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Sylvie Kashdan
Seattle’s Left Bank Books
An anchor for the anarchist community
Good news! Seattle’s Left Bank Books is republishing Letters of Insurgents, Fredy Perlman’s historical novel about love and revolution in the East bloc and Western states of the mid-20th century.
The book was written in the mid-1970s and first published by Black & Red and printed at the Detroit Printing Co-op, both projects initiated by Fredy and Lorraine Perlman. The B&R Co-op began in 1970, three years before Left Bank Books (LBB) was established.
Sep 1, 2014 Read the whole text...
Anu Bonobo
CrimethInc’s Overflowing Cup of Anarchist Elixir
A Review/Essay
reviewed in this article:
Expect Resistance: a field manual, CrimethInc., $8, CrimethInc.com
Rolling Thunder: an anarchist journal of dangerous living; P.O. Box 494, Chapel Hill NC 27514; rollingthunder — at — CrimethInc — dot — com
Why is the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective (CWC ) the crew that the workerists love to hate? The rigidly anti-lifestyle critique leveled at-these so-called “arrogant middle-class kids” has become so commonplace that it’s as much a caricature of itself as it is an unsophisticated slag at these prolific publishers of beautifully-crafted anarchist propaganda.
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
PanDoor
Obituary for Dr. Albert Hofmann
LSD’s Innovator Dies at 102
When I was first asked to write an obituary in the Fifth Estate for Dr. Albert Hofmann, who passed away on April 29, I felt conflicted. I was not wrestling with how to reconcile his contributions to neurochemistry and the politics of liberation; these seemed self-evident.
Rather, the question was how to write objectively about the father of LSD without talking about my personal relationship to the worlds he opened for me and millions of others.
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Organizing for Anarchism in Ireland
Fifth Estate Interview
The Fifth Estate sat down with Andrew Flood from the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM), an Irish anarchist group, who was on a 43 city speaking tour of North America. Walker Lane conducted the interview April 16 at the Baile Corcaigh Irish Pub in Detroit’s Corktown district.
The talk Andrew gave later in the evening described the group’s involvement in anti-war and abortion rights organizing, opposition to a gas pipeline, and participation in community based movements. Descriptions of these struggles and more information are at their web site, www.wsm.ie
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
H. Read
Periodical Round-Up
Send your publication for review.
Anchorage Anarchy # 11 December 2007, $1 from BAD Press, PO Box 230332, Anchorage AK 99523 bbrigade (at) world (dot) std (dot) com
Individualist anarchist periodical from Alaska. (12 pp)
Black Flag #226, BM Hurricane London, WC1N 3XX UK black_flag (at) lycos (dot) co (dot) uk
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Anu Bonobo
Remembering Hanon Reznikov (1950–2008)
The Living Theatre loses a mainstay
Because art breathes on in the legacy left with the living, death cannot defeat an artist. In this eternity of the permanent present, poems and plays and songs resist the tyranny of death. While this recognition hardly dulls the sting of mortality in the hearts of the bereaved when we lose a loved one, its message rings clearly today as we celebrate the life of the late Hanon Reznikov.
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Bernard Marszalek
The ‘60s, 40 Years Later
No Chicago in Denver
Forty years ago, like today, the country found itself in an unpopular war of imperial domination to vanquish, not “Islamo-Fascism,” but Communism. And, like then, the political system was thoroughly corrupt and in the hands of a cabal of stooges with nightmarish plans.
Like so many others, when an election year rolls around and party politics rules the “news” with its loathsome trivia and journalistic manipulations, I long for refuge in an idyllic retreat deep in a forest far away from all media. But that isn’t an option for me, nor, I suspect for most people.
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Don LaCoss
The Car Bomb
Poor Man’s F-16
reviewed in this article
Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, by Mike Davis, 2007, Verso, 228 pp., $22.95
Mike Davis argues forcibly that the “vehicle-borne improvised explosive device” (in Pentagon parlance) is a weapon of mass destruction. Keying in on the terrible effectiveness of this weapon (“an inconspicuous vehicle, anonymous in almost any urban setting, to transport large quantities of high explosive into precise range of a high-value target”), Davis underscores the inevitability of its proliferation as globalized capitalism industrially overdevelops every corner of the world, “like a kudzu vine of destruction taking root in the thousand fissures of ethnic and religious enmity that globalization has paradoxically revealed.”
