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7/23/2009 9:37:29 AM
Let Reanimation Library founder Andrew Beccone guide you through a virtual playground of oddities....
7/21/2009 11:39:34 AM
Arts and activism blogger Paul Schmelzer curates a list of inspiring links....
6/29/2009 11:57:18 AM
Five amazing online museums, courtesy of Karen Templer, creator of Readerville (may it rest in peace)....
6/18/2009 3:17:39 PM
Believer managing editor Andrew Leland holds forth on impressionistic internet searches in a guest post for our Alt Wire blog....
6/8/2009 3:33:21 PM
Noemi Martinez of Hermana, Resist writes about the zines, blogs, and organizations that inspire her....
6/5/2009 4:46:01 PM
RUMINATE editor Brianna Van Dyke shares five delightful links of the writerly variety....
6/4/2009 11:32:06 AM
Lindsay Gibb of Broken Pencil is an evangelist for the spirit of craft....
6/3/2009 2:14:33 PM
Economics is more than the rollercoaster ride we call the Dow. Dollars & Sense editor Christ Sturr writes about obscure efforts to create a more just economy....
5/29/2009 12:30:55 PM
Welcome to the brand new Alt Wire blog. Here's how it works: we recruit our favorite magazine editors, bloggers, journalists, writers, and artists to assemble a list of at least five things that inspire them in the wide world of the webernet….
5/14/2009 7:25:15 PM
Let’s go out on a limb, but not too far, and assume that most people want to behave ethically. Bringing those intentions to fruition is more difficult than you might anticipate….
4/9/2008 1:48:27 PM
Table of contents for the May - June 2008 issue.
2/17/2008 12:25:27 PM
Cover Office Culture 34 Are We Having Fun Yet?The infantilization of corporate America by Matt Labash, from the Weekly Standard 39 White CollaredWhen did our jobs turn into a joke? by Julie Hanus The New Green 42 Environmental Justice for AllHow
11/27/2007 4:18:57 PM
Fed up with government-controlled tribal health programs, California Indian tribes are organizing the nation's first Native American-operated HMO.
11/27/2007 2:51:02 PM
The monumental work of the Human Genome Project, a 10-year struggle to identify and map all 50,000 to 100,000 human genes, detail the chemical sequencing of our DNA, and file all the information in gigantic databases, is finally winding up.
11/16/2007 10:52:52 AM
Activists Jolt Proctor & Gamble America's second largest coffee distributor offers fair trade coffee October 6, 2003 Issue By John Nolan, Associated Press Proctor & Gamble got a recent jolt from activists pressuring the company to offer fair trade
11/16/2007 10:49:57 AM
Lifeline Instead of Suicide Web site provides college students with support and resources to prevent suicide October 6, 2003 Issue By Jordan Lite, Wired News Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college age Americans. But a
11/16/2007 10:47:49 AM
Hope for Brazil's Landless Brazil's agrarian reform movement is a reason for hope, not a danger October 6, 2003 Issue By Angus Wright, Prairie Writers Circle Over the past decade, Brazil's Landless Peasants Movement (known in Portuguese as the
11/16/2007 10:45:38 AM
Dangerous Reads Publisher Mike Hoy gives authors from the lunatic fringe an outlet October 3, 2003 Issue By Caleb O. Brown, Snitch When it comes to book publishing, Mike Hoy has only two criteria "One, we have to be
11/16/2007 10:43:23 AM
The Devil and Daniel Pipes Appointing a noted Islam basher to the U.S. Institute of Peace is a clear sign that Bush neocons are spoiling for a fight October 3, 2003 Issue By Salim Muwakkil, In These Times President
11/16/2007 10:42:14 AM
Shareholders Unite The past year has seen unprecedented efforts by shareholders to hold their companies accountable October 3, 2003 Issue By Conrad MacKerron, GreenMoney Journal In the wake of massive corporate malfeasance during the past year, shareholders have stepped
