Jim & Sid Bon Jours Cinque Etate: Allors!—as France’s leading Anarchist & Public Enemy Number One, I wish to offer my congratulations on your fine paper. As a revenue generating device, may I suggest an idea for a t-shirt: on …
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The Academy Award of Protest
by Jerry Rubin
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
This is the greatest honor of my life. It is with sincere humility that I accept this federal indictment. It is the fulfillment of childhood dreams, climaxing years of hard work and fun.
Busking behind the Barricades
by Bill Blank
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
a review of A Busker’s Adventure by David Rovics. Various e-book formats at davidrovics.com/
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
When you order books from the Barn, you support a collective and help keep the Fifth Estate physical space solvent. With your help, we’re trying to sustain an alternative to the commercialism of retail or web-based booksellers.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words.) Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Folk is Punk
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
a review of Starlight on the Rails: Songbook, U. Utah Phillips, 4 CDs, AK Press, 2005, $39 Memory Against Forgetting, Casey Neill, CD, AK Press, 2005, $15. Available from http://akpress.org
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
An interesting entry to the TV “talk show” circuit locally is “Haney’s People,” at 11:15 p.m., on Channel 7 (WXYZ-TV).
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Thanks to everyone (musicians, performers and party-goers) who made the Fifth Estate 10th anniversary party on December 6 one of the most entertaining and fun sets Detroit has seen in a long while. (See details and photos farther in.)
The Last SLA Statement
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) undertook a series of urban guerrilla actions in 1973 and 1974 that made world-wide headlines. The assassination of a reactionary school official, the kidnapping of a wealthy heiress and a bank appropriation set off a …
Don’t Mourn—Organize!
by Dan Brook
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
(from www.zmag.org) Note: As we go to press, the jury in the “Judi Bari vs. the FBI” case is still deliberating. During the rally discussed below, the lawyers for the defendants filed a motion to dismiss the case because the …
Free Speech for GIs
by Michael Smith
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
Editors’ Note: The author is an attorney with the Detroit Law firm of Lafferty, Reosti, and Jabara, who spent two months in Columbia, S.C. working on the legal defense of members of GIs United Against the War in Vietnam.
Hippies—the new aristocracy?
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
“A lot of us have been smokin’ reefers and layin’ broads in the bushes at Belle Isle for the last twenty years…and nobody ever called that a Love-In.” —anonymous Greaser and Frat Rocker and Mod Lower-middle class versus upper-middle-class America.
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure WED. JULY 23 HELP KEEP SONNY’S DADDY OUT OF JAIL. Legal Self Defense Benefit at the Grande Ballroom. MC5, Stooges, and Tate Blues Band. All proceeds to go to the John Sinclair Defense Fund 7 …
HUAC
by Bill Blum
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Special to Liberation News Service How does one describe a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing? From a legal viewpoint? Confrontation of opposing forces? Show biz? From any point of view, the hearings held in Washington October 1, 3, and 4, …
More Minneapolis Anarchy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Our coverage of the 1987 Anarchist Gathering held in Minneapolis, June 18-22 [FE #326, Summer, 1987] engendered rather scant response given its criticism of “dyed-in-the-wool” anarchism, paganism as a “problematic current,” and the low level of “education(al) and historical discussion” …
Movie Review
by Joe Nolan
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
a review of No Gods; No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2017) (Originally: Ni dieu, ni maitre. Une histoire de l’anarchisme) Writer/Director: Tancrede Ramonet. 156 min. Color/B&W (French, German with English subtitles) Available from Icarus Films icarusfilms.com/if-nogods
Blood Lake
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
a review of Blood Lake: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery by Kenneth Wishnia. PM Press edition 2014; Spanish translation 2018. Originally published HB 2002
Unclassified
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
The Fifth Estate 1107 W. Warren Detroit, Mich. 48201 831-6800 UNCLASSIFIED costs 50 cents per line per week. Figure 5 words per line. (A word Is a word, including 1 and 2 letter words. A phone number Is a word. …
The Coatpuller
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Lots of good music coming up for the summer, June 8th, the new Spike Drivers will present a huge three-ring circus type show at Community Arts Auditorium, WSU, featuring the MC-5, the Passing Clouds, the Magic Veil Light Company, classical …