to thinking before you buy.

Always do your research and try and choose the low-impact, energy saving or non-toxic option.

Undocumented Immigration

BY Sean Johnson

During the past summer, over five hundred thousand people gathered in nearly every major city to protest a House of Representative’s proposed bill that would severely enact xenophobic policies designed to eliminate illegal immigration, mostly from Mexico.

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ecently, on nearly every talk show and electronic forum this issue is hotly talked about. I have noticed that a few talking points reoccur continually when the subject of immigration arises. The first from the anti-immigrant side is that the jobs that immigrants diminish the quality of life for blue collar American worker in two respects: 1. Immigrants take jobs from American citizens 2. Immigrants reduce wages of American workers because undocumented workers are willing to work for lower wages The pro-immigrant argument is that immigrants provide services essential for the economy; services that regular Americans would not do because, apparently, those services are beneath the American worker.

I find both sides of argument repugnant. The anti-immigrant argument is just nationalistic racism masked under the façade of economic protectionism. I find it amusing that many of

the ardent anti-immigrant crusaders are Irish (Bill O’Rilley being a prime example) who just one generation ago were subject to the same Anglo-centric antiimmigrant rubbish that they now pontificate.

The main talking point I have noticed for the proimmigrant argument is that undocumented immigrants are good because Americans can exploit them for cheap labor. This side fails to acknowledge that immigrants are human beings entitled to human dignity and the same rights and privileges that we as American citizens enjoy.

Those rights include adequate housing, a living wage, and adequate food. From what I have observed undocumented workers do not remotely have those rights. I think that supporting undocumented

immigration because immigrants toil for low wages in menial jobs so that we can purchase produce from the supermarket cheaply is selfish and morally reprehensible.

Undocumented workers should be guaranteed a living wage, social heath services, and other government services that ensure that their innate human dignity is respected.

It is also important that they learn the culture and language of our society necessary for assimilation. When the undocumented is assimilated their chances of improving their social and financial status is greatly increased.

Government programs should be enacted to ensure that undocumented immigrants have these opportunities for betterment.

Tallahassee Food Not Bombs

What is Food Not Bombs?

Food Not Bombs is a revolutionary movement that works to end hunger, suffering, and the exploitation of the earth.

The first group was started in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980 by anti-nuclear war activists. Food Not Bombs provides meals in public places and anyone who attends is welcome to eat. The food served is acquired by donations and/or salvaging of food that establishments were attempting to discard.

Where is it?

We meet at Carter Howell Strong Park (behind McDonald’s on Tennessee Street) every Sunday at 3:00PM.

Why should I get involved?

-20,000 people starve to death every day.

-Leon County has two shelters that have sleeping quarters for the homeless: They are able to house roughly 1/25 of the county’s homeless population.

-Dumpsters behind local establishments are now being locked and/or monitored.

-40% of homeless women are homeless due to domestic violence.

-No one deserves to go hungry!

Contact Info For more information you can contact: Virginia or Greg @ 727-543-1488 Mandy @ 850-980-4039 Or email us @ TallahasseeFNB@gmail.com Hope to see you there!

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Bush’s military records indicate that, starting in May 1972, he failed to meet the attendance requirements established by Federal law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures for members of the Air National Guard, and the Air Force requirement for an annual physical examination for pilots.

Why Support the President?

by R. R. Jenkins

The question arises, “Should one support the President?” Let me venture my answer.

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f one were to always support the President, this would be a simple conversation indeed.

But that cannot be the case. It is generally accepted that a President can legitimately and deservingly lose the support of his constituency, but to say this alone would be assuming the conclusion.

Adolf Hitler was democratically elected and, though he seized power undemocratically, it offends our intuitions to say that the German citizens under him were obligated to support him throughout his tenure. Likewise, rulers much less offensive are undeserving of the support of their electorate, whether they have committed crimes or abused their power in other ways. It makes sense that one should support a President, but when in the absence of offensive circumstances.

The response that a “solid front” ought to be presented holds a small amount of water.

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certainly it is valuable to appear united to each other and to a nation’s collective enemies. Yet we find that, in these situations, a President usually generates his own support.

For example: the days immediately following September 11th, the Great Depression, etc. It is after either time or an action of the leader (or a combination of both) that the populace’s fervor begins to wane: it is either when a President does nothing to keep the support of his people, or when he does something actively to lose that support.

Reiterating: it is valuable to appear united against a common cause. But that value, as we saw by allusion to Hitler, cannot be overriding, otherwise we would always be compelled to support the President. Certainly, as we have seen, there must be other considerations, the sum of which can override the benefit of a ‘united front.’ For a short list of such offenses, I offer: gross abuses of human rights, warrantless domestic wiretapping, wars of aggression, etc. These offenses in concert, and arguably, if sufficiently radical, alone, can trump the necessity for a united front.

In these cases, when the actions of a leader

may gain the overwhelming and passionate censure of the world, it may be in the national interest to disagree vocally with a President. If it were possible that one’s enemies could understand that, e.g. America’s President doesn’t speak for the people, it may be in the interest of the citizens to mitigate the hatred of their enemies by communicating just such a message. Certainly it would appear better to the world for a majority of the citizens of a country to visually disagree with the policies of their leadership than to acquiesce, especially when such acquiescence is a very real material threat.

We have seen that it is not always the case that a populace should stand behind their President, and that

certain gross abuses warrant a vocalized dissatisfaction. But perhaps there is a distinction to be drawn between a President’s actions and his office.

Perhaps

we should, as it were, ‘love the sinner but hate the sin.’ How quaint!

However, I know of no way to judge a man but by his character, informed in turn directly by his actions and words. I choose then to proportion my support for a person based on their character. Indeed, we often hear of a President having ‘disgraced the office.’ In this case, we see the President

Headlines from 3 next year. Republicans had tried to remove the provision from a bill that would fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but set the non-binding deadline. The final vote was fifty to forty eight.

Republicans Gordon Smith of Oregon and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska voted with Democrats.

at a hearing since an audit this month found numerous errors and possible breaches of the law. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said the Judiciary Committee will begin reexamining the FBI’s broad authorities granted under the Patriot Act.

FBI Head Acknowledges Breaches in National Security Letters Back in the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Tuesday the FBI has made hundreds of errors in its use of “national security letters” to access the personal information of US citizens.

Mueller was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

It was his first appearance

Florida County Ordered to Pay $2.4M to Family of Beaten Teen In Florida, authorities in Bay County have been ordered to pay $2.4 million to the family of a fourteen-year old who died at a juvenile “boot camp” last year. The teenager, Martin Lee Anderson, was initially said to have died of a complication from sickle cell blood disease. But a second autopsy later concluded he

[qua a person] and his actions judged at once, and yet disconnected from the Office of the President itself and the honor that it is due. In this sense we tend to think that the Office, as it were, deserved better than such and such a person.

There is no doubting that a healthy patriotism demands a respect for the ideals of this country, the virtue and prescient wisdom of the Constitution included.

Therein lies the demanded respect for the Office of the President, but blind support placed behind a potentially destructive and sinister — and ultimately, undeniably fallible — human being is no patriotism. It is wrong and it is dangerous, and it has no place in serious political discourse as an overarching principle. suffocated to death after guards beat him. The new fine comes on top of a five million dollar settlement from the state of Florida earlier this month.

From DemocracyNow.org

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Jailed in Mississippi

by Kyle DeVries

Today I spent 7 hours in a jail cell in Clinton, MS for taking 4 steps onto Mississippi College’s campus. I wanted to talk with students about why the college’s discriminatory policy towards LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) students hurts their peers.

