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#4
Constructively Negative
"Sacred Cows"
Issue

Summer 2005

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Features

  • If Women Ruled the World, Nothing Would Be Different
    by Lisa Jervis

  • Held Hostage to Hope
    Derrick Jensen on Civilization & Its Discontents
    interview by Spring Lundberg

  • We're Not Doomed, That's the Problem
    an interview with Iain Boal by David Martinez

  • Organics: Meaningful or Market Niche?
    by Ariane Conrad Hyde and Erin Wiegand

  • Why the Gay Rights Movement is a Sham
    by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore

  • READING: Porn, Dignity, & the Masculine Mantle
    by Susan Faludi

  • READING: My Body, in a Persistent Vegetative State
    by unknown

  • READING: All Work & No Play
    by Bertrand Russell

  • READING: Changing Darth Vader's Heart
    by Derrick Jensen

  • Make Media, Make Real Trouble
    What's Wrong (and Right) With Indymedia

    by Jennifer Whitney

  • Remote Control Hip Hop
    Jeff Chang on Culture, Power, & Youth
    interview by Brian Awehali

  • Peeling the Electoral Onion
    Elections vs. Democracy
    by David Solnit

  • Who Needs Ends When We've Got Such Bitchin' Means?
    Consensus Reconsidered
    by Andrew Cornell

  • Heresy as Higher Calling
    Words with Michael Muhammed Knight
    by Bob Offer-Westort

- AS WELL AS -

Good-Bye!: Honest Obituaries for a Dishonest World: Baron von Kloberg

Think Before You Pink

On Irony: A pointed Q&A between editor Brian Awehali and author Rebecca Solnit

Book Reviews

Audio Reviews

Film Reviews

#3
Vaguely Apocalyptic
"Waste"
Issue

Spring 2005

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Features

  • Litterbug World
    Overproduction, Waste and the Limits of Recycling: An Interview with Heather Rogers
    by Ariane Conrad Hyde

  • What's the Matter With White Folks?
    Racial Privilege, Electoral Politics and the Limits of Class Populism by Tim Wise

  • In Good Conscience
    An Interview With Reservist Turned Conscientious Objector Aidan Delgado
    by Scott Fleming

    *PLUS*

    The Limits of Pacifism
    Tactic vs. Principle
    by Stan Goff

  • Addicted to Waste
    Harm Reduction, Disposability and the Myth of Activist Purity: An Interview with Julia Butterfly Hill
    by Brian Awehali

  • READING: The Great Idea of Our Time
    by Voltairine de Cleyre

  • READING: Winter (Transition)
    by Sailor Raven

  • READING: Disposable People
    Charcoal Workers in Brazil
    by Kevin Bales

  • An Injury to One
    Chain Stores and the End of Single Site Organizing
    by Brendan O'Sullivan

  • Opening the Box
    What's Wrong With Gaia?
    by Kari Lydersen

  • PLUS

    The LiP "Rubbish" Quiz; Government That Doesn't Suck; The Politics of Poop; The Fight Against E-Waste; Disposable Things: The Age of Planned Obsolescence; In Defense of Useful Weapons (Bombs We'd Like to See) ; and more.

Book Reviews

  • Homeland
    [Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson]

  • Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
    (The Essential Guide for Progressives)
    [George Lakoff]

  • Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
    [Suketu Mehta]

  • The Flouride Deception
    [Christopher Bryson]

  • The Political Edge
    [Chris Carlsson]

Music Reviews

  • REVIEW ESSAY: Jazz in the Age of Empire (Who the Sky Betrays [Maroon]; In What Language [Vijay Ayer and Mike Ladd]; Raining on the Moon [The William Parker Quartet])
    by Jeff Conant

  • PROFILE: Border Crossing - Dominatrix on the Queercore Blitz Tour
    by Abby Sewell

  • Three Way Tie For a Fifth
    [This Bike is a Pipe Bomb]

  • The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps
    [Monuments to Masses]

Film Reviews

  • Tarnation
    [Jonathan Caouette]

  • The Fog of War
    [Errol Morris]

  • The Future of Food
    [Deborah Koons]

  • Peacable Kingdom
    [James LaVeck]

#2
Flabbergasting
"Overwhelmingly Larcenous"
Issue

Winter 2004

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Features

  • Five Finger Discounted
    The Uses and Abuses of Shoplifting
    by Justine Sharrock

  • Letter to an Unknown Thief
    By Guillermo Gómez-Peña

  • Rape for Profit
    The Global Sex Industry's Slave Trade
    by Kari Lydersen

  • Common Uprisings
    From the Great Mexican Land Grab to the Reclaiming of Everything
    by Jeff Conant

  • Trust Us, We're the Government
    How to Make $137 Billion of Indian Money Disappear
    by Brian Awehali

  • Trespass at Will
    Squatting as Direct Action, Human Right & Justified Theft
    by Erin Wiegand

  • The Honorable Klansmen
    Talking to Right-Wingers
    by Hugh D'Andrade

  • READING: Dr. Laura, Sit on my Face
    Why Being a Threat is Sexy
    by Rocko Bulldagger

