It couldn’t happen in Detroit! That was the proud proclamation of our city’s leaders all summer long until that fateful morning of July 23. Detroit had supposedly been the nation’s leader among big cities in making civil rights progress.
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Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
We hope this page becomes a place where we can communicate and take care of our basic needs outside of the capitalist, consumption market.
Col. North: War Criminal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a hero? A patriot? Shit! This guy is a fascist and a war criminal! Less people than it appears are willing to stand up and salute this creep who bears great responsibility for the …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
QUESTION: I am writing to you in regard to my weight problem. I am 22, five feet six inches tall and I weigh 134 pounds. I would like to weigh 125 pounds. I have been as heavy as 145 pounds …
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
This is my first column for the Fifth Estate in a long time and I’ll probably be a little rusty, so please bear with me, OK? and I’ll try to do something useful here.
Hey Kids!
by Dave Wheeler
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Yas, free music. Free livin’. Free heads. Free Old Tarter Field for awhile at the WABX free Sunday afternoon concert.
Why be so Attached to your Penis?
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download MS Word .doc [29 kb] fe-389-13-Why-Penis “I haven’t seen anything like this before.” — Bernard Picton, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Northern Ireland Could the surreal imagination of even Karel Capek in his most bitingly satirical novel, …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
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: …
WSF Caracas: Shroud for Venezuela’s social movements
by Rafael Uzcategui
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
FE Note: The following is taken from the El Libertario web site. See the above article on this page for their URL.
Letters to Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
FIFTH ESTATE LETTERS POLICY We welcome letters commenting on our articles, ones stating opinions, or reports from your area. We can’t print every letter we receive, but each is read by our staff and considered for publication.
Is ChatGPT just a new tech toy or is it Skynet?
by Jess Flarity, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the …
About this Issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
This issue’s theme–The Psychology of Freedom–comes to the reader without pretension or self-righteousness. We are not trying to instruct others on how they should conduct themselves in their personal or collective lives. Rather, we feel it is important to explore …
Surrealist Manifesto
by David Tighe
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Surrealism and the Anarchist Imagination by Ron Sakolsky. Eberhardt Press, 2023
In the High Schools
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
Progressive High School students throughout the Detroit area were shocked April 22 to read in the Detroit “News”: “Ferndale H.S. Drops 138 Negro Protesters.”
Farewell Elka Schumann
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
Bread and Puppet Theater’s Elka Schumann died this past August, at the age of 85. She and her partner, Peter Schumann, co-founded the Bread and Puppet Theater, the innovative and radical theater group, in New York City in 1963.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
Answer to last issue’s quiz: The designer of the nationally known Willow Run bomber plant was Charles Lindberg, former Warren-Forest resident and grandson of John C. Lodge, of X-way fame… Rumors of the week: The J.L. Hudson Co. will announce …
Defend Detroit’s Artists
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967
America—the world—lives in a period of transition of its entire way of life. On the one hand we live in utter confusion and yet on the other we are beginning to see the immense possibilities that are now available to …
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 …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
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: …
Anything Can Happen—Or Not
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
“Sous les paves, la plage!” [Under the paving stones, the beach!] —Revolutionary slogan; Paris 1968 1968 was an “Anything Can Happen” kind of year.
I Led Three Lives
by George Aylesworth
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
The following article is a first person account of the author’s involvement in the FBI’s program of using students to spy on students. Although occurring at Purdue University, the author feels that such activities are far from rare, and that …
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
Every revolution in jazz is fundamentally a revolution in the mode of sensing jazz rhythms and that is of course as true of the jazz revolution of today as it was of the bebop revolution of some two decades past.
The Rolling Stones
by David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
a review of The Rolling Stones, “Let It Bleed,” XZAL 9363, London Records
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
The Flying Burrito Bros.
by Mike Kerman
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
A few weeks ago the Flying Burrito Brothers brought their electrified, rockified country style music to the Grande Ballroom and the good folks responded with a silent Bronx cheer.
FE Readers Debate Technology
by Fifth Estate Collective, Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
The letters on this page are responses to John Zerzan’s “The Refusal of Technology” which appeared in the October 20, 1980 edition [#303] of the Fifth Estate; below are our comments on the question. In the article, Zerzan accuses those …
Granny Goose & Hanoi
by Art Kunkin
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
(reprinted from the LA Free Press) Somewhere in Los Angeles this week, a small group of men and women are preparing the tenth in a series of weekly radio programs of news and critical commentary on America’s foreign policy which …
The American Dream
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
“Plastic settled in river “SARNIA, Ontario—A cloud of plastic powder that was released into the air and settled in the St. Clair River poses no health threat, says a Canadian spokesman for the Midland-based Dow Chemical Co.
Tune, Occasion, and Memory of Mnísota
by Josefine W.W. Parker (Voyager)
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
I don’t dwell often on the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) protests, yet an acquaintance jarred my memory. En route to summer solstice ritual, she tells me she moved from Minneapolis.
The Geography of Possibility
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
a review of The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation by Simon Springer. University of Minnesota Press, 2016
Poetry
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
from Cultural Democracy, Spring 1989, P.O.B. 7591, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Port-of-Call Cass Corridor Anchored in the oily swamp Near the crumbling dockyard Lurks an old ship . Stumbling past The foggy glass portholes I glance at the stowaways: The Black …
Events Calendar
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
THURS. AUG. 1 Come watch the league leading Tigers sock it to the Washington Senators in a night game. It’s fun if you don’t get hasseled by some obnoxious popcorn vender. 8 p.m. Tiger Stadium. ENJOY good FOLK MUSIC by …
Staff and Contributors
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
Millard Berry Alan Franklin Ralph Franklin Pat Halley Pat O’Bryan Kathy Horak Tina Nachalo Bob Nirkind E.B. Maple Doug Larkins Donna Saffioti Peter Werbe Marilyn Werbe Govinda Habersplatte John & Paula Zerzan Rick Rollins The Fifth Estate Newspaper, a non-profit …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Thanks to everyone (musicians, performers and party-goers) who made the Fifth Estate 10th anniversary party on December 6 one of the most entertaining and fun sets Detroit has seen in a long while. (See details and photos farther in.)
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
In cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURS. FEB. 5 FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (1964)& THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1933), two adaptations of H. G. Welles’ novels presented as part of the Science Fiction Film Festival. 7:00 p.m. Single feature …
Anarchy & the Spirit
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
“For those who would see directly into essential nature, the idea of the sacred is a delusion & abstraction: it diverts us from seeing what is before our eyes: plain thusness. No hierarchy, no equality. No occult & exoteric, no …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
Gradually the Kennedy legend is being demolished and there’s hope that one day both JFK and Bobby will be seen in less idolatrous terms. To the rest of the world, JFK will always be a superhero but Americans are obsessive …
Notes toward a history of the Fifth Estate
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
“Only movement can know movement.” –Herakleitos Someday, if anything is left of any of this, and this epoch’s fascination with historical records and documentation endures, I imagine some historian, grad student, or amateur archivist will write a text detailing, accurately …