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 17, Number 2
Post Amerikan
A Funny Novel, Serialized; Double Nickel Reviewed; Advertising Ridiculed; Local Digitized Temperatures Confused; Who Gets Hurt When Too Many Animals Co-Exist?; God's Existence Debated; Community News and Letters; Trial of Protesters Detailed; Lotsa Pictures!; Visitor to Nicaragua Gives Account; Ways to Save the Environment; Don't Poke at That Fetus; Ms. Hippie's Advice to Yuppies; Dissatisfactions with Our Culture: Skinny Chauvinism and Loose Usage; Jackson Victory Reviewed; Film Stuff Mourned; Journalism Review: What They Don't Say About a Strike; Gay Stuff: Record Review with Enticing Quotations; Men Turn Monsters at Whiff of Spring
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Volume 17, Number 3
Post Amerikan
Post Writers Review 4 Quick Lunch Joints in Downtown Normal, Universities Host Blanditude and Disease, Ugly American Trappers Convene, Symbolic Actions at Missile Sites Net Busts, Flaming Atheist Explains Her Point of View, Gays Take Over...At Least on These Pages, Miscellany, Ms. Hippie Gives Invaluable Advice on Boys and Sex, Bad Kids vs. Redneck Pigs, AIDS Awareness Week
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Volume 17, Number 4
Post Amerikan
One Day in the Lives of American Children, Reflections on National Coming Out Day, The New York City Gay Men's Chorus, The Straight Cruise, Hate Crimes Act Dies in Senate, Gannett Newspaper Chain and Honest Journalism Clash, Junk Food Junkies, Open Letter from Convicted Peace Activists, The Student Movement in Guatemala: Fighting for Its Life, Boycott Nestle, Post Predictions for 1989, Let's All Shop By Mail, Community News, Black Kiss Comics Reviewed, Dear Ms. Hippie, For the Love of Animals, The Myth of Equality, Musings of an Ex-Xian
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Volume 17, Number 5
Post Amerikan
Animal Rights: How Far Do They Go?, Film Review: Mississippi Burned, Comic Book Album Documents CIA Thuggery, At Home in the Police State, Musical Reflections: Remembering the Tom Robinson Band, CD Review Readers Agree: Just Say No--to Homophobia, Bush-Whacking; Bloopers, Blunders, and Nancy, Too; In Search of the Mythical Sun, FDA Okays Mail Order Drugs, Normal Vegetarian Cuisine, 'Roseanne' Strikes a Blow for Fatness, Jim and Tammy Faye ... Come Clean, "And Now Presenting the B.(unch) O.(f) P.(ricks)!", Cool TV for Young People
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Volume 17, Number 6
Post Amerikan
Dangerous Liaisons Review, Post Amerikan's Good Feminist Primer, Iowa Meat Packer Framed by Packing Plant, Shopping for a Better World, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Surrealism, More Revelations About Gannett News Chain, Bizzare [sic] Gyration, DXL Comic, Play the Post Amerikan Game, The Dread Scott Game and the Horrors of the VFW, Community News, Sex Respect, The High School Counselors' Project, IGLTF Applauds Dixon, Guatemalan Agricultural Works Strike, Uppers and Downers
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Volume 18, Number 1
Post Amerikan
The Good Feminist Primer Lesson #2, RAF Rift: Relatively Speaking, The Results Are In: Post Amerikan Opinion Poll #2, Chapter 5 of "To Live and Die for Unicor", El Camino Cruel, Christian College Tries to Sabotage Black Voters in OKC, Central Park Rape: Moral Indignation Isn't Enough, Courthouse Under Siege by Rabid Feminists, Extradition Practices Abusive, Primary Intent: Reflections on the Chair, The Politics of Video Mania, Hope I Die Before I Get Old, Oh Abbie We Hardly Knew Ye, Roe vs. Wade, Uppers 'n' Downers, Gays of Our Lives, Lambda Hires New Staff Attorney, Guatemalan Guerrillas Punish Finca Owners as Massive Human Rights Violations Continue, Memories of a Massacre
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Volume 18, Number 2
Post Amerikan
The Dress You Can Never Part With: President Bush Sets a Pattern for the '90's, Gay Stuff, Summer Vacation, Theatre, Smoking
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Volume 18, Number 3
Post Amerikan
Sterilize the Rich, Save the Planet; Reviews; Coming Out Day; Feminist Primer
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Volume 18, Number 4
Post Amerikan
X-mas Cheer, U.S. Drug Disinformation Frames Cuban Government, Community News, Gay and Lesbian News, Summing Up the 1988-89 Supreme Court Term--Bad News for Civil Liberties, Law and Justice in D.C., Fan Mail, U.S. Aid to Salvadoran Death Squad--NO!, Nestle Boycott Continues, Information and Contacts for Activists, New Reference Books, Fascism and the Arts, Helms and the NEA Gag Political Art, Dear Ms. Hippie
