Spreading The Word.

       The latest issue of Fifth Estate, North America's longest running Anarchist Newspaper is now available. Great to see longevity in an anarchist printed word, 50+ years of permeating the public mind with anarchist ideas and actions. How many of those issues are still around and still being read, still influencing? We at Spirit of Revolt have a back collection of Fifth Estate and are in the process of scanning them to make them easily available to read on our website, they should appear in the next month or so. Well that's the plan.

       The most recent issue of Fifth Estate — North America’s longest running anarchist publication — is out now. Issue #398 features the usual mix of articles, reviews, and announcements. The issue is themed “Revolutions, Riots, & Rebellions”. Consider a subscribing to support Fifth Estate’s 50+ years of publishing.

The contents of this issue:

• Seattle Shooting – CP & SM
• A Fascist by Any Other Name – Bill Weinberg
• The Struggle to Get Back to Zero – Peter Werbe
• Veil of the Vile – Jesús Sepúlveda
• Eat Your President – The Mormyrids
• The Russian Revolution Unfinished – SK
• Detroit Rebellion 1967 – Frank Joyce
• Can Vies Squat Defended – Scorsby and Celíaco
• Support Cleveland 4 – Amanda Schemkes
• Revolted Art Exhibit
• Anarchism & Social Security -Eric Laursen
• This is Biomorph – Fiction – Gary Ives
• Music & Revolution -Luis Chávez
• Body Cams & Surveillance – Mateo Pimente
• Virtuality & Sociopathy – Bryan Tucker
• A Busker’s Adventure – Bill Blank
• Surrealism on the Barricades – Ron Sakolsky
• Real Humans – Review – Mélusine Vertelune
• Not Your Negro – Review – Peter Werbe
• Anarchist History – Review – F.O.F.
• Texas Anti-Prison Conference
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist – Marius Mason
• Emma Goldman Film – Review – Bill Meyer
• Prison News
• Robb Johnson Box Set – David Rovics

More information can be found at https://www.fifthestate.org

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Everything Is Fine! Keep Shopping.

     There are a limitless number of ways and means of spreading ideas, and we have to continually trawl the stream to find new and interesting ways of reach people with our ideas. You can always come up with your own or borrow one.

This is one from Adbusters

       Last week we challenged you to create widespread cognitive dissonance around the world by putting our Everything Is Fine, Keep Shopping poster up in malls everywhere.
        Cognitive dissonance is a high tension state between two opposing beliefs. It works like a pie in the face, first inducing confusion, then anger, and finally an intense desire to correct the imbalance — to recover the consonance that has been lost.
           It’s an incredibly transformative force . . . a way to get people to reconsider what they hold dear and what they take for granted . . . the jolt that gets people to rethink their life choices.
         Cognitive dissonance feels like low level grass roots fun, but it could be a way to kickstart a world revolution: we ambush people, first in malls, then in gasoline stations, then in supermarkets and all over the physical and mental environments . . . we inject radical ideas into people’s heads and set the tone for a new world order to come.
          Culture Jammers have always messed with consumer culture, and that’s what we are doing with this latest jam. Already posters have gone up in malls and schools around the world. Let’s keep the dissonance going for another week. Print the poster, put it up somewhere and share it with your friends. Check out some of our other spoofs below – or create your own. And send us pictures of your jams and let us know how it feels.

  

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