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Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
It was a Thursday night, December 8, at Wayne State’s Community Arts Auditorium. I was about to hear Lyman Woodward play for the first time…Mustachioed John Sinclair came out of the wings and quietly told us Lyman was going to …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
FRI. FEB. 21 KNIFE IN THE WATER, film presented by Films Arts International in the Library Lecture Hall, Marygrove College. 7:30 p.m. JOHN GARY, recording artist, will be appearing at Masonic Auditorium. 8:20 p.m. Tickets: $5, $4, $3. MEN AND …
Medium
by Emil Bacilla
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
A lot of changes have been taking place lately on the local independent underground film scene. Ralph Pickett, of the Indian Pickers, has left the Detroit Repertory Theatre. Bill Unger is now in charge of the film showing. It’s interesting …
Underground Press Syndicate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
ART & ARTISTS: c/o Mario Arnaya, 16 Buckingham Palace Rd., London SW1, Eng. AVATAR: 145 Columbia Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02139 BERKELEY BARB: 2886 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, Calif. 94795 CANADIAN FREE PRESS: Student Co-op, Argyle House, 53 Argyle, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada …
Anti-War Groups Plan Action
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
Anti-war forces in Detroit are preparing to respond to a call for a national mobilization called at a meeting last month of anti-war groups.
Hell No, They Won’t Go
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
On October 16, young men in Detroit and in cities across the United States will have turned in their draft cards to federal officials.
Long-Hairs Harassed
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
“White man’s justice” in Detroit courts has again been offered to members of the city’s hip community, the Fifth Estate learned this week in two separate reports from Detroit longhairs.
Split in Earth First!
by Kelpie Wilson
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Redwood Summer seems to have sent some Earth First!ers over the edge. Many of the old-line EF! activists stayed away from the summer actions, feeling that “outsiders” had invaded their movement and diluted EF!’s biocentric vision. Two EF! founders, Dave …
Hayduke Lives! Too Bad!
by Val Salvo (Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
a review of Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey, Little, Brown, Co., Boston, 1990 Hayduke lives? Well, after reading the late Edward Abbey’s sequel to his 1976 novel, The Monkeywrench Gang, one almost wishes the “wilderness avenger, industrial saboteur, night-time trouble-maker, …
Feds Bug Chi Vets
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
DETROIT—Veterans of the Chicago battle have been approached by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in an attempt to get detailed information on Movement activities during the Democratic National Convention.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
To the Editors: John Watson and the Fifth Estate are revolutionaries and that’s why they support the Teamster workers. [See “The News Gets Ready,” FE #68, December 12-25, 1968.] Revolutionaries remember 1937 when industrial workers in Flint fought the …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
To The Editors: This letter is in reply to the article by Tom Haroldson entitled, “Vote No On Survival” which appeared in FE #99, February 19 – March 4. Mr. Haroldson makes some very good points in regards to …
Mistrial Called in Sinclair Pot Trial
by Dave Marsh
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
Weirdness continued as the State of Michigan suffered another set-back in its attempt to put John Sinclair behind bars.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
To the Editors, Since their seems to be some controversy about calling police “Pigs,” I would like to say that when you call any group any one name, that you are generalizing. Whether you call a policeman a pig, …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word, including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words.) Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
EF! Trial Ends with Deal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The U.S. government got the pound of flesh it wanted from the radical environmental movement, but not from Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman, the prime target of a three-year FBI entrapment scheme.
The Berkman Conference
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
A few days before the commencement in Pittsburgh of the July 23rd conference, “A Remembrance of Alexander Berkman, The Man Who Shot Frick,” Sunfrog and I headed for a little town on the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border called Confluence where several …
Government Attack on EF! Continues
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Since the arrest last May of four Earth First! (EF!) activists on charges of attempting to sabotage a nuke plant (see Summer 1989 FE), the federal government has widened its campaign against the radical environmental movement.
