Cass-Forest Unitarian Church rocks

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Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968

The weekend of September 6th, 7th and 8th will provide for diggers of radical-rock an unusual and revolutionary concept at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church, in the heart of the Warren-Forest Community (corner of Forest and Cass).

Don’t Trust Cops?

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Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968

CLEVELAND, July 26 (LNS)—The new penalty for filming the arrest of blacks on Cleveland’s East Side is possible broken ribs, multiple cuts and bruises and maybe a broken tooth, two NBC cameramen learned recently.

Going to Chicago

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Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968

At this writing it is completely unclear what to expect in Chicago. It looks like the YIP and the National Mobilization Committee, the group coordinating the political activity, is going to let everybody “do their own thing.” So YOU be …

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Year of the Bible or Year of the Computer

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Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983

While Time magazine was announcing the computer as its Man-of-the Year, Ronald Reagan, a former B-movie actor presently in command of the most sophisticated computerized system of annihilation in history, had something else in mind.

Free the Five, protect the Earth

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Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983

A wave of anti-anarchist hysteria, stage-managed by the government, is sweeping Canada as a result of the arrest of five Vancouver political activists accused of a “wide-spread campaign of sabotage.”

Chimpanzees Against the State

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Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983

“The roots of politics are older than humanity,” writes Desmond Morris in his new book Chimpanzee Politics. He contends that chimpanzees have well-developed political systems, demonstrating that humans are not so much “fallen angels as they are risen apes.”

Occupied Iraq

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Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005

“What are kingdoms but great robberies? Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by …

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Rogue Statism

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Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006

“The man without a country is a free man. ‘Country’ is a tenfold chain forged around our necks and feet by our forefathers, a prison and a pit.” –Herman Bang, Denied a Homeland (1906)

Voting

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Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007

On December 3, a month after the Republican Party was swept from control of the U.S. Congress, Hugo Chavez was overwhelmingly re-elected president of Venezuela for a third four-year term. On the night of his victory, in a speech to …

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No Border Camp

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Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007

As long as the US/Mexico border has existed, people have been struggling against it. It is a highly militarized, violent boundary marking an internal space of strict migration controls while allowing for unrestricted movement of capital and wealth. This border …

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