Being Definite Dear FE: With only 12 shopping days left ’til nuclear war, I thought I’d better get some bucks off to you to renew the old sub. Thanks a million, or should I say thanks $4 bucks? Whatever, the …
Being Definite Dear FE: With only 12 shopping days left ’til nuclear war, I thought I’d better get some bucks off to you to renew the old sub. Thanks a million, or should I say thanks $4 bucks? Whatever, the …
Critique of Totality Dear FE folks, Congratulations on the 25th anniversary.
Texas Anarchist Howdy, Fifth Estate! There is some serious stuff happening here in Austin. A liberated Learning Collective has been established. Part of it is a how-to course to teach would-be publishers to use the L LC press to produce …
Crude Argument Dear Fifth Estate: Generally, the Fifth Estate is great. Articles are principled, well reasoned, sometimes poetic. But the review of Noam Chomsky’s book by Pat Flanagan (see Chomsky, Freedom & Truth, FE #320, Spring 1985) ended with …
let’s talk about splitting, splitting is an art frequently called upon in revolution retreat, says the I Ching, must not be confused with flight, and furthermore, frequently, it furthers ONE TO HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO . i.e., know in advance …
Mr. Marshall Rubinoff c/o The Fifth Estate 923 Plum, Detroit, Michigan Dear Marshall: I have just read the article you wrote in the May 15th issue of The Fifth Estate, pertaining to the Spike-Drivers. To say I am angry …
Dear Editor: We were delighted to receive your last edition and think that you have made some great improvements in the format. It has occurred to me that your people might want to consider some of the issues that …
To the Editor: Letter to the Peace Movement. Pick one— What fear is there, or manipulation of the truth is there on your part that blocks you from telling the people what’s happening? The war is only a byproduct. …
To the Editor: Several things. It’s a long term blues and bound for longer but I find, in the FIFTH ESTATE, some hope. For that, thank you. Also for: A. Printing news items of conceptually strangulated editorial policies, conventional …
To the Editor: Just finished reading a friend’s copy of THE FIFTH ESTATE. Enjoyed very much Mr. Ovshinsky’s article about Dr. Hoffer and LSD [FE #13, August 30, 1966]. It was refreshing to read an article that dealt with …
To the Editor: Please send one year’s subscription of this thing you call “The Fifth Estate’ to me. It gets pretty cold out here in the wintertime and I gotta have something to burn in my fireplace. Ever tried to …
To the Editor: “Where were the police and how could such a thing happen” were the questions asked by a stunned audience at the Art Institute on Friday, Oct. 21. They had come for an evening of beautiful music, superbly …
First Letter: ‘In The House of the Hanged, One Does Not Speak of the Hemp.’ Today there’s a great deal of preaching to young people. One can hear the tongue clicking of sophisticated adults worrying about what is happening to …
Dear Great-grandfather [sic], I am writing to you because I feel that you have an honest desire to understand. You lived in a time of much confusion and you felt the need to seek new solutions to many problems. You …
WEST BERLIN—Situated on 3 acres of land in Kreuzberg, West Berlin, between the colorful graffiti art on exhibit at the Berlin Wall and a hundred year old building, there exist some of the last remains of the West Berlin squatter …
JOSEPH DEJACQUE BICENTENNIAL CONFERENCE Sunday, December 11, 2022 The Joseph Déjacque Bicentennial Conference is being held in recognition of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of this major nineteenth-century communist anarchist political theorist and visionary utopian writer. It is sponsored by La Terre Institute for …
Prison is Hushed and heavy Like water near the Ocean’s floor, Then loud and bitter, Like fractious storms lashing the sky Everything cement and nerves
Continuation of a review: The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich, Ballantine, 223 pp., 95 cents paper. [For Part I see “Earth Read-Out,” FE #86, August 21-September 3, 1969]. Part II: Doing Something About It
FIFTH ESTATE #366, Fall, 2004, Vol. 39, No. 3 News, etc. pages 2 — 11 Features on “unschooling the world” pages 12 — 45 Letters to the FE pages 46 — 49 Reviews, etc. pages 50 — 53 Bookstore & …
Redwood Summer seems to have sent some Earth First!ers over the edge. Many of the old-line EF! activists stayed away from the summer actions, feeling that “outsiders” had invaded their movement and diluted EF!’s biocentric vision. Two EF! founders, Dave …