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May 3, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Issue Intro
Welcome to another issue of the Fifth Estate Anarchist Review of Books. We haven’t changed our title permanently; just letting readers know what to expect inside this edition. We also haven’t changed our belief that it is direct action in the streets and in the woods, and creating communities of resistance and rebellion that are needed so critically as conditions worsen on almost every level. We read and learn to increase our commitment in our struggles.
May 2, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Ukraine
Another war, another victory for the state
As we write at the end of March, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is at full fury with deaths and destruction increasing daily. By the time you read this, the conflict will hopefully have ended. If not, any number of terrible scenarios may have taken place or are still continuing.
The best outcome will be the thwarting of Vladimir Putin’s plans by Ukrainian resistance, but also by the overthrow of the Russian president by popular forces within Russia. The consequences of a victory for the invaders would be a disaster and only come at a horrendous price.
May 2, 2022 Read the whole text...
Louie Collins
Anti-War GIs Face Trial, Court Martial
Can the Army brass deny a GI his constitutional rights to hold and express ideas differing from those held by the administration in Washington—including ideas in direct opposition to the Vietnam war?
These are the key issues of civil liberties in the now celebrated case of Howard Petrick, the twenty one year old Fort Hood based Pfc., recently threatened with court martial solely for expressing his anti-war and socialist — oriented beliefs to his fellow soldiers.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Benefit For EAT
Giant Plane Sale
Ann Arbor—A nonprofit exhibition and sale for the benefit of EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.) will take place at the studio of artist Robert Rauschenberg from June 5 to 7.
The exhibition is called GIANT MODEL AIRPLANES and consists of precisely scaled and detailed enlargements of stick-and-tissue-type models of vintage aircraft.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Calendar
Thursday June 1
JUSTICE! Judge Gillis’ Courtroom 1326 St. Antoine. Trial Preliminaries concerning the “great reefer raid” of January 24th. John Sinclair and others will be up before the bench. Friends and sympathisers are urged to attend. 6/1
FILM: “Ipcress File,” 7:30, WSU Community Arts. Free. 6/1.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
Irving Shushnick
Krishna Consciousness Comes to Detroit
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
This 16 word Hindu chant was first heard in Detroit when poet Allen Ginsberg led the hippie community in a Lovefare last February. Jerry Younkins and Anarchy next brought the Hare Krishna to the Grande Ballroom for a SUN benefit and the recent Love-In at Belle Isle witnessed hundreds of young people chanting Hare Rama for hours.
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Masthead
FIFTH ESTATE #31, June 1–15, 1967, Vol. 2 No. 5, page 6
EDITORS
Harvey Ovshinsky
Peter Werbe
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Cathy West
NEWS EDITOR
Frank Joyce
ART
Gary Grimshaw
MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR
John Sinclair
CALENDAR GIRLS
Karen Kovach
Naiomi Epel
ADVERTISING
Leon Brenner
Joe Drozdowski
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
Ron Harwood
New UP Releases
Ragtime and Detroit Blues Classics
Now you can hear what guitar playing sounded like when Eddie Lang was big back in the Twenties. If you play another cut you can hear what Pete Johnson and Joe Turner sounded like back in the Thirties. You can hear a little Blind Boy Fuller, Pink Anderson, Teddy Bunn, Mance Lipscomb, and John Hurt too. But most of all you can hear what Mitch Greenhill sounds like TODAY, if you get his album SHEPHERD OF THE HIGHWAYS on Prestige/Folklore.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
Tom Yates
New York Hippie Runs for President
At last we have a presidential candidate, a man who will aid in uniting the hippie tribes into a solid unit with one goal in mind. That man is Louis Abolafia, a New York artist and jazz trumpeter.
Mr. Abolafia is running on an Independent, Art, Love Beauty platform and in the recent New York state gubernatorial election he polled 2,500 write-in votes. One of the planks in Mr. Abolafia’s platform is the lowering of the voting age. He also intends to attack Governor Romney in his own back yard. Some of Louis’s backers include Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Paul Krassner.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
Sol Plafkin
Off Center
Let me predict this: Jerry Cavanagh is definitely on the way out! It may not come as a result of the current recall movement, but it will happen soon.