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or wishing to have this peaceful conversation I was arrested in front of hundreds of students eager for discussion.

After I was released our bus, which has “Social Justice for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People” written boldly on it, was stopped twice in five minutes by the Clinton, MS

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police. We were told to get out of town.

Just two days ago five Equality Riders were arrested for writing messages of affirmation and love in chalk on the sidewalks of Baylor University. The riders were arrested with a student from Baylor, whose courage I admire and hope to emulate. All took a stand in order to deliver a message to silenced LGBT students at the college. For this they were held 26 hours, forced to sleep on a concrete floor, and given a $2,000 fine. The female riders and one transgender rider were forced to strip to be searched. All for writing messages of love.

I stood in court less than four hours ago before a judge that talked about teaching children lessons. This was my first time being arrested for social justice, along with one other rider today. However, the other three arrested has all been charged with trespassing for social justice movements. I stood there and faced the greatest fear I have felt on the ride so far. I was terrified that my comrades would be sentenced to jail time while I was only given a fine. Had this happened, I would have stood up

and demanded that my sentence equal theirs, as I could not bear to see my friends go to jail while I went free.

Instead, the two of us with no previous charges were given a $250 fine and 10 days in jail, suspended on the condition of good behavior for two years. The other three riders were given a $250 fine, 20 days of jail suspended on good behavior, and four days of community service, meaning they will miss the next two stops of the Equality Ride.

We now all face the probability of serving hard jail time because we are willing to stand up and not be silenced. I will persevere on. I do not plan on changing my actions because of the threat of jail, as doing so would be letting them win. The message that we carry to these schools is too important for that.

I do ask one favor. Send your prayers, your positive energy, and your good will to all of us on the Equality Ride. We are only just entering the Deep South. The danger we face is real and it is here, and we will need all the support we can get. www.equalityride.com

Reader Poetry :: he rolls down the window ::

High Sky

he rolls down the window and throws his desires out into the wind, scattering them across the pavement. it was a tranquil evening when i left you and here comes the wind, blowing loose doubts into our eyes. flash back seven years: he nails a tack into her soul and hangs his picture, she used to gaze up in his eyes on the wall, she never knew a fall or a winter, only spring and they would burst into song for no reason, they believed, and they weren’t wrong. but what went wrong? they’re now so far apart, like a rainbow and the elusive pot of gold. no one can find her treasure, no one can see into her heart. and i sing for the ancients, but can they hear my words? for i’m speaking another language, one of unfairness, unobserved. and i know you’ve never thought they’d be anything but true, but it’s getting cold and now we’re sleeping, no more elegance while getting old.

I felt the harsh sun beat upon my brow, the breeze lift the hair of our people.

The sun, blinding universal.

I heard the ocean speak to me slowly, as a giant waking from a dream.

To walk the depth of the forest as a child sees in fresh birth, Mother singing softly O earth of ground yield fruit tall dark and dances catching glances from the Suits.

Pushing the whole of the Unknown m e n t a l e x t e n s i o n.

To a world under the skin.

Drums child cadence in the night let the gods hear our roar, the breeze will carry out the spreading of our word.

BY David Russ

Judas of Trust

by Jason Velazquez

I am the instigator to your heart The inspiration for your thoughts The product of bad judgment A suspect to a crime that will never see justice You are a victim of my lust Your Judas of Trust..

I am the cause of your cynical hesitation Penetration was critical, wishin’ you never chased him I’m an argument with your future husband You love him but just can’t trust him I am your much needed experience Couldn’t believe you were hearing this You’re a prisoner to my lust Your Judas of Trust.

by Spencer greene

The breeze left us to chase the far reaches of the sky The children’s heads nod slowly slipping into young dreams I stood standing listening to hear the sweet whisper of this place but the road won’t stop to listen and the city sleeps awake.

So I run to the forest, and smile to our sky.

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The Estate Tax

Something Worth Protecting

by Sean Johnson

The custom of transferring wealth and an estate from an individual to future generations is a relic of the feudal system and contrary to liberty.

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nfortunately, some in congress want to turn back the clock to a time when serfs toiled and the nobility enjoyed leisure. Last year congress tried to eliminate the estate tax by ‘riding’ a bill that would raise the minimum wage. Fortunately, the opposition did not cower to the majority party. This year after the Democratic revolution

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in the House and Senate, I’m happy to say that the minimum wage was raised but the estate tax was not drastically affected.

I term inheritance the process of transferring wealth in within a few privileged families. The custom of inheritance, which entails large fortunes often tied to corporate wealth, is wrong and is not something that should be permitted in a democratic society.

In the feudal system a person’s status and rank was determined by birth. The term “Divine Right” was granted to kings and nobility as a faux justification for their superior social status. It was a laughable idea that basically stated that the Christian god willed the rich to be rich and the indigent to be indigent, by the fact that they were born that way. Inheritance ensured that the wealth of society remained in the nobility; a peasant had generally no opportunity to improve his or her status because the wealth of the nation was concentrated for the nobility and passed down through their class. This was existence in the feudal system.

The idea of liberty promoted by enlightened revolutionaries sought to end the feudal order.

The division of wealth, mainly in the form of land or ‘estates,’ was recognized by the enlightenment thinkers as the defining distinction between citizen and nobleman. The revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries questioned this feudal institution and engendered revolutions against it. The American Revolution was one of these. The American revolutionaries denied

the inherited right King George claimed to have over North America. Elsewhere in France, the sans-culottes who instigated the French Revolution sought to end feudalistic institutions and eliminate the oppressive power that the first and second estates had over the third. Vive Danton.

Liberty does not entail inherence rights, just as liberty does not entail slavery or indentured servitude. People cannot enslave others or own the children of their debtors.

In the same vain, people do not have the liberty to pass vast amounts of wealth to their children. Intelligent people recognize the fact that slavery and involuntary servitude are not compatible with liberty.

Both assume that the debts and finances of previous generations are applicable to the present; they are not. The institution of slavery in the southern United States assumed this clearly by claiming the slave holders’ arguments were justified because slaves from biblical law were the descendants of the Hamites and therefore, by birthright, were slaves. Involuntary servitude assumes that the standing of past debts apply in the present by forcing an unfortunate person into forced servitude. The two concepts are interrelated. If we assume that past debts do not apply we must therefore accept that past wealth does not either. The logic used to justify to slavery and involuntary servitude are analogous to justify inheritance.

Inheritance as a custom impedes progress by making the determination of social standing by birth and not merit.

In societies where birth in the noble class is the signifier of social position, such as countries where inheritance is practiced on a large scale, people of merit

are not encouraged to explore their talents to fullest. This handicaps the society by not allowing the talented to the incentive to create and prosper. In societies where merit is valued, people strive to fulfill their intellectual potential to its fullest because these people want to enhance their social wealth and privilege. The reason why the New England region of the United States achieved a rather high standard of living in the 18th century compared to other countries was that absence of a land owning nobility hoarding the wealth. Other European colonies of this time, such as the French colony of Saint Louis, suffered from stagnation because of the aristocratic influence. (Read Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville for a more detailed analysis) The way to embrace the anti-feudalistic origins that this nation was founded upon is to oppose the elimination of the estate tax. Propagandists are prone to call it the Death Tax. Republicans tried to curb it last year, and I fear that following through with it this year is high on their list of priorities. Progressives who want to embrace the ideals of enlightenment and those of the dead white men on our currency will oppose the end of the estate tax. Let us hope the Senators and Congressmen who invoke our founding-fathers ad-nauseum actually adhere to the their ideas.

Special Thanks to Alexis de Tocqueville’s criticism of inheritance found in Democracy in America p.5261 which was the impetus for this opinion piece.

