Clamor Magazine - Stop the Presses

LiP and HearattaCK were easier losses to bear, but CLAMOR held an important role in my education and life for a time, and I am really bummed to see it go. Having lost a few of my own publications over the years to various causes, I have nothing but sympathy for the CLAMOR crew and its supporters.

As I understand it, the info shop continues—yes? But is there any word on the Allied Media Conference?

Yeah, they are continuing both the infoSHOP direct service and the Allied Media Conference. I didn't get to go to AMC this year, but two of the other kids that work Fall of Autumn with me went and tabled for us, they had a great time.

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Alan from fall of autumn zine distro and ZineWiki.

Damn that was a great magazine..
I can't help but wonder if their expose on American Apparel played any role in their demise (given their adjustment of their publication cycle, I doubt it). At least there's still magazines out their like "In These Times" and "Z".

Still, sad nonetheless. Jen Angel and I have been friends since she cut her teeth in the cleveland punk/riot grrl scene and I always respected her ability to organize motivate and still be a great person. The allied media conference was instrumental in my reinsertion into the the zine scene - which lead to the production of some great projects with incredibly talented people (including Blister Packs). I have this board and that conference to directly thank for those endeavors.

While I was never a fan or reader of Clamor, I respected and was awed by the dedication and consistency of their coverage and scope. i am sad to see the magazine go.

the american apparel threat was a bit overstated. i'm a little surprised they haven't stuck it to the IPA any more than they have, but I guess that's sort of punk planet's job.

to wit: damn you IPA for killing off CLAMOR!!!!

hey, that felt kinda good.

Probably you're receiving the same email, but for the sake of information:

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Greetings Clamor Friends and Family,

So, the rumors are true. We’ve decided to stop publishing Clamor. After seven years of bulldozing borders, defying dogma and inspiring instigation, the financial obstacles involved with publishing an independent magazine have become too great, and it’s time to move on.

Seven years ago — almost to the day — the WTO Protests in Seattle were shaking the foundation of the world and we were hunched over our keyboards editing, compiling, and designing the first issue of Clamor. That first issue set in motion a project that would go on to publish art and articles by over one thousand people throughout the world — many of whom had never had their ideas and work seen by a mass audience. Over the years we’ve heard from readers near and far that this little magazine we've created helped folks feel connected to a global community of individuals and groups working to make this world a little better. We can’t take that to the bank, but knowing we did that for seven years and 38 issues will have us forever beaming.

Clamor’s future seemed so promising earlier this year when we brought on Mandy Van Deven and Nomy Lamm to help with the publishing side of Clamor. With their help, we were able to deepen conversations about issues of power and representation regarding race, class, gender, queerness, and disability within our staff that we had not been able to fully engage. We put together an Advisory Board of people whose perspectives could help guide us in articulating a broadly defined movement while becoming financially sustainable. Mandy decided to merge her magazine, Altar (a forum for critical thought, coalition building, artistic creativity and activism) into Clamor in order to combine resources and communities. We began a process to transfer legal ownership of Clamor from Jason and Jen to Mandy and Nomy with the ultimate goal of creating a worker-owned cooperative. We published an issue featuring an exposé on American Apparel that was downloaded by over 11,000 people online and garnered us some “fighting words” from American Apparel’s public relations department. And we threw the second Clamor Music Festival in October to celebrate independent arts and media with hundreds of people across the country. We heard from many readers that the Body issue was our best work so far.

One of the saddest things about this is that the Food issue will never be released. So close to completion – literally in the final stages of layout - but thousands of dollars away from the printer, this will remain Clamor’s “lost issue.” We considered putting it online, but have chosen instead to allow writers to shop their pieces to other independent publications. Magazines like Bitch, Punk Planet, Left Turn, Herbivore, Tikkun, and others (Kitchen Sink, Colorlines, etc.) who are still managing to survive in this difficult market. Please support them.

Effective movement media doesn’t need to last indefinitely to be successful. We’re confident that many people have been inspired to do great things after reading about others doing the same in Clamor. We know this because we’ve been consistently inspired by the stories of struggle and triumph in Clamor. And while we’ll miss that, we’re also confident that there are independent media projects being born at this very moment with even greater promise.

The Allied Media Conference and our online distribution projects (infoshop and infoshopdirect), two important projects launched in conjunction with Clamor Magazine, will not be affected by the closing of the magazine.

Please go to the infoshop to order back issues and other merchandise, and consider making a donation, which will help us to pay off some of our debts, to writers, artists, independent media makers, and the like.

If you are a subscriber and you have not received a letter in the mail from us, please email us.

Thank you all. With this great project laid to rest, we trust that everyone in the Clamor family — editors, writers, proofreaders, artists, and subscribers — will have no trouble finding powerful things to do with their newfound free time and energy. Check out our bios to find out more about what individuals are working on.

Whatever we are up to, you can be sure that we’ll be taking our experiences with Clamor along with us. We hope you will do the same. Clamor is dead. Long live clamor.

Sincerely,
The Entire Clamor Crew

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The latest development has the bank freezing the infoShop and killing sales for a lot of indie projects. Read up on it here:

http://www.fallofautumn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18...

This is sad. I always like Clamor. Jason and Jen were also the first people to publich me in any meaningful context (http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/05/).
But...the folks from Clamor will go on to do other great things. Hopefully Clamor was structured in such a way that only the assets of the business are effected.

HeartattaCk was also a place that let me publish something. I got to be in the "Punks Over 30" issue (issue #35).

Thank God for nice, cool people who are open to opinion.

We're always accepting submissions for publication on fallofautumn.com - we also do a Quarterly print zine for all the stand-out pieces (and a few exclusive pieces written just for the print zine). Shoot me a PM or email (alan-at-fallofautumn-dot-com) if you want more info.