Staff Note: The following is a first-hand account of the demonstration and events leading up to it. See also in this issue: West German Protest. BROCKDORF, Germany (LNS)—Up to now we have used only legal ways—filing lawsuits and so on—but …
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Neil Young
by Mike Kerman
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
If you liked Buffalo Springfield, you will probably like the first ‘solo album of one of its departed members, Neil Young (on Reprise).
Israel: 50 years of conquest
by Miguel Xolotl (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
FE Note: We are publishing this essay to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. It is a substantially revised version of two articles written in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in …
Festival for People
by Magdalene Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
The most important cultural event in Detroit this Summer will be the Artists’ Workshop’s FESTIVAL OF PEOPLE, or “a summer ecstasy of the contemporary arts.” It will be held on Sunday, August 7, at the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, 4857 John …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
Skeptics about Happenings—the kind of person who says, “I’ve seen one and I don’t like them”—should visit Al Hansen’s loft at 119 Avenue D. It is like finding yourself In the attic of a childhood you only heard about but …
The Collapse of the Armed Forces
by Robert D. Heinl Jr.
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
FE Note: The article reprinted here first appeared in the Armed Forces Journal, June 7, 1971, and is excerpted here from The Movement Against the War, Ramparts Press, 1972. Col. Heinl’s hawkish military columns were a regular feature in the …
The Israeli Massacre
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
Introduction Various technical and resource problems delayed publication of this issue of the FE (see article elsewhere). Hence, the sweep of events in the Middle East has already rendered some of the focus and information in this article a bit …
Civilization
by Ernest Crosby
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Do you think it will go on forever? The foul city spreading its ugly suburbs like an ink-blot over the fresh green woods and meadows, Its buildings climbing up to ten, twenty, thirty shapeless stories,
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
As you may have noted, the name of our book project has dropped the title “Ammunition” in favor of “Fifth Estate” or simply, “FE.” We have been talking about making the change actually for several years, but were always looking …
Woodstock Nation
by Peter Gessner
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
Remember Bevo Francis, sports fans? Well, Abbie Hoffman does.
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
Why the critics? That is a question I get asked fairly frequently, by friends and correspondents who want to know why I expend so much energy on this particular aspect of the jazz Establishment.
Call for Submissions
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
The Fifth Estate has always proudly displayed the FBI’s description of this publication as “supporting revolution everywhere,” but the world has greatly changed since the U.S. secret police prowled around our offices and kept tabs on staff members in the …
Read All About It!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
“Read All About It!” for this issue consists of those papers put out by and for GIs. It should be obvious from the number of papers existing, especially the ones from army bases, that the opposition within the armed services …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
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 …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
About On Gogol Boulevard This section is produced for the Fifth Estate by Neither East Nor West; a New York City group linking alternative oppositions in the East and West, and printing news and documents unavailable in the corporate and …
White Panther Bike Run
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
The White Panther Bike Run and the people’s party at the U-M Arboretum July 6th turned out to be a quiet get together of freaks and young people without the usual interference by the pigs. Things started at 1:00 that …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
About This Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate or left media. …
Against Civilization
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
The following text, “On The Future of the Earth,” is a talk given by Russell Means at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering held last July at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The gathering was attended by groups …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
The Innu Indians of Labrador, Canada, like all native peoples caught in the tentacles of civilization, are constantly threatened with imminent annihilation. Since 1980, West Germany has been using this flat barren land, a territory about the size of Nevada …
Notes from the Inner City
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
Daughter of itinerants, ungrateful refusers of benefits and charity, in terror of the all-embracing arms I turned from the tabernacles of turkey and progeny of toothpaste, I ran and hid from the love that damns and pardons, I dodged the …