Good Karma

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Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969

a review of “Karma,” Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)

Rock Ghouls

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Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969

As groupies of the linear and electric media sniff at Janice Joplin’s empty whiskey bottles for the slightest whiff of a story, WKNR-FM of Detroit has taken rock coverage even farther down the ladder of respectability until it resembles Confidential …

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Operation Intercept

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Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969

MEXICO CITY (DF)—Mounting resentment against “Operation Intercept”—the U.S. effort to halt illegal drug traffic by thorough inspection of cars at border points has been voiced by border officials, business organizations and the Mexican press.

SDS Battles Police

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Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969

Which is worse in Detroit? Jay-walking or carrying a red flag? I suppose it depends on where you are coming from, but put together 60 persons jay-walking after a rally, led by a red-flag-carrying revolutionary, and you can expect what …

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Beast #3

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Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969

BEAST # 3 A POEM FOR JOHN SINCLAIR we are lonely we will attack you w/ our smallest uttered parts we will move w/ the mask of darkness w/ simple weapons & slit the bellies of yr women we will …

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Always be cool

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Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969

Editors’ note: This article is being printed so that we can stop brothers and sisters from being needlessly busted. It was written by a Detroit lawyer who wants to remain anonymous. Don’t be careless! Learn from the way the man …

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Film review

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Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969

When you see “Goodbye, Columbus,” you think how amazing-that this crew of film makers could take such familiar material and make it so fresh.

Miss Student Body

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Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969

Author’s note: I tried to write a journalistic reportorial article about the “Miss Student Body” rape held on the WSU campus in honor of Fraternity Week, where mutilated people voted on the headless pictures of women in bikinis guided by …

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Vodka in the USSR

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Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981

Note: The following is an excerpt from an article, “The Regime and the Working Class in the USSR,” by Viktor Zaslaysky which appeared in Telos No. 42, Winter 1979-80. Telos, “a quarterly journal of radical thought,” is available at Box …

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A Challenge to the Prison Movement

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Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981

FE Note: The following article was sent to us anonymously several months ago and has generated an enormous amount of discussion among us by its charges that prisoners who are “thugs, murderers, pimps, rapists, conmen of every sort” have been …

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