by The Layabouts Daily Barbarian Number 2 Fifth Estate #316, Spring 1984, Vol. 19 No. 1 Governments lie! Yeah, governments lie! Governments lie—well I’m not talking only ’bout some of ’em Governments lie—I mean every single one of ’em Governments …
SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)—People are determined not to allow the murderous police raids which have been carried out in Chicago, Los Angeles, Kansas and other areas to occur in Berkeley and San Francisco.
“The songs they sing come from their own experiences. They are not entertainers but are leaders who want everyone in the audience to join in singing songs that serve to inspire us to go on further to hold on ’til …
Above the front door to C-Squat, on Ave. C on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a weather-worn sign hangs from the fire escape reading “THIS LAND IS OURS, NOT FOR SALE,” with the squatter symbol of a circle bisected by a …
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EDITOR & PUBLISHER Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe NEWS & POLITICAL EDITORS R. Fleck & F. Joyce ART & LAYOUT Gary Grimshaw EDITORIAL Assistant Cathy West CIRCULATION Wilson Lindsey PHOTOGRAPHY E. Bacilla, Wilson Lindsey, Magdaline Sinclair TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil …
THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 831-6800 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair ART Gary Grimshaw FILM EDITOR Joe Fineman CALENDAR …
Editor & publisher Harvey Ovshinsky Managing Editor Peter Werbe News and Political Editors R. Fleck & F. Joyce Art & Layout Gary Grimshaw Editorial assistant: Cathy West Circulation Wilson Lindsey Photography E. Bacilla, Willson Lindsey, Magdaline Sinclair Travel editor Sheil …
The Trans-Love Energies commune of Detroit, including the MC5 and the Trans-Love Light Company, have left the city of Detroit for good, to settle in Ann Arbor, that green and airy town some 45 miles west of Detroit.
EDITOR Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West NEWS EDITORS Robert Fleck, Frank Joyce ART Dave Carlin CIRCULATION Wilson Lindsey TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil Salasnek MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR Rhona Whipple ADVERTISING Leon Brenner FILM …
As a public service, the Fifth Estate will present eight times daily, newscasts on WABX, Detroit’s contemporary radical FM station. With a little help from our friends, the broadcasts will be a success. We are asking for high school and …
Press accounts have generally referred to the kidnapped Hans-Martin Schleyer as “a major West German industrialist.” He was certainly that—head of the West German Employers Association and top board member of Daimler-Benz, the multinational giant which produces Mercedes-Benz cars and …
Special to the Fifth Estate GREAT FALLS, Montana—A local boy has made good out in the wooly West. Mickey Gordon, formerly of Detroit, was charged in Montana Federal District Court with threatening the life of President Nixon. Gordon is a …
On Sunday, July 23, at 3 o’clock in the morning, The Doors’ “Baby Light My Fire” was the number one song in Detroit. It couldn’t have been more appropriate.
In the last few months blues has become very popular with the white coffee house crowds. This blues is a kind of washed out version of what was popular during the forties and early fifties when now familiar names like …
As we write at the end of March, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is at full fury with deaths and destruction increasing daily. By the time you read this, the conflict will hopefully have ended. If not, any number of …
Clinton’s US/UN imposed sanctions have already killed 10 percent of the Iraq population. 1.5 million people are dead which includes 6000 children who die monthly. The economic sanctions are weapons of mass destruction. They are a crime against humanity that …
The first anarchists on the land which is today Turkey were probably Armenians. Active during the fin-de-siecle of the great Ottoman Empire, they included prominent figures such as Alexander Atabekian, who published pamphlets, participated in Armenian revolutionary organizations and most …
Children Of The Future: The Steve Miller Band (Capitol) Capitol Records thought so highly of this West Coast group that they saw fit to shell out a reputed $50,000 in advance to record them. On record Steve Miller’s band is …
FIFTH ESTATE #13, August 30, 1966, Vol. 1, No. 13, page 2 The Fifth Estate, 937 Plum Street, Detroit, Michigan 48201, 962-9334 EDITOR & PUBLISHER: Harvey Ovshinsky NEWS EDITOR: Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Cathy West STAFF: Ron Halstead, Steven Simons, …
April 28 marked the opening of a new theatre in Detroit. The Tropic Theatre in the Wolverine Hotel began its first season with Harold Pinter’s “The Lover,” directed by John Kinney, and on the same bill, “The Man Upstairs” directed …