The purpose of Speak is to provide a platform for anyone to express a completely uncensored voice that otherwise might not be heard in the mainstream. Contributions come in the form of interviews, articles, photography, commentary, drawings, one word or one sentence, and range on a variety of subjects. Virtually anything goes in Speak and hopefully as you read each issue, you'll be inspired to express something yourself.
You've got a voice. What are you going to say? Speak.
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IN THESE SECTIONS:
INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS:
Warped Tour 07: New York Review and Photos
by Barbie Frudakis
"i went to see what paramore was all about and i
have to say after seeing their set thought in the
last two years warped tour has been turning it
out as far as female fronted acts go. last year
joan jett and the blackhearts, the sounds,
and, in va, the shiragirl stage with all female
fronted acts. i noticed girls in bands are rocking
harder than their male counter parts nowadays."
(Local Spotlight on Portland, OR Musicians)
Sexton Blake/Starfucker Interview
By Bethany Reed
"It was not at all what I really wanted to do like, all
the time. It was more like therapy for me. But this
guy [in Portland] got a copy of it and wanted to put
it out and it was like the stars were all aligned. I was
living in Michigan at the time and I had just broken
up with my girlfriend. I was pretty miserable and
aimless and he wa s like, ‘you should come up to
Portland and play a CD Release Party’. And then
Ryan who was dating a good friend of mine at the
time in Michigan, I recruited him to be in my band
and we played a show out there and then both
decided to move to Portland. I still play with him in
both of my projects, Sexton Blake and Starfucker."
The Builders and The Butchers Interview
by Bethany Reed
"It’s not like we went out to be a sing along band. We
just wrote songs that happened to be that way and
we saw people were responding and so we wrote
more songs in that way. But initially, that wasn’t the
idea. It was just to write dark songs and be a funeral
marching type band and it sort of just became
something else."
"But after a while when you figure out that people are
sort of singing along, it’s fun to sort of take advantage
of that. We’ve accumulated a bunch of toy instruments
and so we’d give them to the audience and it makes it
more fun. "
ARTICLES:
Street Kids Are Quirky
By Gena Minnix
"Street kids are quirky"... that was a quote from a
recent review of The Barefoot Legend. A few
years ago, my husband Jason and I counted
some of those quirky street kids some of our
daily companions. Overwhelmed by the needs of
homeless teen runaways in the city we lived
in, we went out with sandwiches, drinks, and
conversation, trying to guide, help and offer healing
to these youngest of vagrants.
It was a brisk night in January of 2006 in Portland,
Oregon when I first met Josh Harper and Kevin
Kjonaas, two young men who were facing an
upcoming federal trial with their futures at stake
due to the convictions of their hearts. I remember
receiving an e-mail earlier that week from a friend
on the east coast. It read something like this:
ATT: Portland, Oregon
On Jan 20, there will be a benefit art auction
titled Let Live. The purpose is to raise money and
awareness in support of the SHAC 7 organization.
If you know anyone in Portland, please forward this
e-mail and help spread the word.
At the time, I knew nothing about Kevin or Josh
or the rest of the SHAC 7. I went to the Let Live
benefit as a result of both boredom and curiosity.
However, if I had only known more about their
situation, especially that they would later be
sentenced to federal prison, I would have asked
them all the questions back then that I am unable
to ask them now - and that would have changed
the content of this entire article.
So instead I write only to inform you, the reader,
of what I do know about The Animal Enterprise
Protection Act, Huntingdon Life Sciences, the
SHAC 7 and how all this pertains to free speech.
ART & PHOTO GALLERY:
Office Building by Kellen Owens
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Michael Vermillion
SHAC 7 Article by Bethany Reed
