Fuck War

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

About two months ago Schoolcraft College student, Larry Halbert, produced a 1-1/2 by 2 foot combination poster-petition similar to the one above copied from Avant-Garde magazine. [Web archive note: above this text in the print edition are “Fuck War” and …

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Witch-hunters Stall

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

Most students will have left for Summer vacation when a special state Senate investigating committee begins its witch-hunt of campus radicals and their morals. “It probably will be the end of July before we are able to conduct public hearings …

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Political Repression

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

1969 will undoubtedly be a year which brings increased attacks upon the Movement: the HUAC hearings, the Chicago Grand Jury, and Oakland 7 trial, and repressive actions against GI coffeehouses, are only some of the better publicized incidents of repression …

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Art in the Fifth Estate

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Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021

Images that appear in our pages are separate statements on the subject addressed in an article. P. 29 Lars van Dooren is a Brooklyn-based artist. He is a 2020 Frederieke Sanders-Taylor Studio Projects Fund grant recipient. arsvandooren.com.       …

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Briefs

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

Kids Win WASHINGTON, D.C. (LNS)—The Supreme Court has upheld (7 to 2) the right of three Des Moines high school students to wear black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War. The majority opinion stated that students and …

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GI March Set

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

On April 5th in Chicago, GIs and civilians will be marching together against the war in Vietnam. The demonstration will be protesting the suppression of GI rights in the army and demanding that the troops be brought home now. Six …

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GIs Demand Rights

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

FT. JACKSON, S.C.—Anti-war GIs here are circulating a petition addressed to their commanding officer calling on him to have a meeting on the post to discuss the war in Vietnam.

Masthead

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

FIFTH ESTATE #74, March 5-19, 1969, Vol. 3 No. 22, page 2 Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose MUSIC EDITOR John …

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Editors’ Notes

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

The Man’s heavy hand of repression is attempting again to strike at this paper. We have been getting reports from both sellers, distributors, and buyers about police and school harrassment. At Southfield High, which is run by anti-Fifth Estate fanatics, …

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Free the Presidio 27

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Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969

According to the U.S. Army the 27 GIs pictured here staging a sit-in at the Presidio Stockade in San Francisco, Oct. 14, 1968 are guilty of mutiny; a military crime punishable by a prison term of up to life. This …

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