The Grande Ballroom, through the goodness of Uncle Russ, will again be the scene of a huge benefit dance/concert for Trans-Love Energies Unlimited, the Detroit hippie / artists coop.
FE Author: Fifth Estate Collective
Guerrilla Theatre to Hit Detroit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
The San Francisco Mime Troupe, which has earned an international reputation for slaughtering sacred cows, will be performing its anti-war commedia dell ‘arte “l’Amante Militaire” in a benefit performance for the Fifth Estate on Saturday, October 28.
End Anti-Sex Law
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
New York—The American Civil Liberties Union has asked for the end of criminal sanctions for homosexual practices in private between consenting adult partners.
Slave Center to be Closed
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
OAKLAND—Plans for a four-day siege of the Oakland Induction Center, October 16-21 were announced to day by spokesmen for National Stop the Draft Week Committee. Compulsory conscription was labeled “a criminal conspiracy against American youth that must be stopped.”
Red Flag Sold
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
The Draft Resistance sold its Red Flag, but didn’t make one hell of a big profit. $5 to be exact. Maybe people thought it was contaminated by its previous owner. Incidentally, there was a bad typo in the article offering …
Socialists Prepare Campaign
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
NEW YORK—The national Committee of the Socialist Workers party has announced here that it has nominated Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle as the party’s candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States in the 1968 elections.
March on Washington Set
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which organized the massive April 15 demonstrations in New York City and San Francisco, is now arranging for a mass mobilization to confront the warmakers in Washington, D.C. It will …
Long-Hairs Harassed
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
“White man’s justice” in Detroit courts has again been offered to members of the city’s hip community, the Fifth Estate learned this week in two separate reports from Detroit longhairs.
Hilberry Theatre Fall Program
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
Five new productions, including three classics and two contemporary plays, will be featured at the Hilberry Classic Theatre during its Wayne State University Centennial season of repertory. A revival of last year’s record-breaking success, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” will be …
Detroit Diggers Start Digging
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
A Detroit Diggers Society has materialized in the Warren-Forest area and is in the process of being “organized” by two neighborhood hippies, Dan Vincent and Cindy Lee. Organization to the Diggers means getting a place to operate out of, scrounging …