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Utah Phillips (1935–2008)
The IWW and the labor movement lose a troubadour Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music, who performed tirelessly on two continents for 38 years, died May 23 of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor. Phillips died at home, in bed, in his sleep, next to his wife.
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Fifth Estate Collective
Utah Phillips’s Last Interview
The following is a portion of a transcript of a May 7 interview with Utah Phillips conducted by long-time Fifth Estate contributor, Peter Werbe. It aired on his May 11 Detroit radio show in part to provide publicity for a benefit concert for Utah held in Ann Arbor. It is available as a podcast at wrif.compodcastnightcall for the show on that date. It follows the first two hours of phone-in talk.
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Cara Hoffman
Victorian Proto-punk, Riot Grrls
The Literary Legacy of Helen and Olivia Rossetti
In 1903, two young sisters, Helen and Olivia Rossetti, published a novel under the pseudonym Isabel Meredith, chronicling their lives as radicals, propagandists, and key figures in the European anarchist movement of that era. Prior to that, while still in their teens, they edited The Torch--An International Newspaper of Communist Anarchism, from 1891 to 1896, which scandalously called for sexual equality, the destruction of religion, and the end of state rule by violent means.
Aug 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Sean Flynn
Getting Off Easy
Men & Pornography!
a review of
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, Robert Jensen, South End Press, 2007, 197 pages
It is hard to read Robert Jensen’s Getting Off without getting drawn into an internal debate about power and desire and without feeling that there is a greater economic issue that the author, a journalism prof at the University of Texas at Austin, has left essentially untouched.
Aug 20, 2014 Read the whole text...
Cookie Orlando
Shoplifting and the Politics of Instant Gratification
Are individual acts of transgression rebellion?
Lots of anarchists and other radicals shoplift on a regular basis. But the public discussion on the topic seems to oscillate between celebration and denunciation, with almost nothing in between.
On one side you’ve got CrimethInc and Yomango saying shoplifting is authentic resistance. As an anonymous author wrote in CrimethInc’s Days of War, Nights of Love, shoplifting is “the most effective protest” against the worst features of modern capitalism “because it is not merely theoretical--it is practical, it involves action.” Yomango is a European shoplifting community founded in Spain in 2002, whose name in Spanish translates to, “I steal.”
Aug 19, 2014 Read the whole text...
Jim Feast
The African Road to Anarchism?
Will the collapse of government rule in countries like The Gambia lead to... The African Road to Anarchism?
My experiences on a recent trip to The Gambia on Africa’s west-central coast, brought to mind the historic leftist dream that the state will wither away once workers have overturned capitalism.
Here’s an irony of history. In the last 15 years, in the industrially undeveloped world, the state has withered away, not because of its supersession, but due to the extension of global capitalism. Talk of state collapse on capital’s periphery doesn’t mean governments have completely vanished, but that many states have diminished from being the totalized agencies of control we experience in Northern tier countries.
Aug 19, 2014 Read the whole text...
Jacques Camatte
We are all slaves of capital
Excerpt from The Wandering of Humanity
This fragment is from Jacques Camatte’s pamphlet translated in 1975 in Detroit by Fredy Perlman. It was a key text in developing Fifth Estate concepts during the 1970s and 80s, ones which remain today. It speaks of capital and technology that has “run away” from its initiators and domesticated humans. It is available at blackandred.org
Aug 18, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Call for submissions for Winter 2009 FE
Subtext, Subversion and Sabotage
This winter, the Fifth Estate seeks to publish good reading for winter hibernation. Work that focuses on underground political, cultural, and social activity, as well as subtextual analysis. We seek discussion on how radicals and everyday people subvert the dominant culture in a meaningful way.
We seek analysis on the unspoken meanings of current social, economic, semiotic, and political phenomena such as entertainment, gender, institutionalized violence, the environmental crisis, the Green Scare, bio-ethical decisions or anything you can fit into the theme. We seek to examine the parts we play in subjection and subjugation. This winter we seek to exhume the churchyard and provide readers with an invisible choir that will sing audibly and precisely about the true meanings of things.
