Current rash of skyjacking is nothing new, merely a new outbreak of the age-‘old custom of piracy in the newest uncontrolled medium: the air. Diverting planes to Cuba is kid stuff. Wait until international pirates see the potential for just …
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Schools of the Americas
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
In The Underground History of American Education, the renegade educator John Taylor Gatto traces the genealogy of compulsory public-school education in the US back to the system of pedagogy created in the nineteenth-century northern European state of Prussia. Prussia is …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Threat of War Cancels Plans for Fifth Estate 25-Year Retrospective That’s as good a reason as any for why the observance of our 25 years of publishing is reduced to a short mention in this column. We had intended more, …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are at 5928 Second, Detroit, MI 48202. Telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to give …
Decentralization Bill a Sham
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
Decentralization of the Detroit Public School System has emerged as a major issue confronting this city. Within this conflict there exists a strong potential for radical change. Recognizing this, many activist groups have joined in the struggle for effective decentralization.
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 …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Bookstore Hours: Mon. thru Fri. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
Tokyo, Sept. 18 There’s no Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan—which certainly needs one—and so the 1969 Miss International Beauty Pageant went off without a hitch in the Hall of Martial Arts here last week.
Shawnee Timber Sale Stopped
by Orin Langelle
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Beginning on June 20th, a determined group of Earth First!ers (EF!), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and anarchists, maintained a blockade at the site of the Fairview timber sale area in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest.
Mutiny Trial
by Giuseppi Slater
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)—Pvt. Louis Osczepinski, one of 27 soldiers being tried for mutiny at the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco, attempted to commit suicide on Feb. 14. He slashed his arms four times. Osczepinski, along with Pvt. Lawrence Reidel, …
Tales from the Planet
by john johnson
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Sherman is Out, But not Free Anarchist organizer Sherman Austin has been released from prison after serving most of a one year sentence after being framed for controversial content on his website RaiseTheFist.com. He faces three years of federal probation …
The Jazz Scene in America
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
A few weeks ago the New Yorker’s man in jazz, Whitney Balliett, went out to the Coast to catch the Monterey Festival. While he was there he spoke with some of the “workers’ aristocracy” of jazz, the white musicians who …
Z – An Interview with Costa-Gavras
by Dan Georgakas
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
NOTE: Costa-Gavras, the director of “Z,” was born in Athens, Greece in 1933. In 1964 he made his first film, “The Sleeping Car Murders” and since has completed “One Man Too Many” and “The Avowal.” While in New York for …
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
3rd Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Book Fair The 3rd Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Book Fair (TCABF) is the weekend of Sept. 15-16 at the Powderhorn Park building in Minneapolis.
Pigs Bust Panther Chairman
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
This time it’s Bobby Seale. With Eldridge in exile, and Huey in jail, the punk-ass power-structure has turned its racist wrath on the Black Panther Party Chairman. Seale’s troubles are simply the latest government attempt to crush the Panthers by …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Back In Stock! Bolo Bolo, Anarchy Comix & other FE Favorites SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE by Pierre Clastres
No Rock-Jazz Merger Seen, but Close
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
In effect, rock has become the white man’s jazz. Bob Dylan, had he been born black, would surely have found a place somewhere in the jazz revolution; and a white Archie Shepp (the mind boggles!) would feel quite at home …
Memoirs of a Beer Drinker
by Richard Centing
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Acey-Acey is a game that used to be played at Lou Walker’s Bar on Woodward. It is easy to learn and became quite popular a few years ago.
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 …
What’s On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 4, February 12-March 1, 1966
SATURDAY HANOI, Eyewitness Report by Dr. Herbert Apthekar. Central Methodist Church 8:00 p.m. 2/12 FILM: “Beauty and the Beast” (1946), directed by Jean Cocteau. Sponsored by UCAE at WSU Community Arts Aud, Cass and Kirby. 8 p.m. Adm. charge. 2/12 …