I don’t think that there’s a single reader of the FIFTH ESTATE who gives a damn about the Mayor’s sex life, but there are a hell of a lot of people in town who do care about his political, ethical, intellectual, and possible, financial corruption.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
John Wilcock
Other Scenes
Years ago the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was just about the only medium via which lazy, white liberals could salve their consciences when they happened to think about those poor, underprivileged Negroes down south. But the NAACP not only didn’t advance the colored people very far but actively began to resist change when other more militant (such as SNCC & CORE) organizations came along. Maybe that’s why it continued to get so many white “liberal” contributions.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
Harvey Ovshinsky
Paul Krassner in Detroit
Every Mother’s Day Paul Krassner, editor of the REALIST comes to Detroit and educates us on what’s REALLY happening in the underground.
For instance, if you ever see Tim Leary walking around crouched like a rabbi, it’s because he has a rip in his pants and he doesn’t wear underwear. Krassner also suggested that’s where Leary keeps his stash.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
Shirley Hamburg
The Cinephile
“We’ll save it in the editing.”
Though true of James Cruze, Griffith, Stroheim, this maxim was hardly any longer true of Murnau, Chaplin, and becomes irretrievable untrue with sound film. Why? Because in a film such as Eisenstein’s “October” (and still more so with “Que Viva Mexico”) editing is above all the supreme touch of direction. Elena, just as Mr. Arkadin, is a model of editing because each in its class is a model of directing.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Toledo V.C. Village Destroyed
“If we don’t stop ‘em there...”
On April 30, the professional headbusters of the Detroit Police Department turned a love-in into a violent hate-in.
On Sunday, May 22, at a Toledo, Ohio mock war show, several hippies and new leftists tried a reverse procedure. They tried to stage a love-in at the cite where the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and the local military had built a Vietcong village which they planned to destroy as an exercise for Armed Forces Day.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Wayne Provos Protest Parking Fees
A call for ending parking fees at Wayne State University was made last week by the Wayne Provos. The group, fashioned after the Amsterdam Provos in Holland, plans to protest by putting epoxy glue in parking meters and the coin slots in the automatic parking lots.
A Provo leader told the FIFTH ESTATE that parking fees and parking meters served as taxes on Wayne students. Something should be done now. These parking facilities should be free to all students.
May 1, 2022 Read the whole text...
Peggy Cronin
WSU Student Power Movement Growing Fast
After three weeks of exposes, rallies, demonstrations and meetings the Wayne Student Movement last week (May 17–18) elected three candidates to the Wayne Student-Faculty Council. Three additional candidates were elected on modified student power platforms.
The WSM has also been gaining support from the student boards of the various colleges at Wayne. The Liberal Arts Board, the Monteith Council and the School of Social Work Student Organization have endorsed the WSM six demands with qualifications.
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Fifth Estate Grows
Needs Larger Staff
The FIFTH ESTATE is growing like wild marijuana.
Our current press run is 8,000 newspapers and our newsstands have been empty a week because we didn’t have the papers to fill them. If this keeps up, our circulation before the summer will be 10,000 paid. Figuring at least three readers per copy that makes thirty thousand readers every issue.
Apr 29, 2022 Read the whole text...
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High School Underground Meets
A conference for high school underground publications has been set up. All high school students working on publications or interested in starting underground papers are invited.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss all aspects of establishing a paper, and compare experiences for the benefit of other papers. It would be beneficial if those people who are already printing a paper would bring copies with them.
Apr 29, 2022 Read the whole text...
Marshall Rubinoff
Inside Sounds
The new album by COUNTRY JOE and the FISH on Vanguard is the greatest piece of music that was ever vaguely labeled under the title of rock ‘n roll.
They do every kind of musical change in the album better than I’ve ever heard it before. They do heavy blues things, soft regular singing, guitar and organ solos that just fly, the free sounds of tinking wind chimes and hands rubbing a balloon.
Apr 29, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Liberal Dems Meet
How to love Poppa while he’s beating you on the hind end will be the theme of the Conference of Concerned Democrats all day Saturday, June 10 at the MacGregor Memorial Conference Center on the WSU campus.
A bunch of pretty decent-type Demos are going to get together and discuss the Democratic Party and its current stance on Vietnam, Civil Rights, etc. One of the main speakers will be happy warrior Zolton Ferency, Democratic State Chairman.
Apr 29, 2022 Read the whole text...
Lissa Matross
Students Plan Viet Summer Action
From Michigan Daily—An estimated 600 students from 100 high schools and colleges across the nation overwhelmingly approved a resolution here Sunday calling for a nationwide Vietnam referendum on campuses next fall.
The students took part in a two-day Student Mobilization Committee meeting at the University of Chicago last weekend.
Apr 29, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Cops Riot in Houston
HOUSTON, Texas—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has requested the U.S. Attorney General to launch a “vigorous investigation” of Houston police who “engaged in a vengeful and destructive rampage” against students and property at Texas Southern University during a five-hour riot on May 17.