11/16/2007 10:38:40 AM
Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying A deeper look at the neo cons' plan for global domination October 23, 2003 Issue By Sydney H. Schanberg, The Village Voice Global wars, space control, and U.S. power projection around
11/16/2007 10:36:41 AM
E Vote Firms on the Defensive Bad press sparks new PR campaign October 23, 2003 Issue By Leif Utne, Utne.com Manufacturers of electronic touch screen voting machines, stung by criticism from activists and a string of bad publicity from
11/16/2007 10:35:20 AM
The Power of Propaganda Study shows mistaken impressions about Iraq war fed by TV news October 16, 2003 Issue By Frank Davies, Knight Ridder Newspapers A majority of Americans held at least one of three false perceptions about the
11/16/2007 10:30:19 AM
Alix Olson Word Warrior Who says fighting The Man can't rhyme? October 16, 2003 Issue By Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive If you thought slam poetry had been discharged from the culture war or that its combatants had ceased their
11/16/2007 10:08:46 AM
How Much Pork Can You Buy for $87 Billion? Unraveling the mysteries of Bush's Iraq rebuilding budget October 10, 2003 Issue By Matt Bivens, The Nation Once Iraqis learn English they will be able to read their "Baghdad Fire
11/16/2007 10:03:57 AM
Are We Citizens or Consumers? The myth of consumer activism October 10, 2003 Issue By Betsy Barnum, CommonDreams.org "Vote with your dollars" has long been a mantra of progressive minded folk. But as Minneapolis activist Betsy Barnum writes in
11/16/2007 9:59:12 AM
Reality Check Japan's Ocean Dome and the joys of simulated life October 8, 2003 Issue By David Boyle, The Ecologist Searching for a paradise more real than reality, David Boyle explores Japan's Ocean Dome sliding roof, wave machine, and
11/16/2007 9:57:57 AM
Wesley Clark for Emperor? October 8, 2003 Issue By Christopher Lydon, Christopher Lydon Interviews Harking back to the warnings of Hadrian against the "folly of limitless empire," Christopher Lydon compares Wesley Clark with the 2nd Century Roman emperor and
11/15/2007 9:10:33 AM
Consider this scenario: An insect or a strong gust of wind carries pollen from your neighbor's cornfield and deposits it in yours. This is just a harmless act of nature, right? Well not if you're an organic farmer and your neighbor is growing genetically modified crops.
11/14/2007 4:42:37 PM
Fifty-four suicides have been linked to the side-effects of Accutane, a powerful acne medication, but many people are still risking compromised mental health for clear skin.
11/14/2007 4:01:46 PM
Volunteers and students rechart the world's cities
11/14/2007 3:53:16 PM
While their scars heal from years of bitter conflict, post-apartheid South Africans are brimming over with questions of power in the emerging social structure.
11/14/2007 3:49:39 PM
A bill halting bilateral trade and relations with Zimbabwe unanimously passed the House and Senate, and now moves to President Bush for approval, reports Charles Cobb Jr. of AllAfrica.com.
11/14/2007 3:28:33 PM
A multi-talented techno visionary documents his ride on the Web's cutting edge
11/14/2007 2:51:59 PM
Che's image endures-and so does the unsung Cuban who captured it
11/14/2007 2:29:50 PM
Bush Family Values Photo Album March 12, 2003 Issue By Erin Ferdinand, Utne.com They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. They’re all together ooky. The Bu ush Family. White House is their museum. Whenever people see’em, They want
11/14/2007 2:26:45 PM
Your Logo Here March 12, 2003 Issue By Rob Walker, Slate The “Sponsorship” exhibit, which opened at the BlkMrkt gallery in Los Angeles in February, features corporate logos selected not for their design quality but for how much the
11/14/2007 2:25:02 PM
What really happened at last week's G8 summit in Genoa, Italy?