Delivery from 3 thick as my thumb, secured to a tree or fencepost. Even better if the beasts are tied to the mailbox itself, because then I don’t have to deliver the mail. I rely on my senses just as a hunter does, although ironically I am the prey here. My eyes search for bones and chains and dog hair or shit or footprints, my ears for their barking or panting and running, my nose for their stink.

Fenced-in yards are common and always cause me to heighten my perceptions and weigh my options. Will I head for the gate or hurdle it at a closer point? If I choose to hurdle it, will it be sturdy enough to hold my weight?

Every new house presents a new challenge - just seconds to map the terrain and identify all possible escape routes and potential weapons, such as an empty wine bottle, baseballs, or scrap wood… anything that can be used against a charging dog.

But, as chance would have it, I never had to take up makeshift arms against them. So far, my senses have been acute enough to tip me off at every sinister lair before I confront the heinous beast. I trust my foot speed more than the can of mace that the post office had issued me - a potentially ineffective weapon against an animal that holds a vice grip on its prey even after being decapitated.

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Wrath haphazardly restrained by the perversions of Serendipity On one occasion - it was along the old stone lanes of Corn Hill the mace did come in handy. Two Dobermans guarded a brick and oak trimmed home. They charged to the door and slashed away, trying to get at my fingers, tearing the mail to shreds in a frenzy as I pushed some professor or doctor’s mail through the brass slot. Bored of this savage stop on my daily gauntlet after a week or so, I lifted

the lid with a stick and fired the reddish-orange mace at their slobbery white fangs. I missed, but was satisfied to see that the stream of chemicals had avoided the parquet with a parabolically arched trajectory that landed in a graceful stream on a light-colored oriental rug. Perhaps the professor would assume that the dogs had soiled it and give them a fierce beating, breeding more hatred in them - the cycle continues.

More than once during that summer I wavered from my adherence to nonviolence. I had even considered carrying a pistol like nearly everybody else in the ghetto. There were other things to fear besides the dogs. Because I was only a temporary worker, the post office had issued me only a blue t-shirt with a small logo, which caused much suspicion and confusion from those who were used to somebody over twice my age in a white pinstripe uniform.

Occasionally I was mistaken for one of the suburban white kids who cruise these neighborhoods in search of drugs and whores. On a rare trip to the only restaurant in a neighborhood off of Lake Avenue, a greasy and gopher shaped gold-fronted cashier advised me to sit in a booth that was riddled with bullet holes. His logic was that the same place isn’t likely to get hit twice.

Once, as I approached a decrepit porch, I noticed the barrel of a shotgun buried between the cushions of a rotting couch. I could barely see the thin wire that must have been tied to the trigger as it emerged from the couch and passed through a window.

Holding out two hands full of letters, I called out to him, “Mailman here!” When I arrived on the porch I gingerly handed some bills to a dried out husk of a man who was fossilizing in the shadows of a lounge chair just inside the window, with the wire resting loosely in his right palm.

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Hemp we trust

If 6% of the U.S. was planted with hemp it would provide for all national energy needs.

Hemp seed oil is the most perfectly balanced source of plant nutrition available.

Hemp produces more protein, oil and fiber than any other plant on earth.

Fabrics made of at least one-half hemp block the sun’s UV rays more effectively than other fabrics.

Growing marijuana in the middle of a hemp field would reduce the amount of THC in the marijuana plant.

Hemp plastic is biodegradable where as synthetic plastic is not.

Hemp plastic is also stronger.

Fifty percent of all the world’s pesticides are sprayed on cotton.

Hemp uses no pesticides and crowds out weeds naturally.

Hemp needs less water than cotton and can grow in almost any climate.

Hemp can grow in contaminated soil and adds nutrients back into the soil as opposed to sucking all the nutrients out.

Paint and fabric made from hemp are mildew resistant.

One study indicates that fiber hemp may act as aversion therapy to help people to stop smoking marijuana.

Hemp can produce over 25,000 environmentally friendly products.

Hemp particleboard is up to 2 times stronger than wood particleboard and holds nails better.

In four months an acre of hemp produces more usable fiber than four acres of trees do in 100 years.

one plant

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one Million Uses

Left: Henry Ford swinging an axe at his 1941 car to demonstrate the toughness of the plastic trunk door made of soybean and hemp.

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Join the Hemp Revolution!

By Alexis Baden-Mayer Vote Hemp Director of Government Relations

I’m a hemp aficionado, a hemp fanatic, a hemp enthusiast, a hemp advocate, in other words, a Hempster, but I haven’t done enough.

Industrial hemp still isn’t grown in the US.

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o protest this silliness, I decided to make 2007 a hemp year, by doing all I can to promote hemp and all its uses. I made a New Year’s Resolution to wear hemp every day, eat hemp at every meal, bathe and beautify with hemp, and to generally “make the most of ” the hemp plant, as George Washington instructed.

Why hemp? And, what is hemp anyway?

Industrial hemp is a bast fiber and oilseed crop with a woodlike core.

Industrial hemp is not marijuana. It is a variety of Cannabis that is genetically distinct from marijuana and contains almost no THC. Industrial hemp production is compatible with marijuana prohibition. Industrial hemp cannot be used to conceal the production of marijuana.

It would pollinate the marijuana, destroying its commercial value.

Under proposed state and federal hemp regulations, only the production of stalk, fiber and seed--hemp products that are already legal under federal law--would be allowed.

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marketplace. A strict testing regime would ensure that no hemp would be produced that has THC levels above 0.3%.

Industrial hemp is a profitable, useful, and sustainable crop.

In 2006, industrial hemp had a better per-acre profit outlook than any other field crop in Canada.

Between 2001 and 2006, hemp acreage in Canada has grown 1479%. The US market for hemp food is one of the factors driving this growth.

Between 2003 and 2006, sales of hemp foods in the US grew 336%. In January, the Today Show pronounced hemp to be one of the hottest new food trends of 2007.

Industrial hemp is used to make everything from food and personal care products to auto parts. Industrial hemp is used to build, roof, and insulate homes and large commercial buildings. It produces textiles, paper and plastics. It fuels cars and factories.

Industrial hemp has many environmental and health benefits. Hemp is nonGMO and can be dry land farmed without pesticides or herbicides, making it ideal for organic production. Hemp is a carbon sink that helps reduce global warming and is an environmentally sustainable alternative to wood, cotton, petroleum, plastic, concrete, fiberglass, and meat.

According to Biodiesel Magazine, hemp biodiesel has “wonderful properties.”

In addition to hemp oil for biodiesel, the hemp stalk is

a potential source of biomass energy.

Hemp is an ideal crop for phytoremediation, the use of plants to clean soil and ground water. Hemp was used to remove radioactive elements from soil and water at Chernobyl.

You would think that a crop that good would be grown all over the US, but industrial hemp is actually the only non-drug crop that’s isn’t grown in the US. Heroine comes from the opium poppy, but the US allows people to grow ornamental poppies and poppies for poppy seed production. Industrial hemp shouldn’t be banned just because there’s another Cannabis variety that happens to be used as a drug.

If the ban on hemp farming bothers you, you should do something about it. I don’t expect everyone to make the industrial hemp cause their lives’ work like I’ve done. Do something small.

Wear something made out of hemp every once in a while and when someone notices it, tell them it’s made out of hemp and that wearing hemp instead of conventional cotton saves water, reduces pesticide use, and conserves energy.

Feed someone you love hemp food and let them know that hemp is full of protein and the good fats that keep you smart, healthy and good looking.

Use organic hemp body care products that keep your skin smooth and can go down the drain without poisoning the environment.

