1994 Utne Reader Magazine Alternative Press
No fake news here, just the facts about what was important in the 90's
When everyone battled the Walmart superstores, (but now embrace them), being black in America meant fighting for position amoung all many other races and cultures, and when Starbucks Coffee started a revolution.
The best of the alternative press No 66 Nov/Dec 1994
Cover Stories: Coffee Madness and Be a Traitor: Renounce Whiteness
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Back cover Vintage advertisement for the 1995 Toyota Corolla.
It appears that since 1994, not much has really changed, in fact most of the articles cover topics that are litterally imploding in the media these days.
Table of Contents Includes :
IMPERIAL HOLLYWOOD ........Stewart Brand & Camille Paglia Wired
Are you sure you don't have an African ancestor?........Adrian Piper Transition pg 87
African-American intellectuals debate-race ........Pamela R. Fletcher pg 89
Blackness in multiracial America ........Karen Grigsby Bates Emerge
IN PRAISE OF GORE ........Andrew Klavan Boston Review pg 94
THE MIGHTY WEDGE OF CLASS ........R. Todd Erkel Family Therapy Networker 100
COMMUNITARIANISM: REMEMBER THIS WORD ........Allan Winkler Times of London 105
WHAT'S YOUR COMMUNITY QUOTIENT? ........Jamie Stiehm The Nation 109
INDIVIDUALISM RUNS AMOK ........Charles Derber Tikkun
MUDDY WATERS ........Mark Schapiro 58
Two VIEWS OF STARBUCKS : ........Mark Schapiro & Robert Gerloff 66
A RANT AGAINST THE NEW COFFEE CHIC ........Helen Cordes 68
ECOBREW: CHOOSING ORGANIC COFFEE ........Hilary Lane E Magazine 69
WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT COFFEE? ........Lynette Lamb 72
REFLECTIONS OF A TEA CO VERT ........Bill Rosenzweig 76
IN BRIEF
LIFE BEYOND THE DEMOCRATS: THIRD PARTY POLITICS ........David Futrelle 17
POP IMPERIALISM: JUST PART OF THE MIX ........Will Hermes 19
THE HEALING POWER OF QI.. ........Nina Rothschild Utne 28
ORTHODOXY: A WESTERN EASTERN WAy ........Danny Duncan Collum 32
I FEEL, THEREFORE I AM ........Catherine Gysin 37THE OTHER GLOBAL ECONOMY ........Craig Cox 41
GLEANINGS
MALL RATS ........Randolph Louis Viscio As We Are 131
How TO STOP WAL-MART ........Albert Norman The Nation 133
CAN L.A. LIVE WITH LIMITS? ........Donella Meadows Neighborhood Works 136
LESBIANS AND WORK-BOOT CHIC E. ........J. Graff Out 138
POLITICS OF SLEEP ........Robert C. Solomon Social Anarchism 139
How TO BE ANNOYING ON-LINE Chip ........Rowe Spy 140
How SOULS UNFOLD ........bell hooks The Other Side 143
U.N.C.L.E. (Cities & Nukes) ........4
MIxED MEDIA (Russia's mystical moviemaker: ........Andrey Tarkovsky) 119
ZEITGEIST (What's alternative mean anymore?) ........Jay Walljasper 154
Interesting:
[quote] because large numbers of people feel that the electoral political process does not promote and protect their interests, that forces other than ordinary voters are really in control," writes political activist and 1992 third-party presidential candidate Ron Daniels in Z Magazine (Sept. 1993). "Given the disproportionate influence of big money over the electoral political process, elections are a charade [that] masks the real power, privileges, and control of the corporate elite."
No not much has changed since 1994...