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 11, Number 8
Post Amerikan
Local Ob/Gyn Likes 'Em Scared, Reality Check at Unemployment Office, Fortification Award, Plastification, Keeping Warm, Godfrey Plays Politics with Freeze, MEG Agent Confesses, More Snitches, NARCS Turn New Trick, Letters, Community News, Officer Sanders ... etc, My Sister the Punk Rocker, Voices of the Steam Era, Pigeon Trappers Cruel, Hospital Birth, Brokaw Mangles Employee, Hets to Be Polled, Fasting, Your Urine or Your Life, NAACP Demo, God Moves in Mysterious Ways, Power Politics and Religious Tyranny, Falwell Flipflops, Gay v. Gay, Socialized Football Threatens
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Volume 11, Number 9
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One-WAY Ticket to Hell, What Reagan Has Done to Amerika, Reagan Hoods Rob Poor, America the Poisoned, Letters, Community News, Outrages Revisited, Amerikan Almanak, Not Sorry to See LaGrow Go, Pictorial History of Lost Houses, Sanders Roughs Up Suspect, No Progress in Sanders Investigation, Miscellaneous Outrages, Live Music in B-N, My Sister the Punk Rocker, Vaginal Self Help, Fasting--What to Expect, Top Gay Stories of '82, The Scandals That Weren't, The New Populism, Nuke Freeze Actions, No Gay in This Play
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Volume 11, Number 10
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Animal Experimentation, Sanders' Victim Seeks Compensation, Charges Thrown Out, Letters from Your Draft Board, Immune Deficiency Hits New Groups, $11.3 Million for AIDS, Rightwing Renews Attacks on Gays, Community News, Nuke Freeze, Fall of Mere Humanity (Book review), Toilet Paper in Bondage, Know Your Fascists, Alternative Law School Has Conscience, No More Pain Relievers for Public Aid, Scott Commission Ignores Need, 1984 Budget, Infant Mortality Increase, "Tootsie"--What's the Big Deal?, Support Grows for Gay Film, "Lianna"--Sensitive Film about Lesbians, Chemical Additives in Books, Amerikan Almanak, Premenstrual Syndrome: Why a Woman Can't Be More Like a Man, My Sister the Punk Rocker
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Volume 12, Number 1
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The Farce Is with Us, City Liquor Commission Hassles Bar Owners, Jeff Sanders Threatened Man at Gunpoint, Big Brother U.S. Pretends Isn't There, Miscellaneous Outrages, Amerikan Almanak, Proposed Rape Legislation Has Problems, Measles on the Rise in Ill., Don't Fall Under the Spell of Medical Voodoo, U.S. Troops in Africa, 'Stop Shock' Demonstrators Arrested, Nuke Freeze Won't Go Away, Defense Cuts Urged, Evacuation Plans for Zion Won't Work, When the Phone Rings Hang Up--Or Buy It, New Right News Griefs, Anne Frank Banned, The Way Has 'Queer' Hysteria, Athletic Support, Levi's--It's in the Jeans, Cable Comix, Art and Music for Rape Crisis Center, Reagan's Reign of Error, Shooting Out of Both Sides of Their Guns
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Volume 12, Number 2
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Whose Irresponsible Journalism?, Why Waste Your Time on Ag Census '82?, Local Banks Sting Senior Citizens, Wonder of Wonders, R.I.P. 4th Amendment, Just Another Commie Plot, Prof Fakes Credentials, Chicago Election Shatters Ideals, Lems' New Album Will Stir Your Spirit
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Volume 12, Number 3
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On the Local Music Scene, Detective Gets Wrists Slapped, Openness Best Defense Against Sexual Abuse, Vacuuming Vietnam, Lincoln Oil 'Flunks' Applicant, Praise the Lord and Pass the Nukes, Real Profs Don't Love Students, AIDS: What It Is and What to Do, Glad to Have the Right to Choose
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Volume 12, Number 4
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Blacks Outraged Over Liquor License Denial, AIDS Hysteria--The Second Epidemic, Shady Character Works at Tarvin's Mobile Homes, More Razzle-Dazzle About Unemployment, The Death of Religious Freedom, Small Changes Closes--But the Spirit Lingers On, Praise the Lord and Shoot the Blacks, Suits Charge Racism in Bloomington Police Department, Coming Out Strong Coming Out Proud in 'Frisco, The Only Good Injun Is a Dead Injun, Myths About Welfare Exploded, Natural Healing Worked for Endometriosis, The Sad Demise of Fink's, City State Help ISSCS Developer Get Rich
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Volume 12, Number 5
