EDITORS NOTE: In addition to serving as the Fifth Estate news Editor, Frank Joyce is the Executive Secretary of People Against Racism (PAR). According to its literature, PAR was formed several months ago by those who agree that the problem …
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Poor People Lose Out in West Central Elections
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Detroit is a killer city. It is a city in which radicals and reformers of various political stripes have found it nearly impossible to survive.
United Strike
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 25, March 1-15, 1967
“No man knows what vibrations he sets in motion in his lifetime.” —Loren Eisley
Valentine’s Day Massacre at West Central
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 25, March 1-15, 1967
Editor’s note: The West Central Organization is a “poor people’s organization” founded in June of 1965. It is modeled after the militant community organizing projects of Saul David Alinsky, executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, who is retained by …
Charges Dropped in ‘Policeman’s Field Day’
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
On September 16 charges of Inciting to Riot against Moses Wedlow and James Roberts were dismissed in Recorder’s Court by visiting Judge John Seiler. The charges grew out of the August 9-12 “Policeman’s Field Days” on Kercheval on Detroit’s East …
Campaign ’66
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
“The free election of masters eliminates neither the masters nor the slaves.” —Herbert Marcuse American politics, as has been noted here before, is the politics of non-alternatives and pseudo-choices. If we needed any evidence, the present election provides it. Search …
“Bonnie & Clyde” Defended
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
As a charter member of the “Bonnie and Clyde” cult, Thomas Haroldson’s hostile review of the movie in the last issue of the FIFTH ESTATE [“Bonnie & Clyde Shot Down,” FE #40, October 15-31, 1967] was slightly disconcerting. Enough so …
The “Bad” Americans
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
The events of the week of anti-war resistance which began October 16, and which have continued to this writing—including the assault on the war profiteers at the Rackham Building on Wayne State’s campus on October 24 and 25—are of profound …
Expose ’67
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The Fifth Estate has obtained a copy of a letter, one paragraph of which states: “As far as I am concerned, the local police in every community must be prepared to draw fast and not let the bleeding hearts again …
Old Perspectives on Race at WSU
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
On October 19 to 21, Wayne State University will sponsor a conference titled “New Perspectives on Race and the City.” Featured speakers include G. Mennen Williams, Jerome P. Cavanagh, Hubert Locke, Roger Wilkins of the U.S. Justice Department, Community Relations …