I want to take this space this week to tell you of some of the work the Detroit Artists’ Workshop is doing, because I think you should know about it in as much detail as I can give you here. …
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Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Fri. Oct. 4 DICK GREGORY. civil rights activist, comedian, and write-in candidate for president, will speak at Oakland U., Sports & Rec. Bldg. 10 am $1 adm. Take I-75 to Rochester University Dr. Exit. GRANDE BALLROOM. The Ten Years After …
The Algiers Motel Incident
by James D. Nixon
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
a review of The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey. 397 pages, Hardbound, $5.95 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Paperback, $1.25, Bantam Books
The Coat Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
Editor’s note: Brother Sinclair’s Coatpuller column is re-printed here exactly as it appeared in this paper one year ago. It was written at the height of the July Rebellion and contains one of the best impressionistic sketches of that week.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper(?) [question mark in original] and can be found at 4403 Second Ave, (telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a telephone call …
Fugs Here April 6
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
The great freak-rock New York band THE FUGS will be in Detroit the 6th of April for a one-night only concert, under the auspices of the Friday Night Coordinating Committee (FNCC) of WSU. The Thursday night freak-out will take place …
Huelga!
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
“A serious error is being made in Latin America: Where the inhabitants depend almost exclusively on the products of the soil for their livelihood, the educational stress, contradictorily, is on urban rather than farm life; and the happiest people are …
‘Ear ye!
by Bob Stark
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
The on again-off again break up of the Red, White and Blues Band is On-again-off again. After the original guitarist-harpist quit, he was replaced by two people, a singer-harpist and a lead player who never really worked out.
The Modern School Movement
by Michael Dunn
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
In the wake of the punitive No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top legislation of the Bush and Obama years, education reform has turned one hundred and eighty degrees. Today, many schools are implementing much more non-coercive practices, …
Partial Victory at Ft. Jackson
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
FT. JACKSON, S.C.—The Army has dropped charges against some GIs affiliated with the group GIs United Against the War in Vietnam at Ft. Jackson, S.C., and will discharge others without ever bringing them to trial.
Joseph Déjacque Bicentennial Conference
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
JOSEPH DEJACQUE BICENTENNIAL CONFERENCE Sunday, December 11, 2022 The Joseph Déjacque Bicentennial Conference is being held in recognition of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of this major nineteenth-century communist anarchist political theorist and visionary utopian writer. It is sponsored by La Terre Institute for …
Anti-psychiatry: the Psychology of Freedom
by Mirror
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
FE note: see related article Review, Toxic Psychiatry in this issue. Breggin’s foundation web site: http://www.icspp.org/ Books that are broadly influential on the anti-psychiatry movement: Laing, R.D. & Esterson, A. (1964) Sanity, Madness, and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics. Penguin …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Ave. Detroit, Michigan, 48201 Bookstore hours: Mon. thru Fri. 1 pm – 5 pm A SPECIAL NOTE! For those of you who have been waiting for your copies of Chris Gray’s book, Leaving the 20th Century: …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
Editors’ Note: We neglected last issue to welcome John Wilcock back to the pages of this newspaper. John was one of the founders of the Village Voice and the East Village Other. He publishes his own paper, Other Scenes which …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
One of the basic fundamentals of conservatism, presumably, is to conserve what you’ve got (no matter how much somebody else might need it) and to this extent at least, William Buckley, heir to a $100 million fortune, is true to …
Vietnam Summer
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
“It is time now to meet the escalation of the War in Vietnam with an escalation of opposition to that War. I think the time has come for all people of good will to engage in a massive program of …
TV-2 Interview—POW!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
John Watson, the Editor-in-Chief of Wayne State’s revolutionary student newspaper, the South End, has been charged with assault and battery on a TV newsman.
Wobblies & Music
by John Pietaro
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Is there ought we have in common with the greedy parasite, Who would lash us into serfdom and crush us with his might? Is there anything left for us but to organize and fight? The Union makes us strong! —”Solidarity …
Contents of Print Edition
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. The Fifth Estate was in its fourth year of publication and was part of the counter-culture music scene as much as the anti-war and resistance movements of the times. The festival gave the then-tabloid paper press …
Newsreel Films Seized
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
NEW YORK (LNS) — Three Newsreel photographers just back from North Vietnam have sued the State Department, U.S. Customs, and Trans World Airlines to recover movie film which was seized through trickery and deceit by government authorities at Kennedy International …