The Detroit Love-In, to be held on Belle Isle April 30th, will be the first large-scale manifestation of the New Spirit of Detroit, and everyone who feels that spirit and believes in it, and everyone who doubts it or would …
FE Author: John Sinclair
Detroit Love-In Set for April 30
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
“Hey people now smile on your brother. Let me see you get together and love one another right now.” The Detroit tribes will gather together for the first time in many moons for the first modern Michigan Pow Wow on …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
The Marijuana Scare is getting weirder and weirder, with the grass police moving backwards faster every day, trying to bust everybody they can before the laws won’t let them do it any more. As far as I’m concerned the busts …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Detroit has been a stubborn place and does not want to be changed, but as I write now and the sun is shining through my window and the spring is with us, the snow is melting, people are getting together, …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 25, March 1-15, 1967
On Valentine’s Day at WSU a strange coalition was effected and the Student-Faculty Council ended up sponsoring a “Bitch-In” on campus, which was an honorable attempt to move from the usual “left-hippy” practice of simply haranguing everyone, to pointing out …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 24, February 15-28, 1967
The “great narcotics hoax” was pretty weird any way you look at it, and I’m happy too that this issue carries a “fact sheet” on the big “raids.” The daily “newspapers” and the idiot TV and radio interests do a …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967
THE POEM FOR WARNER STRINGFELLOW OCTOBER, 1966 Detective Lieutenant, Detroit Narcotics Squad, who has been single-handedly responsible for busting me on two separate occasions for possessing & selling marijuana and who stumbled into my new apartment last night by accident …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
Yes it IS a New year. This year Detroit will be born into flesh and spirit and we will have what we want finally. It’s been a long time acomin’, but it IS here. Yes. Last Friday night I was …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
A new year coming up, the end of one era and the move into a new one. 1967. The year that will make history begin again, with some relevance to our lives. What we are. I mean I can feel …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
I keep stressing the LOCAL in this column because it is precisely what we all have to work with—what is in front of us. Our lives are here, at this instant, and we should make the most of our local …