Apr 27, 2022 Read the whole text...
Richard Dey
Detroit Fan Fair
The second Detroit Triple Fan Fair of fantasy literature, films, and comic art convenes the weekend of June 17 and 18 at the Park Shelton Hotel, Woodward at East Kirby.
The convention attracts not only Camp followers, but of Fandom, i.e. dedicated enthusiasts of the imaginative popular arts.
Fandom itself is comprised of individuals and loosely — knit tribal groups who collect, preserve, and discuss the artifacts, artists, and history of each genre. Fans also keep abreast of the current scene critically and, creatively, and engage in two major activities to promote the Cause: the production and consumption of an underground torrent of Fanzines, and Conventions.
Apr 27, 2022 Read the whole text...
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“Obscene” Kite Busts Fifth Estate Art Editor

The local gestapo ended their celebration of National Police Week Sunday, May 21, by staging a tiny raid on the offices of the FIFTH ESTATE’S brother newspaper, THE SUN, at 4863 John Lodge, and took SUN editor Gary Grimshaw into temporary custody for “exhibiting an obscene drawing.” Grimshaw is also Art Editor of the FIFTH ESTATE.
Apr 27, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Piece Pow-Wow at WSU
The Unified Megalopolitan Piece Pow Wow, a choreographed multi-media presentation will debut Thursday, June 8, at 8:00 p.m. in the WSU Community Arts Auditorium, Cass at Putnam.
The magic circus will feature performances by folksingers Phil Marcus Esser, Jan and Lorraine, and Tony Wright; bands including the MC-5, The Passing Clouds, and the Spike-Drivers; lights by The Magic Veil; poetry by John Sinclair and an astrological reading by Billy Reid. Unexpected sympathetic apparitions are also anticipated.
Apr 27, 2022 Read the whole text...
Frank H. Joyce
Support Grows for City District System
The Rev. Charles Williams is a conservative, Negro, Republican Baptist.
Robert Tindal is the executive director of the tradition-bound Civil Rights Organization to The Establishment—the NAACP. The Rev. Albert Cleage is a militant black power advocate and chairman of the Inner-City Organizing Committee.
Apr 27, 2022 Read the whole text...
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The Coatpuller
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 guitar, poetry by this correspondent, a karate exhibition, psychedelic ping-pong by Billy Reid, mantra chanting with musical accompaniment, and a story line by Larry Cruse and Sid Brown to tie it all together. Tickets at $1.50. Sponsored by Trans-Love and the WSU Artists’ Society.
Apr 27, 2022 Read the whole text...
Sunfrog (Andy “Sunfrog” Smith)
Laughter of the Sinners
This anti-novel points a middle finger at any and every preconception regarding reality
a review of
Lives of the Saints by Alan Franklin. Black and Red, Detroit, 2022
Alan Franklin dropped his book, Lives of the Saints, into a world where the final years of the last century seem like a distant dream. Where our then dramatically dire descriptions of accumulated misery were actually more understated prophecies than the mere screeching wheels of an overblown cerebral car-crash on the freeway of our shared consciousness. That is to say, Chicken Little was right, and so were the angry writers at publications like Fifth Estate. As bad as we told you it was then, it is worse now
Apr 25, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Anarchist & Radical Bookstores
Annares Infoshop
422 NW 13th Ave #147
Portland OR 97209
Blackbird Bookstore/Infoshop
1431 Park Avenue
Chico CA 95928
blackbirdchico.com
Bluestockings
172 Allen Street
New York NY 10002
bluestockings.com
Bound Together Bookstore
1369 Haight St.
San Francisco CA 94117
boundtogetherbookssf.github.io
Jan 10, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Art in the Fifth Estate
We welcome submissions of art and photography. Send high resolution images to fe@fifthestate.org. The Fifth Estate is an all-volunteer project. Images that appear in our pages are separate statements on subjects addressed in articles.
P. 5 Paul Signac, “Portrait of M. Felix Feneon” 1890.
Feneon was a French art critic and anarchist who coined the term Neo-Impressionism. Signac also was an anarchist.
Jan 10, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Masthead
Fifth Estate
Radical Publishing since 1965
Vol. 56, No. 3, #410, Fall 2021
The Fifth Estate is an anti-profit, anarchist project published by a volunteer collective of friends and comrades.
www.FifthEstate.org
No ads. No copyright. Kopimi — reprint freely
Jan 10, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Why An Anarchist Review of Books?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
This famous quote from Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities probably can be applied to any era, but which it is depends upon where you are situated at a given time.
