Harrises Freed Bill and Emily Harris, the Symbionese Liberation Army members who pleaded guilty to kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974 and were imprisoned in 1978, will be paroled in June. Their attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said Bill Harris will …
For those who may argue an “appropriate,” “soft” technology characterized by solar, wind and water power against the massive nuclear and coal-burning forms taken by “hard” technology, the photograph below should raise some problems. Pictured is a machine designed and …
When you get to be our age, it seems easy to forget your birthdays, but it probably should be noted that last November marked the 17th anniversary of our first issue. The paper has gone through a number of marked …
RELATED: FE MUSEUM OPENING VIDEO View on Vimeo September 19, MOCAD 3-5pm, The Fifth Estate’s 50 Years of Radical Journalism, Commentary & Critique: A Panel & Conversation 5-7pm, FE staff reunion 8:30-10:00pm at HopCat (Canfield at Woodward), dance/party/concert celebration featuring …
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Recently, an anti-nuclear protester in Washington state, after seeing the nuclear freeze banners which he and his friends had spread across the tracks shredded by the oncoming train carrying nuclear warheads, was asked by a radio reporter what his feelings …
It had to happen eventually, and it did. That repository of pre-masticated mediocrity, that script for dullards, Time magazine, declared its “Man-of-the-Year” a machine-of-the-year, the computer. The magazine gave a lavish spread to this loathsome invasion, joining in the corporate …
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ONGOING EVENTS Sept. 6-Nov. 26 “Soapboxers and Saboteurs: 100 Years of Wobbly Solidarity.” An exhibit highlighting materials from the Labadie Collection, one of the world’s best collections of materials documenting early IWW history.. Special Collections Library, 711 Hatcher Library, University …
“History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.” — R. Buckminster Fuller This year marks the one hundredth …
Vietnam Rsesource Page Fifth Estate articles in date order Dr. Norman Pollack Vietnam Fifth Estate #2, December 2-16, 1965 https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/2-december-2-16-1965/vietnam/ “Perhaps the biggest mistake many of us make when speaking about Vietnam is that we focus only on Vietnam, and …