war

This Zine includes diary entries, poems, song lyrics, open-letters and essays in response to 9/11 and the US War on Terror.

"This zine is only one tiny tale in an epic story and history/herstory/theirstory/ourstory that is being lived and written now in Burma. I spent 4 months living and working with women in Burma's pro-democracy movement in 2004."

this issue, released October, 2006, focuses on everyday transactions in business, leisure, and warfare.

it has screenprinted covers and 40 offset printed inside pages printed by Eberhardt Press.

this first issue to have contributors includes work by:
jesse connor
erik ruin
k.f. sanders
matt sesow
nicolas lampert
josh macphee
brandon bauer

8.5" x 7"
1000 copies made

[information taken from http://ideasinpictures.org/gallery/zines/MatthesC_iip5_stack]

Reprint of the article "Top Ten Reasons Why Canada Needs A Debate About Afghanistan" from PEJ News, March 20, 2006. Lists the "top ten reasons (ignored by the mainstream media) why we do need a national debate" about Canada's role in Afghanistan.

Reprinting of a four page leaflet written in 1991 by revolutionaries from Iraq and Britain about the uprisings in Southern Iraq and Kurdistan. Includes an interview titled "The Class Struggle in Iraq- An Interview with a Veteran" first published in 1991. Zine was published in May 2003 bu One Thousands Emotions and March 2006 by firestarter press.

Topics covered include rape, nuclear energy, mining, blood diamonds, the World Bank, landmines, and the arms industry.

A historical overview of world politics in the summer of 1914, written as news bullletins. Information collected from primary sources salvaged from the Russell's Bookstore in Montreal.

Short comic about the Samurai loyalty code of customary suicide to escape imprisonment and disgrace.