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From Saguaros to Sawgrass: Thirty Years of Ecological Resistance
by Earth First!
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
The Earth First! Journal is celebrating its 30th anniversary of independent media with a 120+ page edition featuring contributions from a slew of radical environmentalists, surrealists, voices from indigenous resistance movements, the Greek insurrection, as well as artists and writers …
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2004 is a leap year…
by Slingshot
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
2004 is a leap year—a fantastic opportunity to leap into something new. Are you gonna use your extra day like you use so many other days—using up more of the earth’s resources while the forests, the oceans, and tree communities …
Deadline Nears for Big Mountain
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
As the July 8 deadline nears for forced government relocation of indigenous people—some 10,000 Navajos and 1,000 Hopis—from their homes in the Navajo-Hopi “Joint Use Area,” the people are digging in in preparation for a fight while the federal government …
Vietnam’s Untold Victim: The Land
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Shortly after we published our issue with a discussion of the war in Vietnam, [Looking back on the Vietnam War, FE #320, Spring, 1985] an article appeared in the New York Times about studies done by the Vietnamese government and …
Upcoming Events
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
New England Anarchist Bookfair. April 21-22. Boston Friday, 7pm-11pm, Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St. Mitchell Verter, editor of Dreams of Freedom, on Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon and contemporary Magonism, a video and music.
Miscarriage
by Ambrose Nurra
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
white blades of light sift through the stripes hugging the crumpled form of an empire of stars crowded together
FBI Still Stalling on EF! Bombing Case
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
SAN FRANCISCO—A federal magistrate ordered the FBI to provide further evidence to lawyers for the late Judi Bari and fellow Earth First! activist Darryl Cherney in their 7-1/2 year lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police Department.
Activists Indicted by Feds in Arizona Hunt Sabotage
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
In December 2004, Earth First! activists Matthew Crozier and Rod Coronado, along with Esquire magazine journalist John Richardson, were charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer. The indictment followed a Tucson-based Chuk’shon Earth First! (CEF!) action that …
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Clinton Threatened Nukes in Gulf
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Amid all the media saturation about oral sex in the Oval Office, it went almost unnoticed that Bill Clinton considered use of nuclear weapons against Iraq to take out Saddam Hussein’s underground complexes, or to retaliate for an Iraqi chemical …
Murder in the Redwoods
by Earth First!
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
On September 17, 24-year-old Earth First! activist David “Gypsy” Chain was pronounced dead in the woods he was working to defend.
Neanderthal Liberation Front
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
“…a little Neanderthal DHA, between one to four percent, exists in (some) people today…The Neanderthals are not dead; some of them live on in us.”
Smokey The Bear Sutra
by Fifth Estate Collective, Gary Snyder
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite Void gave a discourse to all the assembled elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, the flying beings, …
New Virgin Mother Picked in Play
by Colleen Jensen, J.J. Markin
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
On Saturday, December 20, the play “Miss Virgin Mother” was presented at the Grand Circus Exchange by a group of individuals calling themselves “Somebody Else.” Although non-professionals in the strict sense of the word, originality and creativity sparked their performance, …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
James Koehnline’s inventive collages often grace our pages including this issue. His mixture of the ancient with the modern, sacred idols with the banal, and the improbable alongside the ordinary, are often ominously unsettling. The jarring juxtaposition creates a combination …
The Appeal of Anarchy
by John Moore
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Amidst ecstatic visions, Anarchy appears. She says: Whenever you need anything, once a month at the full moon, assemble in the wilderness—in the forest, on the heath, by the seashore—for the state of nature is a community of freedoms. Recognize …
Judi Bari bombing case to go to trial
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Three hundred and fifty supporters of two Earth First! forest defense activists rallied outside the San Francisco FBI field office May 24 on the tenth anniversary of the day when a shrapnel-stuffed pipe bomb exploded in a car driven by …
Smokey the Bear Sutra
by Gary Snyder
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
Once in the Jurassic, about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite Void gave a great Discourse to all the assembled elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, the flying …
Rainforest Action
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
Not content to sit by while the Central American rainforests are being bulldozed and burned for cattle grazing land to provide beef for fast food greaseburgers, fifty students and faculty from Macomb County College picketed the Burger King at 23 …
Detroit—Spring & Summer
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
I. Imagine this scene: a bright cloudless warm May Sunday in Detroit. On days like this, rare as the purple wallaby, half the local population has suddenly taken cover indoors in a shroud of bubbling beercans, listening to Tiger announcer, …