Most of us, though, might find it difficult to locate the best at this moment as we face a pandemic, an increasing climate crisis, and a rising fascist movement among other contemporary disasters.
Jan 10, 2022 Read the whole text...
vincent a. cellucci
grounded by your country (poetry)
not since I was seventeen
have I been in a similar state of lockdown
.
back then it was
beaming home with the early light
with complete disregard for any promises
of minding a curfew or sobriety
jeep a degenerate comet
reeking of beer and weed
and I an alien approaching a staircase
where I cross paths with my captors
Jan 9, 2022 Read the whole text...
Katerina Gogou
I Stand for Anarchy
Don’t stop me. I’m dreaming.
We’ve been through centuries of injustice.
Centuries of loneliness.
Not now—don’t stop me.
Now here forever and everywhere.
I’m dreaming of freedom.
Gorgeous unique anyone,
let’s restore harmony to the universe.
Let’s play. Knowledge is joy.
It’s not mandatory schoolwork—
Jan 9, 2022 Read the whole text...
Hazel C. Cline
Is Your Nature Revolting?
Is your nature revolting? You certainly look the type. Yes? Then you will be interested in a very special inscription found scrawled on the wall of a public toilette by some good fairy to offer us salvation in transformation: “you must get smaller.” No simple task you might say. Maybe Alice left us a crumb, you might quip. Or perhaps we can reverse time, you add incredulously. No, my cynical friend, there is another way. And I found it on a sunny Sunday walk in the park. It is simple. Just walk out on the path with a stone in one hand and a leaf in the other and think of a vine sprouting through asphalt. When that pale green light inside your aorta expands around you and the or olfactories are filled with the scent of rich earth, you are ready, and your feet will guide you to the deeply trodden path of the deer. Crouch low to pass under boughs and thick bramble till you can feel your hooves firmly beneath you. Sniff out the rabbit trails among the moss and dry leaves, straining to follow them until you can hear clearly with your long, soft ears. Search out the long line of ants and walk with them until you can taste with your antennae down in the detritus. Crawl down into the earth, ever smaller and deeper. Until you are so small you can fit inside the smallest unit of life. And there, of course, you will find and become that which...well, I can’t tell you what. Perhaps you’ll know soon enough. In any case, I must be going. I have some graffiti to write.
Jan 9, 2022 Read the whole text...
Byron López Ellington
Ode to Anarres
After The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
To break off from the homeworld,
Separate and start anew,
Takes courage nigh unknowable.
Make a new language, speak it;
Choose a harsher planet, keep it;
Dispossess yourself of things
And your only home alike;
Leave the old lush rainforests
For frigid deserts, dry, starving,
Where through hardship you are free.
Jan 9, 2022 Read the whole text...
Andrei Codrescu
The best human gift is perspective
it’s also the worst
when used in circumstances calling for a closeup
or in circumstances that call for detachment
it is only a gift when it employs the appropriate distance
that minimizes pain
between the observer and the observed
.
we have a school for teaching appropriate distance
it’s called a slum a favella
Jan 9, 2022 Read the whole text...
Karin L. Frank
Vigilante Birth Control
(a logical addendum to the Texas Heartbeat Act)
Women,
step up to your place
as bounty hunters,
claim your $10,000 reward.
Grab your knitting needles,
pinking shears and nail files.
Maim, castrate or, if need be, kill,
at your discretion, each man
who approaches you in a
manner indicating he intends to engage
any of your body parts.
Remember,
Jan 9, 2022 Read the whole text...
Sylvie Kashdan
Cuba through the eyes of Che’s grandson
a review of
33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara, Translated by Howard Curtis. Europa Editions 2015
Les Héritiers du Che (The Heirs Of Che) by Canek Sánchez Guevara and Jorge Masetti. Presses de la Cite 2007
“The persecution of homosexuals, hippies, free thinkers, syndicalists, poets (dissidents of a sort) certainly seems in excess of what was being combated. The criminalization of being different has nothing to do with freedom. Neither does the concentration of power in the hands of a few form part of anarchist ideas, and even less so the perpetual surveillance of individuals or the prohibition of any associations that may be formed on the margins of the State.”
Jan 7, 2022 Read the whole text...
Bob Stern
Earth First! Journal
40th Anniversary Edition
Wow! I thought, look at all that color! Can it really be the Earth First! Journal? They pulled out all the stops creating this collage of Earth First! art, poetry, history and personal reminiscences of radical eco-warriors over the past 40 years!