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Volume 18, Number 6
Post Amerikan
Uppers 'n' Downers, Animal Rights News, Glory: Whose Glory?, Earth Day 1990, Community News, Letters, Sometimes I Feel Like a Childless Mother, On Being Parents, How to Bring Up Your Parents Gay, Bye-Bye Babies, The Kiddie Kollege Kurriculum, Circumcision, Deciding Against Motherhood, Teach Your Children Well, Lesbian?, Dear Ms. Hippie, Women's History Month, The Farmers' Fight, News from Lambda, Action Access, Romanovsky and Phillips to Rock B/N!, Turn the Channel to Deep Dish, Women and AIDS, ACT UP / CI
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Volume 19, Number 1
Post Amerikan
Letters, Classy-fried Ads; Community News; Summer Sleuthing: Reading in Equipoise, Hip Publications; Quiz: "How Far Left Do You Really Lean?"; Animal Rights, New Coalition on Psychiatric Oppression; Updates on "Tongues of Flame" Exhibition, "Obscene" Art; Illinois Gay Task Force News; National News from Lambda; Outing, AIDS Task Force Update; Quiz Answers; Uppers and Downers, Tenant's Tempest in a Toilet; Feminist Primer: Nurturing, Postmodern Orgasms; Letters to Ms. Hippie; Cartoon: My Sister, the Iconoclast; Voice for Choice Boycott List: Businesses and Medical Practices
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Volume 19, Number 2
Post Amerikan
Women's Bodies and War Criminals; My Trip to Amerika's Siberia; Lambda News; Gayla; Why I Hate the Catholic Church; Voice for Choice Update; Dear Ms. Hippie; Feminist Primer; Shut Up and Deal; Quiz: How Far Right Do You Swing?; Confessions of a Straight White Male; Community News/Letters; ISU Stuff; News from Operation Recycle; Corporate Fascism; Impure Thoughts; Uppers 'n' Downers; Benefit; Join the Post Amerikan
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Volume 19, Number 3
Post Amerikan
The Normal Family, Investigative Reporting: Anti-Choice Finances and Tax Files
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Volume 19, Number 4
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Community News; Letters; Dear Ms. Hippie; News from Lambda; Catalyst for the Environment, PETA News; Sex, Lies, and a Videotape: Voice for Choice Visits Bloomington's Pregnancy Crisis Center; AIDS and Chemical Dependency, New Support Group Forms in Peoria for PWA; New Feature: The African-Amerikan Primer #1: A, B, and C; Keith Haring's Work to Come to ISU Galleries; Teddyboy Rants; Gelatin Controversy; The Failure of Capitalism; Feminist Primer #10: T is for Texas, Thatcher, Tramp; Uppers 'n' Downers; Christmas Presence
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Volume 19, Number 5
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Community News, New Bigotry, Peace Through Reconciliation, GALA Plans Spring Events, Lambda News, The Silver Mitre Awards, PETA News, I Never Thought That I Would Miss the 1980's, ACT UP/CI: One Year of AIDS Activism in B/N, Dispatches from the Anti-War Movement, African-Amerikan Primer, Feminist Primer, A Death in Missouri, Dear Ms. Hippie, An Open Letter to Charlotte Bronte, Eating Vegan in B/N, Letters, Uppers 'n' Downers
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Volume 19, Number 6
Post Amerikan
Community News; Countering Hate Groups in Your Community; Kill, Spill, and Capitol Hill; ACT UP News, Campus Politics; Women; Men Form Coalition Against Rape; News from Voice for Choice; Jeanne Dunning Photography; Holly Near in Concert; Dear Ms. Hippie; Feminist Primer: Uterine Slavery and Violence; Uppers 'n' Downers; Lambda News; Book Review; Animal Rights; PSU Calendar of Events; PSN/ACT UP Plan Demonstration; Leger the Cat
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Volume 20, Number 1
Post Amerikan
Community News, Animal Rights, Voice for Choice, News from Lambda and GALA, Coalition Debate, African-Amerikan Primer, Censorship, Book Reviews, Pushing the Photo, Feminist Primer
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Volume 20, Number 2
Post Amerikan
The Normal Family: A Year in the Life, Puzzles & Games, Summer Vacation, Local Stuff
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Volume 20, Number 3
Post Amerikan
The Continued Attack on Reproductive Rights, El Salvador, Professor Hill, Trainyards
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Volume 20, Number 4
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AIDS in a new package; Those pesky environmentalists are at it again; March for Guatamalan solidarity; Those crazy Guerilla girls, what'll they do next?, Cloud 9 is 7th heaven; As Socrates said: "What did you put in that drink?"; Lambda is on the case; What do old Italians know about activism that you don't?
