Veterans Against the War (VAW) a local group of armed forces veterans formed to oppose the war in Vietnam have been carrying out a program to convince other veterans and those presently in the service of their views. The group …
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Sinclair Talks Marijuana in R.O.
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Editor’s note: Detroit poet John Sinclair talked about marijuana at Royal Oak’s Kimball High School, and Royal Oak hasn’t quite gotten over it yet. Below is a story reprinted from that city’s newspaper, the Royal Oak Tribune:
Pitt People Freed
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
The Fifth Estate’s Pittsburgh correspondent, Frederick I (Hohenstaufen) reports that the narcotics raid that hit that city 10 February [see “Pitt Pot Bust,” FE #25, March 1-15, 1967] has had a happy conclusion. All 55 persons arrested have had the …
Afro-American Museum for City
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Over 100 members of Detroit’s Negro population have banded together to form an Afro-American Museum.
Mime Troupe Freed
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Early last week the Denver branch of the American Civil Liberties Union won a complete acquittal for the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Minstrel Show on charges of obscenity and lewd behavior dating from last November [see “Mime Troupe Busted,” FE …
Black Mask Answers Leary
by Black Mask, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
The column, “You are a god, live like one” by Timothy Leary that appeared in the last issue of the FIFTH ESTATE [FE #25, March 1-15, 1967] was originally published in our sister underground paper, the EAST VILLAGE OTHER (EVO). …
Fifth Estate Underground Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
MACBIRD by Barbara Garson. The complete text, 75 cents STUDIES ON THE LEFT. Panel from the Socialist Scholars Conference on The Roots of Slavery, $1 THE LOVE BOOK by Lenore Kandel. Banned in San Francisco, $1 HASHISH COOKBOOK by Panama …
Viet Vote at WSU
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
A campus-wide referendum on the war in Vietnam will be held at Wayne State University on April 6 as part of Student Vietnam Week in Detroit. Student Vietnam Week, April 3-14, will culminate in a mass mobilization against the war …
City Plans Viet Protest
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Sidney Peck, one of the National vice-chairmen of the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and coordinator of the Western Reserve University Circle Teach-in Committee in Cleveland, spoke to a group of over 80 people, Sunday, March …
26, March 15-31, 1967
by Fifth Estate Collective
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