The week of Oct. 5 through 12, the Ad Hoc Construction Coalition presented demands to 8 agencies that 50% of all workers in construction and construction-related projects in the Detroit area be black.
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Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
THE FIFTH ESTATE 923 PLUM STREET, DETROIT, MICH. 48201. 962-9336 UNCLASSIFIED costs 50 cents per line per week. Figure 5 words per line. (A word is a word, including 1 and 2 letter words. A phone number is a word. …
Bookstore in a Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
an hour east of Nashville (615) 536-5999 FifthEstate@pumpkinhollow.net To order, send check, money order, or well-concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item ($1 for the 2nd, $.50 …
Resistance Readies Stop Draft Week
by Hal Waldman
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
A massive national denouncement of the continuing war in Vietnam and the Selective Service System is being readied for the week of Oct. 16-22, and by all indications it should well be the largest demonstration of its type in American …
Mumia re-examines history of the Black Panther Party
by Doug Graves, John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
a review of We Want Freedom: A life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal. South End Press: Cambridge, 2004
Shutdown
by Saint Just
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
I have had the unfortunate privilege of experiencing two urban shutdowns in the U.S. In 2009, while living in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh as a graduate student, I experienced a preemptive shutdown of a …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
This newspaper, WSU’s South End, and the Inner City Voice are going to sponsor a revolutionary newspaper conference on April 11, 12, and 13. It will be held on the Wayne University campus. The need for such a conference rises …
Successful Detroit Benefit Concert for Marie Mason
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Movement troubadour David Rovics performed a benefit concert in Detroit, October 27, for singer/songwriter/environmental activist, Marie Mason, the Green Scare prisoner serving the longest sentence for eco-sabotage.
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
There are some records around that are worth taking a look at…The Sunshine Superman album by Donovan is one of the best records of its kind ever done. On this record, we hear great writing, good tunes, excellent musicianship, and …
City Rock Scene Grows
by R & R Crusader
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
Through the efforts of many the Detroit music scene is growing in fantastic leaps and bounds. Not only are the local bands getting it extremely together—the MC-5, the Rationals, Scot Richard Case, Billy C. and the Sunshine, the Up, and …
Peace Freaks and Hippies
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
Happy hippies and costumed peace freaks assembled behind DeRoy Auditorium on Wayne University’s campus for the 2nd Annual Halloween March the night of Oct. 31. Led by John Schwartz, alias Jacob Odaryan, the march was to bring an absurdist dance …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Numerous problems prevented a full version of our feature, On Gogol Boulevard, from appearing in this issue. Look for its return. In the meantime, important events continue to be played out in Ex-Eastern Bloc countries and the Third World. Contact …
Tales from the planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
The War on Drugs 1) at its silliest: The screens in the urinals placed to catch cigarette butts at the Detroit downtown YMCA are emblazoned with the slogan, “Say No To Drugs;”
Saturn and Scientism
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
There she is, looking vaguely pornographic on the glossy covers of the weekly magazines, the planet Saturn. What have we discovered? I don’t know, I haven’t read them, feeling squashed as I do to the Earth by the giddying inertia …
Stoke in London
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
London (UNS) By Mail — Stokely Carmichael participated in the International Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation in London at the Round House. During his stay here, he also spoke with Black people from Asia, Africa and the West Indies. …
Pictures of Chairman Mao
by Pun Plamondon
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
George Wallace stood up and said all the magic words, “Dope Fiend, Outlaw, Pervert, Cuba, Masses, Red, Mao, Free, Fidel, Workers, Black, White!” These are magic words in America. These arc the words that make white America go to its …
Civilization is Like a Jetliner
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The night the Korean airliner crashed into the newspapers, I dreamed of a tornado. A tornado is a kind of spiral, which is the labyrinth and which is Death.
The Battle at Brockdorf
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Staff Note: The following is a first-hand account of the demonstration and events leading up to it. See also in this issue: West German Protest. BROCKDORF, Germany (LNS)—Up to now we have used only legal ways—filing lawsuits and so on—but …
London Calling
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
The first half of August 2012 found my wife Alice and I in London, but not for the Olympic Games. The nonprofit contemporary art gallery Raven Row invited me to participate in a series of talks and displays titled “The …
Neil Young
by Mike Kerman
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
If you liked Buffalo Springfield, you will probably like the first ‘solo album of one of its departed members, Neil Young (on Reprise).