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FIFTH ESTATE #106, May 28-June 10, 1970, Vol. 5 No. 2 Debby Brentz David Gaynes Carol George Mike John Keep on Truckin’ Co-op Resa Jannett Jim Kennedy Lee Ann Kennedy David Levison Julie Medvecky Harvey Ovshinsky Dave Riddle Bill Rowe …
The charge that genocide was committed against the American Indian peoples of the United States in the process of that nation state’s formation is typically treated as a rhetorical device unsubstantiated by fact and designed only to attract “unwarranted” sympathy …
Energies of the West Central Organization, since its formal emergence on the Detroit scene in June,1965, have exploded the myth of “apathy” inherent in the behavior of “poor folks.” Human beings—Negro, white, Mexican, Maltes, and Puerto Rican—who have never fully …
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Surprise “hero” of the recent narcotics bust—Recorder’s Court Judge Frank Schemanske. Lena Sinclair (John’s wife) and three others were going to be held a second night without being formally charged, pending a chemical analysis of the stuff seized in the …
The S.F. Oracle recently sent a missive to the Fifth Estate office asking us to warn those who are traveling west to bring: (besides their flowers and bananas) money for food and rent, sleeping bags and rucksacks, extra food (brown …
The Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam (1101 West Warren) is not the most popular organization in town. It has had all but two of its nine windows stoned, shot through or broken into.
THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren, Detroit 48201 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess ACE REPORTER John Sinclair ART AND LAY-OUT Gary Grimshaw FILM EDITOR Joe Finemen CALENDAR GIRLS …
EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese Pat Klees DISTRIBUTION Eric Watkins ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis ART DIRECTOR Ed Bania CALENDAR Naomi STAFF Cindy Lee Marlene Tyre Michael Tyre Marilyn Werbe The FIFTH ESTATE is published …
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During Autumn NATO maneuvers in West Germany, thousands of people demonstrated at U.S. military bases, and hundreds were arrested. U.S. military commanders protested, calling on the West German government to crack down on “anarchists and criminals” who have damaged military …
The following article is a reprint of an interview with Rafael Viera, Chief Medical Cadre of the Young Lords Organization (YLO), that first appeared in the Black Panther Newspaper. Viera is one of three men that were indicted following the …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit FIFTH ESTATE #78, May 1-14, 1969, Vol. 3 No. 26, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West Tommye Wiese DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose Fred Frank MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair STAFF Dena Clamage …
The calendar will be a regular FIFTH ESTATE feature. We know that there is more happening in the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas than what we have listed, so we need your help. Send us information about what your group …
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THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank H. Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess ACE REPORTER John Sinclair ART AND LAY-OUT Gary Grimshaw Carl Lundgren FILM EDITOR Joe …
The Fifth Estate 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank H. Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess ACE REPORTER John Sinclair ART AND LAY-OUT Gary Grimshaw Carl Lundgren FILM EDITOR Joe …
Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op STAFF Dena Clamage Rick London Bill Melater Bruce Montrose Claudia Montrose Dave Watson Tommye Wiese Marilyn …
Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op STAFF Dena Clamage Rick London Bill Melater Bruce Montrose Claudia Montrose Dave Watson Tommye Wiese Marilyn …
Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op STAFF Dena Clamage Rick London Bill Melater Bruce Montrose Claudia Montrose Dave Watson Tommye Wiese Marilyn …
The National Coal Company (NCC) has filed a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) against five Knoxville, Tennessee environmental activists associated with Katuah Earth First! (KEF!) NCC is demanding over $7,000 and a permanent injunction banning the five from ever …
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Looking at Gary Snyder’s writing is a geological experience. Picking up a copy of The Gary Snyder Reader or checking out his shelf at a library will reveal layers of poems, journals, and essays dating from the late fifties to …
When we set out to produce an issue on and of literature, we had wide eyes and wild ideas. Ideas like Thoreau suggested, “In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness.” …
Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight Street, San Francisco CA 94117, a bookstore specializing in anti-authoritarian titles, has copies available of Paul Goodman’s The Black Flag of Anarchism and Other Essays, a 46-page pamphlet from the long dormant Employee’s Theft Press. …
After finally freeing John Sinclair and Fred Smith from the iron grip of the Oakland County pigs July 25, the MC5 was awakened the next morning by representatives of the Ann Arbor Police Dept. and charged with “disturbing the peace” …
a review of Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey, Little, Brown, Co., Boston, 1990 Hayduke lives? Well, after reading the late Edward Abbey’s sequel to his 1976 novel, The Monkeywrench Gang, one almost wishes the “wilderness avenger, industrial saboteur, night-time trouble-maker, …
March on Washington Committee, 23 East Adams, Detroit 48226 The March on Washington will take place by bus, planes, car pools, and possibly railroad. It is imperative that we know as soon as possible if you are coming and which …
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November 9—the fourteenth anniversary of the popular uprising that destroyed the Berlin Wall—was also an international day of protest against the more than 400 miles of wall being built by the Israeli government around and through Palestinian communities in the …
a review of World War 3 Now? World War 3 Illustrated, Issue #54 by Jordan Worley, Nicole Shulman, Seth Tobocman, Sue Simensky Bietila, eds. AK Press, 2024
Punks in Cuba Radical anarchist and anti-militarist groups linked to the semi-taboo punk youth culture exist in Cuba. Members of one such group, Movimiento Pacifista Solidaridad y Paz (Solidarity & Peace Pacifist Movement), were sentenced to prison after a protest …
THE MFS MESS: Emil Bacilla’s article on the Midwest Film Society last issue touched off a lot of under-the-table shit, which was, even weirder since Emil was in SF when the paper came out and couldn’t see what was happening. …
Sam Mbah, Nigerian activist, journalist, lawyer, and co-author of African Anarchism: The History of a Movement, passed away November 6, after suffering unexpected complications from a heart condition for which he had recently undergone surgery.
We never could figure out which faction was responsible for the auto-destruction of New York City’s Sabotage Bookstore (the pamphlets published by either side casting blame are definitely not recommended reading), but we had the same sensation one does when …
The title of this article suggests an attitude, which has characterized a generation of adolescents, recently departed. It is, as far as I can tell, a lost attitude, upended and overwhelmed in the maelstrom of homogenized eyes and freak-outs.
Florida state police arrested Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver yesterday as he sat smoking a cigarillo and reading the Works of Chairman Mao in the lobby of the Hotel Fontainbleu in Miami Beach. He is being held for extradition to …
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