Award-Winning Clamor Magazine Launches Radio Clamor!

December 10 2003--Clamor Magazine will be launching the first episode of Radio Clamor to hit the streets and the airwaves in towns and cities across the country. We need your help to make this happen, so please take a minute to read more about this ambitious and much-needed project.

In four short years, Clamor Magazine has become an integral tool in amplifying the voices that are pushed to the margins — if they're even acknowledged at all. We looked around the newsstand and while we saw numerous progressive magazines, we didn't see one that offered its pages to the everyday people around the country who have just as valid contributions to make to public discourse as seasoned writers and journalists. it comes to featuring the thoughts and experiences of everyday people around the country. The tremendous amount of positive feedback we've received and an increasingly expanding community of Clamor subscribers would suggest we're filling an important void. Clamor was awarded "Best New Magazine" in Utne's Independent Press Awards its first year and has been nominated for "Best Cultural Coverage" every year since. Clamor's editors were also featured last year in Utne as two of thirty young visionaries who are changing the future. Founding editors Jason Kucsma and Jen Angel were also featured last year in Utne as two of thirty young visionaries who are changing the future.

To celebrate our fourth anniversary, we're thinking of ways to expand our mission even further. We want to find a way to include more people and also to offer a whole new platform for bringing to life the inspiring voices that grace Clamor magazine.

So, what would it take to enhance Clamor Magazine, to make it more resonant and booming? Why hi-fi stereo sound of course! We're excited to announce the Radio Clamor project. We're producing a 60-minute audio-magazine CD supplement to accompany the upcoming March/April 2004 issue of Clamor. What better way to expand the venue for creativity and freedom of expression? What better way to increase opportunities for people from a diversity of backgrounds? What better way to convince more people that each of us can and should participate in media, politics, and culture? The CD supplement will complement the print issue with original, compelling audio pieces inspired by the fascinating, quirky, and sacred way people and cultures deal with death. The program will include news reports, historical features, sound montages, music reviews, author interviews, personal stories, and politicized audio art. Contributors will be sending stories from places as diverse as Nigeria, France, Alaska, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and even death row. The topics range from the serious to the subtle, including global views on capital punishment, the history of a poorhouse graveyard/park, pedestrian musings on destiny and mortality, and near-death experiences from snakebites to crossing the US-Mexican border.

Clamor is thrilled by the many readers and contributors who over the last four years have expressed how much the magazine has inspired them, lit a fire under their butts, and exposed them to people and ideas they wouldn't have found anywhere else. Radio Clamor would amplify that effect, bringing the loud and continuous uproar of many human voices into the car stereos, CD walkmans, and kitchen radios of countless folks. And in addition to individuals, Clamor Radio will be distributed to community and public radio stations across the country with even more potential for reaching people, inspiring them to become the media, and strengthening the growing movement of people agitating for progressive social change through active creation of political and cultural alternatives.

We hope that after distribution of the pilot program, Radio Clamor will grow into a regular program. Many community radio stations take time out of their broadcasts a couple times a year to ask their listeners to support the station. Clamor also relies on our readers to support the magazine, and we're sure they're going to step up to support Clamor Radio once they hear it. But before we can get to that point, we need your financial sponsorship to get the Clamor Radio pilot up-and-running. As a supporter of projects working toward public participation in media and democracy, we're asking for your financial support. Any amount that you can pledge will go a long way to helping us move Clamor Radio from the editing room to the airwaves.

Please contact Clamor to see how you can get involved.




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