Dear Fifth Estate: I was heartened to read your issue concerning Earth First! [FE #327, Fall, 1987]. I’ve had a gut feeling about that group for a while, felt uncomfortable with the male-dominated norm of most all environmental groups, even …
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Delving Deeper into Deep Ecology
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
INTRODUCTION The letter exchanges and articles on the next few pages represent the second installment of what we see as an ongoing process of investigation and discussion of the ecology perspective and movement, nature and society. The response to FE …
For an Ecology of the Marvelous
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
“Every time I think about us women, I think about the trees, the subversive trees laden in blood but not bleeding the rebellious trees encrusted but not cracking.” —Jayne Cortez “Unless rooted in poetry the experience of ‘outside’ from within—even …
Deep Ecology as Strategic Knowledge
by Miss Ann Thropy
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
Dear Fifth Estate: As the author of “Population and AIDS”—the article that seems to have galvanized so much “anarchist” opposition to Earth First!—I can’t help but attempt a brief response to George Bradford’s wide-ranging critique of deep ecology in FE. …
Revolutionary Ecology
by Karen Pickett
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
The direct action-oriented Earth First! radical environmental movement and its public-facing arm, the Earth First! Journal, turned 40 years old in 2020. And, 2020 almost killed the venerable Journal.
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
by Murray Bookchin
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
Broadly conceived, ecology deals with a balance in nature. Inasmuch as nature includes man, the science basically deals with the harmonization of man and nature. Ecology is an integrative and reconstructed science in that it deals with the most radical …
Ecology & Barbarism
by C. Logre Mordicus
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
In the Third World, the possibility of economic development can bring a strange form of “modernity.” For example, Madagascar, formerly a jewel in France’s illustrious colonial empire (45,000 deaths resulted from the French quelling of the 1947 uprising), had long …
Deep Ecology Debate Continues
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
The following is a sampling of letters we have received from supporters of Earth First! who have taken exception to our criticisms of the radical environmental group in our last two issues (see FE #327, Fall 1987 and FE #328, …
Ecology Manifesto
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
1. POPULATION The Condition Position: Man is but a part of the fabric of life—dependent on the whole fabric for his very existence. As the most highly developed tool-using animal, he must recognize that the unknown evolutionary destinies of other …
Return of the Son of Deep Ecology
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
Introduction The letter above [“Deep Ecology as Strategic Knowledge,” FE #331, Spring, 1989] was sent to the Fifth Estate last year in response to the essay I wrote, “How Deep Is Deep Ecology? A Challenge to Radical Environmentalism” (FE #327, …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
To The Editors: This letter is in reply to the article by Tom Haroldson entitled, “Vote No On Survival” which appeared in FE #99, February 19 – March 4. Mr. Haroldson makes some very good points in regards to …
With Conviction: Art and Letters from Behind Prison Walls
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
“With Conviction: Art and Letters from Behind Prison Walls,” was displayed in January at Sacramento’s Exhibit S Gallery featuring prisoner art, letters, and zines. Chicago-based Anthony Rayson and Michael Ploski, amassed hundreds of pieces of original artwork rarely before exhibited …
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Letters to the editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
We encourage your participation in this project with your comments on the publication & its perspectives. While we will read every letter, we will usually print the most enticing & engaging. E-mail letters or letters sent on disk are appreciated. …
How Deep is Deep Ecology?
