Fwd: LiP | The "Unwelcome Stranger" Issue | 09.26.03

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> LiP Readers:
>
> The first new online edition of LiP in several months - The "Unwelcome
> Stranger" Issue, focusing on (though not confined to) the issue of
> immigration, is now available, awaiting only your eager eyes to fulfill
> its destiny.
>
> http://www.lipmagazine.org
>
> The "Unwelcome Stranger" Issue:
>
> Wherein: Tim Wise zealously and thoroughly debunks myths about
> immigration, Kari Lydersen explores the impact of Sept. 11 on immigrants
> in the first in a three part LiP series, Franklin Rosemont explores the
> revolutionary poetics of Surrealism, Justin Podur interviews Toronto-based
> activist lawyer Amina Sherazee about repression and dissent, Tim Kreider
> and Shannon Wheeler make their usual superb hand-drawn contributions, and
> new music reviewer Ava Mendoza explains the highly politicized rebellion
> of freely improvised music and Why You Should be Listening to It. And
> finally, in "The Redeemer," official "American Humorist" Greg Hischak
> shares an alternative universe pity party for the once-mighty monopolist,
> Bill Gates, reduced by packs of government lawyers to subsisting on
> nothing more than interest income.
>
> http://www.lipmagazine.org
> _________________________________________________
> THE LINEUP:
>
> DEFENDING THE UNWELCOME STRANGER: THE TRUTH ABOUT IMMIGRATION
> In this time of renewed Nativist impulses, perhaps we would do well to
> revisit some of the more traditional anti-immigrant rhetoric, so as to
> demonstrate the fallacies that permeate the discourse and restore some
> sanity, not to mention accuracy, to the debate over this important issue.
> | by Tim Wise
> http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featwise_immigrationexcerpt.shtml
>
> LIVING IN TERROR: UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS SUFFER IN POST-SEPT. 11 ERA
> Even though the United States prides itself on being a "melting pot,"
> immigrants have always suffered racism and xenophobia from their
> neighbors, exploitation from their bosses, harassment and abuse from the
> police and neglect or persecution from the government. In this first
> article in a three part series focusing on U.S. immigration policy in the
> post-Sept. 11 era, Kari Lydersen explores the cross-border economic and
> political divide.
> http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featlydersen_immigrant1.shtml
>
> WRITING THE MARVELOUS: SURREALISM, REVOLUTIONARY POETICS, AND THE
> CONTAGION OF ELEPHANTS
> The Surrealist movement, often misrepresented simply as a school of
> painting, was in fact founded by poets, and the Surrealist idea of poetry
> departs radically from prevailing conceptions. Founded in the chauvinistic
> aftermath of World War I, Surrealism put the accent on freedom, starting
> with the freedom of the imaginary. | by Franklin Rosemont
> http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featrosemont_elephants.shtml
>
> WIDENING THE PARAMETERS OF REPRESSION: THE LAW, ACTIVISM and "TERRORISM"
> "There has always been a degree of overzealous policing and surveillance
> of political agitators," says Toronto-based immigration and human rights
> lawyer Amina Sherazee. "Even before 9/11, there was an escalation against
> activists in general, against anti-globalization and environmental
> activists in particular. The intention of the state is to create a chill
> effect, to create an internal backlash even within movements." | interview
> by Justin Podur
> http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featpodur_sherazeee.shtml
>
> A FAR-TOO-BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO FREELY-IMPROVISED MUSIC
> Free jazz and free improv in their inceptions were highly political, a
> rebellion against the musical establishment. Today, the political
> connotations of improvised music are still very much in existence, and a
> kind of emotional of spiritual anti-capitalism often comes into play in
> these cases, as an emphasis is placed on the process of music-making
> rather than on the product. | by Ava Mendoza
> http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featmendoza_freejazz.shtml
>
> SIGNS OF LIFE with JACK WRIGHT
> This is one of the hands-down prettiest albums of improvised music I've
> ever encountered. Melodic fragments creep in, intertwine and dissipate
> into extraordinarily lovely, alien textures, or abruptly wheel to grapple
> with sparse, spastic fractures of sound.
> http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/revimendoza_signsoflife.shtml
>
> THE REDEEMER
> Even though his given name is William, I think I'm safe in saying that we
> all know him as "Bill," and so that's what my check for $20.00 said: Bill
> Gates. It wasn't sent to alleviate guilt or anything, I just felt bad and
> wanted to help him out with a little pocket money. His spigot of income
> had dribbled to precious drops of bitter comfort for parched monopolist
> lips, I hurriedly wrote in my Where Did You Go Today? spiral-bound
> notebook. I was consoled that Bill's lakeview property could, in a pinch,
> be mortgaged to finance any Montessori tuitions that the kids would
> require in the future. | by Greg Hischak
> http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/feathischak_bill.shtml
>
> ...you must come to the site to see this issue's sterling editorial
> cartoons: http://www.lipmagazine.org
>
> -For the LiP Editorial Collective,
> Brian Awehali
>
>
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