The intersection between music and social movements is a fertile area of research. We present three case studies taken from punk-the Rock Against Racism campaign in Britain during the late 1970s, the American hardcore scene of the 1980s, and the riot grrrl feminism of the early 1990s-as instances where music and subculture have not simply figured as symbolic forms of resistance and identity formation but also as a means of organizing protest, raising consciousness, and creating change. The central mechanism that has allowed punk subcultures to achieve high levels of mobilization has been the do-it-yourself ethic, which demands that punks take matters of cultural production into their own hands by making music, fanzines, and record labels, creating a network of venues for live music performance, as well as creating other forms of micromedia that are commercially independent of the corporate culture industry. We use these case studies to both draw attention to neglected areas of empirical research and as a means to intervene in theoretical debates that have tended to polarize social movement studies between paradigms that emphasize structural phenomena and those that emphasize cultural factors.

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A true 3V highly linear low loss single pole five throw (SP5T) switch for multimode wireless handset applications is presented. By using advanced Filtronic pHEMT technology with extremely low leakage current and low channel resistance it is possible to achieve very low harmonic levels at maximum GSM power levels four FETs in series and yet still achieve insertion losses of 0.5 dB at 900 MHz. Increasing the number of FETs also allows for 24 dB of isolation to be achieved at 900 MHz.(P,~~<-35dBm at Pl~C34.5 dBm) by Using

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