GIs Talk About the Army
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
Editors’ Note: The following is a Liberation News Service interview with two anti-war GIs recorded at the Ft. Dix Coffee House. “People don’t realize why soldiers march,” says Staff Sergeant Rick Williams, a husky, quiet-spoken soldier of Southern poor-white origin. …
Conspiracy!
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
CHICAGO (LNS)—The coercive machinery of nationwide political repression is high-powered and well-tooled. The use of laws which blatantly restrict the basic precepts of Constitutional democracy-the abstract freedoms of speech, press and assembly—is constantly growing.
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
(in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure) THURS. OCT. 2 OLD WORLD MARKET. Here’s your opportunity to travel the world by stepping through the portals of the International Institute. Exotic national arts, crafts and cuisine are available for purchase. Noon until 10 …
Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
It’s really good to see that Brother Ear is hearing the Detroit bands and digging them, especially since people around here have to be told how heavy the bands are. The Frost and the Thyme aren’t the only together groups …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
Dear Editors: The letter in your August 7 issue [FE #85, August 7-20, 1969] from the corpsman in Da Nang harbor has prompted me to relate a similar experience to you.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Apparently Detroit’s two daily papers didn’t believe our interview in the last issue with the person who bombed the CIA office in Ann Arbor.
What the Well-Dressed Demonstrator Wears
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
The anti-war movement has recently become actively involved in the type of resistance protests that has brought a violent reaction from the forces of law and order. One has only to witness the police terror perpetrated on demonstrators at Oakland, …
SDS Shakes the Empire
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Students for a Democratic Society declared the days between April 20 and 30 as “Ten Days to Shake the (American) Empire.
In the High Schools
by Dave Watson (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
April 3 Walkout On April 3, Detroit area high school students walked out of school in protest against the war in Vietnam, in commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and around issues of student rights, racism, and other issues …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four Words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words.) Abbreviations should be sensible, DISCOUNT RATES …
An Anarcho-Crossword Puzzle
by Dave Sands, David Watson, Fran Shor, Julie Herrada, Mike Sabbagh, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
View or download PDF [57 KB] fe-390-48-anarcho-crossword Hints are displayed below the puzzle. See below for answers and annotations
Letters To The Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
To the Editor: The article in your last issue—”Playboy’s Tinseled Seductress”—I liked [FE #17, November 1-15, 1966]. The pointing out Playboy’s magnificent superficiality was, I thought, sound and much needed. But the conclusion!—ugh!—that the marriage institution suffers thereby—that “somehow …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
If the once highly-touted, but now quite tarnished “War Against Poverty” has done nothing else, it has provided a new battleground for political bickering-among the poor themselves and among the middle-class citizens who think they’re trying to help the poor.
Anti-war demonstrations, April 27, 1968
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
Washington, D. C., April 28 (LNS)—Hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated against the war in Vietnam and in some cities against racism yesterday in parades and rallies in 17 American cities.
Party Like It’s 1929!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Common radical wisdom suggests that capitalism won’t crumble on its own, so imagine the ironically comforting confidence with which we have watched the system convulse over the last few months. But as Don LaCoss reminds us in “The Disasters of …
Pig Conspiracy
by C. McCall
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
The forces of political and cultural oppression have opened up a new front. Along with attempts to silence, arrest, and confine the leadership of the black community, the forces of repression inherent in capitalistic societies have begun to strip the …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
To the Editor: Leaving aside his descent into scatology and personal abuse, Shelley Manne’s letter [FE #21, January 1-15, 1967] claims that I am in error regarding the degree of integration in 1) his group; 2) his club; 3) …
Letter From a Prison Cell
by David Samas
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
Although I am being held in solitary confinement, the prisoners and guards find occasion to speak with me. I was ordered to remove the name tags from my uniforms and from above my cage door. I now exist as the …
The Politics of Fandom
by Rich Dana (Ricardo Feral)
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
A dedicated band of idealistic working-class teenagers crash a meeting of techno-fascists at a New York hotel, confronting the group’s dictatorial leaders.