  • Grave New World
    Surveying Privacy in a Surveillance Society
    by Anna Samson Miranda

  • Opt-Out
    "Hi there. Don't be scared. I'm a notice from a financial institution."
    by Dave Barringer

  • Orientalism Gone Wrong in Aztlán
    Test Your Ethnic Profiling Skills
    by the Chica-Iranian Project

  • Fenced Into Jayyous
    Walling Off the Future in One Palestinian Town
    by Liv Leader

  • READING: Shiftless of the World Unite!
    Black Worker Resistance, Theft & Sabotage
    by Robin D.G. Kelley

  • READING: Take the Military Off Welfare
    How to Waste $600 Million a Day
    by Mark Zepezauer

  • READING: Steal Away
    "I became what had always been expected of me—a thief."
    by Dorothy Allison

  • Roy
    "He's the kind of obsessive appreciative submissive I go for. Honest. Humble. Knows what he wants."
    by blake nemec

  • PLUS

    The LiP Theft Ethics Quiz; Better Living Through Theft; Honest Obituaries for a Dishonest World; Style Tips for a More Yomango Life; Committee for Full Enjoyment; Re-Code.com; and more.

Book Reviews

  • REVIEW ESSAY: Indigenous Erotica
    Without Reservation [Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, ed.]; Burning Upward Flight [Qwo-Li Driskill]; Love Medicine and One Song [Gregory Scofield]
    by Sophie Levy

  • The Devil's Highway
    [Luis Alberto Urrea]

  • The W Effect
    Bush's War on Women
    [Laura Flanders, ed.]

  • Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
    America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
    [Mahmood Mamdani]

  • Subversive Southerner
    Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
    [Catherine Fosl]

  • Banana Republicans
    How the Right Wing is Turning America into a One-Party State
    [Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber]

  • The Children of NAFTA
    Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
    [David Bacon]

  • A Field Guide to Sprawl
    [Dolores Hayden & Jim Wark]

  • Globalize Liberation
    How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World
    [David Solnit]

  • Silence on the Mountain
    Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
    [Daniel Wilkinson]

Film Reviews

Music Reviews

#1
Oddly Dangersome
"First"
Issue

Summer 2004

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back cover illustration
by Eric Drooker

Features

  • Drying Up
    The Global Water Privatization Pandemic
    by Kari Lydersen

  • Every Nook & Cranny
    On the Dangers of Relaxed National Indentation Standards
    by Greg Hischak

  • Live by Their Tools, Die by Their Tools
    The Political Limitations of Culture Jamming
    by Anne Elizabeth Moore

  • Reinventing Our Heroes
    An Interview with Octavia Butler
    by Daniel Burton-Rose

  • Working for the Man Every Night and Day
    Black Conservatives and the Politics of Self-Abuse
    by Tim Wise

  • Lunching With the Reddest Neck
    by Percival Everett & James Kincaid

  • Hot Girl-on-Girl Action
    The Peculiar Problem of Politics, Pornography & Ass-Kicking Babes
    by Lisa Jervis

  • Power Trip
    One Feminist's Take on Domination & Submission
    by Mona West

  • Redefining Our Relationships
    by Wendy-O Matik

  • Border Crossings
    The Mexican Mirror, el Movimiento & the Unthinkable
    by Guillermo Gómez-Peña

  • Reclaiming Public Space
    A Conversation Between Artists Eric Drooker & Josh MacPhee

  • "Maximizing Land, Minimizing Palestinians"
    An Interview with Anti-Occupation Zionist Tanya Reinhart
    by Joel Schalit

  • Doing Life Without Parole
    "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws Ten Years Later
    by Silja J.A. Talvi

  • READING: Real Life
    by Eduardo Antonion Parra

  • "Action Will be Taken"
    Left Anti-Intellectualism & Its Discontents
    by Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood & Christian Parenti

Book Reviews

  • On the Justice of Roosting Chickens:
    Reflections on the Consequences of US Imperial Arrogance and Criminality
    [Ward Churchill]

  • Law in a Lawless Land:
    Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia
    [Michael Taussig]

  • REVIEW ESSAY: Subversive Content in Sequential Art
    A Brief Overview
    by Bryan Uhlenbrock

  • Anarchy for the Masses:
    The Disinformation Guide to The Invisibles
    [Patrick Neighly and Kereth Cowe-Spigai]

  • Glitter & Greed:
    The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel
    [Janine Roberts]

  • Gates of Injustice:
    The Crisis in America's Prisons
    [Alan Elsner]

  • Bandits & Bibles:
    Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
    [Larry E. Sullivan, editor]

Film Reviews

  • The Battle of Algiers
    [Gillo Pontecorvo]

  • The Corporation
    [March Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan]

  • Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    [Robert Greenwald]

Music Reviews

  • REVIEW ESSAY: Higher Ground
    Bay Area emcee Azeem kicks down about life, spiritual defogging and how to avoid the mainstream
    Rachel Swan

  • Out of Proportion
    [The Eternals]

  • Madvillainy
    [Madvillain]

  • Love and Hate
    and All Balls Don't Bounce
    [Aceyalone]

  • Walking With the Beggar Boys
    [Elf Power]