“This is a lot of shit,” was the reaction of one Cass Technical High School student to a recent Underground addition to the growing number of publications at Detroit’s largest inner-city school.
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Outlaws Forever, Forever Outlaws
by Pun Plamondon
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
Editor’s note: The following message from White Panther Minister of Defense in exile, Pun Plamondon, was read by his wife Geni at the Eastown Theatre, Jan 25 as part of the Free John Sinclair Day benefit. “The beginnings will not …
The Woodstock Nation
by Joyce
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
WHITE LAKE, N.Y. (Good Times/UPS) —The Woodstock Festival was a huge nonviolent explosion of people and music. The New York Times called it a nightmare but it was more of a fantastic dream. True, there were low scenes—three accidental deaths, …
Abandon Automobile
by Fifth Estate Collective, Jason Kohser
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
poems like distilled scenes from the grey of a city whose lettuce days are just stories of a drunk at a vet’s bar poems whose hope defies common sense poems like old friends loves memories that haunt with each page …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Thursday June 1 JUSTICE! Judge Gillis’ Courtroom 1326 St. Antoine. Trial Preliminaries concerning the “great reefer raid” of January 24th. John Sinclair and others will be up before the bench. Friends and sympathisers are urged to attend. 6/1 FILM: “Ipcress …
New Laws may Reform Michigan Dope Statutes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
The laws regarding the use of marijuana may become significantly less stringent if several bills before the Michigan State House of Representatives are enacted into law. A series of bills introduced by Rep. Dale Warner, Eaton Rapids Republican, would reclassify …
5th Estate Filling Void
by Victor Taranta
Fifth Estate # 4, February 12-March 1, 1966
Reprinted from The Daily Collegian Looking for something different in newspapers? Like to see current topics treated from a new angle? Interested in cultural events that don’t appear in the major papers? You might take a glance at “The Fifth …
R.W.P.
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
Reprinted from Fire I. Necessity The average Amerikan cannot help but read several hundred thousand words per day of pig shit in the form of advertising, slogans on police cars, etc. Revolutionary wall painting effectively combats this totalitarian bombardment of …
Support Grows for City District System
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
The Rev. Charles Williams is a conservative, Negro, Republican Baptist. Robert Tindal is the executive director of the tradition-bound Civil Rights Organization to The Establishment—the NAACP. The Rev. Albert Cleage is a militant black power advocate and chairman of the …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
Editors: In regard to the events of Chicago during the convention week, I would like to submit the following information: On August 26, 10:30pm, a friend and I went to Lincoln Park. At this time a large group of people, …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
Brothers and Sisters, I’ve been watching all the shit going down around Detroit and our revolution either means we’re fighting for communism or black supremacy. I am not prejudiced, but want equality for all; not white or black supremacy. And …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
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 …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair, Magdalene Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 10, July 15, 1966
“any image around which any people concentrate & omit themselves is a usable one just because it is theirs.” —Charles Olson, Apollonius of Tyrana
Music as Revolution
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The Fifth Estate has, since its inception, been inspired by radical music and various collective members have composed, played, produced, and reviewed music. In the first issue, the lead story lamented that Bob Dylan had given up folk music for …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
To paraphrase an ex-president; we won’t have The Detroit Sun to kick around anymore—the city’s “hottest paper” collapsed financially after its Oct. 22 issue, ending several months of weekly publication. In a desperate attempt to raise needed cash (the staff …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
As we go to press word has reached us that Recorder’s Court Judge Robert Colombo has dismissed charges of sales of marijuana against John Sinclair. His trial on the charge of possession began on June 24 and may be in …
New Theatre Opens Here
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 29, May 1-15, 1967
April 28 marked the opening of a new theatre in Detroit. The Tropic Theatre in the Wolverine Hotel began its first season with Harold Pinter’s “The Lover,” directed by John Kinney, and on the same bill, “The Man Upstairs” directed …
LEMAR Meeting Sparks Marijuana Campaign
by Joe Mulkey
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
LEMAR’s second meeting happened Jan. 4th at the Artist’s Workshop and I mean IT REALLY HAPPENED, over fifty people showed up. The place was full of happy, alive, enthusiastic human beings. It was just downright out-of-sight. We’re getting together—here’s what …
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 …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
Brothers and Sisters, Enjoyed our paper over here in Nam. They really get worn from use. I’ll be back home to Detroit in 3 weeks so you should stop sending it. I will subscribe when I’m back.
