Two days after the appearance of the Fifth Estate’s special women’s issue it was completely sold out, necessitating the printing of another 5,000 for a total press run of 19,000. The reprint is without the regular calendar, classifieds and is undated, so it is a permanent pamphlet. Bulk copies are still available from our office at 10 cents a piece (mail orders accepted) or a single copy for a quarter…
John Martin, scion of Open City, is reportedly ready to quit the organization (again), and plans to move to Toronto, open up a similar operation there, build a dirigible and fly to Brazil! Goodbye John…
The new, improved Creem Magazine is on the stands…
The Paper (“Filling the intelligence gap in Detroit”) has quietly folded…
The Metro, still beset by financial woes, will come out every other week rather than weekly. Quote from Metro editor, Alan Fisk: “If we have to run sexist ads in order to exist, we will.”…
Wanna get busted for weed? Sponsors of a May 5 National Bust Day will try to get people to go to their local police station on that date with a sufficient amount of marijuana to be liable for prosecution as a protest against existing narcotics laws. Interested masochists contact Bust Day Committee, WGVS Radio, Grand Valley State College, Allendale, Mich. 49401…
Cobb’s Corner Bar patrons were surprised recently when six pigs entered the establishment and arrested a Redford Township cop for sales of marijuana…
A list of all underground papers published is available from the Underground Press Syndicate, Box 26, Village Station, New York City 10014. A list of world-wide GI antiwar papers from GI Press Service, 1029 Vermont NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20005…
Red Times, a local revolutionary paper, was forced to print in Chicago after super-pigs Keystone Printing, 6425 Tireman, refused to run it after reading its contents. Sample copy of RT from p.o. box 08141, Detroit 48208…
WABX Free Concerts this summer are in doubt at this time. Station said the set at WSU Tartar Field was getting too weird—all-day sets in the country may be substituted instead…
If you missed the Winter Soldier Investigation last month, Detroit photographer Ken Hamlin has done a 25-minute movie of the hearings. If you are interested in the film, contact KLH Productions, 1713 Waverly, Detroit 48238, or call (313) 865-3265…
Why won’t a Detroit City Council “liberal” introduce an ordinance reducing possession of marijuana to a misdemeanor charge, joining Ann Arbor and the growing list of Detroit suburbs that have struck a blow against the barbaric state felony statute with its penalty of ten years for possession. Free John!…
Flint’s Grand Funk will be at Cobo Hall on April 30 as part of a 38-show tour expected to gross over $10 million…
A blind man was recently issued a gun permit by the Ecorse police department…
Neighborhood groups, coordinated by Wayne State’s BICEP group (Biological Committee on Ecology and Pollution) have collected nearly 30 tons of glass and bottles during the first three weeks of a glass re-cycling project. The group has set up ten collection centers where old glass can be dropped off. Call BICEP at: 577-3480 or the Fifth Estate office for the collection point nearest you…
Due to their racist employment practices, Spaulding Electric, Cadillac Glass and Tarnow Electric have been declared ineligible to bid for City of Detroit contracts…
The Detroit-based Republic of New Africa has asked the city council for $200,000 to help move RNA citizens to land in the South recently purchased by the group…
Nervous oinkers at State Police Post 21 at Seven Mile and Grand River have bricked up all of their first floor windows to prevent bombing or sniper attacks. Remember, the worst fears of the oppressor always come true…
Morey Weidenbaum of the Chessmate Gallery refuses to pay the Fifth Estate $20 he owes for an ad we ran for him over a year ago…
Over 2,000 persons are expected at the International Gay Peoples’ Liberation Conference to be held in Ann Arbor on April 1-4 “to move towards mutual goals of all gay people.” For information contact the Elizabeth Street Gay Collective, 533 Elizabeth Street. Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104, phone: 769-8761…
The DC 12—12 gays, including Ken Dudley of the Gay Liberation Front-Det. who were arrested last November when they tried to sit-in at a Washington restaurant which had refused to serve gays, have had all charges dropped against them when a lying government witness decided to tell the truth…
“Washington-May-Go” is a rainbow of far-out propaganda that talks about the necessity for people to go to Washington the week of May 1-5 to shut down the government if the government won’t shut down the war. Detroit has 5,000 copies to distribute free—call the Fifth Estate or Center House, or stop by to pick some up…
A brother called the Fifth Estate office with a warning that some dope being passed off as “orange wedges” in the Northwest suburbs, particularly Oak Park, has been producing bad trips and making some people sick. Dig it—know your source!