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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ten days before Abbie Hoffman was discovered resting eternal, I joined a few hundred spectators in an eerie celebration of ’60s nostalgia at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. The world premiere of the film Ten For Two featured rare …
NEW YORK—Marijuana smokers are “significantly more likely” to report attending happenings, reading underground newspapers and participating in mass protests.
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit FIFTH ESTATE #75, March 20-April 2, 1969, Vol. 3 No. 23, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose MUSIC EDITOR …
Editors’ Note: Rock and Roll Dope takes the form of a facsimile of the MC5’s Elektra album liner notes for two reasons. First, because Brother Sinclair was stranded in Buffalo after attending a national Lemar (Legalize Marijuana) conference in that …
Dear friends, Just wanted to let you know how much I, and many of my friends who read the paper, dig the poems you’ve been printing lately, especially Diane DiPrima’s. I always say that a good anarchistic poem is …
FIFTH ESTATE #74, March 5-19, 1969, Vol. 3 No. 22, page 2 Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose MUSIC EDITOR John …
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 …
Performer James Brown is one Negro who’s certainly managed to come to terms on his own with Black Power. First he gave a cozy, bear-hugging endorsement of Hubert Humphrey (himself just back from hugging Lester Maddox) and then, when HHH’s …
FIFTH ESTATE #73, February 20-March 5, 1969, Vol. 3 No. 21, page 2 Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose MUSIC EDITOR …
To the Editors: William Leach from the Black Panther Party is absolutely correct (“The White Left—Serious or Not?” FE #70, January 9-22, 1969) when he points out that white so-called revolutionaries have not organized anyone in the white community—we …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair STAFF Claudia Efimchik Ann Mikolowski Marilyn Werbe Marlene Tyre The FIFTH …