Aug 13, 2014 Read the whole text...
Cara Hoffman
Down and Out in Athens
Excerpt from Nike by Cara Hoffman
Set in the red light district of Athens, Greece in the late 1980s, Cara Hoffman’s cult classic novel, Nike, is about getting by at the periphery. It chronicles the lives of a group of young expatriates from a global culture of war.
In this scene Maya Brennan, who has been raised on military bases throughout the US, and has sold her passport to finance her travels, uses the cultural capital of her upbringing to get the document re-issued. NIKE reveals a world where freelance military contractors, small-time traffickers, and refugees from the superficial materialism of the Reagan/Bush era surf undetected on the crest of a wave that was about to break in an era of perpetual military engagement.
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E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Isn’t All Money Fake?
a review of
Counterfeit Currency: How To Really Make Money, M. Thomas Collins. Loompanics Unlimited, 1990 (out-of-print). Reprint from Fifth Estate, Fall, 1991.
Money is a fairly curious substance. Its official function is to represent value, but once said, you can immediately challenge all the assumptions inherent in such a formulation: Value; its representation? Since value itself is a representation of abstract worth, money operates within economies as a representation of a representation. No wonder its properties seem so inscrutable.
Aug 13, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Strike!
In the spirit of Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs,
an American Beowulf, who was like both a
sacred covenant rainbow
for all the blue proletariat
and a
powerful electromagnetic storm
and struck fiercely against the
industrial money monsters who
were mute,
blind, stark and cold
to all colors of tears and as
brutal, bloodthirsty and beastly
Aug 13, 2014 Read the whole text...
Val Salvo (Peter Werbe
Wealth and Poverty: In the Shadow of an Exclusive Club
Fifth Estate reprint, Summer 1991
Expensive new cars--Lincolns, Cadillacs, Mercedes, Jaguars--arrive at the entrance to the Detroit Athletic Club (DAC). Rich, white men dressed in $750 suits, $200 wing-tip shoes, custom tailored shirts, sporting $2,000 Rolex watches are greeted brightly but obsequiously by uniformed black attendants.
Aug 13, 2014 Read the whole text...
Peter Lamborn Wilson
An Army of Jacks
to Fight The Power
In fairy tales, humans can possess exterior souls, things magically containing or embodying individual life force--stone, egg, ring, bird or animal, etc. If the thing is destroyed, the human dies. But while the thing persists, the human enjoys a kind of immortality or at least invulnerability.
Money could be seen as such an exteriorized soul. Humans created it, in some sense, in order to hide their souls in things that could be locked away (in tower or cave) and hidden so their bodies would acquire magical invulnerability--wealth, health, the victoriousness of enjoyment, power over enemies--even over fate.
Aug 1, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Call for submissions for next issue
Get Ready to Play!
Play as a concept has always animated the anarchist/underground milieu with an infectious spirit of playful experimentation and exuberance. Riding wild and playful energy, we created seeds of an insurrectionary alternative reality that could one day replace or overthrow the dominant system. Physical, political, ideological, and imaginal spaces seemed open to us.
Aug 1, 2014 Read the whole text...
Don LaCoss
Counterfeiting Sovereignty
Why the State jealously guards its currency
“Counterfeit coin is said to prove the existence of genuine--the terms being purely relative. But because there can be no counterfeit where there is no original, does it in any manner follow that any undemonstrated original exists? In seeing a spurious coin, we know it to be such by comparison with coins admitted to be genuine; but were no coin admitted to be genuine, how should we establish the counterfeit, and what right should we have to talk of counterfeits at all?
Aug 1, 2014 Read the whole text...
Dave Hanson
Shamanism, anarchy and the end of the world
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 jargon of the human potential movement left important messages missed amid incessant psychobabble.
Aug 1, 2014 Read the whole text...
Joshua Sperber
Tarot Cards and The Left
How prognostications of doom encourage passivity rather than action
There is a near cottage industry of leftists penning engaging, sometimes lurid, always vivid, prognostications of impending social, political, economic, and ecological doom.
