Work?!

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Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977

THISTED, Denmark—Police are looking for a jobless worker who bit off the ear of a labor exchange official and left it wrapped in paper with the handwritten message: “This is your ear.” The victim was Arne Jensen, head of the …

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The Secret of Work Revealed

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Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977

WASHINGTON, DC—A noted New Jersey physician of social malaises, Dr. Maynard G. Krebs, recently told a federal panel investigating the causes behind the current epidemic of job refusals, “The less you have to do, the more you must ask a …

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Unions vs. Workers

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Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977

From the May 3 Wall Street Journal comes some interesting information about the United Mine Workers (UMW) union that bears heavily on future energy schemes, especially those dictated by our peanut president. Carter’s new energy policy calls for increased use …

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Politics of the “Nuclear State”

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Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977

The following was sent to us by a friend of the Fifth Estate living in West Germany and lays out the political implications of the “Nuclear State,” and gives a report on several mass anti-nuclear actions. See also “Turn on …

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Behavior Mod—Walla Walla

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Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977

This article first appeared in Open Road newspaper. The Walla Walla Brothers had figured they’d seen just about everything in anti-human treatment during their years of resistance at the Walla Walla State Prison in eastern Washington. But that was before …

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Panther Becomes Christian

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Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther “revolutionary” turned evangelical Christian, had a pie pushed into his face on May 1, while speaking to an audience attending a christian crusade in the Orpheum Theatre.

SDS Loves Provo, UPS

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Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967

One of the resolutions adopted at the recent Students for a Democratic Society national convention in Ann Arbor under the heading of “Cultural Revolution” calls for SDS endorsement of and participation in the Provo Conference Tribal Gathering which is scheduled …

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Legal Dope Soon, says ad-man

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Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967

Marijuana will become legal in the U.S. within one year, predicts the first issue of the Chicago Mirror, an underground satire magazine slated for publication this month. According to the author of the article, whose source is an art director …

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“Convicted” ACLU Attorney to Try Again

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Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) expressed its regret and dismay July 25 that the conviction of Arthur Kinoy for disorderly conduct had been affirmed by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The conviction of Prof. Kinoy stems from …

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Veep Creep Greeted

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Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967

H. Horatio Humphrey, United States vice-warlord, was welcomed to Detroit last week by a 200-man anti-war picket line in front of Cobo Hall. Humphrey was in Detroit to speak about riots and other such domestic problems at the National Association …

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