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Carrying signs demanding “No Target Practice on Kids,” twenty youths picketed Danny’s Market on Puritan at San Juan, July 13, protesting the wild shooting by a Negro guard at two little black girls aged eight and ten.

The Detroit American is a racist newspaper. It is written by racists and for racists. Its pseudo-populist rhetoric about defending the little man from “crime in the streets” and fighting against “THE BIG PRESS ESTABLISHMENT” is nothing but subterfuge for …

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NEW YORK—The Yippies died for a few months this year, partly from under-exposure and partly because, as Abbie Hoffman believes, “the establishment became even more absurd than the idea of YIP.” Hoffman is one of the leaders of the Youth …

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discussed in this article: The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey. 397 pages, Hardbound, $5.95. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; Paperback, $1.25, Bantam Books

After finally freeing John Sinclair and Fred Smith from the iron grip of the Oakland County pigs July 25, the MC5 was awakened the next morning by representatives of the Ann Arbor Police Dept. and charged with “disturbing the peace” …

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Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITORS Tony Reay John Sinclair OFFICE MANAGER Debbie Quigg PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR …

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“Shortly after the riot in Detroit last summer, I talked to a Negro in his late thirties, and I asked him what he thought about the 12-year old boy lying in the street after being shot by a white policeman …

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Fifth Estate Issue #59, August 1-14, 1968 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME

  NO WAR … NO Ayatollah NO Shah NO President NO Nationalism NO Militarism NO Ideology NO Religion NO God NO State NO Leaders… NO FOLLOWERS Destroy That Which Destroys You Photo-Montage of: **

Iran: the Ayatollah captures the revolution The confrontation between Iran and the United States over the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Nov. 4 and taking of 63 hostages (later reduced to 50) by Islamic student militants has brought …

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