11/14/2007 2:24:52 PM
The People vs. The Powerful March 12, 2003 Issue By William Rivers Pitt, Information Clearing House Perhaps when Shakespeare wrote, “All the world is a stage and we are merely actors,” he foresaw a world in which America’s wealthiest
11/14/2007 2:23:14 PM
New Urbanists on Campus March 7, 2003 Issue By Jonathan Lerner, Metropolis Thanks to the work of the Congress of New Urbanists and advocates like James Howard Kunstler, New Urbanism is experiencing a renaissance on college campuses around the
11/14/2007 2:21:44 PM
Got Solar? March 7, 2003 Issue By Special Report, Greenpeace “Aluminum foil is expensive.” “Yeah, and it doesn’t work anyway ” Last spring, on one of those glorious afternoons somewhere between the slushy remains of winter and the hopeful
11/14/2007 2:18:21 PM
Maybe you're already involved in the ever-expanding movement for peace.
11/14/2007 2:12:50 PM
Could this be the death knell for community and free radio?
11/14/2007 2:10:56 PM
Shock and Yawn March 7, 2003 Issue By Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com Last month the Pentagon revealed its “Shock and Awe” plan for an assault on Iraq. This strategy—named to glorify the heinous physical and psychological effects from which millions
11/14/2007 2:05:30 PM
Bush Nominates Tainted Insider for Key Energy Regulatory Post March 3, 2003 Issue By Staff, Public Citizen Public Citizen, a national nonprofit public interest group founded by Ralph Nader, reacted in no uncertain terms to news of Bush’s nomination
11/14/2007 2:02:21 PM
I Am Cyber Mann March 3, 2003 Issue By Staff, cbc.ca In fifth grade I was assigned to write an essay on the future integration of Artificial Intelligence and humanity. A consummate creative writer, I dashed off an elaborate
11/14/2007 1:55:36 PM
A Reich and a Wrong Way to Protect the U.S. March 3, 2003 Issue By Nick Garafola and Leif Utne, Utne.com Shortly after the news broke recently that the Justice Department was quietly preparing a new, improved Patriot Act,
11/14/2007 12:44:59 PM
Theatrical Dissent The Lysistrata Project February 26, 2003 Issue By Erin Ferdinand, Utne.com Artists around the world on March 3 will protest the invasion of Iraq by holding stage readings of Aristophanes’ anti war comedy, Lysistrata. Nearly 700 performances
11/14/2007 12:43:19 PM
U.S. to Punish German “Treachery” February 26, 2003 Issue By Peter Beaumont, David Rose and Paul Beaver, The Observer In response to Germany’s steadfast leadership of international opposition to a war against Iraq, the U.S. is threatening to withdraw
11/14/2007 12:38:45 PM
Bull’s Eyeful February 26, 2003 Issue By David Holthouse, Westword “It’s not a crime to simultaneously invoke your First and Second Amendment rights by posing naked with a gun in your hand,” writes David Holthouse in the Denver weekly
11/14/2007 12:36:50 PM
Pro Lomo February 17, 2003 Issue By Jules Head, Shift.com Members of the photography art scene yearn for the low tech ’80s, before everyone went digital and taking pictures was a simple matter of point, click, and wind. In
11/14/2007 12:30:42 PM
Bolivia Rocked by Violent Strike February 17, 2003 Issue By Erin Ferdinand, Utne.com Eight policemen and two soldiers were killed during a February 12 riot in La Paz, sparked by the announcement of a new IMF ordered salary tax.
11/14/2007 12:26:59 PM
Los Liars Latin American News Spin February 17, 2003 Issue By Staff, Americas.org On the rare occasions when you actually get to see mainstream news coverage of Latin American events, it’s important to keep the three D’s in mind.
