Tipping the Sacred Cow
The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt, 1996–2007

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

6
Introduction
12
If Women Ruled the World 
Nothing Would Be Different
Lisa Jervis
20
I Love to Burn the Flag 
Sometimes the stars would ignite first, sometimes the stripes. Sometimes, the whole thing would go up in a blaze of Old Glory.
Neal Pollack
22
Whiteness and the Future of the Planet 
Tim Wise
34
Native Energy Futures
Renewable Energy, Native Sovereignty,
and the New Rush on Indian Lands
Brian Awehali
40
The First Thanksgiving 
So we bought up the land, and the Native people already there would retain the right to inhabitation in perpetuity—it was all in a contract, and the lawyer who drew it up was even part Native American!
Christy Rodgers
44
Make Media, Make Real Trouble
What’s Wrong (and Right) with Indymedia
Jennifer Whitney
56
Litterbug World 
Overproduction, Waste, and the Limits of Recycling
Ariane Conrad interviews Heather Rogers
68
Five Finger Discounted 
The Uses and Abuses of Shoplifting
Justine Sharrock
76
The LiP Theft Ethics Quiz 
What Kind of Thief Are You?
78
Spectres of Malthus 
Scarcity, Poverty, and Apocalypse in Capitalist Modernity
David Martinez interviews Iain Boal
87
Common Uprisings 
From the Great Mexican Land Grab
to the Reclamation of Everything
Jeff Conant
96
Remote Control Hip Hop 
Culture, Power, and Youth
Brian Awehali interviews Jeff Chang
104
The Evolution of Revolution 
Words with emcee and activist Boots Riley
Neelanjana Banerjee
110
Participatory Patriarchy and
Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags
 
Why the Gay Rights Movement is a Sham
Mattilda, AKA Matt Bernstein Sycamore
118
Gender Pirate, Gender Ninja 
Under the glow of the disco ball, anything is possible.
Nadyalec Hijazi and Ted Infinity
123
Bad Vibes 
Poison Pleasure Products?
Brian Awehali and Lisa Jervis speak with Jessica Giordani
127
Lunchbox Hegemony 
Kids and the Marketplace, Then and Now
Dan Cook
134
The River vs. Water, Inc. 
Antonia Juhasz interviews Vandana Shiva
144
Darwin vs the Ant 
The Altruism of Bugs and Humans
Erin Wiegand
158
Every Cockroach is Beautiful to Its Mother 
Kari Lydersen
164
Madness and Mass Society 
Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry, and the
Rebellion of True Community
Brian Awehali interviews Bruce Levine
172
The Politics of Poop 
The adoption of the squatting attitude would help remedy the greatest physical vice of the white race, the constipation that has become a contentment.
LiP Editorial Group
174
Amenities 
To alleviate some of the bad feng shui that came with gentrification, the property management company left an actual artist in each of the units.
Greg Hischak
178
Missionary Positions 
Mother Teresa in Black and White
Danny Postel interviews Christopher Hitchens
185
No Small Dreams 
The Radical Evolution of MLK’s Last Year
Michael Eric Dyson
189
Redefining Progress 
An Indigenous View of Industrialization and Consumption in North America
Winona LaDuke
200
Color Conscious, White Blind
Race, Crime, and Pathology in America
Tim Wise
208
Who’s White? 
Race, Humor, and the new Black/Non-Black Breakdown
Brian Awehali speaks with damali ayo and Tim Wise
212
Conveying Correctness 
The Prefabrication of Political Speech
Brian Awehali interviews Chip Berlet
216
Profit, Control, and the Myth of Total Security 
Ariane Conrad and Brian Awehali
222
Life After Death 
A Gleefully Morbid Exploration of Cadavers, Body Donation, and Human Composting
Erin Wiegand interviews Mary Roach
231
And the Future Is... 
“The future is what you make of it” isn’t just some annoying optimists’ platitude, thanks to the ministrations of professional futurists.
LiP Editorial Group
233
Commencement 
As I look out on your avid faces, at the sea of eyes that glitters before me, I can only think back along the long road that has led us to this momentous occasion.
Christy Rodgers
APPENDIX
237
Theft Ethics Quiz Answer Key
240
A Glossary of Terms
A selection of newly-minted and underused terms and phrases for your propagating pleasure.
244
A Somewhat Brief History of Possible Interest
254
Editor’s Letters
265
About the Contributors

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ISBN: 1904859739 | ISBN-13: 9781904859734
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For over a decade in print and online, LiP: Informed Revolt concocted a deeply imaginative, iconoclastic mix of politics, culture, sex, and humor that took clear, sometimes uproarious aim at mass mediocracy and capitalist miserabilism. All volunteer, never for profit, and always criminally underdistributed, LiP's diverse crew of co-conspirators devoted ourselves to imagining and articulating a vernacular radicalism unencumbered by the political deadwood of the day.

Collected herein are the finest fruits of our award-winning efforts: the very sharpest salvos from the oddly dangersome, overwhelmingly larcenous, vaguely apocalyptic, constructively negative, relentlessly persuasive, curiously unflinching, and often grossly unexpected pages of the best magazine you probably never heard of.


FEATURING, AMONG MANY OTHERS: Vandana Shiva, Winona LaDuke, Lisa Jervis, Jeff Chang, Tim Wise, Brian Awehali, Erin Wiegand, Mary Roach, Boots Riley, Eric Drooker, Hugh D'Andrade, Mona Caron, Mattilda AKA Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Heather Rogers, damali ayo, Michael Eric Dyson, Timothy Kreider, Ariane Conrad, Jessica Giordani, Iain Boal, Jeff Conant, Neal Pollack, Jennifer Whitney, Neelanjana Banerjee, Antonia Juhasz, Justine Sharrock, Bruce Levine, Kari Lydersen, Ariane Conrad, Christy Rodgers, Danny Postel, and Christopher Hitchens