Accused persons in Detroit Recorder’s Court have been tried and, in many cases, found guilty by juries of which Blacks, other minority group members, Southern-born, foreign-born, working-class people, ADC mothers, students, bearded males, and persons convicted of moving traffic violations …
STAFF Debbie Brentz Steve Dunn David Gaynes Alan Gotkin Mike John Keep on Truckin’ Co-op Jim Kennedy Lee Ann Kennedy David Levison Rick London Nick Medvecky Bruce Montrose Claudia Montrose Harvey Ovshinsky (dig this!) Dave Riddle Bill Rowe Eddie Silver …
Open Letter to Frank Kofsky: Your article called “The Jazz Scene in America” [FE #18, November 15-30, 1966] was three columns of misinformation. For your information, of which you need much, there has not been a succession of saxophone …
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 …
It was a Thursday night, December 8, at Wayne State’s Community Arts Auditorium. I was about to hear Lyman Woodward play for the first time…Mustachioed John Sinclair came out of the wings and quietly told us Lyman was going to …
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 …
Well you see it was something like this. Larry Weiner (formerly mentioned in this column), Detroit film-maker, has finally gotten everything together for his long planned sequence for his long in the making film. The sequence involves some junior executive …
In the last issue of the FIFTH ESTATE John Sinclair put down “acid rock” in favor of new-thing jazz, implying that Coltrane is really where it’s at and that rock is nowhere. His opinion revolves around the term “psychedelic”. Sinclair …
To the Editor: Please send one year’s subscription of this thing you call “The Fifth Estate’ to me. It gets pretty cold out here in the wintertime and I gotta have something to burn in my fireplace. Ever tried to …
Maybe film was only playing possum. It sure looked dead, though… Nothing was happening. The few people I had managed to find that were interested in film were leaving town. Most of the good theaters were closing. There was obviously …
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 …
from The Rat/UPS — Let’s run it on down. White males are most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. Yet who is controlling the supposed revolution to change all that? White males (yes, …
Fifth Estate #101, March 19-April 1, 1970, Vol. 4, No. 23, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truck in’ Co-op ADVERTISING Steve Dunn’ STAFF David Gaynes Jim Kennedy Rick London Nick Medvecky Bruce …
Dear F.E., Just got the new issue. It’s too good to be true! Two issues in a row with relevant, well-written, hip articles specifically for women [FE #105, May 14-27, 1970]. Women being equal with men in all things except …
“We have finally seen that we are brothers and sisters in spite of ideological differences. We finally sense that we hold much in common.” —STP Coalition Working together on this basis, 16 community based organizations got together May 19 to …