Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op STAFF Dena Clamage Rick London Bill Melater Bruce Montrose Claudia Montrose Dave Watson Tommye Wiese Marilyn …
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Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op STAFF Dena Clamage Rick London Bill Melater Bruce Montrose Claudia Montrose Dave Watson Tommye Wiese Marilyn …
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Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op STAFF Dena Clamage Rick London Bill Melater Bruce Montrose Claudia Montrose Dave Watson Tommye Wiese Marilyn …
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EDITOR & PUBLISHER: Harvey Ovshinsky NEWS EDITOR: Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Kathy STAFF: Annie Katzen, Lena Sinclair, Marilyn Werbe, Steve Simons, Deborah Osment THE FIFTH ESTATE 937 PLUM ST, DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48201 962-9334
Writing serious, meaningful information that helps people is important, but after a while it bores me (and maybe you too) shitless. In response to this shitty boredom, it’s time for a collection of useless information, meaningless facts and general dung.
Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West MANAGING EDITOR Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op STAFF Dena Clamage Bob Fleck David Gaynes Jane Capellaro Joel Landy Bruce Montrose Claudia Montrose Marilyn Werbe …
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FLASH! The Ann Arbor Free School and in particular John Sinclair’s class “Total Assault on the Culture” have been doing some truly revolutionary things. Total Assault Class meets every Monday night and takes its assault to the street, where the …
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Fifth Estate Issue #85, August 7-20, 1969 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME
The Unified Megalopolitan Piece Pow Wow, a choreographed multi-media presentation will debut Thursday, June 8, at 8:00 p.m. in the WSU Community Arts Auditorium, Cass at Putnam. The magic circus will feature performances by folksingers Phil Marcus Esser, Jan and …
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Fifth Estate EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West Tommye Wiese DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose Fred Frank BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe CITY EDITOR Chris Singer MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair STAFF Dena Clamage Claudia Montrose Franie Nelson Dave Watson Marilyn …
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Fifth Estate EDITORIAL GROUP Peter Werbe Cathy West Tommye Wiese DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose Fred Frank BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe CITY EDITOR Chris Singer MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair STAFF Dena Clamage Claudia Montrose Franie Nelson Dave Watson Marilyn Werbe The …
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FIFTH ESTATE subscribers almost didn’t get their last issue because the Post Office couldn’t make up its mind whether the paper was pornographic or not.
The Fifth Estate 923 Plum Street Detroit, Michigan 48201 962-9336 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Harvey Ovshinsky NEWS EDITOR Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASST. Cathy West ART EDITOR Gary Grimshaw PHOTOGRAPHY Lena Sinclair CARTOONIST Rob Derminer The Fifth Estate is a member of …
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The coming of summer has meant a great increase in activity in the Warren Forest area near Wayne State University.
In an unprecedented move Russ Gibb, Detroit rock and roll magnate and creator and owner of the Grande Ballroom, has announced that he is imposing a 1% community tax on the gate proceeds of the Detroit Rock and Roll Revival, …
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Winter Anti-War Offensive The Winter Offensive against the war in Vietnam is beginning. The Fall Offensive culminated in 800,000 persons in Washington and people came back to Detroit with even a greater sense of the need to bring all the …
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THE FIFTH ESTATE A NEWSPAPER OF DETROIT FIFTH ESTATE #80, May 29-June 11, 1969, Vol. 4 No. 2, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West Tommye Wiese DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose Fred Frank BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe …
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Dear Brothers and Sisters, On August 2, Denny Dunn and Carlson Tuttle were arrested in an anti-Humphrey demonstration at Cobo Hall. Later in the evening a bail fund was collected in hopes that we could get enough money to get …
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“When you have $50 billion invested in defense what you need most isn’t allies but an enemy.” — Nelson Algren said in Ramparts, May, 1967. When you have policemen on horses and Tactical Mobile Units with little baseball bats and …
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Millard Berry–Long time Fifth Estate photographer and staff member. www.millardberry.com Detroit Artists Workshop–Founded in 1964 in Detroit’s art and cultural community. Personnel and events frequently coincided with the Fifth Estate. www.detroitartistsworkshop.org