THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 831-6800 Member, Underground Press Syndicate EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West ART Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR GIRLS: Karen Kovach Naomi …
Fifth Estate A newspaper of Detroit EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre CALENDAR Resa Jannet STAFF Laura Straight Marlene Tyre Marilyn Werbe The FIFTH ESTATE is …
WASHINGTON, October 3 (Liberation News Service ) — Something’s happening, and you won’t know what it is, General Jones, because you think that only Angry Mothers and bearded students march and that hippies stay in Haight – Ashbury and the …
EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce ART Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR Rhona Whipple FILM EDITORS Joe Fineman Shirley Hamburg ADVERTISING Leon Brenner CIRCULATION Wilson Lindsey TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil …
EDITORS: Harvey Ovshinsky, Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Cathy West NEWS EDITOR: Frank Joyce ART: Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR: John Sinclair CALENDAR: Rhona Whipple FILM EDITORS: Joe Fineman, Shirley Hamburg ADVERTISING: Leon Brenner CIRCULATION: Wilson Lindsey TRAVEL EDITOR: Sheil …
Detroit is full of openings! Last weekend: Uncle Russ’s Gran-de Ballroom broke into the open with the MC5 and the High Society’s light show, both of which were just as they have to be—TOO MUCH. (William Blake: “Enough! or Too …
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.
a review of Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives by Marianna Torgovnick, University of Chicago, 1990, 328 pp.
EDITOR: Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR: Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Cathy West ART: Dave Carlin CIRCULATION: Wilson Lindsey, Rita Cole TRAVEL EDITOR: Sheil Salasnek MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR: John Sinclair CALENDAR: Rhona Whipple ADVERTISING: Leon Brenner FILM EDITORS: Joe Fineman, Shirley …
XINGFU COLA HITS THE SPOT—The first television commercial in Chinese broadcasting history has been shown by a Shanghai station, Japanese monitors of Chinese broadcasts reported March 12. It showed a well known Chinese basketball star and several of his teammates …
The Fifth Estate A newspaper of Detroit EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre CALENDAR Resa Jannett STAFF Laura Straight Marlene Tyre Marilyn Werbe The FIFTH …
EDITORS: Harvey Ovshinsky, Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Cathy West NEWS EDITOR: Frank Joyce ART: Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR: John Sinclair CALENDAR: Rhona Whipple FILM EDITORS: Joe Fineman, Shirley Hamburg ADVERTISING: Leon Brenner CIRCULATION: Wilson Lindsey TRAVEL EDITOR: Sheil …
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 …
BERKELEY—About 2,000 persons attended—off and on—a six hour teach-in on “Ecology and Politics in America” May 28 at the U-C Berkeley campus.
We dedicate this Issue to the World-Wide Peace Movement & to Rachel Corrie: Martyr for Justice. Following the Empire’s triumphal march to Baghdad, it seems appropriate to express our deep regret at being unable to stop Bush’s long-planned war to …
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 …
Back in the late ’50s or so, when Brubeck was just beginning, complacency wasn’t quite dead yet and beatniks were still in bloom, the walls of galleries, stately homes, and civic auditoriums displayed a new art—abstract expressionism.
Response to: A Bicentennial moment: Haymarket Square Riot by Bob Nirkind, Fifth Estate #272, May, 1976, Vol. 11, No. 8, page 10
EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair DISTRIBUTION Eric Watkins ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis ART DIRECTOR Ed Bania CALENDAR Resa STAFF Laura Straight Marlene Tyre Michael Tyre Marilyn …
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 …
August 2, 2007 was the 175th anniversary of the Bad Axe massacre, when US soldiers, settler militias, and army gunboats slaughtered Sauk (Osakiwug), Fox, and Kickapoo Indians following the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. This mass killing effectively put an end …
NEW YORK (LNS)—Tuesday night, Oct. 22, the inmates of the Lower East Side, inspired by Julian Beck’s Living Theater and led by Up Against the Wail Motherfucker, laid cultural claim to the Fillmore East. They needed the space, a motherfucker …
Detroit’s friendly neighborhood rock and roll band, the MC5, recorded their first album under their new contract with Elektra Records at the Grande Ballroom last month, and it was a killer affair. The festivities took place on the First International …
EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese Pat Klees DISTRIBUTION Eric Watkins ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis ART DIRECTOR Ed Bania CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Frank Joyce STAFF Wilson Lindsey Ed Rom Richard Stocker Marlene Tyre Michael Tyre Marilyn …
Don Lobsinger, leader of the right-wing Breakthrough group, was sentenced April 3 to 15 days in jail for disrupting a church forum on black power last December 3. He was accused of trying to break up a meeting at St. …
a review of Ecrits Politiques, 1977-1983. Noam Chomsky, Paris. Editions Acratie, 1984 189 pp.
Santiniketan, India Special to the Fifth Estate It’s weird. Future historians, in analyzing the causes of the Laotian War (or World War II as the case may be) will be stumped by a curious footnote which will cause them to …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West Tommye Wiese DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre STAFF Claudia Montrose Franie Nelson Marlene Tyre Marilyn Werbe The FIFTH ESTATE is …
THE FIFTH ESTATE A NEWSPAPER OF DETROIT EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ART DIRECTION Blallen ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper Of Detroit EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ART DIRECTION Blallen ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett IDEOLOGUE …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ART DIRECTION Blallen ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett IDEOLOGUE …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ART DIRECTION Blalien ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett IDEOLOGUE …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tormnye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ART DIRECTION Blalren ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett IDEOLOGUE …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper Of Detroit EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ART DIRECTION Blallen ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett DISTRIBUTION …
FIFTH ESTATE #71, January 23-February 5, 1969, Vol. 3 No. 19, 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 …
FIFTH ESTATE #53, May 1-15, 1968, Vol. 3, No. 1 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese Pat Klees DISTRIBUTION Eric Watkins ADVERTISING Gunner Lewis ART DIRECTOR Ed Bania CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Frank Joyce STAFF Wilson …
The gruesome tailspin of industrialism continues unabated in every sphere. Industrial society is at a malignant stage of decline with events like the Ixtoc 1 oil disaster providing all the more evidence of its impending collapse.
Due to the incompetence of the Post Office bureaucracy the subscribers did not receive their FIFTH ESTATES until a week after they were mailed. This is a double drag since our office staff really busted their asses trying to see …
There are only two paths open to a country whose internal and external empires are in the state of decay prevailing in the United States. That of the left or fascism.