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Volume One, Number 9 · September 2000

Rescuing the Age of Chivalry
by Zoe Mulford
A review of Patricia McKillip's The Tower At Stony Wood, with associated reflections on chivalric romance, its limitations, and how McKillip reinvents it.
3 September 2000

Tank
by Collin Williams
tank animation
3 September 2000

Beyond Melbourne and Prague: An Exhortation to Local Action
by Kendall Clark
The worldwide movement to oppose corporate globalization continues apace in Melbourne and Prague; when will you bring it to your town?
3 September 2000

Cats and Philosophy, no. 1
by Zoe Mulford
Confucianly finicky cat.
4 September 2000

Participate in the Dream
by Collin Williams
Animation of Martin Luther King, Jr. and faces of inmates executed in Texas in 2000.
4 September 2000

Language and Power: Robert Coover's The Public Burning
by Jeremy Bushnell
Jeremy Bushnell offers a fine review of a fascinating book, Robert Coover's The Public Burning, a Pynchonesque telling of the story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
7 September 2000

A better way to "buycott" the RIAA
by Dru Oja Jay
A simple way to bypass the record industry and support artists.
8 September 2000

The Moral Life of Geeks
by Kendall Clark
In a society that is increasingly undemocratic and fascist, what moral dilemmas do technically-minded people face, and how might they resolve them?
10 September 2000

Intellectual Brute
by Zoe Mulford
A portrait of your average Monkeyfister.
11 September 2000

Fatboy
by Collin Williams
We have been bombing and starving Iraq regularly for the last ten years. If that ain't evil shit I don't know what is.
15 September 2000

Raking Gore's Muck
by Kendall Clark
Al Gore is the only realistic choice for President in 2000. So say many white progressives. And yet Gore stinks from his own political muck. Cockburn and St. Clair's new book demonstrates why.
18 September 2000

Kill Your Car: Celebrate World Car Free Day
by Kendall Clark
Kill your car, and the rest will follow.
21 September 2000

World Groove
by Collin Williams
A cross-cultural celebration of dance.
22 September 2000

Dallas Rocks World Car Free Day
by Kendall Clark
Dallas, Texas, Land of the Enchanted Smogmobile sees its first Critical Mass on World Car Free Day 2000.
22 September 2000

"After all, there's a war on."
by Bijan Parsia
A bit of antiwar stuff inspired by Samuel Delany's Triton and The Fall of the Towers.
23 September 2000

The Denial of Empire
by Collin Williams
A visual response to Bijan's post 'After all, there's a War on.'
24 September 2000

S26 Dallas
by Kendall Clark
The global day of action, S26, comes to sleepy Dallas, Texas.
28 September 2000

INPEG Calls for Solidarity
by Kendall Clark
As police repression heats up in Prague, a call for international solidarity must not go unheeded.
28 September 2000

Monkeyfist supports Iraqi Humanitarian Aid
by Bijan Parsia
Our new Paypal setup makes it easy to donate.
29 September 2000