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July 26, 2005

07.26.05 Edition | Don't Go To School; The Myth of Marriage; New US Flag

	July 26, 2005 Edition
"The Best of the Rest of the Web"

THiS WEEK: An argument against education; Seymour Hersh on the manipulation of the Iraq election; the myth of marriage; member of congress suggests—seriously—bombing Mecca; advice for female on-camera meteorologists; Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost;the real stakes in John Roberts' nomination; making music out of food; when fundamentalist Christians start making their own US flag...; new US military base cause for concern in South America; exposing industrial pollution; Dutch politicians play shoot-the-Muslim; the exciting future of hydrogen-powered buses, at least in Iceland; forced relocation for the Kalahari Bushmen; and more.

This Week's Picks:

Workers Of The Real World
For the past 20 years, we've been barraged by a relentless mantra: Education is the magic bullet to survive in the global economy. Virtually every politician, armed with rhetoric from academics, tells American workers that, essentially, they are too dumb to make it in the "New Economy." Save yourself, they exhort—go back to school. Prepare yourself—get an advanced degree. But this is utter nonsense.
Jonathan Tasini | TomPaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050720/workers_of_the_real_world.php

Get Out the Vote
Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq's election?
Seymour Hersh | The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact

The Myth of Marriage
A radical new book debunks the concept of marriage as a time-honored institution, and argues that we need to loosen up about it.
Monica Mehta | AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/23400/
Super-Powered Jesus Flutters in the Wind
Can the U.S. really be a theocracy without a national Christian flag? Well, now it has one.
Will Braun | The Society of Mutual Autopsy
http://www.somareview.com/superpoweredjesus.cfm

AUDIO | We Could Nuke Mecca?
Last week, Rep. Tom Tancredo , R-Colo., had this on-air exchange with radio host Patrick Campbell:
TANCREDO: "[If] we determine that [a terrorist attack] is the result of extremist fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites."
CAMPBELL: You're talking about bombing Mecca.
TANCREDO: Yeah.

Tom Paine/Northeast Intelligence Network
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/Tancredo.mp3

The Stakes in Roberts' Nomination
Criticize Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts all you like for his anti-choice, anti-affirmative action, anti-environment stances; the key factor in his nomination, in fact, was his position on whether or not the Geneva Conventions apply to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay—and, more broadly, his commitment to support the ever-exapanding reach of executive power in the US.
Bruce Shapiro | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050801&s=shapiro2
It's Going to Be a Hot One
A senior vice president at The Weather Channel gives some advice to female on-camera meterologists about their professional appearance: "Do you want to look old? That's what happens when you don't smile. And have a big nose."
Harper's
http://www.harpers.org/ItsGoingToBeAHotOne.html

INTERVIEW | Crunch Time
Does the sound of 3,255 people biting into apples count as music? And will it make the food industry change its ways? Musician Matthew Herbert explains all about his new album Plat du Jour.
Pascal Wyse | Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1530688,00.html

REVIEW | When Lost Is Found
On the surface, it would seem that getting lost requires little instruction, and that few of us would want to improve whatever talent for it we might possess. But in her new book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit offers a compelling case for a state more commonly avoided than aspired to.
Mark Engler | In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2258

Washington Secures Long-Sought Hemispheric Outpost
US forces are now using the Mariscal Estigarribia airport base, which underwent construction in 2000 to allow for the reception of large numbers of troops and weapons and to also facilitate the landing of B-52 and Galaxy planes. With the facility having a capacity to hold 16,000 troops and its proximity to the borders of Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia, Paraguay's South American neighbors are questioning Washington's intentions at Mariscal Estigarribia, fearing that they may include more than just drugs and terrorism.
Mary Donohue and Melissa Nepomiachi | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
http://www.coha.org/NEW_PRESS_RELEASES/New_Press_Releases_2005/05.78_Washington_Secure_Long_Sought_Military_Outpost_Perhaps_At_the_Expense_of_Regional_Soverignty.htm

AUDIO | Industry on the Attack
What happens when academics expose the misdeeds of some of the most powerful corporations in America? Dow, Monsanto, Union Carbide, and other chemical companies have challenged the scholarship of historians Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, authors of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, using controversial and troubling methods. (Encore presentation.)
C.S. Soong | Against the Grain
http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio7.20.05.mp3

Norwegian Politicians Play at Shooting Muslims
Members of one of Norway?s smaller political parties, the Democrats, recently held a paintball competition in which one group dressed up like ?Muslim terrorists.? John Arntsen, leader of a local chapter of the Democrats, explained their decision: ?This was both fun and useful... if the world keeps developing like it is now, with terrorism especially in Muslim circles, people can quickly have a need for knowledge about self-defense.?
Aftenposten | Kjetil Olsen
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1083258.ece

