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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
“any image around which any people concentrate & omit themselves is a usable one just because it is theirs.” —Charles Olson, Apollonius of Tyrana
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
“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.”
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.
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 …
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.
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, 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 …