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
FE Histories & Memoirs No Anarchy, No Money page 6 Offices as Autonomous Zones page 7 The History of the Fifth Estate by Peter Werbe page 8 Music as Revolution page 20 Giving Up the Gun Fetish page 21 Zapping …
Dave Dixon, Night Tripper
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
Which local all night disc jockey wards off the most obscene phone calls, brings down the most listeners who get sick on STP, and plays stud to all the lonely night people who listen to his show with one hand …
High officials face White Panthers
by J. Oint
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
“What the fuck are we going to do about those crazy White Panthers?” “I don’t know, man….I’m too wasted to even think about it.”
“Raid” Victims to Meet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 24, February 15-28, 1967
There will be a meeting of the people who were illegally arrested and detained in the January 24th “great marijuana raids” to discuss the possibilities of bringing suit against the Detroit Police Department for violation of their civil rights.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
Editors: I thought that “yellow journalism” had a reputation as bad as Lobsinger. I thought it had gone out with the Hearst newspapers, that its only remains were in such rags as the Inquirer. I was wrong.
White Panther Bike Run
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
The White Panther Bike Run and the people’s party at the U-M Arboretum July 6th turned out to be a quiet get together of freaks and young people without the usual interference by the pigs. Things started at 1:00 that …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
There has been considerable question as to where the Fifth Estate stands regarding an attack on the white left in our last issue and on a number of articles appearing in these pages by White Panther spokesmen. Political views that …
Chicago blows a big one!
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
CHICAGO, LNS—City Hall sources were buzzing this morning as the mayor’s office shamefacedly admitted to what may be one of the greatest blunders in the history of law enforcement. A mud-splattered blue Chevrolet van carrying 14 dangerous political criminals had …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
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 …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Dear Comrades, Just a short note of congratulations on your editors’ notes column in the last (Jan. 23) issue of the Fifth Estate. It is not often that a good cultural newspaper is willing to admit that the working class …
The New Sound of Sound
by Magdalene Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 2, December 2-16, 1965
Very soon now Wayne State University will finally become known across the country–not for its football team (I hope that will never happen), or for its student sit-ins (unfortunately, that will never happen either), but for the fine presentations of …
The Inner City Has a Voice
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
There is an obvious need for revolutionary media in the black community, states editor John Watson in explaining the creation of a new newspaper for the black community.
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Last issue’s front cover was done by Detroit photographer Tom Burt. Fifth Estate readers may remember Tom’s work from a previous front cover and you can expect to see more in the months to come. Tom has a fantastic collection …
Leary Busted (and other briefs)
by Liberation News Service, Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (LNS)—Dr. Timothy Leary, his wife and teen-age son, John, have been arrested here for possession of marijuana. The long time and old time guru said that the arrests were part of a continuing campaign of police harassment. …
“Negotiation Now” Drive On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
A statewide Negotiation Now campaign, sponsored by the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, is now in operation at full speed, according to John A. Fillion, director of the campaign. The Negotiation Now effort—sponsored nationally by prominent civic …
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 …
Beatle Squashed
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
LONDON (LNS)—Beatle John Lennon and his girlfriend, avant-garde filmmaker Yoko Ono, were busted in London recently for possession of marijuana. The pair were arrested when police raided Lennon’s fashionable apartment at Montague Square in the Marylebone district of the city. …
The Coat-Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
There seem to have been a lot of very hip things going on in Detroit lately, though from my (disad-)vantage point I can only read about them or hear of them on the radio. I heard very beautiful things about …
The Coat-Puller
by Magdalene Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
The Sunday night sessions at the Artists’ Workshop (4857 John Lodge) have been getting better both in audience attendance and in presentation. Last Sunday’s (July 17) featured poet Tom Mitchell and the music of the Workshop Music Ensemble, this time …