While attending a meeting in Gainesville, Georgia to learn about the horrific effects of environmental racism, the conversation quickly turned to education. For decades African Americans have been fighting pollution and coping with obscene leukemia rates in their community in …
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Stories of spat-on veterans began proliferating in the U.S. media in 1990 as the country ramped up for the first Persian Gulf War. Anti-war activists had spat on troops returning from Vietnam, or so the stories went, and to make …
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UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
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Fri. Oct. 4 DICK GREGORY. civil rights activist, comedian, and write-in candidate for president, will speak at Oakland U., Sports & Rec. Bldg. 10 am $1 adm. Take I-75 to Rochester University Dr. Exit. GRANDE BALLROOM. The Ten Years After …
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“Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson. Three old men shuffling the pack, dealing out the cards: The Rhineland, Danzig, the Polish Corridor, the Ruhr, self-determination of small nations, the Saar, League of Nations, mandates, the Mespot, Freedom of the Seas, Trans-Jordania, …
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Copyright 1966 by the Los Angeles Free Press. Reprinted with permission. “All a man wants is a home like a castle, all a man wants is peace at his door, all a man wants is a tree by his window…” …
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The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave. Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
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Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in your area. We don’t guarantee to print everything received, but all letters are read by our staff and considered for publication. …
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Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper(?) [question mark in original] and can be found at 4403 Second Ave, (telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a telephone call …
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Thanks to those of you who so promptly answered your subscription renewal letters we sent out after the last issue. Thanks, also, for sending along your comments on the paper; it’s always good to get your feelings about our effort, …
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To the Editors: The Students for a Democratic Society, the Radical Education Project (REP) and other radical groups in Detroit, were set up for harassment in the Detroit Free Press article of October 30, 1969 which printed one of our …
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a review of T.A.Z: Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchism, Poetic Terrorism, Hakim Bey, Autonomedia, New York, 1991, $6.00 (Available from FE Books)
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURS. JAN. 8 FROM SOCIAL DISEASES to the common cold, Open City will cure it, at their free medical clinic. 4425 Second at Canfield. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Call first or come in for an apt 831-2770. …
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Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles or other topics, but can’t print every one we receive. Each, however, is read and considered for publication. Letters via email or on disk are appreciated, but typewritten and …
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The several thousand unapproved, pirate radio stations operating in the U.S. won a Pyrrhic victory in July when the Federal Communication Commission agreed to license hundreds of the low power broadcasting operations, many which feature anarchist, punk, black, and community …
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in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURS MARCH 19 POWER TO THE PEOPLE and other assorted revolutionary politics will be discussed by the citizens of the Woodstock Nation sponsored by the Free University and conducted by the White Panther Party. All …
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The 40 year history of Fifth Estate is not the easiest thing to access for research purposes. The best source is the massive Underground Press Collection, a 500+ reel microfilm archive of periodicals from 1963 to 1985. Almost 100 libraries, …
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Fifth Estate Issues 346-369 Incomplete (ProQuest source is incomplete) PART ONE: TITLE INDEX “100th anniversary of the automobile: Kill the Car–No More Roads! ” Fifth Estate [Detroit] 1 Oct. 1996, 4. “35 Arrests at Windsor OAS Protests.” Fifth Estate [Detroit] …
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a review of Socialism and Survival, Rudolf Bahro, Heretic Books, London, 1983
in cooperation with Detroit Adventure