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data-blkn-colour="rgba(180,4,49,1)">Spring 2020,<br>
Fifth Estate #406<br>
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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:
#b40431;" data-blkn-colour="rgba(180,4,49,1)">CONTENTS</span></strong></h4>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/dispatch-from-exarchia/"><strong>Dispatch
from Exarchia: “Calling all comrades!” Athens Neighborhood
is Home to Anarchy</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>S. FLYNN</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/googles-utopia-our-nightmare/"><strong>Google’s
Utopia: Our Nightmare—SidewalkToronto: A City Redesigned</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>KIM A. BROADIE</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/seeing-is-obeying/"><strong>Seeing
is Obeying: Authoritarian Aesthetics & the Afterlife of
Fascism in Neoliberal Democracy</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>CLAYTON J. PYKE</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/the-2020-election/"><strong>The
2020 Election: What to do while waiting for the Revolution</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>PETER WERBE</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/withdrawal-re-entry/"><strong>Withdrawal
& Re-Entry</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>JOHN ZERZAN</strong></p>
<p><a
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/is-the-government-ready-to-say-fuck-the-draft/"><strong><span
style="color: #b40431;">Is the government ready to say Fuck
The Draft?</span></strong></a><br>
<strong>FE STAFF</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/why-zines-refuse-to-die/"><strong>Why
Zines Refuse to Die: Samizdat & Xerography</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>JASON RODGERS</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/this-is-what-domestic-terrorism-looks-like/"><strong>This
is What Domestic Terrorism Looks Like:<br>
Home is Where the Hatred Is</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>CARA HOFFMAN</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/mercalli-scale/"><strong>Mercalli
scale (poetry)</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>ROBIN DELLABOUGH</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/anarchists-and-vaccines/"><strong>Anarchists
& Vaccines: </strong><strong>Anarchists &
Anti-Vaxxers Share a Distrust of the Medical Establishment
& the State</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>BRUCE TRIGG</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/anarchy-in-the-midwest/"><strong>Anarchy
in the Midwest: What the European Invaders Discovered</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>ROB BLURTON</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/the-liberation-of-the-word/"><strong>The
Liberation of the Word</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>STEVEN CLINE</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/anarchic-justice-at-the-end-of-history/"><strong>Anarchic
Justice at the End of History</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>JOHN CLARK</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/the-parable-of-the-horseshoe-crab-the-seagull/"><strong>The
Parable of the Horseshoe Crab & the Seagull</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>RON SAKOLSKY</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/unrepentant/"><strong>Unrepentant!
Anarchists at Sentencing</strong></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/counteractivity-counterculture-alternate-encounters/"><strong>Counteractivity,
Counterculture & Alternate Encounters</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>BRYAN TUCKER</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;">Dispatch From New Orleans (fiction)</span><br>
<strong>ANNE BABSON</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/we-support-anarchist-prisoners/"><strong>We
Support Anarchist Prisoners</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>ROBCAT</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/justice-not-conditioned-in-heaven/"><strong>Justice:
Not Conditioned in Heaven</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>TOM MARTIN</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/our-endless-grief/"><strong>Our
Endless Grief (poetry)</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>JAIME HUENÚN VILLA</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/they-gave-their-eyes-for-chile-to-wake-up/"><strong>They
Gave Their Eyes for Chile to Wake Up: An Unending
Insurrection</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>JESÚS SEPÚLVEDA</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/nisi-shawl/"><strong>Nisi
Shawl shows that Science Fiction can still challenge