Websites like Counterpunch and Common Dreams, for instance, have been prophesying for several years that a war on Iran is imminent due to the fact that, alternately, a US destroyer moves to the region (2006), oil prices rise (2007), an admiral retires (2008), or, the ubiquitous favorite, the Bush Administration is simply insane. Each one of these omens indicates there will assuredly be war, maybe tomorrow.
Aug 1, 2014 Read the whole text...
Daniel Pinchbeck
The End of Money
The current economic crisis may be another bump on capitalism’s always dizzying terrain, or it may signal epochal changes
The crisis of the financial markets has taken on gargantuan proportions.
This spring saw the emergency sale of Bear Stearns, the fifth-largest financial institution on Wall Street, to JP Morgan for a paltry sum by “Master of the Universe” standards, including its flashy corporate headquarters and thousands of employees. Even this sale only came about because the US Federal Reserve agreed to cover the risks of exposure to creditors, pushing the financial costs onto US taxpayers. Despite this bailout and other interventions in the supposed “free market,” the financial system is still reeling. Credit liquidity has disappeared, causing shockwaves in student loans and other areas.
Aug 1, 2014 Read the whole text...
Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
An Anarchist in Cuba
Socialism or Cell Phones
On February 2, I stepped off a plane that had left a frigid Toronto three and a half hours earlier and landed in the balmy sunshine of Holguin, Cuba. It was impossible to know then that I had arrived two weeks before the end of the island’s Revolution as we know it.
Jul 30, 2014 Read the whole text...
RNC Welcoming Committee
RNC: Shut It Down!
Welcoming the Republicans to the Twin Cities
The 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) will descend on Minneapolis-St. Paul, September 1 through 4, as the opening act in the pacifying spectacle of the coming presidential election. The most direct way to oppose a dog-and-pony show is just to stop it.
This convention of the rich, the white, and the conservative, is a self-congratulatory event intended as the opening shot in the attempt to convince the hapless voter that John McSame represents patriotism, experience, and “our” values, rather than war, empire, economic royalism, and the rest of the miserabilism known as America. Stopping the convention won’t stop the election, but it will disrupt their spectacle and prove that we have the power to shape our own communities and future.
Jul 29, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Editorial
Money: Root of all Evil
As several people who have seen this issue prior to publication have noted, the correct quote is “The love of money is the root of all evil,” but its truncated form seems more accurate than the original. Money itself, not just cherishing it, is the ultimate representation of all that is alienated in the modern world; the driving force of pathological greed; the whip that coerces wage labor; and the basis of wars. The current inequitable split of the planet’s wealth now allows ten million millionaires world-wide to control $37.2 trillion dollars in financial assets assuring a life of immiseration for billions of people.
Jul 28, 2014 Read the whole text...
H. Read
Green Scare Continues
More arrests and harsh sentences for planet defenders. Fifth Estate writer indicted!
Developments in what is being called the “Green Scare” continue at a fast pace as the government increases its attack on forest, animal, and earth defenders.
Four environmental campaigners from Detroit including a Fifth Estate writer were arrested in March for eco-sabotage. Other activists around the country were subjected to the heavy hand of justice with harsh sentences and arbitrary acts. The possibilities of more arrests and indictments are on the horizon.
Jul 28, 2014 Read the whole text...
Marie Mason
My Green Scare Arrest
Or, why does it take 30 cops to arrest one person? Couldn’t be anything about creating public hysteria against forest defenders, could it?
Up until March 10, I lived in a small, wooded, old neighborhood on the edge of Northside in Cincinnati.
That morning, I left the house with just enough time to get to my job while my 16-year-old daughter, Arianna, was asleep in her room. I drove to the end of my block and was startled to see an SUV come around the corner and stop directly in front of my car, blocking my way.
Jul 28, 2014 Read the whole text...
Various Authors
Letters to the Fifth Estate
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.
I’m writing to ask about the amazing excerpt on the back cover of Spring 2008 Fifth Estate.
Who is or was Erica A. Smith? When was “On the Political Situation Experienced in Our Era” written? Most of the language in the excerpt seems to be late 19th or early 20th Century. But “colonization,” in context, seems to be contemporary. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but I don’t believe it was used in quite that way a century ago.
