The Post Amerikan began publication in 1972 in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. An underground, alternative newspaper, it was run collectively by volunteers and funded by subscriptions, ads sales, and community fundraisers. The paper was published from 1972 to 2004, making its 32 years the longest continuous publication run for any underground newspaper in America.
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Volume 2, Number 9
Post Amerikan
Danger: Nuclear Power Plant to Locate Near Clinton, Behind the Counter at the Red Wheel, Gen Tel Employee Spills the Beans, Police Practices Questioned Again, Appeals Committee Meets on Gillenwater Case, How Women's Work Works, Rape Not Considered Harmful, Alternative News Briefs, Dick Freeman Trucking Begins National Co-op Network, The Farmworker and the Beatitudes, Boycott Wine!, $61.7 Million Bomber, "Tonight We Bombed the Latin American Division of ITT", Aerosols Glue and Other Pollution, Big Wally's Rebuttal, Godfrey Responds, Pig-Bits, Inscape
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Volume 2, Number 10
Post Amerikan
Vidette Caught with Dirty Hands, Monopoly Control Helps Explain High Housing Costs, Gerald Ford Not Really So Clean, Workers Strike Against Farah, Gen Tel Response, Police Offer Comes Too Late, Spacehead Notes, On the Rocks, Alternative News Briefs, Maurice Stans Tight with Local Big Wheels, Almonds Cancer and the F.D.A., Legal Street Sheet, U.S. Companies Behind Arab Oil Embargo, Record Reviews, Son of God Cosmics, What Makes the Golden Arches Shine? (McDonald's Waste)
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Volume 2, Number 11
Post Amerikan
Fat Cat Wesley Gas Drinks (Oil), Police Violence, Pizza Hut Exposed, Judge Campbell's Rulings on Divorce Criticized, Police Beat Suspect: Eyewitness Tells, How I Got Busted on My Summer Vacation, Was Sumner Beaten in County Jail?, Women's Center Sponsors Program: China, Being White and Working Class Women, Theatre Review: The Point, The Crap Is..., Alternative News Briefs, On the Rocks, Energy and Power, Who Pays Taxes?
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Volume 2, Number 12
Post Amerikan
Black Is Beautiful But Lov-Le Is White (racist firing), The Brief Rise the Rapid Decline & the Final Fall of the Abyss, MIAHPCo Obituary, Nazis in Bloomington, Illinois Art Show, Bloomington-Normal Men's Group, GE's B-1, Sheriff King/County Jail pull-out section, Notes from a Lesbian Activist, Alternative News Briefs, Watergating Against the SWP, Military Buildup in Iran, Letters, Typical Day in Court, Poems, Movie Review: Fantastic Planet
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Volume 3, Number 1
Post Amerikan
Police Accused of Breaking and Entering, Midwest Marketing Exposed, The Philippine Challenge, People's Food News, Thoughts on Gay People & Their Parents, NFOTM Has the Blues and Some Cajun Music Too, Sheriff King [4-page section], Banker Speaks with Forked Tongue, Alternative News Briefs, Suspect Loses Tooth to City Police, Vincent Van Gogh and the People's Cultural Revolution, Records Reviewed, Movie Review: The Last Detail
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Volume 3, Number 2
Post Amerikan
City Treasurer Breaks Ethics Law Again, Township Meetings Explode, More on Sheriff's Police Incidents, Prisoners Write About County Jail, High School Madness, Senate Exposes GM Aid to Nazis, Third World Opposes Rich Nations at U.N., Reflections on Men, Exploring Lesbianism
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Volume 3, Number 3
Post Amerikan
Police Brutality and County Jail, Phony and Real Food, Krueger and Schneider Revisited, ISU President's House, Sewing, People Events and Prison Reform, Rape Crisis Center, Birth Control Warning, People Food News, Calling All Men, Dear Mr. Prezident, Poemz, News Briefs, Three Marias Acquitted
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Volume 3, Number 4
Post Amerikan
IUD Warning, Plastic Causes Cancer, Men's Group Column, Atomic Energy and Safety, Road Ahead, Red Lion and Cops, Cuba Visitor, News Briefs, Zappa Review, People Events, Colfax & Funks Grove Bash, Normal Musical Implements Guild
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Volume 3, Number 5
Post Amerikan
Mandarin Cafe, Vidette Censorship, Gerald Ford, Hairy Legs, Cop Reprimanded, LNS Briefs, Public Aid: the Frying Pan & the Fire, More Letters on King, Sharp Slams County Clerk, Getting Over, Anti-Abortion Plot, Culture, Book Review, Indian Woman Railroaded in Court, AFL-CIO Backs UFW
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Volume 3, Number 6
Post Amerikan
A Worker Speaks Out, Republican Picnic, Normal-Bloomington Men's Group, Bloomington Police Pickets, Raw Meat Deal, B.B. King Review, Recipes, ACLU Juvenile Justice Program, Poems, Criminal Complaints Filed, United Farm Workers, Pregnancy Journal, Your Rights if Arrested, Martin Sostre News
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Volume 3, Number 7
Post Amerikan
Letters, Men's Column, Pantagraph Printing Again, Illinois Higher Ed Boondoggle, Indict King Movement, County Jail Demonstration, Recipes, Their Backs Against the Wall, Pregnancy Journal, Rape Crisis Line Report, Sheriff King and Neglect of People
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Volume 3, Number 8
Post Amerikan
Re-Opening of King Probe?, Twin City 6 Blast Official Cover-Up, University Liquors Drops Gallo, Dr. Rudnicki Still at It, Overpopulation & Fascism, Albee-Waters Named in Tenant Complaint, New County Jail Complex, Gen Tel Strike 1974, A Gay Man's Rap to Straights, Example of Fascism, Anti-King March, Getting Over, Letters, New Jail Beating, More King Stuff, Their Backs Against the Wall, U.S. Support of South Africa, Narc Exposed?
