The Committee for Nonviolent Action has issued an urgent request for additional financial backing. CNVA and the War Resisters League are mutually considering a merger and the CNVA Executive Committee has already authorized the partnership. The major obstacle, however, seems …
Socialist Workers party presidential nominee Fred Halstead was in Detroit Friday, October 6 to kick off his campaign at a rally sponsored by the S.W.P. campaign committee.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe is readying their actors and props to zap the minds of motor city residents for the second year. The group, as part of its international tour, will bring its current production, “L’ AMANT MILITAIRE”, to …
Dave Dellinger, Chairman of the Mobilization Committee, predicted that the response of the American people would be to speak out even more forcefully against the war and to insist on their democratic rights to do so. He reported that the …
There used to be a big debate within the peace movement about whether or not to call for immediate withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. Some thought this was too radical a demand and one that would find no acceptance with …
A national movement has been developing in Detroit with accelerated momentum since the summer rebellion, according to an analysis by Grace and James Boggs in the October 7 issue of the independent radical newsweekly NATIONAL GUARDIAN printed in New York …
THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren, Detroit 48201 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess ACE REPORTER John Sinclair ART AND LAY-OUT Gary Grimshaw FILM EDITOR Joe Finemen CALENDAR GIRLS …
On October 16, young men in Detroit and in cities across the United States will have turned in their draft cards to federal officials.
The latest newspaper to make the UPS scene is Ann Arbor’s LOOKING GLASS. Editor and publisher Jeffrey Hoff, hoping to stress the political more than the psychedelic in his paper, predicts that “the white hippy scene, the black revolt, everyone …
“It’s getting better all the time. I admit it’s getting better.” —The Beatles Things are getting better at the Fifth Estate, although you’d never know it by looking at our office windows. Last week we lost them to a fire …