Save some trees by using hemp paper.

Do something big.

In other countries, they’re working on ways to make all natural, completely biodegradable, 100% hemp plastic. Maybe you’ll be the one who commercializes this material, brings it to the States and launches a company that puts hemp plastic in every home in America.

Do something with Vote Hemp.

Vote Hemp is trying to get pro-hemp resolutions passed in every state. To date, 28 states have considered hemp bills or resolutions. Colorado was the first. South Carolina is the latest. North Dakota is the most successful. Florida hasn’t made the list yet.

You and I need to talk.

I’m on Facebook and you can reach me via e-mail at alexis@ votehemp.com .

Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq. Vote Hemp 1858 Mintwood Place, NW #4 Washington, DC 20009 Office: 202-232-8997 Fax: 202-232-8340 Cell: 202-744-0853

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Hemp is Hip, Hot and Happening

So Why Are American Farmers Being Left Out?

By HempIndustries.org American farmers are prohibited by law from growing a low-input, sustainable crop common in Europe and Canada with tremendous economic potential: industrial hemp.

Hemp cannot be commercially grown in the United States because it is erroneously confounded with marijuana. In fact, industrial hemp and marijuana are different breeds of Cannabis sativa, just as Chihuahuas and St. Bernards are different breeds of Canis familiaris.

Smoking large amounts of hemp flowers can produce a headache but not a high, or as Ruth Shamai of Ruth’s Hemp Foods says, “I’ve personally stood in a burning field of hemp, and if you wanted a buzz you’d have to drink a beer.”

Most Western countries distinguish industrial hemp from marijuana on the basis of THC (the chief intoxicant in marijuana) content and permit the growing of non-psychoactive low-THC hemp for fiber and seed. Straightforward European Union and Canadian regulations prevent attempts to camouflage marijuana in hemp fields and limit THC levels in hemp flowers to 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively; THC levels in marijuana flowers are generally between 3 percent and 15 percent.

But the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) lumps low-THC hemp with marijuana.

As a result, although the United States permits trade in nonviable hemp seed, oil, and fiber, it is the only major industrialized nation that prohibits the growing and processing of hemp.

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It is time to clear up the misunderstanding, change the law, and clear the way for ecologically sustainable, economically viable opportunities for American farmers and businesses.

Why Industrial Hemp?

Notoriety obscures the history and value of hemp. Hemp has a long history in America, from the first plantings in Jamestown, where growing hemp was mandatory, to the hemp sails of 19th-century clipper ships and the hemp canvas covers of pioneer wagons, to World War II’s massive “Hemp for Victory” program. Hemp is a major part of humanity’s agricultural and commercial heritage, having been used extensively for millennia in cultures around the world.

Hemp seed was known long ago for its healthy protein and rich oil. The stalk’s outer fiber was used for clothing, canvas, and rope, and textile rags were recycled into paper pulp. The Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp paper, and the finest Bibles are still printed on hemp-based paper. The woody core fiber of hemp stalks was used for construction and fuel.

In the early 20th century, hempderived cellulose was promoted as an affordable and renewable raw material for plastics; Henry Ford even built a prototype car from biocomposite materials, using agricultural fiber such as hemp.

Beginning with the passage of the “Marihuana Tax Act” of 1937 and continuing after the World War II “Hemp for Victory” program, misplaced fears that industrial hemp is marijuana and harassment by law

enforcement discouraged farmers from growing hemp. The last crop was grown in Wisconsin in 1958, and the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970 formally prohibited cultivation.

Today, driven by entrepreneurial spirit and the desire to build a new industry for a new age, hemp has reemerged. A diverse but increasingly unified and politically influential group of interests supports the commercial growing of hemp, including farmers, businesses, nutritionists, activists, and green consumers.

Hemp is not a panacea for the world’s social, economic, and environmental woes — no single crop can do that. But with focused and sustained research and development, hemp could spur dramatic change. Renewable, fast-growing hemp could allow major industries to reduce their dependence on nonrenewable, fastdisappearing resources and move toward sustainable production.

Hemp Textiles Today’s hemp-based fabrics are nothing like 18th-century canvas sailcloth (canvas derives from the Latin cannabis). Hemp fiber, blended with everything from Tencel to organic cotton, can be used to create textiles as different as terrycloth, flannel, and luxurious satin brocades. Hemp fiber offers greater durability and breathability than cotton, which accounts for 25 percent of the pesticides sprayed on the world’s crops. Hemp-based textile products on the market include apparel and accessories such as T-shirts, pants, dresses, baby clothes, bathrobes, and shoes; housewares such as blankets, shower curtains, and rugs; and sundries such as hammocks and pet supplies.

Technical Hemp Fiber and Core Products The most successful emerging

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I Love Hemp Like McAdams Loves Gosling!

By Suzanne Scott

This Saturday, March 31, seven different organizations at Florida State University are cosponsoring the 6th Annual Tallahassee Hemp Cultural Festival, which focuses on raising awareness of hemp’s benefits.

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he most important things we stress when discussing hemp is A) it is NOT marijuana (it has almost no THC in it) and B) it has an incredibly wide variety of uses.

In this issue, there are several articles concerning hemp that can help inform you of its fantastic attributes. Currently, hemp is illegal to grow in the United States because of its association with marijuana. Yes, they both come from cannabis; however, they are different varieties. Hemp has almost no THC in it, which is why marijuana illegal, and even though it is illegal to grow in the United States, we are the largest importer of hemp in the world! Why not grow it in the United States? It would help farmers and put more money back in to the U.S. economy, which is sorely needed.

The “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007” (H.R. 1009) has been introduced into the House of Representatives and you can write to your representative to encourage him or her to co-sponsor the bill.

The Vote Hemp website, www. votehemp.org, has a letter that you can sign electronically and send to your state representative.

In the past, NORML@ FSU, the Center for Participant Education, and the Environmental

Service Program have sponsored the event. This year, we decided to get many different organizations to sponsor the event to represent the different uses of hemp. We ran into a few set backs, however.

NORML has a very big stigma associated with it because it works to reform marijuana laws.

Several student organizations that we approached thought that sponsoring the event was a very good idea because they recognized hemp’s benefits. However, their national sponsors forbade their participation in Hemp Fest because of the association with NORML. NORML@FSU, CPE, and ESP are still co-sponsors, but we asked Amnesty International, Collegiate Merchandising Association (CMA), American Association for Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC), the StudentFarmworkers Alliance, The Buzz, and the Yeti to co-sponsor the festival with us. Hemp has huge environmental impacts: it doesn’t need fertilizers that destroy the soil, as it actually enriches the soil that it is grown in, it helps reverse the green house effect, and it can be used as an alternative for trees and their wood (which would help stop deforestation). If hemp could be grown in the United States, this may help reduce the outsourcing of jobs to countries with poor human rights records - this is where Amnesty International comes in.

The two organizations related to clothing and textiles, CMA and AATCC, represent the ability to make fabric out of hemp. The Student-Farmworkers Alliance highlights that hemp applies across populations, and represents the farmers who would grow hemp.

(Many different states, such as Kentucky, Colorado, and Missouri have farmers’ organizations that lobby the federal government for their right to grow hemp.) The Buzz, a local music representation organization, and the Yeti help us to get the word out to those most important – YOU! The Buzz and The Yeti play a key role in the organization of this year’s Hemp Fest. So many people from the college-aged generation seem so apathetic and disinterested in their country and politics. We all thought that having an amazing all-day festival with great regional music would draw out people, and help us get our message across.