Jul 27, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Free Readers’ Ads
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SALE OR TRADE--Ex-sci-fi devotee wishes to divest self of remnants. Large and very fine collection of sci-fi hard and paperback books, many first printings. Will trade for Art, “serious” literature, interesting stuff or will sell 3 paperbacks for $1.00. Call 894–7753 and keep trying (nights).
Jul 23, 2014 Read the whole text...
anon.
TM, the Transportation Meditation Program
TM, the Transportation Meditation Program
as taught by Guru Snatchyurbananas
Having problems with your social and sexual relationships?
Feelings of anxiety, alienation, anguish?
Hate your job?
Traffic to and from work driving you crazy?
Guru Snatchyurbananas has just arrived from Goa, India, to enlighten the western world with his proven, scientific method of T.M. (Transportation Meditation) to solve your problems of irrational hatred for your job and your superiors.
Jul 23, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Ammunition Books
Ammunition Books
4403 Second
Detroit, Michigan 48201
Telephone: (313) 831–6800
Office Hours: Tuesday thru Friday, 1pm--5pm
AUTHORITARIAN CONDITIONING, SEXUAL REPRESSION & THE IRRATIONAL IN POLITICS
Maurice Brinton
An analysis of Reichian psychology in its relation to politics and the Russian revolution. Its title pretty much says it all.
Jul 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Pat Halley
Pig Guts for Gutless Pigs
An Offal Situation
Except for the contemptuous throwing of animal entrails, blood, and a decomposed lamb’s head all over Wayne State University President George Gullen’s office, February 19 was a typical day at the school.
Secretaries were processing records while tender-bellied professors busily tried to seem important. The faceless administrators like Gullen would occasionally leave their 12th floor cocktail lounge to flirt with their secretaries or sign some orders that a petty aide had drawn up.
Jul 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Peter Werbe
Sexual Repression and Authoritarianism
Control of Bodies equals Control of Minds
The juxtaposing of anti-sexual statements on this page by the Vatican and certain leftist leaders and groups is not meant as an exercise in cynicism, but rather to illustrate in graphic terms the role sexual repression plays within all authoritarian systems.
The Church, for example, is easily identifiable as a repressive institution. Its power to regulate moral conduct grew as did the centrality of its wealth and authority within the feudal system of the Middle Ages.
Jul 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
anon.
The “Left” on Sex
The following are quotations from a variety of “leftist” politicians and organizations:
“Any romantic attachment that goes beyond the distance, outside the marriage bed, is actually a statutory offense, worth six months in jail for the over eager young man...”
-- from Women in China by Helen Snow
Jul 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Bob Nirkind
The My Lai Massacre
A BI-Centennial Moment of American Racism
This article is the second in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200-year-old history.
March 16, 1968, My Lai 4, Quang Ngai Province, 7:30 A.M. Under direct orders from Lieutenant Colonel Frank A. Barker Jr., command leader of assault unit Task Force Barker, nine troop-transporting helicopters preceded by two gunships enter the My Lai area.
Jul 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
anon.
The Vatican on Sex
The following is taken from a declaration on sexual ethics published by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It was issued in January of this year and is considered church doctrine by Catholics.
“Experience teaches us that love must find its safeguard in the stability of marriage if sexual intercourse is truly to respond to the requirements of its own finality and to those of human dignity. Those requirements call for a conjugal contract sanctioned and guaranteed by society.”
Jul 21, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Detroit Seen
The Fifth Estate’s benefit party on February 20th was a rousing success which saw the paper raise $400 over expenses and provided a party-down good time for about 450 revelers. Although the 5 kegs of beer went out faster than we expected, brilliant performances by the Shadowfax Band, creative theater by The Acme Theatrical Agency and Primitive Lust, and mystifying magic by Art DeAwful combined with the resources of the people in attendance made for a fun night for all.
Jul 20, 2014 Read the whole text...
Dennis Rosenblum
More Red Squad Info
Mayor, car co. Implicated
Lawyers involved in the State Police Red Squad case are urging people who believe they may be the victims of spying activity to request a court hearing in Lansing to view the dossiers compiled on them. And recent revelations about Detroit Police spying show that local cops were working with plant protection agents in Chrysler Corp. plants to blackball leftist organizers.