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Volume 3, Number 9
Post Amerikan
ISU Racism, Landlord Problems: Albee-Waters, Landlord Problems: Streenz, Vegetarianism and Feminism, Pregnancy Journal, Home Birth, Dr. Rudnicki, Sheriff King, Krueger and Schneider, Sugar Consumers, Nursing School Exposed, Kerasotes Takes Over, Project Oz, Poetry, Lesbian Nation, Steak and Shake
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Volume 3, Number 10
Post Amerikan
Albee-Waters and "Dirty Tricks", Woman Replies to Letter on Rudnicki, Bloomington Day Care Center, Rudnicki Named Again for Needless Abuse of Patient, Contemporary Look at Food, UFW Support Groups Begin Local 1975 Campaign, Pregnancy Journal, Peoples Bicentennial Comes to Twin Cities, Continuing Saga of Sheriff King, Mass Sterilization in Puerto Rico, Getting Over men's page, Alternative News, Vegetarianism and Health
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Volume 3, Number 11
Post Amerikan
MEG Alliance with ISU?, Normal Kops Lose Their Pants, Twin-City Unemployment, How to Lie w/ Statistics, Rudnicki, Abortion, Letters, State Investigation and Builders, Bicentennial page, MEG Exposed, Movie Review, Lesbian Nation Rap, Cystitis Exposed, Pregnancy Journal, What about the Water?, Fixing Cars, Vegetarianism, Classy Fried Ads
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Volume 4, Number 1
Post Amerikan
Sheriff King; Don't Buy Tuna; UPW, ISU & CIA; ISU: Pressure on the Job; Sexism in Ed Psych Text; Firestone Unveiled; Consumer Section: Del Nevius Appliance, Harjak Motors, Speed Tips; Pauper's Guide to Music; Cable Rip-Offs; Rites of Spring; Reviews: Comix, Book, Movie; Search & Seizure; Rape Crisis Centrer; Letters & Thots; NFOTM April Events
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Volume 4, Number 2
Post Amerikan
Normal Plays Santa Claus for Out-of-Town Landowners, State Farm's Flag Stolen in Bicentennial Action, Charges Against City Treasurer Quietly Dropped, Ballot Stuffing at the Normal Town Meeting, Woodstock Township, MEG, Normal's Big Cocaine Bust, Kameny Urges Gay Offensive, Residents Organize Against Albee-Waters Attempts to Destroy Neighborhood, Firestone, Sheriff King, Wantling Recalled, Farm Organization Bucks Middlepeople
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Volume 4, Number 3
Post Amerikan
Whatever Happened to Mental Health Services?, MEG, Urban Renewal, UFW, People's Park, OSHA
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Volume 4, Number 4
Post Amerikan
Those Ol' Hot Summer Recession Blues, Farm Workers Victory, Bey Resigns, Narc Photos, Abortion, Tenant Story
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Volume 4, Number 5
Post Amerikan
The Cable Connection, King Picks His Nose, Narc Pix, Mall Bust, Parking Payoff
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Volume 4, Number 6
Post Amerikan
Women & Men: Sex, Divorce, Self-defense, V.D., & more; Nose Contest Winner, Twin City 6 Trial, Jail Abuse
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Volume 4, Number 7
Post Amerikan
MEG Paranoia & Other Tales, Bicentennial Poll, Offensive Stars and Stripes
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Volume 4, Number 8
Post Amerikan
ACLU vs. MEG, Scerb Hearing on Rites, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Portrait of a Narc, MEG's Breakfast Treat, Letters, Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows, Flip Side of Nostalgia, Cont. Saga of Sheriff King, Brent DeLand, Alternative News Service Briefs, Food Stamps, Flag Desecration, Robert Lenz, National Flag Organization, Monty Python review, Grass Roots, Classifried Ads, Ethiopia, Bicentennial Page, Bloomington Police Dept. Shifts
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Volume 4, Number 9
Post Amerikan
Medical Care, M.E.G. Chows Down, Dr. Rudnicki, Zionism & Racism, Tenants Get Justice, Big Mac