Come out this year to FSU’s Union Green from 12 – 10PM and enjoy nine bands (Wait For Green, Mujabica, 69 Fingers, The Bluebird Suitcase, Mike’s Beer Barn, The Intoxicators, Dub Style, Scratch Radio, and Danny Bedrosian and the Secret Army). We’re going to have a representative from Vote Hemp, Alexis Baden-Mayer, to speak throughout the day about the many benefits of hemp. We’ll have display booths set up around the green concerning hemp and some of its uses including construction, nutrition, clothing and textiles, alternative energy (“hempoline”), farming, and environmental impacts. We’ll also have carnival games, amazing raffles, a fashion show by Earth Speaks organic fashion, a Hemp cookie eating contest, and lots of local merchants and food vendors that support hemp!

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A Death of a Thousand Cuts

By Daniel Kavanagh

We are dying a death of a thousand cuts. Each is so slight that we shrug it off, but with each successive cut we get weaker and less able to respond wisely.

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s we near the end, we groggily take the nonsensical advice that we should be bled with leeches medieval style, nodding in agreement as we drive the final nail into our own coffins.

Desperately weak, we cut ourselves again believing that we still have more to give, believing that we are obligated to give more even as we are barely holding our own heads up.

You have too much debt.

You have little hope of earning a living wage. You are probably not going to have proper health care. Your food, water, and air are being poisoned.

Your government is turning the world against you. Your commons are being sold to the highest bidder. Your children will not get near the education you received. You are being taxed heavily, visibly by the government and invisibly by corporate thieves who have bought legislation that requires you to pay them obscene amounts of your effort for poor returns. All the while you are being cheerfully lied to and told everything is fine, or worse that it is the fault of evil others or things beyond anyone’s control.

In short, you are being screwed.

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other options. Organic food, bicycles, alternative medicine, alternative media, cooperative effort, bartering, D.I.Y., selfsufficiency and even more ideas yet to be germinated. Keep coming up with ideas because you can’t stop. As soon as you gain some ground the 10% that control 90% of the wealth will figure out a way to get their fingers in that pie too.

What does organic mean now that agribusiness has purchased laws that allow them to re-label the same old poison?

You can’t have chickens in your yard or have a wild looking garden, and you can’t live with

Those who are inspired by maryrs sometimes win battles, but I do not plan to be a martyr. too many unrelated people yet affordable housing is way over yonder hill. Greedy media companies try to squash equal Internet access and upstart radio and TV efforts. Huge vertically integrated companies that block out the beautiful local wildflowers control the production, distribution and performance of culture. Try and have a local event and the complexity of permitting will drive you underground, only to be criminalized and shut down by the party patrol. Free assembly - what?

It sounds grim because it is. It is an uphill battle, and martyrs do not win battles.

Those who are inspired by maryrs sometimes win battles but I do not plan to be a martyr.

Most of all I do not wish to see those I love become the subject of teary tomes to be read by future generations within the covers of smuggled books and bits of fugitive data.

A new tax for health care?

The government is squandering the money you already gave them, so why is giving them more the answer? It is not, you just cut yourself instead.

Demand that they accurately account for the money they already have taken from you and that they spend it wisely on our true needs. On every level: municipal, county, state and federal. It could be a simple as writing a letter or an email once a month.

Legislate portion sizes? Restrict the use of hydrogenated fats? Fight over organic labeling? What to do about urban sprawl and the lack of transportation alternatives?

More studies and more little laws for the talking heads to ridicule and use as a wedge to divide us? Sounds like you just cut yourself again. How about instead we take a huge step back and reframe the debate.

All of these issues exist because of huge hidden subsidies, paid for with your money. Get the sneaky laws that allow these conditions to exist repealed.

Pick one, form a team to spread the truth and take one down.

National chain stores rubbing out small businesses, cutting down our trees, leveling our hills, and making us a sad déjà vu of everywhere?

Stop myopically cutting yourself and DEMAND that

your city spend the time to help you, and other individuals. Assisting, not resisting us through the permitting processes and work extra hard to support local initiatives instead giving away the farm to the corporate buzzards that will fly out of here as soon as there is nothing left to take.

As for the buzzards, don’t take their jobs and don’t buy their products. Get in on or form a citizens committee to ensure the politicians don’t forget they work for us.

This battle is about cowardice. It is about banks too willing to bet on the same franchised horse over and over again. They cover up their cowardice by telling you that as an individual you are too big a risk. Standing there full of head and heart and with empty pockets you are shining so brightly. Your bravery is a reprimand and they cut you and retreat to their precious vaults already so full of your effort’s money.

You already know the only thing worth taking a chance on is an individual. Form investment circles with other individuals and invest in each other. Use money and time and skills as a new hybrid currency. Broker your own deals with people, not institutions. Spend every dime you can locally and it will come back to you.

Love your friends and family and have compassion for others. Do not let your power be denied or fail to have your voice heard and your actions observed. Most of all, please, no more cuts.

Emo is dead, it’s time to be punk rock again.

Hip from 20 industrial use of hemp fiber is in the automobile industry.

“Biocomposites” of nonwoven hemp matting and polypropylene or epoxy are pressed into parts such as door panels and luggage racks, replacing heavier and less safe fiberglass composites. European hemp fiber made into biocomposites

by Flexform in Indiana has been used in more than a million cars and trucks in North America.

Automotive applications alone are expected to push European hemp cultivation to over 100,000 acres by 2010. Emerging technology for injection molding of natural fibers is expected to accelerate growth of this sector. Hemp fiber is also used for insulation and horticultural growth mats, and hemp core is used in animal bedding, mortars, and horticultural mulch.

Hemp Paper The low impact of the farming and processing of hemp stalks and the high strength, length and yield of the bast fibers make hemp, a traditional source of high-strength specialty paper, a favorite in today’s ecologically aware market. Pulp made from hemp’s bast fiber is superior to short-fiber wood, and is an ideal additive to strengthen recycled post-consumer waste (PCW) pulp, thus expanding PCW’s use. Tough and durable, hemp content paper can be finished to a smooth-surfaced sheet with as good as or better print qualities than virgin wood-based paper. The markets for hemp content paper are growing, including not only highquality PCW printer paper, but also ecological product packaging, brochures and promotional materials for progressive businesses.

Hemp Biofuel Ethanol — ethyl alcohol, currently produced by fermenting cornstarch from kernels — is gradually replacing toxic Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) in

the United States as a high-octane, pollution-reducing gasoline additive.

As a source for ethanol, corn kernels are economically viable only because of high federal subsidies. In the next two to five years, the energyefficient production of ethanol from cellulosic biomass such as wheat and rice straw, hemp, flax, and corn stalks will become commercially viable. This process also generates much lower overall emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2, and because most automobile engines can run on 15:85 ethanol:gasoline blends without modification, ethanol will help nations worldwide meet their greenhouse gas reduction goals.

Hemp grown for both seed and biomass has a stalk yield of up to 3.5 tons per acre, which would make it an economical source of cellulose for ethanol production. Farmers in the Midwest could welcome hemp as a pofitable addition to their marginally profitable soybean and corn rotations.

Hemp Foods Increasingly found on store shelves, shelled hemp seeds (“hemp nuts”) and cold-pressed oil have exceptional nutritional benefits and rich flavor. They are used in salad dressings, nutrition bars, flour, breads, cookies, granola, meatless burgers, nut butter, protein powders, chips, pasta, coffee blends and frozen desserts. Virtually all hemp nut and oil in U.S. foods are imported from Canada.

An impressive 33 percent of the hemp nut is high-quality protein, providing all essential amino acids in a reasonable balance, making it an attractive component of a meat-free diet. Hemp also contains significant amounts of the vitamin E complex and trace minerals such as magnesium, iron, and manganese.

