Jan. 24 and 25 Saturday January 24 2 p.m.-1 a.m. $3.00 Grande Ballroom Sunday, January 25 3 p.m.-11 p.m. $3.00 Grande Ballroom FREE JOHN SINCLAIR AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! HELP END MARIJUANA PROHIBITION Mitch Ryder, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Cockrel, Skip …
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“THERE IS NO LAW IN AMERIKA TODAY—only the racist power structure and its victims. The revolutionary youth of this weirdo country are an oppressed people—the victims of a calculated cultural repression movement instigated and carried out by the Government and …
“There is no LAW in Amerika today—only the honkie power structure and its victims. We are down to the nitty-gritty now, with our backs to the wall, and the population is quickly polarizing: oppressors and oppressed. The revolutionary youth of …
John Sinclair, poet, author of Guitar Army, manager of the MC5 rock band, anti-racist White Panther Party co-founder, and early Fifth Estate writer, died of heart failure at 82 in Detroit on April 9. Sinclair was remembered in publications across …
“Your day has come. You may laugh, Mr. Sinclair, but you will have a long time to laugh. I sentence you to not less than and not more than ten years in the state penitentiary.” —Judge Robert J. Colombo, July …
John Sinclair has had his hair cut twice in the last three years. Both times by pigs.
In a session on September 9 the Michigan Supreme Court denied John Sinclair’s request for appeal bond saying he had not “persuaded the Court that he has a meritorious basis for appeal.” This upheld the ruling of Court of Appeals.
The police conspiracy out to put White Panther leader John Sinclair behind bars has suffered several important setbacks in the last few weeks.
John Sinclair, Minister of Information for the White Panther Party, remains as political prisoner of the State of Michigan.
Using the descriptor, ironic, to define almost anything has become an overused cliché. However, Leni Sinclair’s 1966 photo of John Coltrane taken at Detroit’s Drome Lounge deserves that adjective. The image has been displayed in museums and reproduced hundreds of …
Web archive note: This article is untitled in the print original. In a lightning-fast surprise maneuver the Detroit courts have moved to bring John Sinclair to trial on his famous marijuana charge next Tuesday, June 3rd, in Recorder’s Court. This …
Marijuana—a harmful and dangerous drug. This is the title of a paper by Joseph E. Maher, Recorders Court Judge, which states the ruling of a three judge panel on the constitutionality of Michigan’s marijuana laws. The decision stems from a …
Editor’s note: Detroit poet John Sinclair talked about marijuana at Royal Oak’s Kimball High School, and Royal Oak hasn’t quite gotten over it yet. Below is a story reprinted from that city’s newspaper, the Royal Oak Tribune:
The following excerpts are taken from John Sinclair’s statement on the Court of Appeals decision, Feb. 17, 1971:
Weirdness continued as the State of Michigan suffered another set-back in its attempt to put John Sinclair behind bars.
The future of John Sinclair, imprisoned chairman of the Youth International Party, hinges on two things at this point. John is currently serving a 9-1/2 to 10 year sentence for possession of marijuana in Marquette Prison.
John Sinclair was arraigned in Federal District Court in Detroit Oct. 23, on charges that he conspired with two other White Panthers to place explosives at an Ann Arbor CIA office last year.
Poet John Sinclair and MC5 guitarist Fred Smith were brutally assaulted, beaten, MACEd, and arrested by members of the National Security Police and the Oakland County (Michigan) Sheriffs Dept. while performing at a Michigan teen-club on July 23rd.
Dear Brothers & Sisters, It was good to hear from you last week. My transfer to Marquette has been postponed at least a few weeks, but they are determined to send me there as soon as they can. A pig …
THE SUN, Volume 3, Issue 18 (3 pages with 33-page ad supplement)
WORK, a journal of new writing, edited by John Sinclair $1.00/copy, 4-issue subscriptions $3.00 CHANGE, a new jazz magazine, edited by John Sinclair & Charles Moore, $1.00/copy, 4-issue subscription: $3.00
Ronald Powell crouched inside the car. So did the other four men.
The Fifth Estate 1107 W. Warren Detroit Michigan 48201 831-2525 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: Harvey Ovshinsky EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Robin Diber, Steve Dibner, Steven Simons STAFF: John Sinclair, John Hawksley, Magdalene Sinclair, and Janet Klotman
Newsreel-ARM — Hollywood began to appreciate some years ago that the vision of life it was projecting for the people was increasingly irrelevant to their lives and uninteresting. It was a basic marketing problem—how to catch up with a broad …
Sept. 30, 1969 Dear People, Sorry I haven’t written in so long but I wanted to get settled up here before writing you again. There seems to be a lot more going on out there in the streets than happens …
a review of Divine Blue Light: for John Coltrane by Will Alexander. City Light Books, 2022
a review of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism, Second Edition by John P. Clark. PM Press, 2022
John Zerzan’s essay, “Agriculture: Essence of Civilization,” appeared in FE #329, Summer 1988 and is available for one dollar from 4632 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48201. It is also part of a collection of John’s essays entitled Elements of Refusal …
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Web Archive note: John Wilcock’s usual column heading is “Other Scenes”.
a review of Twilight of the Machines, John Zerzan, Feral House, 2009; 140 pages, $12, www.feralhouse.com
a review of Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson. PM Press, 2009
Poetry Seminar Tuesdays 7-9 p.m. John Sinclair & Robin Eichele Contemporary American Prose & Drama Thursdays 9 p.m. John Sinclair The Surrealist Stance (Arranged) Allen Van Newkirk Seminar in Pre-Homeric Greek Civilization (Arranged) Sinclair, Eichele, Van Newkirk Theatre Techniques/Acting (Arranged) …
A group from Trans-Love had gone to Woodstock, to raise funds for brother John Sinclair’s defense and trial costs.
Poetry Seminar John Sinclair & Robin Eichele Tuesdays 7-9 p.m. Contemporary American Prose & Drama John Sinclair Thursdays 9 p.m.
EDITOR & PUBLISHER Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe NEWS & POLITICAL EDITORS R. Fleck & F. Joyce ART & LAYOUT Gary Grimshaw EDITORIAL Assistant Cathy West CIRCULATION Wilson Lindsey PHOTOGRAPHY E. Bacilla, Wilson Lindsey, Magdaline Sinclair TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil …
THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 831-6800 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair ART Gary Grimshaw FILM EDITOR Joe Fineman CALENDAR …
Editor & publisher Harvey Ovshinsky Managing Editor Peter Werbe News and Political Editors R. Fleck & F. Joyce Art & Layout Gary Grimshaw Editorial assistant: Cathy West Circulation Wilson Lindsey Photography E. Bacilla, Willson Lindsey, Magdaline Sinclair Travel editor Sheil …
EDITOR Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West NEWS EDITORS Robert Fleck, Frank Joyce ART Dave Carlin CIRCULATION Wilson Lindsey TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil Salasnek MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR Rhona Whipple ADVERTISING Leon Brenner FILM …
FIFTH ESTATE #13, August 30, 1966, Vol. 1, No. 13, page 2 The Fifth Estate, 937 Plum Street, Detroit, Michigan 48201, 962-9334 EDITOR & PUBLISHER: Harvey Ovshinsky NEWS EDITOR: Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Cathy West STAFF: Ron Halstead, Steven Simons, …
THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 831-6800 Member, Underground Press Syndicate EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West ART Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR GIRLS: Karen Kovach Naomi …