conventions (review)</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>RICH DANA</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/murder-psychedelics-the-primal-anarchist/"><strong>Murder,
Psychedelics, & The Primal Anarchist (review)</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>STEVE KIRK</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/luigi-galleani/"><strong>Luigi
Galleani: the Most Dangerous Anarchist In America (review)</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>DAVID ROVICS</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/reparations-theatre-review/"><strong>What
Can Repair the Trauma we all Suffer? (theater review)</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>MIKE WOLD</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/coup-des-lumieres/"><strong>Coup
des Lumières (poetry)</strong></a></span><br>
<strong>C.M. WODE</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #b40431;"><a style="color: #b40431;"
href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/letters/"><strong>Letters
to the Fifth Estate</strong></a></span></p>
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<p>I COULDN’T PAINT GOLDEN ANGELS: Sixty Years of Commonplace
Life and Anarchist Agitation by Albert Meltzer</p>
<p>We were privileged to meet Albert in Detroit near the end of
his life. His enthusiasm for anarchy hadn’t dimmed a bit since
he fought fascists in London in the 1930s, got bawled out by
Emma Goldman for being a boxer, took part in innumerable
strikes, participated in anti-Franco Angry Brigade actions,
and the Anarchist Black Cross. Turning one of Goldman’s often
quoted maxims on its head, Meltzer said, “If I can’t have
revolution, what is there to dance about?” A wild ride through
the lifetime of a man who knew Goldman, Orwell, Kenyatta and
others.</p>
<p>AK PRESS 386 pp. $20</p>
<p>AVANT GARDENING: Ecological Struggle in the City & the
World edited by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Bill Weinberg.</p>
<p>Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland want to control all the
food, all the seeds, and all the DNA. Their goal is a world in
which if the seed isn’t brand name, it doesn’t grow. The
struggles against these monsters demand that we connect
community gardens to struggles for peasant land across the
globe, that we free our food from the corporate octopus.
Essays by the editors plus Bernadette Cozart, Bernadette
Mayer, Carmelo Ruiz, Sarah Ferguson, Joe Hollis (a reprinted
FE article), and others.</p>
<p>Autonomedia 168 pp. $8</p>
<p>ROB THE RICH: Jailhouse Writings by Political Prisoner Robert
Thaxton a.k.a. Rob los Ricos</p>
<p>Rob’s horrendous seven year sentence for throwing a rock at a
cop during a June 18 [1999] demo presents a classic case of
him being in there for us, so we should be out here for him.
Rob became the scapegoat and poster boy for the state’s dismay
about the militant activism of Eugene, Oregon’s anarchist
community (see article in this issue). This pamphlet tells
Rob’s story plus a sample of his engaged writing, the type of
which has appeared in this paper and Anarchy over the years.
All proceeds will go towards Rob’s legal defense and prison
needs.</p>
<p>Self-Published 20 pp. $3</p>
<p>RED YEARS; BLACK YEARS : Anarchist Resistance to Fascism from
Rivista Anarchica</p>
<p>Unlike Germany, where fascism triumphed quickly, Il Duce and
his gang of thugs had to fight town-by-town battles throughout
Italy to install their despotic rule. Rivista Anarchica, a
long running anarchist publication, recounts how workers and
peasants, often led by anarchists, fought for years against
the Blackshirts. Despite a glaring front cover typo
(“Fascism”), this translation tells the stories of communities
fighting for their lives and freedom.</p>
<p>ASP 52 pp. $3.50</p>
<p>THE UNABOMBER & The Future of Industrial Society by T.
Fulano</p>
<p>The FE’s David Watson, writing under the name T. Fulano,
looks at the phenomena of the admiration by some anarchists
for the bombing campaign of Ted Kaczynski and asks, is this
part of the solution, or more of the problem? Reprinted from
the Fall 1996 Fifth Estate.</p>
<p>Self-Published 16 pp. $1</p>
<p>ON THE POVERTY OF STUDENT LIFE by the Situationist
International</p>
<p>This new translation of a classic Situationist text written
in 1966, prefigured the general’ uprising which occurred in
France two years later. It analyzes the conditions of the
student in capitalist society and exposes university training
as being nothing more than preparing docile individuals to
manage commodity society.</p>
<p>The authors were hauled into court by the outraged
authorities. Below is the statement of the sentencing judge in
Strasbourg:</p>
<p>“The accused have never denied the charge of misusing the
funds of the student union. Indeed, they openly admit to
having made the union pay some $1,500 for the printing and
distribution of 10,000 pamphlets, not to mention the cost of
other literature inspired by ‘Internationale Situationniste.’
