Announcements

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

Oklahoma Infoshop Opens The Third Space infoshop and lending library is open in Norman, Oklahoma. It features radical, revolutionary, and progressive social theory; philosophy, history, race, class and gender studies; art, literature, DIY manuals, and guides; plus a selection of …

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Dispatch from ‘Free’

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

In June 2001, 23-year-old forest defense activist Jeffrey “Free” Luers was sentenced to 22 years and 8 months in prison for a Eugene, Oregon arson. Free and his co-defendant Critter set fire to three Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV’s) at a …

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The Wobblies Are Back!

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

Last year, Starbucks’ “baristas” in New York continued to organize for the first union shop in an outpost of the notorious coffee chain. In January, criminal charges were dismissed against an IWW Starbucks organizer stemming from a march at the …

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GI Resister Speaks Out at Fifth Estate Benefit

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

“I’d rather face the uncertainty of opposing the war and going AWOL than face the certainty of being shipped and fighting in a war that I am against.

Briefs

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

Police Hunt Poo Protesters In Southern Germany in a town by the name of Bayreuth, the German police are in a quandary.

Tales From the Planet

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

Last September, the forces of law and order in Davidson County, Tenn. dropped criminal trespass charges against a member of this magazine’s editorial collective.

No War (centerfold poster)

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

NO WAR NO PRESIDENT NO AYATOLLAH NO GOD

Eat the Rich Gang Panic in Detroit

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

  After the Eat The Rich Gang (ETR) distributed several thousand copies of their phony front page, which were stuffed in Detroit News coin boxes, angry christians called the offices of the Fifth Estate demanding, “my children came home crying …

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Queer Anarchy

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

“We want non-hierarchical community, the post-nuclear extended family, the circle of erotic and social realization.

20 Years of the Fifth Estate

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

On the occasion of a past anniversary, we noted that the Fifth Estate had been described by the FBI in its files as “supporting the causes of revolution everywhere.”