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 14, Number 2
Post Amerikan
USS: A Fishy Answer, Moving Parts Moves Into B-N Music Scene, New Right Groups Infest U.S. Politics, Remember When Dotson Was Just a Car, Why Should I See a Foreign Film?, Nicaragua Under Siege, Whoops! Did We Really Say That?, Cardinal Toes the Gay Rights Line, Phone Sex Under Attack
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Volume 14, Number 3
Post Amerikan
Reagan Returns in Teen Horror Classic, The FBI Spies Again...and Again, Your Friend the Phone Company, The Rape of Richard Beck, We Scream at "Silent Scream", ISU Student Acquitted in First Beer Riot Trial, Bloomington Pays $4500 for Police Brutality, YWCA Slides by Township Board, Another Superb Gay Documentary, Onward Christian Soldiers
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Volume 14, Number 4
Post Amerikan
Landlord's Promises as Leaky as His Roof; State's Panty Raid Is a Bloomer; Hope, Bones, Breeders, Bits; What's New in Fast Foods?; Shut Down the Arsenal; Civil Disobedience: Protesting Contra Aid; Witness for Peace Documents Contra Tactics; U.S. Press Ignores El Salvador Air War; Vasectomy Pays Off; Abortion: A Woman's Point of View; ACLU Joins Gays in Struggle for Equality; Pantagraph "Misses" the Mark; The Underground Barfly
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Volume 14, Number 5
Post Amerikan
The Underground Barfly, AIDS in B-N: The Stigma as Bad as the Disease, Take a Bite of the Apples, Racism Hits Local Bar, Phoebe Finds a Hero, God's Plan for Humanity--Heterosexuality, WESN Back in Business, Parents Answer for Kids' Crimes
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Volume 14, Number 6
Post Amerikan
The Underground Barfly; Lehr Bites the Dust; GTE Threatens Physical, Mental Health; State Says Nix on Frisky Dicks; AIDS Is Caused by a Virus; Moss Grows on the Rolling Stone; Farm Aid--All Wet?; Rock 'n' Roll Dreams Can Come True; Embroidering Our History: Judy Chicago's Birth Project
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Volume 14, Number 7
Post Amerikan
WESN: The Empty Spot on Your FM Dial; Thieves Explain Crimes; Home Birth Directory Available; Swastika Decorates Republican Entryway; Normal Officials Defy Court Order; Rock Island Arsenal Besieged; Deputies Start Fight: Local Woman Gets Broken Neck, Six Months; The Post Amerikan's Recommended Chr*stm*s List; Marcos Jails Philippine Writers; NEA Under Fire for "Pornographic" Poets; "Kiss of the Spider Woman"--Biting Realism; Do What to Your Neighbor?; Poster
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Volume 14, Number 8
Post Amerikan
Normal Backs Down: Anti-Militarism Sign Can Stay, The Dream Lives On, Post Amerikan Benefit and Auction Slated, Abortion: The Right to Choose, McHeartattacks: Fast Food Fryout, Action Potential: A Stimulus for Change, Not Tit for Tat, That Hope's "Eight Dollar Hat" Sneaks Up on Listeners, Benefit Poster
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Volume 14, Number 9
Post Amerikan
Inside the PA: True Confessions, Goodbye to the Hissing of Summer Lawns, Return of Cointelpro?, Abuse Mishandled in Circus, Coroner's Juries Say Shrinks' Scripts Help Kill 2 People, A Diary of Psychiatric Drug Use, Book Review: Dr. Caligari's Psychiatric Drugs, Break Down Language Barriers, No Help from Zone, Challenger Tragedy, Rock Out for Rebels, Book Review: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Volume 15, Number 1
Post Amerikan
Shuttle Safety vs. P.R.: P.R. Won, Voters Say 'No' to Middle School, Parenting Prejudices Prosecute, Central America Week Activities, Lawyer Explains U.S. Violations of International Law, What's the Meaning of Jeans?, Remembering Haymarket
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Volume 15, Number 2
Post Amerikan
Urine Trouble on the Job, Are Dictators Solely Responsible?, Greenpeace: Just Folks Protecting the Earth, New Labels Drive Women Crazy, Reaganland Off Balance, They Did the Mantra Mash
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Volume 15, Number 3
Post Amerikan
The Underground Barrister (DUI Advice), Get Your Asphalt off My West Side, Beer Barons Dump Workers, Police Wage War on Peace Day, Nuclear Weapon Free Chicago, The Militarization of Honduras, Counter-Intelligence Cabaret, Miscellaneous Animal Outrages
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Volume 15, Number 4
Post Amerikan
Madigan Gets Casket After Contra Vote, Big Court Says: "Stick It in Your Ear", Bloomington Police Target Small Users, Women's Music: Ready for Change?, Born for Change, Officer Sanders Pulled Gun During '84 I.S.U. Beer Riot, They Killed My Sister, City Closes West Side Country Club, Mural Celebrates Local Labor History, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Skateboarding, How You Can Avoid Searches of Your Car, All Quiet on the Western Front
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Volume 15, Number 5
Post Amerikan
When the Long Arm of the Law...; Alexander Lumber; Kaleidocoverage: What Hath Scott Wrote?; Beauty School Can Be Ugly; Indian People of Big Mountain; How They Learned to Love the Bomb in Amarillo; Modern Music, Ancient Memories; Mural Tells of Workers' Struggles; My Sister the Iconoclast; Religious Oppression in Chicago; After-Dinner Chicken Musings; Take a Stand Against Trapping; Comedy of Errors at Capen; Here Comes the Clampdown; Wheat Crackers; Men's Magazines; How to Write a Post Amerikan Story
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Volume 15, Number 6
Post Amerikan
Owen's Ex-Employee Tells All, Some Tips for Coping with Your Utility Companies This Winter, Letters and Community News, Ex-Cop Talks About Officer Sanders, Draft Prosecutions Taper Off, Drug Testing and So On, The Desert Heart Lacks Soul, Good News Is No News, Vets Fast for Life, Midwest Delegation of Witness for Peace and CIA Caught, Stop the Lies and "Peasant of El Salvador", Underground Vegetarian, Tom Hayden: Friend or Big Brother?, Underground Barfly
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Volume 15, Number 7
Post Amerikan
A Vacuum Cleaner That Really Sucks, PVC Plastic Pollutes Environment, Animal Outrages, Stone Soup Really Cooks, Pope Declares Open Season on Gays, The Rebirth of Wonder Woman, AIDS Testing in the Military: A New Witchhunt?, Have a Roly-Poly-Holy X-mas, You'd Better Watch Out, 'Tis the Season, Enforcing Draft Registration, Public Access Comes to Bloomington-Normal, Ex-CIA Agent Confirms Our Deepest Fears
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Volume 15, Number 8
Post Amerikan
Dying for Dollars, Women's Music Musings, Welcome in 1987--50s Style, Special Comic Pull-out Section, Miscellaneous Animal Outrages, Scandal Scorecard, U.S. Student Delegation Visits El Salvador, Be All That You Can Be: Anywhere but the Military, What's in a Name?