It’s been a long while since there’s been an issue of the Journal chronicling the actions and campaigns of what the powers-that-be love to label eco-terrorism, but so many others see simply as a fight to save life on Earth!
Jan 7, 2022 Read the whole text...
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Farewell Elka Schumann
Co-Founder of Bread & Puppet Theater
Bread and Puppet Theater’s Elka Schumann died this past August, at the age of 85. She and her partner, Peter Schumann, co-founded the Bread and Puppet Theater, the innovative and radical theater group, in New York City in 1963.

Jan 7, 2022 Read the whole text...
Peter Werbe
The Coldest of All Cold Monsters
a review of
The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State by Eric Laursen, Foreword by Maia Ramath. AK Press 2021
Politics in the U.S. are so skewed to the right that tepid reformers such as Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) and Senator Bernie Sanders are characterized as the radical left for advocating universal health care and free college tuition.
Jan 6, 2022 Read the whole text...
Ben Olson
Anarchy and Obscurity
a review of
The Brickeaters by The Residents. Feral House 2018
In The Brickeaters, the recent novel by surrealist art and music collective The Residents, a freelance reporter—named Frank Blodgett leaves Los Angeles for Clinton, Missouri to investigate the mysterious death of an elderly man, Wilmer Graves, found on the side of a road with an oxygen tank. Compelled by the potential story, Frank tries to obtain information at the local police department and meets the secretary, Patty.
Jan 5, 2022 Read the whole text...
Kim A. Broadie
Mutual Aid Can Save the Planet
New Edition of Kropotkin’s Classic
a review of
Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin, Illustrated by N.O. Bonzo, Introduction by David Graeber & Andrej Grubacic, Foreword by Ruth Kinna, Preface by GATS, Afterword by Allan Antliff. PM Press/Kairos 2021
This new edition of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin’s 1902 Mutual Aid provides us with key insights necessary to prevent our headlong plunge into planetary suicide.
Jan 5, 2022 Read the whole text...
David Sands
The Yippie lineage continues into the 21st Century
a review of
In The Time Of Job When Mischa Was a Zippie by Michele Dawn Saint Thomas (check facebook.com/msaintthomas for ordering info)
I didn’t know the Yippies were still around. As it turns out, they are still alive and well in 2021.
For those unfamiliar with the Yippies (formally the Youth International Party), they are a radical group that emerged during the 1960s that was notorious for its wild street theater, revolutionary anti-authoritarian politics, and humorous stunts like running a pig named Pigasus for president in 1968. The Zippie of the title were a Yippie faction.
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Jason Rodgers
This World We Must Leave
a review of
When We Are Human by John Zerzan. Feral House 2021
John Zerzan is a longtime advocate of anarcho-primitivism, the form of anarchism that draws inspiration from hunter-gatherer band society and expands the anarchist evaluation to a more total critique of civilization. Many of his original essays laying out this perspective first appeared in these pages in the 1970s.
Jan 5, 2022 Read the whole text...
Marieke Bivar
Breaking up Families
How Medical Colonialism in Canada is Retraumatizing Indigenous People
a review of
Fighting for A Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada by Samir Shaheen-Hussain, Foreword by Cindy Blackstock, Afterword by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel. Mcgill-Queen’s University Press 2020
On May 30, 2021, the land surrounding a former residential school in Canada was found to contain the unidentified remains of over 200 children. Since then, nearly a thousand other children’s graves have been uncovered. A horrified hush fell over those of us willing to accept this reality. Then rage.
Jan 2, 2022 Read the whole text...
Michael Beykirch
Native Liberation as a Path Toward Planetary Freedom
a review of
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation by Nick Estes, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and David Correia. PM Press 2021
“I can’t fucking breathe,” Zachary Bearheels (Rosebud Sioux) said before he died in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2017, where cops tased, then mounted him on the pavement, and punched his head 13 times. Murdered. In a bordertown.
Jan 2, 2022 Read the whole text...
Chris Clancy
Class War in Chicago
a review of
The Haymarket Affair, Chicago, 1886: The “Great Anarchist” Riot and Trial by Corrine J. Naden. Moffa Press 1968
On a rainy Tuesday night in May of 1886, a rally in Chicago’s Haymarket Square calling for an eight-hour workday turned suddenly violent when someone threw a bomb into the crowd of 200 policemen sent to break things up. The blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and four civilians. News of the incident, known as the Haymarket Bombing, sent shockwaves around the world.
Jan 1, 2022 Read the whole text...