11/14/2007 12:20:03 PM
Ground Zero Where the Buffalo Roam? February 7, 2003 Issue By Su Ciampa, Salon If New York City walking tour guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch had his druthers, the World Trade Center’s Ground Zero would be replaced with a green
11/14/2007 12:17:50 PM
Parting Words for Hilary Rosen February 7, 2003 Issue By Mark Moyes, Shift.com In a recent article on Shift.com, the Web site of Canadian digital culture zine Shift, online editor Mark Moyes lays out a stinted top 10 list
11/14/2007 12:14:47 PM
The CIA’s Copy Desk and The N.Y. Times February 7, 2003 Issue By Allan Wolper, Editor & Publisher Perhaps America’s newspaper of record should change its motto to “All the News the CIA Deems Fit to Print.” In the
11/14/2007 12:05:58 PM
Hyper Cars With Powerballs February 21, 2003 Issue By Scott Lewis, slweekly.com Stop wondering whether the hydrogen revolution will ever arrive. It has been happening since the industrial revolution, notes Amory Lovins, one of the world's foremost authorities on
11/14/2007 12:04:26 PM
Taking Liberties February 21, 2003 Issue By Joel McNally, Shepherd Express Camp X Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is where more than 600 prisoners from the war on terrorism are currently being held. Writer Joel McNally had the rare
11/14/2007 12:00:19 PM
The Straight Edge Scene February 12, 2003 Issue By Erica Dirksen, Wiretap Straight Edge is a movement that was spawned from the '80s hard core punk scene. Those who claim Straight Edge have sworn off drugs, alcohol and promiscuous
11/14/2007 11:58:22 AM
Gulf War 2 (a.k.a. World War 2.5) February 12, 2003 Issue By Erin Ferdinand, Utne.com Gulf War 2 (a.k.a. World War 2.5) is an interactive game that plays out one possible scenario of a war between the U.S. and
11/14/2007 11:51:22 AM
Paging Mr. Grisham January 27, 2003 Issue By Graham Brink, St. Petersburg Times The St. Petersburg Times reports that Lockheed Martin IMS Corp, the giant known mostly for its defense contracting work, is being sued for fraudulent activity and
11/14/2007 11:50:00 AM
Wanted What’s His Name Again? January 27, 2003 Issue By Steve Mollman, Wired News When the FBI announced that Adil Pervez was wanted for questioning, separate Internet postings declared that Adel Pervaiz and Adil Pervaz were wanted, too. The
11/14/2007 11:48:36 AM
Phil Donahue Wannabe Progressive? January 27, 2003 Issue By Dennis Hans, CommonDreams.org Once one of TV’s most liberal voices, Phil Donahue’s MSNBC talk show has grown timid, writes Dennis Hans on CommonDreams.org. The same Donahue to campaigned heavily for
11/14/2007 11:44:00 AM
Carpooling with Terrorists January 22, 2003 Issue By Arianna Huffington, detroitproject.com According to the people at www.detroitproject.com any American who drives an SUV may as well be shuttling terrorists to camp every time they fuel up. The campaign, sponsored
11/14/2007 11:38:40 AM
Betty Bowers America’s Best Christian January 22, 2003 Issue By Betty Bowers, bettybowers.com The whimsical Betty Bowers Web site was created to promote the book What Would Betty Do? How to succeed at the Expense of Others In This
11/14/2007 11:37:24 AM
Media Missing New Evidence About Genoa Violence January 22, 2003 Issue By Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), fair.org Remember the protests in Genoa, Italy, in July, 2001, when violent protesters demonstrating outside a G8 summit clashed with police
11/14/2007 11:35:29 AM
All Does in Favor, Stand Up January 17, 2003 Issue By James Randerson, New Scientist A new study conducted by Tim Roper from the University of Sussex, England, found that while deer and other animals have a dominant male
11/14/2007 11:34:16 AM
Ask a Simple Question, Get a Stupid Answer January 17, 2003 Issue By Norman Solomon, FAIR On January 6, moments after spreading some White House New Year’s cheer, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher attempted to proceed with the
11/14/2007 11:31:02 AM
TV News Gets Hip to the Hip Talk January 17, 2003 Issue By Karen Lurie, Poppolitics.com Picture a thugged out Wolf Blitzer rapping off news stories like Snoop Dogg, then switch to Christiane Amanpour live from Israel, “Yo, yo,
11/14/2007 11:29:48 AM
Institute for Applied Autonomy January 6, 2003 Issue By Chris Dodge, Utne magazine A Web based application to help New York City pedestrians find routes that avoid surveillance cameras. A van modified to print messages onto streets. A robotic
11/14/2007 11:28:22 AM
Making It January 6, 2003 Issue By David Brooks, The Weekly Standard Today’s college students are a confident bunch. Many have traveled to remote parts of the world building their resumes and know how to conduct a conversation about
11/14/2007 11:27:10 AM
