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The Spring 2006 issue of Alternative Press Review is now available:

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Political Tiddlywinks and Global Ecocide
Alternative Press Review editorial

The Katrina and Iraqi debacles are bad enough, and we are right to be
outraged, but they are political tiddlywinks compared to the ecological
catastrophe looming ahead.

Articles available online:

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Dumbing Us Down: An Interview With John Taylor Gatto
By Terry Everton

If anyone is qualified to intelligently analyze the institution of modern
schooling, it's John Taylor Gatto. While teaching in the public schools of
Manhattan for 30 years, Gatto was named New York State teacher of the year
as well as New York City teacher of the year three times. Then, at the
height of his teaching career in 1991, he published an essay in the Wall
Street Journal titled "I Quit, I Think" and promptly quit. Since then, Gatto
has traveled the world lecturing and writing about the perils of his former
profession. His first book, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of
Compulsory Schooling, has become a modern classic of today's home-schooling
movement. His latest book, The Underground History of American Education,
chronicles the often-chilling origins of our schooling system, and details
why and how children are damaged by it. Extensively
researched and thoroughly documented, it is the standard by which all
critiques of compulsory schooling must now be compared.

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Mbanna Kantako: Human Rights Radio Warrior
By Chris McClarren

He's humble. He's funny. But don't let that deceive you. His insights reveal
the wisdom of an experienced sage who has gone through hell and returned. He
will tell you like it is for an African captive in America using radio
without the "permission" of the government for almost 20 years-to reach,
educate and free his people. This man fully embodies his name, Mbanna
Kantako, which means "resisting warrior" in the ancient language of Bambara.
He calls his radio station (106.7FM in Springfield, IL) and radio network
"Human Rights Radio." In his words, its all about knowing you have
"intrinsic value" and learning to stop answering to "bells, whistles and
liars."

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Book Review-Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology
Reviewed by Ron Sakolsky

Left liberals in the United States laud Canada as a sort of parallel
universe: a North American welfare state paradise where everyone has health
care; foreign policy is about international peacekeeping; and a national
propensity for politeness is translated into public discourse as civility.
It's a mythic place where anger doesn't exist (except perhaps on the hockey
ice), and anarchism is as genteel as a George Woodcock poem. Anyone, in the
US or elsewhere, harboring such illusions will find Allan Antliff's
extensive compilation on the Canadian anarchist milieu since 1976 an
illuminating read. The book-which grew out of a lecture series that Antliff
organized at the Toronto Anarchist Free School-features reprints from a
sprawling array of journals, zines, flyers, posters, artwork, and web sites
mixed lovingly with assorted ephemera and accounts of anarchist gatherings,
bookstores, and infoshops, book fairs, autonomous spaces, reading groups,
squats, protests, traveling musical caravans, and communities of resistance.
In short, it documents not only the politics-but the political culture-of
Canadian anarchism, though its main emphasis is decidedly Anglophone.

Additional articles in the print edition:

Noam Chomsky Interview
By Steven Durel

Common Ground: Mutual Aid Works in Post-Katrina New Orleans
By Michael Kozart, MD

Bird Flu: A Corporate Bonanza for the Biotech Industry
By F. William Engdahl

What's Wrong (and Right) With Indymedia
By Jennifer Whitney

The McLibel Interview: Helen Steel and David Morris talk about their fifteen
year legal battle with McDonalds

The Great Green Scare
By Jeffrey St. Clair

Doctor Doctor, Give Me the News
By Daniel Price

Art and Propaganda
By Kari Lydersen

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Table of Contents

This issue of APR includes cartoons from Terry Everton, Latuff, Stephanie
McMillan, and Andrew Wahl, along with the Bits & Pieces column, plus zine,
magazine, and book reviews.

Alternative Press Review is an independent magazine of reviews and reprints
from the liberatory side of the alternative press. Published quarterly, APR
seeks to promote the alternative and radical press as well as other
alternative and radical media. APR features both full-length essays and a
selection of article excerpts in each issue, along with original coverage of
alternative media issues, institutions and personalities.

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