Outside the Detroit Recorder’s Court in July 1969, supporters gather at the trial of White Panther leader and former FE columnist John Sinclair.
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Trans-Love Relocates In Warren-Forest
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
After two years on the corner of John Lodge and Warren Avenue the Artist’s Workshop (now known equally as Trans-Love Energies) has moved to the campus side of the expressway and will set up shop in a long-vacant former doctor’s …
White Panthers Under Attack
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
The White Panthers arrested in New Jersey after the Woodstock Music Festival have all been released on bond and are back in Ann Arbor.
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
FIFTH ESTATE #31, June 1-15, 1967, Vol. 2 No. 5, page 6 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce ART Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR GIRLS Karen Kovach Naiomi Epel …
Lawyers for LEMAR?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
A number of Detroit lawyers have indicated to Detroit LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) that they would be interested in setting up a legal aid service for busted marijuana users if a general fund could be set up which would insure a …
Staff and Contributors
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 3, January 1966
The Fifth Estate Po Box 305 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” FIFTH ESTATE #96, January 8-21, 1970, Vol. 4 No. 18, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West MANAGING EDITOR Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op ADVERTISING Steve Dunn STAFF Jane …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
Recorder’s Court Judge Robert J. Colombo, the pig who sentenced John Sinclair to almost ten years in prison, recently renewed his subscription to this paper for two years. Because of the barbaric sentence he placed on John, we are cancelling …
YIP meets in NYC
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
The virtual vacuum that has been left in the wake of SDS’s floundering may be filled by the New Youth International Party. With repression growing and the need for a national organization crucial, YIP looks promising as a junction for …
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 …
The Arrangement, John & Mary
by George dePue
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
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 …
Prison Letter from John
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
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 …
STP
by David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
TO SERVE THE PEOPLE. Brothers and sisters all over pigamerika are waging war, making revolution. To so serve the people, the STP coalition has been formed.
UPSTERS Ready With Record
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
ANN ARBOR—The long awaited single by the Up has been slated for release on Feb. 6. The tunes will be “Just Like An Aborigine” and “Hassan I Sabba.” Artwork for the record label and jacket will be done by Youth …
Poems for John Coltrane
by Robert Knox
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of Divine Blue Light: for John Coltrane by Will Alexander. City Light Books, 2022
The History of President Pig
by Detroit White Panther Party
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
Remember what happened when you came home from the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968? Things started blowing up around here—things like police stations, draft-boards and recruiting stations—even the war-crimes building at U-M and the Ann Arbor CIA office. A dude …
Trans-Love Evolves
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
The Trans-Love Energies operation in the Warren-Forest community has undergone a number of changes lately, according to spokesmen for the hippie cooperative, of which the Fifth Estate is a member group.
John Clark’s Possible Community
by Eric Laursen
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism, Second Edition by John P. Clark. PM Press, 2022
MC5 kick out Elektra
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
The MC5 have always had the policy of kicking out all of the jams so it should come as no surprise that the Ann Arbor based group has severed their contract with Elektra Records. “At this point we’re totally unsatisfied …
The Snakes will be Dealt With
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
Editors’ Note: The following is the introduction to a speech written by John Sinclair at Marquette prison and read by Jesse Crawford at the Free John Sinclair Day benefit at the Grande Ballroom, Jan 24. Contrary to reports on WABX’s …