But hemp seeds are valued primarily for the exceptional fatty acid composition of their oil,

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Consumption as Compassion

by Anne S. Dunlop

While wasting time looking some friends’ web pages, I stumbled across the concept of The Gap’s new “(RED)” line of products.

Someone I knew had adopted it as a personal cause – stocking up on sweaters, scarves, belts and candles from The Gap.

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pparently, fifty percent of the profit goes towards the Global Fund to Fight AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria. I

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soon discovered the Product (RED) brand line isn’t limited to Gap; there are (RED) iPod Nanos, Converse sneakers, Razr cell phones and even a Red American Express card, which asks, “Do you need a better reason to shop?”

Is this really about eradicating AIDs and helping impoverished nations? Or is it about making middle class consumers feel good about themselves?

It’s probably a mixture of both.

Even in the face of our own tragedy of 9/11, shopping is the encouraged remedy, despite the fact most of us are spending money we don’t have. The average American household has about $8,000 in credit card debt and personal bankruptcies have doubled in recent years. Similarly, the charitable causes of celebrities always seemed hypocritical alongside their ridiculously wasteful personal lives.

Yes, you do need a better reason to shop. My main concern is that while it does raise awareness of a plight, it also raises awareness of products that wouldn’t be purchased without massive amounts of “sociallyresponsible” advertising.

A successful advertising

campaign produces needless consumerism. Criticism has been aimed at the brand for spending an estimated $100 million on advertising while raking in $18 million for the cause. Furthermore, they can get free publicity from celebrities and the media.

Using this cosmetic form of

caring, The Gap and the celebrities who brandish its brand can polish their public image. After all, companies like The Gap and Nike have previously dealt with criticisms of sweatshop labor. People buying overpriced Gap clothing can turn their consumerism into what looks like social responsibility. However, it gives the illusion that consuming is enough or even that

increasing your consumption is beneficial. No need to donate more time or money. You get a handbag, some starving African kid gets medication and we can all feel warm and fuzzy about ourselves.

Now, certainly this is better than nothing. If you’re going to buy an iPod Nano anyway, it might as well be partially for charity. I see that it’s targeting people who otherwise wouldn’t give a damn. In fact, that is how the brand defends itself. The campaign, according to CEO Bobby Shriver, is not explicit charity and encourages businesses to market as they please. The enormous amount of marketing money would have been spent anyway and you can’t put a price on the generated awareness, Shriver argues. Yet the idealist in me is still saddened that people are using their purchasing power in place of real altruism.

This is a clever tool, but it cannot take the place of action.

When figuring out how to better the world, in the true American style, people wonder what’s in it for them and how they can display their generosity.

Combining charity with fashion isn’t the problem I see. It’s the problem of turning charity into fashion and nothing more.

The bottom line is: buy these products

if you were going to anyway.

But don’t buy things for the sake of it, no matter what half of the money is going toward.

Do better and buy secondhand clothes, recycle and hold onto your old electronics, and give the money you saved towards a reliable organization. Because, despite our best hopes, poverty and disease won’t end simply because you laid down over a hundred dollars for a neat phone that will be obsolete in a year. Nonetheless, I suppose the realist in me should be satisfied and perhaps it is a step in the right direction for people who wouldn’t normally be concerned.

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THE BUZZ

ic s u M l a c o L g n ti r o p p u S Harmonies float through fabrics of time touching each generation note after note beating through your fingertips and your thumping feet. Every person from the beginning of human life has heard and been influenced by music. In the last couple of decades there has been a decrease in teaching music in our schools to our young minded children. Sooner or later the public must realize the impact music has on the lives of us all. We can start by trying to do our part by supporting local music right here in Tallahassee and with the formation of a new organization on campus - The Buzz - working though FSU to encourage students to become more aware and involved in music.

The Buzz was the ‘brain fart’ of several music orientated FSU students. Their love for good jams led them to the same conclusion, a club and that was how- The Buzz- was born, this is the first year of its existence.

We are always accepting of anybody to get involved if they love music and think that we need to do anything we can do to save it. The Buzz is an organization dedicated to recognizing, supporting, and promoting local music to benefit the minds of today while influencing the mentality of tomorrow. While giving breath to a dying ingredient that will not only inspire creativity but blossom intelligence. To help a fallen music scene stand back up and play for not only themselves but to play for the good of us all.

So open your ears and hear.

President: Erica Belfiore Vice President: Alex Scafidi Secretary: Angela Ricke Public Relations: Joshua Bennett E-mail: thebuzzclub@yahoo.com Facebook Us! The Buzz

The Buzz works with local venues and music artists to promote shows while networking the scene. This helps local musicians to not only get more people to attend shows but to bring them together so they can create amazing melodies and banging beats for us all to enjoy. This will open many doors and lead us to places we thought we couldn’t go. The opportunities that will arise will surprise and awe you; we have some upcoming events that will be very beneficial to artists and the community. Calling all students, musicians and music enthusiasts Buzz meetings are held every Wednesday @ 7pm in 234 second floor in the union.

Also we are in the union tabling every market Wednesday, doing our part in spreading the sound for all to hear. So I recommend that you come by and see us bring your friends we are the kooky kids making sweet wonderful music.

Things to look for that we are sponsoring/co-sponsoring: Local musicians performing market Wednesday (Union TBA)

Hip from 23 which makes up 30 percent of the whole seed and 44 percent of the nut. Studies link many common ailments to an imbalance and deficiency of essential fatty acids (EFAs) in the typical Western diet: too much omega-6 and not enough omega-3. Consuming sufficient omega-3 in the right EFA ratio has impressive benefits, including: reducing cholesterol, reducing the risk of atherosclerosis and sudden cardiac death, reducing the need for insulin among diabetics, decreasing the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, promoting mood improvement in bipolar disorders, and optimizing development in infants.

Virtually all common vegetable oils, such as soy, corn, sunflower, safflower and olive oil offer a much less desirable omega balance, i.e., not enough omega-3. Even walnuts, touted in recent media due to the FDA’s qualified endorsement of their omega-3 health benefits, contain significantly less omega-3 and in a lower ratio to omega-6 than hemp seed. Of the commodity vegetable oils, only flax seed contains more omega-3, but flax does not have hemp’s optimal EFA balance. Because it is more easily digestible with a longer shelf life and a nutty natural flavor, hemp nut also offers a greater range of culinary options than flax seeds.

Hemp Body Care Products Hemp oil’s high and balanced EFA content also makes it an ideal ingredient in body care products. The EFAs soothe and restore skin in salves and creams and give excellent emolliency and smooth after-feel to lotions, lip balms, conditioners, shampoos, soaps, shaving products, and massage oils. Recent Canadian research shows that hemp oil

has potential as a broad-spectrum ultraviolet skin protector.

What Can I Do? Buy hemp!

Hemp foods and body care products are carried by large chains such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and Trader Joe’s and by thousands of smaller independent naturalfood chains, stores, and co-ops, and even by some mainstream grocery stores. Outdoor retailers, ecological specialty stores, and some department stores carry hemp clothing. See the wide range of hemp products, and their makers, listed in the Hemp Industries Association’s (HIA) website at www.thehia.org or search for local retailers at www.hempstores.com.

Vote hemp!

Be informed, talk to your state and national representatives, and tell your friends and family about the benefits of hemp for a sustainable economy and healthy environment.

Numerous states have passed legislation supporting industrial hemp. What’s the status of your state? Find out at votehemp.org Activists are working to shift federal regulation of industrial hemp back to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and out of the hands of the DEA. Donations to support this effort can be made online at the web site of Vote Hemp, the industry’s lobbying group, where you can also find sample letters and easy ways to contact elected officials.