These publications express ideas and aspirations which, to put
it mildly, have nothing to do with the aims of a student
union. One has only to read what the accused have written, for
it is obvious that these five students, scarcely more than
adolescents, lacking all experience of real life, their minds
confused by ill-digested philosophical, social, political and
economic theories, and perplexed by the drab monotony of their
everyday life, make the empty, arrogant, and pathetic claim to
pass definitive judgments, sinking to outright abuse, on their
fellow-students, their teachers, God, religion, the clergy,
the governments and political systems of the whole world.
Rejecting all morality and restraint, these cynics do not
hesitate to commend theft, the destruction of scholarship, the
abolition of work, total subversion, and a world-wide
proletarian revolution with ‘unlicensed pleasure’ as its only
goal.</p>
<p>“In view of their basically anarchist character, these
theories and propaganda are eminently noxious. Their wide
diffusion in both student circles and among the general
public, by the local, national and foreign press, are a threat
to the morality, the studies, the reputation and thus the very
future of the students of University of Strasbourg.”</p>
<p>Black & Red 31 pp. $2</p>
<p>AGAINST CIVILIZATION Readings and Reflections by John Zerzan</p>
<p>You’ve Seen him on “60 Minutes!” He’s called “the anarchist
guru” by the New York Tines! Read the book that sparked the
trashing of Seattle! (Sorry, John; only teasing.)</p>
<p>Reforms be damned. They only extend the misery created by
civilization’s institutions, this volume argues, be they the
state, the division of labor, or representation of any type.
Contrary to Hobbes, life is nasty, brutish and short since we
left primitive life, not during it. Zerzan has collected 51
essays from a range of authors and scholars which challenge
accepting the world as we know it as a starting point for
rebellion. FE staffers, David Watson and Lynne Clive appear
with Adorno, Rousseau,- Sahlins, Turner and the Unabomber.</p>
<p>Uncivilized Books 214 pp. $10</p>
<p>AGAINST THE MEGAMACHINE: ESSAYS ON EMPIRE & ITS ENEMIES
by David Watson</p>
<p>These essays, most of which appeared in this paper between
1981-96, cover mass technics, the ecological crisis, the
critique of civilization, reason and spirit, war and empire,
including “Stopping the Industrial Hydra,” “Civilization in
Bulk,” “Looking Back on the Vietnam War,” “Homage to Fredy
Perlman,” a revised “Against the Megamachine,” and many more.</p>
<p>Autonomedia 334 pp. $14</p>
<p>ALL-AMERICAN ANARCHIST: Joseph Labadie and the Labor Movement
by Carlotta Anderson</p>
<p>In this account of the man dubbed “The Gentle Anarchist,” his
granddaughter brings to life not only the person complete with
foibles and misjudgments, but also the era. Labor radicals and
anarchists of the last third of the 1800s are often ignored
for those of the 1930s. Anderson sketches resistance to
capital in the earlier era and those who filled the ranks of
rebellion. Highly recommended. See review last issue.</p>
<p>Wayne State Univ. Press 328 pp. hb $26</p>
<p>PASSIONATE AND DANGEROUS: Conversations with Midwestern
Anti-Authoritarians and Anarchists</p>
<p>Diverse interviews that affirm the first word of the title.
It includes an activist/resident from Detroit’s Trumbullplex
talking about the ups and downs of communal life, and the FE’s
Peter Werbe and David Watson doing a little philosophizing.
Also, interviews with folks from Chicago’s highly organized
and active A-Zone, and with others doing art and revolution,
“pleasure activism,” micro-radio projects, IWW, environmental
and community organizing, and numerous other activities. There
are others which reach into the personal and speak to how one
exists in a capitalist world while organizing against it.
Terrific art from Tony Doyle and Josh MacPhee.</p>
<p>Self-Published 70 pp. $4</p>
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