Utah Phillips’s Last Interview

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Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008

The following is a portion of a transcript of a May 7 interview with Utah Phillips conducted by long-time Fifth Estate contributor, Peter Werbe. It aired on his May 11 Detroit radio show in part to provide publicity for a …

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Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

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Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008

The IWW and the labor movement lose a troubadour Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music, who performed tirelessly on two continents for 38 years, died May 23 of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California, a small …

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Strike!

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Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008

Eugene V. Debs, an American Beowulf, who was like both a sacred covenant rainbow for all the blue proletariat and a powerful electromagnetic storm and struck fiercely against the industrial money monsters who were mute,

Call for submissions for Winter 2009 FE

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Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008

This winter, the Fifth Estate seeks to publish good reading for winter hibernation. Work that focuses on underground political, cultural, and social activity, as well as subtextual analysis. We seek discussion on how radicals and everyday people subvert the dominant …

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Call for submissions for next issue

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Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008

Play as a concept has always animated the anarchist/underground milieu with an infectious spirit of playful experimentation and exuberance. Riding wild and playful energy, we created seeds of an insurrectionary alternative reality that could one day replace or overthrow the …

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Editorial

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Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008

As several people who have seen this issue prior to publication have noted, the correct quote is “The love of money is the root of all evil,” but its truncated form seems more accurate than the original. Money itself, not …

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Free Readers’ Ads

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Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976

THIS PAGE IS YOUR PAGE. All ads are FREE for the asking. We hope this page becomes a place where we can communicate and take care of our basic needs outside of the capitalist, consumption market. Send to THE FIFTH …

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Ammunition Books

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Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976

Ammunition Books 4403 Second Detroit, Michigan 48201 Telephone: (313) 831-6800 Office Hours: Tuesday thru Friday, 1pm–5pm

Staff and Contributors

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Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976

Millard Berry Alan Franklin Ralph Franklin Dennis Rosenblum Bob Nirkind Pat Halley Colleen Jensen E. B. Maple J.J. Markin Mr. Venom Sonny Tufts Pat O’Bryan Peter Werbe Algirdas Ratnikas Marilyn Werbe The Fifth Estate Newspaper, a non-profit Michigan corporation is …

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Detroit Seen

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Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976

The Fifth Estate’s benefit party on February 20th was a rousing success which saw the paper raise $400 over expenses and provided a party-down good time for about 450 revelers. Although the 5 kegs of beer went out faster than …

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