The Future of Transportation
A visit to Iceland spurs dreams of a hydrogen future.
Bill McKibben | Grist
http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2005/07/19/mckibben-hydrogenbus/index.html

Uprooted After 30,000 Years
The Kalahari Bushmen are one of the world?s oldest civilizations. For 30,000 years they have carved a life out the desert in what is now Botswana. But for the last decade the Bushmen—or San, as they are also known—have been inexorably driven from their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. In 1997 the government of Botswana began cutting off services and forcibly relocating them to camps and settlements outside the reserve.
Richard Warnica | The Tyee
http://www.thetyee.ca/Photo/2005/07/22/Uprooted/

- Media Picks Contributing Editors: Rebecca Onion, Adam Barker, Erica Wetter, and James Adams
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July 19, 2005

07.19.05 Edition | Massacre in Haiti; Work Camps in Dubai; Attacks on Planned Parenthood

	July 19, 2005 Edition
"The Best of the Rest of the Web"

THiS WEEK: A PR firm hired by an unknown company conducted a bomb drill for the exact same time, date, and locations of the real bombs detonated in the London Underground on July 7th; surge of violence on Haitians by UN troops; indigenous youth challenge corporate mining; what you can learn by actually asking Iraqis what they think about the US invasion; the FBI may have sought to instigate an anti-Muslim witch hunt in Lodi, California; new food distribution program in Venezuela promises to feed millions; Mike Davis describes the hellish conditions of work camps in Dubai; umbilical cord blood of US babies born in 2004 shown to contain an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants; Weyerhauser conducts illegal logging in Saskatchewan to sell products to Xerox; illustrating the war in Darfur, in crayon; Planned Parenthood under steady attack; and much more.

This Week's Picks:

Confusion and Coincidence in London Bomb Drill
The day that the London bombings occured, a security consulting firm called Visor Consultants conducted a "training scenerio" involving the detonation of four bombs in the British transit system, according to a BBC radio 5 interview with Visor executive Peter Powers.
Al Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9160

VIDEO | Eyewitnesess Describe Massacre by UN Troops in Haiti
A graphic, on location video presentation of recent violent attacks in Haiti by UN Troops. (256 K stream)
Democracy Now
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/july/video/dnB20050711a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=43:19

CARTOON | Who Will Be the Next Supreme Court Nominee?
A graphic, on location video presentation of recent violent attacks in Haiti by UN Troops. (256 K stream)
Tim Kreider
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly050706a.htm

Sinister Paradise
In addition to being super-exploited, Dubai's helots are also expected to be generally invisible. The bleak work camps on the city's outskirts, where laborers are crowded six, eight, even twelve to a room, are not part of the official tourist image of a city of luxury without slums or poverty.
Mike Davis | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones .com/commentary/columns/2005/07/sinister_paradise.html

The Art of War
The children's drawings construct a compelling case against the government of Sudan as the architects of the Darfur crisis and explicitly show violations of the laws of war. To hear and read the testimony of victims of atrocities is very powerful; it is even more horrifying to see such mayhem through the eyes of children, uncoached and often uneducated but clearly exposed to brutal ethnic cleansing.
Dr. Annie Sparrow and Olivier Bercault | Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/drawings

Bush Regales Dinner Guests with Impromptu Oratory on Virgil's Minor Works
According to guests, the subject of Virgil arose serendipitously, when a servant opened a window in the Red Room, to which the group had retired for after-dinner drinks. Noticing the breeze, Bush raised his glass and delivered a toast to the changing of the seasons. He then apologized to "lovely Winter," explaining that he "meant no slight against her."
The Onion
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue 4127&n=1

AUDIO | To Make Matters Worse...
Can progressives put aside what they want to believe about the US-led invasion of Iraq and simply listen to the Iraqis themselves? That's what Pacifica Radio journalist Aaron Glantz did; his sometimes surprising findings are recorded in How America Lost Iraq. Rebecca Gordon of War Times discusses changes in mainstream thinking about the US military presence in Iraq.
C.S. Soong | Against the Grain
http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio7.12.05.mp3