Jul 20, 2014 Read the whole text...
R.F.
Power Struggle in China
Who Rules Chinese State Capitalism?
When Chou En-lai, the first and only Prime Minister of the Peoples Republic of China, died in the beginning of this year, a struggle between the so-called “moderate,” pro-managerial and “radical left,” pro-Maoist factions within the Party burst into the open.
The rift has taken the form of an apparent battle between two personalities within the standing committee of the powerful Politburo of the Communist Party’s Central Committee (China’s ruling body).
Jul 20, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Staff and Contributors
Millard Berry
Alan Franklin
Ralph Franklin
Dennis Rosenblum
Bob Nirkind
Pat Halley
Colleen Jensen
E. B. Maple
J.J. Markin
Mr. Venom
Sonny Tufts
Pat O’Bryan
Peter Werbe
Algirdas Ratnikas
Marilyn Werbe
The Fifth Estate Newspaper, a non-profit Michigan corporation is published monthly at 4403 Second, Detroit, MI 48201; phone: (313) 831–6800. Office hours are: 1:00–5:00 P.M., Mondays thru Fridays. Subscriptions are $3.00 for 12 issues. Call 842–8888 for retail sales outlets. Second Class postage paid at Detroit, Michigan. No copyright. No commercial advertising accepted.
Jul 20, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Books and Publications received
Cazzaarola!: Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy by Norman Nawrocki, PM Press, 2013, 300 pp, $18, pmpress.org. Anarchy and the anti-fascist struggle in 20th century Italy and the oppression of the Roma and other immigrants in contemporary Italy are intertwined in this excellent novel.
Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, edited with commentary by Peter Glassgold, Counterpoint Press, 2012, 458 pp, $22.95, counterpointpress.com, is a new and expanded edition of this collection of work drawn from the pages of Goldman’s wildly anarchic magazine, which she and others published between 1906 and 1917, until it was suppressed by the government. These century old articles remain relevant and exciting today.
Jul 17, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Call for Submissions
Fifth Estate Fall 2014
Deadline: July 1
Publication date: August 1
Issue Theme: Art & Anarchy. The creative spirit of anarchy often acts as muse in all aspects of the arts, historically and today. We welcome your help in celebrating this in essays and graphics. Also, general articles in keeping with the ideas of this publication are sought.
Jul 17, 2014 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Contents of Print Edition
*Articles with Asterisk have extended versions on our web site.
4 Anarchists & Sex Work
Aaron Lakoff
6 Wholly Shit — Church Reviews
Stephane
7 Grand Jury Resister Freed
*8 Education as Domestication of Inner Space
Layla AbdelRahim
11 Agriculture History Misses Mark
John Zerzan
12 Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters
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Fifth Estate Collective
Five Ways to Help Fifth Estate
1. Subscribe. Subscribers are a publication’s life blood. If you bought this at a news stand, consider subscribing and buying one for a friend or a library.
2. Donate. Postal and printing costs continue to rise making financial stability an increasing challenge to publications which refuse commercial advertising. Donations also allow us to continue sending free subscriptions to prisoners and GIs.
Jul 17, 2014 Read the whole text...
Various Authors
Letters
Welfare Hit
Dear Fifth Estate:
I would like twelve copies of your FUCK AUTHORITY poster. The day after I received it I put it up on a wall in my office in the Welfare Dept. here in San Francisco. Great responses of approval from the welfare applicants whose intake papers I process--“I’d like one,” and from fellow employees. Even more than from the “Fight Celibacy” bumper sticker I’ve put up.
Jul 17, 2014 Read the whole text...
Colleen Jensen
Sonny Tufts (David Watson)
New Computer System Used Against Poor
Welfare recipients targeted
In House appropriations Bill 4445 for fiscal year 1975–1976, the State Legislature has instructed the Department of Social Services (DSS), the Department of Labor (through the MESC) and the Department of the Treasury to “develop a plan for the exchange of data as a check on the financial eligibility of recipients of financial aid.”
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