About Fifth Estate

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Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002

The Fifth Estate (FE) is a cooperative, nonprofit project, publishing since 1965. As opposed to professionals who publish to secure wages or invest in the information industry, our collective consists of volunteer writers, artists, and editors—friends who produce the paper …

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Fight the empire, not its wars

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Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002

As we go to press, the Empire is preparing for war against Iraq, and as you read this, the war may have already commenced. Or perhaps the saber rattling will continue until the mighty technological imperial blade falls as an …

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358, Fall, 2002

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Abandon Automobile

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Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002

poems like distilled scenes from the grey of a city whose lettuce days are just stories of a drunk at a vet’s bar poems whose hope defies common sense poems like old friends loves memories that haunt with each page …

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Issue intro

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Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021

This issue’s theme, “What’s Next? Demand the Impossible,” is a challenge to all our imaginations. We live in a world faced with the scourge of a plague, and in a country that is an armed madhouse with a good portion …

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409, Summer, 2021

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Remember Sacco & Vanzetti

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Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002

Stop State Killings! Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex! “I would not wish to a dog or to a snake, to the most low and misfortunate creature of the earth-I would not wish to any of them what I have had …

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On the covers

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Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002

Richard Mock (front) I contribute my social commentary linocut images to the FE to add weight to the humanist argument against fear and power mongers taking over the world. The activities of large collective organizations like corporations and governments create …

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Masthead

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Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002

The Fifth Estate (FE) is a cooperative, nonprofit project, publishing since 1965. As opposed to professionals who publish to secure wages Or invest in the information industry, our collective consists of volunteer writers, artists, and editors—friends who produce the paper …

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Hardlines, Richard Mock book

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Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002

The Plains Art Museum (in Fargo, ND) has produced a book called Hardlines. The book is the result of classes taught by Richard Mock of New York. Hardlines features social commentary linocut prints from each of the participants ages ten; …

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