Communication Graduate Student Association Spring 2007 Research Colloquium Series announces

Cutting Up ‘Alien Autopsy’: Truncated Synergy, Elaborated Intertext Friday, April 6, 2007, 12:15 pm Board Room 5301 University Center, Building C with Dr. Eileen Meehan Brown Chair at Louisiana State University Dr. Meehan is the author of “Gender: Targeting Women and Lifetime: Television for Women”, “Television Ratings in the United States and The A.C. Nielsen Company”, “Sex and Money: Feminism and Political Economy in Media Studies” and “Why TV Is Not Our Fault: Television Programming, Viewers, and Who’s Really in Control.” In 1999, she received the Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for Democratic Communications for her contributions to study of the political economy of media. Meehan’s research on the broadcast ratings industry, the Time-Warner merger, the market for cable television channels, and the political economy of culture has been published in prestigious academic journals.

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A Letter

Support Free Trade: Economic Development Travel Center

This Flyer is intended for Students to send to their Parents or others who may be able to sponsor them on an economic development travel trip to Peru, Vietnam or Thailand.

My name is Allen Joseph and I taught at Florida State University in Political Science as a graduate student and at the local Tallahassee Community College. I worked for the U.S. House of Representatives with the Foreign Affairs Committee and made several extensive trips abroad including living in Vietnam and Japan for one year before moving back to Tallahassee.

I left teaching to do economic development work for the Florida Legislature. I left the Senate Commerce Committee to work on starting Florida’s first Fair Trade Import and Economic Development program for developing countries.

The Living Wage Fair Trade Store is launching a new “Economic Development Travel Center”. This new International Center will display information on different travel methods, organizations and styles. Budget Travelers will learn how to do free home stays in Europe, Japan and Australia with International SERVAS a United Nations affiliated Peace Travel Organization that is over 40 years old. Every Thursday night open travel discussions will be held.

Peace Corp and other volunteerism travel and experience organizations will have information available.

The Travel Center has free loan backpacks available (and looking for more backpack donations).

Experienced Travelers are invited to share knowledge and help turn potential tourists into progressive travelers.

The World Traveler Café will have free samples of the Worlds best tasting Ethiopian Coffee featured in the film “Black Gold” All of the

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Now I would like you and or your student to have their first experience traveling in a poorer country under the guidance of professionals.

While doing so they will experience economic development work first-hand and will be able to talk about fair free trade and other important economic development, human rights and environmental protection issues with experience.

They will also have fun and visit the usual tourist sites in the area. But they will learn the difference between being a tourist who learns little and a traveler who has real positive cultural interaction while actually helping those they meet. My previous trips have included FSU Business School Faculty member Dr. Mary Jane Ryals, who has held annual FSU Business School Fair Trade Market Days” for the last three years. In fact Coffees will be Fair Trade “Plus” adding the importance of “Certified Organic” and “Certified Shade Grown” to the already important economic development mission of fair trade. Organic and shade Grown are critical in protecting habitat throughout coffee growing regions. The Café is also the launching point of local “Economic Development Travel” which highlights three trips this year in Peru, Thailand and Vietnam. With your help it can be a success and perhaps you can lead a development mission next year. Tallahassee residents and students can be apart of the solution while enjoying travel.

The Café and Travel Center is located inside the Fair Trade Store which is open Wednesday to Friday 5:30 to 8:00pm and open during other events at the center.

Open Travel Discussion every Thursday at 6:00pm and again at 7:00pm Fair Trade Travel Discussion. The event repeats every Thursday for April and May – In

the business students raised funds for a water project in the hill tribe area of Sapa, Vietnam that we will visit this summer.

After their economic development travel experience I will write each student a letter of reference and be available to tailor future letters to any job they apply for. An experience like this should be listed on their resume and builds on the diversity of their knowledge and demonstrates cultural understanding that can be lacking in those coming out of a four year degree program. I am available for you to call me directly at (850) 2641805 or you can e-mail me with your phone number and a time to call and I can also attach travel information and itinerary at allenjoseph@ hotmail.com.

Thank You, Allen Joseph June we Travel!!!!

Every Thursday at 7:00pm Thinking about Traveling in a way that improves the lives of those you visit. Promoting Peace and helping Economic Development while you travel is the goal of this new effort. Greg Wilson will discuss his recent trip to Peru and encourage others to join him in June as they visit some of the villages that make items for Casa Ecologica. Greg will make this an effort to help this organization join the Fair Trade Federation which directly improves their lives while opening access to the world. You can help by witnessing their effort to follow Fair Trade Federation guidelines.

Every Thursday 6:00pm Fair Trade Travel Discussion Allen Joseph will present Vietnams Hill Tribe People and discuss a trip planned in June. Hill Tribe People have no written language and limited knowledge of the developed world.

Stand up.

Take Action.

Paper Plate Project “In a free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, all are responsible.”

– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Body Project “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” The Body Project is a performance of true and honest exploration into selfidentity and body love.

I

t is an event about the necessity of solidarity among diverse people, to foster self-esteem and mutual acceptance.

The Body Project is a collection of monologues by women (and one man) about an assorted array of experiences. The personal stories range from an Indian woman’s struggle with understanding other people and their fascinations with her ethnicity to a woman proposing new and controversial Barbie dolls that certainly challenge the

common conception of the feminine ideal. Not only will there be monologues, but also a collection of community artwork evoking issues of body image and self-acceptance.

The main purpose of this event is to showcase stories about subjects and feelings unlikely to be openly discussed. Body image and self-image are issues that are known, yet not emotionally dealt with by most people; we are working to raise consciousness and construct an environment that is open and welcoming to all people.

Be it based upon size, shape, ethnicity, class or whatever factors individuals encounter – all people must confront themselves in search of a clear identity and at some point, attempt to overcome issues and questions of physical wellbeing and self-awareness.

The statistics concerning

well-known eating disorders are alarming; 1% of women between age 10 and 20 suffers from anorexia. 4% of college-aged women suffer from bulimia. Roughly 25% of people with eating disorders are male. The last one is an aspect of body image issues that is frequently ignored.

Anorexia and bulimia are not the only aspects of troubled self-identity: Everyday, YOU question your curves, your hair color, your family, your self…

This is an event that everyone is asked to attend.

It is meant for everyone to relate to and enjoy.

The Body Project will be held Friday, April 13th at 7 at The Tallahassee Progressive Center and on Saturday, April 14th at 6 behind Moore Auditorium in Oglesby Union.

What can you do?

Write letters to Congress demanding ACTION. Why on paper plates?

To represent the ongoing hunger of the people of Darfur.

When?

Every Wednesday – in the union in April!

Over 2,500,000 innocent civilians – shelter – livestock – security – humanitarian aid access =

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WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW...

A guide to alternative thought, news sources, publishers, and so on Have you ever wondered what the TV news is not telling you? The words you read in the newspaper and the stuff you see and hear on TV are not the whole story. This sheet provides a start to alternatives to official news sources.

NEWS WEBSITES A-Infos www.ainfos.ca/en/

Abya Yala Net abyayala.nativeweb.org

Alternet www.alternet.org

Asheville Global Report www.agrnews.org

Black World Today www.tbwt.com

Common Dreams www.commondreams.org

CounterPunch www.counterpunch.org

disinformation www.disinfo.com

Guerilla News Network www.guerrillanews.com

What is Indymedia?

The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.

