Cracker Barrel, a Southern restaurant chain known for its racist hiring policies and Confederate flag decor, instituted a company-wide policy in 1991 to not employ persons “whose sexual preferences fail to demonstrate normal heterosexual values.” Twelve people were promptly fired …
FE Author: Doug Graves
Corporate Mercenaries in Occupied Iraq
by Doug Graves
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Prostitution may indeed be the world’s oldest profession mercenary soldiering is probably a close second place. Like so many other late-contemporary capitalist service commercial enterprises, soldiering-for-hire has undergone particularly ugly mutations in the last fifteen years as the bosses and …
Hell No! We Won’t Go
by Doug Graves
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Over the course of a decade, almost ten million Americans served the US military in the Vietnam War, and one quarter of those were draftees. Almost 60,000 Americans died, and almost 60% of those were under the age of 21. …
Art as Terror?
by Doug Graves, John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) is a collective of artists and academics who illustrate problems with science and technology through writing, performance, and installations. Their objective is to demystify high-tech tools so that the public can make informed decisions about the …
A Day without Protest
by Doug Graves
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Tie 30th annual G8 summit meeting of the major industrial nations was held this June on Sea Island, Georgia within a day’s drive of the Fifth Estate’s southern headquarters, so some FE collective members traveled to participate in the planned …
Mumia re-examines history of the Black Panther Party
by Doug Graves, John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
a review of We Want Freedom: A life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal. South End Press: Cambridge, 2004