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Phoebe Gets a Phone, Normal Police Plan to Attend Parties, Landlord No Friend of Mine, More Poop on Employment Tests, Getting Fired for Peanuts, ISU Students Confront Racism in South Carolina, AIDS and the CIA Connection?, Learn to Hate Commies in Florida, St. Joseph's Dumps Nurses Aides, ISU Nearly Loses Student Legal Services, NBC 1 Female Athletes 0, The Undermining of Robin Plan
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Volume 12, Number 6
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'Give Peace a Chance' Exhibit Opens in Chicago; Sandinistas Defended at ISU; Lynn Webster Show Stuns IWU; The Rich Get Richer; Vet Fleeces Animals, People; Gay Fathers Shatter Stereotypes in Bloomington; Storm Troopers on Highway 51; AIDS, God and the Fear of Death; Making the Most of Leper-hood; McApartheid: Activists Score Victory; Japan: Industrial Utopia or Sweatshop?; When the Right Calls, Answer
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Volume 12, Number 7
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Crab Alert, Sugar Creek Packing Locks Out Employees, Workfare--An Alternative to Starvation, 'Big Chill': Big Thrill or Big Nil?, Public TV Presents Vietnam War History, Ronnie's Cavalry Invades Grenada, Sandinistas of the Poor, for the Poor, Requiem for a 20-Watt Bulb, What's a Legal Search?, Whistle a Happy Tune, Boy Scouts Have to, Catholics Don't, Who's Killing Religion?, Undecipherable Signs
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Volume 12, Number 8
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Glenn to Gays: Drop Dead; Billboard Guerillas Liberate Ad Game; 'The Day After'; With Enough Shovels They'll Bury Us; Sorry Lady, You Need a Penis to Fix This Zenith; Reagan Lies About Reasons for Grenada Invasion; Grenada Documents Don't Show What Reagan Claims; Quality Care Cutbacks at Fairbury Hospital; Bendectin: The Drug That Deformed; Let's Stop Fighting About Gun Control; The Whole World Is Waiting; Mom, Apple Pie, and Book Burning; Year of the Bible; Apartheid Remains in Place
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Volume 12, Number 9
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Police Subpoena Library Records in Hendricks Case, Dan White Is Out and Not Sorry, Liquor Commission Show Their Class, Tougher Laws for Drunk Driving, Hendricks Case Revelations Upset Dozier, Computer Predicts Dangers in Nuke Launch Policy, New Covert Narc Force Begins Local Round Ups, 1984 Theme of IWU Art Show, Holy See-Saw, Hi-Tech Babies in Bloomington-Normal, 'Something About Amelia' Opens Discussion, Protect Neighborhood Stores--Boycott Cub Foods, Troops Invade Angel Island, Water Department Enters Bloomington Homes Unasked, Locked in the Electric Sweatshop
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Volume 12, Number 10
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Water Department Home Invasions to Be Stopped, Live and Let Die, New City Utility Tax Proposed, Rape Myths Revived, 9 to 5 at ISU, Normal Officials Trespass at Student Party, Bloomington Human Relations Ordinance Changes Proposed, Gay Rights on the Move Again, Take the Sting Out of Xmas, Multi-Media Extravaganza Slated, Movie Reviews and Comments, Contraceptive Sponges Available, Alternative Olympics Proposed, Cutting and Pasting for Purity
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Volume 13, Number 1
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Our Father Who Art in Classrooms, The New Slavery, Workers' Rights--Where Do You Turn?, A Joy to Rent From?, Bloomington City Council Shuns Rights Debate, Patrolman Tom Sanders Sued Third Time, Rights Violations Due to Police Dept. Policies, Citizen Informant Spies for Secret Police, Water Dept. Home Invasions Halted Then Resumed
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Volume 13, Number 2
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Pick-Me-Ups That Calm Us Down and Keep Us Down, Pantagraph Exploits Gay-Related Story, Inside the Kremlin: The One Who Quit State Farm, You Said You Wanted Revolution, 'Reasons' for Death Penalty Are Inaccurate, Radio Station [WRBA] Ramrods Robin Plan, Bloomington Water Polluted Again, City Council Nixes Human Rights Coverage, Ex-Israel Supporter Feels Betrayed, Shut Down the Arsenal!, Ah Spring
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Volume 13, Number 3
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Whittling Away at The Dollmaker; Hysteria, Myths Won't Stop Sexual Abuse; The Forgotten Victims; So You Think You Obey the Law?; What Goes Up Comes Down; Uptown Rulers Release New Record; Covert U.S. Aid Behind El Salvador Death Squads; Call 1-800-BAD STUF: Report Anything; Normal Officials' Cronyism Costs Taxpayers; Sanders Shatters Woman's Windshield with Nightstick; HBO Looks at Gay America; Trapped in the Social Dis-service System
