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Thursday November 28 AN ODE TO WILHELM REICH A sexual intellectual play in two acts. At the Red Roach Coffee House. 8:30 p.m. Plum St. at Filth St THANKSGIVING SPECIAL. The Underground Cinema will have two special showings at 7:30 …

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(by the Fifth Estate Creep Scene Editor) Creep scenes abound from the Detroit area to Florida as power-authority heads try to suppress the Fifth Estate. In Royal Oak, the Gas Company, at 290 W. Ten Mile Road, a head shop …

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The Living Theatre, triumphantly poised at the controversial edge of the avant-garde theatrical movement, will sweep into Detroit to take the chill off December.

Red Roach Rides by the Roach Editor The Red Roach coffee house is open! It’s hard to find, but look around the corner at Plum and Fifth, the barnwood door between two red and purple gaslights, go upstairs, you’re there, …

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The pretrial examination of 14 street people for dynamite conspiracy has been marked by the incredible legal buffoonery of Judge Thomas Poindexter. the assault of a defendant by a bailiff. and the testimony of a freek turned stool pigeon.

Is Detroit Police Commissioner Johannes Spreen serious about trying to alter the brutal, racist and corrupt nature of the force he commands? Some think he is. He ordered the suspension on Nov. 13 of nine policemen in the unprovoked beating …

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Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tormnye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ART DIRECTION Blalren ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett IDEOLOGUE …

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Reading the Fifth Estate last issue was sort of a magical mystery tour with none of the teasers on the front page corresponding to the proper pages and a number of other horrors. This was caused by last minute surgery …

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DETROIT Nov. 14—In a joyous celebration at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, eight men returned their draft cards to the Selective Slavery System, including the pastor of the church. In breaking their ties with the draft the men stated, “Young men …

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