Witchhunt at Lodi
On June 7, national and international media attention focused on the small, agricultural town of Lodi, where the FBI arrested and detained two Pakistani-Americans, who they suspected had al Qaeda affiliations. The FBI released an affidavit to the media containing charges of terrorism—but in the affidavit filed with a federal court, these allegations were downplayed. While the Justice Department has maintained that it was not deliberately trying to precipitate an anti-Muslim witch hunt, the difference between the two affidavits—the one released to the media and the one filed in court—as well as recent FBI activity in Lodi, tell a different story.
Veena Dubal and Sunaina Maira | Siliconeer/Pacific News Service
http ://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=c9e8897dac195e1003efb0e65d48c0eb

Venezuela Food Program
In Venezuela, a new community-based food distribution system provides jobs, nourishment, and social interaction for lower income people. According to President Hugo Chavez, the program aims to supply food to more than 15 million citizens, or about 60% of the population.
Roberto Jorquera | Green Left Review / Z Net
http://www.zmag.org/content/sh owarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=8284

Body Burden: The Pollution of Newborns
In a study spearheaded by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in collaboration with Commonweal, researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born in August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals. Tests revealed a total of 287 chemicals in the group. The umbilical cord blood of these 10 children, collected by Red Cross after the cord was cut, harbored pesticides, consumer product ingredients, and wastes from burning coal, gasoline, and garbage.
Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm .php

Indigenous Youth Challenge Corporate Mining
On June 22, the second International Indigenous Youth Conference (IIYC) released several resolutions and declarations aiming to stop the destructive impacts of globalization on indigenous lands, cultures, and peoples.
Angela Sterritt | Cultural Survival
http://209.200.101.189/publications /win/win-article.cfm?id=2699

Saskatchewan: The Province of Weyerhauser
It has been discovered that Weyerhauser has been illegally logging in Saskatchewan specifically to sell products to Xerox. This report includes a video documentary, photo gallery and links to source documents.
Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/case_studies/saskatchewan

Aristide in Exile
When United Nations troops kill residents of the Haitian slum Cité Soleil, friends and family often place photographs of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on their bodies. The photographs silently insist that there is a method to the madness raging in Port-au-Prince. Poor Haitians are being slaughtered not for being "violent," as we so often hear, but for being militant; for daring to demand the return of their elected president.
Naomi Klein | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050801 &s=klein

Foes Keep Planned Parenthood Under Steady Attack
The campaign against Planned Parenthood now goes far beyond anti-abortion protests. Led by two national organizations—Life Decisions and STOPP—it features community protests, corporate boycotts and targeting of clinics with weak finances.
Cynthia L. Cooper | Women's eNews
http://www.womensenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/ 2373

- Media Picks Contributing Editors: James Adams, Adam Barker, and Erica Wetter
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin Wiegand and Brian Awehali

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July 13, 2005

07.13.05 Edition | Inside Gitmo; Obesity Began With the Founding Fathers; Coke in Iraq

	July 13, 2005 Edition
"The Best of the Rest of the Web"

THiS WEEK: Interviews with Jane Meyer on interrogation in the war on terror, Anthony Fenton on what you don't know about the situation in Haiti, and José Tamayo on his successes with grassroots environmentalism in Honduras; the U.S government calls uproar over its donation to a Venezuelan political party "persecution" little over one year after Kerry was sharply criticized for a donation from a South Korean citizen; the current and future role of public broadcasting; a little Bush humor to let you smile about politics again; Coke enters the War on Iraq; how the problem of American obesity began with the founding fathers; two looks at the popularity of apocalyptic fantasies in the entertainment industry; a discussion of today's television female; and the f-word.

This Week's Picks:

INTERVIEW |In GitmoJane Mayer has written about the United States military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and raised new questions about the treatment of detainees. Here, with Amy Davidson, Mayer talks about interrogation and the war on terror.

Jane Mayer/Amy Davidson | The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/050711on_onlineonly01
AUDIO |Facts vs. Disinformation in Haiti
Two interviews with noted author and activist for Haiti, Anthony Fenton, on the current - and worsening - situation in Haiti.
Vancouver Co-Op Radio
http://wakeupwithcoop.org/Jul1st-05p3.mp3 and http://wakeupwithcoop.org/Jul8th-05p4.mp3
VIDEO |Harlan McRaney, Presidential Speechalist 5000
Harlan McRaney, speechalist for the Bush administration, explains how he comes up with such brilliant turns of phrase as "fool me, can't get fooled again!" and "if you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!"

Russell Bates | Comedy Central
http://www.xroadsfilms.com/batescomedycentral
Marching for Life: An Interview With José Tamayo
A Honduran priest has organized a grassroots environmental movement to protest illegal logging and government corruption—with stunning results.