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Volume 15, Number 9
Post Amerikan
Mayor Sells West Side for $2.50, Panelogical Pinheads, Comic Book Heroine Saves Central America, Censorship More Dangerous Than Porn, Is That My Phone or Their Cash Register?, National Guard in Central America, Polite Dialog with Madigan Ends in Horror, Army Wants Peace Groups out of High Schools, Civil Rights March Invades All-White Town, Platoon: Insight Through Murder, Miscellaneous Animal Victories (for Once), Attitude Problems, California Dreamin' 'Bout Leavin', The Underground Glutton
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Volume 16, Number 1
Post Amerikan
Trash Moving In Next Door?, Nazis and Fallout Shelters, Human and Animal Rights, Yellow Alert, International Beat, Letters, Classy Fried Ads, Community News, Reach Out and Kill Someone, Hidden Homeless and Comics Shop Bust, Grim Nuclear History
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Volume 16, Number 2
Post Amerikan
Anti-Bashing Laws: Breeders Run Amuck, Talkin' Sandinistan Revolution Blues, Nerve Gas, For the Love of Animals, AIDS, Happy Birthday!, Settlement Lets Peace Groups in High Schools, Letters, Community News, Hanford Chemical Plant, Classy Fried Ads, Cable Comix, The New Sobriety, Perverse Ideas, Coors Banned in Boston, ERA, GM, Mantra Mash '87 Artluck, Passed Normal Review, Post-Amerikan: Solid Past, Shaky Punctuation
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Volume 16, Number 3
Post Amerikan
Domestic Violence Victims to Have a Place to Turn; Kaleidoscope Bashing in Bloomington-Normal; 67 Arrested in Suburban Protest Rally; Police Pester Posters; Draft Resister Imprisoned for Non-Registration, Activism; Everybody Needs Some Body, Sometime; Michigan Womyns Music Festival; Keep Your Hands to Yourself; Iran-Scam Explained; Pope Go Home; Reagan's AIDS Commission; AIDS Needs Aid; Community News, Classified Ads and Book Review, Sexual Diversity: A Better Answer, For the Love of Animals; The Underground Vegetarian
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Volume 16, Number 5
Post Amerikan
A Visit to Electric Coffee; Changing and Unchanged; The Watkins Resignation--A Personal View; Constitution Loses Ground; There's No Place Like Home and You Can't Go Back; Your HIV Status--Do You Want to Know?; Miscellaneous AIDS Outrages; Principal Victim of Police State Tactics; The Underground Panelologist; Balrog's Best; Captain America--In Step with the Times; North, Poindexter Win Double-Speak Awards; God Changes Mind, Backs Robertson; The Underground Barfly
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Volume 16, Number 6
Post Amerikan
Vidette Story Exposed; Ask Ms. Hippie, Our New Advice Column; Will El Salvador Explode? Well, Probably; Ecuador Story Covered in Two Very Different Ways; Robertson Deep-Sixes Own Past; Near Side Cartoon; Post Mail; The Return of Our Animal Lovin' Correspondent; Community News; Pig Course Boondoggled Through ISU; District 87 Turns to Competency-Based Learning; Homebirth and Midwifery--A Hopeful New Alternative; Outrageous Opinions About Reproduction; Comix Galore; A Review of Lambda's Latest AIDS Publication; State AIDS Testing Ridiculed; Stupid Anti-Drug Ad Ridiculed; GPA Calendar; Gay Comic Reviewed; Campaign Posters Ridiculed; Tummy Tucks, No Thanks! and Gays Can Be Cannon Fodder Too; Sexism Is Alive (Even on the Left); First Effluvium and the Book of Armaments Quoted; Barflies Go Downtown, Where All the Lights Are Bright
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Volume 17, Number 1
Post Amerikan
A Look at the Ideal Future of Birthing, OSHA Works Against Safety and Health, Brutal and Dangerous Rabbit Factory Approved, Community News Breakthroughs, Underground Artist Remembered, Movie Review in Alternative Form, The Controversial Ask Ms. Hippie, Is God Dead? You Tell Us, Nancy Reagan Ridiculed and Berated, Praiseful and Vitriolic Letters, Presidential Candidates' Stands on Gay Rights, The Underground Barfly Hits Mugsy's and Pub II