Biotech’s Three Mile Island January 6, 2003 Issue By John Nichols, The Nation Last November, a Nebraska farmer planted a test plot of corn genetically modified to produce proteins for the treatment of diarrhea in pigs. When the “biopharmed”
11/14/2007 11:26:02 AM
Follow the Money January 13, 2003 Issue By Chuck Terhark, Utne.com Masquerading as a resource site that offers “100 percent accurate,” non biased reportage into the financing of activist groups, ActivistCash.com’s conservative veil is thin, to be sure. Just
11/14/2007 11:21:24 AM
Stopping Corporate Interference in Local Government January 13, 2003 Issue By Erica Sagrans, Utne.com On December 23, Utne Web Watch reported on the action taken by Porter Township, Pennsylvania, to become the first town in the U.S. to ban
11/14/2007 11:20:11 AM
The Beast 50 January 8, 2003 Issue By The Beast online magazine This top 50 list puts the celebs and political figures of ‘02 under the magnifying glass and burns them bad. While it’s surprising to see this year’s
11/14/2007 11:18:39 AM
Are You for Real? January 8, 2003 Issue By Natalie Alvarez, Maisonneuve Has anyone ever told you about their favorite brand of dog food, leading you to later buy it at the store? Ever hear someone rave about a
11/14/2007 11:12:48 AM
Genetically Engineered Food Alert Coalition December 23, 2002 Issue By Heather Dewar, Utne magazine Kraft Macaroni and Cheese – what does it bring to mind? Your days as a starving student with only a hot plate, a coffee pot,
11/14/2007 11:11:32 AM
At Whitman’s End? December 23, 2002 Issue By Chuck Terhark, Utne magazine While rumors of an impending resignation by U.S. EPA Administrator Chritine Whitman have been running through the Capitol mill for some time now, they’ve been dismissed as
11/14/2007 11:10:13 AM
Corporations Are Not People December 23, 2002 Issue By Erica Sagrans, Utne magazine On December 9, Porter Township, a municipality of 1,500 residents in northwestern Pennsylvania, became the first town in America to ban corporate involvement in their local
11/14/2007 11:07:11 AM
The Science of Love December 16, 2002 Issue By Nick Garafola, Utne Author Cary Parker asks the question If being in love is a good thing, then why do we say falling in love when the word falling has
11/14/2007 11:05:48 AM
Did You Bring Bottles?, web site review December 16, 2002 Issue By Nick Garafola, Utne Freelance web designer David Gwynn claims observing commercial architecture as his biggest hobby. When traveling outside his home town of San Francisco he makes
11/14/2007 11:01:25 AM
Declare Your Town a Civil Liberties Safe Zone December 16, 2002 Issue By Leif Utne, Utne In the face of the Bush administration's relentless drive to erode civil liberties under the banner of the war on terror, a novel
11/14/2007 10:58:35 AM
India's Online Gays, Pacific News Service December 11, 2002 Issue By Nick Garafola, Utne In a country where gay sex is considered a criminal activity, India's gays have adopted the Internet as the safest meeting place. At least 1,500
11/14/2007 10:48:27 AM
Make Your Own Bush Speech, web site review December 11, 2002 Issue By Erica Sagrans, Utne Ever dreamed of putting words in George W. Bush's mouth? With a visit to Make Your Own Bush Speech you can do exactly
11/14/2007 10:20:01 AM
Ivan Illich, 76, Philosopher Who Challenged Status Quo, is Dead December 11, 2002 Issue By Douglas Martin, New York Times Ivan Illich sociologist, former priest, thinker on issues of technology, education, religion, and science, died Monday, December 2 at
11/14/2007 10:14:54 AM
The Secret Life of Cheese December 6, 2002 Issue By Andy Smetanka, Missoula Independent A lot can be told from the taste of the cheddar cheese that comes from a tiny corner of Montana. That's because no other farm
11/14/2007 10:10:15 AM
Illegal Art Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age December 6, 2002 Issue By Staff, Stay Free magazine This web site promotes works of art that reuse corporations' commercial messages to create something new, and testing the boundaries of
11/14/2007 10:07:36 AM
Does Size Matter? December 6, 2002 Issue By Michael Scherer, Columbia Journalism Review In an age of fast paced diversions and shrinking attention spans, some think it's a wonder that long form magazine writing still exists. A trip to
11/14/2007 10:04:17 AM
Strong Bad Steals the Show, I Mean Game, I Mean . . . December 30, 2002 Issue By Nick Garafola, Utne All of the characters on this Web site are borrowed from an ’80s Nintendo game called “Tag Team
11/14/2007 10:00:44 AM
2002 The Good, The Bad, The Worst December 30, 2002 Issue By Don Hazen and the Alternet staff, Alternet.com “As years go, they don’t get much worse than 2002,” writes Alternet’s Don Hazen in his year end wrap up.
