EDITOR & PUBLISHER: Harvey Ovshinsky NEWS EDITOR: Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Kathy STAFF: Annie Katzen, Lena Sinclair, Marilyn Werbe, Steve Simons, Deborah Osment THE FIFTH ESTATE 937 PLUM ST, DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48201 962-9334
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SNCC calls for aid to poor
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
The Detroit Friends of the Student Non-Veiolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) last week launched a local drive to help raise money to build shelters and to buy land in the deep South. The Poor Peoples Land Fund, headed by Ronald Bennett …
Dow Chemical Target for Napalm Protest
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
The anti-napalm protest scheduled in Midland, Mich., national headquarters of Dow Chemical Corp., for Aug. 7 and 8 will include participants from all across Michigan and northern Ohio and parts of Canada. The region wide action has been called by …
ACLU Says No On Christmas Stamp
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
The American Civil Liberties Union last week urged the U.S. Post Office Department to reverse its decision to issue a 1966 Christmas stamp representing a religious scene, calling such governmental support of religion a violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee …
Pro-War Group Tries to Smear Lafferty, Fifth Estate in 17th District
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
James Lafferty’s campaign for the Congress from the 17th District on Detroit’s far West side took on a new dimension with the appearance in the district of a leaflet branding Lafferty a “traitor” and calling the FIFTH ESTATE an “anti-Christian, …
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11, July 30, 1966
by Fifth Estate Collective
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Peace Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 10, July 15, 1966
DETROIT: Six weeks ago the News Editor of the FIFTH ESTATE sent an inquiry to the Defense Department regarding the validity of an article in the VIETNAM COURIER, a paper published in Hanoi, reflecting the political positions of that country. …
Anti-Napalm Protest
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 10, July 15, 1966
VOICE, the University of Michigan Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society has called for regional action Aug. 8 at the Dow Chemical Corp. in Midland, Mich., protesting that company’s production of napalm for use on Vietnamese villages.
10, July 15, 1966
by Fifth Estate Collective
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Community Politics
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966
The Committee for Independent Political Action (CIPA) on the West Side of New York City was formed at the end of the summer of 1965, on the basis of a draft statement prepared by two editors of Studies on the …