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Volume 13, Number 4
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Progress (1984 Style) Comes to the Pits; The Real Sexual Abuse Problem; New Sexual Assault Law in Review; Witness for Peace--A Visit to Nicaragua; Pantagraph Blows Big Bucks on Bash; Innocents in Paradise; Man-Boy Love Not the Evil It's Made Out to Be; Methodists Snub Gays, Follow Looney and Cocke; FBI Investigating Patrolman Tom Sanders; Three Little, Two Little ... No Little Imbeciles; Fairbury Nurses Fight for Respect and Power; American State Bank Loses Interest in Small Accounts; Gen-Tel Wants Lifestyle Changes
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Volume 13, Number 5
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Nameless Dread Faces the Police; Witness for Peace Returns from Nicaragua; Caravan Brings El Salvador to U.S.; Pollution Roundup; Tom Sanders Bashes Handcuffed Man with Flashlight; Student Ghetto Survivor Tells All; DCI Task Force: The Undercover Sex Police; The Sex Ring That Wasn't; DCI's Own Informer Brought Teens to Cooke's; Ates, Pentecosts Split Hairs Over Doctrine; New Balance or Old Blather?; Protest Rock S.F. Demo National Convention
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Volume 13, Number 6
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Fear in Somotillo, The New Nicaragua, Midwifery Still at Issue, Funbusters Not That Funny, Cub Fans Run Amuck, Reagan Court Assaults Privacy, Why We Need Gay Rights, When Your Rapist Is Your Husband, Marital Rape: Foundations for Legality, Detassling New York Style, Touchy About Tones, Pornography Is a Social Disease, Innocents in Paradise II, Weird Music for Weird People
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Volume 13, Number 7
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Christian Landlord Awaits Judgment, There's Always ... That Hope, The Dits: Air Supply They're Not (local music scene), News from El Salvador, Enjoy Your Thanksgiving Bird, Army Spends Billions on Turkey, ISU White Students Storm City Hall Over Party Issue (beer riots), The Condition That Prevails, E.T. Comes to Harlem, Falwell's 'Dirty Pictures' Seek Contributions
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Volume 13, Number 8
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There's Always ... That Hope, Part Two; Equal Time May Bite the Dust; Big Mama Manpower; Yes, Virginia, This Is Another Chr*stm*s Diatribe; Babes in Consumerland; Mauled for the Holidays; Post Benefit Cancelled; Dan White: An All-Amerikan Success Story; Too Hot to Handle; Rev. Bakker and Wife Deny Financial Hijinks; Test Services Forced to Look for Bias; Boycott Coors Beer; Myth California Exposed; Pantagraph Prints Lurid Drug Lies; Unfettered Music for Farsighted Fans
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Volume 13, Number 9
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B-N Tenant Blacklist Takes Nosedive; Office Wroan Sues Waitress for "Defamation"; Police Crackdown on "Known Derelicts"; School Officials, Pantagraph Have Short Memory; GTE Insensitive to Symbolism; Hostility to Dissent Pervades Reagan's First Term; Will Mitsubishi Be Good for You?; Vasectomy: His & Hers; Patch, Don't Replace Those Mufflers; DDT Alive and Well in Your Backyard; Clean Chimneys Are Safe Chimneys; New Technology/Same Old Greed; Urinary Tract Infections: No Honeymoon
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Volume 13, Number 10
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The Spies Who Lived Next Door; City Housing Inspectors Target Low-Income West-Side Neighborhoods; Another Look at Wildwood Industries; Osteoporosis: 'The Time Is Yesterday'; Patients Won in Staff-Administration Battle; Fantasy Fan Lured by Feminist Feelings; YWCA Investigated for Misappropriation of Funds; We've Come a Short Way, Baby; "Consenting Adult" Showed Gays in a New Way; Toeing the Landlord/Tenant Line
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Volume 14, Number 1
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Reading Skills Disconnected at Gen Tel, Court's Ruling Means Big Changes for Bloomington Police, Gays Convene in Madison, Music Reviews, To Be or Not to Be: Don't Lose the Right to Choose, Abortion Terrorism, Art and Music for the Rape Crisis Center, Life in the Electronic Factory, Miscellaneous Outrages, When the Falcon Flew the Fuzz Floundered, My Sister the Punk Rocker