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987
Introduction For a number of years, the Fifth Estate has been writing about the crisis of Western civilization and its industrial/technological plague. At the same time we have been profoundly interested in primitivism and the cultures of earth-based peoples, realizing …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Dear Sirs: I managed to get my hands on a copy of the Fifth Estate. Wow, what a paper. I passed it around my section and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m a GI and I have been in Vietnam …
Reading “Letters of Insurgents” 34 Years After its Publication
by Unruhlee
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
As we go to press in late June, we are receiving reports of discussion groups formed around the country, in person and in on-line blogs, that are reading Fredy Perlman’s 1976 historical novel, Letters of Insurgents, published by Detroit’s Black …
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Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
To the Editor: That Artists’ Workshop Public Notice in your last issue — Public Notice for more members — I found somewhat amusing [see FE #18, November 15-30, 1966]. Especially where it said “There is no hierarchy, no exclusiveness, …
Diane Di Prima’s “Revolutionary Letters”
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
a review of Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007. 160 pages, available for $15 from the Barn
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
The Fifth Estate encourages letters commenting on our articles, raising issues we haven’t presented, or reports from your area. Although we live in a digital age and comments in Microsoft Word are the most convenient for us, all formats are …
Love & Letters of Insurgents
by Artnoose
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
a review of Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vocheck, as told by Fredy Perlman, with a new introduction by Aragorn!. Left Bank Books, 2014, 722pp., $20 leftbankbooks.bigcartel.com
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
Dear FE Readers: Well, here we are with issue no. 2 from the new staff and only two letters–one a form letter that went out to all the left press.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
FE A HOBBY? To F.E.: Anarchism can provide the perfect defense mechanism for dilettantes. In your “reply” to John and Paula Zerzan [“FE Criticized & Our Response,” FE #291, April 30, 1978] you come perilously close to demonstrating this when …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
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.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
To the People I Love c/o The Fifth Estate: You will note with paradoxical titters that the “Silent Majority” of which Nixon speaks (that is, referring to “a nation of sheep”), is in fact a misnomer caused of social …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
Solitary for T-Shirt Greetings Comrades: I thought I’d forward some news about authority inside prison….
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Send letters to fe – AT – fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length
Letters To The Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
To the Editor: The article in your last issue—”Playboy’s Tinseled Seductress”—I liked [FE #17, November 1-15, 1966]. The pointing out Playboy’s magnificent superficiality was, I thought, sound and much needed. But the conclusion!—ugh!—that the marriage institution suffers thereby—that “somehow …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Quite a Drag Howdy, Folks! (That’s the only non-sexist salutation I can think of.)
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
Dear Friends: Learned recently that funds for the arts have been cut drastically in Detroit or Michigan, and that a “state representative” Wierzbicki defended the policy by saying that music, art, and dance have nothing to do with people’s lives. …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Dear Beautiful People, As I was sitting in Grant Park in Chicago August 28 what to my tear-gassed eyes should appear but a beautiful young girl with a free copy of the Fifth Estate. She handed me a copy with …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965
NOTE: The following Letter to the Editor of the Detroit News was written by Alvin Harrison, NSM [Northern Student Movement] field secretary in Detroit, in response to a number of letters published regarding his participation in a Teach-in on Viet …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Dear Editors: I just finished reading your latest “words of wisdom.” Isn’t it about time you knocked it off? Words are works, I agree, but more appropriate adjectives may be found in any pocket dictionary.
Next Issue: Contra Bookchin
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
Last summer at Goddard College, social ecology luminary Murray Bookchin denounced the FE as “toilet literature flooding into the ecology movement and polluting it,” and a “manifestation of a middle class, petit bourgeois yuppie perspective. AK Press recently published Bookchin’s …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
Send letters to fe – AT – fifthestate – DOT – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length. SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC My partner brought home a …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Send letters to fe – at – fifthestate – dot – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted, including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Send letters to fe@fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
Dearest Hippie Editor: I think you guys at the Fifth Estate are the biggest clot of hypocrites I have ever had witness to. Some people wrote some letters to the Editor in your Aug. 15-31 issue. They called you hypocrites. …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
Send letters to fe – AT – fifthestate – DOT – org or Fifth Estate, POB 204016, Ferndale MI 48220.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Send letters to fe AT fifthestate DOT org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
Help Wanted Dear FE & Readers: Some clarification of myself is needed here before too many people waste time making statements about me that are completely out of whack with who I am. (See Letters, FE #290, March 2, 1978).