Every Mother’s Day Paul Krassner, editor of the REALIST comes to Detroit and educates us on what’s REALLY happening in the underground. // Share this on…
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Open City
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Open City, Detroit’s service organization to the free community, has begun operation. So far most activity has centered around people calling in problems to the switchboard. // Share this on…
Open City Opens
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Several hundred people attended Open City’s first benefit held February 28 at Alvin’s Delicatessen. The three hundred dollars collected at the door was used to purchase the community switchboard now in operation at the Open City office. For the last …
Detroit Renaissance
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
The transformation of life in its entirety begins when men dare to rule their own lives. —A narchos The Detroit revolutionary community needs its own turf. There are tens of thousands of people in this area who read the Fifth …
Dave Dixon, Night Tripper
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
Which local all night disc jockey wards off the most obscene phone calls, brings down the most listeners who get sick on STP, and plays stud to all the lonely night people who listen to his show with one hand …
Open City Keeps Serving Community
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
A gala fund raising party for Open City’s summer campaign will be held on Friday, July 11 at Alvin’s Finer Deli on Cass at Palmer. // Share this on…
Open City Free Clinic
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
Free medical attention for Detroit’s Free Community is now available at the Open City office, 4726 Third, every Monday evening from 6 until 8 pm. // Share this on…
City Ablaze
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
On Sunday, July 23, at 3 o’clock in the morning, The Doors’ “Baby Light My Fire” was the number one song in Detroit. It couldn’t have been more appropriate. // Share this on…
Editorial
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965
There are four estates, the fourth of which is journalism. We are the fifth because we are something different than Detroit’s other newspapers. We hope to fill a void in that fourth estate a void created by party-controlled newspapers and …