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Idiot Like Me
by Tanya Solomon
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Clown school, summer 2007. I’m doing an improv exercise, still soaked from the spit takes and bucket sloshes we practiced in the last class. The teacher catches me struggling for a witty response and hollers “Stop!”
Unschooling and Free Schools
by Marike Reid-Gaudet
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
I’m interested in unschooling because it’s an applied philosophy rather than a teaching method. This philosophy, which I strive to use daily with my son, who is now 16 years old, is also the one used in free schools. For …
More debate on Technology
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Dear Fifth Estate: The cover graphic of the mushroom cloud with the word WAR! in seven centimeter lettering across the front struck me as highly appropriate for the Fifth Estate (See FE #307, Nov. 19, 1981). It would seem to …
Getting Used To It
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Following is part one in a series of articles subtitled “a guide to bumming in the U.S.A.” The author is unknown, and we wouldn’t have found out about it if it weren’t for the keen eye of …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 5, March 6-20, 1966
David Susskind’s office decided to investigate “Bohemia” in a one- or two-hour “Open End” television show. Called Israel Young’s Folklore Center for information. Poets Allan Katzman, an EVO editor and Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs were standing by. Next scene, …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in your area. We don’t guarantee to print everything received, but all letters are read by our staff and considered for publication. …
Superkid
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
a review of The Assault on Childhood, Ron Goulart, Sherbourne Press, Los Angeles, 1969, $6.50
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 24, February 15-28, 1967
FILM FILM Famous Early Movie Series. Bringing Up Baby, with Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn (1938). Henry Ford Museum Theatre. 2 & 4 p.m. Adm. 2/19 FILM Famous Films of Famous Directors III. Dreyer’s Day of Wrath, at Rackham …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Sticks & Stones Dear Fifth Estate, In response to E.B. Maple (“On Organization: Two Reviews of The Camatte/Collu Pamphlet,” FE #279, December 1976), I can only say that calling me a “Leninist” does not make it so.
Anarchism
by Ian Lovelace
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
In one sense, anarchy is a desired end. In another, it’s an ever-present means, a universal tendency, a generative force that gives birth to new worlds. In this latter sense, anarchy represents the ultimate achievement in human self-consciousness; the point …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
NEW YORK—Strange and very hypocritical how Dwight D. Eisenhower seems to have been loved and revered by everybody. While he was alive one could scarcely hear a good word for or about him; now he’s dead the air is full …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our …
Brass Boiling over Fort Wayne Exposé
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
The brass at Fort Wayne have taken their revenge for Spec. 4 Jerry Brown’s criticism of induction center medical examinations. Brown was given 36 hours to leave the post after an article appeared in the last issue of this paper …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
compiled by Naomi Epel THURS. DEC. 26 MC5 at the Fillmore East, New York, free tickets obtainable if you happen to be heading in that direction. Call Trans-Love 1/769-2017. GUERRILLA THEATER: a pacifist play by Sam Cohen performed at the …
Unionism and Taylorism
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Tay-lor-ism n. 1. The scientific management of industrial operations. 2. The systematic reduction of work within a given industrial operation to separate, distinct, routinized tasks devoid of policy decisions. Each aspect is measured and timed for its highest efficiency. 3. …
Evergreen 19 Beat Rap
by Bill Blank, George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
A minor victory in the midst of an ongoing major disaster, the “Evergreen 19” have walked free, but only from the stench of a courtroom. After prolonged exposure to exhausting testimony on our disorderly conduct charges and a judge who …
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
Why the critics? That is a question I get asked fairly frequently, by friends and correspondents who want to know why I expend so much energy on this particular aspect of the jazz Establishment.
We Brought Our Piss to Reagan
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
The lure of a spectacle and the fact that we love a parade made President Reagan’s Sept. 24 Detroit campaign stop-over irresistible to us. A protest had been called by a liberal/leftist/labor/religious coalition and one could only expect the ritual …
What’s Wrong With Nuclear Power?
by Adam Baum
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Nuclear power is a primary threat in the ongoing global environmental struggles at the end of the twentieth century. However, nuclear power is an issue many shy away from because of its complex and technical nature and the opaque power …