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, …
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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 …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
Progress Report: The first reorganizational meeting of the Artists’ Workshop Society took place as scheduled on November 22, with encouraging results. That is to say, enough people expressed working interest in continuing the work of the Society that the Artists’ …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
The Gran-de Ballroom gets better and better every week, and it’s my own opinion that anyone who doesn’t go out there at least one night a week is just crazy. Frank Fox says so too. Likewise the MC5 keeps taking …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
The WSU Artists’ Society’s fall concert/reading series is now set and will continue with a concert by the Contemporary 4 at the Community Arts Auditorium Thursday, November 3, at 8:30 p.m. Charles Moore will introduce his new band, featuring Kirk …