Independent Media Center (Global) www.indymedia.org

IMC - Chicago

chicago.indymedia.org

IMC - Houston

...on the Internet

LOCAL Anarchists in New York City http://www.anarco-nyc.net/

DCWatch www.dcwatch.com

Mobtown (Baltimore) www.mobtown.org

Passionbomb.com/munity (SF Bay Area) www.passionbomb.com/home/index.htm

OUTSIDE THE USA The Electronic Intifada electronicIntifada.net/new.html

Middle East Report www.merip.org

houston.indymedia.org

The Narco News Bulletin

IMC - New York City

Oneworld.net

nyc.indymedia.org

IMC - San Francisco sf.indymedia.org

IMC - Washington, DC dc.indymedia.org

There are dozens and dozens of local IMCs. Check any of the above websites for a listing that includes the IMC nearest to you.

www.narconews.com www.oneworld.net

rabble.ca www.rabble.ca

RESOURCES Daypop www.daypop.com

Librarian.net

Infoshop News

POLITICAL

www.librarian.net

www.infoshop.org/inews/

Anarchy for Anybody

www.dmoz.org

Inner City Press www.innercitypress.org

Interactivist Info Exchange slash.autonomedia.org

LiP Magazine www.lipmagazine.org

MediaChannel.org www.mediachannel.org

ZNet www.zmag.org

www.radio4all.org/anarchy/

Colours of Resistance www.tao.ca/~colours/

Flag! flag.blackened.net

Infoshop.org www.infoshop.org

Killing King Abacus www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/vbutterfly.html

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA

PR Watch

Alternative Press Center

Progressive Review

http://www.altpress.org/

www.prwatch.org www.prorev.com

Cascadia Media Collective

Spoon Collective

www.cascadiamedia.org

lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/

Democracy Now

Spunk Library

http://www.democracynow.org/

www.spunk.org/

Free Speech TV www.freespeech.org

Independent Press Association www.indypress.org

Pockaxe Productions

LABOR AND WORK Class Struggle Online anarchosyndicalism.org/

IWW

www.pickaxe.org

www.iww.org

Project Censored

www.labourstart.org

www.projectcensored.org

Radio4All www.radio4all.org

The Video Activist Network www.videoactivism.org

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Labourstart

Open Directory Project Protest.net www.protest.net

Rethinking Schools www.rethinkingschools.org

CULTURAL Mike Flugennock's "Mikey'zine"! www.sinkers.org

Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia www.sniggle.net/index.php

Northern Arts Tactical Offensive www.beyondtv.org/nato/

GROUPS Anarchist Black Cross Network www.anarchistblackcross.org

Black Radical Congress www.blackradicalcongress.org/

Books Not Bars www.booksnotbars.org/

Critical Resistance www.criticalresistance.org/

Deal With It fruitiondesign.com/dealwithit/index.php3

Homes Not Jails www.homesnotjails.org

ANTI-WAR

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

Center for Defense Information

Prison Activist Resource Center

www.cdi.org

NonviolenceWeb www.nonviolence.org

www.ocap.ca www.prisonactivist.org A PDF version of this flyer is available online at: www.infoshop.org/mediaguide.pdf

WHAT YOU ARE NOT TOLD... ...in print A guide to alternative thought, news sources, publishers, and so on MAGAZINES

BOOKS

Alternative Press Review (www.altpr.org)

Nonviolent Activist

Selections from the alternative press

War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette Street,

PO Box 4710, Arlington, VA 22204

Anarcho-syndicalist Review (flag.blackened.net/llr/) Radical labor journal PO Box 2824, Champaign IL 61825 USA

Anarchy: AJODA (www.anarchymag.org) C.A.L. Press, PO Box 1446, Columbia, MO 65205-1446

Auto Free Times POB 4347, Arcata, CA 95518

Banana Q (zine by young Filipino woman) Therese Garcia, 11510 Iowa Ave. #1, L.A., CA 90025

Bitch (www.bitchmagazine.com) Feminist response to pop culture 2765 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Blac k Sheets (Kinky sex zine) Black

New York NY 10012

The Northeastern Anarchist PO Box 230685, Boston, MA 02123

off our backs (www.igc.org/oob) 2337B 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009

Onward Newspaper (www.onwardnewspaper.org) PO Box 2671, Gainesville FL 32602-2671 Out Your Backdoor (www.outyourbackdoor.com) Outdoor sports mgazine 4686 Meridian Rd., Williamston, MI 48895

Practical Anarchy (www.practicalanarchy.org) PO Box 76930, Washington, DC 20013

Prison Legal News (www.prisonleganews.org) 2400 NW 80th Street, PMB 148,

Black Books. PO Box 31155, San Francisco, CA 94131

Seattle, WA 98117

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

(www.punkplanet.com)

6042 South Kimbark Ave., Chicago, IL 60637-2806

Clamor

PO Box 1225, Bowling Green, OH 43402

Earth First Journal

Punk Planet PO Box 464, Chicago, IL 60690

A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press PMB 2386, 537 Jones Street, San Francisco, CA 94102; web:

PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702

www.undergroundpress.org

East Village Inky (radical mom zine)

Shelterforce

www.ayunhalliday.com

Ayun Halliday, PO Box 22754, Brooklyn NY 11202-2754

Ecozine PO Box 241387, Little Rock, AR 72223-0007

Factsheet Five (www.factsheet5.org)

PO Box 3000, Denville, NJ 07834

Sk eptical Inquir er Ske Inquirer Box 703, Buffalo, NY 14226-0703

Sojourners (www.sojo.net/magazine/index.cfm) Christianity and social justice

PO Box 4660, Arlington, VA 22204

2401 15th Street NW, Washington DC 20009

Fifth Estate

Welfare Mothers Voice

4632 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48201

Green Anarchy POB 11331, Eugene, OR 97440

Hip Mama

Welfare Warriors, 2711 W. Michigan, Milwaukee, WI 53208

Z Magazine 18 Millfield Street, Woods Hole MA 02543

PO Box 12525, Portland, OR 97212

PUBLISHERS

HopeDance

AK Press (www.akpress.org)

PO Box 15609, SLO, CA 93406

Insurgent

AK Press Distribution, 674-A 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612

Erb Memorial Union, Suite One, University of

Seven Stories Press (www.sevenstories.com)

Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403

140 Watts Street, New York, NY 10013

International Socialist Review

Soft Skull Press (www.softskull.com)

P.O. Box 258082, Chicago IL 60625

71 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Labor Notes

South End Press (www.southendpress.org)

7435 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48210

Left Turn 1463 E. Republican St. #25A, Seattle, WA 98112

7 Brookline Street #1, Cambridge MA 021394146

NONFICTION 9-11 by Noam Chomsky ABC of Anarchism by AlexanderBerkman The Activist's Handbook by Randy Shaw All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal Anarchism And Other Essays by Emma Goldman Another World Is Possible: Conversations In A Time Of Terror edited by Jee Kim The Battle Of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization by George Katsiaficas The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West De Colores Means All of Us: Latina views for a multi-colored century by Elizabeth Martinez Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks Legacy to Liberation: Politics & Culture of Revolutionary Asian/Pacific America edited by Fred Ho Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards The Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich No Gods No Masters by Daniel Guerin No Logo by Naomi Klein No Trespassing! Squatting, Rent Strikes, and Land Struggles Worldwide by Anders Corr Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings: Subcomandante Marcos by Marcos Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture by Carol Queen Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology by Robin Morgan Snitch Culture by Jim Redden Trust Us, We're Experts by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber Understanding Power: the indispensable Chomsky edited by Peter R. Mitchell (Editor) Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen by Dr. David Hilfiker Where we stand: class matters by bell hooks Zine Yearbook: Volume 6 edited by Become The Media The Yeti ~ Vol. 3 #5 ~ April, 2007 | 31