After finally freeing John Sinclair and Fred Smith from the iron grip of the Oakland County pigs July 25, the MC5 was awakened the next morning by representatives of the Ann Arbor Police Dept. and charged with “disturbing the peace” …
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Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Emily’s, the downtown shop where all the nicey-nice smile faces go to get their over-priced touchy-feely thingys is apparently plagued with the same problem as any other Motor City store—shoplifting. The proprietor has displayed a sign reading, “Free double-dip ice …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
FIFTH ESTATE #58, July 18-31l, 1968, Vol. 3 No. 6 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair DISTRIBUTION Eric Watkins ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett STAFF …
Narks Bust Trans-Lovers in Ann Arbor
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
The Trans-Love commune of Ann Arbor (late of Detroit) was plundered by police June 18 when Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Deputies took into custody Lawrence “Pun” Plamondon on a warrant charging him with “sale and dispension of marijuana” in Traverse …
Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
The following is a press release I wrote for the MC5 this week; we’re running it here because we promised to take you behind the scenes in the rock and roll industry, and these events illustrate what bands have to …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair DISTRIBUTION Eric Watkins ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis ART DIRECTOR Ed Bania CALENDAR Resa STAFF Laura Straight Marlene Tyre Michael Tyre Marilyn …
Inner City Voice hit by Censorship
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom…of the press.” —First Amendment, United States Constitution “It’s a free country, but it’s their thing.” —John Sinclair, Detroit House of Correction, July, 1966
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
After looking at the latest jam-packed issue of Factsheet 5, PO Box 170099, SF, CA 94117, “the magazine of record” for zines, it doesn’t seem like anyone should worry about the state of autonomous publishing. Still, a number of stalwart …
Rock and Roll Dope
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968
A strange polarization (or maybe it’s a natural one) seems to be happening with rock and roll fans right now, with white teenage audiences turning toward either total freek scenes or greasy reactionary hostility when confronted with the revolutionary guerrilla …
Trans-Love Moves
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
The Trans-Love Energies commune of Detroit, including the MC5 and the Trans-Love Light Company, have left the city of Detroit for good, to settle in Ann Arbor, that green and airy town some 45 miles west of Detroit.
Punk Rock
by A. Punk
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Thinking about punk rock gives one the strange sensation of witnessing a phenomenon and trying to make intellectual sense of it rather than being immersed in it. That of course ages you immediately. No matter what your “sympathies” are toward …
History of the Fifth Estate
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“The Fifth Estate supports the cause of revolution everywhere.” —FBI Report In my estimation, the above twelve-word summary by the nation’s secret police serves adequately as an abbreviated history of this paper on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Press Censorship
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Subtle and more unsubtle pressure has caused Detroit’s three up front papers to experience difficulties in the last few weeks in getting their papers printed.
David Busted
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
For the first time a presidential candidate has been busted for dealing grass.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Dear Beautiful People, As I was sitting in Grant Park in Chicago August 28 what to my tear-gassed eyes should appear but a beautiful young girl with a free copy of the Fifth Estate. She handed me a copy with …