clamor

Clamor Magazine is closing shop. According to Civil Defense, subscribers will receive a letter soon announcing this decision:

We’re writing to you today because we’ve decided to stop publishing Clamor. We set out to create an independent magazine that would bulldoze borders, defy dogma, and inspire instigation. We wanted to create a magazine that extended the vibrancy of the underground zine community to a larger general audience and share the enthusiasm and energy we saw in our fellow do-it-yourselfers. We intended to redefine the progressive magazine. And while we feel like we accomplished those goals at various stages, one goal we never fully realized is that of making Clamor economically sustainable.

… The obstacle of servicing old debt on an otherwise sustainable project while also negotiating major shifts in the magazine industry have proven too burdensome for us to continue publishing. But effective movement media doesn’t need to last indefinitely to be successful. We’re confident that many people have been inspired to do great things after reading about others doing the same in Clamor. We know this because we’ve been consistently inspired by the stories of struggle and triumph in Clamor. And while we’ll miss that, we’re also confident that there are independent media projects being born at this very moment with even greater promise.

For more info, read Josh’s post here.

no thanks to thanksgiving

AlterNet republished the piece they ran by Robert Jensen last year on this day:

One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.

al jazeera english

Al Jazeera launched its English-language station yesterday. According to this BBC story,

Al Jazeera English will initially broadcast for 12 hours a day before becoming a 24-hour news operation from 1 January.

It will be broadcast from studios in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC, in addition to 20 other countries.

It will be availableto 80 million homes — double its target audience — in Europe, Africa, and south-east Asia.

In the United States, the channel will be available via a broadband internet connection, but not distributed by a major cable or satellite system.

right to vote

Just flew in and out of Rhode Island. We did it! The Right to Vote campaign restored voting rights to 15,000 folks on probation and parole through a ballot initiative in Tuesday’s election. For more info, click here.

Register to vote! If you are among the 15,000 Rhode Islanders who just got their right to vote restored, click here to register to vote.

Check out Tuesday’s election results here.