Following the lead of the literary success of Jerry’s and Abbie’s books, Random House will bring out a collection of writings by imprisoned John Sinclair this fall. Tentative title: Street Writings; Prison Writings. Also, Marquette Prison officials are trying to cut down on John’s incoming mail because they say it has “strained” the Mail office there. They have completely cut off his right to receive records….
Attention people that are ripping off Fifth Estates from Cobb’s Corner Bar: the owner doesn’t pay for them, we do. So please drop your 20 cents in the slot….All the liberals were campaigning hard to get good guy Rev. David Eberhard elected to the city council last year. Now that they were successful, he has repaid them by introducing a new ordinance dealing with obscenity and defamation of the flag and religion. He also joined conservative members of the council in voting for a resolution calling for a boycott of “Hair.” It lost 5-4….
Spec. 4 Jerry Brown, who exposed the illegal physicals being given at Ft. Wayne, has requested permission to distribute the Fifth Estate at Ft. Benj. Harrison, Ind., where he was transfcred as a punitive measure. No response yet. Brown’s attorney, Dennis James, received a letter from the Inspector General of the Army’s office in Washington saying there were no plans to either transfer Jerry overseas or court-martial him at this time….
By the way, men who are going down for their physicals or induction might want to take the edition of our paper that contained the original story about the induction center. Several hundred are left for free distribution…
Fifth Estate writer Hank Malone and staffer Peter Werbe have refused to do their radio shows for WXYZ-FM as long as the employees strike there continues….
The Detroit Police reluctantly gave the White Panther Party back the M-1 carbines that they had illegally seized from them two months ago….
Look for the appearance of an as yet unnamed free street journal to appear around July 1st. Also, the White Panthers are going to revive the old Warren-Forest Sun….
SDS Weathermen arrested at the Great Battle of the Library last September had their charges reduced from felonious assault to assault and battery, fined $100 and released…
Detroit News yellow journalist, John Peterson, whose recent articles have been mainly fantasized Weatherman scare stories, walked into police headquarters with a shopping bag that he said could have contained 25 sticks of dynamite. He left it in a 3rd Floor restroom near the office of Supt. John Nichols and split only to come back later and find it undiscovered. Peterson said he wanted to prove how vulnerable the building was. He’s right and the same thing is probably true of his paper’s city news room….
Ann Arbor’s answer to Open City, the Network, can help you solve problems and give info about almost anything in that area. Call them at 769-6540….
Bob Rudnick former WABX DJ and Youth International Party minister of propaganda and 10 people from the Chicago White Panther chapter were held at gunpoint by the Chicago Pigs, who literally tore the house apart looking for dope. Nothing was found, but one brother was arrested for disorderly conduct and possession of improper registration for a car…
The city and county are “declaring total war on the pusher-man” with establishment of a new super narcotics squad. With $25,000 from the Board of Supervisors, the narcs feel they can make more arrests if they are not restricted to a particular city, but rather have countywide cooperation…
Sun-Roy Fernandez, lead guitar with the Mighty Quick, had his guitar ripped off June 17 in a station on the corner of Woodward and Philadelphia. Anyone with information call 893-9810…
Open City has opened a record co-op at the Blood Bank Community Store, Third at Prentis. LPs are as cheap as $2 off the list price…
Last issue of Detroit Seen we carried a report of increased harassment of Warren-Forest residents by the Tactical Mobile Unit. Now a study by the Wayne County Board of Auditors confirms this. The study shows that the “elite” squad makes most of its arrests for traffic violations and that a full 33% of its other arrests are dismissed by police, indicating a pattern of “harassment” arrests. The study recommended that the TMU, along with the Precinct Support Unit and the scooter patrol, be abolished. Good idea, but how about the whole force?
The MC 5, one of Detroit’s top bands, is now handling their own management. The band was managed by Dee Anthony, who also manages Joe Cocker, but it didn’t work out. The Five are playing at the Fillmore East on July 13 with Jimi Hendrix, New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and two local bands in a special anti-war benefit sponsored by Jane Fonda. A source close to the Five also said the band is going to Europe and will probably record much of their second Atlantic album there…
A Michigan Victory parade and rally was held at the State fair grounds on Flag Day weekend. The event sponsored by the Christian Patriots of Warren included a march from Palmer Park with a-rousing turnout of fifty, and a rally of 300 consisting of hard-heads, neo-nazi Statecraft members in uniform, and Wallace supporters flying Confederate flags. The CP (Christian Patriots) had predicted a “turnout of thousands” to the gala event which was to promote “Victory over anti-Christ Communism,” the return of prayers to the school, support of local police and “Victory over sin.”