In the most recent development in the Noel and Marie Murray murder trials, Marie has been sentenced by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to life imprisonment after being found innocent of capital murder, but guilty of shooting policeman Michael …
In the most recent development in the Noel and Marie Murray murder trials, Marie has been sentenced by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to life imprisonment after being found innocent of capital murder, but guilty of shooting policeman Michael …
A weekend of international protest activities has been called to coincide with the opening of the second murder trial of Irish anarchist Marie Murray on April 25 in Dublin, according to the London Black Flag office.
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As of this writing the fate of Marie and Noel Murray, the two Irish anarchists who have been sentenced to hang for their alleged murder of a Dublin cop, remains uncertain.
There’s not much news on the fate of Marie and Noel Murray at this point. Although the two Irish anarchists have attempted to withdraw the appeals of their death sentences (see FE, October and November, 1976), they are still being …
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As BP continues to devastate the Gulf of Mexico for generations to come, militant eco-radicals like Marie Mason, who have dedicated their lives to halting exactly this kind of environmental destruction, helplessly watch from inside the dungeons of the State.
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.
Movement troubadour David Rovics performed a benefit concert in Detroit, October 27, for singer/songwriter/environmental activist, Marie Mason, the Green Scare prisoner serving the longest sentence for eco-sabotage.
The savage crimes of civilization cannot mute the cries of the savage. But the voice of the savage is not the machine buzz of chainsaws in the forest or the clank of garbage trucks in the ghetto. Her savage voice …
Marie Mason, a long-time Fifth Estate contributor, sentenced in February to almost 22-years in prison following a guilty plea for two acts of property destruction on behalf of the environment, is now an inmate at the Waseca federal prison, 75 …
World-wide events organized to show solidarity with Marie Mason and Eric McDavid, the two longest sentenced environmental prisoners, were an overwhelming success.
Marie Mason, who is serving the longest prison term of any Green Scare prisoner, lost her appeal as the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on December 16 upheld her almost 22-year sentence for two acts of eco-sabotage.
Fifth Estate contributor Marie Mason was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison on February 5 in a Lansing, Michigan federal courtroom, after pleading guilty to two acts of eco-sabotage.
Your fingers twitch in your sleep for a moment before you open your eyes and roll onto your back You brush a small critter from your face and pull a twig from your hair A pink grey sky envelopes the …
You seldom wavered You always questioned When we never trusted the smoke, the steam, the fog or more precisely the cooling towers
On December 9th the Irish Supreme Court set aside the death penalty for anarchists Noel and Marie Murray, charged with shooting an off-duty policeman during a bank robbery. That’s the good news, but there’s not much to feel victorious about, …
An international campaign demanding that imprisoned environmental activist, Marie Mason, be transferred from the repressive, high-security Carswell federal prison at Fort Worth, Texas, to a minimum security unit close to her family and friends, is in high gear.
As Noel and Marie Murray approached their Dublin home after a morning stroll they were confronted by a garda (an Irish cop), wielding a sub-machine gun. “You’re dead, Murray,” he screamed. A few months later, a justice of the Special …
Last summer at Goddard College, social ecology luminary Murray Bookchin denounced the FE as “toilet literature flooding into the ecology movement and polluting it,” and a “manifestation of a middle class, petit bourgeois yuppie perspective. AK Press recently published Bookchin’s …
Prison is Hushed and heavy Like water near the Ocean’s floor, Then loud and bitter, Like fractious storms lashing the sky Everything cement and nerves
When you receive a phone call or a letter from Marie Mason, the Green Scare pri soner serving the longest sentence for eco-sabotage, one is almost startled at how buoyant she is, filled with questions about what you’re doing and …
“With Conviction: Art and Letters from Behind Prison Walls,” was displayed in January at Sacramento’s Exhibit S Gallery featuring prisoner art, letters, and zines. Chicago-based Anthony Rayson and Michael Ploski, amassed hundreds of pieces of original artwork rarely before exhibited …
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Besides the sentencing of Marie Mason, there have been developments in a number of other Green Scare cases in the Midwest and beyond.
POLICE HALT ATOM DEMO On February 19, thousands of heavily armed riot police were massed on the Elbe River just outside of Brokdorf, W. Germany to prevent 10,000 demonstrators from occupying the site of a new nuclear power station as …
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As part of a gender transitioning process, environmental and anarchist prisoner, Marius Jacob Mason, announced recently that he will no longer use the name, Marie, and will utilize male pronouns as self-descriptions for himself. Mason was arrested in 2008 by …
FIFTH ESTATE #269, February, 1976, Vol. 11, No. 5, page 5
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a review of The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin. AK Press. 2005. 491 pp. $23.
THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank H. Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess ACE REPORTER John Sinclair ART AND LAY-OUT Gary Grimshaw Carl Lundgren FILM EDITOR Joe …
The Fifth Estate 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank H. Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess ACE REPORTER John Sinclair ART AND LAY-OUT Gary Grimshaw Carl Lundgren FILM EDITOR Joe …
FIFTH ESTATE #268, January, 1976, Vol. 11, No. 4
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Fifth Estate #381, Summer-Fall 2009, Vol. 44, No. 2 2 LETTERS 4 MARIE MASON INTERVIEW 5 RNC FRAME-UP UPDATE 6 THE SHIT HITS THE FAN by Ron Sakolsky 8 KILLER APE THEORY DISPROVED by Tim MacGowan 10 THE FUTURE OF …
The Green Scare continues with the plea-bargain and imprisonment of Fifth Estate writer Marie Mason, three new arrests in Wisconsin, grand jury appearances by activists Kevin Tucker and already-imprisoned Daniel McGowan, and the sentencing of Briana Waters.
SUMMER 2013 ISSUE COMING SOON Issue theme: Sex and Anarchy (This issue follows #388, Winter 2012. A Spring edition was not published.) FEATURING Sex and Anarchy – Changing Society & Ourselves Sex and Revolution by Marie Mason Industrialism & Its …
Paul Jacob, the libertarian draft resister who went underground to escape prosecution, was convicted at a July 1 trial, sentenced and denied appeal bond. The penalty was six months imprisonment and 4-1/2 years of weekly community service.