In the wake of the punitive No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top legislation of the Bush and Obama years, education reform has turned one hundred and eighty degrees. Today, many schools are implementing much more non-coercive practices, …
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Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper(?) [question mark in original] and can be found at 4403 Second Ave, (telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a telephone call …
Jane Fonda & the Anti-Aircraft Gun
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
So intense was the air war against Vietnam, known as Operation Rolling Thunder, that more bomb tonnage was dropped on this small nation than the combined total expended during World War II. These raids contributed heavily to the enormous Vietnamese …
A Short History of our Offices as Autonomous Zones
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Hakim Bey, whose writings frequently appear in these pages, is perhaps best known for his book the TAZ–temporary autonomous zone–that describes when normally domesticated space is liberated, if only for a moment, for festive and subversive moments of happiness.
HipPocrates Here for Open City
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, known and loved “Hippocrates,” will be at WSU’s Community Arts Auditorium on Wednesday May 28 at 8 pm in a benefit for Open City, Detroit’s service organization for the free community.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
To the Editors, Since their seems to be some controversy about calling police “Pigs,” I would like to say that when you call any group any one name, that you are generalizing. Whether you call a policeman a pig, …
Bibliographic Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
Some bibliographic notes on articles in this issue
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
The calendar will be a regular FIFTH ESTATE feature. We know that there is more happening in the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas than what we have listed, so we need your help. Send us information about what your group …
Unclassified
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
The Fifth Estate 1107 W. Warren Detroit, Mich. 48201 831-6800 UNCLASSIFIED costs 50 cents per line per week. Figure 5 words per line. (A word Is a word, including 1 and 2 letter words. A phone number Is a word. …
The Nirvana Blues
by Coquilles St. Jacques (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
a review of The Nirvana Blues by John Nichols. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981, 527 pp., $14.95 hardcover.
Anarchy for Kids
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
a review of A Rule is to Break: A Child’s Guide to Anarchy, John Seven and Jana Christy. Manic D Press, 48 pp, $14.95 www.manicdpress.com
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
By the time the narcotics squad pinpointed him last month, Dick Swafford, 28, had probably stashed two or three hundred thousand dollars away in Swiss banks. Once a week he’d leave his home in L.A. and drive to San Diego …
Awaiting Naqoyqatsi
by John Gianvito
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Godfrey Reggio is the director of two visionary films revealing the nature and impact of modern civilization on the natural world. He currently has a third in preparation.
Teagarden & Van Winkle
by Tony Reay
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
And here we have a new album! Recorded right here in the Motor City before your very eyes and with living audience reaction.
Miami Pop Festival
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
MIAMI (LNS)—A variety of musicians and singers will get together for the 1969 Miami Pop Festival set for Dec. 29-30 at Gulfstream Park, Hallandale, Fla. The following will perform: Saturday, Dec. 28: Jose Feliciano, Country Joe & the Fish, Buffy …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
The WSU Artists’ Society’s fall concert/reading series is now set and will continue with a concert by the Contemporary 4 at the Community Arts Auditorium Thursday, November 3, at 8:30 p.m. Charles Moore will introduce his new band, featuring Kirk …
Future Tension
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
What happened to the future? The twenty-first century was supposed to be a new era; an age of liberty, love, and lucid life. The old world of misery was scheduled to be destroyed.
Mich. Activists Hit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Several full-time movement activists in the Michigan area have been arrested in recent weeks on trumped-up felony charges.
Vietnam Summer Set for Detroit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
“There is too much concern about free love and not enough concern about free hate in this society,” stated William Sloan Coffin in an anti-war address at central Methodist Church on May 9, 1967.
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 13, August 30, 1966
I want to take this space this week to tell you of some of the work the Detroit Artists’ Workshop is doing, because I think you should know about it in as much detail as I can give you here. …