The Stooges, a Trans-Love band from Ann Arbor, will be in New York City for an end-of-the-month recording session at the Elektra studios. Produced by John Cale of Velvet Underground fame, the group expects Elektra to release their first single …
FE Author: Fifth Estate Collective
King Marchers Convicted
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Fr. James Markunas of St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church has been convicted of illegally marching last April during the so-called “emergency” following Martin Luther King’s assassination. (See Fifth Estate, April 16-30, 1968.) Markunas was arrested April 7, 1968 with 107 others …
Socialist Runs for Council
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Paul Lodico is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for Common Council. But he is not that interested in getting votes. In fact, he is not running to win the election.
It Takes a Team…
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
“A top notch job” was the way Detroit Police Commissioner Johannes Spreen characterized the attack by 289 of his pigs on a peacefully assembled crowd at Cobo Hall last October.
Cops Disciplined
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
For once it appears that it pays to be black. At least the sons of prominent black ministers and politicians. The Detroit Police Department actually disciplined several of it’s men for their drunken and cowardly beatings of several black youths …
Mich. Activists Hit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Several full-time movement activists in the Michigan area have been arrested in recent weeks on trumped-up felony charges.
“I Am Tom Sincavitch”
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
The scene is a church located in the heart of Detroit’s Inner City.
South End Editor Not Guilty
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
John Watson, editor of the WSU student newspaper, was acquitted March 7 of charges that he assaulted Joe Weaver, of WJBK-TV. Watson had been charged with striking the TV-2 “commentator” on Feb. 10 when Weaver attempted to interview Watson at …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit FIFTH ESTATE #75, March 20-April 2, 1969, Vol. 3 No. 23, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose MUSIC EDITOR …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
This newspaper, WSU’s South End, and the Inner City Voice are going to sponsor a revolutionary newspaper conference on April 11, 12, and 13. It will be held on the Wayne University campus. The need for such a conference rises …