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Al Kooper
by Mike Kerman
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Al Kooper, one of this country’s leading rock artists, was in town a couple of weeks ago. He has been performing, writing, and now producing rock musts for ten years and is best known for his work as an organist …
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
by Allen Ginsberg, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Two interviews with the poet on life, death, sex, poetry, Kerouac, and meditation—the first from 1991, published here for the first time; the second from the October 1969 issue of Fifth Estate.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
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Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
Six billion healthy people? I read with some surprise EB Maple’s letter (see FE 370, Fall 2005) regarding an article I wrote which was published in the Winter 2005 issue of the Fifth Estate.
Argentina’s Popular Rebellion
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
The neighbors had broken into and occupied the bank building as I arrived in Parque Lezama. Middle aged and scruffy young activists carried out debris, scrubbed windows and floors and hung banners with the name of their assemblia popular and …
Charges Dropped in ‘Policeman’s Field Day’
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
On September 16 charges of Inciting to Riot against Moses Wedlow and James Roberts were dismissed in Recorder’s Court by visiting Judge John Seiler. The charges grew out of the August 9-12 “Policeman’s Field Days” on Kercheval on Detroit’s East …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
In the last issue of the FE, we reported that Cienfuegos in the United Kingdom had closed up shop. What we failed to mention was that the U.S. branch, Cienfuegos/Soil of Liberty, is still going strong publishing their own books …
Detroit Hate-In
by Tom Yates
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
The Hate-In was staged by the Nightriders Motorcycle Club June 3 & 4 in Detroit’s Rouge Park, to protest a proposed city ordinance which would ban motorcycles from the city parks without a special permit.
The “Revolt Against Work” or Fight for the Right to be Lazy
by Charles Reeve
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
During the last year the Fifth Estate has published numerous essays by John Zerzan (and others co-authored with Paula Zerzan) on the decomposition of daily life, the revolt against work, and the police role of unions. The following essay challenges …
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The Sand Creek Massacre
by Ward Churchill
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
The charge that genocide was committed against the American Indian peoples of the United States in the process of that nation state’s formation is typically treated as a rhetorical device unsubstantiated by fact and designed only to attract “unwarranted” sympathy …
Mixed Mead Ear
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
It is now 10:00 pm and here is the national news for today, August 15th.
The Centralia Massacre
by Alon K. Raab
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
As we travel north on Oregon’s Highway Five, from Portland towards Seattle, places and names go by: Castle Rock, Cougar, Mt. St. Helens, Onalaska. A November rain is falling, light rain, blessed rain. We cross the Chehalis river and then …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 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 …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Although we got a lot of positive response to our last issue (as well as our fair share of abuse), no one noted a major error in our Hungary poster which attributes the date of the events to being “13 …
Police State America
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
a review of Police State America: U.S. Military ‘Civil Disturbance’ Planning, edited by Tom Burghardt. April 2002 Arm the Spirit/Solidarity: Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco. Contributions by Frank Morales, Michael Novick, Ron Ridenhour, Arthur Lubow, Mitzi Waltz, Douglas Valentine, and Tom …
Zapping the Pyramid
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
Excerpted from Fifth Estate #367-368, Spring-Summer 2005 40th anniversary issue. This is an edited version of Don’s essay. The design shows a pyramid surmounted by an eye being blasted by a bolt of lightning. Bannered beneath the collapsing pyramid is …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
PORTUGAL: The Impossible Revolution? Phil Mailer The still unfinished story of the Portuguese upsurge of 1974-75. An eye-witness account of a deeply involved spectator. A new type of historiography with the view from different groups vying for power and the …
Romeo and Juliet—Hagbard and Signe
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
The biggest mistake in bringing Shakespeare to the screen is to construct some sort of stone effigy to him. But France Zeffirelli’s film production of “Romeo & Juliet,” at the Studio 8, pulsates with a life all its own.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Fri. Nov. 1 JEFF BECK GROUP back at the Grande to do some heavy blues (English style) along with the Toad and Pavement. Check out the hippy bullshit counter run by Barry Kramer and Bob Stark, they have some real …