- Post Amerikan
The "Post Amerikan" (sometimes "Post-Amerikan" and sometimes "Post") was an alternative
newspaper based inBloomington-Normal, Illinois . The paper was founded in 1972.cite news
last = Arney
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title = Passing of the Post;Twin Cities loses radical voice with end of alternative paper
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accessdate = ]The "Post Amerikan" was staffed entirely by volunteers and was financed through the sale of advertising space and subscriptions along with donations and community fundraisers. The paper was run collectively and had a strongly leftist editorial position. An early target of the paper was the use of undercover police officers in the Bloomington-Normal area to arrest non-violent drug offenders. The "Post" ran interviews with arrestees and editorials alleging police brutality and also exposed undercover officers by publishing photographs and sketches of them. [cite news
last = Prater
first = William
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title = MEG agents lose their cover after small paper photographs them
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publisher = Associated Press
date = 1976-08-25
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accessdate = ]Initially published on a monthly schedule, decreasing numbers of volunteers led to a cutback to bi-monthly publication. The final two members of the collective decided to cease publication of the "Post Amerikan" in March 2004. Its 32-year publication history was the longest for an underground newspaper in the United States. [cite book
last = Wilcox
first = Derk Arend
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title = The Left Guide: A Guide to Left-Of-Center Organizations
publisher = University of Michigan
date = 1998
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pages = 421
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isbn = ]References
External links
[http://postamerikan.pabn.org/index.php "Official" website]
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