I want to take up where I left off last time and get into some of the alternatives to the present scene in the local rock and roll industry. There has been some fantastic response to my last column—even Russ …
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Shamanism, anarchy and the end of the world
by Dave Hanson
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
After twenty years of teaching shamanic practices to small groups in several circles in Washington and California, I found the results to be mixed. In the groups in which I participated, there were many moving visionary experiences, but the flabby …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Natural Abortions To “A Comrade” c/o The FE: I am fed up with the “murder of the innocents” argument re: abortion. (See Letters, FE #321, Indian Summer 1985). Nature murders the “innocents,” i.e. fertilized cell clusters, by the billions …
Fredy Perlman
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Fredy Perlman was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1934. He emigrated with his parents to Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1938 just ahead of the Nazi takeover. The Perlman family came to the United States in 1945 and lived variously …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
We have finally firmed up plans for the Fifth Estate 20th Anniversary celebration. It will be held at Alvin’s, 5756 Cass Ave., Detroit, on Dec. 7. Hopefully, the event will bring together many of those who have worked on the …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
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Anarchic Justice at the End of History
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
It has been said that self-preservation is the first law of nature, and that the basis of justice lies in protecting ourselves from one another. This is a perennial lie of the system of domination.
The Revolution Will be Powered by Shakti Energy
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
I traveled to Dharamsala, India in 2005 to set up a one-month summer study program, in collaboration with the Louisiana Himalaya Association, and have taken groups of students there periodically since then. During last summer’s trip, we visited renowned ecofeminist …
Mother Earth
by Alon K. Raab
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
a review of Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, Edited with Commentary by Peter Glassgold, Counterpoint, 2001, 428 pages, $25.
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
The Legal Self Defense (LSD) benefit February 4th was the greatest success in my memory: over 1200 people attended and offered their bread for support, and the LSD Fund netted over $2200.00 for the community.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
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“Detroit”
by William Boyer (Bill Boyer)
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
a review of Detroit (2017) Director: Kathryn Bigelow 143 min.
From Economic Meltdown to Grassroots Rebellion
by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
The Tin Pot Insurrection December the 19th was the turning point, the day when the Argentinean people said “enough!” The stage was set the day before, when people began looting shops and supermarkets, so they could feed their families. …
U.S. Out of the Americas!
by Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
How could anyone fail to notice the sickening irony in the announcement from U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz that no reprisals would be taken against Nicaragua for shooting down an unmarked U.S. military helicopter and killing the pilot at …
The State is the Real Threat
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Manufacturing the Threat, Dir: Amy Miller, 2023
Encapsulating Anarchism
by Eric Laursen
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Alex Prichard. Oxford University Press, 2023
Conspiracy: end of the circus
by Jeff Shero
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
The U.S. ended the trial of the Conspiracy Eight with all the subtlety of a bludgeoning. Despite the messy close and the muted cries of the professional observers in the press gallery, the defendants’ demise came by club rather than …
Anything new in the “Revolt Against Work?”
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Charles Reeve has raised a number of important questions in his critique of John Zerzan’s “Unions Against Revolution.” [See The “Revolt Against Work” or Fight for the Right to be Lazy (FE 279, December, 1976).] These questions should not be …
Pigs Riot in Park
by Joe Check
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
On Sunday, August 24, a group of men attending the Ever-Seven (Evergreen-Seven Mile Road) neighborhood association picnic in Stoepel Park harassed and beat up a group of young people who were also in the park.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
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