Inside the walled compound of a Buddhist monastery on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, the monks who reside there have created a meditation garden consisting of raked sand and about a dozen large stones. The stones are adroitly arranged so …
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More Reasons to Visit New Orleans
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
This issue of FE was finished on the first anniversary of Katrina. A year later, our friends in New Orleans still need our help. At the beginning of June, our comrade, regular contributor, friend, and Louisiana native John Clark wrote: …
Call for Submissions, Winter 2006-2007
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
The winter issue of FE will critically reflect upon contemporary anarchist and radical anti-authoritarian political movements. What directions should radicals–who wish to both create a revolution in our everyday lives, as well as to destroy the various and overlapping systems …
About this issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
When we set out to produce an issue on and of literature, we had wide eyes and wild ideas. Ideas like Thoreau suggested, “In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness.” …
Contents, fund appeal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
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FE Staffer Puts a Pie in God’s Face
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
For fifty years, the Fifth Estate has reflected on the world’s most contentious social issues including critiques of religion and its appeal to those in need of justifications for their oppressive goals.
We Lose SchNEWS
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
After 691 issues, SchNEWS, “The free weekly direct action newssheet published in Brighton, England since 1994” is no more. A mix of serious reporting and irreverent humor, it was born in a squatted courthouse as part of “Justice?”–Brighton’s campaign against …
To Our Readers
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Without you reading what we struggle to write and creatively present, there obviously would be no point in our effort. And, without the generous financial support many of you give, we wouldn’t be able to publish at all!
Call for Submissions
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Revelations The word apocalypse, counter to centuries of disinformation, does not refer to the end of the world. The word’s actual meaning is “uncovering” — a revelation of truths that are concealed from the majority of the human population. This …