The failure of dissidents in the West to come to terms with the Yugoslav debacle & the subsequent slaughters weighs like a nightmare on the mind & spirit of anyone trying to sort through the complex realities of the present …
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Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
The Fifth Fstate Events Calendar was compiled by Bruce Montrose and Claudia Efimchik. Fri. Jan. 10 ANN ARBOR. Mad Marvin presents four revolutionary films: “Huey,” “Listen, Whitey,” “End of a Revolution,” and “Huelga.” Showing at 11 p.m. at the 5th …
Recycling & Liberal Reform
by Bert Wirkes-Butuar (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Earth Day supplement page 3 It was perhaps an inappropriate time to ask a question since at that very moment two climbers from Greenpeace were struggling to unfurl a banner describing the pollution which would be emitted from Detroit’s giant …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
To paraphrase an ex-president; we won’t have The Detroit Sun to kick around anymore—the city’s “hottest paper” collapsed financially after its Oct. 22 issue, ending several months of weekly publication. In a desperate attempt to raise needed cash (the staff …
Headline
by David Fraser
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
a review of 1) The Matrix, Poems: 1960-1970, by N.H. Pritchard, Doubleday paperback, 1970, $2.45. 2) Arts in Society, volume 6, number 3, edited by Edward L. Karmack, University of Wisconsin, 1969, single issue $2.00, 1 year subscription (3 issues) …
Walking Down Pleasant Street with Tim Buckley
by Guan Kosemach
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
A telephone call at noon on September 29 from Elektra Records confirmed our plans for an interview with Tim Buckley. His second album (GOODBYE AND HELLO) was just released and Tim was here to play the Canterbury House in Ann …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
QUESTION: I have six children and would like to find a way to present my soul-mate with a more shrunken area to play in. Dig?
Paradise Gardening
by Joe Hollis
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
We want to save the world, and we want to save ourselves. It’s the same thing. The problems confronting us are enormous and at every level: personal, social, planetary. I will spare you a list. My aim is to suggest …
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.
Mega-Cities
by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
“…the city is not fitting human habitat. Architecturally, in form and function, they resemble nothing so much as endless aisles of battery hen cages.” —Dion Workman, Thinking Like A Forest: Towards an Agricultural Counter-Revolution
Why is Marie Mason in the Fed’s Harshest Prison?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Supporters of imprisoned environmental activist Marie Mason, are fearful that the repressive conditions she currently experiences could worsen when a construction project inside of her unit in a Texas high security prison is completed.
More on Red Squad
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Recent revelations in the class-action lawsuit against the Detroit Police Political Intelligence Squad have shown political surveillance and harassment to be even more widespread than originally suspected.
Violence, Guns
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
I A few days ago a friend of mine asked me to amortize my obligations to RFK’s assassination by rendering a stirring Stars and Stripes article titled something like—Ban the Guns (it occurs to me that we haven’t even Banned …
Techno Madness
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
We live in a technological life-world, more so by the hour. Our ecology is now all too largely technology, which has been irreversible, directional, and cumulative. The process that now characterizes civilization is a generalized technicization. Its success is measurable …
Pig Media Joins Police
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
NEW YORK (LNS) — On January 26, two men identifying themselves as “being from the government” dropped a subpoena off at CBS.
Architecture and Anarchism
by Fissiparous Michalski
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority by Paul Dobraszczyk. Paul Holberton Publishing 2021
Recycling & Liberal Reform
by Bert Wirkes-Butuar (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 333-A, Earth Day Special, 1990
It was perhaps an inappropriate time to ask a question since at that very moment two climbers from Greenpeace were struggling to unfurl a banner describing the pollution which would be emitted from Detroit’s giant trash incinerator. Their problems were …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
The chaos of a hundred packing boxes has finally been cleared away, lost correspondence found and misplaced book orders filled, and our new office space is beginning to take on the feeling of home. It’s quite a change since the …
Back to the Stone Age?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
a review of “The Politics of Ethnopoetics” in The Old Ways, Six Essays, Gary Snyder, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 40077 “(Reckoning roughly from the earliest cave paintings)”, 96 pp.
This is Jail
by AKD868
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Last spring, I became a prisoner in a rural California county jail for 90 days having been sentenced for a non-political offense.