Bradford Plumer | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/06/tamayo.html
Do Foreign Governments Have a "Human Right" to Buy Venezuela Elections?
As court proceedings begin this month against four Venezuelans from an election campaign group that accepted donations from a foreign government - something that is indisputably a federal crime under both U.S. and Venezuelan law - it’s no surprise that members of the Bush administration in Washington cry that the sky is falling.
Al Giordano | The NarcoSphere
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/7/9/113427/7207
The State of Broadcast Media
Last week Patricia S. Harrison, the former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, was chosen as the next president and chief executive of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR, PBS, community stations and Pacifica using taxpayer money. Media Alliance executive director Jeff Perlstein speaks about the future of public broadcasting in the US, as well as efforts to guarantee low-cost Internet access.

C.S. Soong (host) | Against the Grain
http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio6.29.05.mp3
Cola wars as Coke moves on Baghdad
Coca-Cola has returned to Iraq after an absence of nearly four decades, triggering a cola war in a lucrative but potentially hostile market.

Rory Carroll | Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1521277,00.html

George Washington wants you to be fat
Did you know that fast food chains like McDonald's and Wendy's are just carrying on the noble tradition started by Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson?

Matthew Wheeland | Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/23346/

Apocalyptic book series gets first video game
The first video game tied to the best-selling apocalyptic "Left Behind" book series will be released in coming months, a spokesman for Left Behind Games said recently.

Reuter's/MSNBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8409604/
http://www.leftbehindgames.com/

AUDIO | War Games
It's hard, sometimes, to separate reality from fantasy, especially in wartime. National Radio Project looks at video games, movies, and war, and how the lines between each aren't always so clear.

National Radio Project
http://www.radioproject.org/

Housewife Wars
Right now we're inundated with dramas about the married woman, and "domestic dream" is hardly the vibe. Here's the cultural conversation behind the hedges of Wisteria Lane.

Catherine Orenstein | Ms. Magazine
http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2005/housewifewars.asp

The F Word
"Feminism" turns off a lot of younger women. Is it time to retire the word - or reclaim it?

Rebecca Traister | Truthout/Salon
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/070705WA.shtml

- Media Picks Contributing Editors: Adam Barker and Erica Wetter
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin Wiegand and Brian Awehali
- Media Picks production assistance provided by Emma Sherwood-Forbes

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July 06, 2005

07.06.05 Edition | 6th Declaration of the Selva Lacandona; Africans Are Not Whales; Golfing Against the G8

	June 29, 2005 Edition
"The Best of the Rest of the Web"

THiS WEEK: Thoughts on Nationalistic Fervor Day, Zapatistas release their broad outline for the EZLN's next political phase; what's to come in a post-globalization world; African blogger tells Live 8 promoters: "we are not whales!"; 1987 letter from the Samish Indian Nation points out that endangered species receive greater protection and benefits than do Native American tribes; why the makeup of the Supreme Court is more than a matter of right and left; how to tell where YOUR country falls on the scale of "democracy to despotism"; number of classified documents in US reaches record high; if album covers were advertisements; shut down the Guantanamo military base; golfing against the G8; and much, much more in this unexpectedly long edition of media picks.

This Week's Picks:

Specters of Militarism, Nationalism Dog Independence Day
As U.S. citizens mark their annual celebration of patriotism, the Fourth of July holiday, they might do well to also ponder the specter of two other "isms"—militarism and nationalism—that threaten the Republic's durability and strength raised by two important books published over the past year.
Jim Lobe | Inter Press Service/Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0702-05.htm

Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona
This is our simple word which seeks to touch the hearts of humble and simple people like ourselves, but people who are also, like ourselves, dignified and rebel. This is our simple word for recounting what our path has been and where we are now, in order to explain how we see the world and our country, in order to say what we are thinking of doing and how we are thinking of doing it, and in order to invite other persons to walk with us in something very great which is called Mexico and something greater which is called the world.
Subcommandante Marcos | ZNet
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=59&ItemID=8218

After Globalization
The shape of what comes next will therefore be decided—a conscious act—or it will be left to various interest groups to decide for us, or simply to fate and circumstance. It will probably emerge from a mix of all three.
John Ralston Saul | The Tyee
http://www.thetyee.ca/Views/2005/06/27/AfterGlobalisation

BLOG PICK | We Are Not Whales!
The Live 8 concerts are the latest incarnation of social justice-themed megaconcerts like Live Aid and Band Aid. Timed to precede the G8 Conference in Scotland from July 6-9, and running in coordination with the UK's "Make Poverty History" campaign, Live 8 is an attempt to pressure the G8 countries into adopting policies of debt relief and economic justice, particularly for African nations. But many are pointing out the racism inherent in fundraisers and awareness-raisers like Live 8, which project an image of Africa as a beggar with hand outstretched. Blogger Sokari Ekine has some scathing words about the real aim of the Live 8 concerts: to assuage white guilt while reinforcing a western position of superiority.
Sokari Ekine | Black Looks
http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/2005/07/we_are_not_whal.html

