Episodes

Friday Oct 30, 2020
Discussion with Professor Stephen Zunes
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
We spend the hour with social movement and MIddle East scholar, Professor Stephen Zunes, talking about the US election, uprisings around the world, and other subjects.

Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
(Another) Discussion with Ahjamu Umi (MP3)
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
We spend the hour with organizer, author, blogger and proud papa, Ahjamu Umi, talking to us from California about a few things that have happened in the world since Ahjamu was my guest last April.

Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Fifth Estate Live with Eric Laursen
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
We spend the hour once again with Eric Laursen, independent journalist, historian, activist and author of the upcoming book on AK Press, The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State.
Note: at the end of the interview I mis-identify the publisher of the book -- to be clear, the publisher is, in fact, AK Press.

Friday Oct 23, 2020
Discussion with Joseph Gerson, author of Empire and the Bomb
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
We spend the hour with organizer and author, Joe Gerson, with the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, speaking to us from Massachusetts. A wide-ranging discussion exploring many topics including the history of the nuclear arms race, anti-nuclear protest movements of the 1980's, what it's like to be a minor celebrity in Japan, and what might happen over the next few weeks in the USA.

Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Discussion with Rabble about the Portland protests
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
We spend the hour getting the lowdown on the Portland protests and many other things, in a wide-ranging discussion covering police brutality, protest organizing, different levels of political leadership, the role of social media, other platforms for communication, and lots more, with Indymedia and Portland Sound Bloc co-founder and longtime Portland resident, Rabble.

Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Fifth Estate Live with Sandor Katz, Fermentation Fetishist
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Today we're talking with fermentation fetishist, Sandor Katz, from his home down the road from the Radical Faeries in Tennessee. Sandor has written many books about fermentation, as well as other subjects. We close the show out with some music...

Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Discussion with Dave Waugh, retired police sergeant
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Today we spend the hour talking about policing with someone who spent decades on the San Marcos, Texas police force, retired sergeant Dave Waugh.

Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Fifth Estate Live with Fran Shor
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
We spend the hour with Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University, veteran activist and author of Weaponized Whiteness and other books, Fran Shor, speaking to us from Michigan.

Friday Oct 09, 2020
Discussion with Charlie King
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
We spend the hour with veteran touring and recording artist and popular educator from Massachusetts, Charlie King.

Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Brain Labor Report interview
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wes Brain interviewed me today for his show, the Brain Labor Report, on KSKQ FM Radio in southern Oregon, about my new album, Say Their Names.