11/14/2007 9:59:32 AM
Please Stop Talking, I Have to Use the Bathroom December 2, 2002 Issue By Lisa Lutz, Friction Magazine Some people never stop talking, and some people, Lisa Lutz among them, just can't get away from these ramblers to find
11/14/2007 9:58:20 AM
Frida, Inc. December 2, 2002 Issue By Gretchen Giles, San Jose Metro Frida Kahlo Mexican painter, crippled bisexual Communist, wife of Diego Rivera, and original bohemian, has entered the spotlight again in Frida, the new film depicting her tumultuous
11/14/2007 9:35:48 AM
Hiding Past and Present Presidencies November 26, 2002 Issue By Kate Garsombke N ot since Richard Nixon was in office has there been such an effort to keep the work of a president hidden, says John Dean in Find
11/14/2007 9:34:27 AM
Brazilian Government Protects Rainforest November 26, 2002 Issue By Kate Garsombke Brazilian Government Protects Rainforest, Greenpeace Responding to a Greenpeace expose on mahogany forest logging, the Brazilian government recently announced it would suspend forest management plans in the Amazon
11/14/2007 9:31:42 AM
John O'Connor, Environmental Activist, Dead At 46 November 26, 2002 Issue By Sara V. Buckwitz John O'Connor, Environmental Activist, Dead At 46, Don Hazen, AlterNet Longtime progressive activist John O'Connor passed away on November 30 after suffering a heart
11/14/2007 9:27:38 AM
Botanically Correct November 20, 2002 Issue By Erica Sagrans Botanically Correct, Kim Todd, Grist Magazine Using terms such as 'alien' and 'invasive exotics' to describe non native plants distorts the debate that surrounds whether to protect native vs. foreign
11/14/2007 9:26:37 AM
Urge Moderate Republicans to pull a Jeffords November 20, 2002 Issue By Nick Garafola Urge Moderate Republicans to pull a Jeffords, Web site review by Nick Garafola, WorkingForChange Fighting for what you believe in is made easy online. Just
11/14/2007 9:25:17 AM
The Mall Where You Talk to God November 20, 2002 Issue By Erica Sagrans A ccording to management guru Peter Drucker, megachurches are "The most important social phenomenon in American society in the last 30 years." In the Minneapolis
11/14/2007 9:24:04 AM
Where the Boys Aren't November 15, 2002 Issue By Sara V. Buckwitz Where the Boys Aren't, Holly Lebowitz Rossi, Sojourners "Why do so many more women than men enter voluntary service?" asks contributing writer Holly Lebowitz in the progressive
11/14/2007 9:22:35 AM
Industry Milks Biggs November 15, 2002 Issue By Erica Sagrans Industry Milks Biggs, Josh Indar, Chico News and Review Got Milk? In addition to being the question asked by the milk industry's long running advertising campaign, 'Got Milk?' may
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