The dangerous MC-5, Detroit’s heroic “avant-rock” band considered by many the musical electronic equivalent of STP, has been run through the mill lately and may yet come out of it smelling like roses.
FE Author: anon.
LBJ Signs New Slave Law
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
from L.A. Free Press (UPS) Last week President Johnson signed into law the 1967 draft law extension thereby allowing the government to impress young men into involuntary servitude ’til at least 1971. In every respect the revision intensifies the coercive …
Eye Witness Report
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
The monitors were doing a hell of a job maintaining order; the cops, on the other hand, were looking more and more uptight, and more and more of them were showing up from somewhere.
Jailed Residents Describe Experiences
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
Sunday night a bunch of us were over at a friend’s house. We didn’t have room to stay there so we thought we’d try to make it back to another guy’s apartment. We were almost home when five cop cars …
Study of Cops Shows ‘Pathological Hostility’
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
“The ghetto atmosphere was illuminated last week in a study prepared for the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement. In a survey of three cities—Chicago, Washington and Boston—the study found that four out of every five white policemen working in Negro …
Peace Worker Slain
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
George Vissard, peace activist in Austin, Texas, was killed last week in an Austin grocery store. Vissard was found at about 11:00 a.m. with a shot through the back and shot through the arm; his body had been placed in …
New Book on Radicals
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
Dr. David Herreshoff, assistant professor of English at Wayne State University, is the author of a new book published by the WSU Press. Dr. Herreshoff’s book, American Disciples of Marx, From the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (216 …
Thoreau Made a Hippy
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
A new United States postage stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau has been designed by painter Leonard Baskin. The stamp was first placed on sale July 12 at the writer-anarchist’s home town of Concord, …
Supreme Court to Hear GIs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
The first GIs to publicly refuse to go to Vietnam, known as the Fort Hood Three, asked the Supreme Court to hear their suit against the war, and against the government’s right to send them to Vietnam. Jimmy Johnson, 21, …
“New Politics” Hits LBJ
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
Organized political opposition to the Johnson Administration will be mapped in Chicago Labor Day weekend at a nationwide convention of grassroots activist organizations in the peace, civil rights and student movements. The convention, “New Politics—’68 and Beyond,” is expected to …