Summer is coming on strong in Detroit. We’ve had good weather, lots of free concerts, and young people hanging out together all over the Motor City. But already it’s become real obvious that the mood is tense. Things are not …
FE Author: J.R. Kennedy
Hot Town, Summer in the City
by J.R. Kennedy, The Mad Trasher
Fifth Estate # 108, June 25-July 8, 1970
Bombs Away!
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
“The pump won’t work ’cause the vandals took the handles.” —Bob Dylan When three bombs, planted by revolutionaries, exploded at dawn Thursday, March 12, inside the New York offices of three major U.S. industrial corporations, they were not acts of …
Blacks Confront UAW
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, founded in Detroit, is a militant union movement. It is fighting against the giant automotive corporations and against the United Auto Workers. It is fighting for black liberation and self-determination. The League of Revolutionary …
Black Schools Erupt
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
High school students throughout the country have been historically forced to assume second and third class status in Amerikan citizenship. Special kinds of oppression are reserved for them because the state views them as being at the crucial brainwashing stage. …
Community-PCAUR Fight WSU Toy Police
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
People Concerned About Urban Renewal, representing the community that Wayne State has exploited for over ten years, once again marched against the University Feb. 28, demanding free community access to the Matthaei Physical Education Complex.
“Crude, Obscene and Illiterate”
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
“If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.” —Frank Zappa, December 1965 Some very strange action has been coming down at Southfield-Lathrup High School. Rick Cricow, a student there, has been …
PCAUR Drives it Home
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
The cement never sets on the WSU empire. A sign is attached to the cement wall of the new Foreign Language Building at Wayne State University. It faces the John C. Lodge Freeway and the Matthaei Physical Education Complex beyond …
PCAUR Puts Heat on Landlord
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
In a near spontaneous action, People Concerned About Urban Renewal (PCAUR) led a demonstration against a local slumlord last Thursday.
This One’s Ours
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
After only three hours of deliberation on December 22 a half black half white Detroit Recorder’s Court jury found Alfred Hibbitt, member of the Black Legion, the paramilitary arm of the Republic of New Africa (RNA), innocent of assault with …
Strike Back
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
Last week we went out on strike. We shut down universities and colleges across the country. Over 400 schools learned the power of the political strike. Hundreds of thousands of students moved militantly in rage over the Cambodia invasion and …