Alternative Press Notes

Welcome to the Spring 2001 is- sue of Alternative Press Re- view! We are publishing a couple of original articles on alternative culture in this issue. Adam Bregman reports on Italy’s cultural underground in “Social Centers” and Patrick Marley explores the issue of freight-hopping in “The Other Side of This Life.”

Other features include an in-depth interview with Edward Said on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Noam Chomsky delves into the economic and military interests behind “Plan Colombia” and Andy “sunfrog” Smith looks at the history and philosophy of ‘free love’ in “Group Sex: Communal Ethics of Eroticism, Free Love and the Extended Family.”

Of particular interest to muckraking journalists is Jane Akre’s story “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Story We Weren’t Allowed to Air.” This case and its implications for investigative journalists deserves far more attention that it has received from the mainstream corporate press.

We were forced to shorten the review section considerably this time around because of the sheer amount and length of feature material that was included. Unfortunately, this meant that a substantial number of reviews were left out, especially with regard to the music review and zine review sections. We plan to expand the review section in our next issue so that we can include all the reviews that didn’t get published this time.

A number of new and current subscribers have asked about the possibility of paying for subscriptions by credit card. We are not equipped to take credit card orders at this time, however, we are seriously looking into it. It is our hope we will be able to set up a system where subscribers will be able to order new subscriptions and pay for renewals by credit card in the near future. This includes making it possible to log on and subscribe or renew your subscription directly from the APR website (www.altpr.org). We hope to have this option available sometime later this year.

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the current issue.

- Tom Wheeler

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Updated: 8/4/2001