JOIN WITH US IN MAKING ^APPLEMAN WILLIAMS Stereotypes The Clinton 500 Pledge Iny Dee Name Phone Pleasereturn to Clinton St. Quarterly, Box3588, Portland, OR97208. Thankyou. Clinton St. Quarterly ome Birthing rn s Strong Hands § ™ore than 100 supporters have already pledged to contribute their $100. Don’t delay in helping us make publishing history. Each $100 contribution will be commemorated with a numbered certificate and a lifetime subscription to the CSQ. You will also be invited to a celebration of the Clinton 500. “Sophisticated. Aesthetic. Satirical, lyrical, literary, eclectic. It’s Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly and National Lampoon. ” * The Business Journal, November 12, 1984 nor oioooioa. puncioreo uw —- - — - Ss, rU D LI3nlnvi ^ PIRE | XVrd^ioeed.a^ SMB M V M8HMBW ^BB MM M J H a L z had raumoa mm ^ ^ B AHBQ g^^^KBBBVr B^B ^Bw SBV ' n 191tjtf a N I want to be a member of the Clinton 500.1pledge to contribute $100. But at this point in our history it is necessary for us to take the CSQ onto another level for it to grow and prosper. For the creation of the Clinton Street Quarterly all those years has been a labor of love. That must change in the near future. Long-term profitability of the CSQ requires us to expand to a larger market where 100,000 press runs, and the higher ad revenue that implies, are feasible. We have done excellent ground work in the Bay Area and have a top-notch development firm ready to raise $200,000 there for us to enter that market. With the wealth of talent in that area, the quality of the paper is bound to improve as we grow into a major voice of the West Coast. To take the next step in the journey, we need your assistance. To solidify the local operation so we are positioned to make the leap into the Bay Area, we are asking, for the firstand only time, for a financial boost. With the move into the Bay Area, we have the potential to be the magazine of our wildest imagination, all the while remaining headquartered in the city that has nurtured us. What a nice cultural reversal. To make this step we are creating the Clinton 500. Five hundred individuals or groups that donate a tax deductible $100 to launch us d in this new direction. We have come a long way since 1979 when the CSQ was laid out on a dining room table. This issue celebrates the completion of our sixth year, and we have endeavored to make it one of our most memorable. But we have barely scratched the surface of what we can become as a paper and as a society. Join us. " Address State □ Contact me to talk further about this c/iao&? dPear o f i de dar/t? dle^ations/if /udares? QJid /bate'm en? dear t/ie/n? Q/esert' vengeance} /Pas S /ridd/ed toitA scar tissue? Q)idd/ate- seco? । dudden/g neededto /nnae it childbirthing to its origins. I've been tortunate over the years in having as a friend a TP/at cou/d -d /dame orb dot. fttefd dag im G8af&? ^omfdsioe ■ or many of us, coming of age meant, above all, the belief that we could make our fantasies a reality. A bit innocent, to be sure. Consequently, it seemed quite natural that after years of shooting the breeze as to the failings of the local press, a few friends would join together in starting a newspaper. The idea was a simple one. There is awealth of underutilized talent and wisdom inthis society. If we could make a magazine that was truly outstanding, it would serve as as shining example of the possibilities that lie before us. Six years later we are printing 40,000 copies of each issue, split evenly between Oregon and Washington editions, and have become an influential forum in Portland, Seattle and Eugene. In the past four years we’ve won 32 awards from the National Society of Professional Journalists and now produce the most attractively designed and one of the most unique tabloids in the country. No other publication provides such diverse blending of art, humor, fiction, features and political analysis. Our articles on Latin America, many appearing before the national press discovered the issues, not only catalogued the history of U.S. involvement in the other Americas, but have provided the missing cultural perspectives on those countries and their people. We’ve looked at the untapped social and economic potentials of Northwest Regionalism and followed the Northwest's growing contributions to America's nuclear dependency from Trident to the Tri-Cities. In the last 20 years progressives have been right about so many things, from Civil Rights to SE Asia, from feminism to the environment, yet historically have found themselves discredited and generally ignored by the media. The Clinton Street Quarterly was created to reverse this trend. Because the paper is visually attractive and avoids rhetoric, the CSQ’s positions on controversial issues have struck a sympathetic r chord. The CSQ crystalized the campaign that helped stop the huge Cadillac-Fairview development planned Tor downtown Portland. It helped build support for the Black United Front's successful campaign to restructure the city’s busing of school children. And it buttressed the triumphant drive to stop the proposed, environmentally dangerous garbage burner in Oregon City. In each case, the CSQ was the only Portland paper to support the grass-roots activists. That's not all. In our brief history, we have published such internationally reknowned writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, E.P. Thompson, Petra Kelly, Carolyn Forche and Carlos Fuentes. And we've featured as well, some of the finest work of such regional luminaries as Ursula K. LeGuin, William Appleman Williams, ^Walt Curtis, Katherine Dunn, Lynn Darroch, Leanne Grabel, Rick Mitchell, Sharon Doubiago, Rick Rubin and Penny Allen. Our art features and illustrations have broken new ground, featuring the work of such artists as Jack McLarty, Lucinda Parker, Liza Jones, Fay Jones, Tad Leflar, Henk Pander, Lynda Barry, Michael Graves, C.T. Chew, John Callahan, Dana Hoyle and many, many more. This is not mere name dropping. The CSQ has tapped into talent no other Northwest publication has begun to touch. he sun rising over the Romono mountains was waking me when I first knew of him. At least when I was first conscious of knowing him. I was sleeping on my back on-the sum porch. My mother had said it will feel like faint little scratches from inside, very low. near the pubis. and when you realize its the baby moving you'll realize that you've been feeling it for several days. You |ust didn't know,what it was. l coll the beingTknevythen a "he" because I found this but later. At the time, the issue of gender was unim- portant. it was the least of considerations, the least of the experience I was having. I certainly didn't have a preference, though I think his father did. It was all tod newlor me. I felt so pqssive in that riverine light, in the enormity of the possession, the sense of being totally possessed. Maybe because I was so young, still just a girl in my parents house Was it his legs, his arms, his fingers scratching at me trom inside, so low? 4’ . months along. I lay there in the ray of sun feeling the human being inside me. kicking, hitting, grabbing, pleading, ho'ding.- The beginning. this is the hardest work they'll ever do. so ■Ration well, For it’s total surrender to a ^^^natural process. ^gMmericans have been ^B^see themselves as ^BBmreedom and democracy. ■Hn recent years, have world Beemed to turn against us? In this irkable article, historian william -nan Williams brings us lace to lace Radio
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