Everyone knows the origin of meat, but few want to face the facts. Sue Coe’s art and Alon Raab’s review [this issue, FE #349, Summer 1997] invite the reader to a “naked lunch,” Burrough’s pungent phrase for that moment when …
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Edward Abbey: We Rest Our Case
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
Edward Abbey, author of the fictional eco-sabotage novel, The Monkeywrench Gang, and numerous other volumes on the Southwestern deserts and wilderness is both the eminence grise and bête noire of Earth First! Abbey is highly revered by the EF! leadership …
May Protests in Detroit
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
After months of intense organizing, Detroit’s Evergreen Alliance carried off a four-day “Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes,” May 13-16, centered around opposition to the world’s largest trash incinerator scheduled to open in May 1989. // Share this on…
The Free
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
a review of The Free by M. Gilliland. Hooligan Press, 142 pp., London, 1986, 1.80 pounds, $4.00 (U.S.) // Share this on…
Revenge of the Nerds
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
“Consider the intelligence of the average man, then realize 50% are even stupider.” —Mark Twain // Share this on…
L&R: The Network Implodes
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Liz Highleyman’s exhaustive account of the demise of Love & Rage (this issue, FE #343, Fall-Winter, 1993) is a sad but enlightening view of the internal process involved in the attempt to create a libertarian organization, something we have always …
The PLO/Israeli Treaty
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
“The affairs of a puppet play are not to be taken too seriously.” —Wu Cailuan, 9th century Taoist adept The internationally televised signing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)/Israel peace treaty Sept. 11 brought to mind Geronimo’s surrender to General …
Will Marijuana Save World Capitalism?
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
a review of The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of the Cannabis Plant, Marijuana Prohibition, & How Hemp Can Still Save the World, Jack Herer, HEMP/Queen of Clubs Publishing, 200 pp., Van Nuys CA, 1992 edition, $14.95 …
We Get a Computer and Hate It!
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
“Things are in the saddle and ride Man.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson One blind man leads many blind men Into the fire hole hand in hand. —Zen saying After several years of discussing and debating the implications of a newspaper which …
Confronting Poverty and the Poor
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of Food Not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community, C.T. Lawrence Butler and Keith McHenry, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1992, 120 pp., $8.95. Street Lives: An Oral History of Homeless Americans, Steven Vanderstaay, New Society …