UK Aid Funds Iraqi Torture Units
British and American aid intended for Iraq's hard-pressed police service is being diverted to paramilitary commando units accused of widespread human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killings. Iraqi Police Service officers said that ammunition, weapons and vehicles earmarked for the IPS are being taken by shock troops at the forefront of Iraq's new dirty counter-insurgency war.
Peter Beaumont and Martin Bright | The Observer
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5230205-111381,00.html

Ecce Homo
From a memo addressed to the U.S. Department of the Interior's director of Fish and Wildlife Service in May 1987 by Gale Norton, currently the secretary of the interior, when she worked in the department's conservation and wildlife program. The Samish Indian Nation of the Pacific Northwest had sought designation as an endangered species, suggesting that such species receive benefits from the DOI superior to those granted to the tribe.
Harper's
http://www.harpers.org/2001-12-EcceHomo.html

Court Fight: It's More Than Left vs. Right
With O'Connor's exit, the court will move in one of two directions. No, not right or left. With O'Connor out, the court will either go backward or forward.
John Nichols | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=4246

VIDEO | Despotism
This 1946 propaganda film takes a look at the concentration and distribution of power. Where does YOUR community fall on the scale of "democracy to despotism?" Brought to you by the good people of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (Available in streaming and downloadable formats.)
Encyclopaedia Britannica | Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/Despotis1946

As It Eyes Cities, Wal-Mart Has No Plan B
As a national battle rages over pharmacists not filling prescriptions for the "morning-after pill," Wal-Mart continues to keep Plan B off its shelves. The megastore's policy, catering to its rural base, complicates its pursuit of new markets.
Liza Featherstone | Women's eNews
http://www.womensenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2350/context/cover

Increase in the Number of Documents Classified by the Government
US government secrecy has reached a historic high, with federal departments classifying documents at the rate of 125 a minute as they create new categories of semi-secrets bearing vague labels like "sensitive security information."
Scott Shane | The New York Times
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070305B.shtml

ACTION | Shut Down Guantanamo Base
Guantanamo has become a symbol world-wide of the Bush Administration's arrogant disregard for the most basic of human rights. And it needs to be shut down. Now. Take a minute to lend your support.
The Center for Constitutional Rights
http://www.democracyinaction.org/ccr/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=831

Golfing Against the G8
An anarchist group known as the Peoples' Golfing Association will be taking to the fairways of the posh Gleneagles Club, the location of the G8 summitt. From their statement: "The PGA will be holding the Peoples' Open Golfing Tournament which culminates on July 7th, and plan to be playing golf on the sumptuous greens of Gleneagles during the G8 schmooze-fest. The tournament is open to all freedom loving individuals who reject everything the G8 stands for (except golf). The golfing event promises the opportunity to brush shoulders with influential and dapper anarchists from around the world. It goes without saying that golf skills are not required. In fact, golf skills may even be frowned upon. We encourage the formation of autonomous golfing blocs for participation in the PGA Gleneagles tournament."
The Peoples' Golfing Association
http://www.tao.ca/%7Ewrench/dist/g8/pga.html

US Retains Control of Web, Worrying Foreign Critics
A unilateral decision by the United States to indefinitely retain oversight of the Internet's main traffic-directing computers prompted concerns that the global telecommunications network could eventually splinter.
Matt Moore | Salon/Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070305D.shtml

Bringing It Home: Indian Film Tackles HIV, Gay Life With Family Tale
In India in the past, films depicting homosexuality have been censored or ignored. Theaters screening such films have been ransacked. But a new film with a gay relationship at its core is moving audiences to tears by focusing on the family and the impact of HIV.
Sandip Roy | Pacific News Service
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=fa0101b29f8103276d765f83fc524aa0

If Album Covers Were Advertisements
After the unfortunate news spread that Nike has ripped off a Minor Threat album cover for a new ad campaign (due to negative publicity, Nike has since cancelled their plans), some enterprising readers of I Love Music tried to imagine what other well-known album covers would look like if advertisers got a hold of them.
Stay Free!/I I Love Music
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/06/if_album_covers.html
Check out the thread on I Love Music, here: http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=5942033#unread

- Media Picks Contributing Editors: Adam Barker and Erica Wetter
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin Wiegand and Brian Awehali

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