Loose letter from VR Smith to Bob Zark thanking him for the poem in the issue. "Street Fight"-- on Phoenix police crackdown on houseless distro-d political newspaper "Grapevine". Essay 'To Be Chicano' on indigenous Mexican culture and poem titled Zapatistas first published in ZOPILOTE Magazine by Marco A. Albarran. Essay on the important election of 1996, rallying against the Christian Coalition. Essay against "vulgar English" slang and pop culture, by V.R. Smith who doesn't like Madonna, disco, punk, rap, or entertainment. 'My People, My Culture Are Not Illegal' describing the protests against the anti-immigrant and border patrolling, racist targeting of Mexican and Latin immigrants in Arizona.